Which decade, any decade at all, is your personal favorite, or do you think is the best one overall, music-wise?
Posted by Calico Jack (Member # 2299) on :
I love different types of music from many different decades, so it's really tricky to play favorites in that regard. But, if I were hard-pressed to do it, I'd likely cite the 1980s as the decade of music that I'm most nostalgic about regardless of the genre in question. Whether it's heavy metal (Iron Maiden, Metallica, Helloween, etc.), pop/rock (Journey, Prince, Talking Heads, etc.), or new wave (Depeche Mode, New Order, Erasure, etc.), I'll always have a very soft spot in my heart for the 1980s. But, take that with a grain of salt because I'll regularly listen to The Beatles, Duke Ellington & Fleetwood Mac in the same sitting as Cyndi Lauper. My passion for music definitely knows no boundaries delineated by time. Having said that however, I'll point out that I've been somewhat less than enchanted with the popular music that's emerged since the 1980s ended. Kudos to all those indie artists who saved the 1990s for me!
Calico Jack
Posted by gs3647 (Member # 2418) on :
My favorite is probably the 70s. A lot of dancing and listening music. I also just like the music from there because it appeals to my ears, but that's just my opinion.
Posted by Lord (Member # 2465) on :
Id have to say the 90's this decade took me through high school, college, and marriage. So of course the music of this time holds great reminders for me.
Posted by gs3647 (Member # 2418) on :
The 70s were the decade and year before I was born, like an intro to my life.
Posted by FTPHANTOM (Member # 47) on :
the 80's
Posted by DJ (Member # 1698) on :
80's
Posted by Sasha (Member # 1842) on :
I'm with Calico on this one..I loved all these groups! GREAT GREAT MUSIC
Don't laugh..But in my car CD player right now is OMD.......lol
Posted by Ramsfan (Member # 1996) on :
The 70's Posted by DJ (Member # 1698) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sasha: I'm with Calico on this one..I loved all these groups! GREAT GREAT MUSIC
Don't laugh..But in my car CD player right now is OMD.......lol
I am drawing a blank Sasha? Please refresh my memory on OMD?
Posted by Lord (Member # 2465) on :
The only band I know about called OMD is from liverpool ,Orchestral Maneuvers In the Dark, I might be wrong she might be talking about some other band.
Posted by DJ (Member # 1698) on :
Thanks Lord, that is exactly what Stacey just told me. I don't remember them?
Posted by Lord (Member # 2465) on :
Walking on the Milky Way Pandora's Box Enola Gay If You Leave Talking Loud and Clear Walking on Air So In Love Electricity
They were a Synth-pop band. Above is a list of some of thier biggest hits. You might know the songs just not the band.
Posted by DJ (Member # 1698) on :
I am sure I would if I heard them. Thanks!
Posted by Lord (Member # 2465) on :
No problem DJ any time. As often as you like to share its the least I could do Posted by Ramsfan (Member # 1996) on :
Isn't Pandora's Box an Aerosmith album?
Posted by Lord (Member # 2465) on :
Yes! Here is the album art. Posted by Calico Jack (Member # 2299) on :
More specifically, Pandora's Box is an Aerosmith box set which collects more than fifty singles, album tracks, demos, outtakes, live cuts and rarities. An old bandmate of mine used to always have that box set lying around the studio so that's why I remember it. "Pandora's Box" is also the title of an Aerosmith song which is on that box set, as well as the title of a different song by OMD (Paul Humphrey & Andy McCluskey). OMD were another one of those British new wave bands that were significant in influencing the shape & sound of the electronica that I was writing and performing back between 1991 & 1996. Good stuff!
Calico Jack
Posted by gs3647 (Member # 2418) on :
The 80s were also an ok decade, although not my favorite.
Posted by Ramsfan (Member # 1996) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lord: Yes! Here is the album art.
Oh, good for a second I thought I was having Alzheimer's
Man, I'm getting OLD Posted by Sasha (Member # 1842) on :
quote: Thanks Lord, that is exactly what Stacey just told me. I don't remember them?
Yep.Thats who OMD is...
I almost forgot.....One of the best ROCK and ROLL albums ever I think was AEROSMITH ROCKS...Not one bad song on that album.A true classic!
