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Poll Question: What was the best decade for music
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    Posted: November 11 2005 at 09:16
I'm thinking this will be obvious, but maybe I'll be surprised. I'll be more interested in what ends up being the second best.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 09:39
I think the time between 1890-1914 is miles above any other period, but obviously I'm not allowed to vote for that.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 09:43
Originally posted by OT Räihälä OT Räihälä wrote:

I think the time between 1890-1914 is miles above any other period, but obviously I'm not allowed to vote for that.

 
I agree, anyway I picked the 70'
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 09:50

Wonder who will win

 

To bad I wasn't born then :(

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 10:47
Come on you boys 'n' girls. The '70's will win hands down! And I fully agree with that. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 10:49

Originally posted by cmidkiff cmidkiff wrote:

I'm thinking this will be obvious, but maybe I'll be surprised. I'll be more interested in what ends up being the second best.

Yes i think the same... it will be obvious

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 11:39

 

Having lived as teenager and young adult the 60s (2nd half) and the 70s, I like both but I'll vote for the Sixties where everything was prepared to explode into the Seventies.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 11:40
I think the 70s are highly overrated. Just because prog was booming then doesn't mean that was a good decade for music. Overall, I can't choose, because I like little pieces of music from each decade, and I don't reguard the 70s very highly, although I do admit Yes, Genesis King Crimson and Jethro Tull all were very prolific and worthwhile in that decade.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 11:41
Congratulations for strting the thread with the most obviuos outcome, 70's obviously 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 12:00
We're all prog fans...the answer is obvious...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 12:30
Yeh, prog was best in the 70's, obviously, but EVERYTHING was great around the late 60's. That "proto-prog" and "early prog" (Procol Harum, ItCOtCK) sound is so cool, psychedelia was expanding rock's borders, and besides, I consider 1970 a year in the Sixties music-wise. (A very good year.)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 12:48

Originally posted by Alagithil Alagithil wrote:

Yeh, prog was best in the 70's, obviously, but EVERYTHING was great around the late 60's. That "proto-prog" and "early prog" (Procol Harum, ItCOtCK) sound is so cool, psychedelia was expanding rock's borders, and besides, I consider 1970 a year in the Sixties music-wise. (A very good year.)

Shame it counts as the '70's then isnt it

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 13:40

Uh, no, the point I was trying to make is that I count it as Sixties. If we're talking music-wise, then I'm speaking in terms of "Musical decades". I find that '71 is the year the Seventies found its identity.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 14:56
Originally posted by OT Räihälä OT Räihälä wrote:

I think the time between 1890-1914 is miles above any other period, but obviously I'm not allowed to vote for that.


Yes, you might be right.

Sibelius, Dvorak, Debussy... great stuff.

But I picked 70s from that list.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 20:07
I would have to say the Seventies, although I realy like stuff from all time periods
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 21:30
Originally posted by magog magog wrote:

We're all prog fans...the answer is obvious...


Yeah, this seems like a no-brainer for about 95% of folks here.

Although some prog metal heads may have another opinion...

...it would just be wrong.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 21:58
70's..but there is a lot of great music coming out right now.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2005 at 23:10

Lol well this is pretty humerous....

 

When this poll was done over at Dt.net, it was atleast semi balanced result wise. There wqas some 60's, a little 80's  a few 90's , but this is just ridiculus

 

lol

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 12 2005 at 00:04

Originally posted by Nipsey88 Nipsey88 wrote:

Originally posted by magog magog wrote:

We're all prog fans...the answer is obvious...


Yeah, this seems like a no-brainer for about 95% of folks here.

Although some prog metal heads may have another opinion...

...it would just be wrong.

I'm getting sick and tired of prog metal fans getting slammed in this forum.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 12 2005 at 00:07
Is this question posed in terms of when was the best music created, or when is the best decade for experiencing music?

My vote obviously goes for the 70's, but if the question were posed towards the latter I would say that now is the best time for experiencing all the great music of the past (and certain rare occasions of musical greatness in the present).  Here's my reasons:

~While in the 70's you have the experience of seeing your favorite prog giants live in concert, today you can still see many of them in concert, and you also have the benefit of the music gaining a legendary reputation through the years as it maintains a loyal and organized fan-base.

~Today's technology allows you to experience a larger magnitude of music.  I have roughly the same quality of lifestyle as my father did when he was my age, and he still comments that he would have been jealous of me if he had seen my music collection at his age

~Today's technology also allows us to research music much quicker and more efficiently, thanks to great web-based resources like progarchives.  So we waste less time and money on music that might not mirror our interests.

~Even though nothing sounds as good as a mint condition vinyl, mp3 and compact disc technology give you the ability to listen to music anywhere while doing just about anything.

So I would say now is "the best decade for music", but of course in terms of the best music from a decade I'd certainly go with 70's.

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