90s for me. Loved the emergence of grunge, and then some of the greatest ever EDM.
Underworld, Prodigy, Chemical brothers, fatboyslim, fingalick'n records, freestylers, leftfield, massive attack, dj food, infected mushroom, shpongle, tuyoshi suzuki ..... I'm missing a tonne of others. Such a great party decade.90's EDM was amazing. The kings of EDM of course being Daft Punk.
Underworld, Prodigy, Chemical brothers, fatboyslim, fingalick'n records, freestylers, leftfield, massive attack, dj food, infected mushroom, shpongle, tuyoshi suzuki ..... I'm missing a tonne of others. Such a great party decade.
80s by a decent margin. Popular bands in the 70s rode the momentum into the 80s with extensive tours and/or new music (ACDC, Rush, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, ZZ Top, Tom Petty, Clapton, Rolling Stones, Stevie Ray Vaughan).
Rock bands that blew up mainstream wise where very good (Dire Straits, Billy Idol, Van Halen, The Police, Def Leppard, Guns n Roses, U2, Prince).
Metal music started a huge upward swing in the 80s (Metallica, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Anthrax).
Not a huge pop fan but the pop type music was good (Duran Duran, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, David Bowie, Journey, Michael Jackson, The Cars).
The point at which pop saturation peaked, more or less around the time of Kurt Cobain's death, a martyrdom so to speak, triggered an intense shift from pop muzik moving our generation into a vibrant underground movement that peaked in virtually every genre right up until the Lars Ulrich and Napster fiasco. Every facet of music has taken a downward spiral ever since, with the odd anomaly present every so often.
No way, 80's was the Golden Age for Metal by a lot. The Metal scene died in the 90's for a lot of subgenres.The 90's hands down. Was just the golden age for metal.
Napster killed people's perception of audio fidelity. Sure you paid more for a pressed cd, but at least it wasn't some compressed shit sounding mp3 music.I know it's off topic but the whole Napster fiasco was the fault of the music industry. People think stuff is expensive now try buying a CD in the mid 90's and having to pay anywhere from $12 to $25 for 1 CD back when minimum wage was like $5.15 per hour. Then if the CD sucked there was no real way to recoup that lost money. Skynet is correct in that music has taken a downward spiral ever since but I never want to go back to paying those prices again for music.
People say this quite a bit and I don't think people realize the type of hip hop and R&B the 80's had. The 80's had Kool and The Gang, Earth, Wind and Fire, Anita Baker, Whitney Houston, Sade, Luther Vandross, Eric B and Rakim, Public Enemy and Big Daddy Kane among others. 90's R&B is good but the 80's arguably has 3 GOAT's on the list above (Anita Baker, Whitney Houston and Rakim). In fact, I don't think there should be debate about Whitney imo.