What was the best decade for rock and roll?

[pokerfan]

Curious.

[begin_within]

1. 1964 to 1974.

[darkstar]

2. Good answer.

Pretty much my thinking. But I dared not think outside the box so boldly and post!

:hi:

[pokerfan]

3. Calendar decade!

You don't get to pick half of one and half of another.

60's or 70's?

[begin_within]

5. 60's

[ghostsofgiants]

13. I was going to argue against that because it immediately brings to mind AOR format radio...

But then I realized it had both Velvet Underground and The Stooges.

[Richard Steele]

4. 1980-1988. All music before & after is utter WANK.

Look, the "best decade" for music was the
decade you were a teenager.

Always was, always will be.

This is not the nature of music, it's the nature of humanity.

[Omphaloskepsis]

9. You win this thread..

Take a bow.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Good answer.

[begin_within]

16. What were the best rock songs between 1980 and 1988?

[NewJeffCT]

24. A lot of good songs

Not sure I agree about 1980-88, but U2, REM, Bruce Springsteen, the Police, the Cure, Prince, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, and others put out good stuff in that time frame (I'm not a fan of all of them, but just listed the above)

[begin_within]

35. So far nobody has named a great rock song from the 1980s...

[ghostsofgiants]

39. "Kill The Poor" by Dead Kennedys, "Johnny Hit and Run Paulene" by X

"That's When I Reach For My Revolver" by Mission of Burma, "I Against I" by Bad Brains, "Straight To Hell" by The Clash, "For Want Of You" by Rites of Spring, "Pink Turns Into Blue" by Husker Du, "She's Lost Control" by Joy Division, "Eighties" by Killing Joke, etc.

[NewJeffCT]

46. OK, here's a few

Anything from Husker Du's "Zen Arcade" album, a bunch from "Flip Your Wig" and "New Day Rising" and some from "Candy Apple Grey"

Some of Van Halen's early 80s stuff - "Everybody Wants Some" - "And the Cradle Will Rock" - "Unchained" and "Mean Streets"

MDC's "John Wayne Was a Nazi" and "Dick for Brains"

Bad Brains "Sacred Love"

Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" album

A lot of the early to mid 80s stuff from REM and U2

[SteppingRazor]

21. I completely disagree.

I was a teenager 1990-1996 (ages 13-19). As far as I'm concerned the best decade for rock 'n' roll was about 67-77, or loosely speaking, from Sgt. Pepper to the premiere of Saturday Night Fever.

[Arkansas Granny]

28. I have to disagree with that. I was a teenager during the 60's, but

I prefer 70's and 80's music.

[meegbear]

51. The "best decade" for music was the decade you were a teenager ...

but for the '80s, I'll make an execption.

THE MUSIC OF THE 1980s TOTALLY FUCKING SUCKED!

[Richard Steele]

52. Ooooh, them's fightin words!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[meegbear]

53. Oh yeah?!11?!

[Richard Steele]

54. Looks like he's got us beat, Bill- execute Escape Plan Alpha!!!!

Muah-HahaHahaHahahaaaaaa........

[meegbear]

55. AHHHHHH!

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. The '60s (n/t)

[Joe Fields]

7. definitely the 60's

Anybody doesn't agree, I will introduce them to my garden weasel. Now GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!:smoke:

[KillCapitalism]

8. I was born in the 70's, but...

I consider the stuff from the 60's to be the best.

[losthills]

10. The Sixties

Of course there is great Rock and Roll from each decade.

But the Sixties was the renaissance period. That's the period of explosive growth and creativity and experimentation that has fueled Rock and Roll ever since. So much new ground was broken in the Sixties that we're still sifting through it today.

[LostInAnomie]

11. The 90's would have been surprisingly strong...

... if not for the birth of rap-metal.

[Nevernose]

43. The birth acutaly went suprisingly well.

Anthrax/Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise" was what I consider to be the birth. A couple of other good efforts also came out. It was the childhood that went straight to hell. Rap had so much potential; what happened? At least metal was around long enough to see it come to a productive adulthood.

[some guy]

12. The sixties

The fifties invented it, but didn't have a whole decade to develop it.
The sixties built on the original style and expanded it all over the place.
Everything after that owes homage to something rooted in either the fifties or sixties.

:)

[ghostsofgiants]

26. The 50s and 60s owe homage to what came before them too.

[mainegreen]

15. Well, for rock'n'roll it was not the decade when I was a teenager (90's)

I'd vote the 50's.
Rockabilly!

