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Favorite Musical Decade
40's 3%  3%  [ 2 ]
50's 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
60's 41%  41%  [ 24 ]
70's 31%  31%  [ 18 ]
80's 10%  10%  [ 6 ]
90's 9%  9%  [ 5 ]
Now 3%  3%  [ 2 ]
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I'm not into any particular decade. Any and every decade had bands that rocked and still are considered the best in what they did. Every decade also had stuff that was pathetically lame and doesn't deserve remembering much less mentioning. I went through High School in the '70's so I know. Anybody remember 'Afternoon Delight'? Baaaaaarrrrrrffff! Hey Raaaallllph! Go get the Buuuuuiiick!

That being said, I really liked Indie (pre Grunge) when it still WAS Indie and hadn't 'sold out' to the major record labels. Maybe music is still being made that way, but MAN, is it hard to find!


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Billy don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life.....


I forgot that one. I wish I could again. Ick.


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Billy don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life.....


I forgot that one. I wish I could again. Ick.


For some reason it's been burned in my brain for 35 years. Somebody make it stop! Somebody make it go away!

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Billy don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life.....


I forgot that one. I wish I could again. Ick.


For some reason it's been burned in my brain for 35 years. Somebody make it stop! Somebody make it go away!


For some reason (and I think Cryingstrat would agree), people seem to think (those that weren't there) that the '70's were ALL Led Zeppelin ALL of the time. It wasn't. Especially the second half of the '70's, where Disco seemed to dominate (anybody remember that scene from the 'Airplane' movie?).


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Billy don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life.....


I forgot that one. I wish I could again. Ick.


For some reason it's been burned in my brain for 35 years. Somebody make it stop! Somebody make it go away!


For some reason (and I think Cryingstrat would agree), people seem to think that the '70's were ALL Led Zeppelin ALL of the time. It wasn't. Especially the second half of the '70's, where Disco seemed to dominate (anybody remember that scene from the 'Airplane' movie?).


Yeah, movies and such that look back on the 70's can make it look that way. They pick the great songs of the decade. They don't hit you with Barry Manilow who was on the radio all the time, same with Frankie Valle, Captain and Tennile, Shaun Cassidy, Bread, etc...

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Well I'd say 65-75--but pretty close. I find music seems to follow mid-decade to mid decade more than 50's, 60's, 70's, etc.

I also like the first decade of the 1700's. great decade--seriously.

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cryingstrat wrote:
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Billy don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life.....


I forgot that one. I wish I could again. Ick.


For some reason it's been burned in my brain for 35 years. Somebody make it stop! Somebody make it go away!


For some reason (and I think Cryingstrat would agree), people seem to think that the '70's were ALL Led Zeppelin ALL of the time. It wasn't. Especially the second half of the '70's, where Disco seemed to dominate (anybody remember that scene from the 'Airplane' movie?).


Yeah, movies and such that look back on the 70's can make it look that way. They pick the great songs of the decade. They don't hit you with Barry Manilow who was on the radio all the time, same with Frankie Valle, Captain and Tennile, Shaun Cassidy, Bread, etc...

Feelings.....whoa whoa whoa feelings.....


AAAAAAH! Now I'm having flashbacks! :shock:

That scene I was referring to in 'Airplane' was the one where the airliner runs into the radio station tower, broadcasting 'Where Disco lives forever'.


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I remember a whole lot of Abba, Ambrosia, Firefall, America, Heart, ELO, Manfred Man, and various other non-Zeppelin artists. I also remember a very harsh divide between the pop/rock crowd and disco, to the point of physical confrontations. The whole "death before disco" revolt was interesting. Now - I like pretty much everything from the 70's. 80's were high school and bring back memories, but still makes me cringe to hear a lot of that music now.


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The golden age of electric guitar !!!!


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Last summer I had a long conversation here with someone who may or may not have been John Mayer. It was about how rock has peaked already and everything is simply a rehash of something done years ago. It seems this poll in a way agrees. Rock reached it's pinnicle in the late 60's to mid 70's. Everything since has been fine, but a copy of what's already been done.

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I remember a whole lot of Abba, Ambrosia, Firefall, America, Heart, ELO, Manfred Man, and various other non-Zeppelin artists. I also remember a very harsh divide between the pop/rock crowd and disco, to the point of physical confrontations. The whole "death before disco" revolt was interesting. Now - I like pretty much everything from the 70's. 80's were high school and bring back memories, but still makes me cringe to hear a lot of that music now.


Yeah, same here, now that I think about it (and trust me, I had to think hard as I thought I'd buried it in my mind). I remember when ABBA was actually MAINSTREAM! There was some shock around at the time when KISS did 'I Was Made For Loving You', and everyone thought they went Disco! ELO was cool to me as it was Beatley enough without being too Glam.


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Last summer I had a long conversation here with someone who may or may not have been John Mayer. It was about how rock has peaked already and everything is simply a rehash of something done years ago. It seems this poll in a way agrees. Rock reached it's pinnicle in the late 60's to mid 70's. Everything since has been fine, but a copy of what's already been done.


Interesting post. I've always wondered if the music I grew up with in my jr high and high school years ('67-'73) was really some of the best or was I just biased because pretty much everyone seems to like the music they grew up with. If Rock hasn't progressed since the mid-'70s, is Rock dead? We've seen what happened to Jazz, especially after the death of Miles. It's kind of depressing.


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twangee wrote:
I'm not into any particular decade. Any and every decade had bands that rocked and still are considered the best in what they did. Every decade also had stuff that was pathetically lame and doesn't deserve remembering much less mentioning. I went through High School in the '70's so I know. Anybody remember 'Afternoon Delight'? Baaaaaarrrrrrffff! Hey Raaaallllph! Go get the Buuuuuiiick!!


I used to work in an office with a very prim and proper woman who happened to mention that her favorite song was "Afternoon Delight". We had great fun explaining to her that her favorite song was about a couple of people who scored a 'nooner'. She turned a deep shade of red!!! I guess she wasn't that proper after all if she knew what a nooner was.


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Last summer I had a long conversation here with someone who may or may not have been John Mayer. It was about how rock has peaked already and everything is simply a rehash of something done years ago. It seems this poll in a way agrees. Rock reached it's pinnicle in the late 60's to mid 70's. Everything since has been fine, but a copy of what's already been done.


Interesting post. I've always wondered if the music I grew up with in my jr high and high school years ('67-'73) was really some of the best or was I just biased because pretty much everyone seems to like the music they grew up with. If Rock hasn't progressed since the mid-'70s, is Rock dead? We've seen what happened to Jazz, especially after the death of Miles. It's kind of depressing.

Marketable Industry ate it up. There's really good music that get's ignored because record companies have no Idea how to listen to music, but they're pretty sure they're the only ones that know what music should sound like. And (I think) it's because the Record Company ask the audience what they want, instead of watching them react to what they're given.

For example,A guy in a Bar says, "play me some Skynyrd or Purple" when you play "Sweet Home Alabama" and then "Smoke on the Water" , you get the same Big cheer at the begining, and then the dull headbobbing and sing-a-long reaction. But when you play "On the Hunt" then "Maybe I'm a Leo" instead, you get a surprised, "Wait, I know this song" fallowed by an arm pumping, fist pounding, Scream-A-Long reaction. But when you're forming a Classic rock Bar Band, it's next to impossible to get the rest of the band to stray from the formula. They alwasy say, "But the audience wants to hear Sweet Home Alabama" but the truth is, they want a fresh night out, one that's different from the night they had last night.

Same thing with Record Companies, just on a National scale.

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