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View Poll Results: what decade produced the best music?
00's 0 0%
90's 9 18.75%
80's 12 25.00%
70's 16 33.33%
60's 6 12.50%
50's 3 6.25%
40's 1 2.08%
other.............man you must be old. 1 2.08%
Voters: 48. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-12-2008, 08:09 PM
 
Location: Kirkwood, DE and beautiful SXM!
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Music is generational. Hard to select a particular decade, but I would say for me it's the late 60s.
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Old 09-13-2008, 10:15 AM
 
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For me it will always be the 80's !!!!!!!

I was a kid and teen in the 70's and love all those Classic Rockers and we all Smoked Dope and Popped Qualudes and watched Cheech and Chong .....but it was a depressing decade. We lost Vietnam, our President (Nixon) resigned from office, we had an oil embargo against us, the Soviet Union and Cuba threatened to Nuke us, Iran took our embassy staff as hostages, awful tv shows like ''The Love Boat''...etc...as no wonder why we smoked so much and listened to Black Sabbath.

So when the 80's came on we had a new sense of purpose and our new Prez Reagan (love him or hate him) gave us hope again and this new style of Music Television Videos MTV came unto the scene along with new Genre's like New Wave, Pop and Glam Metal were so upbeat and fun. Even Country Western changed from 60's/70's Honky Tonk music to a more upbeat fun music style when the movie Urban Cowboy came out in 1980.

I 'll always love the 80's !!!!!!!!

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Old 09-13-2008, 10:38 AM
 
Location: West Texas
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Without a doubt it was the 70s. Music just seemed to explode in different directions, R&B, funk, Rock, Pop, Disco, Folk, Country there was something for everyone.
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Old 09-13-2008, 04:18 PM
 
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I'd say the 90's are my favorite because of:

Grunge/Seattle scene: Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam

Good quality Hard rock bands that are still favorites started to catch on: Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, Placebo, and The Tea Party

Good indie/alternative: Failure, Far, Quicksand, Chavez, Shiner, Jawbox, Afghan Whigs, Slint, Hum, Hayden, Lusk, Blinker The Star, and The Casket Lottery.


I reallly enjoy the 80's and it's my second favorite. Love that timeperiod.
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Old 09-13-2008, 07:46 PM
 
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quote=square peg;5244011]For ten good years I would take 1965 - 1975, which covers most of the British invasion through the best of the early prog era. Choosing one decade alone, It's gotta be the 60s with a very honorable mention for the 40s.
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!00% agree!!!!!!!!
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Old 09-14-2008, 01:29 AM
 
Location: In the Land of Rock!
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I'd have to vote for the 70s & the 80s - I barely listened to radio in the 90s, so I missed a lot of what was happening in that decade!
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Old 09-15-2008, 09:20 PM
 
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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Late 60s, early 70's
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Old 09-15-2008, 10:37 PM
 
Location: Northridge/Porter Ranch, Calif.
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1950s, then 1960s, then 1970s.
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Old 09-15-2008, 11:20 PM
 
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The 80s...the era when music went one way, and radio went the other.

On the radio was crap like Whitesnake, Deaf Leopard, Micheal Jackson etc...

Music? Dead Can Dance, Depeche Mode, Sisters of Mercy, Souxsie and the Banshees, KMFDM, Revolting *****, Fields of the Nephilim, Echo and the Bunnymen, the English Beat, Psychedilic Furs, Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Cocteau Twins, etc etc etc...


A great age for music!...for the record, I'm only 27, and was still in diapers when these bands first came out, but still, a great era is a great era.

Also, I would say the president day should get props too...but like I said, radio has gone one way, music? That's gone another
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Old 09-16-2008, 06:06 AM
 
Location: Sweden
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80s
70s
50s
40s
60s as long as it´s not related to any british invasion type of music.
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