The Best era/decade for popular music

[gap5ewl]

Since the 50's, music for the popular body has really evolved into a new dimension. And there has been so many genres (and musicians of course) too come out of this over the past fifty years. So what would you say was the best decade/era for pop music so far?

I'd go with the seventies since it has the biggest selection of awesome music (1970-1979) and saw the birth of many great genres (metal, punk) but the sixties would come pretty close also.

 

[Motown Marvel]

easily the greatest year was 1969.

i voted for the 60's. 70's come in second.

 

[Nirvana]

60's easily. They had The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, The Doors...incredible era of music.

 

[gap5ewl]

Yeah I was going for the sixties also since they gave us Beatles, Stones, Doors, Hendrix, Joplin, Dylan, ect. but a lot of the good music from the era didn't start coming till the later half of the decade. The seventies had a lot more good albums and artists from the start to finish so I figured it would get my vote.

 

[Motown Marvel]

see, i think good rock and roll generally died around 75 (due to the rise of bands like the eagles, styx, journey, foreigner, boston, etc...), with the 60's being pretty solid all throughout.

but 1969 had the beatles, zeppelin, dylan, the who, the mc5, the stooges, velvet underground, jimi hendrix, rolling stones....and all sorts of awesomeness.

 

[Eggyman]

60s for me too, for all the things that've been mentioned already

I feel so original

 

[gap5ewl]

see, i think good rock and roll generally died around 75 (due to the rise of bands like the eagles, styx, journey, foreigner, boston, etc...), with the 60's being pretty solid all throughout.
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True but the whole corporate rock craze didn't really take off till '78. Boston's first album was awesome and was a new sound. The Eagles are highly overrated but there were a few good songs and Hotel California has it's moments. But yeah everyone else you mentioned suck. I actrually think '77 was the last good year all around for rock since 78 saw the rise of corporate arena rock and disco became huge. But '78 and '79 definatly had some good albums (The Wall, Tusk, London Calling, Highway to Hell)

 

[Sawyer]

Oops, meant to vote for the 70s and got 80s. Sorry.

But the 70s had assloads of great music...AC/DC, Led Zeppelin (first album was in '69, sue me), Allman Brothers Band, Lynard Skynard, Rush, Queen... I can keep going and going.

 

[Eggyman]

Heh, 'assloads'. Now there's a term not used often enough.

 

[The Chairman]

Very touggh choice. I look at the first 20 years of rock and roll (thoguh not just limited to that genre), from 1955 to 1975, the longest and most consistent era for popular music as a whole in history. The bredth of quality recrodings we had from that period is astounding.

 

[Motown Marvel]

True but the whole corporate rock craze didn't really take off till '78. Boston's first album was awesome and was a new sound. The Eagles are highly overrated but there were a few good songs and Hotel California has it's moments. But yeah everyone else you mentioned suck. I actrually think '77 was the last good year all around for rock since 78 saw the rise of corporate arena rock and disco became huge. But '78 and '79 definatly had some good albums (The Wall, Tusk, London Calling, Highway to Hell)

yeah, i mean of course there were a few notable things here and there, but nothing that compared to what happened in the 60's. but, for me, the best tstuff in the 70's was probably what was coming out of the new york punk scene with like patti smith, the ramones, NY dolls, etc...which went on to influence what happened over in the UK with the sex pistols, the clash, etc...

 

[Mr.Webs]

Very touggh choice. I look at the first 20 years of rock and roll (thoguh not just limited to that genre), from 1955 to 1975, the longest and most consistent era for popular music as a whole in history. The bredth of quality recrodings we had from that period is astounding.

Quoted for complete and utter truth. If it was important musically, it probably happened in this span. Everything else is practically just a footnote.

 

[darkseid26]

every decade had it's ups and downs, but the 60's really is the reason im not listening to hip hop right now.

 

[Darknightnomis]

For me, it's not one decade per sa but a 10 year range between years and that would be 1965 - 1975.

Everything before and after those years have either been too simple or a repeat of what had happened between those years.

The music and groundbreaking albums that came out during those years replace the concept of 'pop music' before it and have affected all the decades after that.