I liked 90s music and early 2000s the best. But, this was also a time that I grew up in. I wish more bands would make music in that vein-- but I also wonder if people are biased towards decades of music in which they were children and teens.
So, do you have a favorite decade of music?
Yes I love the music from the thirties thru the seventies. I can't understand the music of many of the other periods as they just seem to be screeming like the heavy metal and rap. There does not appear to be any melody to the songs and I miss the ballards. Gee I can even remember when we danced together without jumping and playing rag doll.
I love the late 60s to 70s, but then I liked Grunge, then Jack White and so on, so I like what is new that follows the heritage of rock, blues, and jazz and does it well. Music is a reflection of the present moment as it should be. That is my favorite.
You have good taste
I am old and was raised in the declining big band era of the '40s and '50s.
@silvereyes I can not be still when I am listening to it. I got to be tapping my feet and moving to the rhythm. Yes, I prefer it.
1965/1975 best of the best. It's kinda funny that the explosion in the arts comes in times of great strife.
“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
? Graham Greene, The Third Man
Actually Orson Welles improvised the line for the movie.
And Toblerone - don't forget Toblerone.
each decade has genres that emerged that have left behind a wealth of amazing music. I can't pick a favorite decade but I can pick favorite things about each decade, decades that were before my time, during my childhood, and various stages of adulthood. My album collection has music from the 1940s through 2017.
I’m an 80s hairband fanatic. 80s ballads. I was born in 84.
On and off for the last decade, I've been working on a project compiling my fave/best/top music by decade from the present, back to the middle ages. IMO 85-89 is one of the thinnest periods in recent history. It seems a commercialism took over where artists were afraid to or discouraged from doing anything that was not poppy & safe, and a lot of the music had this thin, cheap synthesizer sound. The 70's & 90's are loaded with great stuff. Much of the classical music I like is from either the Baroque period (1650-1750) or the Late-Romantic/Post-Romantic/Impressionist period (1875-1925). The 40's thru the 60's I find is a very fertile period for Jazz. After losing interest in current music from about 2000-2005, which is when a lot of my interest in Classical and Jazz blossomed, I returned popular music to be dismayed by the scarcity of Hard Rock. After tapping into the little that there was, then came the period where I went back and discovered a lot of the international (especially Bossa Nova, Electro-Bossa) and underground/extreme metal that I had missed out on from the past to the present.
I love the music of the 60s and 70s. James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, John Prine, John Sebastian.
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I'm a song in on every decade. Here's my latest.
I've always considered the '60s to be my favorite decade of music; however, If I were to choose my favorite 10 consecutive years of music, it would probably be from between '67 to '77.
Love the hair metal bands of the 80's.. always been a rocker and will continue to do so.. its in my blood.. not goen nowhere.