Which Decade(s) Had The Best Music?
I'm definitely on the younger end of this community (born in 2000), but for me the late 70's and early 80's were some of the best years. The music had so much more meaning, the artists were iconic and revolutionary, and it was just a golden time for music imo.
what are your opinions and why?
(and also, if you have any music suggestions I would appreciate them!)
Whichever decade the lady at the bar is from.
Most generations will have good music and people from each will say their music was the best due to popularity. It's all subjective because no metric can be used (albums sold, concert tickets, downloads?).
I personally love most. I love some new EDM tracks but will rock out to Kiss's crazy nights too. depends on the mood and the situation
What you listened to when you were most emotionally vulnerable was when music peaked. Just pull up any playlist you made when you were 18-21 and thats the good shit.
The fact that you are 18 now and listening to older music means you will forever be into that, and also probably that you have a good relationship with your parents.
This except I’d say the high school music years instead of 18-21.
And lol at being born in 2000. I’m getting old.
When we were younger my family went on long road trips to lots of national parks from Wyoming to Arizona, my dad had a collection of old tapes with songs from the 70's and 80'S that he would play while we drove along. Those were the golden times for sure.
Accurate. When 90s / early 2000s music comes on it hits me in a completely different way.
Nearly all time period has amazing music. However, I have a hard time appreciating most of the top 40, music award show, bullshit
I agree most top 40 now is trash, however top 40 music from every generation is pretty much trash. I would hesitate to say that music from the 10's wont have staying power (not that you are saying that, more of just a general statement). Take a look at any year's top billboard top 100 and you'll see some stuff you know (the stuff with staying power) and you'll see an equal if not greater amount of WTF is this garbage?
To answer the OP's question, for me it's gotta be the 80's. If I could transport to 1980's Miami and crush hair metal / synthpop / r&b for the rest of my life that'd be dope as fuck. GTA Vice City Radio Fever 105 is basically the soundtrack i want played at my funeral.
The 80's also had some of the most talented hardcore, punk, and rap music ever
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Give me some Oliver "ladykiller" Biscuit, a car from BJ Smith's used autos, and a rusty brown's ring doughnut and I'm set for life.
I prefer v-Rock myself...DJ lazslo for life!
80s, easily.
MJ, Prince, Madonna, Whitney, Lionel, Stevie, Genesis/Phil Collins, Beastie Boys all hit their nadirs
New Wave was probably the most unique form of popular music we've seen and bands like Tears for Fears , Flock of Seagulls, Eurythmics, etc dropped
and Punk also entered the mainstream
Variety, quality, and quantity all at once. Nowadays everything sounds like manufactured trash.
Nadir means worst moment. You mean "peak" right?
That I did; thanks for spotting
30's (1730's), easily. Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel were all in the prime of the careers, while up-and-coming artists such as Galuppi, Hasse, and Pergolesi began to make names for themselves.
The problem with this question is something called suvivorship bias. The 80s seems amazing because in the ensuing time all of the shit was forgotten. Its just a reality of time.
I mean yeah, I liked the 1880s too - every decade has some good hits.
Solid point. The stuff that people still listen to from [insert decade] is the best stuff of that decade. So in 20 years, that absolute horseshit from the 2010s will be forgotten.
I really liked the 1810s-1820s, with Fur Elise and all... great decade for music ... it wasn't published until the 1860s though, so maybe the 1860s....
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In '87, Huey released this: Fore!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip To Be Square". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself.
Probably the 60's and it's not even close, I mean:
Rock: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Beach Boys, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead
Soul: Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes, James Brown, Jackson 5, etc...
Jazz: Ella Fitzgerald, Coltrane, BB King, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Etta James, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Sergio Mendes, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Vince Guaraldi
Other: Ray Charles, Simon & Garfunkle, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash ...
The musicality of even one of the categories above blows the last two decades of music out of the water, and yes I like rap, EDM and other modern music.
I don’t know if there are any other rap fans here, but I think our current generation, especially a lot of the music borne out of SoundCloud, is the best. I’m someone who mostly listens to rap, but I enjoy a number of different genres: a lot of different types of music: low-fi, rock, punk rock, reggae, sad music, and R&B. I feel like we’re finally at such a convergence in music, with very versatile artists that combine different types of music in really creative ways, with low-fi, punk rock, reggae, and rap all coming together in new ways. It’s something that artists like Kanye West kind of pioneered, but it’s been taken such a step further in the last year or two. It’s definitely a lot different than rap music from years in the past, some would argue less lyrical, but it’s also a lot more creative now, and there’s more authenticity in a way, and producers are, for the first time, getting a lot more credit as “artists.”
So I think the best decade of music is our current decade, the 2010s.
Your opinion is wrong.
1970s & 1980s (ABBA, a-ha, Michael Jackson, Prince, Metallica, Giorgio Moroder, I mean - is there any competition???). Followed by the late Baroque/early Classical periods. (Bach/Beethoven/Mozart/Haydn)
80s, like some people mentioned above, the whole synthwave Miami vice while driving your car on the highway is my groove.
Whenever the which decade had the best music q comes up we must also consider survivorship bias brotha.
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I fuckin lost it bro. That shit spoke to me on a spiritual level.
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