Posted by Elzbennet (Member # 1234) on :
The 80s were the best no doubt about it! My favourite group, although previous to the 80s are Genesis! Too bad they are over! Posted by Calico Jack (Member # 2299) on :
>My favourite group, although previous to the >80s are Genesis! Too bad they are over!
Not only are they over, but Phil Collins is currently embarking upon his final farewell concert tour. See him if you can! Phil is still one of my all-time favorite male vocalists on the same list with Steve Perry, John Lennon, Peter Ceterra, and many others. And I'm with Elz, Genesis was a great band!!
Calico Jack
Posted by Luciano (Member # 2337) on :
When I read something about Genesis I feel younger. I spent the best years of my life with their magic music. Trespass, Nursery Crime, Foxtrot, Genesis live, Selling England by the pound, The lamb lies down on Broadway...magic moments, beautiful words, great music. Musical box, Firth of fifth and Dancing with the moonlit knights are masterpieces I will never forget. Luciano
Posted by Elzbennet (Member # 1234) on :
quote:Originally posted by Calico Jack: >My favourite group, although previous to the >80s are Genesis! Too bad they are over!
Not only are they over, but Phil Collins is currently embarking upon his final farewell concert tour. See him if you can! Phil is still one of my all-time favorite male vocalists on the same list with Steve Perry, John Lennon, Peter Ceterra, and many others. And I'm with Elz, Genesis was a great band!!
Calico Jack
Phil Collins was a great vocalist (still is i suppoose ), i never really liked Peter Gabriel and i started liking Genesis with P.Collins. He came to Portugal recently but i missed him, apparently he even sang some stuff from Genesis but him, solo, is average i think. Heīs not such a good composer as Mike Rutherford, so i believe he should have sticked with them! And his last records...YUCK! Terrible! And there was a rumour some time ago that they would get together again for a last tour...of course it was just a rumour ! The thing that really gets me "mad" is the fact that i lost their concert many years ago, here in Lisbon. It was fabulous and lasted 3 hours! Their last vocalist wasnīt as good but still i think they should have had more support, they were a little ignored and iīd like to see more of Genesis. As for other musics and musicians from the 80īs, i can name some wich i still like, some musics simple do not die...groups like The Cars with the song "Drive", Reo Speedwagon with "Canīt stop this feeling", Icehouse and "Crazy", Laura Branigan "Self Control", Pat Benatar, I also listened to Camel, Supertramp and many more. Posted by Elzbennet (Member # 1234) on :
quote:Originally posted by Luciano: When I read something about Genesis I feel younger. I spent the best years of my life with their magic music. Trespass, Nursery Crime, Foxtrot, Genesis live, Selling England by the pound, The lamb lies down on Broadway...magic moments, beautiful words, great music. Musical box, Firth of fifth and Dancing with the moonlit knights are masterpieces I will never forget. Luciano
Indeed Luciano! I love their musics too and i will not name them because there are so many! Itīs one of those rare groups that kept doing good music as the years went by, some records better than others but still, high quality. And nowadays groups like Genesis simply do not exist! Posted by mizubaku (Member # 823) on :
I think it's hard to choose a particular decade because all of them have been important in the evolution of music. I suppose the 60s might be the most important in terms of how music flourished and broke from the chains of rock and roll and has lead us, at least in part, to where we are now with such a diverse selection of music to listen to. I love all those girl groups from that era with those great powerful ballads with the huge vocals, wistful lyrics and intoxicating melodies. I think all the psychedelic weird shit was interesting and important too and, of course, you had the Beatles.
As an era the 70s were pretty bland really, but punk was also an important thing to happen and the end of the decade saw the advent of a truly great independent scene, where you really felt like just everyday ordinary people were singing about what they wanted to or making records of the like that had never been heard before.
The 80s were a great decade because the independent scene really kicked in properly and so much interesting and diverse music came about and it was a truly exciting time. Also the technology that we take for granted now in music production was all new then and records started to sound like they hadn't before with the use of samplers and computers. Unlike now, generally speaking people would use these very creatively. As the 80s came to a close you had house and techno starting to appear as well which gave music another interesting colour and has lead to where we find ourselves today with stuff like the electro clash scene and back to basics synthesiser music. The other good thing about that decade was that unlike now where you have a load of manufactured garbage at the forefront of what everyone considers as the current musical climate , back then people with real talent were in the limelight. People who were amazingly creative and had something to say in their music, like The Smiths and The The and Depeche Mode and countless others. I cannot honestly remember a time of recent years where I have heard a mainstream record coming through the TV, or the radio, that had anything of value to say to me about my life, or life in general. OK, apart from Morrissey's new album.
