I can only add which decade was the WORST....the WIMPY 80s what with their SPINELESS disco crap
Disco's heyday was in the 70s. Two of the biggest bands of the disco era were the Bee Gees and KC and The Sunshine Band, not to mention Donna Summer, The Trammps, and a host of others, had most of their biggest hits from 75 to 79. It hung around for a little while in the 80s but I would say that disco was largely dead by 1982-1983.
I've mellowed on some of the disco songs over the years. Listen to 70s disco compared to today's hip-hop and rap, I'll take disco everytime and twice on Sundays.
The 70s for me were the greatest decade because of UFO, Cheap Trick, Electric Light Orchestra, Thin Lizzy, Aerosmith, Neil Young (his best work was in the 70s), Bruce Springsteen, Supertramp, Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, Doobie Brothers, Judas Priest, Foghat, Savoy Brown, Paul Simon (solo), James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Fleetwood Mac, Styx, Boston, Kansas, Blondie, Ramones, and the list goes on and on.
And radio wasn't so rigid as it is now. I remember listening to a station, the call letters escape me, in the mid-70s and hearing the Boss followed by Gladys Knight followed Cheap Trick followed by Chicago followed by Earth, Wind, & Fire followed by...you get the picture. The way radio should be, unafraid to mix and match genres, all are equal. (except rap and hip-hop)
Another personal reason for me was also because I discovered music in the 70s. Born in '63, I was 16 in 1979 and isn't that when you really discover music? Blasting hard rock from my bedroom, my sister still tells everyone about my horrible rendition of Aerosmith's Back In The Saddle
, and blasting hard rock in the football lockerroom prior to practice, taking disco dance lessons just because there were hot babes in the class and the teacher was a runner-up Miss Ohio
, going to see local cover bands massacre the latest songs, etc...All these things formed my opinion of the 70s. I miss them. Maybe it's not the 70s so much as my youth.
Not to say that my taste in music stagnated, there are alot of newer bands worth listening to. But in the end, the 70s reign supreme.
Sorry for the rambling on.