[DBoon]

42. 1951 to 1959

From "Rocket 88" by Bill Haley up to Buddy Holly's death

[Lyric]

17. I was a teen during the 90's

That's DEFINITELY not the best one. Ugh.

I'll go with the 70's, although I think the last half of the 60's and the first half of the 70's is more accurate.

[NaturalHigh]

18. The 80s.

[Tikki]

19. The 70's.....

...early and late...


Tikki

[Lindsey]

20. The 60's...N/T

[SteppingRazor]

22. Best decade: June 1, 1967 - Dec. 15, 1977

It started with the release of Sgt. Pepper. It came crashing down with the premiere of Saturday Night Fever.

[CatholicEdHead]

23. 80's hair bands or 90's grunge

[anarch]

25. I'm gonna go with Neil Young's album Decade

[begin_within]

40. I bought that when it came out in 1977, and I still play it from time to time.

What a great collection of songs, and his written commentary adds a lot.

[Guava Jelly]

27. when did Nickleback come out ??

:hide: :sarcasm: :rofl:

[martymar64]

29. I have to go with 1975 to about 1985

I'm just an old punk at heart.

"Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole"

[InvisibleTouch]

30. The 80's. n/t

[hippywife]

31. The 60's and 70's.

The last part of the former and the first part of the latter.

[dysfunctional press]

32. the 80's...the 1780's.

[mzteris]

33. clarify - do you mean ROCK

when you say Rock and Roll -

or do you mean "rock and roll"

two different genres. usually used interchangeably but they don't mean the same thing.

[CRF450]

34. Call me anti-oldies...

But for reason (and maybe because I'm 20) I cant stand the old stuff! Its all new rock music for me. I like the heavy stuff, but not that deathmetal crap.

Its gotta be bands just like...
Breaking Benjamin
10 Years
Korn
Disturbed
Limp Bizkit (their good songs, not the shitty ones from their last few albums!)
Linkin Park
Nonpoint
Papa Roach
Tool
Slipknot
Three Days Grace
Three Years Hollow
System Of A Down
Chevelle
Godsmack


I like rap metal:)

[ghostsofgiants]

38. Limp Bizkit has good songs?

[MrSlayer]

36. 60's for Rock n Roll. 70's for Hard Rock. 80's for Metal.

60's

Stones, Beatles, Doors, Who, Kinks and a host of others.

70's

Zeppelin, Sabbath (Yes, both are technically 60's but more known for their 70's material), AC/DC, Motorhead, Van Halen, Rush and many more.

80's

Slayer, Metallica, Ozzy, Judas Priest (Strongest material is from the 80's), Megadeth, Iron Maiden. All the best Metal is from the 80's.

You could always make a case for Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Screamin' Jay Hawkins from the 50's.

[Xipe Totec]

37. 1965-1985

Hey, time slows when you're having fun!

[RushIsRot]

41. The 50s when it began, you whippersnappers!

[Major Hogwash]

45. Does anyone sing "Johnny Angel" anymore?

I din't think so.

LoL

[SoxFan]

50. You might be right!

My first instinct was to say the '80s, since that's when I was in my teens and early twenties. However, all of this would be moot without the 1950s. Bill Haley, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, and a score of doo-wop and R&B acts laid the groundwork for everything that came later

[wildhorses]

44. 60's

although the 50's stuff is nice and i like a lot of stuff in the 70's too...after that i am not sure it is truly rock and roll. it has morphed and evolved in to a lot of different directions...

[GirlinContempt]

47. probably 74-84

Josef K, Gang of Four, Joy Division, Sad Lovers and Giants, Aztec Camera, Gun Club, Romeo Void, Delta 5, early Bauhaus, Wire, Husker Du, Adam and the Ants, Cocteau Twins, Pere Ubu, Swans, New Model Army, Killing Joke, Devo, Clan of Xymox, Lydia Lunch....
I could go on.

[Seabiscuit]

48. 1954-1974

Oops. That's 2 decades. Those two were the best. Then the music died.

[Burma Jones]

49. Easy, the Sixties,

Everything since has sounded like SOMETHING from the sixties, maybe obscure as hell, but the explosion of bizarre goodness that occurred in the 60s is still showing results.

[GreenPartyVoter]

56. I mostly listen to that 64-84 period of classic rock. Yah I know, that's two decaades

So sue me. :P