Guns N Roses, Metallica, Nirvana: the best era for music?
 

Early 90's certainly did rock!

Metallica obviously around much longer, but it was this time that they seemed to be at their height!

rap was more street :2 cents: those rock bands all put out solid shit :2 cents:

If you ask anyone what the best era for music was, the period they give you will coincide with their coming of age years nearly 100% of the time.

I'm going to make a safe guess that you went to high school right around the early 90's.

i like pushing out solid shits...

The "big four" did it all!
Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth.

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The sixties and I wasn't a teen til the 80's

Yes it was a great age for rock but I'd push it back a bit earlier, the late eighties had the second NWOBHM and when that tailed off you had the rise of the American bands, it was a good time, the late 80s to the early 90's for music.

2001 - 2010 sucked balls. Everyone gave up on actually singing. It was all yelling.

I really enjoy with metallica.today there is no some similar music to relax me

Early/mid 80s for me - most of my favorite groups released their best albums, IMO.

Van Halen, Scorps, Whitesnake, Def Leppard, G'nR, Mötley Crüe, Rush, Saga, ZZ Top

Mid 80's in the UK without doubt :2 cents:

My kids were born in the 80's and they would agree the 60's were the best

the 60s-2010s is the best era

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.

I saw that posted some place and you are correct. Grad 95 GnR rules lol

stop making sense, this is gfy

Graduated high school in '99 :thumbsup

There's good music from all eras, but if we're talking rock/pop 1967-1974ish was easily the best and it's not even close. That's just a fact. :)

(also I personally wasn't even born yet)

when do you think you are going to be born? :winkwink:

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That was a great decade too :thumbsup

I would like to add Led Zep and Black Sabbath to the list.

Don't know what happened to music. The whole thing collapsed. The CD industry is dying thanks to itunes and other download websites.

Lately I have been spinning vinyl and oh man, they rock. And if it's those 70's 80's rock, moments of bliss can be experienced.

It is a question as why all good things are coming to end and why we are destroying everything good.

Thanks for this thread. GNR, Metallica, Nirvana will rock forever. Their music will never die.

True that. Pure analog sound. Lots of experimentations, innovation. And only 4 members rocked a crowd of thousands!

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.

I have to agree with this statement. After the late 90's all forms of music really started to suck, especially pop music. However, since I love 80's music so much, I've warmed up to a lot of the synth-pop acts that have come out in the last few years like Sebastien Tellier, Friendly Fires, Washed Out, St. Lucia, Crystal Castles and M83.

There is good music from all eras but nothing matches the late 60's - early 70's in terms of the levels of creativity, musicianship and quality music. :2 cents:

The "best era of music" depends on who you are, and usually what kid of music you listened to as an older teen or in your early twenties. Metallica was mentioned in the title of the thread yet I could not name one song they sang - Same with Nirvana.

70s to 90s were the days. I'm old so I still like people who write and perform their music.

I'm with you 75-95 though

The best era is all eras. Plenty of great bands pumping out music today, you may need to look a little harder to sift through the plethora or garbage.

I love metal, but can't stand Metallica. Two good records, the rest is crap.

I was born in 1978
 

It is still my favorite music.

I'd fine tune that to 66-73 to include The Doors first album, The Beatles Revolver and Cream's first Lp.

Then...

Add to that the New Wave era 78-85 and you have all of the best shit covered :thumbsup

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.

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.

True dat.

I love me some Robert Johnson from the 30s, Glenn Miller, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgeralr from the 40s, Chuck Berry and Fats, Ray Charles, BeBop, hard bop, Miles, Coltrane, Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck in the 50s, The Beatles and the Stones and Floyd in the 60s,

etc

etc

etc

Every decade produces astounding artists.

Jesus, old farts, look out around, you dont find anything because you are fucking mentally old.

Born in '88
 

And I still love me some Metallica, GnR, & Nirvana. But I do like a lot of modern rock as well, particularly a bunch of brutal metal sounds. My latest obsession is this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1z91zfPJAw

I apologize in advance if this amount to nothing but "noise" to you. :1orglaugh

I'm not so sure its just an age thing. My musical interests are quite varied, everything from Metal, to New Wave, to Rockabilly and many in between. I saw Earth Wind and Fire (not usually my staple, but the wife really wanted to see them) a few years ago and they were Phenomenal, even at their age. Same with AC/DC.

I'm just no so sure that the music being pumped out today is going to have the same longevity. Is anyone really going to want to see Kanye rap or Katy Perry lipsync when they're 60?

I'll agree it was the best era for rock music since the 80's, where rock took what some describe as a weird turn. Personally I love a lot of 80's music, but overall I'd have to say that the 60's is probably the best era for music in general. The transformation of rock throughout that decade was incredible.

A strong argument could also be made for the 70's, which is where my heart is. Some might argue that the decade where rock got it's birth, the 50's, would be the greatest of all time. I went to high school in the late 70's and early 80's but knowing what I know I'd have to agree the 60's is the one that's forever going to be the one to beat. In looking at the way rock is headed today I have serious doubts that it will ever be beaten, or even threatened to be dethroned.

Yes, the early 90's were great, especially for rock and metal. Better than anything that's happened since imo.

I always throught of Sepultura's "Roots" album as the last great metal album of that period. After that it was all the nu-metal crap.

This is what i listen to a lot lately:

1976
http://joebond.com/wp-content/upload...ton-Boston.jpg

Also the 80's has a reputation for cheesy music like flock of Seagulls and Wanted Dead or Alive. However the 80's is when Metallica came out with Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets (they turned into queers in the 90's). The 90's had a lot of good mainstream rock music. 2000 to the present there is not much I think is great.

I would say 70's and 80's were the best. Specifically 1976 to 1986. Master of Puppets came out in 1986 and nothing else has ever topped it in metal. In rock nothing else has topped Boston's first album released in 1976 at the height of the queefy disco scene. Boston's first album is just pure feel good rock n roll.

Same here. I agree 100%. albums like Deep Purple "Burn" "California Jam" are just crazy. Ritchie Blackmore bashing his strat into a CBS tv camera & setting the stage on fire, priceless
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