[Oztrich Boy]

One word: Disco!

[InvisibleChurch]

The Beatles and Jethro Tull are all you need.

[erod]

For rock the 1960s was the absolute best decade even Zeppelin released their first album in 1969.

[Lazlo in PA]

You betcha.

[MrEdd]

No. the 70’s were too controlled by big corporations, and that limited what types of music were promoted and largely produced.

Today is actually a much better time for music, but It is incumbent on the listener to search the Internet to find artists they like - radio as a portal to new music is dead.

[razbinn]

I vote 1928 - 1938....fabulous

[DuncanWaring]

You weren’t around for the ‘70s, were you?

[JimRed]

No. The ‘50s were better.

[Bryanw92]

Late 70’s/Early 80’s music is the best. It’s happy, because it was decade of happiness. Vietnam was over. The Civil Rights fight was won. AIDS wasn’t discovered yet. The flying car was only 20 years away (LOL). The news was only one hour a day, so there wasn’t time to obsess on every “crisis”. The miserable angst and anger-filled crap from the beginning of grunge and rap until today just makes you want to kill yourself. 70’s music made you want to have fun and live.

[peyton randolph]

Eagles, CCR, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[cripplecreek]

KC and the sunshine band?

[Renegade]

70’s-80’s SUCKED! 50’s-60’s RULE!

[napscoordinator]

No way. 80’s and today are pretty good.

[righttackle44]

How do you spell har-de-har-har-har?

[max americana]

I prefer the 80’s. Even with the advent of the British New wave in The Cure, Thompson Twins (eyes looking up), it was later remedied with the take-no-prisoners mentality of heavy metal with Guns N Roses, Metallica and Megadeth.

[cyclotic]

I just had this conversation yesterday. Music was almost all memorable. My daughter signed up for “free” downloads with a new laptop not realizing that she had committed to a montly charge till we cancelled. Since we had to burn up $35.00 in downloads this month, I took a look at Top 40 lists for the early ‘70’s. I recognized every song and downloaded about 100 of them.

The amazing difference is in R&B/Soul music. Black musicians were so incredibly talented back then. Motown and the Philadelphia sound were phenominal. Today’s talent is competely covered up by electronics, thumps and sampling (of 70’s musicians)

[Daveinyork]

Platform shoes, polyester body shirts, leisure suits, and play that funky music white boy.

[DeFault User]

IMHO, the past 25 years for music has been like Obamacare, a few jelly beans in a big bucket of horse manure.

[RangerM]

Based on what seems to be popular today, I’d say the song-writing was absolutely better back then.

If you listen to today’s music (the songs that contain music and not a series of thump-beats) you can often hear melodies recorded in the ‘70s.

[Defiant]

Rather than draw artificial lines at years that end in 0, and using 10 years as an arbitrary period of time, I would suggest that 1964-1973 was the most innovative period in rock history.