I suppose we all have our favourites. Life would be boring as hell if we all had the same tastes and interests. Musicall speaking, which decade does it for you?
I voted 70's. Probably because that was my first awareness properly of music. Marc Bolan, Bowie, Sparks, Kraftwerk, some of the punk scene (not Sex Pistols as they were a manufactured boy band) then bands like Magazine, The Stranglers, Undertones, XTC. The 70's gets a bit of a slagging off but I think some of the musical genres were very good. Admittedly fashion took a back seat.
Music is a temptation sent by the devil, and you miserable sinners will assuredly burn in hell for eternity.
This decade. Bruno Mars, Olly Murs, Wil.i.am, Justin beiber, nicki minaj, gang nam style, biffy clyro, Mumford & sons we even had a mini spice reunion
The 70s also gave us funk - one of the most innovative and futuristic musical stylings ever but I see you've stuck with the non-threatening white boys, there. Interesting
Not at all I loved Chic and plenty other darkie bands. Cant remember who but thats coz they all tend to look the same to be honest.
The 1970s does seem to have been the best decade. Most of what went before it was either ****ty re-manufactured American R&B (Beatles, Hermin's Hermits etc.) or crooners like Perry Como and Frankie Vaughan. The 70s was when popular music reached maturity and was at it's most innovative. What's followed since has mainly just been a contemporary rehash of what went on in the 70s.
I'm gonna agree in part but stop short of saying that it was the most innovative era. Popular exposure to music was through the BBC radio and TV stations in this country - which were still peddling light entertainment and novelty songs as popular culture. Up until punk, white boy guitar music was in it's worst phase in its history with glam and prog hoaching everything up - music fans were split into record buyers and single buyers and neither group had a monopoly on either good stuff or pish. I'm gonna vote early 90s - Guitar music had split into multiple genres with more variable ways to access it. Dance music was taking off and changing the nature of music (from folk format - verse, chorus, verse, pre-chorus, chorus, middle8, solo, outro - to a continual soundscape where mood and layering became more important than defined song structure) Hip hop was its most creative and genuinely threatening. If you think parents were scared of punks and hippies, it was nothing on how scared people were of hip hop. And of course, shoegazing - which gave the world the two greatest bands in history (FACT) In short, I reckon everyone will pick the decade where they were a teenager - except the token person my age who'll pick the 60s or 70s because they're slaves to early rock n roll conventions - you know the type, Ronnie Wood haircut, plays guitar, likes <shudder> The Verve.
90's indy music, banging house and drum an bass.. what more could you want.. plus we got the spice girls and take that.. An i'd love to bum that small one mark orange or something like that...
Although I never got to enjoy the drugs I enjoyed the by product (the music) And for that reason I voted 90s.
Dicso, hi-nrg, rap, hip hop etc. all realistically trace their roots back to the 1970s though. From there they expanded into into the various strands of dance and hip hop music we hear today. Of course it's very subjective. The early 90s was my scene too and I enjoyed it at the time but now I look back and shudder at some of the ****e I used to listen to. Also, being a massive Bowie fan sways me towards the 1970s. Good thread ER. It had to happen one day.
Late 70s/Early 80s (Punk, Two Tone, Early Electro, Factory (God Bless Tony Wilson)) Late 80/90s (Rave, Electro, House, Baggy) 90s (Hardcore)
