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Old 14-09-2008, 12:47
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I enjoy listening to music from the 60's 70's and 80's. But my favourite out of all the decades for music was the 90's.
Though there was a variety of music in all the other decades, the 90's for me will always be my favourite decade for music.
Which is your favourite and why?
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Old 14-09-2008, 12:50
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The usual answer to this for a person is whichever year you spent your teens in.

So for me, it would be the 90's as well. Pop music, in my opinion, was a load of bollards, but the indie and alternative scene grew from strength to strength and the UK ruled the world in music for the first time since the 60's

However, if you ask someone a bit older, they'll pick an earlier decade.

My mam for example was born in the 50s and was a teenager in the 60's, her favourite decade, the 60's!

My older brother, born in the 70's, was a teen in the 70's, his favourite decade? Well, mention Marillion to him and he'll still be talking to you this time next week!
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Old 14-09-2008, 13:10
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i was born in the 90s but i think the 80s were really good for music it Was GTA Vice City that made me go out buy some 80s albums lol the 90s was the best for dance music the 00s is just as great
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Old 14-09-2008, 13:22
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decade was best for music?
Well Mozart was doing some pretty cool stuff in the 1700s so perhaps the question was a little too general...

I have such a broad spectrum of musical interest that I could easily say it doesn't matter. There's been great music and some absolutely dire music in pretty much any period of time you can think of.

If I had to pick a favourite period for "pop music" it would be slightly before my time in that I was too young to remember it the first time around - That is the late 50s early 60s. So as the song goes "I was born too late"

I used to DJ in the late 70s early 80s so that period is special for reasons other than the music too...

My real love though is for classical music, but that's never been 'fashionable' and doesn't help you pull the birds
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Old 14-09-2008, 20:37
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I'd say the 90's as well, partly because I was in my teens then.
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Old 14-09-2008, 20:42
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The teenage rule doesn't apply to me, because I'm going to say the 90's and possibly the early 00's.

There aren't many good bands around now that started very recently, for some reason.
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Old 14-09-2008, 21:06
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I was born in the early 90's and i say 90's to early 00's was the best time for music.
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Old 14-09-2008, 21:24
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90s for me
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Old 14-09-2008, 21:27
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80's and 90's both awsome.
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Old 14-09-2008, 21:32
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I don't think that the best decades draw a neat line from the beginning of one decade to the start of the next one.

So I have to be awkward and say late 1980s to the early to mid 1990s.
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Old 14-09-2008, 22:04
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Can't pick a decade, but my fave periods of all time are 1967-1972, 1977-1980 and 1994-1997.
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Old 14-09-2008, 22:55
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90s to now, for my music taste. I also think 90s to now has a lot of shit, probably more than other decades but I'm a child of the 80s so I'm not sure.
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Old 15-09-2008, 01:31
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I was born in 63, so my earliest musical memories are from the late 60's and early 70's - I'll go with the 60's . . . I just love 60's music - must have been a great time to be a teenage music fan or musician . . . .
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Old 15-09-2008, 01:47
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The texxtbook answer was the 60's as it was so innovative for music and transformed popular culture...

... but musically im rather fond of the 70's. We started with prog rock (urrgghhh!!) went through glam rock, soul, popular explosion of reggae thanks to Bob Marley, punk, disco, and at the tail end the beginning of electonica and hip hop. V innovate decade IMO...

The 80s (when I WAS a teenager!) was BIG PANTS IMO. Interesting at the very beginning and very end (Acid house/Madchester) with a load of inane crap in the middle.

Im very partial to the 90's and I love a lot of 90's music but I dont think it was particually innovative.

The noughies seem like a partial return to the 80's to me, with the Simon Cowell factory replacing SAW!!
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Old 15-09-2008, 02:38
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The noughies seem like a partial return to the 80's to me, with the Simon Cowell factory replacing SAW!!
Not too surprising since Cowell did most of the PR for the S/A/W acts in the 80s, he worked very close with Pete Waterman's lot back then.
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Old 15-09-2008, 02:45
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The 60's.

Pop music was at it's most creative,sure the production improved after the 80's and into to the 90's,but 95% of everything since 1980 has been recycling the sounds,styles (or songs) of what came before the 80's.If you take half of the greatest people in pop music,when it comes to originality,influence or song writing,most will have been at their peak during the 60's.

Beatles,Rolling Stones,Who,Hendrix,Doors,Kinks,Dylan,Beach Boys,Clapton,Velvet Underground,Aretha Franklin,Sly and the Family Stone,Captain Beefheart,Supremes,Jefferson Airplane,Moody Blues,Byrds,Janis Joplin,T Rex,The Band,Bee Gees,Temptations,Stevie Wonders,Marvin Gaye,James Brown,Smokey Robinson and many more.
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Old 15-09-2008, 02:48
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I was a teen in the 80s and still enjoy listening to many of the timeless songs which were around at the time. I also like some of the noughties music and some of the music from the 60s and 70s. I think the 90s were my least favourite decade.
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Old 15-09-2008, 03:14
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I'm a teen in the 00s and to be honest, most of the music is horrendous.
I'll go with 90s.
Grunge rock, ska-revival, Brit-pop and The Spice Girls

Then again the 80s had some great music too
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Old 15-09-2008, 08:01
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Like the Seekers, second only to the Beetles in the 60s UK charts success....
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Old 15-09-2008, 08:32
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Like the Seekers, second only to the Beetles in the 60s UK charts success....
Never heard of a band by that name . . .
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Old 15-09-2008, 11:45
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The noughies seem like a partial return to the 80's to me, with the Simon Cowell factory replacing SAW!!
Yes, but in reverse as there was more manufactured pop around 2000 like the late 80's but towards the end of the noughties there are more bands like the beginning of the 80's.
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Old 15-09-2008, 12:08
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I was born in '63 so I'm supposed to say the 1970s I guess!!

However every decade has it's moments, even now. For those who say the 00s are a horrendous decade for music, it isn't. The difference is that now you have to go out and find the good music rather than wait, usually in vain, for a radio station to pick it up.

In the next few weeks I'm going to see Opeth, The Subways, Panic Room and Touchstone. All very good bands but, with the exception of maybe The Subways, virtually unheard of and certainly very unlikely ever to get any radio exposure.

There's plenty of great music out there, you just have to look for it.
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Old 15-09-2008, 12:13
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Can't pin it down to any specific time, I love music from all decades, except this one (I find almost nothing worth listening to these days, and have 'gone back in time') .
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Old 15-09-2008, 12:18
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The 80s for me........though not the fashions!
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Old 15-09-2008, 12:31
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The 80s for me........though not the fashions!
Those 'fashions' are back big time.

In TopMan and TopShop yesterday, they were full of skinnyarsed drainpipe jeans, punk sneakers, day-glo tops and hideous multi coloured accessories.

Hated them all in the '80s, they look even worse now!
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