Favorite era of music
 

What would you say is your favorite era of music?


For me I have to say 77-83, most of my favorite songs are from that era, and I really feel that period was the most creative and rewarding point in rock and roll, moreso even than the 60's.

And honorable mention to the music of the past few years, I feel like we're in the midst of another very creative period.

I'm really debating between the 1990's and the 2000's. Not a whole lot of my favorite music outside of punk is from before that.

How about "the past 18 years"?

Edit: Just voted for 1997 to 2003. I mean, Relationship Of Command, De-Loused In The Comatorium, Wiretrap Scars, Let's Talk About Feelings, Pennybridge Pioneers, Low Estate, hell yeah.

I voted 1970-1976... was heavily toying with 77-83 for the same reason as Brad, but I realized if I chose 70-76, I was including the immediate-post-Woodstock-era, and I love that era, for music. So I got the best of both worlds, in my mind, by including the rise of the music scene in the 70s whilst still keeping the Woodstock stuff.

The 80s and 90s get an honorable mention, on the DL, that is.

1971-1974. Easily. So many great bands and soloists were at their zenith then. Just to name a few:

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
David Bowie

So...yeah.

early 90s hip-hop

wat.


more like late 80s.

I would actually say the entire 80's era/decade, as it's the best of all time, IMHO.

The early - mid 90's rock spark the most influential music in decades and it is tied with 97-03....is mind boggling.

i want a mid 70's say 76 or so through to about 86...

I went for 1983-1989. There were so many great bands or artists releasing music in that period:

Pixies
Sonic Youth
The Cure
Husker Du
The Replacements
Dinosaur Jr
The Smiths
Tom Waits
Echo and the Bunnymen
Mudhoney
And the whole thrash metal movement

I hate to say it, but I'm going with 83-89, lots of great music being made then - not so much the new wave stuff, but like Zero1986 said - pixies, sonic youth, the replacements, dinosaur jr, etc.

64-69 just above 97-03

64-69. Close behind is 70-76.

i liked the 70s becaouse thats when Black Sabbath, RUSH, and Boston started and those are my three favorite bands of all time!!

''None of the above''

I think 1965-1975 can't be beat...

as far as rock music goes.

Awesome my pick is winning

Best stuff from Van Morrison and Zeppelin (My all time favs) and my prime as a maniac.

i went 1997-2003, it has a lot of my favorites, but this was a really tough choice

1990's ftw.

64-69 but my opinion changes frequently. Those years have held my recent obsessions.

1800's

Yeah! Have you heard that record, "Constable Ferguson and the New-Fashioned Peanut Brittle 'Napper?" Cos you should...

I can think of so many truly brilliant albums released in 1977, let alone the 6 years that followed, hence my choice of answer

:laughing:

I'm shocked to see 1997-2003 leading the votes.

The romantic era, 1820-1910. The options really aren't "eras", just 5 or 6 years where people changed up their style of music a little bit. The romantic era had:

Beethoven
Schubert
Chopin
Mendelssohn
Brahms
Grieg
Bizet
Wagner
Tchaikovsky
Debussy

Really? It had a lot of excellent albums. The mainstream popular ones, like 'Soft Bulletin' and the other Flaming Lips mature albums, 'Ok Computer' and the other Radiohead albums, 'Aeroplane Over the Sea', 'Is This It', etc. Some are a bit overrated, but 97-03 had a lot of good music.

Not denying it had some good music but a lot of the other choices had way more classic albums, important albums, influential albums and more fun albums.

I voted because it I don't listen to a lot of Classic Rock, and most of the albums I enjoy are from that era.

I have no clue what my second choice would have been. Probably would've been between 77-83, 83-89 and 2004-present.

Not to slam on the 80s but albums were really good in 83-89? I barely have any full albums from the 80s. I guess...Sonic Youth, The Smiths, Nick Cave? But I don't even listen to those guys too much.

To be quite honest, the 80s were some of the worst times culturally. Music, film, a lot of it all went by the wayside.

Mainstream eighties music sucked, that's for sure. Glam metal, cheesy synth pop and horrible albums made by aging classic rockers really weren't too appealing. But thrash metal came into its own as well as alternative (and I mean real alternative) rock and plenty of other genres (cough*hip-hop*cough).

I do have to say, I'm particularly disappointed with the quality of jazz albums after 1963. It's like they stopped trying...

Weather Report? John Zorn?

I'm familiar with both. Neither represent to me what the jazz greats of the forties and fifties accomplished. Jazz took on a new identity after 1967 and became a characteristically different genre than its early predecessors. I guess people got bored with the improvisational style of jazz legends, maybe not, but jazz albums are too tightly structured nowadays.

I'm not suggesting it was a decline in jazz composers; Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus composed through the sixties. But their later compositions mimicked the structures and chord progressions of jazz rock fusion instead of delivering it raw and unadulterated.

I don't want to seem like a purist, but great jazz albums nowadays are few and far between. There's just not enough interest for jazz. :(

That could be argued for many genres. Punk albums are generally crap these days. Why? Because it was a musical reaction and not a genre.

Metallica release 'Death Magnetic' and get many negative reviews for making music that is twenty years old.

Jazz albums are released and barely hold a candle to previous releases. Of course they won't. The genre has been explored and mutated. At least Zorn et al are creating a different spin on a typical base.

I understand what you mean. But jazz has been dead for so long.

I've been trying so hard to get a hold of a jazz album I read about, Aaron Parks' Invisible Cinema. It got decent reviews, I'm hoping it'll at least revive a little interest in jazz.

64-69

simply because of the Velvets The Beatles

hiphop between 1990-99

voted 97-03
77-83 wouldve been the second choice

Sya what?! Eighties had alot of my favorite bands/albums:

Violent Femmes
The Fall
Pixies
Dinosaur Jr.
Magazine
X
Mission of Burma
Feelies
Big Black
Killing Joke
Richard Hell
Lyres
Dogmatics
Flipper
Bad Brains
New Order
My Bloody Valentine
OMD
Husker Du
Replacements
good REM
Lydia Lunch
Soft Boys
The Bevis Frond
XTC
Meat Puppets
Beat Happening
The Vaselines
Jesus & Mary Chain
Black Flog
Go-Betweens
The dB's
Cramps
Talking Heads
Echo & the Bunnymen
Robyn Hitch****
Gang of Four
Happy Mondays
Pogues
Cocteau Twins


Just to name a few. If you ask me the 80's were just as musically rich as the 60's, if not moreso.

There is a truckload of **** released in every decade
We've forgotten about all the **** of the 60's
We havent forgotten about the **** of the 80s yet
theres your diff