What was the best decade for rock?!
Question: What was the best decade for rock? how about music in general?
Answers: What was the best decade for rock? how about music in general?
VERY subjective question. Naturally, most would end up picking the decade they grew up in.
But I'll try to look at each objectively:
50s: Rock is born. The innovators like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, & Buddy Holly get the flames going. Elvis puts it on the pop culture map for good.
60s: Beatles, "British Invasion", socially & politically aware songs, peace, love, the upbeat Motown songs, etc.. The 60s are a HARD act to follow in terms of idealism & overall innovation.
70s: rock fragments into many diff' sub-genres. Disco, 60s idealism is dead. It's all about escapism w/ disco, soft rock (James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, et al) or hard rock (eg: Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath etc)
80s: MTV changes everything. For the worst to some. The scene more than ever before is all about image over substance. More & more producer-driven music. "hair metal" dominates airwaves. Hip hop gains mainstream popularity. By end of decade, making a video to get exposed is a must.
90s: After grunge, rock takes a back seat to hip hop, rap & pop. (Spice Girls, boy bands etc) Short shelf life pop tunes dominate.
Now: It's all about producer-driven music more than before & pop punk outfits (w/ a HANDful of genuine singer songwriters) Just look at American Idol. Few are making groundbreaking music anymore, so we have to vote for our new music heros on tv. IMO, all the best, most refreshing new rock is indie rock. You sure won't hear it on MTV....
So the Best? heh- well, by MY standards, I'll take the 60s & 70s w/ a great deal of respect for the 50s.
i'd say the 90s were a pretty good decade. alot of good bands emerged on the scene around then
The 80's was the best decade. Love those hair bands.
70s and 80s because all the great and powerful bands of all time emerged in that time frame. It shaped the bands and guitar playing that we listen to today.
60's - 70's - a little of the 80's - 90's 2000's.
I agree,the ninetys had some of the most diverse music one could ask for.
For rock: The 70's; For music in general: The 80's--specifically 1984 with another slight peak in 1987
60s. It goes far beyond just having the best rock. It was the decade of innovation. Great artist like The Byrds began combining folk with rock, then you have the Beach Boys whose stuido work many artist. Most notably The beatles.
As for music in general. The 60s had motown as well as great r&b and sould.
Many of Sinatras great hits also come from the 60s
Now a days it is getting to be impossible to find good music in the mainstream. 90's were alright, but nobody was really amazing. Nirvana was the best thing to come out of that decade and they were just a 3 power chord band. 80's were just embarrassing, hair bands are the worst.
The 70s by far was the best decade for music. It was a time when people were actually professionals at their instruments. The audience actually cared about music and would probably rather die then listen to the garbage in mainstream now a days.
I may have been a child of the 80's but the music from the 60's was the best. The Beatles, CSNY, Hendricks, Marvin Gaye, The Supreams... The list goes on.
hhhhmmmmmm let me think about this..
the 80's ofcourse..wide variety of rock and metal
wide variety of pop. all the one hit wonders in the 80's that were hits..and ofcourse along with metal like judas priest,overkill etc. hairmetal bands were born from around 82 and up.....love the 80's
i'd say 90's ...but then i grew up in the90's. i was discovering music like stone roses, primal scream, pixies, nirvana, happy mondays, cure, joy division ,whipping boy a lot of great bands. but i also got into pink floyd, acdc, led zep, ramones ,at the time so ....i'm still sticking to 90's but you nevr stop discovering great bands that you missed or that were before your time....recently got into ccr and screaming jay hawkins
80's rocked!
60's and 70's- Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, Black Sabbath, The Eagles, Chicago, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Beach Boys, All Brothers Band, Lynryd Skynyrd, The Beatles The Rolling Stones, Traffic, Sly and the Family Stone, The Kinks, The Clash, The Yardbirds, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Lovin' Spoonful, Genesis, Talking Heads
80's- Motley Crue, Poison, Prince, Van Halen, Ratt
90's- Nirvana, Radiohead, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains
1960's & 1970's
in the 70's and 80's there were classics like the rolling stones and U2
the 90's good grunge rock like Bush, Limp Bizkit, Creed
the 80's was the best, all genres including pop(scandal, the motels, cyndi lauper), all metal, (hair and real metal), alternative(joy division, guided by voices, janes addiction) were all good and the musicians had talent, not just studio musicians...
the 90's were too full of short lived fads--grunge, rap-rock(limp bizkit, korn), and pop-punk...
I would have to say the 80's overall as it was there you had the widest range of music available. You still had greats like Ozzy, Sabbath, AC/DC, Aerosmith and many other such bands pumping out music. You had the hard rock of the Priest and Iron Maiden bands as well as the hair bands of the crew and poison and the like. You saw the birth of Metal, Rap and alternative while still having remnants of disco.
Basically I think you had the most choices in music ever during that time frame. Granted to many people, much of it sucked based on your personal tastes but the 80's were when music really grew up and started becoming segmented into the different genres we have today.
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I'd say the 60's. The 50's may have been when it started but the 60's was the prototype for all rock music since. With bands such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath,Led Zeppelin among others leading the way.
70's. Without a single shadow of a doubt the best period for Rock ever.
Black Sabbath. Motorhead. Sex Pistols. Led Zeppelin. Iron Maiden. KISS. Cream. Pink Floyd. The Clash. The Damned. Queen. T-Rex. Slade. Deep Purple. Status Quo. David Bowie. Alice Cooper. Roxy Music. The Ramones. Blondie. The Stranglers. Van Halen. Wizzard. The Jam. The Cure. Madness. Black Flag. Def Leppard. Whitesnake.
Punk, Heavy Metal, Prog, Goth.
You can't argue with that lot.
id say 70's - 80's ish..
For me the 70s was the best decade of rock for me. Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin , two of my favorite bands, hit their peaks during the 70s. Also, bands like Aerosmith and Iron Maiden thrived, and it was just, overall, the best decade for rock.
Second place goes to the 80s. First and foremost it gave us GNR, but all metal and hair metal that came from the 80s was awesome.
Edit: Yeah, basically what Cade said lol.
The '70s all the way! I'm 'from' the '70s, and that music just holds up, even after decades. Singer/songwriter folk music, space music, hard rock, punk - even disco.... you name it, the '70s had it. Creative people got a chance to make interesting music.
Also like a lot of today's music, thanks to the fact that I have teenagers who, like me, love music!
IMO, '50s, '60s, '70s, '90s those decades actually contributed to something, I mean there was something or someone influential about those times, and they just plain rocked.
As for now, I like the 2000s with a passion also. there is such a mix of good artists, but my only problem is the fakes. Actors, teenybopper b!tches and emo sluts.
As for music in general, i just find my own. i go with what sounds good and decent in my ears.
for rock: the 70s (although the decade did also reveal some of the excesses of the genre also).
music in general? that, given the wide spectrum that must be examined, cannot readily be answered. still, I will say this, however: as someone who enjoys jazz, rock, and many, many other genres, it is certainly my opinion that, as a whole, things have certainly been on a steady decline quality-wise since at least the early 80s (in jazz, for example, with the rise of Wynton Marsalis and his ilk) or, at the latest, the early 90s (when grunge and its successors and rap's rise apparently forever dumbed down the popular music that would follow).
bring on the questions, comments, and complaints...
70 and 80!!