# If you had to pick a single decade of music to listen to from now on **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 3, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663 "2024-07-03T02:43:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/21 "2024-07-03T10:03:38Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > 1965-1975. I… I’m not married to you, am I? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/22 "2024-07-03T10:40:27Z")
I’m tempted to agree, but it means missing out on [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) song. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/23 "2024-07-03T11:12:03Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > My favorite decade of music is 1967-1977. It was an era where creativity and innovation were at their peak in popular music, and no one could surpass that. I concur, I often thought while growing up in that time that, damn I’m living in a musical and cultural reniansance. I still believe that today. New classic songs were coming out a couple of time each week and art, along with album art was outstanding at times. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/24 "2024-07-03T12:33:27Z")
1980-1990. The decade when I went from 10 to 20 years old. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/25 "2024-07-03T12:55:32Z")
I’ll go with 1985-1995. If I was allowed to split it, I’d go with 1987-1995 and use the other 2 years somewhere else (probably with some of the years my favorite classical pieces were composed in the 1700s), but 1985-1986 beats 1996-1997, and it’s not even close. It’s cheesy stuff, but the 1987-1989 music produced by Stock-Aitken-Waterman, like Rick Astley’s _Never Gonna Give You Up_ and _Together Forever_, their version of _I Only Want Be With You_ by Samantha Fox, Donna Summer’s _I Don’t Wanna Get Hurt_, and so on is some of my favorite pop music. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/26 "2024-07-03T13:09:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > 1780-1790, when Mozart and Haydn were at the peak of their careers. I’d like to move it up a little to encompass Beethoven. I’d get tired of any modern decade very quickly. I’m already tired of most of them. The vast majority of pop music is a quarter inch deep. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/27 "2024-07-03T13:20:55Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > 1780-1790, when Mozart and Haydn were at the peak of their careers. That depends on whether the restriction is on when the music was _written_ or on when the music was _recorded_. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/28 "2024-07-03T13:44:14Z")
1964-'74. That was easy… As a kid growing up in a repressively conservative suburb, I was blown away by the music of the Beatles, the british invasion, the hippies, the anti-war protests, and the folk and jazz scenes, all helped me break out and define my politics… and my personality. . > [@Mangetout](#): > > I’m tempted to agree, but it means missing out on [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) song. Don’t worry. Through an unforeseen glitch, that shows up in every time span. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/29 "2024-07-03T13:51:04Z")
1968-78 The best rock with CCR, Neil Young, CSN, Bob Seger etc. You also get Outlaw Country, Eagles, Chicago, Bread, Joni Mitchell, Jim Croce, John Denver, early Linda Ronstadt, and some Neil Diamond. A stunning selection in only ten years. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/30 "2024-07-03T14:01:01Z")
1967-77 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/31 "2024-07-03T14:03:41Z")
1987-1997. Gets me everything I need. ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/32 "2024-07-03T16:11:35Z")
and don’t forget soul ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/33 "2024-07-03T16:17:05Z")
Absolutely! ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/34 "2024-07-03T16:54:22Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I’m not married to you, am I? Much to my regret, no. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/35 "2024-07-03T17:25:35Z")
And funk. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/36 "2024-07-03T17:29:09Z")
The very idea horrifies me. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/37 "2024-07-03T19:23:33Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > 1965-1975. Yep. The era of Classic Rock. > [@Tibby](#): > > My favorite decade of music is 1967-1977 That works also. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/38 "2024-07-03T20:05:22Z")
1977-1987. I was born 1975. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/39 "2024-07-03T20:29:06Z")
Have to go with 1964-1974 over 1965-1975. I found rock music in 1963 when I was thirteen so I was just in time for the Beatles and the British Invasion. I’d miss a few things from 1975, but it wasn’t an all-time great year. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663/40 "2024-07-03T20:46:42Z")
I’d go with 1967 to 1977. This gets me peak Beatles (and many of the other great artists they influenced), some of the best material from Led Zeppelin, Captain Beyond, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Steve Hillage, Mike Oldfield, Hawkwind, Grand Funk Railroad, Focus, the Sex Pistols, and plenty more releases by other bands and artists to discover. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-a-single-decade-of-music-to-listen-to-from-now-on/1003663.md?page=3)