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I believe there is possible to find some good music in all those decades so my vote goes to all of the above

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Wow, tough call. It is easier to think of the time within your life span but what about the early blues years and the Lois Armstrong years, the big band 40's the Miles Davis decades, early rock in the 50's, obviously the 60's including the great Sgt. Peppers album, the 70's rock, punk and new wave, the later Clapton stuff of the 90's into the "turn" and I am a big Petty fan - he has spanned 30 years.

I am going to have to say I have no decision...................

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My time has been the 00's but my favorite is the 60s. Cream, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Who, early Zeppelin. So many great bands from that time.


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The 60s were very revolutionary in nearly all styles - pop. jazz, country, folk and, of course rock.

I don't like getting mired in the past and calling any era "the best".

A lot of cats were laying down fresh, innovative new ideas.

I don't know if it's the bizniz or the artists, but it seems that there was a lot more musical exploration going on. Is it that the bizniz forces artists to write in such a narrow bandwidth for marketing purposes, or is it the artists trying to focus on a certain audience?

Anyway - it's all good! :)

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Miami Mike wrote:
Each decade had it's moments, imo.

50's - Elvis Presley
60's - British Invasion/Surf
70's - The Soul Years
80's - Synthesizer Invasion
90's - Digital Invasion
00's - Anything Goes Here?

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That's a good call Mike, I agree.


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the best to my likes was the 90's but thats because those were my teenager years h e he


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I'm not sure you can do it in decades. How about '66-'74 before Disco darkened the planet.


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I think half decades fit better--so 66 to 75--although I'm tempted to change that to 67-76.

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Taking into account that popular music wouldn't become a reality on the world stage until the 60's, that leaves out the 50's.
Fusion was already in motion in the latter 60's.
The Beatles would play around the world including non-english speaking nations.
These guys made it because they wrote their own material and were competent musicians.
Paul McCartney's rendition of "Besame mucho" during their legendary rooftop set attests to going well beyond their roots.
If you wonder where George Harrison was coming from, English guitar had its own genre of instrumentalists like Hank Marvin and others.
"Help" had to be one of the first proto-rock compositions, the chorus is followed by single notes, nowadays, almost every player would rather pickslide and power-chord it.
The idea of intercontinental cooperation was attested to since the Jazz age.
Late 50's pop would engender a good part of the coming British Invasion.
One busy Strat player named Jimi would get his break when invited overseas, a stage presence that not even Little Richard could compete against.
Its all come and go.
Each major artist would trigger a new phase of revolution that should have taken decades.

Ritchie Valens would experiment with Latin percussion just before his death.
A former violin player named Carlos would pick up where the other left off, and in the process help launch fusion.
The Beatles would tape a synthesizer for the first time.
They would also continue the evolution of studio magic only to be surpassed by Queen and later, Boston.

From a purely functional standpoint;
The Beatles were proficient, imaginative and prolific.
Hendrix was what happens when you have a lot of volume, a whammy bar and a certain speeding up of R&B.
Clapton was one individual who not only raised the bar as blues was concerned, this guy would eventually prove he could play whatever you threw at him.
Page was, on the world stage the guy who taped a Beatle lead, and stole the show when he played on "Hurdy-gurdy man", nothing but good things would come his way.
Beck is where I have to profess some ignorance as far as his early work is concerned.
His later work on "Blow-by-Blow" and "Wired" are stellar examples of one guy who is just plain scary onstage.

So, from several viewpoints, you have a case for the 60's as being as good if not more important than other decades when it comes to overall impact.


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Me picking a decade and saying it was the best would indicate I was an expert of some sort, and I’m not.. However my favorite decade had to be the 80’s “hair metal”….was fantastic for a few years….toward the end of the decade it did get tired and boring though…hundreds of cookie cutter bands following a cretin formula of success to sell records, and then was no longer about rebellion or good times….. Pantera did hold down the fort in the 90’s though while grunge threatened to destroy music altogether…

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Most of the innovations were started in the sixties...

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SlapChop wrote:
A man walked into a butcher shop and asked the butcher for the best piece of meat in the shop. The butcher said:

"Every piece of meat in this shop is the best. There is no piece of meat in this shop that is not the best."

In this moment the customer was enlightened.

thats true all of the decades were good except for now.

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rdclmn7 wrote:
Taking into account that popular music wouldn't become a reality on the world stage until the 60's, that leaves out the 50's.
Fusion was already in motion in the latter 60's.
The Beatles would play around the world including non-english speaking nations.
These guys made it because they wrote their own material and were competent musicians.
Paul McCartney's rendition of "Besame mucho" during their legendary rooftop set attests to going well beyond their roots.
If you wonder where George Harrison was coming from, English guitar had its own genre of instrumentalists like Hank Marvin and others.
"Help" had to be one of the first proto-rock compositions, the chorus is followed by single notes, nowadays, almost every player would rather pickslide and power-chord it.
The idea of intercontinental cooperation was attested to since the Jazz age.
Late 50's pop would engender a good part of the coming British Invasion.
One busy Strat player named Jimi would get his break when invited overseas, a stage presence that not even Little Richard could compete against.
Its all come and go.
Each major artist would trigger a new phase of revolution that should have taken decades.

Ritchie Valens would experiment with Latin percussion just before his death.
A former violin player named Carlos would pick up where the other left off, and in the process help launch fusion.
The Beatles would tape a synthesizer for the first time.
They would also continue the evolution of studio magic only to be surpassed by Queen and later, Boston.

From a purely functional standpoint;
The Beatles were proficient, imaginative and prolific.
Hendrix was what happens when you have a lot of volume, a whammy bar and a certain speeding up of R&B.
Clapton was one individual who not only raised the bar as blues was concerned, this guy would eventually prove he could play whatever you threw at him.
Page was, on the world stage the guy who taped a Beatle lead, and stole the show when he played on "Hurdy-gurdy man", nothing but good things would come his way.
Beck is where I have to profess some ignorance as far as his early work is concerned.
His later work on "Blow-by-Blow" and "Wired" are stellar examples of one guy who is just plain scary onstage.

So, from several viewpoints, you have a case for the 60's as being as good if not more important than other decades when it comes to overall impact.

AMEN!!

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After a lot of thought, every decade had something it did best........

1900's - Brass Band
10's - Show Tunes
20's - Jazz Singers :wink:
30's - Big Band/Swing
40's - Crooners /Blues
50's - Blues/Rock
60's - Pop/Acid Rock
70's - Southern Rock/Hard Rock
80's - Metal
90's - Rap :(
2000's - Classic Rock....oddly enough. I mean, look at all the reunions that are playing as good or better than they used to, on better equipment than was availible. Eagle, Cream, Clapton, Heart, Whitesnake.

I don't have a favorite Decade, but the 90's are my least favorite. I'm no fan of the minimalist aproach that rock was doing and I don't like Rap, even if it's really good.

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For pop, 'am really strong about 1959 to 1969.


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