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for me its gotta be the 60s. beatles, stones, hendrix, who, small faces, kinks, doors etc. early zeppelin and floyd. what say you?
the_authority | 03 Mar '05, 21:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The 70's!

Late Led Zep, Late Floyd, Roxy Music, Yes, Van der Graaf generator, no pussyfooting, jethro tull, the clash, the sex pistols, faust, bowie, can...
frankiegoestostoke | 3 Mar '05, 22:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I can't live in anything but the present. I don't harbour nostalgia for decades I didn't live through. Why celebrate things I was never a part of? I didn't come of age until the mid brit pop era I suppose. Now is all I have in the sense that I can be completely involved with bands I love etc etc.
Patricide | 3 Mar '05, 22:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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They all had their moments. It would just be stupid to limit yourself to one decade.
Wiggles | 3 Mar '05, 22:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Yeah, I hate questions like this. As a great band once opened their album: "They told me that the classics never go out of style but they do. They do."

There's no point ranking decades in retrospect. A lot of music can be great at the time, but dates horribly. Some is missed at the time but discovered later. Is it really relevant to break things up into arbitrary chronological blocks? Answer is no.
chiaroscuro | 3 Mar '05, 22:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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1880s - Lupin Smythley-Smyth and his wind-powered organ doing a Sunday night residency at Glastonbury Kite Fayre, the kids getting spaced-out on hemlock - classic!
1570s - the era of harpsichord-doublet-pop - revolutionary!
780s BC - Ug invents the stone flute - mindblowing!
random | 4 Mar '05, 11:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Well I assume we must be talking decades since the advent of "rock" / "pop" here...

From best to worst:

1990s
1960s
1980s
2000s so far
1970s
Smileadelic | 3 Mar '05, 22:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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"Why celebrate things I was never a part of?"

Because there was a huge of amount of great music taking place in the 60s and 70s that deserves to be celebrated.
frankiegoestostoke | 3 Mar '05, 22:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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um hey lets not discredit the 50's here or enven before, where would we be with out our buddy holly or from way before that our Robert Johnson and Keb Mo
zakkrastaII | 3 Mar '05, 22:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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But whenever I hear a band from a bygone era that I didn't grow up in/experience I feel like I'm stuck in a passed moment. I'm not discrediting any era, I just can't get as passionate about them as a whole i.e 'the 60s were the best' because I never went to the gigs, bought and swapped the albums/songs etc. Why go on about the 70s when I wasn't even an afterthought let alone a reality? Gawping at hours of old footage from the whistle test, listening to live gig recordings and ploughing through albums cluelessley is not my idea of fun. I'm only speaking personally.
Patricide | 3 Mar '05, 23:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I agree - you may think I'm over-analysing, but if you grew up with music from the 80s and 90s, you're looking at the older music from a contemporary perspective, with a differently educated ear - you're judging it in a different context. You're not experiencing this music while immersed in the wider social climate of the time. The idea of "60s-" or "70s music" only makes sense from a contemporary perspective. I think the only sensible way of framing the question is "what decade did I enjoy most at the time", which is a different issue.
chiaroscuro | 3 Mar '05, 23:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I find people who love music from certain eras tend to get really angry that everyone doesn't feel the same way as them. It's true that people look at say the punk era/woodstock/baggy/other through rose tinted specs because they weren't there and don't forget, they had The Clash but they also had The Nolans in the 70s etc etc. The 80s is viewed as almost wonderful, glorious musically now but when you look at alot of 80s music it was tat and big power ballads that seem to have thankfully died a painless death.
Patricide | 3 Mar '05, 23:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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60s or 00s so far.
Thom_fa | 3 Mar '05, 23:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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1782 to 1792 - that mozart guy pissed all over everything since
bones_howe | 3 Mar '05, 23:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I still love old music.

So it is the now for me.
fullerov | 3 Mar '05, 23:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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not sure the Rosary had any?
indiecater | 3 Mar '05, 23:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Despite the Beatles utterly shit childrens records making the charts consistently throughout, the sixties gets my vote

Every shitty small town across the United States had a cluster of teen bands, many of whom released records that must be filed under: Fucking Excellent.....and if you picked up flop singles in this country too, you'd get some of the wildest and most exciting music that's ever been made.

Things are too fractured these days, too many tangents for there to be a noticable progression of music- back then, guitar music was the big deal and everyone was trying their hardest to outdo each other, whereas now cutting edge music seems to jostle between electronica and retro fascinated guitar bands(many of whom also have little cliques and fetishes) too much for any progress to be made.......

I mean, you can pretty much listen to any record made between 1963 and the late seventies, and pinpoint when it was made. I'd defy anyone to do that now or in the nineties
grockle | 3 Mar '05, 23:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I got into music in the 90's. The 00's are better. I don't give a fuck about any previous decades because I was too young/non existent to care.
benrith | 4 Mar '05, 00:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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the 1920 were swell man
stubryce | 4 Mar '05, 11:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I'm going to get laughed at here but the 80's were great!

Proberbly the best decade
tom_from_sparks | 4 Mar '05, 11:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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there was indeed some ace stuff in the 80s.
monpot | 4 Mar '05, 12:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Erm, 1977-1982-ish
themurdermystery | 4 Mar '05, 12:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeah, i say 1973-1983, so you can get both Can and the Smiths in there.
i-deserve-to-be-in-your-band | 4 Mar '05, 15:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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American underground scene 1982-1992
Black Flag, Minute men, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, The Melvins, Nirvana, Screaming Trees, need i go on?
mooseman | 4 Mar '05, 15:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply


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