Which decade do you think had the best music?

All decades have bad music, what happens is that in time only the best songs survive.
So there are decades that had more good songs than others, but it does not mean that the music was better in general.

It's me being old, or my struggle with 2010s music is real?

Can't listen anything post 2010s (besides some game and movie soundtracks)

I think for most people, the music we listened to when our brains were developing leaves the best impression on us. Especially the music we listened to when we were forming our own identity (teenage years primarily). People tend to become more conservative as they age and become more resistant to new things. And at some point you become all "kids these days have horrible taste in music/movies/TV/video games/etc." and get off my lawn.

So for me I'd probably say the music I most listen(ed) to was released around 1985-1995. I do listen to new music as well, but it does not feel as personal to me as it did when I was young. Hearing an old song brings back memories of the old days.

I mean this may largely come down to personal taste but I would have to say 90's because of the shift in rock music at the time and the rise of grunge/alternative. So many great bands from that era and some of the most talented vocalists to have ever walked this earth. Unfortunately a bunch of them are also deceased and sadly, some way before their time. What I wouldn't have given to see Kurt Cobain or Layne Staley live, or Scott Weiland at his peak before all the drugs took a toll on his voice. At least I did get to see Chris Cornell on his solo tour a couple of times though. RIP fellas, we will never forget you (and others).

This song is the best of all times and was released in the 80's

/case closed

A lot to pick from. I grew up playing BF Vietnam(which has awesome loading music)(also screw game ratings :P) so I was influenced a lot with old music. My parents also liked to tune the radio in the 80-90s jam and ballads, so I grew up hearing old stuff. It was just more recently that I started listenning to newer music and/or different genres.

In one way I'm glad because only the good stuff survives the age(because there always was trash music around), the other is that at some point I've listened to it all and they're all dead to make more stuff. So it's an endless cicle in search for newer stuff(but I guess it's the same to everyone).

Every decade is the best decade for music.... if you listen to quality music, that is. :3

Had my youth in the 90s and while 90s have some good sounds if you are into these positive catchy europop vibes I always whished I would have been born 10 years ago. 80s Synthie, Wave, PostPunk and raw Industrial, that's what I love. 90s had Crossover and New Metal though :)

Grew up with my parents 60s music, started recording my own mix tapes from the radio during the 80s, found an answer to my teenage angst in the 90s.
In the end I'll vote 90s, because that's the stuff that shaped me, it's the soundtrack of my adolescence. Nirvana, Blur, Pearl Jam, Oasis, Smashing Pumpkins, Bush (the band, not the monkey) and many more.
It's my go-to music, the lyrics that randomly pop-up in my head trigger my any daily occurrence. Missed my bus? Let's hum some Green Day 'All by myself'...

The 1720's. We've got the Brandenburg Concertos, the St. Matthew Passion, and of course a ton of cantatas. Hard to top old J.S.B.

But if we have to stick to the 20th/21st century, um, well, that's really hard. There's great music in every decade, there's also terrible music (always in greater supply than the great stuff, of course). I honestly don't think I can pick. My least favorite decade is probably the 2000s 2010s, but it's all relative. (Switched from 2000 to 2010 because, reading up on it, I can find more stuff from the 2000s that was worthwhile than this decade. But it's close, and this decade isn't over yet.)

See, this is one of the reasons I love making topics like this. You get to know your fellow SG users a little better this way. And music is a universal way to express yourself and share some of your personality with others.

Synthesizers, stuff like Modern Talking and Milli Vanilli, yeah no 80's were all about the music…
Not saying there weren't nice songs (i like a bunch of A-ha (saw acoustic show of them not that long ago on tv, was great), Blondie, Kim Wilde).

Beginning of the 90's was a great era for grunge/rock and happy hardcore but last few years of it it's when music went downhill and turned into the crap it is today.

I feel the 60-70's were all about music, as it was still pure, but i am not gonna vote.

I'm going with the '90s.

The 1890s!

Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Mahler, Puccini, Sibelius...

:D

Define "Best". 2010s the music industry changed in a way that music doesn't need to play on the radio anymore to reach people there are way more options for artists to reach a lot of people, artists are free to do make great music without the restriction of record labels trying to change their music to make it appropriate/profitable for radio play. Which results in greater music being created in the "underground" then the "mainstream". But of course you need to search for new music.

The 90s because for me it's the decade of sensual and sexy aesthetics, with all the saxophones and sultry ladies.

Edit: oh yes, and grunge, as Lugum said,

for me it's 80s and 90s, but gotta go with 80s as most of my favoritue bands formed around this time ^^

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