I'm not sure of what to think of the 90s as I can't think of it having any particular identity. Although having said that some of my favourite records are from that time and the one good thing about it was you had some amazing records - kind of like bits of shrapnel embedded into the anonymous body that music was back then - as the artists who were making great music in the previous decades had matured and were making some of their best work.
I find this decade now particularly strange, I'm not even sure what music is meant to be anymore as with the advent of computers and downloading a lot of people just see it as a commodity more than the beautiful thing it really is. I think now it is a case of there being more content over style. There's a million niche genres for just about everything, which I suppose is nice, but I'd rather be hearing records that can stop you in your tracks with an incredible and unpredictable chord change or reduce you to tears with just a beautifully well written couplet. I feel like I have to work really hard now to find something that stirs me and not so long ago somehow those kind of records would just gravitate towards me through the ether. It's worth putting in the effort to find it though, because, in my opinion, music is unique. There's nothing else in the world that can do the things to you that it does. It's almost supernatural in the way it can sometimes weave its way around your very soul, extract the emotions from it and play them back at you amplified to the point where there's little else to do but cry.
It makes me sad that we are living through a time where it's not valued as it once was and deserves to be.
Thanks for reading.
Posted by Calico Jack (Member # 2299) on :
That was beautifully said, mizubaku! I agree with everything that you wrote with the exception of the 1970s being a pretty bland decade musically. I think a lot of brilliant music and creative ideas spilled over from the late 60s into the 70s and enabled the further development (and birth in some cases!) of many genres. The 70s offered us great rock (Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd), progressive rock (Rush, Yes, King Crimson), funk (Sly & the Family Stone, Grand Funk Railroad, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic), punk (Sex Pistols, Ramones), disco (ABBA, Bee Gees, KC & the Sunshine Band), early electronica (Kraftwerk, Neu!, Tangerine Dream) and sewed the seeds of heavy metal (Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, AC/DC) as well! Plus I was born during the 70s, so how could they be that bad?
Calico Jack
Posted by gs3647 (Member # 2418) on :
Though most of my favorite artists were primarily 60s artists, I think rock n' roll was still very young then.
Posted by Sasha (Member # 1842) on :
quote:As an era the 70s were pretty bland really
HUH???????1970-1979 Stones(their hey days)Zeppelin,KISS,Boston,Aerosmith Frampton,Floyd,Traffic,Bowie, T REX, New York DOLLS, Genisis, Cheap Trick,Van Halen,JOURNEY!! JOPLIN, HENDRIX, SEX PISTOLS, CARS, B,52's,Clash, BLONDIE, Pretenders, RUSH, Do you want me to continue..Some of these bands started in the 60's&70;s but all of these bands flourished in the 70;s......The 70's is by far the most influential time music...IN MY MIND
If it wasnt for the 70's the 80's would only have been DISCO!!!!!!
[ September 21, 2004, 08:44 AM: Message edited by: Sasha ]
Posted by Ramsfan (Member # 1996) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sasha:
quote:As an era the 70s were pretty bland really
HUH???????1970-1979 Stones(their hey days)Zeppelin,KISS,Boston,Aerosmith Frampton,Floyd,Traffic, T REX, New York DOLLS, Genisis, Cheap Trick,Van Halen,JOURNEY!! JOPLIN, HENDRIX, SEX PISTOLS, CARS, B,52's,Clash, BLONDIE, Pretenders, RUSH, Do you want me to continue..Some of these bands started in the 60's&70;s but all of these bands flourished in the 70;s......The 70's is by far the most influential time music...IN MY MIND
If it wasnt for the 70's the 80's would only have been DISCO!!!!!!
Yep, the 70's were the best as far as music. Look at how many groups made their best music in that decade.
