Posted on 06/14/2023 7:36:06 AM PDT by DallasBiff
It's not even close.
I would add Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” and “Darkness on the Edge of Town” to that list, too.
"What does that mean?"
"It means 'ah, Bach.'"
80s doesn’t age well, because of the over-reliance on synths and drum machines.
70s except for disco
Of course I was 20 in 77
Not all of them
Most I know prefer the quality of Rock
63-late 90s
The ‘60s and ‘70s had themes, shared by young people. Music could be used to talk about and explore that theme in public, without arousing too much push-back from TPTB.
Then in the ‘80s, the baby boomers were “making it” in society, which created a new set of themes. Music could be used to express and explore those.
In the ‘90s, with the rise of the internet, the need for music to act as a conduit for tribal communications within the most active generation diminished. The Millenials had the internet, and didn’t need music so much. That’s why it diminished in power and creativity.
Now, the main themes that trouble and preoccupy young people are talked about on the internet, and the war continues. Different factions try to work things out, and other factions try to silence them. Musical expression is unnecessary as a communications pipeline.
Steven Tyler is a very bad man
Early yardbirds style I prefer
Most everybody knows well the music from when they were young (in my case small child in the 70's, teen in the 80's). And most everybody knows some of the music from before they were born (in my case 50's and 60's music). But I would assert that the Millennials and Gen Z'ers can quote 1980's music (from before they were born) better than any other generation can quote music from any decade before they were born.
Evidently, 1980's music is the most popular, so popular that my grown "kids" and their pals know it about as well as my wife and I do, way more than I know 50's and 60's music, and way more than my parents knew music from before they were born.
I would make the case that rock music enjoyed a resurgence in the late 70s with the migration of music radio to the FM dial. I believe Boston's debut album in 1976 was the first one that was really produced and mixed for the FM radio band.
The best decade for rock music was 1965 - 1975.
I would say 1760 to 1789 were the best decades for music.
From that I would have to say the decade of the 1780’s.
There’s basically two albums that released in 1991 that wiped the slate clean and erased the old ways and rewrote the rules of the music business, and this isn’t really arguable. Nevermind (Nirvana), and The Chronic (Dr Dre).
1991 is the most recent time that music was so drastically changed and culture bombed Earth. Nothing like this has happened since then, that’s a lot of years now.
50’s
In the great movie The Limey with Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda and Barry Newman
Which I watched again last nite
Peter Fonda character who would know
Talking to his young girlfriend about the 60s
Musically
Says it was “really just 1966 and early 67..that was the 60s for LA music”
How true
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
And sometimes there was a sense of betrayal when those boomers were "making it." That was the subject of one of the most iconic lines from a 1980s hit:
Out on the road today
I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.
-- "Boys of Summer" by Don Henley
FM...no static at all.
Rocket 88 where it all began
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