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Pick 1 decade for music you can listen to for the rest of your life! If there was 1 decade you could listen in music for the rest of your life which one would it be?
50s 60s 70s 80s (last great decade for music) Or 90s 00s 10s 3 garbage eras for music Two of the worse eras for music Enjoy your pick. [Edited 12/10/20 11:07am] [Edited 12/10/20 11:41am] | |
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2010s were far worse than the 90s 70s and 80s though. That's my main musical diet anyway but I can't live without my 90s. Also, while I've been trying to be more open minded to modern music lately, I always come back to the 70s and 80s. | |
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MotownSubdivision said: 2010s were far worse than the 90s 70s and 80s though. That's my main musical diet anyway but I can't live without my 90s. Also, while I've been trying to be more open minded to modern music lately, I always come back to the 70s and 80s. Lol musical diet but fair enough. 70s-80s were magical I agree that the 2010s were worse than the 90s or even 00s but those 2 eras were still garbage. | |
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Not sure if I could pick one decade, but I will say the 70's and 80's for sure. Most of the new music out there now I can't stand. It's likely my age (57) and the fact that I want real music by real musicians, not so called artists that are manufactured by record companies. | |
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Empress said: Not sure if I could pick one decade, but I will say the 70's and 80's for sure. Most of the new music out there now I can't stand. It's likely my age (57) and the fact that I want real music by real musicians, not so called artists that are manufactured by record companies. Unfortunately that is long gone my friend. The beauty of it now is we have YouTube to reminisce the golden ages of music 60s-80s. I understand what you mean too because I was born in 61. [Edited 12/10/20 8:55am] | |
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Given my preferences for funk and soul I'd have to go with the 70's | |
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80s for me. Agree that the 10s were the worst, especially the latter part of that decade.
I would think most people would pick the decades where they were coming if age when the new music was exciting to them and older music their parents listened to felt uncool. However, with streaming, older music is much more readily accessible than before. That may change the picture.
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iveivan said: 80s for me. Agree that the 10s were the worst, especially the latter part of that decade.
I would think most people would pick the decades where they were coming if age when the new music was exciting to them and older music their parents listened to felt uncool. However, with streaming, older music is much more readily accessible than before. That may change the picture.
I don't know about that these days to be honest lol. The amount of youngsters born in the millennial generation, they seem to like our generation of music more the 60s-80s which I can't blame them since they were the golden ages. [Edited 12/10/20 11:09am] | |
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Although I love all those years you listed 60's to 80's, because I think they all had great music, if I had to choose just one, I'd probably go with the 70's, mainly because they bring back fond memories of growing up during my teen years, high school memories, and what not, when life was carefree. | |
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I think we imprint musically most intensely in our mid-late teens, early twenties. Gee, that's when I took up smoking too. | |
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looby said: Although I love all those years you listed 60's to 80's, because I think they all had great music, if I had to choose just one, I'd probably go with the 70's, mainly because they bring back fond memories of growing up during my teen years, high school memories, and what not, when life was carefree. I bet you enjoyed roller skating while playing some Donna Summer right? Because I know I did, but kept falling over lol! | |
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JayCrawford said: looby said: Although I love all those years you listed 60's to 80's, because I think they all had great music, if I had to choose just one, I'd probably go with the 70's, mainly because they bring back fond memories of growing up during my teen years, high school memories, and what not, when life was carefree. I bet you enjoyed roller skating while playing some Donna Summer right? Because I know I did, but kept falling over lol! But I agree 60s-80s was a treasure | |
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the 70s | |
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No, it's not--it just isn't on the charts. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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I don't recall playing Donna Summer while roller skating, but I did love roller skating! | |
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80s | |
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Not surprised by the choices so far from my lovely folks. 70s and 80s. Where's the love for the 60s!!!  | |
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JayCrawford said: MotownSubdivision said: 2010s were far worse than the 90s
