Favorite decade of music?

[Knight]

What would be your favorite decade of music? Give your top two, and your favorite bands/albums/songs from those eras. For me it would be 80's with Tears for Fears, Duran Duran, Toto, and Van Halen. Second would be 00's (now) with bands like coldplay, Green day, and Linkin park.

[no-Name]

Second would be 00's (now) with bands like coldplay, Green day, and Linkin park. :[ Same era, different reasons.

[Tarsier]

I chose 90s cause Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Autechre.

[Invader]

I'm personally excluding the 2000 era in my vote, being that nothing compares to the diversity available today. That said, I'm for the 90's. Spoiler for Durr: And who could forget Haddaway's "What is Love?"? Heh..

[Shift]

90s fo sho

[mini0991]

90s all the way. Can't beat such legends as Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Counting Crows, the list goes on.

[Shift]

I'll specify by saying I have reasons similar but not limited to Tarsy. Not to mention lmao So I don't like 90s music for a few bands, but because there are just a ton ton ton of songs from it that I love, even if I actually hated their bands. Also movies which => songs. I really like a lot from the 80s and 2000s, but not as much as the 90s. 1985-2005 was perfect.. Except for some of Hans Zimmer's stuff which is a bit newer <3

[mini0991]

Once crunk came, music agonizingly died. Taylor Swift's same two love songs over and over again isn't helping things either.

[CRAZY BONE]

50s for Ray Charles 60s for Motown 70s for Jimi Hendrix 80s for pop 90s for rap 00s for ................. Hannah Montana?

[C-Fonz]

I gotta go with 00's Emarosa, Dance Gavin Dance, A Day to Remember, The Devil Wears Prada, Circa Survive, August Burns Red, Closure in Moscow....there are so many damn good bands out these days.

[Abra]

I'm going to have to go for 2000 B.C. Drum beats and pan flutes, played only live and by the hearthfire.

[guitarboy]

90s, 60s, and classical music are closely tied.

[Knight]

I am surprised their are a lot of 90's lovers. Ill have to check more of that music out and give it another chance.

[Xei]

Either 60s because of The Beatles or the 90s because of Radiohead, the La's, the Stone Roses, and My Bloody Valentine. There's a lot of complainers about the 90s, but these complaints seem to assume '90s music' is equivalent to Eurotrash... the 90s were actually very good musically.

[Maria92]

60's and 70's, ftw! The Bee Gees, Pink Floyd...the golden era of music, for sure.

[DeeryTheDeer]

80s by a mile. So much diversity it's crazy. You've got everything from Van Halen to Styx to Depeche Mode to Tears For Fears to Phil Collins to Madonna.... and much more. 80s has the most music that I love to listen to.

[Kiza]

70s for Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Yes, Rush, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, The Ramones, The Clash and a whole multitude of others. Closely followed by the 90s.

[Lseadragon]

I chose the 90s for the electronic music it created, but the 70s have far superior rock music. So I am conflicted.

[Taosaur]

A lot of the best music I've discovered so far happened in the 70s or 90s, but there's a ton of great stuff in the 60s, 80s, and right now as well. I don't think it's so much a matter of when the best music was being made as when good music was able to break into the mainstream, and/or what subcultures you followed in any given decade. A lot of the music I really love best started in the 70s, 80s or 90s and is still going strong

[GestaltAlteration]

A lot of people remember the music in their college years. For me that coorisponds with the 00's. Excluding most music played on the radio, unfortunantly.

[grasshoppa]

70's is overrated. 90's was amazing. But these are the two greatest decades in music history imo.

[Supernova]

Call me a hippie, but to me, 60's and 70's were the best years of music, no question. I mean, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, EDIT: The Who,[/edit] come on! 00's does have some good bands, Tool, DMB, some others.

[Lëzen]

Definitely the late 70's and the 80's. Despite all the shitty hair metal bands that popped up in this era, these decades also gave rise to thrash metal, and for that, I am eternally grateful. Austin Powers: "The 70's and the 80's? You're not missing anything, there's a gas shortage and a flock of seagulls - that's about it." Me: "WRONG, you wannabe Brit. There was metal. Lots and lots of METAL. These decades saw the rise of Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, just to name a bare few." Austin Powers: "Well, I suppose I didn't know that!" Me: "Well now you know...and knowing is half the battle."

[Universal Mind]

There was a musical Renaissance that lasted from about 1966 to about 1979, and it happened in the wake of the aesthetic influence created by The Beatles. I really mean "Renaissance". The music from that period is hands down the greatest music ever recorded. Because most of that music came out in the 70's, I vote 70's first and 60's second.

[CoLd BlooDed]

50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s are all my favourites. Seriously, though, each era has its own defining statement that correlated with the progression of our society and culture... the evolution of music and the effect its had is just incredible.