Best Music Decade
 

I am a music lover who knows no "era." I believe there has been very listenable and danceable music produced since the beginning of time . When recently asked this question I thought it would be interesting to see what the TFP community would concider the best decade of music .

Who could forget some of the jukn that spawned outta the 70's.. Lol.. for me my favorite decade has got to be the 60's though...

Tough question....there was some really good music and some god-awful music produced in just about every decade.

I guess I would have to go with the 70's because it's when Alice Cooper was at his very best with Welcome To My Nightmare (1974)

Disco ruined that decade :(

I would have put "none of the above"
as "all of the above"
but I didn't like the 1940's

mostly I like 1960's to present.
but I do have a bias towards the 1980's because that when I grew up and I saw the revolution that MTV made.
Although now it's become nothing,
and it's the internet that's the driving force.

basically all rock is good.:)

Man, the 1880s was where is what at in music!! Tchaikovsky was at his best then! But seriously, the 1950s,1960s and 1970s changed popular music (and unpopular music) forever...

i have to say 80's, that decade was just premo for cheesy songalong songs. example: driving down the road at 15mph through a neighborhood blasting WHAM's "Wake me up before you go-go" and singing along at the top of your lungs. it really doesn't get better than that

Definitely the 60s. It was the era of the Beatles, Acoustic Dylan, the height of electric blues, and Cream.

The 60's simply because of the maturity and growth the various artists went through. I love Tom Petty, but every album of his is the same formula. All I need to say is look at "Love Me Do" to the album "Abbey Road" and that is evolution!

65-75.

80s for sure

taaaaaaaaaaaake ooooooooooon meeeeeeeeeeeeee
taaaaaaaaaaaake meeeeeeeeeeee ooooooooooooon

The 70s. All the best of Floyd and Zep. End of story.

Oh, but marco, you forgot to add the noughties to the list. Not that anything even moderately good has been recorded since Eternal Nightcap.

I think more things happened in the 60's to change music than in any other decade.

The Beatles, Dylan, Hendrix and the rest really changed music. Every other decade had some great stuff, but the 60's offered the most change.

If you take out disco and southern rock, the 70's would rule. My choice is the 80's.

I am only 25...I listen to Rap & Electronica beats.

But I really like the rock from the 60's & 70's..For example..Like Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Led Zepplin, Rolling Stones, CCR...I'm sure you know the style of rock I am talking about.

So it's a toss up between 60's, 70's & 90's

I despise the music that was produced in the 80's.

I said the 80's but I also really love the 50's do-wop music!!!

Actually '65-'75. Not just the Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Hendrix, Cream, Janis Joplin, John Mayal, Yardbirds, Animals, Byrds, Led Zep, CCR, Derek & the Dominos, Cocker, Van Morrison, Sly & the Family Stone, Kinks, Doors, Mountain, James Gang, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, James Taylor, Carol King, The Band, Mommas & the Poppas, Ten Years After, Simon and Garfunkle, Elvis, Allman Bros, Jefferson Airplane, Herb Albert, Miles Davis, The Supremes, Temptations, Isley Bros, Gladys Knight, Aretha, Tina Turner, Santana, Traffic, Commodores, Beach Boys, Hollies, Humble Pie, Dave Clark 5, Tony Joe White, Grassroots, PR & the Raiders, Joanie Mitchell, Elton John, Al Green, Yes, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Nilsson, Steely Dan, .... and a ton of others. The music was widely diverse and innovative. All kinds of music is good, but the music that came out in this period was especially good.

More musical artists from the late '60s, early '70s: The Who, Small Faces w/Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, ZZ Top, the Eagles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Wilson Pickett, Zappa, Sam & Dave, Curtis Mayfield, Otis Redding, James Brown, Steppenwolf, Smokey Robinson, Chicago, Jethro Tull, Marvin Gaye, Buddy Miles, CSN&Y, Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens, the Moody Blues, BS&Tears, King Crimson, Leon Russell, Iron Butterfly, Feliciano, Free, Ohio Players, OJays, Three Dog Night, Willie Nelson, Waylon, .....................

It's gotta be the 80's man.

clearly, the answer is the ´80s.

with songs such as THE FINAL COUNTDOWN (by Europe) how could this decade not be the greatest ever??

God, I hope the people saying the 80s are joking.

It's either that or they are too young to know know any different. I was in high school during the 80s and while some of the music was good, it was not influential at all. The only thing considered "new" was heavy use of synthesizers.

The late 7tees are the go for me.

The fashion,the Era.

for me, it was the late 80's. but that's mostly due to my age

I've been playing too much GTA:VC, the 80's get my vote.

I haven't seen too many votes for the 90's. Must not have had too much come out of that era......I happen to love all types and kinds of music, but my preference is the 90's due to some of the more recent rap and eloctronica including: acid techno, trip hop, break-beats, house, old school remixes, etc......I am also a fan of Rock, so the 70's and 80's are the best years for that. I know, usually people associate the 80's with the synthesizer, but a lot of other good music came from that age that was pure rock.

60's and 70's rock were the best decades.

going off the options there - the 1940's by far, even if Sinatra did not really start to reach his peak musically until the early 1950's.

But I am huge fan of jazz/swing (and ragtime as well), so there is strong bias there personally. The 1940's also saw some of the greatest radio shows, or shows at their prime before Television became such a driving force in the 50's and later.

and if anyone is curious, I was born in '77.

Has to be the 1970's. OK... so Disco sucked.... but we had Floyd, Zep, Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath.... the 70's where amazing.

David Bowie came out of the 60's, rocked the 70's, soared the 80's, quietened down in the 90's and boomed again in the 00's so it's quite a hard choice.

However I listen to more songs from 90's-00's that pre 90's. The 80's gave birth to some great music, Joy Divison, New Order... great stuff.