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Worse/Best Music era: 60s,70s,80s,90s,00s,10s?
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the worst: the 00's.
i believe this is the time this "eurodance" sound became popular. there simply wasn't any "iconic" band or group or singer, that came out of last decade. correct me if i am wrong.
songs with the same beats, but different lyrics.
60's and the 70's must have been the "peak" of music creativity.
of course, once in a while something good comes along...
i believe this is the time this "eurodance" sound became popular. there simply wasn't any "iconic" band or group or singer, that came out of last decade. correct me if i am wrong.
songs with the same beats, but different lyrics.
60's and the 70's must have been the "peak" of music creativity.
of course, once in a while something good comes along...
i guess that cant really be answered definitely
as it involves personal taste or not ?
and it quiet often shows your age too
so i'd say for my music taste its definitely the 70's and early 80's Heavy Metal ( AC/DC and Black Sabbath,Judas Priest ,Steppenwolf and Motörhead.....list continues) and the music that influenced me most was Oi/ska ( Cock Sparrer, Cockney Rejects,Toy Dolls,The 4 Skins,The Business,Bad Manners,100 Men,,The Oppressed ...list continues )
as it involves personal taste or not ?
and it quiet often shows your age too
so i'd say for my music taste its definitely the 70's and early 80's Heavy Metal ( AC/DC and Black Sabbath,Judas Priest ,Steppenwolf and Motörhead.....list continues) and the music that influenced me most was Oi/ska ( Cock Sparrer, Cockney Rejects,Toy Dolls,The 4 Skins,The Business,Bad Manners,100 Men,,The Oppressed ...list continues )
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Funny I like pop/rock music from the 70s til now the 2010s. I think there has been good stuff and garbage in every epoch. For 40+ folks complaining about today-you really forgot the disco era??? 
Also I do like classical music from centuries past (17th-19th century) and jazz/blues from the 20s-60s.
Also I do like classical music from centuries past (17th-19th century) and jazz/blues from the 20s-60s.
I am a DJ... now I will quantify that statement.
I am a DJ that plays Deep House and Deep Techno.
Now without trying to sound like a total prick I will try to explain why.
I beleive the music has to have depth and soul, the basslines should vibrate within the dancers and make them want to move.
I hate eurodance it is an affront to electronic music.
I loved the 80's I loved Street Sounds Electro compilations I loved synth pop.
The 80's saw the birth of Chicago House and Detroit Techno.
The 90's saw House music expand into different and sometimes awful areas.
Now from 00's to now I find it difficult to comment, there have been some amazing tracks coming out from some great labels, but I have just lost the ability to keep track... getting old I guess. However in the last few years Synth Pop has made a return with The XX and Villa Nah.
I love my dance music but I love the underground side to it, I detest commercailization it makes me ill, if a track gains above ground play I will no longer play that track as it dates a set, and I beleive Dance music should sound fresh and new at all times. A recognizable track in a set will ruin the flow of that set.
I said I did not want to sound like a prick, and I know that I do come across as one, but I just like what I like.
I am a DJ that plays Deep House and Deep Techno.
Now without trying to sound like a total prick I will try to explain why.
I beleive the music has to have depth and soul, the basslines should vibrate within the dancers and make them want to move.
I hate eurodance it is an affront to electronic music.
I loved the 80's I loved Street Sounds Electro compilations I loved synth pop.
The 80's saw the birth of Chicago House and Detroit Techno.
The 90's saw House music expand into different and sometimes awful areas.
Now from 00's to now I find it difficult to comment, there have been some amazing tracks coming out from some great labels, but I have just lost the ability to keep track... getting old I guess. However in the last few years Synth Pop has made a return with The XX and Villa Nah.
I love my dance music but I love the underground side to it, I detest commercailization it makes me ill, if a track gains above ground play I will no longer play that track as it dates a set, and I beleive Dance music should sound fresh and new at all times. A recognizable track in a set will ruin the flow of that set.
I said I did not want to sound like a prick, and I know that I do come across as one, but I just like what I like.
90's and up... rap. I'm the only one here who likes rap aren't I? I scrolled down a bit and just saw everybody saying like 80's and 70's etc. (old people music
Well there is good rap, like Dead Prez, that's music with a message. But most of it and sadly especially mainstream rap/hip hop is only about booty, bitches, bling bling, drugs and cars. Just stupid, brainless garbage in my opinion.
I can't really decide between 60s, 70s, 80s and some good stuff from the 90s, like Nine Inch Nails, Cypress Hill, Korn, Marilyn Manson, Rage against the Machine - I like these too. But 00s and 10s definitely come last.
thats why i like Ska
it has depth and soul and it makes you dance if you want or not
and i like music made with real instruments
but its personal taste , i cant say are a prick if i dont like your taste and i cant say your taste is rubbish , i have to accept it as your taste ...but for god sake dont make me listen to it
ok i admit i have times when i like to listen to more modern music , electro/industrial/Power Noize like Kraftwerk, Wumpscut ,Agonoize,Feindflug....makes you dance too, so the 90's to present have created some great music too
and i have rare outbreaks of classics when i listen to Wagner, Bruckner ...
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You have it all wrong
1. 60's
2. 70's
3. 80's
4. 90's
5. 00's
6. 10's
Music right now is complete shiat, with hip hop taking over...hip hop and rapping implemented on almost every music genre, it's disgusting...
But there's still hope, we have dubstep and bands like Caribou and Tame Impala
Pink∆Floyd;13281646 said:You have it all wrong
1. 60's
2. 70's
3. 80's
4. 90's
5. 00's
6. 10's
Music right now is complete shiat, with hip hop taking over...hip hop and rapping implemented on almost every music genre, it's disgusting...
