Best recent decade in music

[allan2]

Good to see that the 70s are ahead--that was my vote too....

Actually the 90s came close--as someone said, there was lots of diversity there (but also a lot of crap, so that weighted it down for me).

But the 70s took what was brewing in the late 60s, and made it take off in many directions. It birthed two of my favorite genres, progressive/symphonic rock (Yes, Styx, Queen, ELO, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, ELP, King Crimson), and "Southern" rock (the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, the Outlaws, Blackfoot); plus bands as diverse as Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Pink Floyd (Waters version), Blue Oyster Cult, Steely Dan, Black Sabbath, CSN&Y, Bad Company, etc. etc.

The seventies declined (as far as radio airplay anyway) around 77-78 however, when disco dominated everything, and even former guitar-rock stations started airplaying it relentlessly (and this would continue in the 80s with OTHER crap...).

But overall, I remember ENJOYING listening to the radio, even as a little kid, in the mid-70s--all the music then was fresh and exciting to me in ways it never would be again. But maybe that's just the way things always are when you're younger....

But even though I appreciate some newer bands now, most of my CD collection is stuff made in the 70s....

 

[Groovin']

I was gonna think this was easy, but now i dont know.

First it was gonna be 60's - Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Cream, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, early Santana, early Pink Floyd, the original Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan

or then 70's - Led Zeppelin, etc etc

80's - From a very simple viewpoint it looked like it sucked but their was still a hell of a lot of good stuff - The Cure, early rap like Public Enemy, NWA, then was also Living Colour, early Red Hot Chilli Peppers, early Faith No More plus this was Stevie Ray Vaughans decade too!

90's - Rage Against the Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, Gunners, and too many genres let alone bands to name.

then all those awesome old blues guys through the 50's / 60's

so.......... i cant choose

 

[ApocalypseKurtz]

I think 2pac was by far the single greatest rapper ever. He had plenty of standard "f*ck you n*gga im gonna f*ck some h*es tonight" songs but also had a more sensitive side with songs such as "Brenda's got a Baby" and "Keep Ya Head Up." He also made social and political commentary in many songs such as "Changes" "Trapped" and "Me Against the World." Along with many songs mourning his fallen friends (God Bless the Dead, How Long Will They Mourn Me)

It's a shame that such a man with such talent, heart and charisma was gunned down.

 

[Fez_Monk]

Originally posted by ApocalypseKurtz
I think 2pac was by far the single greatest rapper ever. He had plenty of standard "f*ck you n*gga im gonna f*ck some h*es tonight" songs but also had a more sensitive side with songs such as "Brenda's got a Baby" and "Keep Ya Head Up." He also made social and political commentary in many songs such as "Changes" "Trapped" and "Me Against the World." Along with many songs mourning his fallen friends (God Bless the Dead, How Long Will They Mourn Me)

It's a shame that such a man with such talent, heart and charisma was gunned down.

2Pac was a brilliant rapper, and would be somewhere in my list of the greatest rappers of all time. But number 1? Could Pac hold his own in a lyrical battle with someone like KRS-ONE? I don't think so. IMHO, KRS ONE is the greatest of all time. He has been rapping for over a decade, is able to rap about a variety of subjects without resorting to excessive cursing, is one of the greatest battle emcees of all time, and is one of the only people defending hip hop as a culture.

 

[FearlessLeader2]

It was, in the end, a rather easy choice to click the thingie next to the 70s.

allan2 kind of summed it up for me, symphonic rock. STYX. I'm wearing my STYXWorld Tour T-Shirt right now as I type, and their show with REO was easily the best concert I've been to in the last 15 years.

The 70s stepped off the platform of rock and roll, from the previous stop, the 60s, and refined and re-defined rock, up until the advent of electronic music and the rise of the chilling spectre of disco. The first metal bands, most notably Rush, the Canadian trio that made the genre in my book, jump-started a musical revolution, and along with others, helped birth guitar rock, which thrived into the mid 80s, but slowly died out as hairstyles shortened.

The death of rock occurred in the late 70s, when disco reared its vile head, and legions of stiffs paraded into discos to jerk spasmodically to its insipid beat. Basically, someone figured out how to give white boys a vague sense of rythym, by cranking the bass track so high that it caused their bodies to resonate without any dancing skills required.

