Best decade for music?

Personally, I think the 80's no contest, I mean queen, erasure, eurythmics, human league, depeche mode, frankie goes to hollywood, loads of massive hits.

70s/80s but i don't really understand the meaning of the topic. Each generation has their own unique way of repesenting themselves through sound. I don't think this should be contested. No matter how different or shallow some of the music may seem. People will look back on this decade and only see the very good stuff rather than most of the everyday temporary pop stuff we are exposed to everyday.

60's/70's hands down.

Originally Posted by The Lizard King

60's/70's hands down.

Seconded.

Originally Posted by The Lizard King

60's/70's hands down.

*yawn*

Late 70's thru the 1980's.

Early 90's

Yeah but you have to admit, that some decades of music were more prefferable to people than others, there were alot of particulary styles in many, like now there seems to be a rather large influx of r 'n' b and hip hop which I can't say I like much.

80's was the last best music era before music turned to shallow noise.
Im with the 80's, also possibly the best era's for growing up movies (thinking of the John Hughes movies).
80's was era of the youth.

Shallow noise? Plenty of music that can be found in every era that is shallow noise And plenty in every era that is good.

Tie between the metal fest that was 80's and the grunge pit that was 90's..

hmm..

Voted 90s based on superior alternative rock/metal, but increasingly my love of modern hip-hop, trip-hop and acid-jazz type stuff is swaying me to the 00s. Also the Mars Volta. Yes.

Lies! No music after the 80's could possibly be good!

*shock*

I'd vote for all of them but I can't.

Edit: except the fifties never heard any of it.

80's. Birth time of Thrash and Death Metal. Also the time of the Second Summer of love.

Then the 60's/70's.

2000's with the rise of orchestral trance and orchestral movie soundtracks.

Originally Posted by The Dude

2000's with the rise of orchestral trance and orchestral movie soundtracks.

Oh right... I can accept that...

Late 60's-early 80's.

I WANNA ROCK'N ROLL ALL DAY AND PARTEY EVERY NIGHT!

All the music I've rated (out of 5) on my rateyourmusic profile (which I haven't updated in a while)

Year--------------Average score---------Number of albums
'60s--------------3.90-------------------24
'70s--------------4.20-------------------43
'80s--------------4.00-------------------48
'90s--------------4.08-------------------54
'00s--------------3.80-------------------60

So apparently most of my fav albums came out in the '70s.... voted '60s though, just for the last few years.

OP, you do understand that you're being incredibly vague? Best decade for music? Well, it all depends, what genre are you talking about?

Originally Posted by Thanatos

OP, you do understand that you're being incredibly vague? Best decade for music? Well, it all depends, what genre are you talking about?

In general. It's not vague, its an all-encompassing question. It asks you to generalize the decade as a whole. I don't know why questions like this throw off our generation so much. Best decade IMO is the 70's.

Any decade, before the introduction of those rubbish music where you can't even understand a word...sigh....



But yea, like the dude says, music with orchestra or choir etc, from any decade is 2 thumbs up for me