With all of those genres I would guess that the most music was probably recorded in the seventies. So many bands with so many new styles. I was 16-25 years old in the seventies and doing a lot of experimenting with mind altering stuff and really had a good time listening to great music. But the 65-75 decade was probably the best 10 years of HEAVY music.

the 70 's was The Live Albums decade ... and preferably as a double LP..

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OK, OK... Not 1968 - 1978, which means 11 years, but 1968 - 1977. Happy now, everybody? No problem, except...one: "Some Girls" album stays out...

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OK, OK... Not 1968 - 1978, which means 11 years, but 1968 - 1977. Happy now, everybody? No problem, except...one: "Some Girls" album stays out...

Hmm...name a very good album from 1976...almost beats me if it was'nt for Dylans 'Desire'...

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1963--- 1974

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More classics were released in the few years between 1970 and 1973 than ever before or since. The Rolling Stones, The Who, David Bowie, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple (to name a few) – all released their greatest albums in those years. Hard to compete with this list IMO:

Sticky Fingers
Exile on Main Street
Who´s Next
Quadrophenia
Dark Side of the Moon
After the Gold Rush
Harvest
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Aladdin Sane
Aqualung
Thick as a Brick
Led Zeppelin IV
In Rock
Machine Head
Paranoid
Master of Reality
Tres Hombres

Not to forget

CCR- Cosmos Factory & Pendulum
Litte Feat _ Sailin Shoes, Dixie Chicken & Waiting For Columbus
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Seven, Live Bullet & Nigt Moves
U.F.O. - Phenomeneon, Lights Out & Strangers In The Night
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Rory Gallagher - Live In Europe & Irish Tour
Dire Straits
Ry Cooder _ Showtime & Bob Till You Drop

to be continued

A list from the 60s would be just as good:

Blonde On Blonde
Highway 61 Revisited
Bringing It All Back Home
John Wesley Harding
The Rolling Stones
Aftermath
Beggars Banquet
Let It Bleed
A Hard Days Night
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles
Abbey Road
The Who Sell Out
A Quick One
Tommy
Led Zeppelin I
Five Leaves Left
Bryter Layter
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Mr. Tambourine Man
Sweetheart At The Rodeo
Ballad Of Easy Rider
The Doors
Small Faces
Santana
Do You Believe In Magic
Face To Face
Something Else By The Kinks
The Village Green Preservation Society
Arthur

And many, many more...



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Best decade would easily be mid sixties to mid seventies.......

Give or take a year.....

I lost interest in the mid to late eighties (possibly initiated by the emergence of Stock Aitken and Waterman, and the soap star/pop star thing), where the music became secondary, and it all seemed to become style over substance....... Along with completely throw away music.

We had a bit of a resurgence of great music in the 90's, but it seems to have gone down hill from there.

None of us are getting any younger, I'm rapidly approaching 60, maybe we are all just turning in to our parents, and hating the music our children listen to!........

What a drag it is gettin' old

Tough question. I immediately thought the 60s. Then the 70s said what about me.

I'd say a tie between the two.

1964 to 1983. I'm cheating.

Armstrong Hot 5...Beiderbecke...Bessie Smith...
Definitely 1927 - 1936...

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Armstrong Hot 5...Beiderbecke...Bessie Smith...
Definitely 1927 - 1936...

That's less than two half decades, not one

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Armstrong Hot 5...Beiderbecke...Bessie Smith...
Definitely 1927 - 1936...

That's less than two half decades, not one

It'a a Scandinavian decade DP..

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The 1960's gave us the phenominum known as the Beatles and, inarguably, the most influential, groundbreaking songwriter and lyricist of the 20th century: Bob Dylan. How can it not be the 1960's?

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Armstrong Hot 5...Beiderbecke...Bessie Smith...
Definitely 1927 - 1936...

That's less than two half decades, not one

It'a a Scandinavian decade DP..

Christ was born three years later up here??

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The 1960's gave us the phenominum known as the Beatles and, inarguably, the most influential, groundbreaking songwriter and lyricist of the 20th century: Bob Dylan. How can it not be the 1960's?

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Armstrong Hot 5...Beiderbecke...Bessie Smith...
Definitely 1927 - 1936...

Continuing to think outside the box...

1781-1791 were years that WA Mozart & J Haydn were making music in Vienna that is still being performed and influencing younger musicians and fans world-wide 230+ years later. As important as the music of the 1960's & 70's may seem to us now, it's hard to predict if any of it will still be relevant in the 2190's (I'd guess a few tunes probably will be). I'd be willing to bet that Mozart & Haydn's catalogs still will be.

If I'm forced to "stay inside the box", I'd probably lean towards the 1950's as a calendar decade. For a 10 year period, I could start in 1951 (Rocket 88 Recorded) but would probably lean more towards 1954 (Elvis, Scotty & Bill first recorded in July) as that would catch more of the early 1960's releases.