Posted by mizubaku (Member # 823) on :
I wasn't trying to upset anyone with my 70s comment. So apologies if I have. I realise that I should have thought about that a little longer but I think I was trying to point out the milestones in various decades that went on to change music drastically. I wasn't trying to say that there weren't any good bands in the 70s because obviously there were. The Sex Pistols and punk were actually a reaction to all the safe and sterile music that was going on then and essentially that was the focus of my comment about that decade. Jack pointed out some important people there like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, George Clinton and Floyd. And of course some of Bowie's best work was from that period. But I'm not retracting my comment because it is pretty much how I feel about it from my listening perspective - although I think I could have put it better and my statement was an over generalisation.. Also no one has mentioned Sparks either. They started then but I think they are doing their best work now.
The bottom line is for me there is no best decade. Music is just music. You like it or you don't, no matter how or when it was made. Great records have come out in every decade but the ones that have helped change the face of music maybe have appeared more so in some decades over others.
Posted by Ron (Member # 701) on :
Anyone who knows me,knows I'm stuck in the 80's.The British invasion was riding high,heavy metal bands were cranking power riffs and songs would stick in your head long after you heard them.Great topic,thanks gs Ron
Posted by Calico Jack (Member # 2299) on :
>Music is just music. You like it or you don't, >no matter how or when it was made. Great >records have come out in every decade but the >ones that have helped change the face of music >maybe have appeared more so in some decades >over others.
Now that I can agree with 100%. We may occasionally exhibit sentimental leanings (just as Ron and myself are willingly stuck in a 1980s timewarp), but those leanings stem largely from sentimental echoes rather than from a music history textbook. Music transcends time and place while simultaneously being sculpted and propelled by them.
Calico Jack
Posted by gs3647 (Member # 2418) on :
How can the 70s be bland? The 70s held some of the greatest rock n' roll artists! Some of the greatest rock music was released in the 70s.
Posted by Toesonthenoes (Member # 2121) on :
I agree and love music of 70s, 80s and a few songs of 90s! One of the greatest artists from the good old 80s are: PINK FLOYD, DIRE STRAITS, GENESIS, BON JOVI, etc,etc,etc....! My personal hate is going to rave, tecno and stuff like this! How do the teens in this time can stand such a loud bumbumbum without getting hurt in brain and having some damage?
Posted by Ramsfan (Member # 1996) on :
quote:Originally posted by Toesonthenoes: I agree and love music of 70s, 80s and a few songs of 90s! One of the greatest artists from the good old 80s are: PINK FLOYD, DIRE STRAITS, GENESIS, BON JOVI, etc,etc,etc....! My personal hate is going to rave, tecno and stuff like this! How do the teens in this time can stand such a loud bumbumbum without getting hurt in brain and having some damage?
What? I can't hear you! Posted by gs3647 (Member # 2418) on :
I'm not into techno, I just don't really care for it.
Posted by Gigi (Member # 1552) on :
1960's....way before i was born, but i love that flower children music, its like i am on drugs......... and i dont do drugs, lmao.
i also like the 70's. i hated the 80's....i dont remember the 90's.
i love the latin sounds, great to shake my booty on the dance floor.
Posted by Gigi (Member # 1552) on :
actually my favorites are.....ta da....
Metallica
I love Metallica, James Hedfield can do me anyday.
and i would throw lars a footjob on a moments notice.
Posted by ledaemon (Member # 198) on :
quote:Originally posted by Elzbennet: The 80s were the best no doubt about it! My favourite group, although previous to the 80s are Genesis! Too bad they are over!
My favorite Genesis albums are all the ones they made with Peter Gabriel before he left for his solo career!
Posted by ledaemon (Member # 198) on :
My favorite decade for music would probably be the '70s. Loved the progressive rock of Yes, ELP, Genesis, King Crimson, and Pink Floyd. The hard rock of Sabbath, Deep Purple, Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Rush...
The '60s would have to be my next favorite because The Beatles are my all time number one favorite band. Other faves: Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Who, Traffic... the list goes on!
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), i never really liked Peter Gabriel and i started liking Genesis with P.Collins. He came to Portugal recently but i missed him, apparently he even sang some stuff from Genesis but him, solo, is average i think. Heīs not such a good composer as Mike Rutherford, so i believe he should have sticked with them! And his last records...YUCK! Terrible! ![[sad]](cry.gif)
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I love their musics too and i will not name them because there are so many! Itīs one of those rare groups that kept doing good music as the years went by, some records better than others but still, high quality. And nowadays groups like Genesis simply do not exist!![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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