ToneStone
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Re: Your Favorite Decade?
Aug 05, 2010, 11:48
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70's
1971 in particular was a very fine year for all things Greasy and Fuzzy
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The Sea Cat
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Edited Aug 05, 2010, 12:13
Re: Your Favorite Decade?
Aug 05, 2010, 12:12
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Right now, for reasons non musical, it would have to be the mid 1640s and I'd also have a crack at 1685 as well.
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PMM
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Re: Your Favorite Decade?
Aug 05, 2010, 12:15
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None. I hate them all equally.
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Eduardo
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Re: Your Favorite Decade?
Aug 05, 2010, 12:33
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Late 70s & early 80s for me, and I'm more interested in the decades before this period than 1985 - now.
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Popel Vooje
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Re: Your Favorite Decade?
Aug 05, 2010, 14:23
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The 60s. Because I never lived through them.
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1001realapes
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Re: Your Favorite Decade?
Aug 05, 2010, 15:30
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Can i choose 1965-1974 ?
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The Sea Cat
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Re: Your Favorite Decade?
Aug 05, 2010, 15:31
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Excellent choice. It doesn't get any better.
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zphage
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Re: Your Favorite Decade?
Aug 05, 2010, 16:17
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embryonomore wrote: 30's, 40's, 50's, a shotgun, rocking chair, porch, mono transistor radio, moonshine... I'm a happy man.
if you weren't being facetious, the 40s thru 50s are stellar,
nice dry production,
peak years for jazz,
country,
bluegrass,
jump blues,
folk,
R&B,
rockabilly,
rock'n'roll,
postwar acoustic and electric blues
cajun, and zydeco
tejano, conjuncto, and polka
southern(white), jubilee, and hard gospel
avant garde classical
some great great stuff upon which everything was built
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Lawrence
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Re: Your Favorite Decade?
Aug 05, 2010, 16:29
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handofdave wrote: I agree... the 70s was an INCREDIBLY fruitful and eclectic decade. One theory I have about why is that people still listened to the radio then, and the radio hadn't really balkanized genres yet. I remember listening to Kasey Kasem's show and getting a bit of EVERYTHING within the space of an hour or two... rock, country, funk, novelty records... David Bowie back to back with Dolly Parton... no formula.
I remember when the seventies ended thinking 'Finally, the eighties!', but while a good decade too, in retrospect the music from that decade wasn't as warm and human and funky... even new wave and punk had pretty much blown their wad by the early eighties.
I know I know but even late in the 80s there was still a legitimate underground -- you just had to pick it apart from all the REM imitators eventually but there were still a few noteworthy groups lingering around. By the 90s the rug got pulled from underneath that underground.
I would like to believe (as Dog3000 would have it) that the underground is coming back. I have yet to hear that kind of music though...
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Lawrence
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Re: Your Favorite Decade?
Aug 05, 2010, 16:32
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zphage wrote: embryonomore wrote: 30's, 40's, 50's, a shotgun, rocking chair, porch, mono transistor radio, moonshine... I'm a happy man.
if you weren't being facetious, the 40s thru 50s are stellar,
nice dry production,
peak years for jazz,
country,
bluegrass,
jump blues,
folk,
R&B,
rockabilly,
rock'n'roll,
postwar acoustic and electric blues
cajun, and zydeco
tejano, conjuncto, and polka
southern(white), jubilee, and hard gospel
avant garde classical
some great great stuff upon which everything was built
Geez, except for some of the jazz, the 40s sounded to me like a decade for really dopey music, like the 90s... "Biggest Aspidistra of the World" anyone?
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