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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
i'd say 67-73 is the best. the 90's were good too but its hard to say its the best when you had the beatles, led zeppelin, black sabbath, pink floyd, the rolling stones to name a few.
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Yes, would perhaps say - 66 - 73 which would be the birth of rock (characterized mainly by Jimi Hendrix for me personally) before it turned all arena in the mid seventies (but other great acts started). The exception were Thin Lizzy that matured in 1975 and put on a remarkable string of some of the most gritty, poetic and soulful rock music at the same time till 79.
Was always thinking, if I could pick when to be born it would be between 1950 - 1955, that way I could live through the most of the good stuff first hand.
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Originally Posted by RebelR
Everything from the 50's to the mid 90's is great in my books, each decade has it's own merits. But after mid 90's everything just seemed to become more and more generic. Almost like they ran out of ideas and just started pumping out garbage.
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Yes, it's a really interesting phenomenon, like one always had movements in music, usually a decade of something overcooked (hippie rock, arena rock, hair metal) followed by something revolting against it (heavy metal, trash metal, Seattle rock).
But since Nu-metal (which used to be still underground around the start of the 90's) I don't really see no new "movement" meaning a subculture that would have its fans, its clubs etc.
Maybe apart from all those shitty "Indie" rock bands that look like raped by their hairdreser and overdosed on estrogen. Those are probably for those willing to feel "alternative" that didn't found any real alternative yet.