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Which time period do you think produced the best music? I'd have to say either the 60's or the early 90's. I think that both were a little bit after the advent of a genre- 60's rock and 90's punk and a little bit before the genre went down the shitter.

What are your opinions?



If anyone says 00's I'll be very, very angry.
 
Early 90's. I would give anything to be the age I was then. Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica, Stone Temple Pilots.. man.
 
60's and 70's

Sixties - Cream, CCR, Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Beatles, Who
Seventies - Led Zeppelin, Stones Again, Doors, Allman Brothers

best to worst

60's,70's,80's, 90's, 00's
its also in chronological order, fancy that
 
[quote name='smalien1']

If anyone says 00's I'll be very, very angry.[/QUOTE]

why? there's a lot of good stuff coming out, creativity and genre-busting is rampant. it's just that almost NONE of it is popular or even heard of.

I still listen to all kinds of music, spent most of my life listening to older music, but the stuff I'm most interested in nowadays is new...

so I'll be that guy-- 00's :lol:

If i were forced to decide at gunpoint:
00s, 90s, 70s, 60s, 80s

but of course, every decade has it's merits.
 
[quote name='Ozzkev55']60's and 70's

Sixties - Cream, CCR, Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Beatles, Who
Seventies - Led Zeppelin, Stones Again, Doors, Allman Brothers

best to worst

60's,70's,80's, 90's, 00's
its also in chronological order, fancy that[/QUOTE]

I would say The Who is 60s and 70s, while The Doors are more 60s. Also, where the fuck is Dylan? :shame: :lol:
 
[quote name='smalien1']Just noticed no one includes 50's in their list. It would probably be 3rd for me

60's, 90's, 50's, 80's, 70's, 00's[/QUOTE]

I didn't include it because I don't listen to it. :lol:
 
Hmmm...this is a toughy.

90's, 60's, 70's (by sheer force of Led Zeppelin), 00's, 80's

90's and 60's could be interchanged at any moment. Outside of a small handful of groups, I hate the 80's. And there has been a lot of good music in the 00's (Trail of Dead, anything from Saddle Creek, Taking Back Sunday, Dredg, Jimmy Eat World, etc) to the point where I would just about put it over the 70's.
 
I'm not a big fan of 60s and 70s music. My favorites are 80s and 90s music. 00s is only half over so hard to tell what type of music will appear in the next 5 years.
 
There's tons of good stuff in 00...
Dream Theater
Pain Of Salvation
Porcupine Tree
Just to name a few....get off of the radio and you'll find the good stuff.
 
[quote name='BigSpoonyBard']Hmmm...this is a toughy.

90's, 60's, 70's (by sheer force of Led Zeppelin), 00's, 80's

90's and 60's could be interchanged at any moment. Outside of a small handful of groups, I hate the 80's. And there has been a lot of good music in the 00's (Trail of Dead, anything from Saddle Creek, Taking Back Sunday, Dredg, Jimmy Eat World, etc) to the point where I would just about put it over the 70's.[/QUOTE]

Zeppelin's the only reason the 70s placed on my list as well. And although the 80s as a whole were awful, there were just enough good to great bands near the end that raised it up just enough. A few important '89 releases really helped out.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']I would say The Who is 60s and 70s, while The Doors are more 60s. Also, where the fuck is Dylan? :shame: :lol:[/QUOTE]
I liked the who's early stuff, and The Doors Later stuff, because as fat as Morrison got, Robbie Krieger really got more involved for the better

I really dont like much of Bob Dylan, save for his greatest hits
 
But the indie stuff is such a small fraction of what is produced that it doesn't change the rank of the 00's. Almost everything in the 60's was good.
 
[quote name='mookiemeister'] 00s is only half over so hard to tell what type of music will appear in the next 5 years.[/QUOTE]

the past 5 years, thanks to the Internet, have been pretty explosive. hopefully the next 5 will be as good as the last 5.
 
[quote name='smalien1']But the indie stuff is such a small fraction of what is produced that it doesn't change the rank of the 00's. Almost everything in the 60's was good.[/QUOTE]

Just because music can be mass produced shouldn't diminish the contributions of the good stuff that is coming out. I think you really have to consider that this is a truly new era in terms of accessibility to music, and just because the radio plays the mass prduced stuff, doesn't mean that people aren't getting to the other stuff in large quantities. For example, living in West Michigan, normally a cultural black hole, I was surprised at the turn-out for both the Bright Eyes and The Good Life shows that I went to a while back. I thought it'd be a small, cozy crowd, but instead the place was packed pretty well.
 
