[Glenn A]

To me it has to be the early seventies. This was when heavy and prog rock were at their peak with the big three- Led Zep, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath- producing their finest music and Pink Floyd released the legendary Dark Side of the Moon. In the pop charts glam was providing some welcome light relief and many of the acts like Slade, T Rex and The Sweet were actually talented musicians. Bowie was never better than in 1972-73 and there was a new generation of singer/songwriters like Lynsey de Paul and Gilbert O Sullevan who released some quality music.
Also most of the best music was British. While black American music continued to be good, America's main musical export was the dreaded Osmonds, who were no match for our bands, and white American music seemed to have fallen asleep.

[Grabid Rannies]

1984 - 1988, I think it's safe to say that's when I liked most of the chart music around. I do like stuff from the surrounding eras (although far more so 1983 backwards than 1988 forwards!)

[Glenn A]

Originally Posted by Grabid Rannies

1984 - 1988, I think it's safe to say that's when I liked most of the chart music around. I do like stuff from the surrounding eras (although far more so 1983 backwards than 1988 forwards!)

84 and 85 were classic years, FGTH and the Kate Bush comeback were the best, but I'd still say the period from 1970 to 1974 was the best era for me. Also don't knock the 1979-82 period when British music really took on the Americans who had become boring and irrelevant again.

[ajman]

1964-70 followed by 1978-86.

[Glenn A]

Originally Posted by ajman

1964-70 followed by 1978-86.

Definitely agree with the last period and I would say 1966-70 was a great era with psychedelia, the blues revival and the start of heavy and progressive rock.

[VoodooChic]

1984-1994 - then Britpop arrived and ruined the charts (although my faves still released classic albums) - then again from 1999-2004.

[Glenn A]

Originally Posted by VoodooChic

1984-1994 - then Britpop arrived and ruined the charts (although my faves still released classic albums) - then again from 1999-2004.

Hmmm, the period from about 1989 to 1994 was my musical dark era. I never got rave, hated Madchester, blamed grunge for killing metal and found the whole period dismal. 1999- 2004 I will OK as the dance records at the beginning of the noughties were light years ahead of ten years previously and the rock revival was more than welcome.

[Eraserhead]

Two periods for me - 1978-1982 and 1988-1992 (roughly).

'78-'82 was when I first started to get into music properly and it coincided with post-punk / new wave which was immensely creative. We also had the mod / 2-tone / ska revival and, of course, New romantics and the synthesiser pop boom. Wonderful!

'88-'92 was the noise phase - shoegaze, grunge etc. - a time when bands were seriously pushing the limits of dissonant guitar noise. It was one of the big peaks for indie music before it all went commercial with Britpop.

[ilovecorrie2]

late 1960s

[Fabala]

Originally Posted by Eraserhead

Two periods for me - 1978-1982 and 1988-1992 (roughly).

'78-'82 was when I first started to get into music properly and it coincided with post-punk / new wave which was immensely creative. We also had the mod / 2-tone / ska revival and, of course, New romantics and the synthesiser pop boom. Wonderful!

'88-'92 was the noise phase - shoegaze, grunge etc. - a time when bands were seriously pushing the limits of dissonant guitar noise. It was one of the big peaks for indie music before it all went commercial with Britpop.

Agreed.

[Menoetius]

Originally Posted by Eraserhead

Two periods for me - 1978-1982 and 1988-1992 (roughly).

'78-'82 was when I first started to get into music properly and it coincided with post-punk / new wave which was immensely creative. We also had the mod / 2-tone / ska revival and, of course, New romantics and the synthesiser pop boom. Wonderful!

'88-'92 was the noise phase - shoegaze, grunge etc. - a time when bands were seriously pushing the limits of dissonant guitar noise. It was one of the big peaks for indie music before it all went commercial with Britpop.

Exactly the same for me and for the same reasons.

[VoodooChic]

Originally Posted by Glenn A

Hmmm, the period from about 1989 to 1994 was my musical dark era. I never got rave, hated Madchester, blamed grunge for killing metal and found the whole period dismal. 1999- 2004 I will OK as the dance records at the beginning of the noughties were light years ahead of ten years previously and the rock revival was more than welcome.

I never got rave and hated Madchester too - loved the rest of it though.
Dance music from 99-04 was fabulous....my "clubbing period" and soundtrack to some great holidays.

