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Favourite male artist, female artist and band of the 1950s-2010s? Male of the 1950s: Elvis Female of the 1950s: Mahalia Jackson Band of the 1950s: The Platters Male of the 1960s: James Brown Female of the 1960s: Aretha Franklin Band of the 1960s: The Doors Male of the 1970s: Marvin Gaye Female of the 1970s: Donna Summer Band of the 1970s: Queen Male of the 1980s: Prince Female of the 1980s: Sade (Last great female artist) Band of the 1980s: Metallica The last great decade the 80s for music. Now this is where it gets harder because music declined badly throughout the 90s and officially died in the 00s. Male of the 1990s: Impossible too many bad ones Female of the 1990s: MAYBE Mariah Carey. Band of the 1990s: They all sounded the same. Male artist of the 2000s: Probably Usher? Maybe Female artist of the 2000s: Was there any? Band of the 2000s: Couldn't tell you. Male artist of the 2010s: None Female artist of the 2010s: None Band of the 2010: None This list does make me feel lucky to have seen it all throughout the 60s-80s... Musically I think anyone born between the 50s-70s were lucky  | |
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1950s Male - Elvis Presley Female - Brenda Lee (not many others to choose from) Band - The Coasters 1960s Male - Elvis Presley (yes, again) Female - Diana Ross Band - Sly and The Family Stone 1970s Male - Bruce Springsteen Female - Patsy Gallant Band - Steely Dan 1980s Male - Prince Female - Madonna Band - Bon Jovi 1990s Male - George Michael Female - Shania Twain Band - Pearl Jam 2000s Male - Justin Timberlake Female - Gwen Stefani Band - The Killers 2010s Male - Mayer Hawthorne Female - Gavin Turek Band - Tuxedo Breaking it down like that, the 2000s were easily my least favourite decade for music but that is why breaking it down like this is kind of pointless. Because it was in the 2000s that I discovered great music from the likes of Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder etc. It also shows that in the 2010s there has been a huge upturn in the quality of music in general. Not necessarily in the charts but the freedom independent artists have from the internet has allowed many great artists to really shine. Even if some stubborn old people refuse to acknowledge them, and in turn, me. But each to their own. | |
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The worst thread and (future) replies. I wished I have never read this thread. Utterly Stupid! | |
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Here is my list
1950s
Male: Frank Sinatra
Female: Peggy Lee
Band: The Platters
1960s
Male: James Brown
Female Aretha Franklin
Band: Sly & The Family Stone
1970s
Male: Stevie Wonder
Female: Minnie Riperton
Band: Parliament
1980s
Male: Prince
Female: Kate Bush
Band: GUY
1990s
Male: D'Angelo
Female: Janet Jackson
Band: Blackstreet
2000s
Male: Usher
Female: Beyonce
Group: Nerd
2010s
Male: Bruno Mars
Female: Janelle Monae
Group: Florence and the Machine Keep Calm & Listen To Prince | |
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1950s You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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MickyDolenz said: 1950s Finally a Sam Cooke fan. Feels rare to find one. | |
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I don't know much about the 50s and 60s, most stuff is hard to listen to these days. 70's has some good songs, but no favourite artist
80's, of course have to go with Prince, although i do like Michael Jackson and George Michael. Female, probably Janet, but Madonna has a lot of great singles too.
the 90's were special to me, some many different things going on: drum&bass, bigbeat, jungle, mellow house, techno.... I think the 90's was the time i really saw creaitivity in music. So its hard to say what my favourite artists are. I did love Janet a lot in the 90's though. But also bjork, massive attick, goldie, neneh cherry....the list goes on |
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nextedition said: I don't know much about the 50s and 60s, most stuff is hard to listen to these days. 70's has some good songs, but no favourite artist
80's, of course have to go with Prince, although i do like Michael Jackson and George Michael. Female, probably Janet, but Madonna has a lot of great singles too.
the 90's were special to me, some many different things going on: drum&bass, bigbeat, jungle, mellow house, techno.... I think the 90's was the time i really saw creaitivity in music. So its hard to say what my favourite artists are. I did love Janet a lot in the 90's though. But also bjork, massive attick, goldie, neneh cherry....the list goes on Is really cool to see some George Michael fans. From my experience people just say "he was average but that's all." | |
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1950's
The Big Bopper Patsy Cline The Shirelles
1960's
Elvis Janis Joplin Cream
1970's
Joan Armatrading Jim Morrison The Allman Bros.
1980's
Prince Annie Lennox ZZ Top
1990's Had a bad NPR habit
2000's
Amy Winehouse Prince Black Eyed Peas
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1950s:
Chuck Berry Etta James There really aren't a lot of bands in this period; mostly backup bands working for a label or artist. 1960s: Bob Dylan Janis Joplin The Rolling Stones 1970s: Marvin Gaye Betty Davis Sly & the Family Stone 1980s: Prince Kate Bush Midnight Oil 1990s: Lenny Kravitz Cassandra Wilson 2000s: Manu Chao Joss Stone I can't think of bands from this later period that I really like. Micky mentioned Sharon Jones & The Dapp Kings, yeah, they were pretty good. [Edited 12/17/20 11:34am] [Edited 12/17/20 11:37am] [Edited 12/17/20 11:38am] If you take any of this seriously, you're a bigger fool than I am. | |
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JayCrawford said: nextedition said: I don't know much about the 50s and 60s, most stuff is hard to listen to these days. 70's has some good songs, but no favourite artist
80's, of course have to go with Prince, although i do like Michael Jackson and George Michael. Female, probably Janet, but Madonna has a lot of great singles too.
the 90's were special to me, some many different things going on: drum&bass, bigbeat, jungle, mellow house, techno.... I think the 90's was the time i really saw creaitivity in music. So its hard to say what my favourite artists are. I did love Janet a lot in the 90's though. But also bjork, massive attick, goldie, neneh cherry....the list goes on Is really cool to see some George Michael fans. From my experience people just say "he was average but that's all." He's one of my favourite artists. Amazing vocals, wrote and produced most of his own songs. |
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