What was the best music decade, 60's, 70', or 80's?

Music History ^ | 6/14/23 | Dallasbiff

[dfwgator]

Was that the video with Klaus Nomi in it?

What’s funny is that more people probably heard of Klaus because of Rush Limbaugh.

[Ann Archy]

You and most of these Freepers must HATE to DANCE!

[Ann Archy]

WTH is STAX?

[SamAdams76]

My list was limited to 1979 whereas "Rumours" came out in 1977. Personally I thought "Tusk" was a better album overall, especially if you were to take the best 12 of those 20 tracks.

If they had condensed "Tusk" to a single album, it would have done much better saleswise for them. A few of those Lindsey Buckingham tracks would have been better off as "B" sides or maybe held back for a solo album (which he would do a couple years later).

[dfwgator]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stax_Records

[Carriage Hill]

“I’m most comfortable with a mix of 50’s and 60’s...”

Me too.

[FreedomPoster]

Fair, I was over-focused on the decade period at the top of your post.

[Ann Archy]

Thanks....never heard of it.

[gundog]

The days of having to stay up late to watch good TV...”Don Kirchner’s Rock Concert,” “Monty Python,” “ Fernwood 2 Night”....

[SamAdams76]

I was discussing "It's All I Can Do" on Twitter just a few days ago. Definitely the top track from "Candy-O".

That song certainly does set a mood and even today brings me back to a time and place - the summer of 1979. That was the first summer I had a driver's license and I borrowed my Dad's Chrysler and cruised up and down Revere Beach with the windows down, showing off to my fellow high school students. When hearing this song, I can still almost smell the salt air and fried clams (from Kelly's Roast Beef) from those hot, muggy nights.

Another song that does that for me is "Big Log" by Robert Plant. That was a few years later (1982 or 83) but at that time, I was in the Marine Corps at 29 Palms, CA. So that song always puts me in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

[x]

The Sixties were the breakthrough decade. Rock took over and artists were doing things with it that were unthinkable before. But a lot of Sixties artists didn’t really hit their stride until the Seventies.

By the end of the Seventies, music was pretty awful — or just boring: disco, metal, “arena rock.” The Eighties brought new life back to popular music. A new generation. A New British invasion. In music and everything else they were more enjoyable and entertaining than the Seventies.

That New Wave passed with the end of the Eighties. Rock and pop would struggle on, even into the new century, but rock is dead by now. It’s become niche music, like jazz. Pop has been taken over by rap.

[Dr. Sivana]

Early 60s, meh, but 64 onwards, absolutely. Music styles literally changed by the month.

Music styles changed, but a lot of the psychodelic stuff was garbage. Just like a lot of people who had no business doing disco did disco (e.g. Elton John), a lot of name acts that had no business doing that introspective psychedelic stuff did it (e.g. Gary Lewis).

The Doors knew how to incorporate organs, but almost nobody else did. Nonetheless, we got organs. The only rubbish the Beatles made was during this period (e.g. Revolution #9, Tomorrow Never Knows, 1/4 of "The Beatles" (White Album).

Someone has to give a shout out to the early '70s Soul Music, and its lush orchestral arrangements (Barry White, Earth Wind and Fire, etc.)

Lyric writing went way down hill in the '60s when 25 year old drug heads took over from professionals.

Melody, Harmony, Rhythm. Do those, and you have music.

[Red Badger]

You are correct!

They will all be deaf as a stone from the loud crap playing in their cars and earbuds.

I was sitting next to a car at a stoplight and both his and my car windows were rolled up and I could hear his trash blaring inside MY car with the radio going and I’m nearly deaf!..............

[Gay State Conservative]

Who's Next was good but this is The Who at their very best.And it's Keith Moon at his very best as well!

[georgiarat]

I like the 70’s marginally. The early 70’s had Beatles, and individual Beatles music, continuing rock from the 60’s (who, Stones, Elvis return, Led Zeppelin) then on to the BTO, soft rock Eagles, Bee Gees, Chicago, the Disco era and finally the crossover of Country into mainstream with Kenny Rodgers, Waylon, Willie, etc.

[SamAdams76]

The Midnight Special was another one I stayed up late for.

[dfwgator]

The Who Sell Out is my favorite Who album.

[SamAdams76]

You are probably thinking of "TVC15"

I remember Klaus being SNL or some other late night show with Bowie doing that number.

[gundog]

Yeah. It felt kind of subversive staying up late to watch some stuff. Even SNL, in the early days. VCRs were only in schools.

[dfwgator]

The day is coming when folks will generate their own music using AI.