[Waldstein]

For me, it's probably the late 60's/early 70's. So much of my favourite music came from that era. The Laurel Canyon scene (Neil Young, CSN, Joni Mitchell, and co.), Hendrix, and the birth of great socially conscious soul music with the likes of What's Goin' On, Innervisions, etc.

I have fond memories of the late 80's also. I grew up with older brothers and sisters who were teenagers at this time so artists like U2, MJ, Duran Duran, Prince, George Michael and Madonna were the soundtrack to my early years. MJ's Bad Tour in '88 was my first concert also. The 80's gets a bad rep for music but in my opinion, it produced some fantastic pop music.

[Eric_Blob]

For me it was 2002-2007. I loved the gangsta rap phase at the beginning, the crunk domination in the middle, and the beginnings of electropop at the end before it got all generic and boring like it is now.

[far2cool]

late eighties, then 1994-1999

[SamMcK]

My golden age for music would be 1964-1973 although I also love a lot of music mainly from the 50's until the late 80's. Bare in mind I wasn't born until the 90's!

[Hav_mor91]

1999-2007 Pop, Dance, Indie all great and sound tracked my teen years before the influx of generic dance and music of quality hanging out on the fringes.

[vauxhall1964]

1978-1984
new wave, the peak of disco, synth pop, goth and an endless stream of quality pop music... I was in heaven. 1982 was the peak..i was buying 3 or 4 singles a week. Smash Hits, the NME, Top of the Pops, Record Mirror, late night Radio 1, John Peel were all my bibles. The charts were diverse and highly entertaining and anything could get into them. A fair bit of pop music had a reasonable claim to being art... those days are long gone.

[wilpy]

2012
kanye, little mix, rhihana, lmfao, justin biber

dunt get mutch beter then that

[ShaunIOW]

1974-1985 & 1988-1991 as those are the periods when my favorite artists/groups were either established or still on the rise - groups like Judas Priest, AC/DC, Scorpions, Rainbow, The Clash, Motorhead, UFO, Accept, Iron Maiden, Blue Oyster Cult, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Jett, Mott the Hoople, Slade, Sweet etc for the early dates and Doro, Bonfire for the later ones as these are the rock/metal bands I like and I never got into thrash, nu-metal, rap-metal etc.

[Fabala]

Originally Posted by wilpy

2012
kanye, little mix, rhihana, lmfao, justin biber

dunt get mutch beter then that

I really hope this is a wind up.

[shackfan]

Originally Posted by vauxhall1964

1978-1984
new wave, the peak of disco, synth pop, goth and an endless stream of quality pop music... I was in heaven. 1982 was the peak..i was buying 3 or 4 singles a week. Smash Hits, the NME, Top of the Pops, Record Mirror, late night Radio 1, John Peel were all my bibles. The charts were diverse and highly entertaining and anything could get into them. A fair bit of pop music had a reasonable claim to being art... those days are long gone.

This just about sums me up, though I'd start in 1977 with punk and for me 1980 -81 was the best, with UB40, Dexys (my first 2 gigs ), early U2 through to all the New Romantic/synth stuff. However I have loved new music from every year since. This year best single for me is Faceless by Audioshock. There is always something good out there, you just have to look for it.

[mushymanrob]

Originally Posted by Glenn A

To me it has to be the early seventies. This was when heavy and prog rock were at their peak with the big three- Led Zep, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath- producing their finest music and Pink Floyd released the legendary Dark Side of the Moon. In the pop charts glam was providing some welcome light relief and many of the acts like Slade, T Rex and The Sweet were actually talented musicians. Bowie was never better than in 1972-73 and there was a new generation of singer/songwriters like Lynsey de Paul and Gilbert O Sullevan who released some quality music.
Also most of the best music was British. While black American music continued to be good, America's main musical export was the dreaded Osmonds, who were no match for our bands, and white American music seemed to have fallen asleep.

funny how people see things differently, that period is one of my least favs, for all the reasons you like it!

64-70 the heart of the swinging 60's, beat, r & b, psychedelia, motown.

77-84 the punk era, new wave, ska/two tone, new romantics

98-03 trance.

[MizManiac]

The 70's rule! Glam, Bowie, Queen,the emergenge of electronic, disco & poonk. Best 70's year for singles-1979!

[warszawa]

'67 - '73.