Best and Worst Decades For Music

Starting in the 1940's, how would you rank the decades for music?

Please vote for your favorite, and then vote for your least favorite. If possible, tell me how you would rate the other decades for music.

These votes will decide what the majority of the sites opinions on music era's are.

1940's (1 positive vote)

1950's (3 positive votes)

1960's (4 positive votes)

1970's (5 positive votes)

1980's (4 positive votes, 3 negative votes)

1990's (2 positive votes, 1 negative vote)

2000's (3 negative votes)

2010's

For me, it's usually a tie between the late 60's and the 70's. Some of the early 80's were good too.

The 90's had a handful of songs I liked, with the 00's having even less. So far, this decade has been terrible.

What about you?

One positive vote for the 1980's. As for a negative vote, I don't really consider any decade bad.... If possible, give me another positive vote for the 1960's.

Now when you say '50's', you mean 1956-1962, right?

1980's best. 1990's worst. Everything else, average.

50's is the best.

Which decade does Rebecca Black belong to again?

I vote the 80's simultaneously the best AND worst.

Hell, some songs were even the best and worst at the same time.

Leonardo said:

TV's Frink said:

I vote the 80's simultaneously the best AND worst.

Hell, some songs were even the best and worst at the same time.

?? I'm curious.. name one! :)

Actually, pretty much everything on MTV in the 80's qualifies.

Come On Eileen

Too Shy (sorry 'bout the ad)

Funky Town (cover) (Keytar for the win :p)

The Final Countdown (GOB for the win)

I'll admit the videos take the songs to new heights and depths.  Nostalgia as well.

Leonardo said:

TV's Frink said:

I vote the 80's simultaneously the best AND worst.

Hell, some songs were even the best and worst at the same time.

?? I'm curious.. name one! :)

Here's half a dozen:

We Don't Need Another Hero
I Wear My Sunglasses at Night
I Wanna Be a Cowboy
Holiday Rap
Danger Zone
Anything by Kiss

Basically you could fill my "So Bad It's Good' thread with the 80's music scene.

Well...obviously the 2000's were best for non-mainstream music.

Nyan Cat made 2011 the best year all by itself.

Let's see ... having not grown up in the 60s, 70s, and most of the 80s it's hard for me to make an informed decision on the general music of those decades. That being said, I have a fondness for a lot of rock/pop from those eras, and New Wave is so bad it's good (the same with Disco, to a much lesser extent.)

I don't really remember "noticing" music on the radio until 1997. That being said, there were a few bands/singers that I love that came from/hit their stride in the 90s, and I don't remember there being any overwhelming amounts of bad music, so I have a fondness for the 90s.

As for the 2000s ... it seems there were some decent bands/songs out there at first (mostly from the post-grunge genre), but the decade quickly became overrun with shitty pop, rap/hip-hop, R&B, etc. At the end of it there was all that Rihanna/Lady Gaga/Black Eyed Peas shit and nothing more.

This decade is shaping up to be the worst I've ever seen in regards to music. 100.99% of the music is the shitty pop, rap, R&B, etc., the few "artists" out there that actually can sing can't write shit, and hypersexualized superficial Hollywood bullshit is the core of the shit they do write.

Vote for 50's

I love the 1960s!

The Monkees! The Archies! Petula Clarke! The Ballad of the Green Berets! My Way! These Boots are Made for Walking!