I go with the 90's as my favorite. Due to the fact I was 19-29 in age for that decade. I would love to relive those grunge years, the parties and girls.........and the music was great. Single and young, guys enjoy the years from 20 until about 30.
 
[quote name='smalien1']But the indie stuff is such a small fraction of what is produced that it doesn't change the rank of the 00's. Almost everything in the 60's was good.[/QUOTE]


I don't think so....I'd say there's more good indie, self-produced, unsigned, and regional groups than anything else right now. Popular music(pop, rap, metal) doesn't have half the variety or even close to the number of bands that fall under the "indie" moniker. It's freaking huge.

I like the last half of the 60s after LSD got everyone to be so creative...but going from the 1930s to about 1965, I really only care about the Jazz scene(besides ska in jamaica in the late 50s and 60's)
 
alright, I promise to not post in this thread again. commence normal discussion. sorry. :lol:
 
[quote name='BigSpoonyBard']Just because music can be mass produced shouldn't diminish the contributions of the good stuff that is coming out. I think you really have to consider that this is a truly new era in terms of accessibility to music, and just because the radio plays the mass prduced stuff, doesn't mean that people aren't getting to the other stuff in large quantities. For example, living in West Michigan, normally a cultural black hole, I was surprised at the turn-out for both the Bright Eyes and The Good Life shows that I went to a while back. I thought it'd be a small, cozy crowd, but instead the place was packed pretty well.[/QUOTE]

SIR! I call shenanigans on you. You have never been to a Bright Eyes concert. That being said, I really think the amount of good music available right now is amazing. It blows every other decade out of the water. So I will also be that guy and say I prefer the 00s. Then I'd go with the 90s, then 70s, then 60s. I like to pretend the 80s never happened.
 
[quote name='eldad9']now. with the internet it's easier than ever to find stuff you like, and you're not limited to whatever the music companies shove down your ears.

http://irate.sourceforge.net/[/QUOTE]

I'm reading the FAQ for this. It says you can't control when or how much it downloads, how much bandwidth it hogs, or the disk space it takes up. So what do you do when you want it to stop downloading songs?
 
[quote name='punqsux']1977-1987

classic rock blows.[/QUOTE]

I'm not sure how it happened but apparently '77-'87 is classic rock now, if you believe the radio. Personally, I don't. :lol:
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']I'm not sure how it happened but apparently '77-'87 is classic rock now, if you believe the radio. Personally, I don't. :lol:[/QUOTE]
the problem with the radio definition of "classic" rock is that its any music from 15+ years back. which is retarded, its the name of a genre of rock, much like classical music is a genre of music.

but who listens to the radio anyways
 
[quote name='JimmieMac']The best music in the whole world is any music that you're into between the ages of 15 and 18.[/QUOTE]

:rofl: (if you knew what i listened to then, youd be laughing too ^^) i dont know if that applies to everyone i listened to alot of stuff back then that i cant stand now, and its not even like im moving forward, im looking to older stuff from around the years i was born and finding that i like it a ton better than music from the past 15 years
 
1943-1952 The Frank Sinatra / Columbia Records years. Produced classics such as:

