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Rather than asking about genre, this is rather obviously about your favourite era of music.

For me, it has to the very late 70's to the lateish 80's, with the New Romantic, Punk, New Wave etc sound. Absolutely love this stuff. To my mind, despite an awful lot of utter crap being released, the good stuff was the first sign of genuine musicians getting a bit artsy with their instruments. Moving beyond the simple electronic bleeps and bloops of the God awful Disco era, and finding interesting applications for it.

And beyond my musical tastes, you had the early beginnings of the Hiphop and Rap artists. The sort of rhymes that actually had a point beyond the rather tedious modern staple of 'money, birds, guns, tiny tiny penis'. Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, NWA are the ones that stick in my mind, but all truly brilliant statements about their lives and how they reject what soceity had planned for them.

How the hell we went from this terrific music to the Pop dominated 90's I will never know. Sure, we had some kick arse British Indy bands in the 90's, but the decade was almost the death of music for me.

Hmm, the 30's and 40's for the swing and dirty jazz, skipping the 50's and then from the 60's to the 80's for the classics and trend setters.

There's tons I love... hard to nail it down to one era... I'm gonna saaaaaaayyyy... 1960's for The Beatles, Sergio Mendes, and Quincy Jones.

I'm a big fan of the 90's. Just because that's when I was a teenager and so discovered music for the first time. So many of my favorite bands had their start or glory days in this time.

The 60's for the Beatles and Led Zeppelin. Some of the earlier 30's-50's jazz is pretty nice on a quiet evening too.

Don't really listen to much new music. Metallica, Michael Buble... all my other new music is downloaded from the internet individually, so I don't spend much money on whole albums.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:And beyond my musical tastes, you had the early beginnings of the Hiphop and Rap artists. The sort of rhymes that actually had a point beyond the rather tedious modern staple of 'money, birds, guns, tiny tiny penis'. Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, NWA are the ones that stick in my mind, but all truly brilliant statements about their lives and how they reject what soceity had planned for them.

kind of an odd paragraph that. For one the sugarhill gang are one hit wonders who didn't really contribute much to hip hop besides rapping over hank marvin. Everything grandmaster flash is remembered for weren't actually anything to do with him, i.e. white lines, the message etc. And N.W.A. are probably responsible for the "money, birds, guns, tiny tiny penis" rap you're on about, at least, they didn't rap about much else.

I like all eras of music going back a few hundred years up until the early/mid nineties. Is it just my age or does it seem that music has seemed to become stuck, or stagnant or whatever adjective you'd like to use and has barely evolved at all in the past fifteen years?

Like MGD,I too belive the late 70's to the late 80's was a vibrant time for music,bands like The Ramones,The Sex Pistols and The Clash brought life and energy back to stale boring overproduced music and through out the 80's bands like The Dead Kennedys,Black Flag,The Germs and countless others continued this trend.
I also agree that tis era was a time when Hip Hop had somthing to say and wasn't "shopping list music" (gonna get this car,gonna get these shoes,gonna get those jewles)..however,while some N.W.A can be seen as "ground breaking",I much prefer Public Enemy and KRS-ONE for relevent social comentary.

Very late 70's and all of the 80's. Really can't get enough of this time period.

'40's.

Then the '60's for the Beach Boys.

Then '80's/'90's for the Middle Era RHCP.

sA

I like all eras of music just not all the music from all the eras can't stand current pop music but love some of the new metal out now rap like some can't stand others it's all about the groove.

There's a plenty of good stuff in every era, just hidden in amongst piles and piles of bad stuff.

But for me, personally, if I had to pick I'd go with the mid-90s. In hindsight I doubt it was any better than any other time, but it was when I was in highschool and obsessing over music and identifying myself and others by their favourite bands. When I hear any of it now it sends me right back to when it seemed like there really wasn't anything better than spending a day listening to Blur, Pulp, The Stone Roses, Oasis, Radiohead, Elastica...

60's: Deep Purple
70's: Black Sabbath
80's: Metallica
90's: Cannibal Corpse
2000's: All of the above plus Suicide Silence, Warbringer and Slipknot.
My point: For us metalheads, it just keeps getting better!

100% honest opinion some of the best music was probably made by cave-people with rocks and sticks next to a Mammoth BBQ.

ROCK ON!!!

Slipknot? Oh please, that's not metal, that's tasteless noise. You'd get more of a tune by stretching your own penis and twanging it like a guitar.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Slipknot? Oh please, that's not metal, that's tasteless noise. You'd get more of a tune by stretching your own penis and twanging it like a guitar.

Who said slipknot? Are you talking about my random cave-man???

No, Warpcrafter said Slipknot is good.

Cheese Elemental wrote:No, Warpcrafter said Slipknot is good.

Cheese, how about you try not being, you know, ...yourself for once?

Well, let's be honest, it isn't much more than mad riffs, drummers trying to outdo each other, and a few screamed vocals thrown in. To me, it doesn't even class as music.