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stui magpie 
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I'm going with the 80's.
The 60's and 70's were the revolution, when new sounds and styles were created.
The 80's for mine were the zenith, when the combination of the foundations laid in the 60's and 70's combined with technology created the perfect storm.
The 80's win for mine.
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90s. It was the last era of non manufactured Rock and Roll and musical genre experimentation. After the early 2000s things went so corporate and cookie cutter, with reality TV being more important than talent.
The grunge and pop punk movements have given us bands that are still going strong today, at least when their frontmen are still alive. The 80s were amazing as well, but I think the level of brilliance is sometimes lost amongst all the piles shit that came out in that decade  |
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Wokko
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Mountains Magpie
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1970s
Why? No time right now to write the essay (but give me a while, I could do it Stui, if you'd like).
All a matter of opinion of course; diff'rent strokes... 
My wife's grandfather, who is 88, thinks swing jazz is the ducks. For him, that is the pop music of his day. I loaned him Sgt. Peppers and, you guessed it, the only song he liked was "When I'm 64"
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| stui magpie wrote: | I'm going with the 80's.
The 60's and 70's were the revolution, when new sounds and styles were created.
The 80's for mine were the zenith, when the combination of the foundations laid in the 60's and 70's combined with technology created the perfect storm.
The 80's win for mine. |
Definitely the 80's!
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stui magpie
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| Wokko wrote: | 90s. It was the last era of non manufactured Rock and Roll and musical genre experimentation. After the early 2000s things went so corporate and cookie cutter, with reality TV being more important than talent.
The grunge and pop punk movements have given us bands that are still going strong today, at least when their frontmen are still alive. The 80s were amazing as well, but I think the level of brilliance is sometimes lost amongst all the piles shit that came out in that decade |
I think there was some great stuff came out in the 90's but we'd past the peak and the piles of shit were far more plentiful.
The 90's for me was like when the diamond mine becomes over worked. There's still diamonds there but you have to dig through a lot more dirt to find them.
And that trend has continued.
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Mountains Magpie
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| stui magpie wrote: | | The 80's for mine were the zenith, when the combination of the foundations laid in the 60's and 70's combined with technology created the perfect storm. |
What technology Stui?
Video vs Radio ie: MTV?
AM vs FM?
Digital vs Analogue?
CDs vs LPs ?
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Culprit 
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80's was GLAM, 70's was the decade of music. Why? How many classic songs do you want me to list? I lived the 80's, my band was in the 80's but the music influence from the 70s is still going. I would actually say the era of music was 1964 to 1978. A 1976 Gibson Les Paul is worth more than a 1980's Les Paul? Why? Cause the the music was real. The 80s introduced so much crap many lost what music was about. Some of The top bands of the 70s are and not in order:
Led Zepplin
Eagles
AC/DC - Bon Scott
Who
Pink Floyd
The Rolling Stones
Black Sabbath
Queen
Fleetwood Mac
Skyhooks
The Police
Alice Cooper
Boston
Foreigner
Status Quo
Jethro Tull
CCR
Thin Lizzy
Geez I can keep going.
70s leaves the 80s for dead. |
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stui magpie
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| Mountains Magpie wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | | The 80's for mine were the zenith, when the combination of the foundations laid in the 60's and 70's combined with technology created the perfect storm. |
What technology Stui?
Video vs Radio ie: MTV?
AM vs FM?
Digital vs Analogue?
CDs vs LPs ? |
The start of digital tech, better recording equipment, better quality sound mixing and you can throw in CD's and video. Better tech allowed better quality sound but also the best musics as I said took all the best from the preceding decades and just went for it.
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Mountains Magpie
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| Culprit wrote: | 80's was GLAM, 70's was the decade of music. Why? How many classic songs do you want me to list? I lived the 80's, my band was in the 80's but the music influence from the 70s is still going. I would actually say the era of music was 1964 to 1978. A 1976 Gibson Les Paul is worth more than a 1980's Les Paul? Why? Cause the the music was real. The 80s introduced so much crap many lost what music was about. Some of The top bands of the 70s are and not in order:
Led Zepplin
Eagles
AC/DC - Bon Scott
Who
Pink Floyd
The Rolling Stones
Black Sabbath
Queen
Fleetwood Mac
Skyhooks
The Police
Alice Cooper
Boston
Foreigner
Status Quo
Jethro Tull
CCR
Thin Lizzy
Geez I can keep going.
70s leaves the 80s for dead. |
A lot of those bands started in the 60s, or had their roots in the 60s.
To build on Culprit's list:
Cat Stevens
James Taylor
Caravan
Deep Purple
Rainbow
Uriah Heep
Pentangle
Fairport Convention
Judas Priest
Kiss
Cars
Pointer Sisters
Jackson 5
Earth Wind & Fire
Gary Numan
Ian Dury
Blondie
Ramones
Sex Pistols
Motorhead
Elton John
Billy Joel
UFO
Ted Nugent
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Kenny Rogers
Jimmy Buffett
Kate Bush
Lene Lovich
Olivia Newton-John
Clannad
T-Rex
Slade
Yes
Sherbet
Daddy Cool
LRB
Air Supply
Quite a cross section. No decade could possibly compete (although the first half of the 80s gives it a good run IMHO).
Could we say 1975-1984? That's some decade of music. But so is 1965-1974!
MM
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stui magpie
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| Culprit wrote: | 80's was GLAM, 70's was the decade of music. Why? How many classic songs do you want me to list? I lived the 80's, my band was in the 80's but the music influence from the 70s is still going. I would actually say the era of music was 1964 to 1978. A 1976 Gibson Les Paul is worth more than a 1980's Les Paul? Why? Cause the the music was real. The 80s introduced so much crap many lost what music was about. Some of The top bands of the 70s are and not in order:
Led Zepplin
Eagles
AC/DC - Bon Scott
Who
Pink Floyd
The Rolling Stones
Black Sabbath
Queen
Fleetwood Mac
Skyhooks
The Police
Alice Cooper
Boston
Foreigner
Status Quo
Jethro Tull
CCR
Thin Lizzy
Geez I can keep going.
70s leaves the 80s for dead. |
A lot of those bands started out in the 70's but did their best work in the 80's. Just because they started playing in the 70's means you can't count the music they made in the 80's as 80's music. Back in Black - 1980 remember
Don't forget the 70's also inflicted the Bay City Rollers on us.
A few classic 80's bands.
Metallica
Guns N Roses
Bon Jovi
Dire Straits (formed in the 70's, kicked arse in the 80's)
Poison
Duran Duran
Nirvana
Van Halen
U2
INXS
Lets not forget Michael Jackson, Prince, madonna, George Michael,
The 70's was when the lessons of the 60's were learned and new crafts began.
The 80's was when those musicians peaked. Springsteen started out in the late 60's. He was a phenom in the 80's once he got it all together.
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HAL
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stui magpie
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| HAL wrote: | | Did you miss America? |
 I wasn't even aiming at it.
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Mountains Magpie
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| stui magpie wrote: | | Back in Black - 1980 remember |
Yeh, mostly written in '79, a bit like most of Iron Maiden's first two albums. But don't let the release date fool ya 
BTW, forgot to mention Bowie. Decadeless if ever the term was deserved.
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