The 60’s by a wide margin.
You could listen to it in the 70s and 80s, as well.
Of the choices offered I eould agree the 60’s, but it was the 50’s that lead to 60’s. I’m most comfortable with a mix of 50’s and 60’s, because it was the time of my youth. Never mess with someone’s music or books of their youth.
Early 60s, meh, but 64 onwards, absolutely. Music styles literally changed by the month.
‘60s Beatles, Stones, Who, James Brown, Motown, Beach Music, Folk Music, Joplin, Hendrix, Paul Revere and the Raiders. ‘70s had Almond Bros and Southern Rock, and Frank Zappa, and then Disco. Disco was not rock.
“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.
50’s
Anything is better than today.
At some point music like many movies became mass produced, formulary, and lost creativity and uniqueness.
I think they figured out the ideal length, beat, range, have some folks write together something, and pick a pretty face to sing or dance to that...
Pre 2000, there was metal, rock, punk, new age, country, techno, frigging Celtic if that floats your boat. There was a lot of true variety and new stuff that was unique/new and today that seems missing. You had a lot of artists that were writing some pretty intense lyrics that told stories or had depth to them: Billy Joel, Garth Brooks, etc.
Today it just feels mass produced and shallow. Dumb stuff that goes boom, boom, but just talks about how you’re bad or have a big di#$.
Anything older seems better, even before my time.
70’s by a wide margin.
I like the 70’s marginally. The early 70’s had Beatles, and individual Beatles music, continuing rock from the 60’s (who, Stones, Elvis return, Led Zeppelin) then on to the BTO, soft rock Eagles, Bee Gees, Chicago, the Disco era and finally the crossover of Country into mainstream with Kenny Rodgers, Waylon, Willie, etc.
I would tend to agree but...with the technological advancements and the shear talent using it and FM radio exploding...I'd have to go with the 70s.