when was the best decade for music?

holmeboy

When was the best decade for music? Sitting here listening to big 500 hits of the 60's to 80's, there's some absolute classics!

geoff_ss

Not sure when Schubert was writing the music for all the huge number of songs but sometime in mid 19th century.

Geoff

holmeboy

Geoff_SS wrote:

Not sure when Schubert was writing the music for all the huge number of songs but sometime in mid 19th century.

Geoff

How OLD are you?

geoff_ss

Well, I was being slightly facetious because I also rather like Mahler and Richard Strauss and they are early 20th century composers. Schubert and Schumann are my favourites though.

Pop music? I lost interest in the 50s when I was at school and now it's mere nostalgia although Tom Lehrer and Stan Freberg still appeal.

btw I'll be 70 in January but I've been indifferent to pop/rock music for a very long time.

Geoff

holmeboy

Wild Thing has just come on, troggs. Come on how can anybody be indifferent to that? Have a few drinks and put it on!

Ph!l_GeeWhizz

Its a toss up between the 70's and 80's for me. Some people say i was born 10 years to late with my taste in music.

hopper1

Personally, I couldn't choose a particular decade.
Each one since the 60's holds something special to me...

geoff_ss

OK try this for sheer excitement. It's not really kosher because it was written for piano but this orchestration is electric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdhRYMY6IEc

Geoff

holmeboy

Geoff_SS wrote:

OK try this for sheer excitement. It's not really kosher because it was written for piano but this orchestration is electric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdhRYMY6IEc

Geoff

Wait till who the f£%k is Alice finishes

holmeboy

Geoff_SS wrote:

OK try this for sheer excitement. It's not really kosher because it was written for piano but this orchestration is electric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdhRYMY6IEc

Geoff

Very good, can apprieciate the power and the passion and that woman can sing! Liked the intro and the climax but it just does't do it for me, maybe it's an age thing, I'll listen to it again and maybe it'll grow on me. you never know!

cheers.

Jez mon

Quite simply everything from the 60s onwards has had some right gems, it would be impossible for me to pick one decade as the best.

However, if I could only keep one decades music, it would probably be the 80s because of Master of Puppets.

stigofthedump

1977 to 1987
Stranglers
Elvis Costello
The Smiths
Who could ask for anything more?

Anonymous

Now is the best time for music.

Because you have the preceding centuries to choose from!

Bhima

Funk & Jazz - 60s
Hip Hop/DJs - 70s
House/Techno/Madchester Movement - 80s
House/ Techno/Drum n Bass - 90s
Ambient/Experimental/Jazz - 00s

Music's Technology is becoming so accessible these days, what was very diffcult to do years ago can now be done in seconds. This can only be a good thing for creativity. The technology is becoming so advanced, I wouldn't be suprised if telepathy replaced digital radio in 20 years time.

pedylan

Can't really choose, there's been good music in all of the decades from the 60's as far as I'm concerned. I do though cling to a lot of 70's prog rock.

Picking up on Geoff_ss and the introduction of wider classical appeal. I found a quite astonishing little specialist canon on Spotify. If you haven't heard Stairway to Heaven sung as a Gregorian chant you have not experienced everything music has to offer. Abba's back catologue is on there too. Dancing Queen :shock:

Try this as an introduction from you tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGv97-9N5rc

You can have Hey Jude, Bridge over Troubled Water, Wish You Were Here.

Don't OD!

skyd0g

I tried the Gregorian Chant thing...
...didn't really do it for me, I'm afraid... ...not least because the lead singer looks as if he's forgotten to put a saddle on his seat post one too many times. :shock:

sonicred007

There needs to be a cap on new music as there's too much of the stuff

Every decade has it's moments... I think 2000-09 is the worst for popular music, but that doesn't mean that stuff off the radar wasn't brilliant.... I'm just not part of the in crowd

Love Bob Seger, Sonic Youth, Slayer, Misfits, Crass, Raspberries, Beatles, The Who, The Sonics, Marmalade, Neil Young, MBV, Public Enemy et al on any given day... I think that cover 60-2010

Jez mon

Tried the Gregorian chant, and well same result as skyd0g, it didn't really rock me! I just don't think it benefits from the "epicness" of the Gregorian choir.

