What's your favorite decade of music and why?

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... And what's your "Song of The Year" for each year of that decade.

Change of plans: Pick 10 songs from that decade that deserve to be Song of The Year of any given year.

I'm still working on my list.

GO!
 
No one beats the late 80's to late 90's in my opinion.
As for song of the year by decade. I don't remember release dates of songs that specifically. Sigh.
 
'70s. Punk fucking rock, motherfuckers.

I've recently realized that the '90s, a decade I used to just completely dismiss because of my hatred for grunge and butt rock and Pearl Jam, was a great time period for Americana, because country snapped out of the '80s cocktail-lounge synthesizer doldrums and a lot of guys went back to their roots and staged pretty successful comebacks (e.g. Cash, Shaver). Plus in 1999, Joe Strummer exited his decade-plus disappearance from music.

Edit - It was also great for the blues, actually. Fat Possum managed to round up some pretty amazing people for a few years there. Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside became two of my favorite bluesmen in the course of just a couple albums.

1970: Townes Van Zandt, Waiting Around To Die
1971: Rolling Stones, Dead Flowers
1972: Bobby Charles, Before I Grow Too Old
1973: Tom Waits, Ol' 55
1974: Richard & Linda Thompson, I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
1975: Patti Smith, Gloria
1976: Warren Zevon, Desperados Under The Eaves
1977: The Clash, Complete Control
1978: Elvis Costello, Radio Radio
1979: The Clash, Safe European Home
 
80s. New wave, a slew of awesome one-hit wonders, punk not financed by big labels, all the good rappers, and just a fun experimental time for music.
 
I'd have to go with the 60's. Second would be the late 70's. Then the 80's (mostly for underground alternate rock stuff).

Bah, this is too hard.
 
Jibril said:
No one beats the late 80's to late 90's in my opinion.
As for song of the year by decade. I don't remember release dates of songs that specifically. Sigh.
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:lol Yeah, I'm trying to make a list and it's harder than I thought. Change of plans: Pick 10 songs from that decade that deserve to be Song of The Year of any given year.
 
bjork said:
80s. New wave, a slew of awesome one-hit wonders, punk not financed by big labels, all the good rappers, and just a fun experimental time for music.
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I wanted to say the '80s, because it had an amazing underground scene and there was some wild cross-genre pollination going on, rap was worth listening to, etc., but after 1985 it just completely hit a wall. Even supposedly infallible folks like Bob Dylan, X, The Clash, The Replacements, Johnny Cash, etc., made some horrible, horrible records. Nobody got out of the late '80s unscathed.
 
The 90s was a haven for great alternative, so I'm going to have to choose that. While some of the underground stuff in the 80s was better, there was just too much bad music being made in that period that brings it down. I guess 1985-1995 is technically a decade, but that feels like a cop out. 1990s it is.
 
Gotta be the 90's, MC Hammer - Can't touch this, Deep Blue Somthing - Breakfast at Tiffanies and The Cartoonies - Witch Doctor, whats not to love?
 
There's awesome music being made all the time. I feel it only limits my discovery and appreciation of new music if I declare a certain decade my favourite. That being said, my favourite band is Iron Maiden and they had some great stuff in the '80s, but I would almost say that their last two albums are among their best work.
 
60-70's ( the Who, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, The Animals, CCR, Neil Young, Bob Dylan Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones and many more)

Family was a bunch of leftover hippies, so growing up this is what I heard. Still love it, although I faltered and went to rap for a bit in the 90's. Thankfully trash like fabolous and his ilk killed it for me.
 
Removing the element of personal nostalgia and outdated-ness, I might go with 60s, but I have to choose 90s. Big reason is probably because that was when I was in highschool and that's the most formative period of your life, but there's just so much from the decade that I love. I'm really not too thrilled with the direction rock (and all its sub-genres) has taken this decade to be honest.
 
Aristotlekh said:
I wanted to say the '80s, because it had an amazing underground scene and there was some wild cross-genre pollination going on, rap was worth listening to, etc., but after 1985 it just completely hit a wall. Even supposedly infallible folks like Bob Dylan, X, The Clash, The Replacements, Johnny Cash, etc., made some horrible, horrible records. Nobody got out of the late '80s unscathed.
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After 85 you had The Smiths, Morrissey's first 2 solos, the Sugarcubes, Ice-T, etc etc. Maybe that's not a plus to everyone though, heh.

And Posse on Broadway in 1988, hooray
 
00's aswell, as this is the decade I started listening to music. Call me unexperienced but I kinda get offended when people shit on modern music and say it's all been done before. It seems like with the popularization of the internet, accesibility to new ideas and developments in music have experienced a great boost (at a cost) and as a result we see exciting sound collages such as Person Pitch, Since I Left You, stuff The Books have done, and others. I suppose I should shut up though... I'm a junior after all.
 
70s because it had a little bit of everything. Hard rock, progressive, punk, jazz fusion, disco, industrial, psychedelic, early metal, funk, soul, reggae & dub, blah blah.
 
Anyone else here remember this song? I don't know from where exactly or when, but the lyrics or that tune makes me feel like ive heard it before in my past. The song is pretty good too though...
 
The 90's for me.

The greatest era of hip hop to date coupled with the birth of the grunge/alternative scene (or at leasts its rise to popularity).....what's not to like?

Not to mention a lot of great bands from the 80's continued to make great music in the 90's as well (U2, Iron Maiden, Pat Metheny, etc.)
 
80s because I'm a big fan of jangle rock and post-punk.

Replacements, Mission of Burma, the Fall, Sonic Youth, Big Black....I could keep on going forever. I definitely think the 60s/70s had more important records, but the vast majority of what I listen to was made possible by the 80s, after punk died.
 
90's for nostalgia reasons.

Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
Puff Daddy - I'll be Missing You
U2 - Beautiful Day
Notorious BIG - Mo Money Mo Problems
2pac - Changes
Korn - Freak on a Leash
Arrested Development - Mr. Wendel
Offspring - Pretty Fly
Ace of Base - All that She Wants
Creed - Higher
 
kamspy said:
90s hip hop golden age.
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Can't agree more! Wu-Tang solo artists like GZA, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon putting some classic albums! Tons of great hip-hop album in those years. It's also the greatest French hip-hop years with IAM and their solo (AKH, Shurik'n) albums releasing some classics albums.

Those years are also the Nirvana years! I was hooked on a mix of Nirvana and Hip-hop like crazy! Good times!
 
90s for Death / Black Metal

70s for Heavy Metal and Rock in general

The 00s haven't been too bad either.

The 80s were the worst but there were some stand-outs (Dio, Queen, etc...)
 
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