Posted on 06/14/2023 7:36:06 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Mid 70s, the Corporations and the A&R men took over.
No 50s option?
*spit*
70’s...not even close
Led Zeppelin
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and there was also the Moody Blues, Yes, Genesis Queen, the Stone, the Who and on and on and on
Grew up in the 60s. Loved Cream, The Doors, The Who, and Hendrix. Beatles were good. Too young for Woodstock by a year or two (although an older friend of mine did go with her big sister).
Was in college in the 70s. I enjoyed Grand Funk Railroad and Edgar Winter’s White Trash. Didn’t think much of disco.
Got married in the 80s. Liked Van Halen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, ZZ Top and Aerosmith.
‘66 to ‘81.
But lots of flotsam in there too.
50’s and 60’s. Hands down. And I grew up in the 80’s.
71 was the best year for albums.
Led Zeppelin IV
Who’s Next
Sticky Fingers
Hunky Dory
Aqualung
At Fillmore East (Allman Brothers)
The Yes Album
The 1990’s.
“The 60’s by a wide margin.”
Yep. What came in the 70’s came from the 60’s. The 80’s were great for fun hair band stuff, but really not musically talented stuff.
It’s like asking what was your favorite SNL cast—it all has to do what years were you in your prime listening/watching years.
I grew up in the 60’s, was a teen in the 70’s, and college, early grown up in the 80’s. So those are the sweet spots for me.
I like some music from the 90’s and early 2000’s because I was on the road so much. After that I got Sat radio.
Today’s much is so damned sad and angry that I don’t listen much. Rap, per se, isn’t the problem; early hip hop/rap was fun. Today it’s raw, stupid, and hateful. Even country music is kind of crap now.
The 1960s where Motown met the Swampers…
I agree 188%.
The 70s started good with the carry-over from the 60s. By ‘74 things were sounding bleak with a lot of commercial paint-by-numbers music.
Then, starting in ‘77 new acts came along with real creativity.
Millennials don’t like hip hop really. They are into emo-rap, crunk-core, emo-core etc... Millennials and zoomers love to be very specific about their music genres and taste.
The way I look at it, I just go back to the rock & roll bands that get heavily played in my iTunes rotation. It seems like almost every one of them had their best records released in a period that spanned the late 60s through the late 70s:
Led Zeppelin IV
Bob Seger's "Night Moves"
"Idlewild South" and "At Fillmore East" by the Allman Brothers
"Eagles Greatest Hits"
Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon"
"Who's Next"
"Exile on Main Street" by the Rolling Stones
Etc., etc.
Looking back, the 60s is starting to sound the same (British Invasion). The 70s has much more variey and most od the stars of the 60s.
If I hear anything made after 2000, I couldn’t tell you what year it was made.
With the 60s, I could tell you not only the year, but literally the month it came out, based on the sound.
Funny you should mention that. The band originally called themselves the Allman Joys, but they changed it due to concerns about copyright infringement. LOL.
For me I was a kid the 60s and not that into music so 60s were “oldies” music like Elvis and the Beatles. (I’ve come to appreciate both much more as an adult.)
70’s were Jr. High and High School, and classic rock was my preferred music. I HATED DISCO...
80s were my Air Force and subsequently my college years, living on my own, driving my own car, living my own life. It was also the dawn of MTV and I watched it constantly so it really influenced my music choices.
I’d say the early to mid 80s music were the best, but heavily influenced by those early MTV Music Video days.
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