Fun topic!

Peace,
Mr DJA

And the winner is......... 1964-1973

I have to agree..the 1970's overall were the best music output.
You had tremendous albums by the Stones, Zeppelin and The Who...you had
Queen, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Clash, Blondie, New Wave, Punk, Disco, Funk, Soul, R&B, Parliement Funk a Delic, Al Greene, Meatloaf BAT OUT OF HELL, Cheap Trick, Kiss, Donna Summer, Bee Gees, David Bowie, The Eagles, AC/DC, Earth Wind & Fire, Commodores, Stevie Wonder, Hall & Oates, etc...you can go on forever...and the tons and tons of great one hit wonders...

I did hate all the sappy ballads...like Mick tried to chase but he actually made great songs with Angie, Til The Next Time We Say Goodbye' Time Waits For No One, Memory Motel & Fool To Cry.

But I would call the best decade 1968 - 1978.

1979 was a big crash for most generes of music including Punk, Disco and Classic Rock with no output from The Stones, Led Zeppelin or the Who. I hope I got that right...unless Zeppelin's last album came out in 1979.

PECMAN

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unless Zeppelin's last album came out in 1979.

PECMAN

It did

Not a decade, but...

1966.

Hands down. No question.
Followed closely by 1967.

I do have a fondness for 1973, because that's when I really noticed AM radio and Goats Head Soup.

I am 25 and didn´t live until the 90s ,but I have explored a lot of music from the past.

The 70s definitely rule:

Hardo Rock
Country Rock
Glam Rock
Disco
Funk
Punk
Reggae.
Hip hop started.

The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Ramones,The Who,Bee Gees, John Lennon,David Bowie, all the disco hits and Bob Marley.

So I would rank the modern decades like this:

1.-70s
2.-60s
3.-50s
4.-80s
5.-90s
6.-2000s

looking at the question from the point of versatility and not personal taste, i,d say the 70,s and early 80,s was the best. so many different syles and most bands trying and mostly succeeding in being different from one another.

60,s were awesome too, but after the mid 80,s music hit a very steep decline, rap, hiphop taking over, bimbo,s with little clothes, manufactured pop rubbish became the staple diet towards the late 80,s.

90.s had thier moments, and since then the music industry is in poor state.

20002 unfortunately dominated by horrific fluff pop and equally unlistenable (c)rap

I rank like:

60s Dylan Lennon Stones
50s Presley Sinatra Baker
90s Dinosaur Jr Björk PJ Harvey
70s Bowie Peter Tosh Johnny Thunders
00s Amy Winehouse Metallica Johnny Cash

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the 60's--absolutely, hands down, the best decade for music

the 70's had it moments: reggae, the clash, the pistols, springsteen but it also had the dreaded DISCO...................

tHE 80'S SUCKED

An impossible mission. It will always be subjective. And depending on a lot of things. There seems to be an age, however, when most people form their musical taste.
When you are most receptive to new music (and other things...). In most cases - the teens. I guess...

The 50s, of course, when popular music was actually thrilling, possibly even dangerous. Elvis, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry, Ike Turner, Little Richard, James Brown, Johnny Cash, Johnny Burnette, Leiber + Stoller, Doc Pomus, etc.

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I have to agree..the 1970's overall were the best music output.
You had tremendous albums by the Stones, Zeppelin and The Who...you had
Queen, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Clash, Blondie, New Wave, Punk, Disco, Funk, Soul, R&B, Parliement Funk a Delic, Al Greene, Meatloaf BAT OUT OF HELL, Cheap Trick, Kiss, Donna Summer, Bee Gees, David Bowie, The Eagles, AC/DC, Earth Wind & Fire, Commodores, Stevie Wonder, Hall & Oates, etc...you can go on forever...and the tons and tons of great one hit wonders...

I did hate all the sappy ballads...like Mick tried to chase but he actually made great songs with Angie, Til The Next Time We Say Goodbye' Time Waits For No One, Memory Motel & Fool To Cry.

But I would call the best decade 1968 - 1978.

1979 was a big crash for most generes of music including Punk, Disco and Classic Rock with no output from The Stones, Led Zeppelin or the Who. I hope I got that right...unless Zeppelin's last album came out in 1979.

PECMAN

That's kind of the way I see it. About the only good thing coming after the was The Pretenders.

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The 50s, of course, when popular music was actually thrilling, possibly even dangerous. Elvis, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry, Ike Turner, Little Richard, James Brown, Johnny Cash, Johnny Burnette, Leiber + Stoller, Doc Pomus, etc.

'Before Elvis, there was nothing. - John Lennon

The 1950's was groundbreaking. From the ashes of the Second World War and austerity across Europe, a little revolution from across the Atlantic changed the lives' of teenagers forever; black-and-white; to tecnecolour.