Fmeh

For me it would be 70's and 80's.

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90's was an easy pick for me. The second choice was not so easy - I like music from pretty much every other decade, but I went for 00's.

Fmeh

It was hard for me--my other choice would have been 60's and 70's--it's hard to leave out Dionne Warwick, The Beatles, The Doors, many others, but the experimental aspects to the 80's--when electronic music started to really flourish, new wave, Depeche Mode, Thomas Dolby, B52's, Culture Club, Cindy Lauper, Duran Duran, etc.--it was a hard choice.

Ned Easterwood

I couldn't vote ,so I didn't vote.

The problem I see is that musical periods - at leas the ones I like - don't coincide with calendar decades. The musical styles of the 1950s, for example, changed radically in about 1955 with the emergence of Elvis - then the whole scene changed.

Likewise, musical styles in the 60s changed with the British Invasion. The rock scene had been in the doldrums - Elvis went into the army, Buddy Holly was dead, Jerry Lee Lewis in disfavor for marrying his young cousin, etc. The wave that was launched there didn't really end until about 1972, IMO - just like many folks say the period thought of as "the Sixties" ran from the assassination of JFK to the defeat of McGovern by Nixon (1964-1972, for those keeping score at home.)

So - my "decades" are,first, 1964-1972 - the decade of my HS and college years - and what I am going to define as the "Swing Decade" - 1935-1945.

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Midi Reifsnider

I'm a huge fan of alternative 80's stuff - I like to pretend that Stock Aitken and Waterman never happened - so that was my first choice. Second one was harder, but I went for the 50's because of some of the early rock'n'roll, and I love Bo Diddley.

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Persephone Milk

Fmeh! As a huge fan of jazz, big band, and swing, I feel completely disenfranchised by your poll options! However, given the choices available, I would have to say 60s and 70s.

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Ned Easterwood

I love basic stripped down rock and roll and R&B.

Fmeh

If 15 more options would have been available I could have at least started in the 30's.

It is a limiting poll, that's for sure.

But it's also hard to choose just two decades in general. I like so many types of music---some of my favorites: Radiohead, Yes, Rush, Opeth, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Chicago's first 7 albums, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Debussy, John Williams, Allen Holdsworth, Nina Hynes, Brookville, Dive Index, Massive Attack, Michael Jackson, Journey, The Bangles, Depeche Mode, Cyndi Lauper, Joni Mitchell, Opeth, Dionne Warwick, Johnny Cash, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, Bill Bruford, Nine Inch Nails, Julee Cruse, Stereolab, Mohammed Mounir, Sneaker Pimps, Muse, Elsiane, Dead Can Dance, Peter Murphy, Bjork, Keane, Coldplay, Rob Hubbard, Wendy Carlos, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen.... and so many more...

But if I HAD to choose just two decades, it would be 70's and 80's.

Gigs

You get rock lobster in the 70s at least. It has the highest cowbell per measure ratio of any song in the 70s I believe.

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Argent Stonecutter

Not only can't I vote for Scott Joplin, but you forgot to include any pie!

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Winter Ventura

The 1980's, and the 1940's. (though technically I'd prefer 1936-1946, my favourite movie era)

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Magnet Homewood

30s and 40s ... but thats 1830s and 1840s lol when Chopin wrote most of his Nocturnes and also the 2 piano concertos.

Charles_D

Do I really have to pick?

Old blues, ragtime, big band, swing all get left out.

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Beebo Brink

50's and 60's..... specifically 1850-1860s

Verdi's Opera Works
Rigoletto (11th March 1850; Teatro la Fenice, Venice)
Il Trovatore (19th January 1853; Teatro Apollo, Rome)
La Traviata (6th March 1853; Teatro la Fenice, Venice)
Les Vêpres Siciliennes (13th June 1855; Académie Impériale de Musique, Paris)
Simon Boccanegra (12th March 1857; Teatro la Fenice, Venice)
Aroldo (16th August 1857; Teatro Nuovo, Rimini)
Un Ballo in maschera (17th February 1859; Teatro Apollo, Rome)
La Forza del destino (10th November 1862; Bolshoi Theatre, St. Petersburg)
Don Carlos (11th March 1867; Académie Impériale de Musique

Doesn't get much better than that.

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Ann Launay

I need to split decades...late 60s/early 70s and late 80s/early 90s.

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Jeni Roussel

30's and 40's - Ella Frank Glenn Count Billie.....

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Lewis Luminos

80s without a doubt. Choosing between the 70s and 60s was a close call, but I went for the 70s.

But then I like blues, so I would want to vote 20s and 30s too... decisions, decisions.

Ah forget it. Can I just vote for the entire century? Tickyboxes?

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Ariane

A lot of it is generational. I like most 70's music (minus the adult contemporary crap), then tough choice between 60's and 80's.

90's to me was very dark "Grunge" and depressing "Alternative" and the sad "Lillith fair" sounds. Lots of big name bands of the 90's did not survive for long in the more up beat 00's Dave Matthews? Hootie and the Blowfish? Everclear?

00's in America is defined by an over produced sound. Electronic enhancement seems to make so many artist sound generic. I've heard the latest from Miley Cyrus, Orinathi, and Emily Osment, pop/rock songs and they sound identical to Michelle Branch at the beginning of the decade. "Autotune" was getting old and dated in 2005 and here we are 4 years later and hack producers are still using it on every song.

The good music of the 00's is not in mainstream American pop. You have to dig into the Indie and foreign sources (especially the UK) to find good rock and pop music.

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Just4yucks Miami

I picked the 60s and 70s, although my favorite music is from the 70s.
My modern music favs include Boston, Kansas, Styx and Rush.

I'm with Beebo on liking classical music, although the caterwauling of divas makes me spit up.

Give me a good old Beethoven, Mozart or Prokofiev piano concerto any day of the week.

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Free Xue

I see no choice for "80's and 80's"...

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Aimee Weber

Hugh Laurie just pulled that joke on House, coming to an 80's party dressed as somebody from 1880.

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90's and 00's once a band starts getting played on golden oldies radio I throw away their CD's!

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jacqueline trudeau

50s and 60s!

If it wasn't for the music that evolved from jazz and R&B to rock and roll in the 50s, we could stop this discussion right now (except for you classical and trad jazz outliers )

And 60s of course! Beatles? The Stones? The rest of the British invasion? Dylan? Jimi? The Doors? The SF sound - The Dead, Janis... Are you kidding me - what decade can match that explosion?

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Quantum Destiny

The Beatles make my ears bleed

jacqueline trudeau

Huh! The same thing my parents said!