70s and 80s though. That's my main musical diet anyway but I can't live without my 90s. Also, while I've been trying to be more open minded to modern music lately, I always come back to the 70s and 80s. Lol musical diet but fair enough. 70s-80s were magical I agree that the 2010s were worse than the 90s or even 00s but those 2 eras were still garbage. I'm 26 (will be 27 next month) but I'm an old soul. I guess being born to an almost 41 year old woman will do that. I feel blessed in that regard though, especially since older music is being looked back upon more foundry besides trendy nostalgia cycles every decade. Research actually shows that my generation and Gen Z prefer music of the 60s to the 90s. I'm growing to appreciate modern music more; 2015 and this year had some great albums but Lord, if the charts don't still suck something fierce. Streaming ruined the music biz; it made things more accessible but at the expense of artists' bottom line, namely indie and underground names without a major label budget. They sell streaming as being a platform where the people choose what's hot and while that is somewhat true, it's designed so that the artists on top stay on top as opposed to elevating fledgling acts who need the promo more. Even so, people these days got some questionable tastes looking at a lot of what's been allowed to prosper in the mainstream these past several years. [Edited 12/10/20 16:26pm] | |
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MotownSubdivision said: JayCrawford said: Lol musical diet but fair enough. 70s-80s were magical I agree that the 2010s were worse than the 90s or even 00s but those 2 eras were still garbage. I'm 26 (will be 27 next month) but I'm an old soul. I guess being born to an almost 41 year old woman will do that. I feel blessed in that regard though, especially since older music is being looked back upon more foundry besides trendy nostalgia cycles every decade. Research actually shows that my generation and Gen Z prefer music of the 60s to the 90s. I'm growing to appreciate modern music more; 2015 and this year had some great albums but Lord, if the charts don't still suck something fierce. Streaming ruined the music biz; it made things more accessible but at the expense of artists' bottom line, namely indie and underground names without a major label budget. They sell streaming as being a platform where the people choose what's hot and while that is somewhat true, it's designed so that the artists on top stay on top as opposed to elevating fledgling acts who need the promo more. Even so, people these days got some questionable tastes looking at a lot of what's been allowed to prosper in the mainstream these past several years. [Edited 12/10/20 16:26pm] Research said that? I've read research said something similar regarding the 60s-80s. But different taste I guess | |
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JayCrawford said: MotownSubdivision said: That's one way of putting it lol I'm 26 (will be 27 next month) but I'm an old soul. I guess being born to an almost 41 year old woman will do that. I feel blessed in that regard though, especially since older music is being looked back upon more foundry besides trendy nostalgia cycles every decade. Research actually shows that my generation and Gen Z prefer music of the 60s to the 90s. I'm growing to appreciate modern music more; 2015 and this year had some great albums but Lord, if the charts don't still suck something fierce. Streaming ruined the music biz; it made things more accessible but at the expense of artists' bottom line, namely indie and underground names without a major label budget. They sell streaming as being a platform where the people choose what's hot and while that is somewhat true, it's designed so that the artists on top stay on top as opposed to elevating fledgling acts who need the promo more. Even so, people these days got some questionable tastes looking at a lot of what's been allowed to prosper in the mainstream these past several years. [Edited 12/10/20 16:26pm] Research said that? I've read research said something similar regarding the 60s-80s. But different taste I guess What we were raised on has a lot to do with it. Many movies, TV shows and video games that played classic songs, hits or otherwise, share responsibility along with the many Gen X and especially Baby Boomer parents that birthed us like my very own. | |
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MotownSubdivision said: JayCrawford said: Research said that? I've read research said something similar regarding the 60s-80s. But different taste I guess What we were raised on has a lot to do with it. Many movies, TV shows and video games that played classic songs, hits or otherwise, share responsibility along with the many Gen X and especially Baby Boomer parents that birthed us like my very own. Nah is fine, you don't have to post it... I know what article you're talking about [Edited 12/10/20 18:00pm] | |
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I prefer the 60's | |
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BTW what don't you like about the 90s? I have it ranked below the 70s and 80s which switch places depending on my mood but it's a close 3rd. | |
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MotownSubdivision said: BTW what don't you like about the 90s? I have it ranked below the 70s and 80s which switch places depending on my mood but it's a close 3rd.
