The best decade for music?

[MilDoc]

I grew up in the sixties, and turned 21 in that decade. The only way that any of the lyrics ever made any sense (in the late sixties) was when you were under the influence of something illegal!

Same here, but even then a lot of the lyrics didn't make any sense.

[dkerfoot]

I'd guess that most people will respond with whichever decade they um... first became "amorous" in...

That seems to be the time when song really get implanted in your psyche.

[Tom Slick]

I listened to a report on the radio that by the age of 23 you've decided what music is your favorite for the rest of your life. The radio stations know it and tailor their programming to that demographic plus about 10 years.

[LarryG]

I listened to a report on the radio that by the age of 23 you've decided what music is your favorite for the rest of your life.

Not long ago I was in the car and Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" came over the radio. That song was released in 1968, when I was a junior in high school. I reached automatically for the volume knob and cranked it up, and sang along. Later, a part of me reflected on the absurdity of a 56-year-old man doing what I'd just done, and I wondered if I'll still be doing that when I'm tottering around the nursing home with my walker. Yep, probably will.

In the poll I voted Other, and will define my decade of choice as 1966-1975, give or take a year either way. There was a lot of good music recorded before those 10 years, comparatively much less after, but the tracks that went down during those 10 years ... yeah, those are the tunes that define me.

[WayneJ]

If I remember right,the late sixties is most popular because FM radio came about..Then reverbs,stereo, 8 track tapes so you could enjoy music in your car. Before this it was AM radio and static.
Wayne

[billwmeyer]

FM radio wasn't a big factor to me. We had no local rock FM stations, and I had no FM radio in my car. Music to me was WHB 710AM in Kansas City. The static wasn't real bad back then I think because the airwaves were cleaner, less traffic, and maybe the signals were allowed to be stronger.

I bought an 8-track, but the AM radio was the source to know what to buy. I cannot fathom how many hours I listened to that station.

Something else we had here was live bands 3 nights a week. They were local bands but darn good. My stomping grounds was a small college town nearby. It made Playboy Magazines top 10 list of party colleges - #7 if I remember. Plenty of Music, hot cars - oh yeah and GIRLS!

Bill

[pelligrini]

Picking a single decade for me was difficult, my tastes are quite eclectic. My true favorites are from the 80s so that's the one I chose. I associate the 80's with the bands I was listening to (and still do); Bauhaus, Souxsie, Sonic Youth, Skinny Puppy, The Stranglers etc.. It certainly wasn't picked from all of the junk that was being played on mainstream radio.

I'm not sure if Bob Brozman coined the phrase, but I've heard him say it a few times. It's something like "There's was only one tune, everything else is a derivation of that"

[MilDoc]

Wow. 37% - a majority - say the 60s. We really are a bunch of older folks, huh?

[cranbrook2]

I would have to go with late 60,s to early 70,s , Mary Jane era !

[germdoc]

I would have to go with late 60,s to early 70,s , Mary Jane era !

What group was she in??

(Correct answer: ALL OF THEM...)

[Rand]

I think it was Aldous Huxley who said "90% of everything is crap"

Each decade gave us some incredible music but alas, most of it, no matter the era was garbage.

On New Years Eve 69-70 Jimi Hendrix recorded the Band of Gypsies album, a true masterpiece of guitar virtuosity. That same week the number one song in the US was "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies. WTF?