Your Personal Favorite Musical Decade

[Guest]

I don't have a preference, but in terms of sheer quantity and widespread availability of good music I'd have to say this decade. I've heard like 250-300 albums this year that I at least enjoyed to some degree, and over 100 which I keep going back to because they're so good. Nothing on my 2013 chart is less than a 75/100 for me at the moment, and every album I remove to make way for new stuff pains me a little. Last year I heard around 100 albums that I really enjoyed, and six or seven that could quite easily be on my overall chart. Obviously much of this has to do with my own motivation over the last 18 months to check out as much new music as possible, but even I didn't think there would be so much great stuff released. That said, there are plenty of albums I adore in every decade from the 1950s onwards, so I really couldn't say. The 1990s were a great time for alt. rock, hip-hop, R'n'B and electronic music, so that decade holds a massive appeal for me. Similarly, the 1970s saw a boom in punk and post-punk and reggae and disco and a more complex variety of soul than had been being produced earlier. Then in the '80s a lot of these great ideas were expanded on, and we saw the house and techno boom, not to mention plenty of great college rock and some fantastic pop music. The 1960s can't be discarded either, given how big a hand it had in shaping the western pop music that came afterwards and how many of that decade's records were staples of my early musical education and remain staples of my listening life to this day. And this is before we get to jazz or German music or neoclassical stuff or country music or lots of other genres that have seen various peaks at various times throughout the last hundred or so years. So yeah, at the moment I'm going with the 2010s, but there is no right answer. Every decade has been responsible for its share of music I couldn't live without.

[meruizh]

It's all about our youth

So 90's and 00's for me
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[Guest]

00s for sure, with 90s in second, 70s and 10s about tied, and 60s all on its lonesome. The sixties really sucked in my opinion. I mean, even if they were formative years for western popular music, I find them harder to connect with, though a lot of the stuff I really love like Exuma or Just Another Diamond Day came out in 1970, so they were close to being good...but not quite.

But yeah, for some reason I just like more music from the 00s than any other decade. The 10s are great so far too.

Edit: Lol, forgot the 80s, they're cool, don't know where to place them. XD

[drakonium]

I thought I preferred the 90s, but when I made my decade charts, it appeared pretty clearly to me that my favorite decade is the 70s. At least, that's the decade I've heard the most music from. I think.

[Bach]

The 90s.
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[Guest]

There were lots of musical characteristics in the 00s , I think.

[SingingPeasant96]

90's>>>>60's=00's>70's>80's
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[flyingcitrus]

Very little love for the oldies, I see. 60s and 70s all the way for me!

[TracyJacks]

[davidhuret]

1960s all the way: so many innovations and great music, both with mass appeal and without. Just a look at the sales charts of the time should be enough to convince you, bearing in mind that's just the tip of the iceberg of what's so unique about that decade. No nostalgia involved, I was born in the 1970s.