What has been the best decade for British Music?

A tough one...

 

80's or 90's.

Good times.

 

So good they were worth four posts!

 

Late 70's early 80's

 

1970s, quite easily. When the Beatles broke up.

 

Trojan Reggae and Classic Ska.

Some Motown.

All other music is ****.

 

Go with 80/90s as well although the 70s were okay.

 

The 80s by a mile - one day only though. 8 December 1980 We are all Mark Chapman

 

Motown, Stax, Atlantic, Tamla, Northern Soul. Love a bit of John Holt on Trojan too. Gorgeous music before my time.

 

In my world its still 1974



Think im the only one who turns up at the KC Wearing doc marts..red braces and my harrington jacket listening to desmond dekker on my phone.

Or the stereo on my Vespa T5

 

I'd say 80's or 90's

 

Dunno which is the best but the 80s was the worst. Most of the decade was dominated by SAW an their formulaic hi-nrg. And then there was Wham.

1980s the best? Naw, just naw.

 

The very reason the 80's were the best. Genius, this paved the way for the likes of Public Enemy!



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Every one knows Ridgeley was the real talent in Wham. George Michael only got where he was by pretending to be gay.

 

What a life for Ridgley though, eh?

Pretended to play guitar for a couple of years then retired to Cornwall with the fit one of Bananarama to surf for the rest of his days. Where the **** did I go wrong?

 

SAW and that crap was late 80's, early 80's was superb, the likes of Blondie, The Jam, U2 when they were good, AC/DC released Back in black and other new wave stuff as well.

 

I agree - and every decade has it's fair share of dross anyway.

 

Now I know you're taking the piss!

Wasn't the early 80s dominated by ****e like Haircut 100, Kajagoogoo, Limahl and Phil Collins?

 

U2 were good at that time, you don't get to be the biggest band in the world if you are utter ****e, a lot of people hate U2 because Bono is an arse, but their music up to 86 was brilliant, was a shame it went so **** afterwards.

Dominated no, there was plenty of crap about like the stuff you mentioned as there always is but at least at that time there was a lot of really good stuff around as well unlike the last 15 years or so when it is really difficult to find anything good at all.

 

The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Pixies, Martin Stephenson and the Daintees, James, Happy Mondays.

There were loads of great bands in the 80's. Just because there was **** about doesn't mean the whole decade was crap, it wasn't at all.