(I Don't Stand) A Ghost Of A Chance
(I Offer You The Moon) Senorita
(Just On Way To Say ) I Love You
(On The Island Of) Stromboli
(Once Upon) A Moonlight Night
(We've Got A) Sure Thing
A Fella With An Umbrella
A Fellow Needs A Girl (**)
A Friend Of Yours
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (*)
A Little Learnin' Is A Dangerous Thing (Part 1)
A Little Learnin' Is A Dangerous Thing (Part 2)
A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening
Accidents Will Happen
Adeste Fideles (O, Come All Ye Faithful)
Ain'tcha Ever Comin' Back
All Of Me
All Of Me (*)
All The Things You Are
All Through The Day
Almost Like Being In Love
Always (*)
Always (**)
America The Beautiful
American Beauty Rose
Among My Souvenirs (**)
April In Paris
Autumn In New York
Azure-te (Paris Blues)
Bali Ha'i
Begin The Beguine
Bim Bam Baby
Blue Skies
Body And Soul
Bop! Goes My Heart
But Beautiful
But None Like You
Bye Bye Baby
Can't You Just See Yourself In Love With Me
Castle Rock
Catana (*)
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
Cherry Pies Ought To Be You
Christams Dreaming (A Little Early This Year)
Close To You
Come Back To Sorrento (Torna a Surriento)
Comme Ci, Comme Ca
Could'ja?
Cradle Song
Day By Day
Dear Little Boy Of Mine
Deep Night
Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go)
Don't Ever Be Afraid To Go Home
Don't Forget Tonight Tomorrow
Dream
Embraceable You
Ever Homeward
Every Man Should Marry (*)
Every Man Should Marry
Everybody Loves Somebody
Faithful
Falling In Love With Love
Farewell, Farewell To Love
Feet Of Clay
Five Minutes More
Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
For Every Man There's a Woman
From This Day Forward
Full Moon and Empty Arms
God's Country
Goodnight Irene
Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Hello, Young Lovers
Help Yourself To My Heart (*)
Home On The Range (*)
Homesick -- That's All
How Cute Can You Be?
How Deep Is The Ocean (How Blue Is The Sky)
Hush-a-Bye Island
I Am Loved
I Begged Her
I Believe
I Concentrate On You
I Could Write A Book
I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night
I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)
I Dream of You (More Than You Dream of Me)
I Fall In Love Too Easily
I Fall In Love With You Ev'ry Day
I Got a Gal I Love (In North and South Dakota)
I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest
I Have But One Heart
I Hear A Rhapsody
I Love You
I Only Have Eyes for You
I Should Care
I Want To Thank Your Folks
I Went Down To Virginia
I Whistle A Happy Tune
I'll Make Up For Ev'rything
I'm A Fool To Want You
I'm Glad There Is You
I'm Sorry I Made You Cry
I've Got A Crush On You
I've Got A Home In That Rock
If I Ever Love Again
If I Forget You
If I Had You
If I Loved You
If I Only Had A Match
If I Steal A Kiss
If Only She'd Looked My Way
If You Are but A Dream
If You Please
If You Stub Your Toe On The Moon
It All Came True
It All Came True
It All Depends On
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
It Happens Every Spring
It Never Entered My Mind
It Only Happens When I Dance With You
It's A Long Way (From Your House To My House)
It's All Up To You (*)
It's Only A Paper Moon
It's The Same Old Dream
Jesus Is a Rock In The Weary Land
Jingle Bells
Just an Old Stone House
Just For Now
Kiss Me Again
Kisses And Tears
Kisses And Tears (*)
Laura
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Let's Take An Old-Fashioned Walk
Life Is So Peculiar
Lily Belle
London By Night
Lost In The Stars
Love Me
Love Means Love
Lover
Luna Rossa (Blushing Moon)
Mad About You
Mam'selle
Mama Will Bark
Mean To Me
Meet Me At The Copa (*)
Mighty Lak' A Rose
My Blue Heaven
My Cousin Louella
My Girl
My Love For You (*)
My Melancholy Baby
My Romance
My Romance (*)
My Shawl
Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
Nancy (With The Laughing Face) (*)
Nature Boy
Nevertheless
Night After Night
Night And Day (*)
No Orchids For My Lady
None But The Lonely Heart
None But The Lonely Heart (*)
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
Oh, What It Seemed To Be
Ol' Man River
Once In Love With Amy (*)
Once In Love With Amy
One Finger Melody
One For My Baby (And One For The Road)
One Love
Over The Rainbow (**)
Paradise
Peachtree Street
People Will Say We're In Love
Poinciana (Song Of The Tree) (*)
Poinciana (Song Of The Tree)
Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)
Remember Me In Your Dreams
S'posin'
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night In The Week)
September Song
She's Funny That Way
Sheila
Should I (Reveal)
Silent Night, Holy Night
So Far (**)
So They Tell Me (*)
Soliloquy (Parts 1 & 2)
Some Enchanted Evening
Someone To Watch Over Me
Something Old, Something New
Somewhere In The Night
Sorry
Spring Is Here
Stars In Your Eyes
Stella By Starlight
Stormy Weather
Strange Music (*)
Strange Music (**)
Sunday, Monday Or Always
Sunflower
Sunshine Cake
Sweet Lorraine
Take My Love
Tea For Two
Tennessee Newsboy (The Newsboy Blues)
That Lucky Old Sun
That Old Black Magic
That Old Feeling
That's How Much I Love You
The Birth Of The Blues
The Brooklyn Bridge
The Charm Of You
The Coffee Song (They've Got An Awful Lot Of Coffee In Brazil)
The Continental
The Dum-Dot Song (I Put A Penny In The Gum Slot)
The Girl That I Marry
The House I Live In
The Huckle-Buck
The Moon Was Yellow (And The Night Was Young)
The Music Stopped
The Music Stopped
The Music Stopped (*)
The Nearness Of You
The Night We Called It A Day (*)
The Old Master Painter
The Old School Teacher (*)
The Right Girl For Me
The Song Is You
The Song Is You (*)
The Stars Will Remember (So Will I)
The Wedding Of Lili Marlene
There But For You Go I
There's No Business Like Show Business
There's No You
There's Something Missing
These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
They Say It's Wonderful
Things We Did Last Summer
This Is The Night
Time After Time
Try A Little Tenderness
Two Hearts Are Better Than One
Walking In The Sunshine
We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye
We Kiss In A Shadow
We're Just A Kiss Apart
What Makes The Sunset?
What'll I Do?
When Is Sometime?
When The Sun Goes Down
When You Awake
When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
When Your Lover Has Gone
Where Is My Bess?
Where Is The One?
Where Or When
While The Angelus Was Ringing (Les Trois Cloches)
White Christmas
White Christmas
Why Can't You Behave?
Why Remind Me
Why Shouldn't I?
Why Shouldn't It Happen To Us
Why Try To Change Me Now
Why Was I Born?
You Are Too Beautiful
You Can Take My Word For It Baby
You Do Something To Me
You Don't Remind Me
You Go To My Head
You'll Know When It Happens (*)
You'll Never Know
You'll Never Walk Alone
You're My Girl
You're The One

