Favourite Decade for Music?

[How1]

If you had to pick one, what would it be? Not necessarily 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s specifically - just a 10 year period that you’d pick for really good music. 

 

I’d say mine was 75 to 85. You’ve got punk/post, the birth of rap, new wave, some really good 70s rock, stuff like The Blockheads, electro, roots reggae…the list goes on. Pretty interesting times.

Edited June 1, 2023 by How1

[bubinga5]

the 70s without any doubt. 

[Doctor J]

83 to 93. The thrash years, the birth of death metal, the peak of heavy metal and hip-hop, early grunge, some truly sublime pop over here and in the US and the great house music years. Kill 'em all at one end, Focus at the other... beautiful... before it all turned to shiiiiite.

 

Is there anyone for whom it is not their teenage years? 😉

Edited June 1, 2023 by Doctor J

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

1962 to 1972

[nilorius]

70. ties of good funk and 90-2020. with good funk rock like RHCP.

[How1]

9 minutes ago, nilorius said:

70. ties of good funk and 90-2020. with good funk rock like RHCP.

Everything is connected so it’s not easy to choose!

[Graham]

92-02

 

Grunge, mathcore, post-hardcore, 90s Death metal, second wave black metal

 

Also, I was born in 1985 so the 90s were very formative to my music tastes

[nilorius]

Just now, Graham said:

92-02

 

Grunge, mathcore, post-hardcore, 90s Death metal, second wave black metal

 

Also, I was born in 1985 so the 90s were very formative to my music tastes

Your choice - hard core.

[ambient]

I don’t know, maybe the 2030s will be it?

[nilorius]

3 minutes ago, ambient said:

I don’t know, maybe the 2030s will be it?

Ask Sarah Connor !

[How1]

21 minutes ago, ambient said:

I don’t know, maybe the 2030s will be it?

Very philosophical 🤓👍

[Barking Spiders]

Probably 1988 - 1998...ish...the golden age of hip hop; grunge; the start of the best periods for Ninja Tune, Pork and Warp; peak era for House, Rave, trance, techno, drum n' bass blah etc, Pixies and House of Love do their best stuff. Yup, a great time to be in one's late teens-20s

[paul_5]

Probably 1990 to 2000 for me - I transitioned from teenager to 20 something in this decade, so I went to and played loads of gigs. Everything from Grunge, to Britpop via the American Alt Rock scene (Primus, RHCP, Tool etc...) and some great thrash metal albums still kicking about.

[dclaassen]

78-88 for me…great rock, jazz fusion, country/southern rock…I was playing a lot of gigs….good times

[Paolo85]

When I was a teenager, in the early 2000s, it was definitely the 80s. Metal above all. Then when I was in my 20s it became the 70s - prog rock. Then in my 30s I went further back in time. I go in waves, listening to different stuff. But the 60s are probably a sweet spot for what I have listened to the most in recent years. Coltrane's modal period, Miles Davis' second great quintet and other Wayne Shorter stuff (with Art Blakey and as a band leader)... to be honest if it was for jazz music maybe I would have said the 50s, but then in the 60s you also start getting Jamerson, Jemmott, Cogbill on the electric bass.

I never had much interest in keeping up to date with music

Edited June 1, 2023 by Paolo85

[Mykesbass]

Been buying more current stuff (although much of it has a retro vibe) than ever before, so I'm saying 2013-2023.

[LowB_FTW]

'86-'96

If only for, Queen's A Kind of Magic and three of my favourite albums Def Leppard's Retro-Active and Slang and Mick Ronson's Heaven and Hull.

There was lots of other music from that 10 year period I really like as well, these are just the standout moments for me.

 

Mark

 

[Lozz196]

76 to 86, covers punk, new wave, the early 80s pop which I hated at the time but love now, and early glam/hair-metal.

 

Edit - how did I forget to add 2-Tone into this?

Edited June 2, 2023 by Lozz196

[snorkie635]

'66 - '76 for me folks. Still had my own teeth, hair, and knees. Two decent eyes which worked and that was also the last decade I could hear across the normal human range without hissing, squealing racket blanketing everything. Ah, time waits for no man ... ... "Nurse! I think I've done it again! Nurse!"

[steantval]

Definitely the 70’s, the music attached to so many great memories, left school, started work, first motorcycle and started dating my lovely wife.

[Waddo Soqable]

Seeing as it seems you can choose a 10 years slice rather than an official "decade".. err, I'll go '75 - '85 (probably ) 

[How1]

4 hours ago, Graham said:

92-02

 

Grunge, mathcore, post-hardcore, 90s Death metal, second wave black metal

 

Also, I was born in 1985 so the 90s were very formative to my music tastes

I love a lot of 90s stuff. I honestly don’t know what mathcore is though 🤓

[BassTractor]

'40s without any doubt, even though I wasn't a teenager back then.
I mean: Musical Offering, Art of Fugue, St John Passion, Mass in B minor ...
... the list goes on and on! 

 

 

 

Edited June 2, 2023 by BassTractor

[Graham]

6 hours ago, How1 said:

I love a lot of 90s stuff. I honestly don’t know what mathcore is though 🤓

 A sub-genre of hardcore punk, with a focus on complex time signatures; for example Botch, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Coalesce, The Chariot 😀

 

 

[casapete]

A difficult choice for me - born in the late 50’s so the 1960’s were my formative years.

Beatles / Stones / Motown / Soul and probably the best pop music ever.

 

However, the 70’s and in my teens was when I seriously got into music. Springsteen, Faces, 

Bowie and Stones again, and then the arrival of more great soul stuff, Disco, Punk and New

Wave. Such a great decade for me, forming my first band and going to every gig I could on

my pittance earned in a record shop. Great times.