Second that. I've often said that the era of the mid-70s through the mid-80s was the Golden Age of music. I thought the Yacht Rock documentary on HBO did a good job explaining why the music created during that timeframe was such high quality and why things sort of went south when MTV became the big thing in the mid-80s.
OT: What is your favorite decade of music (or 10 year stretch)? Favorite year?
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It's all about that baroque. Give me harpsichord or give me death!
It's all about that baroque. Give me harpsichord or give me death!
......and the music from this stretch will be listened to for decades to come . The test of time is an important measuring stick IMO .
I’m going to assume you mean best evah until Go Ninja Go from TMNT 2: Secret of the Ooze90-91 when McHammer and Vanilla Ice put together the best two songs evah.
86-96
You get so much variety. First off, 80's music is great from the hair bands to 80's pop. Then the Seattle scene/alternative music came in and change everything. All the while you have an explosion of hip hop with NWA, Death Row, East Coast/West Coast/Biggie/Tupac.
Country music was also 100x better than today during this time.
You get so much variety. First off, 80's music is great from the hair bands to 80's pop. Then the Seattle scene/alternative music came in and change everything. All the while you have an explosion of hip hop with NWA, Death Row, East Coast/West Coast/Biggie/Tupac.
Country music was also 100x better than today during this time.
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85% or more of what I listen to was released between 66 and 86. If I narrowed it down to 10 years I'd say 73-83.
I'm with Bruce. All he said, plus Doobie Bros., Eagles, Chicago, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Bill Whithers, Rare Earth, BS&T, Ronstadt, Zevon.......
But the main reason is that ending the decade in 1975 excludes the bulk of .............. disco (I threw up in my mouth a little).
Id move the window by a couple of years - 1967 to 1977- but basically the same. This has always been my favorite era. Its the era of the album, where you were limited to what you could put on it and so every song mattered. The art work mattered. It was the whole package.
I'd have to say 90's. You have Pearl Jam Ten, Sevendust Home, Counting Crows August and Everything After, Godsmack (self titled), RHCP BSSM....
There were so many banging albums in the 90's its almost impossible to list them all. Really only Sevendust and Godsmack have put out good albums of those recently though.
There were so many banging albums in the 90's its almost impossible to list them all. Really only Sevendust and Godsmack have put out good albums of those recently though.
That was my initial decade I came up with as well but it’s so hard to not say mid 70s to mid 80s too so I just said all of it. I can’t pick.
This.
If I had to live forever with just 10 years:
1991-2001
To this I’ll add:
Alice in Chains
Clint Black
Snoop
Toby Kieth
Coolio
Brooks and Dunn
Allanis
Zack Brown Band
REM
Cranberries
Alison Kraus/Union Station
Blues Traveler
Disturbed
Coldplay
Alan Jackson
lip syncing has been going on since Moses wore short pants. The inflection point of autotune in hip-hop, r&b, and pop music was in 2005. I'm marking that by T-Pain's first album. There was a bit before but that was the floodgates moments.
This is why I said 90s. The last great rock decade and Hip-Hop had it's golden era. 90s country was iconic as well. Even the pop scene had some huge moments. Arguably the best 2 voices of all-time, Whitney Houston & Mariah Carrey, were 90s. If you subtract the Boy Band and Brittney Spears type pop it was a decade with some smoke. Kissed By a Rose... banger. What is Love...banger. Baby Got Back...banger. This is How we Do It... banger
I concur that 90% of disco stinks, but I do kind of like what these guys were doing
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No love for the emo era?
I’m a 90s guy but I can get into some of that chemical romance type ****.
