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Favourite Era for music
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80s
INXS, ACDC, Phil Collins, U2, Dire Straights, Queen, The Police, Split enz, Men at Work, Softcell, Roxette and some quality hits other than these as well.
I was born in the 90's, these guys are so much better than any other era. I barely listen to anything current, in my view too many artists in an attempt to be different go too far the other way and the music loses out.
INXS, ACDC, Phil Collins, U2, Dire Straights, Queen, The Police, Split enz, Men at Work, Softcell, Roxette and some quality hits other than these as well.
I was born in the 90's, these guys are so much better than any other era. I barely listen to anything current, in my view too many artists in an attempt to be different go too far the other way and the music loses out.
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I agree with your era but don't think much of your list.
1980's metal. Everyone else must die.
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I agree. You lump in all those bands from the mid-2000s and that's what I'm looking back on. That's what I'm asking them to put on my PA when I'm in a hospice bed. It isn't awesome music, some of if it is, but it's still engaging and it reminds me of a fun time. It reminds me of being 14, 15, of getting into music for the first time... of sitting on Limewire all day and how the opposite side of the street had broadband but we were too close to the lake to have it. It'd take 20 minutes to get a Futureheads song but I didn't care.
Whenever I get drunk I come home and they're the songs I listen to. Those bands. They'll always be special to me.
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60's & 70's smoke every other era by the length of John Holmes utensil.
I think most people's favourite music era will be the one of their teenage years, assuming their teenage years were mostly fun times so that tends to be mid 80's for me because you should be exploring your tastes in music at this time as they develop. But I also think music from before teenage years that you heard when you were a child that bring back good memories of the time period with parents or older siblings helps you enjoy a certain era for you more. Watch a movie and hear a soundtrack or song from such times can bring you back to feelings and memories of those times I think. Mostly good, hopefully.
I think late 70's and the 80's fills me with most joy for music in general. Even stuff I was not into at time like Divinyls and Icehouse I find decades later bring me joy hearing them as it makes me think of the time period I heard it on radio even if that band or artist was not what I went out of my way to listen to back then. I liked heavy rock mostly, so AC/DC with Bon Scott, Jimmy Barnes with Cold Chisel, The Angels, Midnight Oil, Iron Maiden and Van Halen was music I would actually enjoy hearing whole albums as a teenager which sad Bon Scott was already dead and Cold Chisel had broken up but their music I was discovering. My older siblings were into stuff like Abba, Led Zeppelin, Queen etc from mid to late 70's so I'd have heard it even if I was not into it.
If I was to pin down a ten year period I would say late 70's to late 80's is my favourite era as it includes most of the rock music I loved and also includes pop music I would later appreciate more. You had Abba and Bee Gees still around on radio in late 70's for pop/disco music ending, mid 80's you have Madonna and Prince with Madonna only pop music but Prince was pop, rock and funk in whatever flavour he was in the mood for at time. Billy Idol was Vital Idol album but by late 80's you started to have real crap turn up like Milli Vanilli, and all the Rick Astley, Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan crap that just made me turn the radio off so music tastes were changing and that type of stuff did not interest me one bit. Once Angry Anderson is singing Suddenly and Bound for Glory and this stuff is actually popular on radio and tv you know you are past the era of your favourite music
I think late 70's and the 80's fills me with most joy for music in general. Even stuff I was not into at time like Divinyls and Icehouse I find decades later bring me joy hearing them as it makes me think of the time period I heard it on radio even if that band or artist was not what I went out of my way to listen to back then. I liked heavy rock mostly, so AC/DC with Bon Scott, Jimmy Barnes with Cold Chisel, The Angels, Midnight Oil, Iron Maiden and Van Halen was music I would actually enjoy hearing whole albums as a teenager which sad Bon Scott was already dead and Cold Chisel had broken up but their music I was discovering. My older siblings were into stuff like Abba, Led Zeppelin, Queen etc from mid to late 70's so I'd have heard it even if I was not into it.
If I was to pin down a ten year period I would say late 70's to late 80's is my favourite era as it includes most of the rock music I loved and also includes pop music I would later appreciate more. You had Abba and Bee Gees still around on radio in late 70's for pop/disco music ending, mid 80's you have Madonna and Prince with Madonna only pop music but Prince was pop, rock and funk in whatever flavour he was in the mood for at time. Billy Idol was Vital Idol album but by late 80's you started to have real crap turn up like Milli Vanilli, and all the Rick Astley, Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan crap that just made me turn the radio off so music tastes were changing and that type of stuff did not interest me one bit. Once Angry Anderson is singing Suddenly and Bound for Glory and this stuff is actually popular on radio and tv you know you are past the era of your favourite music
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70's,90's,60's,80's
But for jazz you could go back to the decades earlier than the 60's.
70's was a very creative period when major labels were allowing bands to create 10 minute plus tunes to be written,also prog rock bands like Yes were in the top 40 charts along with jazz rock bands like Mahavishnu Orchestra,it was truly a very creative era if you dig deep into the 70's and not scratch the surface
The 90's I had the best time of my life,the Seattle movement gave the music scene back guitars,acoustic drums and incredible singers and songwriting.
My fav were The Smashing Pumpkins but you had bands like Jane's Addiction,Soundgarden,The Pixies,Pearl Jam,Dinosaur Jr,My Bloody Valentine,Nine Inch Nails,Ministry
,the list goes on and on.
A few of these bands did start in the late 8o's but because of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit which was a game changing song at the time,the Whole World wanted more alt music so Nirvana's success
helped these other bands.
My fav eras but in truth you have to give it to the 60's and 70's,incredible music made , Floyd,The Beatles,The Stones,Led Zep,Little Feat,King Crimson,Yes,Mahavishnu,The Beach Boys,Fleetwood Mac ,unbelievable music and I am merely tipping the surface.
But for jazz you could go back to the decades earlier than the 60's.
70's was a very creative period when major labels were allowing bands to create 10 minute plus tunes to be written,also prog rock bands like Yes were in the top 40 charts along with jazz rock bands like Mahavishnu Orchestra,it was truly a very creative era if you dig deep into the 70's and not scratch the surface
The 90's I had the best time of my life,the Seattle movement gave the music scene back guitars,acoustic drums and incredible singers and songwriting.
My fav were The Smashing Pumpkins but you had bands like Jane's Addiction,Soundgarden,The Pixies,Pearl Jam,Dinosaur Jr,My Bloody Valentine,Nine Inch Nails,Ministry
,the list goes on and on.
A few of these bands did start in the late 8o's but because of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit which was a game changing song at the time,the Whole World wanted more alt music so Nirvana's success
helped these other bands.
My fav eras but in truth you have to give it to the 60's and 70's,incredible music made , Floyd,The Beatles,The Stones,Led Zep,Little Feat,King Crimson,Yes,Mahavishnu,The Beach Boys,Fleetwood Mac ,unbelievable music and I am merely tipping the surface.
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That's a long arse era.
I agree. The rise of MTV and new money into the music scene brought out a lot of new artists. When you separate the music from the video, there is some great pop rock music in there. And add Tom Petty, REM, Cars, Steely Dan, et al. to your list.
Mids 90s to early 2000s
all the best albums from tool, dream theater, sigur ros, mars volta, opeth, nightwish, radiohead and nin came out then.
all the best albums from tool, dream theater, sigur ros, mars volta, opeth, nightwish, radiohead and nin came out then.
