[soundbitten1]

What was your favorite decade for music ? Mine was the 60's .

[zybar]

Clearly is was the disco 70's!!   





George

[soundbitten1]

Ha Ha Ha ... just kidding .        

[SET Man]

Hey!
 
   Well, the answer you'll get will base on the person age, when he/she grew up.

   From this and with average age of people here I would expect to see more of the 60's and 70's

   But I could be wrong

Take care,
Buddy

[Scott F.]

For jazz (and my tastes) it would have been the 50's through the mid 60's. For rock, it would have been mid 60's to the mid-70's. I voted for the 60's.

[giantsteps]

  This is a subject that irritates the hell out of me. Great music and great artists are NOT measured in decades.
 

 Frank

[zybar]

Hmmmm.....

If I look at what I played tonight, I covered the following decades:

30's - Glenn Miller
40's - Ella Fitzgerald
50's - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee
60's - Mamas and Papas, John Mayall
70's - Grateful Dead, Peter Gabriel, Fleetwood Mac
80's - Peter Gabriel, Depeche Mode
90's - Nirvana, Peter Gabriel, Black Crowes, Weezer
00's - Natalie Merchant, Corrine Baily Rae, John Mayer


George

[SwedeSound]

  This is a subject that irritates the hell out of me. Great music and great artists are NOT measured in decades.
 

 Frank

Ah, true. True. True. But decades can be defined by great artists and great music, no? Silly as this survey might be, I think that's the nut of it.

[Gordy]

Ah true, but centuries can defined as well.  Hildegard of Bingen wrote a few nice ditties during the 50' - 70's of the 10th century.

[Zero]

As 'buddy' says, odds are likely the votes will have pretty distinct correlation with when one grew up.

[giantsteps]

As 'buddy' says, odds are likely the votes will have pretty distinct correlation with when one grew up.

 That doesn't make any sense.


 Frank

[giantsteps]

 Hello?!?! The title of this thread is.......Best Decade For Music.


 Frank

[SwedeSound]

Silly, isn't it? More apt title: Decade from which you prefer music.

[ecramer]

2000 on or 1955 to 1965 taint much in between

[giantsteps]

 The Musical Chair of Decades...this is something peculiar to American pop culture.


  Frank   

[whubbard]

80's!

-West

[JLM]

West, you've got to be kidding.  When I think of the 80s all that comes to mind is punk rock and elevator jazz while everyone was fixated on money (inflation until 1982 and stock market profits afterwards).

IMO the Swede said it best, it depends on the type(s) of music you prefer.  I love Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Pasty Cline, Peggy Lee, Dave Brubeck, Mel Torme, Miles Davis, and appreciate the roots of electronic blues and rock so voted for the 50s.  Plus that music takes me back to such an idyllic time in America (even though I'm a bit too "young" to remember those years).

[TheChairGuy]

The Musical Chair of Decades...this is something peculiar to American pop culture.

Frank

It's likely because we in America have so much to choose from relative to many other countries that we can actually define it (or try ) to by the decade.

I, too, agree with Buddy.....you are likely to be most influenced by music from (guess-timate) ages 10-25 or so.  It happens to correlate to 1973-88 for me....when albums (my vastly preferred software) were last minted in volume where you could have your favorite recorded on it.

Tho, I am a fan of 90's pop stuff....I'm just a bit too old to get the baggy-pants, bitch-slappin' rap stuff of today 

Further, as I get older, my music choices are starting to be tallied by the century....as in the 1700's 

John

[SwedeSound]

I would submit "staying power" has quite a bit to do with it, too. Beyond pure nostalgia, some recordings from the 50s and 60s still sound relevant a half century later, so it should come as no surprise that some would consider those decades as having "the best" music.

In another 50 years, who knows how people will regard the '90s, 'the 00s or even *gasp* the '80s (my most formative years musically yet the smallest portion of my music collection)?

Jason

[ctviggen]

Hey!
 
   Well, the answer you'll get will base on the person age, when he/she grew up.

   From this and with average age of people here I would expect to see more of the 60's and 70's

   But I could be wrong

Take care,
Buddy

I think you'd be wrong.  I used to listen to nothing but heavy metal.  Now, how much metal does my collection have?  Basically none.  I think I have one Ozzy, and that's about it.  I have no Led Zeppelin, even though I used to have every album (tape, at that time).  I do have the new Robert Plant, Alison Kraus, though.