The 90s is often cited as a shit era for music... Especially from this forum from what I've seen in many posts... From those who are my age group anyways But what I don't like about 90s music? Where can I start lol. The decade that was filled with none stop sampling and covers in so many music genres from hip hop, R&B, rock and that whole teen poppy shit, the decade had so many awful boy bands and girl group's who were 90% 1 hit wonders, the rise of autotune's from 98-99, then around the mid 90s R&B was mixed with hip hop production, Europop, teen pop explosion. Me personally I think grunge killed rock music, MTV was going downhill badly when they were adding awful reality shows and then cartoons and TRL. Vh1 was my perfect replacement then since they played music of my era, the talent pool back then were decent to bad. The only artist I thought was good was Mariah Carey, the rest were average at best, rap was becoming way too mainstream and then it became all gangster, I preferred rap when Rakim was on top because he wasn't playing the gangster act like 90% of rap artist's were in the 90s and he was all positive. Most rappers of the 90s for some reason had an weird obsession with death 2pac, Notorious BIG, come into mind, all they were talking about was killing, fucking women and then the whole west Vs east stuff. That decade just didn't have anything groundbreaking, innovating and historical moments 0 music evolution in music. It was honestly the start of the decline in music from 94ish The 60s, 70s and 80s had that magic and the talent those 3 eras had too. [Edited 12/10/20 19:49pm] [Edited 12/10/20 19:56pm] [Edited 12/10/20 19:57pm] [Edited 12/10/20 20:02pm] | |
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Every decade has some good music...even this one. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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80's | |
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JayCrawford said: MotownSubdivision said: BTW what don't you like about the 90s? I have it ranked below the 70s and 80s which switch places depending on my mood but it's a close 3rd.
The 90s is often cited as a shit era for music... Especially from this forum from what I've seen in many posts... From those who are my age group anyways But what I don't like about 90s music? Where can I start lol. The decade that was filled with none stop sampling and covers in so many music genres from hip hop, R&B, rock and that whole teen poppy shit, the decade had so many awful boy bands and girl group's who were 90% 1 hit wonders, the rise of autotune's from 98-99, then around the mid 90s R&B was mixed with hip hop production, Europop, teen pop explosion. Me personally I think grunge killed rock music, MTV was going downhill badly when they were adding awful reality shows and then cartoons and TRL. Vh1 was my perfect replacement then since they played music of my era, the talent pool back then were decent to bad. The only artist I thought was good was Mariah Carey, the rest were average at best, rap was becoming way too mainstream and then it became all gangster. That decade just didn't have anything groundbreaking, innovating and historical moments 0 music evolution in music. It was honestly the start of the decline in music. The 60s, 70s and 80s had that magic and the talent those 3 eras had too. [Edited 12/10/20 19:49pm] Hip hop was definitely groundbreaking in how it was being consumed by the masses. The genre was thought to be a passing fad in its inception and ended up blowing up and seeing success in the form of Top 20, 10 and #1 hit songs and albums. Gangsta rap was mostly a show as we look back on it but a lot of what was said in those records was based on varying degrees of truth whether the emcees behind them witnessed these stories first hand, heard of them or even participated in them. Ultimately, it's all entertainment like all the genres it was competing against on the charts. I'll give you the R&B gripe; we need to fence off the R&B and hip hop once again. What used to be a varied, multifaceted genre has become one-note and dull to the point where now it's R&B in name only. The time for 70s nostalgia was in the 90s and though I was no older than 5 by decade's end, I remember it well. It's fitting since the 90s music scene shares a strong similarity to that of the 70s in that "pop" at the time was a variety of genres that caught on with the public. Throughout the 70s, you had many examples of funk, R&B/soul, rock, country, singer-songwriter/acoustic,folk and of course, disco dominating. 20-29 years later, you had many genres if rock (namely alt rock and the aforementioned Grunge), R&B, neo-soul, hip hop/rap, New Jack Swing, country and teen pop at the tail end making the decade. Besides, 1994 is a Top 10 All-Time year for music. A little biased since that's my premiere year but looking at what was hot back then, it was an incredible time for music with star power and even more variety up and down. The color of the 90s wasn't as saturated as that of the 80s but every decade has its own personality; just might not be one you vibe with although I definitely do and as I research more charts from the time, I'm vibing all the more. [Edited 12/10/20 20:16pm] | |