But there's still hope, we have dubstep and bands like Caribou and Tame Impala
I completely agree. I might switch 00's and 10's but that's arguable. Same with possibly switching 80's and 90's.
PS. I'm still not talking to you.
Pink∆Floyd;13281646 said:
Eh, save it. Rap has been hated on forever by people who won't give it a chance. For every bad rapper you can name I'll name you just as terrible of a band in the 60's and 70's. Which rap have you listened to?
That's not a difficult challenge.
The REAL challenge is to name one GOOD rapper for every GOOD band from the 60's and 70's.
80s rule!
Most of the music that came out after that does absolutely nothing for me. Granted, everyone has different tastes. I like New Age, 80s New Wave, and music from the 30s and 40s. I also like soundtracks and circus organ/calliope music.
Mind you, there are plenty of 80s bands I do not care for. Any song by Madonna, Stevie Nicks, Steve Perry, John Cougar, Michael Jackson, Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Rick Springfield, Bruce Springsteen, and a handful of other will make me switch to 40s on 4 in a heartbeat.
In contrast, any song by Missing Persons or Men Without Hats will get extra volume.
And if I pull up next to you at a red light and you are playing rap music so loud the dust flies off my car, expect me to retaliate with the F.U.N. song from Spongebob.
Most of the music that came out after that does absolutely nothing for me. Granted, everyone has different tastes. I like New Age, 80s New Wave, and music from the 30s and 40s. I also like soundtracks and circus organ/calliope music.
Mind you, there are plenty of 80s bands I do not care for. Any song by Madonna, Stevie Nicks, Steve Perry, John Cougar, Michael Jackson, Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Rick Springfield, Bruce Springsteen, and a handful of other will make me switch to 40s on 4 in a heartbeat.
In contrast, any song by Missing Persons or Men Without Hats will get extra volume.
And if I pull up next to you at a red light and you are playing rap music so loud the dust flies off my car, expect me to retaliate with the F.U.N. song from Spongebob.
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That's not a difficult challenge.
The REAL challenge is to name one GOOD rapper for every GOOD band from the 60's and 70's.
Amen to that......
Yep! Although, if you include all styles of music, I would put the 50s at the top or at least a tie with the 60s.Pink∆Floyd;13281646 said:
It was at the beginning of rock (Sun Records), Johnny Cash released Walk the Line, the early Chess Records of Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, the great jazz recordings of Miles (Kind of Blue), Brubeck (Time Out), Sonny Rollins (Saxophone Colossus), Coltrane (Blue Train), Sinatra's Capital Years (Wee Small Hours, Only the Lonely, Swingin' Lovers, Ella Fitzgerald kicked off her Songbook series, the great early Classical RCA Living Stereo Albums, Mercury Living Presence, etc...
Of course, the OP did not include the 50s, but I added it.
Yep! Although, if you include all styles of music, I would put the 50s at the top or at least a tie with the 60s.
It was at the beginning of rock (Sun Records), Johnny Cash released Walk the Line, the early Chess Records of Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, the great jazz recordings of Miles (Kind of Blue), Brubeck (Time Out), Sonny Rollins (Saxophone Colossus), Coltrane (Blue Train), Sinatra's Capital Years (Wee Small Hours, Only the Lonely, Swingin' Lovers, Ella Fitzgerald kicked off her Songbook series, the great early Classical RCA Living Stereo Albums, Mercury Living Presence, etc...
Of course, the OP did not include the 50s, but I added it.
Hell!
You might as well go all the way back to the 30's!
Music back then was so happy and full of instruments and wonderful voices...
Yep! It is hard to believe that someone who says their favorite decade is the 60s would put up some kind of roadblock to the decades that happened prior.
Where would The Beatles be without the influence of Elvis? No where, according to Lennon. Where would the Stones be without Willie Dixon or Chuck Berry...probably no where...since their records renewed the friendship of Mick and Keith.
While I prefer the 1950s, the 1930s have a lot to be proud of...Lead Belly, Louis Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Billie Holliday, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, etc... Try listening to Billie Holiday's rendition of "Strange Fruit" (she first sang it in 1939) and tell me it is just "full of instuments and wonderful voices".
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Yep! Although, if you include all styles of music, I would put the 50s at the top or at least a tie with the 60s.
It was at the beginning of rock (Sun Records), Johnny Cash released Walk the Line, the early Chess Records of Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, the great jazz recordings of Miles (Kind of Blue), Brubeck (Time Out), Sonny Rollins (Saxophone Colossus), Coltrane (Blue Train), Sinatra's Capital Years (Wee Small Hours, Only the Lonely, Swingin' Lovers, Ella Fitzgerald kicked off her Songbook series, the great early Classical RCA Living Stereo Albums, Mercury Living Presence, etc...
Of course, the OP did not include the 50s, but I added it.
Oh yes....I absolutely and whole-heartedly agree.
Pink∆Floyd;13301708 said:
I agree and indeed it was; anyway, I have long thought that narrow-mindedness with regard to music cut both ways; the old about the musical choices made by the young, and very much, vice versa.
That's absolutely true; indeed, classical music (not included in this post), romantic, baroque, medieval etc all have much to offer. Nonetheless, music from the first half of the 20th century has some superb stuff, and to argue that it had no influence on what followed is simply ludicrous. In fairness, the Beatles, Stones and others who followed them were very open in acknowledging the influence on their music of those who preceded them.
Cheers
No question. Like I mentioned, Lennon said that The Beatles would not have existed without Elvis. Also, McCartney says Elvis was the reason he picked up the guitar. There is no doubt that many musicians have gone out of their way to acknowledge the artists that influenced them along the way.
Ironically, Pink Floyd (the group) actually took the first names from two early blues musicians to come up with their band's name.