Best era of music?

[Glamhead]

60's
70's
80's
90's
00's

[senomar]

While the 70's had Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, etc., I'll have to say the 90's, due to being the era where many of my favorite bands flourished.

[idiotec]

I can't say that there is one. There are great bands from all the eras.

[TheFatBloke]

Anything but the 90s... (Britpop is dire in my eyes)

The 00s seem pretty good to me except the whole Indie scene in London and the UK is irratating me a bloody lot lately. However bands like Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene make up for this.

You can't really choose basically, too much good bands from every era (except the 90s in my mind).

[newwaytodie]

Um, I believe I posted this exact poll about 3 months ago.

[caex12]

80s had some of the best bands ever, but the 90s and 00s have/had some great bands, if one doesn't listen to mainstream bands.

[Sophrosyne]

I'm a 90's girl, and with that I personally think that the 90's had the greatest music I've ever heard.

Oh how I wish that I was a little older when all those great Unplugged sessions came out (i'm 22 btw) ;P

[Suffragette]

Dire Straits: '80s.
Iron Maiden: '80s.
Accept: '70s and '80s.

Not a hard decision :)

[Guitar_Hero_God999]

Although the 70's were when punk was born, and the 80's were when hardcore Punk was born, I have to say 90's, because of all the Ska Punk bands and Radiohead.

[FrshChees]

oh...I thought this was the same one from 3 months ago :D I said 80's again

[DoctorSpaghetti]

I'm a 90's girl, and with that I personally think that the 90's had the greatest music I've ever heard.

Oh how I wish that I was a little older when all those great Unplugged sessions came out (i'm 22 btw) ;P

Lol, whenever I think 90's, I think The Cranberries for some reason...


Anyway, my vote goes to the double oughts. My reasoning: Music is more available now than it has ever been. It's not that this decade has the best music necessarily, but you can find what you really like rather than be forced to listen to radio and MTV (though that's all a great number of people do, unfortunately). Perhaps there were bands that were around in the 70s that sounded like some bands in the 00s, but they just went unnoticed and died because the sound never caught on, while it may have in the age of the internet (or at least there would be enough people to enjoy it that they could continue making music). One thing thats for sure though, is that music now is more diverse than it has ever been, be it because of the internet or just the natural evolution of music.

[Nilsen31]

60s through the 70s

followed by the 50s.


80s and 90s...had good music but there was a lot of crap in there as well...which led to the 2000s...where I'm currently thinking of killing myself...

but new bands like Back Door Slam and The Black Keys and a few others are making me think that hard GOOD rock n roll may be making a come back.

[Spikey206]

80s. Definitely.

Birth of Thrash Metal. Thank God.

Although...the 70s are up there too for producing the bands that influences thrash metal artists. >.>

[ziggy stardust]

I say 80's because you have the birth of post punk,Alternative,indie,Hardcore,new wave,and hair metal.

[amolinam]

70's and 80's.

[DonutMan2000]

I like the 90s. Grunge was popular and hair metal was finally less popular. The 90s had bands like Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Hole, KoRn, and Marilyn Manson, all of which I like.

[Vengeance]

i said the 80's cuz some of my favorite bands were in the 80's

[Fathoms]

The 2k's for a lot of the reasons DoctorSpaghetti listed. I could name thirty or forty bands from the current decade that I like and that wouldn't have been possible in any other era of music. Plus, it's not like the classic records just dissapear into the ether. Everything is just out there, and the modern music aficianado has an unprecedented amount of freedom.

[TheBEAST205]

Anything but the 90s... (Britpop is dire in my eyes)

The 00s seem pretty good to me except the whole Indie scene in London and the UK is irratating me a bloody lot lately. However bands like Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene make up for this.

You can't really choose basically, too much good bands from every era (except the 90s in my mind).

Sigur Ros is a great space rock band. It would be a bit better though if it were possible to understand their lyrics...

The 60's-70's ass rape any other eras of music. The creativity and talent of the bands then was unbelievable.

[Fathoms]

That's sort of the beauty of Sigur Ros though. A lot of their songs don't even make sense in Icelandic. They create their music much like a painter with a canvas, where the vocals are just another instrument as opposed to being any kind of narrative device. It's very poignant atmostpheric music yet the ambiguity really allows the listener the freedom to make whatever sense of it they will.

[Highlandlassie]

Um, I believe I posted this exact poll about 3 months ago.


Post a link to it.

[NoDoubtFan87]

90s because so many awesome bands either started(and some also ended) their careers in the 90s or had their breakthroughs in the 90s. There are more bands then I care to list though.

[Parodygm]

Um, I believe I posted this exact poll about 3 months ago.

That's great. So what was the result?

[Scarlet_Fire]

70's i mean its when the Grateful Dead hit their peak and when skynyrd started along with when Zeppelin started to get hot, and when Pink Floyd released DSoTM and the Wall. just a good decade period.

[Rev0lver]

00s. if you don't listen to the mainstream ****.

[Insane3]

I voted 70s though 60s are next in my mind. What begun in 60s (The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd) was finished in the 70's with Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, David Bowie and all the bands i named above.
Of course, there are some good bands in each decade, from the 20s to the 00s. But 70's music is still very influent.
80s was so-so. Let me explain lol. You had very good bands like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, but power chords were overused and when you look back, a lot of songs sound cheesy...
90s were... good. Of course, you had Spice Girls and Backstreet boys (who had the idea of creating that stupid group of dancing/singing egomaniacs). But you had Jane's, Nirvana, and a massive popularity for Santana lol!
Nothing really hapened in the 00s. Some good bands over here and there...
And the 50s... well the 50s is Elvis lol. And Chuck Berry. GO GO GO, JOHNNY B. GOODE!

[samunden]

I miss the big arena hard rock/metal concerts from the 80's but I prefer the music scene in general from the 90's and on. As much as I dislike grunge, it was sorely needed to pop the over-inflated balloon that was the late 80's metal scene.

[polishdog90]

That's great. So what was the result?

im pretty sure 70s won. It was a couple of months ago so I kind of forget, but I remember people said 70s a lot.

Edit: I found it http://community.rockband.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=1849 and yeah 70s won

[Fuzzy1279]

it's a toss up between the 90's and 70's for me.

[foolosophy]

I voted 60s because of the bands that started at the time, I based it on when they founded/started as opposed to their prime. Guess I should've picked 70s.

[dmay504]

I voted 70s though 60s are next in my mind. What begun in 60s (The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd) was finished in the 70's with Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, David Bowie and all the bands i named above.
Of course, there are some good bands in each decade, from the 20s to the 00s. But 70's music is still very influent.
80s was so-so. Let me explain lol. You had very good bands like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, but power chords were overused and when you look back, a lot of songs sound cheesy...
90s were... good. Of course, you had Spice Girls and Backstreet boys (who had the idea of creating that stupid group of dancing/singing egomaniacs). But you had Jane's, Nirvana, and a massive popularity for Santana lol!
Nothing really hapened in the 00s. Some good bands over here and there...
And the 50s... well the 50s is Elvis lol. And Chuck Berry. GO GO GO, JOHNNY B. GOODE!

couldn't have said it better...done deal

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