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Post by BiteUrLip on Jan 23, 2018 18:02:53 GMT
This one's interesting - I have sometimes thought about the decades and how does each offer musically, but never talked about it. Now here's a poll so you can show which one you love the most!
Mine is 80's.
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Post by dougs on Jan 23, 2018 18:42:02 GMT
Favourite decade musically - great question!
I know that I'll question myself on my choice (60s vs. 70s) but I chose the 70s.
The 70s had lots of: * Motown (I know, the 60s had tons of Motown!) * R&B * Soul * Pop * Rock * Progressive rock * Singer-songwriters * Metal * Disco * Punk * New Wave
The 70s had everything from The Temptations & Stevie Wonder to Al Green & The Spinners to Isaac Hayes & The Stylistics to Led Zeppelin & AC DC to Pink Floyd & Yes to James Taylor & Gordon Lightfoot to the Eagles & Fleetwood Mac to ABBA & the Bee Gees to the Sex Pistols & Elvis Costello to The Cars & Blondie to...Elton John!
A lot of popular genres and I didn`t even mention the great jazz (Miles Davis) and blues and blue-grass and folk that was popular. An interesting point is that a lot of the great 70s performers actually started in the 60s and carried forward into the 70s and sometimes beyond. A cool time.
Doug
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Post by dougs on Jan 25, 2018 20:23:36 GMT
re: 60s vs. 70s:
I voted for the 70s as my favourite music decade (previous post) but I do wish I was old enough to have taken advantage of music in the 2nd half of the 60s. This was the time of so much socially relevant music. It was an era when the youth of society stood up and demanded change. A lesson for all generations, really. The Beatles progressed from a pop band to a far more experimental and interesting band starting around 1965 with RUBBER SOUL. By the time the WHITE album came out they were a musically very cool band. Even the Temptations ("War" and "Ball of Confusion") and Marvin Gaye started performing socially relevant songs such as "Mercy Mercy Me" and "Inner City Blues" as the 60s moved into the 70s. Bob Dylan and so many others were also writing socially relevant interesting music across many genres. The 60s also had the British Invasion and the mods & rockers (The Rolling Stones and The Who). Great blues-rock guitarists also came out of the 60s such as Peter Green, Eric Clapton, and Carlos Santana.
I wasn't a fan of the early 60s so much, so despite all the great later 60s stuff, I still voted for the 70s.
BiteUrLip: I noticed that you voted for the 80s. I loved early 80s (1980-85) Euro-pop especially. I used to buy lots of imported (into Canada) EPs from Europe; everything from "Dancing With Tears in My Eyes" to "99 Red Balloons"! There were a couple of albums that I loved including two by Dire Straits - LOVE OVER GOLD and BROTHERS IN ARMS plus REMAIN IN LIGHT by the Talking Heads. Mostly, I enjoyed lots of the great new wave and pop singles that came out at that time.
Doug
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Post by newloneranger on Jan 27, 2018 5:42:23 GMT
I picked the 70's. 80s were good in the first half but turned to crap after 84.
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Post by BiteUrLip on Jan 27, 2018 8:59:31 GMT
I picked the 70's. 80s were good in the first half but turned to crap after 84. It's true that at some point of the eighties, music makers created the different electropop style which introduced new kind of pop melodies combined with heavily synthetized arrangement. It can be heard on albums like Michael Jackson's Dangerous: "Jam", "In The Closet" and so on. It reached it's peak in the 00's, I think. Since then we have had artists like Adele, who represent fresh interpretation of the good ol' days.
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Post by Commodore Orpington on Mar 4, 2018 0:49:32 GMT
70s, no doubt. Then 60s. Really things change more in the middles of decades, so my favorite is late 60s / early 70s. The 80s were a continuing horror...
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Post by dougs on Mar 4, 2018 3:53:07 GMT
Commodore Orpington:
Yeah, that mid-60s to mid-70s was the period that shines the brightest for me as well. Everyone who was young was truly INTO music at that time. It seemed that everyone had a guitar in their hands. Many artistic forms flourished at that time - all interconnected in themes it seemed. A lot of anti-war (Vietnam) protests, anti-nuclear, Greenpeace, environmentalism, gender and race equality movements were all rising to the forefront often finding their way into the music of that time. Not all artists embraced these ideas in their music but many sure did. A socially active time in history. Great amount of musical experimentation; jazz pioneer Miles Davis even pushed jazz into wildly new areas with _ITCHES BREW. The wah-wah pedal exploded into use from 1966 onwards and found its way into so much music; just listen to those epic Isaac Hayes compositions and arrangements. It was the sound, wasn't it? Cool era. It was the era when albums replaced singles as the big money-maker and seller for the record companies. Everything from PET SOUNDS to SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND to DARK SIDE OF THE MOON to GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD came out during that time period. So many classic and sonically experimental albums...
Doug
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Post by nix on Aug 7, 2019 14:05:19 GMT
80's chart music was the best. The pinnacle of pop. After early 90's everything went downhill.
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