Best Music Decade? And has the standard of music lowered?

[Forum Idiot]

i couldnt be stuffed with this argument anymore ronny. weve just been talking about it on msn for about an hour so i couldnt be bothered posting what ive already said.
it could go on forever. lets just agree to disagree.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

FI can't handle the heat :lol: :lol: ;-)

Good argument anyway FI, apart from calling me a dickhead, i'll get you back ;-)

 

[CC_Eagle]

cold chisel, john farnham and AC/DC are among the only good things to come out of the 80's.

AC/DC originated in 74. They were already well known pre Back In Black.

 

[Forum Idiot]

cold chisel, john farnham and AC/DC are among the only good things to come out of the 80's.

AC/DC originated in 74. They were already well known pre Back In Black.

yeah i know but they really hit the big time in the 80s.
i like their bon scott stuff better.

 

[CC_Eagle]

So you're saying Kiss, Queen & Bowie were gay??, well maybe one of them :?

Uhh...Freddie Mercury WAS gay and Bowie is just f**ked in the head!

 

[CC_Eagle]

cold chisel, john farnham and AC/DC are among the only good things to come out of the 80's.

AC/DC originated in 74. They were already well known pre Back In Black.

yeah i know but they really hit the big time in the 80s.
i like their bon scott stuff better.

Who doesn't? Powerage and LTBR are the two greatest albums ever made. They hit the big time in the 80s, don't get me wrong AC/DC are my favourite band and they spurred my musical knowledge both listening and playing wise, BUT the crap they released between BIB and The Razors Edge in 91 was dreadful. I've only listened to FOTW once as it depresses me.

 

[Forum Idiot]

cold chisel, john farnham and AC/DC are among the only good things to come out of the 80's.

AC/DC originated in 74. They were already well known pre Back In Black.

yeah i know but they really hit the big time in the 80s.
i like their bon scott stuff better.

Who doesn't? Powerage and LTBR are the two greatest albums ever made. They hit the big time in the 80s, don't get me wrong AC/DC are my favourite band and they spurred my musical knowledge both listening and playing wise, BUT the crap they released between BIB and The Razors Edge in 91 was dreadful. I've only listened to FOTW once as it depresses me.

ac/dc are awesome although they are abit repetitive.
bon scott was great because he was bon scott whereas brain johnson just sounds like hes trying to be bon scott.

 

[CC_Eagle]

cold chisel, john farnham and AC/DC are among the only good things to come out of the 80's.

AC/DC originated in 74. They were already well known pre Back In Black.

yeah i know but they really hit the big time in the 80s.
i like their bon scott stuff better.

Who doesn't? Powerage and LTBR are the two greatest albums ever made. They hit the big time in the 80s, don't get me wrong AC/DC are my favourite band and they spurred my musical knowledge both listening and playing wise, BUT the crap they released between BIB and The Razors Edge in 91 was dreadful. I've only listened to FOTW once as it depresses me.

ac/dc are awesome although they are abit repetitive.
bon scott was great because he was bon scott whereas brain johnson just sounds like hes trying to be bon scott.

"If it aint broke, don't fix it"

They're releasing their 15th studio album next year and have sold over 60 million albums making them the 10th highest selling band of all time, and they're still going Repetative....hmm maybe, but their latest release (Stiff Upper Lip) is quite different to their usual style. It's very bluesy, the band returned to their roots.

Brian is a completely different person/singer/frontman to Bon. Bon was a joking larrikan, who always had a drink in his hand or in his system. He had alot more personality both on and off the stage and wore his heart on his sleeve.
Brian seems alot more "polite" and G rated than Bon (not really a good thing) and his style is incredibly different to Bons. Brians singing is mainly growls and screeches. Bon's was powerful yet melodic at the same time. He could sing a song at the top of his lungs (High Voltage) or do a subdued,soft song (Ride On and his early stuff with The Valentines).

Both are f**king excellent..

 

[Kakihara]

I voted for the 80's not because of the mainstream but because of the underground music scene.

The 80's was the true birth of underground music, Punk didnt die in the 80's it just turned into Hardcore and went underground.

 

[ThrashViking]

Hardcore then started out mixing with speed metal which formed thrash, thrash became more extreme and bands from Florida started an extreme form of music yada, yada - they were great times.
Are you a fan of the band Martyr AD or an actual band member?

 

[SpaceMonkey]

The '80s were both the best and the worst. It was the decade when the music video became all important and commercial music reached a new low in being tasteless manufactured shite, but because the mainstream was so crap it produced a huge explosion of amazing underground artists as well.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Hardcore then started out mixing with speed metal which formed thrash, thrash became more extreme and bands from Florida started an extreme form of music yada, yada

I never thought there was any real difference between thrash and speed metaol, they were basically the same thing. The evolution of different metallic genres is kinda interesting though, and not everything evolved from where people assume it did. I reckon it went something like this (up til early 90s anyway):

70s
Black Sabbath set the blueprint for metal.

late 70s
Punk explodes headed by the Sex Pistols.
New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) erupts, (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest etc)
Lemmy forms Motorhead

start of the 80s
Hardcore evolves from punk
Venom form, mixing motorheads noise and filth with Sabbaths satanic imagery and making it all heavier, setting the seed of both Death Metal and Black Metal.
thrash/speed metal evolves with Metallica, Slayer and Exodus mixing equal parts Motorhead and NWOBHM influences

early 80s
Both influenced by Venom, Death and Bathory create the first true Death Metal and Black Metal, along with early releases by Celtic Frost, Repulsion, Possesed
and others.
Classic metal acts such as Dio and Manowar evolve from NWOBHM influences

mid 80s
thrash and hardcore combine to create crossover (DRI, Suicidal Tendencies)
Death Metal and Hardcore combine to produce grindcore (Napalm Death, Terrorizer, Carcass)
Industrial acts such as the Swans and Skinny Puppy surface.

late 80s
Popularity of thrash peaks, Death metal rises in prominence. Ministry and Godflesh combine metal with industrial.