(Yep, thats all of em')


Oh yeah, and 93-94 when Sinatra put out Duets I and Duets II.
 
I'd say the 1980-1995 has to be my favorite span of music, although every decade had it's great music kind of unfair to just pick one.
 
[quote name='evilmregg']SIR! I call shenanigans on you. You have never been to a Bright Eyes concert. That being said, I really think the amount of good music available right now is amazing. It blows every other decade out of the water. So I will also be that guy and say I prefer the 00s. Then I'd go with the 90s, then 70s, then 60s. I like to pretend the 80s never happened.[/QUOTE]

Crap, I confused myself with subby :lol: Actually, I mean The Decemberists. I obviously was not in my right mind at the time I posted that.,
 
The Romantic era and 20th century.
As far as rock music, I guess I'm partial to the 90s (grunge...), and I mostly don't like the 80s, but they did produce Metallica...
Then I'd have to go with the 60s and 50s.
Not sure what to say about the 00s or 70s.
 
[quote name='smalien1']Just noticed no one includes 50's in their list. It would probably be 3rd for me

60's, 90's, 50's, 80's, 70's, 00's[/QUOTE]

I'm a fan of the 40's and 50's, especially with the types like Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis. Anyway, this is the order for me:

50's, 40's, 80's, 70's, 60's, 90's, 00's. I really don't like much of anything produced recently.
 
[quote name='BigSpoonyBard']Crap, I confused myself with subby :lol: Actually, I mean The Decemberists. I obviously was not in my right mind at the time I posted that.,[/QUOTE]

What the shit? :lol:

Just don't let it happen again. :shame: ;)
 
The 70's

Amazing ALL-AROUND music...

Earth, Wind and Fire
Queen
Doobie Brothers
Jackson 5
Stevie Wonder
Santana
Hall and Oates
Al Green
Elton John


These are just a few of my favorites. IMO this is when creativty was at its best. This was just before commercialism really made its impact on music. I really like the jazz and big band eras too but the 70's just had so much good variety.
 
There is good stuff from every era, but the second half of the 80's is the pinnacle for me..

New Order
The Smiths
Sisters of Mercy
R.E.M. (the good years)
U2 (the good years)
Echo & the Bunnymen
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Public Enemy
The Cure (the good years)
Jesus & Mary Chain
The Mission
Front 242
Beastie Boys
Tears for Fears
Gene Loves Jezebel
Siouxsie & the Banshees
XTC
Cocteau Twins
Jane's Addiction
Pixies
Ministry
Public Image Ltd
Skinny Puppy
Pop Will Eat Itself

ah, good times :)
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']The 70's

Amazing ALL-AROUND music...

