Question:
/Discuss

Choices:
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
NOW

 

id say now, because the music scene at the mo is pretty damn good! however there are good and bad bits from each decade!

i love 70's disco stuff, but i was also a spice girl in the 90's and loved brit pop of the 90's too! but then again some 80's stuff can be ok!! but my vote is with 'now'!

now coz the 90s was the mega cheesy girlbands n stuff lol n i wasnt born before that so i dont kno 80s/70s/60s stuff

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Originally posted by tabloid_junkie:
id say now, because the music scene at the mo is pretty damn good!

Are you and I looking at the same music scene?

I'm sorry, but the Kaiser Chiefs, Green Day, the Pussycat Dolls, the Arctic Monkeys... that's pretty damn awful!

I think now 2 because i wasnt born before the 90s saying that I have heard songs from the other decadees some which I find quite good

I go for the 1720s.

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Originally posted by Wobbletastic:
I chose the 1970's, as far as I can tell 99% of music from the last 20 years has been complete rubbish i.e. electronic crap created by some bald DJ in their bedroom, useless Karaoke people and groups that can't write, produce, play or record music, and also idiots that just talk over a very slow and basic backing track and say stuff like; "Yo homies" and "Yeah".

Lol!

I can't choose! Cos when I go to parties and stuff, it's always 60's/70's music playing, and I love them, but I also like new music and I loved music in the 90's.

1970's for me I think

All these music genres were either going strong or being created in the 70's:

Funk, soul, disco, glam-rock, folk, electronic, punk, new-wave, prog, art-rock, heavy metal, reggae, experimental, rap....

Unfortunately the generalisation of the 70's seems to be Slade, Bay City Rollers, The Osmonds, Abba, Pan's People, Boney M and Brotherhood of Man. And don't get me started on that awful Leo Sayer...

The 1970's.

Where would we be with out Led Zeppelin?

The eighties man.

either 60's or 50's ! definitely the best music eras! however any era is better than the 80's! man that was a sad time!

As far as I'm concerned it's the 70s. It had The Jam and The Clash at the height of their greatness so that does it for me.

Apart from Joy Division and U2 the 80s was mostly crap, the same for the 90s, Oasis, Blur and again U2 being the better ones.

And for this decade, there is some utter sh*te out there, thanks to such things as pop idol, but there are some great indie bands too; The Strokes, Interpol, Editors and the Arctic Monkeys.

I voted for the 90s.

90's.

60's all the way, Beatles, Stones, Jimi, Doors, Love, Jefferson Airplane, Wilson Pickett, The Velvet Underground, The Who, the list goes on and on, you get the picture.
The Worst has to be the f'n 80's, absolutely nothin apart from two or three indie bands and rave.

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Originally posted by Wobbletastic:
How can anybody say that 'Now' is the best time for music, unless of course you like hearing crap produced by people who only want to become rich and famous and see music as a fast track to their goal, without actually having any musical skill.

Well said Wobbletastic, i couldn't agree more. Every decade has got good music and shit music but it's got to be said that the 90s and Now has produced far more crap than the 60s 70s and 80s for the exact reasons that Wobbletastic has pointed out. It seems that nowadays its all about wanting to be famous rather than wanting to be a musician and make good records with the fame coming second.
People who say the 80s produced the worst music make me laugh when they say things like it was cheesy or the music had no substance. You might as well say that the 70s produced the worst music because it had The Wurzels, The Village People, Showaddywaddy and Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. If they actually took the time to look past all the so called 'cheesy music' they'd find a lot of good music like The Smiths, U2, The Specials, The Cure, The Beat, Associates, Simple Minds, The Cult, Peter Gabriel, Killing Joke and lots more.
IMO the best 10 year period for music was probably about 1975-'85.

Now. Not because of the sh!t that the rest of you are talking about but because two of my favourite bands are from approximately the last three years.

Nothing on the music scene now is original and it is all crap, I mean common the crazy frog is this how low producers sink to make a fast buck.
Anyone who votes now has no taste in music at all and needs some education, even the flat 80's had more class than todays modern tripe!

Bring back the seventies when music was about Sex, Drums and Rock&Roll and the songs and lryics actually had meaning
Also I can name a whole host of bands from the 70's do any of todays modern "artists", and I use that word sarcasticly, think they will be remembered in 5 years time let alone 40

Well here are my faveourite bands of that era

Meatloaf
Guns&Roses
Queen
Metallica
Led Zepplin
The Eagles
The Jam
Motorhead

Need I go on

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Originally posted by Discodave200983:
Nothing on the music scene now is original and it is all crap, Bring back the seventies when music was about Sex, Drums and Rock&Roll and the songs and lryics actually had meaning
Also I can name a whole host of bands from the 70's do any of todays modern "artists", and I use that word sarcasticly, think they will be remembered in 5 years time let alone 40


Need I go on

Caution RANT!!!!!
A superb post summing up so much of the facts. As today's artists are quoting these 70s bands as their influence they are only trying to emulate them. Unless they too are willing to put in years on the circuit instead of using insta-fame of sad Channel 4s TV celebrity shows then all we will be offered is Ordinary Boys, Goldie Looking Chain and Kandy Floss with a K! Has anyone actually heard the racket from wonder group The Arctic Monkeys? The real monkeys are these con men trying to sell us this garbage!

I've voted for the seventies. Just wondering though if for most of us we are voting for the decade when we were teenagers? As this seems to be the time we are most influenced by current music?
I voted for the seventies due to Bowie, The Faces, T-Rex, Dr Feelgood, Pink Floyd, The Jam, Dylan, The Who, Chic, Bob Marley, Ian Dury, etc but it was also the time when I became a teenager and bought quite a bit of vinyl.

I wasn't even alive in the decade I voted for I was born in 1983 yet I hold the 70's to bethe golden age of music!

Shall I say what I usually say after posts like those above? Nah, I haven't got the will or the inclination anymore. I'm tired of it.

I am a teenager in this 'now' period. It's definately not been an era where I've felt at all influenced by bands that are circulating at the moment--because there isn't anything original or 'groundbreaking' (to use NME's favourite word) going on.
There have been pros and cons to each decade listed--an example, the 90's bought the Grunge movement to the surface, but it also gave us the Spice Girls.
However, with the naughties, I'm yet to find anything but cons, and I'm yet to find artists that will be remembered in decades to come--no matter what the magazines say.

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Originally posted by Husker:
Shall I say what I usually say after posts like those above? Nah, I haven't got the will or the inclination anymore. I'm tired of it.

Are you implying that you don't agree with our posts?

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Originally posted by proIix:
He is.

Oh do you speak for him, this being the case what is wrong with our posts. You cannot say with any good sense that there is anything on the current music scene that is either good or original or both.
Music should be about inspiration as it was in days of yore however these days as with anything else it is about money and fame.
How many modern day artists do you know who would do a 3 hour live performance every night for 4 weeks just to promote an album that you have been told probably won't make it anyway.
The album in question Is Bat Out Of Hell of course.
No proIix the moderm music scene is a soul-less uninspired machine driven by the dollar and quite frankly it is sad.
And if you must question my tastes in musi then first get your self an education in the subject as no one with two brain cells can defend the modern tripe!