That's not to say that I don't think heavy rock and orchestras/choirs mix well, but for me the songs have to be rather more full on than stairway. For example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss5KoCTCQtE

markos1963

There is only good music or bad, my late father (who was a pro jazz musician) taught me that. It doesn't matter which decade/century it came from as long as it represents the best of the genre then its worth listening to. My collection has rock,jazz,punk,classical,country,pop,funk,indie, in fact any style of music.

shouldbeinbed

stigofthedump wrote:

1977 to 1987
Stranglers
Elvis Costello
The Smiths
Who could ask for anything more?

Aye - Late 70's early 80's when I was getting into music.

I'd ask for The Specials, Madness, The Clash & The Housemartins and can take or leave The Smiths

I've got everything from Classical to Florence & the Machine on my mp3 so this and the preceeding milennium do it for me.

anything Ska'y will do it for me from whenever it was made

To open a side issue The Stones rocked, the Beatles were pants (give or take one odd decent song)

desweller

Gotta say, Beethoven's sixth does it for me every time.

Best for pop/rock though, 70s - all the ideas of the 60s, refined.

Frank the tank

The thing is with this topic is, when you listen to compilations of previous decades' music all the sh1t has been filtered out over the years so only the decent tracks are left and this distorts the reality of the period.

I loved Jazz/funk, jazz, disco, funk, heavy funk in the late seventies early eighties but when I listen to some of it now it's really crap.

As I've grown older my music tastes have really diversified and IMHO I couldn't say which was the best decade for music. Look at the 60's came in with Frank sinatra etal and left with Jimmy Hendrix, how different are they.

ridelikeapro

Hey dude -

There's no better decade than the 60's... just check out the all time classic
Wooly Bully by Sam The Sham & The Pharoes.
This is regarded by many as the world's best tune!!!

You can hear a sample clip (and a few other great 60's samples) at :-
http://www.gregarios.co.uk/cycling_club ... p_ten.html

ciao

deptfordmarmoset

ridelikeapro wrote:

Hey dude -

There's no better decade than the 60's... just check out the all time classic
Wooly Bully by Sam The Sham & The Pharoes.
This is regarded by many as the world's best tune!!!

You can hear a sample clip (and a few other great 60's samples) at :-
http://www.gregarios.co.uk/cycling_club ... p_ten.html

ciao

My favourite ever version of this song was performed by 2 inebriated French expats in a pub in Deptford to the words ''Rouler bourré.''

For many people though the best decade was their 20s, or anything later that takes them back to that period in their lives.

Crapaud

pedylan wrote:

Can't really choose, there's been good music in all of the decades from the 60's as far as I'm concerned. I do though cling to a lot of 70's prog rock.

Picking up on Geoff_ss and the introduction of wider classical appeal. I found a quite astonishing little specialist canon on Spotify. If you haven't heard Stairway to Heaven sung as a Gregorian chant you have not experienced everything music has to offer. Abba's back catologue is on there too. Dancing Queen :shock:

Try this as an introduction from you tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGv97-9N5rc

You can have Hey Jude, Bridge over Troubled Water, Wish You Were Here.

Don't OD!

For a bit of perspective:

Stairway to Heaven, Rolf Harris

Stairway to Heaven, the Beatnix

Stairway to Heaven, on the harp.

Stairway to Heaven, London Philharmonic Orchestra (version for Geoff)

It's entirely possible that I'm the only one not to have made a version of it. Must go and warm up the spoons!

crankycrank

For me it's the 60's but it seems to be the decade when we reached puberty that most consider the "best". Nothing like a good tune to provide an outlet for those raging hormones and acne prevention.

Frank the tank

I must say I'm always been a souly at heart of the northern variety in particular. But my varied taste comes from having a sister 15yrs my senior so I grew up eith a rock&roll influence and a lot of sixties sounds. My dad also had a lot of 78's and my elder brother got me into northern. Now my taste buds are being tantilised by stuff my daughter listens to.

jc4lab

The long hair era for me...head banging to Freebird was my fav..Its.Rock of the late sixties and prog rock in the sevetiies for me..Looking like .Paul Rogders in Bad Company .& the more recent David Coverdale once made you a babe magnet ..