This trended into the 80s, and dominated the first 3/4ths of that decade. Then, like some belated immune system response, disco seemed to go into remission. Rock peeked out briefly, but it had left for too long, and music that had no value whatsoever thronged the scene, shouting out the battle cry, 'The Beatles don't mean a f*cking thing to me.'

With no clear direction, music foundered completely in the 90s, and of all things, grunge became a dominant music force. Yes that's right, pot-smoking became mainstream, and wake-bake-and-sing became the watchword of the day. Thank God for shotguns and sleeping pills. Pop of course never goes out of style, and girl pop singers and boy bands continued to exact a gruesome toll in deadening of the musical tastes of young minds.

Tragically, the world did not end, and the aughts have seen the near-complete resurrection of disco, the mainstreaming of rap, and Madonna trading her pointy-breast-thingies for a cowboy hat to attempt to lull us into a stupor, hopefully so someone could sneak up behind us and put us out of our collective miseries before she reached the end of 'American Hair-Pie'. Alas, no such luck.

The Teens will only be worse.

 

[Fez_Monk]

Ah, but you forgot the worst musical atrocity of all: Limp B*****

 

[ApocalypseKurtz]

Originally posted by monk
Ah, but you forgot the worst musical atrocity of all: Limp B*****

I second that!!!

But why did you star it out? Is "Bizkit" so revolting? On second thought, maybe it is...

 

[animepornstar]

Originally posted by monk
IMHO, KRS ONE is the greatest of all time.

he is most known for being sampled together with edith piaf by cut killer & ntm and by that way becoming a part of the movie la haine.

 

[animepornstar]

my view on the 70s.

+ rock: see the movie almost famous.
+ punk: the manhattan punk scene was the best and most creative music scene ever. seattle in early 90s^10
+ reagge, yah mon

- symphonic rock: pretentious, bombastic and boring music made associations of dull millioner dinosaurs. just evil music.
- disco, just stupid.

 

[Fez_Monk]

Originally posted by animepornstar

he is most known for being sampled together with edith piaf by cut killer & ntm and by that way becoming a part of the movie la haine.

And why should I care?

 

[Switch625]

Considering the prevailing winds here, I'm probably gonna get shot down in flames for my opinion. I voted 80s.

I liked the "hair" metal phenomenon of the 80s. You know, Scorpions, early Queensryche, Whitesnake, Warrant, Helix, but not Quiet Riot (blech). I really enjoy both the anthemic stompers and moody ballads of the hair metal style.

I wish I could've voted for two, because the 70s are such a close second. The arena rock style is awesome, and I like the folksy rock style of bands like Kansas as well.

 

[willemvanoranje]

Originally posted by monk


You forgot Master P[AKA Mr. I 've got lots of cash and f**k plenty of h*s, if you don't like me n*gga I'll knock off your nose]. And yes, Nas is good. He killed Jay Z when he released Stillmatic. Wu Tang and Mobb Deep were good in the early nineties. The eighties sucked for every kind of music except rap.

Jay-Z faught back a little with Suppa Ugly, but Nas still rulez.

 

[G-Man]

Originally posted by monk
Ah, but you forgot the worst musical atrocity of all: Limp B*****

Agreed. In a guitar players forum I'm in some guy posted a picture of them saying they're the best band ever. The mod deleted the thread and banned him for a week (after that week he posted a thread with the title "Uri (the name of the mod) you're a son of a b****" and posted porn pictures in it. He was never heard from again).

 

[animepornstar]

Originally posted by G-Man


Agreed. In a guitar players forum I'm in some guy posted a picture of them saying they're the best band ever. The mod deleted the thread and banned him for a week (after that week he posted a thread with the title "Uri (the name of the mod) you're a son of a b****" and posted porn pictures in it. He was never heard from again).

great mod!

 

[stormerne]

I voted "Other", since the best decade in recent music was - without doubt and fear of competition - the ten years of 1966-1975.

 

[MCdread]

Add another vote to 70s. I like every style that this decade had. The rock reached the peak, and we saw the appearence of new movements like reggae, symphonic rock and punk. Oh, and don't cruelly thrash me on this, but I even enjoy some disco stuff...
Following, it's a hard choice between 60s and 90s, with the 80s being the lowest point. No... Wait!! The lowest point is now, I have to contain myself not to vomit everytime I accidently switch to the MTV. In this point, things can only get better (I think and pray for...).

 

[FearlessLeader2]

Damn!! Me and Stormerne agree on something. Who'd a thunk?