The Worst Musical Decade?

The Worst Musically Talented Decade. Choose one.

  • The 1950's

    Votes: 20 12.6%
  • The 1960's

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • The 1970's

    Votes: 6 3.8%
  • The 1980's

    Votes: 32 20.1%
  • The 1990's

    Votes: 18 11.3%
  • The 2000's

    Votes: 82 51.6%

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TheSound

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Since I guarantee most of us weren't even born in the 50's - and even if we were and are now pushing old age pensioner age, we probably wouldn't have been old enough to take much notice of 50's music, then I can't vote for that, without looking them up online, I doubt I could name more than maybe 15-20 singers/bands from the entire 1950's, can anyone else? And anyway most of the 50's was pre-rock'n roll, Bill Haley and the Comets didn't even come along until 1955 or something, so it's a bit like voting for the 1820's as a bad year for rock because Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony wasn't heavy enough. The 2000's were pretty awful, and the present decade easily the worst yet, but then music trends change and 'classic' rock by definition is really a 60's to 80's era, 90% of my own Top 30 artists are products of the 60's to 80's.
 

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21 of you people voted for the 80's???

Well the whole lot of you is wrong. How can the worse decade include bands like: The Police, Springsteen, John Mellamcamp, Guns and Roses, Boston, Billy Joel, Toto...geezus, I could go on and on.

The 2000s had nothing. NOTHING. And it's gotten worse ever since.
 

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Voted for 2000, my second choice would be the 90's.
 

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I totally agree. Dirty looking, 3 note playing, sloppy sounding, and whiny college "rock" trying to pretend it was the 60's and 70's again but failing at it while spouting every anti parent and establishment cliche in the world and endorsing an anti success attitude. Just dull, boring, depressing, sloppy, overly simple, and out of tune.
 
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MTV was bad for music....well at least Classic Rock.

While overall it was good for Classic Rock artists like ZZ Top, J.Giels and others the damm videos made bands play less kick ass and more pop friendly.
 

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Since I guarantee most of us weren't even born in the 50's - and even if we were and are now pushing old age pensioner age, we probably wouldn't have been old enough to take much notice of 50's music, then I can't vote for that, without looking them up online, I doubt I could name more than maybe 15-20 singers/bands from the entire 1950's, can anyone else? And anyway most of the 50's was pre-rock'n roll, Bill Haley and the Comets didn't even come along until 1955 or something, so it's a bit like voting for the 1820's as a bad year for rock because Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony wasn't heavy enough. The 2000's were pretty awful, and the present decade easily the worst yet, but then music trends change and 'classic' rock by definition is really a 60's to 80's era, 90% of my own Top 30 artists are products of the 60's to 80's.
Except for the stuff about the 50s I pretty much agree with all of this. To me the 80s is when everything really started going crap but there were still lot of interesting new acts who actually did something unique with their sound and not just for the sake of being different. Today it seems pretty much a put on but there were actually quirky people making quirky music that was somewhat genuine.

As for the 50s,
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
Buddy Holley and the Crickets
Richie Valens
Jerry Lee Lewis
Elfi etc etc

In some places this stuff didn't really get near mainstream until the early 60s but these acts (along with many rockers who might be considered Jazz, Blues or Country artists) were all burning up the airwaves with this very interesting new sound we like to call rock and roll. Playing on the backbeat really came into it's own in the 50s.
 

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