I don't have no particularly favorite decade for music, there's something great about music in all the decades I've witnessed and decades I wasn't even a part of.

Sandino said:

What would have been sad is if you had no way to connect with that music!

SoulAlive said:

I'd say that works for me. Even though I didn't hear a lot of the music I liked from my decade (75-84) until much later, I do remember growing up then and the songs take me back to that time.

Just be glad the old records are still out there for you to buy and in a way, in this day and age you are luckier than those of us who are older because you have an endless amount of old music to discover and hear for the first time where we've already been through it because we lived through it, have heard it multiple times, and long for something new and good that we've never heard before which will probably never come.

I know exactly what you mean though because it's never as fun as actually being alive and living through it so you can experience the fun of clubbing and partying while it was popular. During my favorite era, I was under the age of 18 and could only experience it through the skating rinks, which was a ball but nothing like if I had been over 18 and could party in clubs as an adult and drink (legal age was 18 back then). Hell, a month after a graduated high school, Shitney Houston reared her ugly head and changed everything. At least I had a ball though, partying as an adult through the dance/house era of the early 1990s but I would rather have been older during the disco and funk era so that by the time the dance/house era came around, I would have been in my 30s instead of 20s, and when it died down, I would be the age I am now. Hell, my partying years got shot down while I was still young. Hell, I've been cheated.
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I think I like the 70's best, stylistically, but I'd pick the 60's for quality.

Compare just the end of the decade (1967-1970) to any other time in music.
you had:

The Beatles
The Stones
Jimi
James Brown
The Who
Stevie Wonder
The Kinks
Dylan
Zeppelin
The Doors
Love
The Band
Marvin Gaye
Elvis
Sly Stone

...and on and on, all releasing popular albums. I can't think of another time with as many relevant artists at the top of their games.

I am soooo glad I saved all my old records. I've always been one that moved on and bought up all the newest jams and during the dance/house era of the early 1990s, I was so much into it and vinyl had also faded out also, that I almost sold my old records. I am so glad I didn't because rhythmwise, who could predict that everyone would go backwards into time instead of forwards. If I had sold those records back then, right about now, I'd be looking for a stick and two tin cans to beat on in desperation for something rhythmic.

NDRU said:

Do you consider these three artist to have been at the top of their game in the 60s, instead of the 70s?

(Just for the record, I think Sly was on the top of his game in the 70s, with the releases of Riot and Fresh)

LoveIsTheMessage said:

well, that's a good point, and Zeppelin & Elvis (better in the 50's), too. But let's say they were still close to the top, if not at the tip top.

I think what I had in mind when I said it is compared to, say, now when you have Stevie, Sly, the Stones, Paul McCartney, etc, but they are definitely NOT at their best.
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NDRU said:

Agreed!

Although I enjoyed the other decades I'd have to say all the new stuff since 2000. So this decade.

if i had to choose it would be the 90s

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

For real. Music is great in any decade, it's all part of what whoever likes.

'90-'99

hmm... i'll go with the 80s

Sandino said:

dont worry your not alone