Worst decade for music?

[乳头的早餐谷物]

Fuck the seventies and all the classic rock losers who place it on a pedestal.

[Donfuy]

This is the most horrible topic ever.

I refuse to answer.

[Vyacheslav]

1950s cause at least the late 60s had Black Sabbath.

/metal

[SlappyMcGee]

This is a difficult question. I suspect, for me, it is the 1950s, as that is so removed from my frame of popular music, however; I love the Jazz that came out of that era. And despite some major highlights in indie rock in the 1980s, the popular music was nearly intolerable, bar She's Blinding Me With Science. So I voted for the eighties.

[toasters]

This is a difficult question. I suspect, for me, it is the 1950s, as that is so removed from my frame of popular music, however; I love the Jazz that came out of that era. And despite some major highlights in indie rock in the 1980s, the popular music was nearly intolerable, bar She's Blinding Me With Science. So I voted for the eighties.

Really? I think there was lots of good 80's music. I'd go with the 50's.

[yahoozy]

70s!

[Kablizzy]

The 80s was *easily* the best. If we've all learned anything from the past seven years here, it's that SlappyMcGee has a hard time with taste in film and music. The worst? Probably the 1470s. Post-Gregorian Chant, and right before the Renaissance's heyday, I can't imagine anything good coming out of the 1470s.

[Pheidippides]

The worst? Probably the 1470s. Post-Gregorian Chant, and right before the Renaissance's heyday, I can't imagine anything good coming out of the 1470s.

Hahaha. Oh, Blizz, you can always make me chuckle.

I wanna vote for the 1950s, but I'm not as familiar with music from that decade as I am with the music of other decades, so I don't think that would be fair. My next pick would be the 2000s.

[Kablizzy]

Yeah, the past decade was pretty shit for music.

[otters~1]

Depends if I need to give the '50s credit for inspiring every other decade of music in some way. Wait, no it doesn't.

'70s. Hands down.

[unoriginal name]

The '50s were excellent due to jazz and John Cage. The '60s were excellent because of psych and AMM. The '70s were excellent due to free jazz and Keiji Haino. The '80s were excellent due to power electronics and Swans. The '90s were excellent due to post-hardcore and Sachiko M. The '00s were excellent due to eai and LHD.

'70s.

[Vyacheslav]

gloomp is right, about John Cage, but I think he is the only good thing that came out of the 1950s. I don't care for jazz music.

[unoriginal name]

gloomp is right, about John Cage, but I think he is the only good thing that came out of the 1950s. I don't care for jazz music.

Really? What about Karlheinz Stockhausen? La Monte Young? Cornelius Cardew? There's more composers who produced important work around then than Cage, is my point.

Also, your loss.

[Tanner]

This is a silly topic.

[squibbles]

It's a hard one to say, I reckon. I think it's either the 90's or the 00's, and to be honest, while this decade's mainstream has been pretty terrible, there has been a really good amount of high quality stuff out of the mainstream.

I think I'm going to have to say 90's, and here's my one word justification.

Aqua.

[scythe]

This is the most horrible topic ever.

I refuse to answer.

For once, I agree with Donfuy.

[Lenny]

The worst? Probably the 1470s. Post-Gregorian Chant, and right before the Renaissance's heyday, I can't imagine anything good coming out of the 1470s.

It's true. All of the good polyphony came from 1550-1750, and there isn't much before that which is fun to listen to (that being said, take a gander at the Epitaph of Seikilos, though that's quite a bit before the 1500s).

On topic, I put my vote to the 1950s. That was before the Beatles and all other artists who fell into the nice pre-Disney Pop genre of music, and I don't think I listen to any soundtracks from the 50s either (except for Ben-Hur and some other Rosza stuff). So, yeah, '50s it is.

[mediate]

I'm a metalhead. I'll put it this way: the 80's gave us thrash, death metal, and power metal, 3 of my favorites. the 70's and 60's gave us metal in its earliest form (Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, AC/DC to name a few). The 2000's gave us nu metal and alternative forms of metal. The 90's gave us black metal. I can't say I hate anything from that. But, if anything, I'll give it to the 90's. Why? Because I can, that's why. Actually, it's because music began to suck around that time, with the mainstream ubiquity of industrial rock and metal. Glam, I can tolerate. But industrial borders on not being music anymore. I realize that this will anger some, so I apologize in advance.

[Tanner]

You heard the man. Music, all of it, began to suck in the 90's. It's all downhill from here.

[Vyacheslav]

Correction: 80s gave us black metal. Mayhem, Venom, etc.

[SlappyMcGee]

The 90s were huge for metal. HUGGGGGE

[bobaganuesh_2]

It's a hard one to say, I reckon. I think it's either the 90's or the 00's, and to be honest, while this decade's mainstream has been pretty terrible, there has been a really good amount of high quality stuff out of the mainstream.

I think I'm going to have to say 90's, and here's my one word justification.

Aqua.

counter-point:

Warp Records

Also, the 90s was the golden age of hip-hop. Eric B. & Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest, 2pac, Jurassic 5, Nas, KRS-One, all of the good stuff from the genre came from that decade.

[unoriginal name]

I'm a metalhead. I'll put it this way: the 80's gave us thrash, death metal, and power metal, 3 of my favorites. the 70's and 60's gave us metal in its earliest form (Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, AC/DC to name a few). The 2000's gave us nu metal and alternative forms of metal. The 90's gave us black metal. I can't say I hate anything from that. But, if anything, I'll give it to the 90's. Why? Because I can, that's why. Actually, it's because music began to suck around that time, with the mainstream ubiquity of industrial rock and metal. Glam, I can tolerate. But industrial borders on not being music anymore. I realize that this will anger some, so I apologize in advance.

I used to like you, man. :(

[Vyacheslav]

Industrial metal? KMFDM? Rammstein? How 'bout some Ministry? Those were the shit!

Ministry spanned from the 80s to the 2000s, but most of their famous work, like L.O.R.A.H., Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste, and Psalm 69 came in 86, 88, 92.

[Tanner]

Also, the 90s was the golden age of hip-hop. Eric B. & Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest, 2pac, Jurassic 5, Nas, KRS-One, all of the good stuff from the genre came from that decade.

If your use of the word "all" was just rhetoric then I agree with you. There's still plenty of good stuff coming out of hiphop today.