Early 90's
post-thrash acts such as Pantera, Fear Factory and Machine Head create seeeds of nu-metal sound.
Death metal peaks with explosion of Florida and Swedish acts.
Darkthrone and Mayhem renounce death metal and start playing black metal. Scandinavian BM scene explodes.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

All music era's were, I dont know anything from the 1950's, but they had something good come out of each one. I'll name as many artists and music events from each era, theres always a long list for 80s. ;-) :lol:

1960s: Elvis, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Beatles, Rolling stones, Beach Boys, Kinks, Easybeats, The Who, The Animals, Chuck Berry, Stevie Wonder, Easybeats, Bob Dylan, protest music, Mamas and the Papas, Cream/Clapton, Yardbirds, Woodstock, The Doors, Joe Cocker, Guess Who, hippies, sex drugs and rock and roll

1970s: Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, David Bowie, Bad Company, Daddy Cool, Billy Thorpe, Elton John, Neil Young, Sunbury 73, Queen, AC/DC, Bee Gees, Paul McCartney/Wings, Cat Stevens, KISS, disco music, Barry White, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Knack, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Meatloaf, The Angels, punk rock, Sex Pistols, Generation X, Ramones, Countdown, Bryan Fery, Pink Floyd, another brick in the wall, Saturday night fever.

1980s: Duran Duran, The Clash, Men At Work, The Go Gos, Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil, INXS, Blonde, Australian Crawl, Billy Idol, Eurythmitics, Pretenders, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen, The Police, Voilent Femmes, Bryan Adams, Kim Wilde, one hit wonders, Mondo Rock Jason and Kylie, Neighbours, Live Aid, Bananarama, The Cure, The Bangles, mullets, Crowded House, John Farnham, Starship, Talking heads, Hunters and Collectors, Choirboys, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, David Lee Roth, Guns and Roses

1990s: Vanilla Ice, rap/techno grunge, MC Hammer, Nirvana, Red hot chilli Peppers, Run DMC, Salt n Pepper, Pearl Jam, Screaming Jets, Metallica, Soundgarden, Collective Soul, Green Day, Silverchair, Alanis Morrisette, Take That, The Rembrents, boy/girl bands, Boys 2 Men, Lenny Kravitz, Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, Offspring, Blink 182, Living End, Oasis, more pop groups, Boyzone, All Saints, Five, P Diddy, when it started going bad.

 

[sportive cupid]

In my opinion one of the problems comes from catagorising music in terms of cronology.Sixties music is not a homogenous style of music any mor ethan the eighties music.I myself was thinking the other day just how great and original the music was that was coming out of pubs in Australia during the eighties while shit was being played on the radio from US and UK.In the Sixties we had the Beatles , the Stones, Dusty Springfield , (yes have a listen to her and try to sinig it before you make a comment) and lots of other great music while at the same time there was crap.Also the seventies contained Carole King and the Village People-go figure.
To say that we no longer produce good music is to be as condosending as the old farts who said the Beatles needed a haircut!!
PLease someone pass the HRT

 

[ThrashViking]

"post-thrash acts such as Pantera, Fear Factory and Machine Head create seeeds of nu-metal sound. "
It would be fair to say Chaos AD & Roots period Sepultura had more of an influence along with Faith No More, Rage Against The Machine, Korn and The Deftones.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

"post-thrash acts such as Pantera, Fear Factory and Machine Head create seeeds of nu-metal sound. "
It would be fair to say Chaos AD & Roots period Sepultura had more of an influence along with Faith No More, Rage Against The Machine, Korn and The Deftones.

It was late when I wrote the above post and I wasn't thinking too hard about it but yeajh I agree with you about Sepultura, FNM and RATM. But I'd say Korn and Deftones were Nu-metal in themselves.

 

[ThrashViking]

I guess.
Alice In Chains also strongly influenced the early mallcore bands

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Nu-metal-s not my bag so I'll defer to your expertise on this subject I think.

 

[shiznit]

i actually like most music decades except for the 80's. i just dont like the big hair and style they produced.
but thats because of the style of music im into more than anything.
I like alot of RnB and Hip-Hop because they have alot more substance to it than other genre's.
I liked Pre-80's with the Likes of Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Barry White, The Temptations, Eric Clapton and alot of the more Soulfull artists.
in the 90's you got artists like Boyz II Men, Blackstreet, Brian Mcknight, Babyface & even the likes of Tupac, Biggie, P Diddy & Mase who took alot of 80's songs and remixed alot of them to suit the 90's style.
even these days you have alot of brilliant artists around. Eminem, Dre, 50cent, Usher, Craig David, Destiny's Child and so on.
1 person i think that has alot of talent these days is a young girl in NZ called Brooke Fraser. her father bernie was an all black winger back in the 80's. she is brilliant, she plays the guitar, piano, has a brilliant voice and also writes her own songs. she can go a long, long way IMO.
the 80's had afew good ones with a pre weirdo Micheal Jackson.

 

[ThrashViking]

My friend Kent was an old guitarist of hers just before she released an album; he thinks she's the most talented pop artist around wellington which is a little odd considering he played for a death metal band called Falciform for a decade.