Now. Because now includes everything that has come before. Like science, it keeps accumulating and getting better.

Late 60's and early 70's.

1990s. Alt rock. Grunge. The lyrics of that decade are awesome.

For me, it's format more than era. Two guitars, a bass, drums and a whole lot of distortion. Add the occasional power trio and you've locked in my music preferences.

It would probably be the 70s, I was 10 thru to 20 years old, this is when I became musically sentient.

80’s new wave/ punk/alternative! This was during my formative teenage years. Up till about 5 years ago, I had been listening to 1st Wave on SiriusXM (an 80’s alternative channel) pretty regularly. Then I checked out the New Alternative station, and have really loved a lot of the new stuff; 21 Pilots, Nothing but Thieves, Cage the Elephant. That’s been the last 5 years.
Now, I listen to everything. Jazz, reggae, classical, alternative. Just keep changing it up.

!970s It was only 7 years from Woodstock to the 1st sex pistols album but I will be more specific than that.
1971 just take a look at some of the classic albums released that year. Imagine, Led Zep iv, Whos next, Whats going on, Shaft, Tapestry, Pearl , Blue, Songs of love and hate and Sticky fingers. Debut albums by ZZ Top, Little Feat, America and The Carpenters. Is just a little of the fantastic music that year. I had a good Saturday job and was 14. I went to see everyone that gigged in my town that year.
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I love music full stop.....and although 60s music is what I listened to when I was a teen and I still listen to a lot of it, my musical taste has expanded through each decade and it would be untrue to say I like it above other decades. On top of that, perhaps because I have trained to sing classical and traditional music as well as the popular genres I find it hard to be pinned down to partuclar preferences of century, decade and genre! I think I may be a little bit more unusual than your usual music lover in that respect, but I often think some people don’t open their minds up to different genres because they have a pre-conceived notion that they won’t like it,

For the mainstream, it was probably the 50's, 60's and early 70's when artist's had creative freedom and could still make records that had a chance to be heard on the radio.

For the indi and underground scene, it was probably the 80's. Those were the halcyon days of punk and alternative rock when alternative rock was actually an alternative to something.

Post 1990, the indi and underground scene has stayed pretty cool, but the mainstream just keeps getting worse. I never thought back in the 80's when I was reviling the likes of Tiffany, Milli Vanilli and Michael Bolten that things could actually get even worse. My, oh my how wrong I was.

1984 to 1986

(although I have found myself listening to some 90s stuff lately)

I LOVE the music that took th world by storm during the 1920's and 1930's!

Definitely the 80's

80s

Actually the decades between 1600 and 1760.

Baroque music is a period or style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1760. This era followed the Renaissance music era, and was followed in turn by the Classical era

This is a difficult one for me, I can’t pick just one. I adore the 60s, 70s and 80s! I was born in 70, so i was 0-10

To me, the great time was the late 1960s and early 190s . You have the best of folk music, protest music,and others like Croce, Simon and Garfunkel, and others that did music with depth and quality.

I primarily listen to modern music. I enjoying finding new bands and new songs that I've never heard before. I do listen to older music from the 70's and 80's and 90's but I want to hear new music most of the time. There is such a vast amount of new music being made today from all around the world and styles/genres being mixed together in new ways.

40's & 50's. Big Bands, Dixieland, C&W.

80’s

i can narrow it down even more: 1967.

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The music I identify with most came from the 1970s, when I was in my 30s. It was a period when popular music has a sense of both social and intellectual purpose. I cannot say the same for the vast majority of popular music of subsequent decades.

The music of the '80's has always been my favorite...but I also enjoy more recent stuff. I never developed a taste for rap - but other than that, I just pretty much like it all.

I really don't have a favorite time. I like music from all times.

I love the 60s and 70s music, but I love a lot of modern music too. I can't say what my favorite era is. I always find stuff to like. I also love Irish music, gypsy music, classical, and big band era.