Posted on 06/14/2023 7:36:06 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Official Music Video for It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) performed by R.E.M.
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All amazing. All good. Depends on the day and the mood for me. Sixties really didn’t start until the Beatles in 1964.
Hard Rock: 70s
Punk & Rap: 80s
Electronic: 90s
Everything after is pretty much overengineered trite garbage, but I'm old so what do I know about modern music. Get off my lawn!
LOL!
I would tend to agree but...with the technological advancements and the shear talent using it and FM radio exploding...I'd have to go with the 70s.
I graduated from high school in 1965, but grew up in the 50’s, so listen to music from that time as well. I’d say the 50’s and the 60’s. Anything after that went downhill with the rest of the country.
I prefer 1721. Bach was rocking the charts. :)Yeah, yeah, Magnificat was all that, but Come On, Man!
Agreed.
I couldn’t pick a single decade. But 76 to 82 for me. No contest.
The late 70s and early 80s were astounding for the innovation and variety.
That period totally revived concept albums, and classical and instrumental music, especially with film and TV scores. John Williams. Harold Faltermeyer. Jean Michel Jarre. Jan Hammer. Clannad. Mike Oldfield. Andrew and Julian Lloyd Webber.
The technical effort and originality behind some of the music of that short period is unsurpassed. Vangelis, OMD, Bee Gees. Donna Summer. Kraftwerk. Eurythmics. Pink Floyd. Dire Straits. Abba.
The Blitz Club regulars: David Bowie, Spandau Ballet, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Ultravox and Visage. The cloakroom attendant was Boy George...
Hot Chocolate, Fat Larry’s Band, Bananarama, Bucks Fizz. Blondie. Early Madonna.
Novelty records? Buggles, Adam and the Ants, Tight Fit, Kid Creole & the Coconuts. Toni Basil, Aneka, Kelly Marie. Boney M.
Music videos. Peter Gabriel. Michael Jackson. Queen (Radio Gaga). Aha (Take On Me), Art of Noise (the animated close to the edit).
Ska: Fun Boy Three, Madness, 2 Tone, Bad Manners, Ian Dury and the Blockheads.
I went to a girl’s birthday party and her parents had professional breakdancers. So, I can’t leave out the dance crazes. From ballroom to moshing to disco to robot dancing to breakdancing.
Probably not even covered half of what made that period brilliant.
Ian Drury and the Blockheads were great.
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Hit Me, Hit Me...
I’ve started listening to a lot of Airchecks from the late 60s, early 70s, and gained an appreciation of the Top 40 songs from that era, a lot of songs I hadn’t even heard in like 50 years.
It’s good to be a lunatic!
The Doors first and second albums both came out within months of each other in 1967.
One of the best all-time TV live performances, ever.
Devo - Uncontrollable Urge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTNGg0Tj5Aw
Devo could rock, when they wanted to.
It’s hard to neatly shoehorn into a particular decade like that. I would say the years between 1964 and 1974 were the best.
Casey Kasem’s got nothing on you !!
Love to listen to the old radio shows from the 70s. So much trivia in there. Fun to hear things like ‘The Beatles, that came on the scene ten years ago ...’
Absolutely! Forgot about Kraftwerk. The radio station in Athens GA (UGA) played Autobahn for 24 straight hours on April .Fool’s day after the album came out.
1965 - 1975.
Your mention of Vangelis reminds me that late 70’s to early 80’s was also a really good time for movies.
To me, for music, the basic span goes from the Beatles’ Revolver (or maybe Rubber Soul) album out to Radiohead’s OK Computer, with a massive creative peak centered around 1970 and a second smaller peak around 1980. IOW the graph is a double humper. 2000 onward is basically flatline with a few minor blips here and there.
I’d admit this view may be a little too rock centric in that it misses early Motown and definitely misses the amazing jazz music of the late fifties and early 60’s.
The best decade for music was the 1920’s, followed by the 1930’s.
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