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What was the best music decade, 60's, 70', or 80's?
Music History ^ | 6/14/23 | Dallasbiff

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 1980s; history; music; vanity
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To: Trumpet 1

Mid 70s, the Corporations and the A&R men took over.


21 posted on 06/14/2023 7:47:55 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

No 50s option?

*spit*


22 posted on 06/14/2023 7:48:44 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: DallasBiff

70’s...not even close

Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin

and there was also the Moody Blues, Yes, Genesis Queen, the Stone, the Who and on and on and on


23 posted on 06/14/2023 7:49:18 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: DallasBiff

Grew up in the 60s. Loved Cream, The Doors, The Who, and Hendrix. Beatles were good. Too young for Woodstock by a year or two (although an older friend of mine did go with her big sister).

Was in college in the 70s. I enjoyed Grand Funk Railroad and Edgar Winter’s White Trash. Didn’t think much of disco.

Got married in the 80s. Liked Van Halen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, ZZ Top and Aerosmith.


24 posted on 06/14/2023 7:50:18 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." - Kahlil Gibran)
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To: DallasBiff

‘66 to ‘81.

But lots of flotsam in there too.


25 posted on 06/14/2023 7:50:26 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DallasBiff

50’s and 60’s. Hands down. And I grew up in the 80’s.


26 posted on 06/14/2023 7:51:05 AM PDT by dragonblustar (They have conquered Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony….. Revelation 12:11)
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To: discostu

71 was the best year for albums.

Led Zeppelin IV
Who’s Next
Sticky Fingers
Hunky Dory
Aqualung
At Fillmore East (Allman Brothers)
The Yes Album


27 posted on 06/14/2023 7:51:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

The 1990’s.


28 posted on 06/14/2023 7:52:25 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

“The 60’s by a wide margin.”

Yep. What came in the 70’s came from the 60’s. The 80’s were great for fun hair band stuff, but really not musically talented stuff.


29 posted on 06/14/2023 7:52:32 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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It’s like asking what was your favorite SNL cast—it all has to do what years were you in your prime listening/watching years.

I grew up in the 60’s, was a teen in the 70’s, and college, early grown up in the 80’s. So those are the sweet spots for me.

I like some music from the 90’s and early 2000’s because I was on the road so much. After that I got Sat radio.

Today’s much is so damned sad and angry that I don’t listen much. Rap, per se, isn’t the problem; early hip hop/rap was fun. Today it’s raw, stupid, and hateful. Even country music is kind of crap now.


30 posted on 06/14/2023 7:53:10 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Trumpet 1
The Almond Brothers were huge! They even had a candy bar named in their honour!


31 posted on 06/14/2023 7:54:16 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Bonemaker

The 1960s where Motown met the Swampers…


32 posted on 06/14/2023 7:54:34 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. )
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To: SamAdams76

I agree 188%.

The 70s started good with the carry-over from the 60s. By ‘74 things were sounding bleak with a lot of commercial paint-by-numbers music.

Then, starting in ‘77 new acts came along with real creativity.


33 posted on 06/14/2023 7:54:41 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: DallasBiff
    Definitely not the 80s
  1. A combination of the late 60s and early 70s
  2. Hard drugs (mostly cocaine (in all its forms), heroin, and amphetamimes) destroyed the musicians, the audience, and the music.

34 posted on 06/14/2023 7:54:51 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: Red Badger

Millennials don’t like hip hop really. They are into emo-rap, crunk-core, emo-core etc... Millennials and zoomers love to be very specific about their music genres and taste.


35 posted on 06/14/2023 7:54:58 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: SamAdams76
Great post. If you were ten years older you might think a bit differently.

The way I look at it, I just go back to the rock & roll bands that get heavily played in my iTunes rotation. It seems like almost every one of them had their best records released in a period that spanned the late 60s through the late 70s:

Led Zeppelin IV
Bob Seger's "Night Moves"
"Idlewild South" and "At Fillmore East" by the Allman Brothers
"Eagles Greatest Hits"
Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon"
"Who's Next"
"Exile on Main Street" by the Rolling Stones
Etc., etc.

36 posted on 06/14/2023 7:55:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: DallasBiff

Looking back, the 60s is starting to sound the same (British Invasion). The 70s has much more variey and most od the stars of the 60s.


37 posted on 06/14/2023 7:55:51 AM PDT by Dansong
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To: Vermont Lt

If I hear anything made after 2000, I couldn’t tell you what year it was made.

With the 60s, I could tell you not only the year, but literally the month it came out, based on the sound.


38 posted on 06/14/2023 7:56:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: xp38

Funny you should mention that. The band originally called themselves the Allman Joys, but they changed it due to concerns about copyright infringement. LOL.


39 posted on 06/14/2023 7:56:29 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: DallasBiff

For me I was a kid the 60s and not that into music so 60s were “oldies” music like Elvis and the Beatles. (I’ve come to appreciate both much more as an adult.)

70’s were Jr. High and High School, and classic rock was my preferred music. I HATED DISCO...

80s were my Air Force and subsequently my college years, living on my own, driving my own car, living my own life. It was also the dawn of MTV and I watched it constantly so it really influenced my music choices.

I’d say the early to mid 80s music were the best, but heavily influenced by those early MTV Music Video days.


40 posted on 06/14/2023 7:56:36 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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