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[Gram Negative Cocci]

Music in the 90's brings back a lot of good memories with college, concerts, etc. and I was probably more into music then than any other time in my life but I always seem to have a hard time going back and re-listening to a lot of that stuff - especially the early "grunge". I can still appreciate it for what it wasn't trying to be but it's not something I would voluntarily listen to today.

The 80's outside of a handful of a exceptions was and is awful. I'm not buying into the 80's love revival. Really shitty music that still sounds shitty to this day.

But it's the 70's that I've really grown fond of. I remember hating most everything that came out of that decade when I was younger but now I can't get enough. My ipod and iphone are filled with 70's music - from funk to punk and everything in between. An amazing time for music.

 

[HalfwayOrb]

90's
techno and trance

 

[Personifried]

Early 90s for sure:
-The height of east coast hip-hop
-Grunge, AKA the last time mainstream rock was good
-Simply brilliant thrash metal
-Great, more refined prog rock/metal
-The beginning of Mike Patton's reign over my heart
-Beck & other great alternative

Runners up are the 70s (for great rock/metal), the 50s (oh how I love bebop), and the 00s (can't get enough of fringe genres these days. Oh and Jack White).

As for a list, I'll get working on one later if I don't feel so lazy.

 

[Crag Dweller]

I grew up in the 70's(class of '82), so thats what I identify with more. If you look at my music collection I own twice as many albums from the 70's than I do the 80's, and twice as many 80's albums than 90's, and so on till the present.

 

[Houston3000]

Um... no?
You forgot the best kind of metal, progressive metal. This decade has been the best for it with Opeth, Shadow Gallery, BTBAM, Dream Theater, Liquid Tension, Devin Townsend etc. Deathcore is fucking terrible.
With bands like Insomnium, Kalmah and Dark Tranquility I'd say melodeath is in it's prime as well. And you should be ashamed for listing Nu-metal.

the fuck?

You realize this is all opinion don't you? so your whole "best kind of metal" argument is pointless. On top of that a primary point of my post is that Metal has many many subgenres that all sound very very different. I also despise Deathcore and you should be the one ashamed for dismissing Nu-Metal... I don't care for it but it fucking exists and I'm not to dense to realize it was better in the late 90s unless your a huge Disturbed fan :lol .

I'll tell you right now I don't listen to any of those bands you listed, I've heard a few songs from Between the Buried and Me but the were pretty death-metalesque and thrashy. Then that whole last sentence of my post was simply because I was thinking of all the great Melodic Death tunes the last few years. So maybe Prog Metal is better this decade and Melodic Death is good to but that doesn't make this a better decade for metal in general, just for you.

 

[Loxley]

At the risk of outing myself as a fetus, I was 12 years old when we hit the millennium, and have an older sister; as such growing up my exposure to music was limited to boy bands in addition to the Britney/Christina/Jessica/Mandy bull. I was into Eiffel 65 and various techno bands for a while, but that faded once I hit high school (going into my junior year in college, it's making a comeback).

Oh. And Newsies. I watched Newsies.

Now? Well, technically this decade isn't over, but I'm preemptively declaring it the winner in my 21 years of trying to avoid everything that was spawned in the 80's. There's plenty of 70's music I love, but I feel like can't really declare it the best year in music since well, I wasn't exactly around

 

[Medalion]

Whatever year you grew up in and started liking music = most people's answers... it is more surprising to see people say outside of their time they enjoyed music more then or whatever.

 

[Karma Kramer]

90's

 

[Culex]

80's for me. So many memorable bands.....Twisted Sister!

 

[trinest]

70s and 80s and early 90s

 

[cashman]

90s for hip hop and smashing pumpkins.

 

[J-Roderton]

90's to 00's. What i got used to listening too.

 

[lunarworks]

Question: Why do I have to pick a favourite? Every decade since the '50s, including this one (despite plenty of hate here), has delivered a whole lot of enjoyable music.

(Note: I'm not a big fan of classical.)

 

[mysticwhip]

60s- The Mother Fucking Beatles and Mother Fucking Bob Dylan.

That is all.

Edit : I fucking hate music from the 70s, everything just sounded so damn depressing.

 

[malek4980]

The 60's because of The Beatles, The Stones, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, Dylan, Cream, and Hendrix.

If I could pick a ten year period, it would include the late 60's and early 70's.

 

[fu3lfr3nzy]

80's for the Metal

90's for the Rock

If I had to choose only one: 80's

 

[djtiesto]

90's by far, definitely the most interesting period for fans of electronic music - so many different genres formed and splintered off from the house and techno of the 80's.