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Post by Saar°berry on Jun 26, 2002 6:43:40 GMT -5
What is your favourite decade for music? And what's the worst to your ears? Well i can't choose really... i love them all except the 80's perhaps... ;D or not? I lurved the rock chicks and pigs  Love Rasp |
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Post by bugg on Jun 26, 2002 8:17:22 GMT -5
Well i dunno... I don't know much about the 80s except that Jeff Buckley thinks the Smiths were the only good band then ;D Otherwise, im pissed off at people who think the hippies were in the 70s cause that's bullshit... The REAL hippies were not many and they were around 1965-1671 ... Everyone always thinks the 70s was the hippie era and that's really just wrong. I love all that Bob Dylan did in those years, and Velvet Underground's Banana Album is on the best album i've ever heard  Well they weren't hippies at all by the way ;D But they definitly ruled. The 90s were marvelous as well, with Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins competing in 94  And all the new bands like Radiohead that absolutely rule. |
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Post by Bilbo on Jun 26, 2002 15:34:55 GMT -5
I think there's been great music and dreadful music in every decade. Although I must agree that the 80s seemed to produce an abnormal amout of bad music!  Looking at my fine CD collection now, I don't have an awful lot of 80s music there: only a small handful of stuff by The Cure, Pixies, Bauhaus, Sonic Youth, X, Kate Bush, U2, Jane's Addiction and Guns 'N' Roses (MOST of which I still love now). I love some stuff by The Smiths and would probably count myself a proper smiths fan too only I (shamefully) don't own anything of theirs yet. And I must confess I even enjoy some embarrassingly dated stuff like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and Duran Duran - not that i'd hang around listening to them much, but they hold sentimental memories because they're good party listening and we had some great drunken fun dancing to all that early 80s New Romantics synthy stuff.  |
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Post by Bilbo on Jun 26, 2002 15:37:05 GMT -5
And I forgot to mention two 1989 albums I still love, although as they were at the turn of the decade I always associate them more with the 90s:
The Stone Roses' self-titled debut album and Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine.
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Post by Demonflower on Jun 26, 2002 18:26:50 GMT -5
(realises you cant cheat & change vote ) I have to confess, I voted for the '80s  - but only because of the good stuff that was forming in the background at the time, like the Birthday party/Nick Cave & the bad Seeds, The Cure, The Smiths, Bauhaus, Einsturzende Neubutton(oops, I mean Neubauten ), Skinny Puppy, Midnight Oil etc, most of whom were able to last the distance. |
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Post by teppic on Jun 26, 2002 18:54:56 GMT -5
Some people really think that Hippies come from the '70's?!? Well i guess you can be a Hippy at any point in time, but as a movement the Hippies were definitely of the '60's... Anyway, in musical terms the '70's were the Glam years (in Britain at least). Best decade for music? Sheesh - lets not start off with something which everyone is going to disagree with eh... LOL! Well i'd personally say the '90's, because it was the decade where music began to cross over it's own boundries... Suddenly it stopped being less important about being part of any particular section of music, and more important to just find good music regardless of it's type (or was that just me? ). All of which has led to increased experimentation - which afterall is the only way in which music can progress. A good example of this is how you increasingly find samples cropping up in mainly guitar-based music... Having said that, without the '60's most of todays' guitar-based bands would never have existed in the first place. But still my personal preferences remain with the '90's... As for the '80's...  |
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Post by Shlozm on Jul 2, 2002 7:57:20 GMT -5
i really love the early 90s, too bad i didn't appriciette (spelling i know...) it back then  i was about 6 years old mind you... but whenever "so 90s" is on, no-one is aloud to speak to me ;D , though when i see it, i realise that i had blocked out all the crappy music in the 90s too, and that's good, the body's way of healing i would have loved to be back in the early 90s now, so i could see p.j. and tori playing in israel (my dream!!!). i did manage to wake up from chilhood early enough to catch bjork in a show here in 1996, i was the youngest person there (11 yrs. old) and i was AMAZING!!!!!!! being small helped out alot too.... everybody let me cut through, they were really nice, not like in other shows i went to... |
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Post by hypnotic on Jul 3, 2002 6:15:54 GMT -5
I voted the 70's coz i'm still dreaming about that music and way of life. i love the 70's fashion and i cannot imagine the 90's or 2000 without first thinking about the 70's. i'm an old rock-way-of-life-freak.
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Post by japfles on Jul 16, 2002 14:54:11 GMT -5
There's good and bad in every decade but I chose the 1970's in the end purely because of all the classic albums that came from that period.
The 1960's had some of the best pop music ever and the 1980's pretty much sucked! There was some good stuff though. It's just hard to forget the horrors of bands like the Thompson Twins! ;D
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Post by FrostedCornflake on Jul 17, 2005 19:06:33 GMT -5
Bringing back this thread!
I chose the 80's loved the new wave sound. Plus I think there was so much great emotions in the music. It was a very care-free time and I think the music just really showed emotions in a way it was never seen before.
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Post by Saar°berry on Jul 18, 2005 11:50:05 GMT -5
Wowzer... blast to the past! |
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Post by blueisntred on Jul 19, 2005 9:38:16 GMT -5
I have to say the 70's, I was born in 1972 what can I say..to me, that was when music was music and the musicians where talented and COULD play more than a couple of chords over and over again that sound like one big waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...I hate most of the new music you hear now...My husband plays guitar better than alot of these bands that get contracts everyday. But yet, he still gets up every morning to report to the studio and hope that today is the day that he gets paid....
Give me bands like Steely Dan, Van Morrison, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones..and the list could go on and on..anyday. I'll live in the past your damn right.
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Post by Franklin on Jul 19, 2005 10:20:16 GMT -5
I CANNOT CHOOSE! The 60's gave us The Beatles (and the Stones, but I don't like'em), Beach Boys and even Pink Floyd, who became BIG in the 70's. The 70's came up with The Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple (end 60s). The 80's made Michael Jackson bigger than.... everyone's imagination. And it gave us synthesizertechnopopbands!!!  The 90's popmusic was BAD! Thank god there where alternative rockbands like PEARL JAM and Radiohead and Smashing Pumpkins. AND! TORI AMOS ofcourse!!! So I don't choose any decade at all. |
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Post by pandora on Jul 19, 2005 15:36:33 GMT -5
Wowzer... blast to the past! totally! at first, i was like...oh shit Bilbo is back!! and then I notice the dates... I cant choose either, but I loves me the 80's and Early 90's. As I always say, almost anything past 97 is shit, with the exception of a few of course |
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Post by teppic on Aug 4, 2005 17:29:34 GMT -5
Lets do the timewarp agaaaaaaaain...This thread is a full 3 years old y'know?  Maybe it'd make more sense to make a "Best Decade for Music? :The 2005 Edition" thread.
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