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I'm pretty sure remakes of songs happened way more often before the 1980s and especially pre-1970s. 1960s Motown albums were full of them. So were earlier Jackson 5 albums in the 1970s. I Heard It Through The Grapevine was a big hit a year apart for Gladys Knight And The Pips & Marvin Gaye. CCR had a popular version at the time as well. Vanilla Fudge was known for making long psychedelic versions of hit songs and so were Rare Earth & Isaac Hayes. Look at all the versions of songs like Fever, Yesterday, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, Over The Rainbow, and other such songs known as standards. Sam Cooke, The Supremes, & Marvin Gaye released albums of showtunes. The early Beatle albums were primarily covers. Many of Elvis Presley's songs were remakes. Aretha Franklin's most popular song Respect was originally released by Otis Redding. Jazz artists of the era often did covers of popular hits. Hip hop songs are rarely remade because they pretty much only fit the original artist. There's now a lot of Youtube covers of rap songs, but not by official signed acts. There are some smooth jazz versions of rap hits I've heard on the radio. 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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MotownSubdivision said: JayCrawford said: The 90s is often cited as a shit era for music... Especially from this forum from what I've seen in many posts... From those who are my age group anyways But what I don't like about 90s music? Where can I start lol. The decade that was filled with none stop sampling and covers in so many music genres from hip hop, R&B, rock and that whole teen poppy shit, the decade had so many awful boy bands and girl group's who were 90% 1 hit wonders, the rise of autotune's from 98-99, then around the mid 90s R&B was mixed with hip hop production, Europop, teen pop explosion. Me personally I think grunge killed rock music, MTV was going downhill badly when they were adding awful reality shows and then cartoons and TRL. Vh1 was my perfect replacement then since they played music of my era, the talent pool back then were decent to bad. The only artist I thought was good was Mariah Carey, the rest were average at best, rap was becoming way too mainstream and then it became all gangster. That decade just didn't have anything groundbreaking, innovating and historical moments 0 music evolution in music. It was honestly the start of the decline in music. The 60s, 70s and 80s had that magic and the talent those 3 eras had too. [Edited 12/10/20 19:49pm] Hip hop was definitely groundbreaking in how it was being consumed by the masses. The genre was thought to be a passing fad in its inception and ended up blowing up and seeing success in the form of Top 20, 10 and #1 hit songs and albums. Gangsta rap was mostly a show as we look back on it but a lot of what was said in those records was based on varying degrees of truth whether the emcees behind them witnessed these stories first hand, heard of them or even participated in them. Ultimately, it's all entertainment like all the genres it was competing against on the charts. I'll give you the R&B gripe; we need to fence off the R&B and hip hop once again. What used to be a varied, multifaceted genre has become one-note and dull to the point where now it's R&B in name only. The time for 70s nostalgia was in the 90s and though I was no older than 5 by decade's end, I remember it well. It's fitting since the 90s music scene shares a strong similarity to that of the 70s in that "pop" at the time was a variety of genres that caught on with the public. Throughout the 70s, you had many examples of funk, R&B/soul, rock, country, singer-songwriter/acoustic,folk and of course, disco dominating. 20-29 years later, you had many genres if rock (namely alt rock and the aforementioned Grunge), R&B, neo-soul, hip hop/rap, New Jack Swing, country and teen pop at the tail end making the decade. Besides, 1994 is a Top 10 All-Time year for music. A little biased since that's my premiere year but looking at what was hot back then, it was an incredible time for music with star power and even more variety up and down. The color of the 90s wasn't as saturated as that of the 80s but every decade has its own personality; just might not be one you vibe with although I definitely do and as I research more charts from the time, I'm vibing all the more. [Edited 12/10/20 20:16pm] Grunge was a terrible movement and it did more harm to rock then good with a bunch of garbage artists who mumbled their lyrics and 90% of them were terribly on the guitar and much of rock artists like Kurt Cobain playing the whole "I'm just pissed off" gimmick and bashing his head against sound speakers in concerts etc etc. Your 70s post pretty much shows why 90s music wasn't a very innovating era or a good era for music. It was 90% nonstop sampling and covering of older hits, trying to rehash everything the 70s had. Just because the 90s had variety of genres doesn't always mean it's a good thing, is all about the quality of the work, 70s had a far superior quality and more groundbreaking, innovating moments where's the 90s didn't. The 90s definitely does not have any similarities with the 70s lol The whole R&B department was just terrible, next to the 00s, 90s R&B was terrible especially once they mixed hip hop in between, the whole New Jack swing stuff produced so many 1 hit wonders. 1994? It was okay you're overrating it a lot 1991 was much better and the last good year in my opinion. I don't know what star power you saw in 94 but 1991 far better star power lol. [Edited 12/10/20 20:27pm] [Edited 12/10/20 20:29pm] [Edited 12/10/20 20:34pm] [Edited 12/10/20 20:39pm] [Edited 12/10/20 20:41pm] [Edited 12/10/20 20:50pm] | |
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