I… I’m not married to you, am I?
I’m tempted to agree, but it means missing out on this song.
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.
1980-1990. The decade when I went from 10 to 20 years old.
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.
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.
That depends on whether the restriction is on when the music was written or on when the music was recorded.
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.
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Don’t worry. Through an unforeseen glitch, that shows up in every time span.
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.
1967-77
1987-1997. Gets me everything I need.
and don’t forget soul
Absolutely!
Much to my regret, no.
And funk.
The very idea horrifies me.
Yep. The era of Classic Rock.
That works also.
1977-1987. I was born 1975.
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.
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.