what is the best era for music?

What kills me is people complaining about whatever music being bad for our kids. It's usually used with the phrase "Boy, no wonder this country is going to hell. These kids listening to that damn...."

Lady Gaga

Rap music

Grunge crap outta Seattle

Depressing Depeche Mode

Metal

Van Halen

Southern Rock

Black Sabbath

Led Zepplin

Jimi Hendrix

Those damn long-haired Beatles and The British Invasion

Rock and Roll

Elvis (just shoot him from the waist up)

There are good and bad bands from every era. I stopped at The King, because that would be about the age limit around here. But think about all those great jazz clubs in the 30s/40s/50s with Duke Ellington, etc., stompin' at The Savoy that a lot of people looked down on just because the musicians were not the right color......

The roots of jazz & the blues along with the latin beat has influenced just about all of this stuff big-time to 1 degree or another. As Townes Van Zandt once said, "You got the blues & everything else is zippitydoodah" 

This is such an interesting debate.  Of course it really is subjective but I find myself listening to music from all eras so very tough to pick a favourite. 

My favourite genre of music is punk so mid to late 70s to me is all about The Ramones, The Clash, The Jam, Buzzcocks, etc.  Throw in the amazing Reggae coming out of Jamaica around this time and the best R&B and you have some brilliant music being made.  To me though the 70s also produced some of the worst music....boring, self-indulgent rock bands, awful pop music, progressive rock.....yuck! 

To me the 60s were about the Stones, the Beatles and the Psychedelic movement.  A ton of great music was created. 

I love old, hardcore, honkytonk country music.  I listen to this all the time.  Hank Williams Sr., Webb Pierce, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Lefty Frizzell, Carl Smith, etc.  Throw in the birth of rock n' roll and some amazing Blues music from the southern US and the late 40s and to the end of the 50s was just brilliant. 

I love the new wave scene of the 80s which was born out of the punk scene.  New Order, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, etc.  The 80s also gave us the birth of the American Hardcore scene and the birth of Rap so a ton of great music was being made during this decade.  Unfortunately it also gave us some awful rock music like Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Areosmith, etc. 

The 90s were brilliant for Nirvana, Canadian rock, Industrial, Rap and Hip Hop.  The best dance music also came out of the early 90s. 

I too am finding it hard to list what made the 2000s as good as some of the other eras but time sometimes help you put things like that in perspective. 

Great Taste..........Less Filling

Bud Light.........Miller Lite

Mcdonalds........Burger King

Home Depot........Loewes

They all have their upsides and downsides...its what you prefer.

quite frankly, if you asked most of the musicians of these bands you will find that they got their roots from the great American Blues and Country composers from the early years of the USA.

I was born in 1963 so for me the 70s were my teen listening years. I really did like anything coming from the sixties...although some great stuff came out of the sixties. I appreciate the Stones and the Beatles more now than I did then. Right now I listen to so many different genres its not even funny. Metalica is my car right now...next week I would'nt be surprised if Willie Nelson is playing.

Good Thread.

i agree completely. Lets refine and say the good musc was from 1970-1974, then 1979-. Lots of crap in between that time frame.