Poll: What was the most influential decade for music?
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60's to early 70's for me.
You had Jimi, The Doors, Neil Young, Beatles, Steppenwolf, Creedence, Dylan & the most important one of all....Funk. I would also go for early 1900's (amazing blues artists) & mid 70's, when Reggae was awesome.
Can I pick 90's too? Soundgarden, Rage etc. Sorry :/
You had Jimi, The Doors, Neil Young, Beatles, Steppenwolf, Creedence, Dylan & the most important one of all....Funk. I would also go for early 1900's (amazing blues artists) & mid 70's, when Reggae was awesome.
Can I pick 90's too? Soundgarden, Rage etc. Sorry :/
I'd be tempted to pick the 90's, with bands like Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumkins, RATM, Soundgarden, RHCP etc. It was a good decade for Rock/Alternative music, at least.Phillosophic said:
Don't think I'd be able to pin it down to one decade though... I like bands from across the spectrum.
I would say the 70's but in the 60's we saw Hendrix, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, The Who AND David Bowie, too many influential musicians to count.
I was thinking about the 70's but then I realized Disco arrived in the 70's. I love, I mean reaaly love music, apart from Disco, Disco is the devil. It's like somebody did something unspeakable to Funk & Disco was the outcome. Makes me sad just to think about it
**Shakes fist at Disco, then flips it the bird**
All the best musicians died at the beginning of the 70's. They all saw Disco coming
**Shakes fist at Disco, then flips it the bird**
All the best musicians died at the beginning of the 70's. They all saw Disco coming
It wasn't just the big name acts in the 60's that influenced things profoundly, everybody did something of note. The Kinks pioneered guitar overdrive by daisy-chaining amps, The Creation introduced bow-playing of electric guitars, Booker T and the MGs along with the Animals pioneered organ use in rock, the seeds of heavy metal were planted by the likes of Black Sabbath, Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, and Cream, the Byrds took from Dylan and laid the foundations for later bands like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Eagles...
Not to mention the fact that musically, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and others effectively shattered preconceptions about what a musical artist could be.
Not to mention the fact that musically, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and others effectively shattered preconceptions about what a musical artist could be.
It's way too hard to call, for pop music the 60s, rock the late 60s and 70s, hip hop the (very) late 70s and 80s and dance the late 80s and 90s. So in summary all of them depending on what you like.
I find a lot of the good Hipperty-Hop can be traced back to Funk, Jazz & Reggae (toasting). Almost everything has some element of Blues/Soul/Rock in it somewhere too.speedcoreXdandy said:
I have to agree with SpeedcoreXDandy. It depends on which you like.
I like hip-hop and Michael Jackson so, really, my choices are '80's or '70's.
I like hip-hop and Michael Jackson so, really, my choices are '80's or '70's.
