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Ok whats your fav music era ?

Mine is the 70's, though I don't listen to 70's that much I still think it's the best era, probably because I grew up in the 70's and that's all I heard or should I say my mum played 70's music in the 80's :D

What's your favourite then ?
 
For me it's the 90's. I'm born in 1980, so i really started listening and appreciating good music in the 90's.
 
Right now the nu-metal thing and industrial is pretty cool....

But damn, the early nineties..... wow..... all the stuff that was happening then, Nirvana, Rage against the Machine, etc......


Yeah early nineties....
 
I agree 90's was cool too :)
 
You know, I came of age in the 70s - 10 years old in 1975 - and I hated that music then and still do. All of my friends were huge Kansas/Boston/Foreigner/Styx/REO/Journey fans, and that stuff just sucked out loud when it was new and has gotten worse since. I loathe the very existence of Billy Joel and Phil Collins.

For some reason I went directly from the 60s to the 80s, which in some ways is unfortunate because I didn't discover good stuff like the Pistols or the Ramones until about 1981-2, when they were already past their heyday. I kind of went from the Beatles to the Clash by way of Led Zeppelin and the Who.

I tend to stay fairly current in my musical tastes, with certain highlights standing out, such as the aforementioned early-mid 90s.
 
Mine has to be the big hair bands. of the 80's. Not really the music now, but the memories wrapped up in the music.

Now, My main music type is 60-80's country music. Seems to help me relax and deal with Boston Commuting.

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I like the 70's too, it's one of the most creative times in all of music. The 50's had the beginnings of great music, but due to the anti-reaction of mom and apple pie, the 60's experienced a time of dampened creativity do to rampant drug use. Luckily the drug use continued into the 70's only switching from halucinogenics and barbituates (things to mellow people out.) to amphetimines. All the extra speed and energy came through in the music industry created some of the greatest music ever. Funk came into it's own, and was refined into Disco (another great genre destroyed by overindulgence and Rick Dees.) Rock saw the start of most of it's great bands, and many 60's musicians blossomed into far superior entities (Eric Clapton.)
The 80's experienced a burnout of sorts (Same drugs, but many had died, and survivors needed to do twice as much to feel half as good.), as Disco died and MTV was born. The need for bands with good looks and no talent helped bring about the 80's "synthesized" sound that we all make fun of to this day. In the 90's we rebelled against that and instead of the excesses of Reaganomics and the Glam bands (Poison and Warrant killed Rock and Roll) we saw the emergence of grunge which started off as an offshoot of punk, but has lead to the new Rock and roll style which incorporates both metal roots, and Rap. (Limp Bizkit, rage ATM, etc etc.) Now we hit the next millenium where the music industry has taken it's cue from the porn industry and is resorting the using the youngest possible men and women to sell sex as a musical alternative and calling it art. Mark my words when I say that the next big thing is going to be a select group of surviving bands from the 90's and before doing retro style music. People will have tired of the music/kiddie porn phases and will seek out substance (for a short time)

That's my thoughts on the Music industry in condensed format. :thatsodd:
 
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OK, Mr. Punisher, pretty well spoken. I have to agree with your analysis, though I have to disagree on several points.

The 50s - not a bad start but rampant commercialism actually played a big part in destroying the early beginnings of rock and roll. Knockoff vocal groups, often singing songs written by a very small group of writers and played by a very small group of musicians, led to a lukewarm blend halfway between the roots of rocakbilly/soul and the full-on commercial pop product.
The 60s were the next variety of rebelling against the previous rebels. You are correct in saying that pot/LSD played a part in ruining the music, but the directly dampened creativity was to me a side effect. Rather, artisits such as the Beatles came to realize that they could record any old crap that came into their heads, and still be popular. Thus, developing artists spent their time trying to duplicate the crap spewed from above rather than creating.

I agree with your point about funk, which has remained some of the highest-energy music ever created, and requiring incredible musicianship to write and play. Disco, however, was for people too coked out to car about anything but a bass beat, and has translated directly to the awful trance/techno/rave stuff of today. Music made to stretch your buzz just a little farther by vibrating your brain into numbness.

However, 70s rock really just can't be forgiven, with a few notable exceptions. Mostly it is pretentious, over-technical, over-slick album fodder. Mostly it served only as something for punk bands to hate, and to point them back towards a simpler, rougher form of musical energy. This process was repeated almost exactly 10 years later as Grunge grew out of the (once again) glossy slickness of the 80s.

No argument here about your analysis of the late 90s/early 00s. Spot on.

Throughout the whole time, it is a continuous process of interesting ideas being offered up and consequently exploited. Not that this is news to anybody.
 
I love the late 60s early 70s with Jimi, Sabbath, Floyd, Zeppelin, Cream and so many others. Also the early 90s with Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden...I really also love the 80s with the non-hairband (glam rock) rockers, Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, etc.
 
The reason why so many things were being covered by knockoffs in the 50's is that most rock and roll was being produced by blacks, only they generally weren't seen as marketable, so it was common to have a few members of the local glee club do a swingin' cover of a good song. Saddam Hussein could have probably made Jailhouse Rock a hit.
Not all 70's Rock was that way, most of the Punk bands (some of those were cutouts of other more vocal bands, and one big one in particular I always felt was a poser in the extreme.) were reacting to what I like to call "Groups with no talent that sing songs to get laid." Kiss is a perfect example of this type of band.
Disco ended up exactly as you say, but early on as it emerged from Funk it was definitely an evolution in the right direction. Also part of what makes some disco less objectionable is the fact that some of the greatest female singers also emerged at the time thanks to increasing womens rights and self awareness. Unluckily Disco ended up parodying itself and spun out of control with drugs and overexposed itself in movies and television.
What it really boils down to is that every era has it's good music if you look hard enough and see where the quality lies (away from mainstream when it hits full steam IMO) and there will always be that Era's version of Vanilla Ice or New Kids on the Block/Nsync/Backstreetboys/Spicegirls/Brittany Spears/Shakira/Pink/etc etc...
 
I'm not sure I can pin down a favourite era. I guess the late 80s/early 90s though if I had to pick one. That was the whole Madchester thing, and the emergence of dance music, leading through rave into the emergence of dance music as a whole industry, especially through the superclubs like Cream and The Ministry of Sound. I've never been to places like that, but I love the music. I loved the early dance music, especially the Chicago house, but I think that part of that was that there was a certain underground feel to it. The early dance tracks that we kinda chuckle at now (I'm thinking "Pump up the volume", "Insanity", "Megablast" etc) were really cool at the time, and deserve their place in history, along with the more band-like bands, such as New Order, The Happy Mondays etc.

I've always found that I have some core favourites, like U2 and Depeche Mode, and everything else is kinda transient, in-the-moment stuff. But you look at both DM and U2, and their careers are well over 20 years in duration, and that makes it tough to call a specific time in which you had your favourite music.
 
The early 90's for me. For two reasons...Sublime, and Rage Against The Machine.
 
1994 - 2002.
all that is good starts with Nirvana.

the (early) '70s aren't bad, but i find a lot more stuff i like in the mid '90s to present.
 
j2s - Nirvana didnt start in 94, thats when Kurt died, they had released 3 albums before Nevermind...
 
well id have to say 70's rock. ac/dc, the angels, skyhooks etc...
 
i typed '94...brain fart.
sorry...

what was it, like 1989?
 
Probably in '83 or '84 when Soundgarden was formed. I know there must have been a few Grunge bands before them, but they're the biggest early band.

Nirvana was formed in '87 I think, and released their first album in '89. [?]
 
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