What is your favorite decade for music?

90s-aughts and 1960s. There’s a big gap in my knowledge of popular music in the 70s and 80s except in a few specific genres.
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I like everything from the 50’s to now, but if I had to choose one decade, I’d go with the 90’s. I still love all that music from my teenage years.

60’sand 70’s and then a jump to the 90’s. I was a 70’s girl but I have to say, the 90’s venue is mind blowingly amazing! The best to come down the pike in decades. The 80’s were pretty forgetable except for a few. I love old Robert Palmer, ZZ Top The Cars, and a few others.

I just heard ” Electric Avenue” by Eddie Grant the other day in my car and I was singing away with
abandon. lol
If I NEVER hear any Elton John, Stevie Nicks or Rod Stewart ever again it won’t be long enough. Gag!

I actually was just listening to Stevie Nicks. I like the song Landslide. I love Elton John and I like Maggie May and Passion by Rod Stewart. I like Heart, Pat Benatar and Blondie. I like the song Uptown Girl by Billy Joel.

@JennyPrince I like “Uptown Girl” too.Yes, those are classics, but so overplayed anymore.:-)

60’s and 70’s. But there’s also some good stuff in all other decades – and a lot of shitty.

80s. Best decade ever.

It’s not the standard numerical concept of a decade, but my favorite is probably 1967–1977, although I guess it could be said that rounds up to the 70’s. ;-)

1967 is when the Cream and Jimi Hendrix released their first albums.
Their arrival signified the emergence of comparatively advanced musicianship, the most notable of which for me was the guitar work of Clapton and Hendrix.

In 1968, another English-bred guitar great, Alvin Lee of Ten Years After, arrived and Hendrix released his third excellent album, “Electric Ladyland”.
I think it was in that year two other legends, Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck, released their first album together: “Truth”.

In 1969, Led Zeppelin and Santana released their first albums, and Zep also released their second album.

In summation, I’d say the primary factor in the excellence of 60’s music was the massive influx of English artists.

It could be that in turn inspired the emergence of more intelligent, creatively advanced, and aspiring American music in the 70’s.

In the early 1970’s, America’s best rock guitarist, Johnny Winter, released my favorite rock album, “Johnny Winter And Live”.

IMO, it was in the 70’s that Santana released his best music.

It was also in the 70’s that I was introduced to the artistry of Steely Dan; the Eagles; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young; and Fleetwood Mac.

@Brian1946 I am not much into hard rock. I like more mellow music but there are some individual songs that I like. I like Stairway to Heaven for instance. I like the song Eve of Destruction from the 60’s.

The 60’s. Then the 40’s and the 70’s.

1990s- early 2000s lol but I’m young

@Brian1946 Aaaah…memories
I saw Santana, The Dead, The stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who,
Lynard Skinnard. Marshall Tucker, Elvin Bishop…on and on….the good old days in Northern California. :-)

The 70s.

I have an appreciation towards any music before about 1998–2002 or so. After that it got all technical. Computers replaced music instruments and talent, making it all sound the same. Nowadays its all about clubs and women as objects and relationships. That being said, I think I might have a bias towards music from the 90s since that is what I listened to growing up. Later on, however, I discovered late 60s and 70s music and I love a lot of it. I don’t know too much about that era because I didn’t live through it, but For What It’s Worth, I still appreciate it. (Buffalo Springfield pun was intended)

00s>10s>80s>30s>50s>40s>60s>70s>90s
That is the truth

@JennyPrince

You might like LInda Ronstadt’s cover of Close Your Eyes.

Santana did do some tunes that could be categorized as hard rock, but you might like Mirage and I’ll Be Waiting.

@Michael_Huntington Haha…so true.
I LOVE the Big Band era from the 40’s, oldies from the 50’s…and there were some pretty good tunes waay back when.
Hey…don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me, anyone else but me, no, no, no…

Linda Ronstadt is awesome!

@Coloma

Seeing Santana is on my bucket list. I just hope he doesn’t kick it before I do. ;-)

Where and when did you see him?

@Brian1946 Yes, I like “Close your eyes” by Linda ronstadt.

@Brian1946 They were the header band for the Dead several times at Oakland back in the late 70’s…76–77.

70s then 40s then 80s then 90s
I like a lot of different music

Usually, the current decade. I’m an 80s girl, so I have a lot of memories wrapped up in the music of that era, but I listen to current music for the most part, whatever decade I’m in.

1890s – Nutcracker, La Boheme, Mahler’s 2nd—it doesn’t compare :)

60s 70s and 80s…the 20s were good, too.

The eighties!
Although the band on the Titanic went down well, with the passengers anyway.

60’s then the 70’s then the 80’s then music ended.

The 1970’s. I wish I would had been a bit older for that decade since I wasn’t around for half of that decade, but at least I can burn songs now from the internet to listen to them.

I could not possibly choose one.

Not even a little.

I mean, even the 20s had Irving Berlin, and I wouldn’t count him out for the sake of the Beatles, or Opeth, or Aerosmith. And which decade would Aerosmith count as, anyway?

As much as I would LOVE to be a snob and say that the “music nowadays sucks”, the simple fact of the matter is that “popular” music has generally always sucked, and if the good ones were appreciated it was for the wrong reasons (i.e.: Paul is dreamy vs. Blackbird is a frakking awesome bit of guitar work). There is some incredible music being made today. Is it on MTV? No, but then they stopped playing music videos about 15 years ago.