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It was the late 50's and 60's when the music revolution started ... as a little kid I remember my older sister listening to Patti Page (Tennessee Waltz/How Much Is That Doggie In The Window)... The Andrews sisters ... whoever did Harbor Lights and Dark Moon ... all this was mellow flowing harmony la la la la songs ...
And then ... yes and then ... the revolution started ... 1955 Bill Haley & His Comets shocked the music world with "Rock Around the Clock" ... in 1956 Elvis appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and the camera was only allowed to show him from the waist up ... he became known then as Elvis the Pelvis (before he became The King) ... in the churches pastors were preaching hell fire and damnation of Rock 'n Roll music ... doom and destruction for the youth of America ... but Rock and Roll was definitely here to stay and the young people loved it!
Chuck Berry's first hit "Maybellene" hit the charts in 1958 ... Buddy Holly and the Crickets 1957 "That'll Be The Day" ... Richie Valens ... Little Richard ... Jerry Lee Lewis ... 1957 Motown's Berry Gordy brought us The Four Tops, Jackie Wilson, The Temptations and so many many more ... all of these pioneers opened the door for the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, ZZ Top ... and so it continued to what we have today thanks to those pioneers of the late '50's and '60's.
Although my favorite era for music was 1964 to 1974, Carolina Woman makes a strong case for the 50's-early 60's. The one thing that really is the signature trait of early RandB and the doo w*p sound is one thing-harmony. I grew up in both eras and love both eras.
Musically, I like a little bit of everything-take that back a lot of everything. While I do put the brakes on some fields of music, I always find some great recordings I was not aware of released decades ago, particularly in the jazz and country field. My Mom loved jazz, big band, and pop; Dad was as hardcore country as one could be. The way I look at it, I'll be buying and playing tunes until I keel over!
What would you consider it being the last great year of the 1990s music?
I say early 1992 was the year that music was still interesting like the 80's. Then it went downhill from there. Grunge rock and Gangsta Hip Hop became too big with people. Also MTV and radio stations formats change to accommodate those two styles of music. Or maybe was the other way around. Where I was in the Philadelphia area, the Pop or diverse radio stations just disappear overnight. Like some producers decided to turn off their switch! Then you just had to settle with either Hip Hop stations or some Rock-Alternative-Grunge radio stations with so much repetitions of songs. Agonizing times for me.
My knee-jerk response would be the 80s -- gracefully aging New Waver that I am -- but really thinking about it, popular music re-defined itself and came of age in the 1930s as radios and records became more affordable and widespread. The popularity of jazz, blues and bluegrass laid the foundation for rock 'n' roll to come.
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Where I was in the Philadelphia area, the Pop or diverse radio stations just disappear overnight. Like some producers decided to turn off their switch! Then you just had to settle with either Hip Hop stations or some Rock-Alternative-Grunge radio stations with so much repetitions of songs. 
Agonizing times for me.
