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I'll shit in your shoes.
Looking at the lists, it sure seems that music drove off a cliff after the 70's
When I hear 70's I think Woodstock, I think Hendricks
Uhh...Woodstock happened in August 1969?
Looking at the lists, it sure seems that music drove off a cliff after the 70's
Commercially it was. There was great music in the 80's, it just didn't get any airplay.I have so often said the same thing. Sure, I listened to some 80's artists but for the most part that decade was terrible.
Prior to 79, you could purchase an album and nearly every song on it was enjoyable. There would be a theme, or a feel, to the entire album. In the 80's, there would maybe be one or two songs on an LP that were good, and the rest absolutely sucked.
Agreed.Commercially it was. There was great music in the 80's, it just didn't get any airplay.
I remember having a VHS copy of "The Year Punk Broke" but I don't know where it went. It probably ended up with the old pron tapes that I know my mom tossed out.
Just because your kids are old and only visiting doesn't mean that they want to take days off from jerking it, goddamnit woman!
Agreed.
I'm looking through the years and I think I honestly don't start seeing the dropoff until 1998. You see the rise of the boy bands, nu metal, and you saw all of the pop-punk sell-out. I think ska was popular at the time. Madonna went into techno. I think Garbage was the best rock act that year.
Dark days.
Meh, the public can like whatever it likes. I don't care much for Beyonce, but her music reaches a certain part of the population and resonates with them. I think the problem is, with the exception of me, we're all old motherfuckers. We hate Justin Bieber just like Elvis and Chuck Berry fans hated Led ZeppelinEven then, there was great music, you just had to look harder to find it.
Popular music has always kinda sucked but, I would say that is the biggest difference between Classic era rock and the 80's and 90's...the popular music was better back then, which is as much a testament to retarded fans as it is good music, or lack thereof.
You could blame MTV and maybe the emergence of FM radio, but the public themselves share a lot of that responsibility for being gullible and malleable.
Are Beastie Boys worth getting into? I've been meaning to listen to them.
My dad was born in '62. One time, the family was traveling back from Vermont (where his grandparents lived and his parents grew up) to Delaware. My dad was 7, but in his family of 6 kids, the oldest brother, born in 1952, was a huge hippie, and had heard about this awesome concert in upstate NY. They were going by it anyway to get back to Wilmington, so my uncle kept pleading and pleading to let them go. My grandfather, who was apparently a very straight-laced and strict motherfucker, obviously knew nothing about the concert so he was considering it. They ended up deciding at the last minute to skip it, but my grandfather almost took his entire family, including a 7 year old boy, to Woodstock.Uhh...Woodstock happened in August 1969?
Are Beastie Boys worth getting into? I've been meaning to listen to them.
Check this out, I was born in 1997 and literally cannot name a single Beastie Boys song.
Uhh...Woodstock happened in August 1969?
Eh. There was some great music but there wasn't as much of it. And honestly, most of it didn't age very well.Even then, there was great music, you just had to look harder to find it.
Popular music has always kinda sucked but, I would say that is the biggest difference between Classic era rock and the 80's and 90's...the popular music was better back then, which is as much a testament to retarded fans as it is good music, or lack thereof.
You could blame MTV and maybe the emergence of FM radio, but the public themselves share a lot of that responsibility for being gullible and malleable.
60s is obvious - The BeatlesBy most iconic, I don't necessarily mean the most records sold (though it would hard to be iconic without being up there in music sales I think). But basically, the question is; for each decade, which music artist do you think of?
The only criteria is that only the music released in that decade counts. So, for example, Bob Dylan isn't any more iconic in the '60s because of music he released in the '70s or later. Also, post your list first without looking at music sales.
Here's my list:
1960s- The Beatles
1970s- Led Zeppelin
1980s- Michael Jackson
1990s- Whitney Houston
2000s- Beyonce
2010s- Ed Sheeran
Here is the list of the top sellers each decade. I didn't look at this list before creating mine.
1960s-
1: The Beatles
2: Elvis Presley
3: The Rolling Stones
4: Bob Dylan
5: The Beach Boys
1970s-
1. Elton John
2. The Rolling Stones
3. Pink Floyd
4. Abba
5. Led Zeppelin
1980s-
1. Prince
2. Madonna
3. U2
4. Michael Jackson
5. Bruce Springsteen
1990s-
1. Mariah Carey
2. Madonna
3. Celine Dion
4. REM
5. U2
2000s-
1. Eminem
2. Madonna
3. Britney Spears
4. Coldplay
5. U2
2010s-
1. Taylor Swift
2. Adele
3. Justin Bieber
4. Eminem
5. Drake
Sources- List of best-selling artists of the 2010s in the United States - Wikipedia
Who were the most successful artists of each decade?
Good choice. He was the answer to a Final Jeopardy question once which was "Who is the only artist to have a number one song in 4 different decades?". That's certainly longevity if nothing else.I also almost went with Elton John for the '70s. He's number 1 in record sales FWIW.