Best Era of music?!

crkempton · #1 07-05-2006, 07:46 PM

Hmm.... which one, which one........

70's, by far IMO

Jiggybass · #2 07-05-2006, 07:50 PM

For me, I love the late 70's, with all the nice Rush, Triumph, Deep Purple, and so many other great bands from tht time thta released killer albums, my fav. music.

Aside from that, the late 90's, early 00's trance music is awesome, but the 70's were much more ROCK

There's also metal...

damn, too much music...

70's were prob. my fav IMO

Jiggybass · #3 07-05-2006, 07:52 PM

haha, I love how I didn;t even notice that there was a poll, usually the first thing I notice, lol

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tplyons · #4 07-05-2006, 07:57 PM

ANYTHING but now.

Supernova67 · #5 07-05-2006, 08:02 PM

the best is yet to come...

gkbass13 · #6 07-05-2006, 08:07 PM

60'S.

Precious · #7 07-05-2006, 08:14 PM

I remember reading that most people think the music of their adolescence is the best. I'll vote for anything avant-garde from any era.

PurplePurple · #8 07-05-2006, 08:15 PM

Is this mainstreem music or is it just music in general? People continue too come out with innovative amazing things at their instruments and abbilitys on a whole. MTV might not represent this well but it is very self evident if you look hard enough. It can only continue too get better.

superbassman2000 · #9 07-05-2006, 08:33 PM

i say "now"

i am a fan of experimental/ambient music and there wasn't a whole lot of that before now, and to take this poll from an alternate angle, the music from the classical days through the 90s is still around. I can listen on the radio and go from Deep Purple to Debussy to Terra Firma to Wayne Shorter to the Beatles to Benny Goodman, and you couldn't do that in the 70s, nobody even knew who Terra Firma was (mainly because they weren't a band yet) , much less the entire genre that they play in...so from a music listener's perspective, i think now is the best time, because i have access to the "best of" every era prior to this one, and there is even more music being made.
so in ten years, i'll say 2016 is the best time for music

plus jacob fred jazz oddysey was never around in the 70s, so that was a strike against the 70s for me

Atoz · #10 07-05-2006, 08:38 PM

I think the temporal resolution of this poll is too coarse. Perhaps divided by decade would have been better?

dain bramage · #11 07-05-2006, 08:44 PM

The 90s kicked ass. 70s were great too.

Woodchuck · #12 07-05-2006, 08:44 PM

A 70's - 80's would've been cool.

Don W · #13 07-05-2006, 08:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Woodchuck

A 70's - 80's would've been cool.

+1, a lot of my favorite albums are from the late 70's early 80's. Like the Ramones, The Misfits, The Dead Kennedys, and all that good stuff.

bassteban · #14 07-05-2006, 09:07 PM

Didn't vote; I don't believe there's a 'best' music. My favorite, however, would be 70s-80s. And 60s...
Totally agreein' w/'anything but now'...
20s-30s were cool.

ster · #15 07-05-2006, 09:11 PM

Lots of great stuff and bad stuff in all eras. I personally love the early 90's but the late 60's early 70's really do it for me. I can't get enough of Zep,Yes,Beatles,Stones,ELP,Tull etc. I was an adolescent in the 80's and I dig some metal from then like Maiden,Metallica and Queensryche although most of it sucked IMHO ie:Crue, Jovi,Winger,Warrant.

SnakeAnthony · #16 07-05-2006, 09:24 PM

All music. I listen to it all. All eras had reasons to listen. But of late, modern music from Jam Bands, and modern funk, and some hip hop, and rock, are getting the most attention from me, so thats where the vote goes.

tempo2112 · #17 07-05-2006, 09:24 PM

I voted for classical/baroque, but its a bit unfair comparing 300yrs of bach, beethoven, mozart ect with 50yrs of recent stuff.
interesting that people are drawn to music of their adolecence. i was born in the 70's but rush are by far my fav band.

Bushfire · #18 07-05-2006, 11:52 PM

I voted now. I assumed you weren't limiting it to 'mainstream' MTV stuff; and whilst I like some 'old' songs, almost all my favourite music is err.. recent, although the early 90's rocked also.

mrmoonjam · #19 07-06-2006, 10:37 AM

It would be easy to say the 50's-60's [not a choice in the poll] had the most going on; coming in there were swing, blues, jazz, country, and gospel. By the late 50's, R&R and R&B had evolved and were identifiable. By '70 there were several flavors of "soul" music [good moment to pay homage to Jamerson], the english invasion, the Beatles [insert McCartney homage] raised the creativity bar in all aspects, Bob Dylan first showed up and later went electric, the Who created rock opera, Entwhistle defined the rock bass solo, Hendrix, Page and Clapton stretched lead guitar... I could go on and on, but my point is that popular music was transformed in less than 20 years. Most of what has been good musically since then [lots of which I LOVE] is still basically R&R and/or R&B. IMO, only the birth of rap/hip-hop measures up in significance to the new forms that developed from '50-'69.

Sundogue · #20 07-06-2006, 11:34 AM

I would have to say 60's-70's.

With TV and the Internet being so pervasive (and persuasive), marketing and hype has turned music upside down. Now you have shows like American idol and reality TV being thought of as creative and compelling. It's a mindset that affects all the arts. Art imitates life right?

Everybody and their brother can start a band...and probably has.

It's a fast food, make-a-buck world. Who cares about talent or creativity? It only matters if it makes money, and let's face it, with the right kind of marketing anything sells.