Best Music Of All TIme Was From Early 1970's To Late 80's

[Free Vulcan]

If I had to rank the past 10 decades (or so) of popular music:

1. 1930-45 - As Prof. Massad noted, just a wave of tremendous and timeless artists.
2. 1970s - The art of the four-minute single was perfected with a number of excellent singer-songwriters and bands. The only reason it's not #1 was disco, which, although it had a really good beat and one can dance to it, had some really unsavory cultural ties to it.
3. 1990s - This was a real backlash against the 1980s, and the electronic stuff faded away. It gets demerits because of grunge, but some good rock came out of this.
4. 1964-69 - This was the lead-up into the 1970s, when groups like the Beatles helped break out of the funk of the 1950s. There was a lot of evolution in rock.
5. 1980s - This was up-and-down. There was still some good songwriting in the early 1980s, and a lot of quality country, but electronic acts, bad British bands and music videos drowned out a lot of it.
6. 1954-63 - This was the era of rock and roll, the seminal invention of the modern era. Some acts were very good, some very bad... and doo-wop was boring. Yeah, I said it.
7. 1920s - Forgettable, and forgotten.
8. 2000s - Like I said, almost all of this decade was terrible for music, with a few very rare exceptions.
9. 1946-53 - The post-World War II era gave us a lull in which we ended up with songs like "Mama Will Bark" and "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?" becoming major hits. And Hank Williams Sr.'s overrated.

To be truthful, I don't listen to enough of this decade's music often enough to rank it yet. Some of it seems quite good; I seem to get the impression that the crap of last decade is out of our systems.

Hard to judge the 20's as there wasn't alot laid to track back then, nor was their much of electronic anything then, instruments, sound, recording, or otherwise. Suffice to say though that the roots of blues, jazz, country, bluegrass and big band were being laid down though.

Now saying Hank was overrated cuts through the heart of my Alabama roots. Hank along with the Carters practically defined modern country music and the Opry sound at that time, moving it away from folk and bluegrass. But I don't expect everyone gets Hank.

I'll agree that the early post war years weren't much for pop music. Big band was dying and others like jazz, blues, country, and surfin' rockabilly were still pretty underground. Alot of the great 50's talent is barely played anymore, but that was the era of rock explosion. From the famous ones to bands like the Coasters (my favorite, a couple of theirs below) and singers Eddie Cochran. Most of these guys fueled the music for the next 3 decades.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j3xm_tJu-o


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kahp_kmOFzQ

[truth_seeker]

I a going with:

The best music spanned the early-mid 60s thru the early-mid 70s.

American Folk music (Kingston Trio, Bob Dylan), British Invasion (Beatles, Stones, Cream, Led Zeppelin), Folk Rock (Rod Stewart, Eagles, America), Country-Southern Rock (Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Leon Russell)

......and many, many more styles and performers

Nothing to compare before or after

[LMAO]

Early 70's to about 1984 or 1985.

Jefferson Starship, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, The Nuge, Boston's first album, April Wine, Rush...

Played on many an 8 Track player in real cars

[Mod1]

Moved to a "member-written" category, as this is not a sourced article.

[uglybiker]

The period offered so much, rock, pop, disco, country and alternative labels with so many hit songs

Aw, you were doin' good 'til you mentioned......that!




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4o_ICJCfAI

[Cripplecreek]

Aw, you were doin' good 'til you mentioned......that!




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4o_ICJCfAI

Disco never came to my little town.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Hard to judge the 20's as there wasn't alot laid to track back then, nor was their much of electronic anything then, instruments, sound, recording, or otherwise. Suffice to say though that the roots of blues, jazz, country, bluegrass and big band were being laid down though.

Now saying Hank was overrated cuts through the heart of my Alabama roots. Hank along with the Carters practically defined modern country music and the Opry sound at that time, moving it away from folk and bluegrass. But I don't expect everyone gets Hank.

Don't forget Roy Acuff the great great grand pappy of country music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmclgyXIrYY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-gwQkJOphI

[mirraflake]

Lot of great 90's stuff..Cranberries, Nirvana, Metallica

[Free Vulcan]

Lot of great 90's stuff..Cranberries, Nirvana, Metallica

Veruca Salt, Weezer, and Collective Soul are my favorites from the 90's.