Greatest decade for music

Which decade do you think influenced music for the best? Or another question, which decade produced you favorite music?

My answer to both would have to the the 50's. Why? Buddy Holly.

The 90's was deffinately the greatest for the black metal scene.

I say the 90's period.

For ANY music.

Nothing's better than some early 90's hiphop. You got Brand Nubian, De La Soul, Leaders of the New School, Public Enemy, EPMD, Lords of the Underground, Ultramagnetic MC's, A Tribe Called Quest............just to name a few.

the transition between the 70s and 80s.

Industrial music found itself after the founders of Skinny Puppy dropped their synth pop bands to experiment with more caustic sounds... giving a new edge to already existing industrial music something other than noise...

it was also the start of the New Wave era with the largest number of 1-hit-wonders weve seen yet.

And also the start of the era of real punk with God Save The Queen, Sex Pistols etc...which found their roots with bands like The Who.

:iagree: It's hard to choose which decade was the greatest for music. Each decade was"known" for something different. I think the biggest decade for music was the '70s. You started the decade with a few leftovers from the '60s and the Woodstock generation. Then the supergroups emerged followed by disco, then punk and New Wave. The '80s were known for the continuation of New Wave and a resurgence of other British bands, then in the mid '80s things seemed to change again ( there was a little "lull" around 1985, then more danceable music became prevalent along with big gains in rap, and the peak of the "hair bands," The '90s started with the grunge movement, and gangsta rap, and hip hop was increasing in popularity. Towards the end of the decade, music fads seemed to change more frequently. You had swing music making a comeback, as well as, ska, and other forms of music popular many years ago. The 21st century started with hip hop very popular and a comeback, although short lived, for "bubblegum" type pop music. It's good to see rock music making a comeback as of late. I think rock suffered a bit in the last decade or so, with a lot of older bands "retiring" and not touring or releasing an album, and not many newer bands with staying power to take their place. I remember for the longest time it seemed that no rock songs were in the Top 40 which was dominated by rap/hiphop, but now we are seeing many genres of music coming together, i.e. rock/hiphop, and country/pop, and even country/hiphop. I think when we look back at this decade in 10 years or so, we may notice that during this decade, a lot of different musical styles came together to form new music, with no one type being really dominant.

Most influencial decade = 30's. Blues started Jazz, Jazz started rock and roll, rock and roll started rock, rock started everything else [rock related]

Best decade = all of them.

50s= early rock, elvis, buddy holly, frank sinatra (i think)
60s= hippie rock, woodstock, the beatles, jimmy hendrix, the doors, steppen wolf
70s= heavier rock, van halen, pink floyd, led zeppelin, aerosmith, all the great ones, and disco was back then...
80s= i hate the 80's music except for metal,metallica, megadeth, all the rest to me like the pop, or whatever you called it, gay......tho i do like the mid to late 80's hip-hop rap
90s= probably the best, mid 90's rap...ahh tupac, biggie, nas, jay-z, brother lynch...all the greats...90's rock= pantera, nirvana, etc;.....but to summarize what i just said i would say 90's

Yeh i'd have to agree with the majority here about it being the Mid 90's. Thats mostly due to the fact that i listen to Rap/HipHop.

I'd say that this is the best decade for dance music though. Its going very mainstream nowadays, with dj's such as Dj Tiesto, and so forth. Also dance and hiphop also seem to be being remixed together by some other dj's such as Dj Danny D, etc. So id have to say this is the best decade for Dance Music.

I'd say that this is the best decade for dance music though.

That music wouldn't exist if it weren't for late 70s synth-pop bands. Kind of like the early 80s industrial bands, modern day dance/trance gets its roots from ex-synth-poppers who wanted to experiment with more extreme sounds.

Same goes for rap/hip hop in the mid 80s... this new stuff wouldnt exist were it not for Public Enemy and the like.

I still contest that mainstream "rap" should even be called rap though...

Today's Rap is more along the lines of M.F. Doom, Madlib, Quasimoto, Buddha Monk and the such.

50 cent and such I prefer just to call Pop.

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I still contest that mainstream "rap" should even be called rap though...

Today's Rap is more along the lines of M.F. Doom, Madlib, Quasimoto, Buddha Monk and the such.

50 cent and such I prefer just to call Pop.

^ I agree. You've got hiphop (done for the love of music), and then you've got hip-pop (done for the love of money). BTW, Madlib and Quasimoto are the same person.

yeah...some good rap is Brother Lynch Hung, one of the best underground rappers ive ever heard

The 90s for the dance scene. It's all related though.

Yeh i'd have to agree with the majority here about it being the Mid 90's. Thats mostly due to the fact that i listen to Rap/HipHop.

It could also be that the majority here were born in the mid to late '80s also. Those who responded with an earlier decade for their answer probably had more exposure to the music of those earlier decades, so it remains in their minds. Most of my music choices range from the late '70s to early/mid '80s when I was in junior high and high school. I tended to listen to the radio more back then also, than I do now. My tastes in music after say 1996 is towards hard rock, alternative, and modern rock. I really don't listen to Top 40 (if that's what it is still called) because it is so different than what it was in the '70s and '80s. Being in my late 30s I find other people in my age range don't listen to the same stuff I do. They all seem to live in a time warp and listen to the older stuff. I grew tired of classic rock for awhile , in part because the radio stations in my area suck and only play select tracks from certain artists, and it got boring.

BTW, Madlib and Quasimoto are the same person.

That would be my bad, I'm pretty new to the real hip-hop scene.

Was just introduced a few days ago to it, been diggin' real hard on it.