Earth, Wind and Fire
Queen
Doobie Brothers
Jackson 5
Stevie Wonder
Santana
Hall and Oates
Al Green
Elton John


These are just a few of my favorites. IMO this is when creativty was at its best. This was just before commercialism really made its impact on music. I really like the jazz and big band eras too but the 70's just had so much good variety.[/QUOTE]

[quote name='megashock5']There is good stuff from every era, but the second half of the 80's is the pinnacle for me..

New Order
The Smiths
Sisters of Mercy
R.E.M. (the good years)
U2 (the good years)
Echo & the Bunnymen
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Public Enemy
The Cure (the good years)
Jesus & Mary Chain
The Mission
Front 242
Beastie Boys
Tears for Fears
Gene Loves Jezebel
Siouxsie & the Banshees
XTC
Cocteau Twins
Jane's Addiction
Pixies
Ministry
Public Image Ltd
Skinny Puppy
Pop Will Eat Itself

ah, good times :)[/QUOTE]

Oh yes, except Guile left out Marvin Gaye, the Brothers Johnson, and the Temptations. And Mega missed Talk Talk, Psychedelic Furs, Blondie, INXS, Wang Chung and the Stranglers.

Add those to the bold ones, and you have one of my Rhapsody playlists.
 
[quote name='Tiphireth']And Mega missed Talk Talk, Psychedelic Furs, Blondie, INXS, Wang Chung and the Stranglers. [/QUOTE]

Crap! How could I have missed INXS?? They were one of my favorites, and I've been watching that 'find-a-new-lead-singer' show they have going on.
 
Yeah, I left out some good ones.

Gotta include these too....

The O'Jays
Sly and the Family Stone
Carole King
Kool and the Gang
Minnie Riperton
Linda Rondstat
Ohio Players

I need to look at my playlist when I get back home....
 
[quote name='Scorch']Early 90's. I would give anything to be the age I was then. Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica, Stone Temple Pilots.. man.[/QUOTE]

Agreed. I wish I could have grown up then.
 
[quote name='megashock5']Crap! How could I have missed INXS?? They were one of my favorites, and I've been watching that 'find-a-new-lead-singer' show they have going on.[/QUOTE]

I'll let ya off the hook- This time. ;) My fave is undeniably 'Falling Down the Moutain'- I like the acoustic sound that accompanies the electric. It's also one of the slower songs, which I like.


Holy Shit- I just forgot I left out OMD and Oingo Boingo. My favourite single songs are Big Country's 'In A Big Country', Modern English's 'I Melt With You', After the Fires and Falco's 'Der Kommissar', Yaz's 'Don't Go', and Human League's 'Fascination'.
 
1996 - 1999

The end of the world was coming, people were angry, pissed off and wanted nothing in life. The information age hit, uniting the world....while at the same time making us grow antisocial. Music from that time period was elite technology mixed with drug use.

People were using computers to expand their horizons and using drugs to expand their minds. It was a Gibson Society.

Portishead, Black Grape, Underworld, The Prodigy, and many others.

Drugs + Technology = Electronic born Unity.

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But I guess people just thought, you couldnt be cool if you werent holding a guitar. psssht.
 
70s was a great era for music in my opinion, followed by early 90's, then the 80's...in my opinion , around the late 90's is when most originality in music came to a screeching halt :whistle2:\
 
[quote name='Mookyjooky']1996 - 1999

The end of the world was coming, people were angry, pissed off and wanted nothing in life. The information age hit, uniting the world....while at the same time making us grow antisocial. Music from that time period was elite technology mixed with drug use.

People were using computers to expand their horizons and using drugs to expand their minds. It was a Gibson Society.

Portishead, Black Grape, Underworld, The Prodigy, and many others.

Drugs + Technology = Electronic born Unity.

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But I guess people just thought, you couldnt be cool if you werent holding a guitar. psssht.[/QUOTE]

Electronica kind of blows, IMO. Although I do like it when rock-oriented artists add a some beeps and whistles to their shit to liven it up kind of like Kid A or something...
 
[quote name='Tiphireth']I'll let ya off the hook- This time. ;) My fave is undeniably 'Falling Down the Moutain'- I like the acoustic sound that accompanies the electric. It's also one of the slower songs, which I like.[/QUOTE]

Now it's my turn to let you off the hook, it's called 'Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)' ;)
One of my 3 favorites by them, along with 'Shine Like It Does' and 'Original Sin'
 
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