Best 10 year period for rock music?
 

I don't mean a specific decade, I mean a 10 year period. Also, I'm referring to the rock genre overall, not arguing for some particular band or against other bad music during the same period.


For me it's 1968 to 1978.

The number of fantastic and innovative rock bands that have been subsequently copied and derived from is just overwhelming.

For example:
AC/DC
Led Zeppilen
Black Sabbath
Rush
Doors
U2
Dire Straits
Santana
Eric Clapton
Fleetwood Mac
Iggy Pop
Jethro Tull
Journey
Judas Priest
Allman Brothers
Bad Company
Joy Division
Eagles
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Moody Blues
New York Dolls
Peter Frampton
Pink Floyd
The Police
Queen
Ramones
ZZtop
CCR
Scorpions
Doobie Brothers
Steve Miller Band
Thin Lizzy
U2
Van Halen
Yes
Jimmy Hendrix
Cream
Iron Butterfly
Beach Boys
Jeff Beck
Beatles
Genesis
The Who
Blind Faith
Rolling stones
Velvet Underground
etc.......





Your thoughts?

.:2 cents:


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I like most of that list. Its sad how rock is pretty much dead now.

I have to go with '77 to '87. A lot of my favorite bands (arguably) released much of their best stuff (at least IMO) during that era.

I'd narrow it down even further to '81-'85...Van Halen, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Whitesnake, AC/DC all released their most commercially successful albums (dependin' on your tastes in music of course).

tops my list.

I'd say, 1987-97

Nirvana
Foo Fighters
Stone Temple Pilots
Sound Garden
Cracker
Dokken
Def Leppard

Etc.

I have to agree with you on that, I might go 80-90 though

Personally I'm a huge fan of many rock eras from over the last 55 years.

However... the best 10 years hands down IMO would be '64 - '74. More experimental stuff came out of that time frame than any other time.

All decades of Rock built on previous decades, they are all less meaningful on their own, except the current decade which seems meaningless in general.

am i the only one who's into the buddy holly, fats domino days? Probably hehe

For all of us it depends on our youth... sperbonzo says 1968 to 1978, and I think most of the music in the 1970s was pure crap - lots of disco and utterly gay music. At the very same time, I love the 1980s bubble gum pop crap and that's just another kind of gayness. Younger people will tell me that the 1990s or the 2000s were best for music, yet while I listen to modern day music / top 40 I can't name a band during that twenty year period I like.

My personal favorites are...

Journey. Very first day of high school, very first class.... Was music appreciation. Our music teacher knew Jonathan Cain, and had him come in and play Don't Stop Believin' for us. It blew me out of the water.

I also like Dave Matthews Band, U2, Bruce Springsteen...

i would of said 67-77

you about 47 years old?

Close to mine as well. I'd say 92 to 2002

Like I said, I'm not arguing about the crap music, there is tons of it every year, and the 1968 to 1978 period had PLENTY. I'm just talking about the amount of great rock.


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Is there any great rock now? There doesn't seem to be.

i believe he's 50? either way, age is not an indication of what kind of music you will enjoy. i enjoy music from most all periods but think there was something special going on in that era, most specifically pre 72 and i am 34.

Yes I'm a music snob... but if you don't include at least part of the 60s in your 10 years, regardless of your age, then there is no hope for you LOL.

Rock is Great
 

For once we agree on something.
Unfortunately my hard disk crashed taking all my Rock & all my Blues.
So I'm stuck with my GF playing the radio station that plays the same rotation of 10 songs around the clock.

Open to suggestions for a Maxtor 1.5 TB (reality 2 X 750GB) Mac recovery

By the way. Alvin Lee, of 10 Years After, died the other day. Saw him live. Of all the concerts I saw, nobody put out as much energy as he did. Master of the feedback. 10 minutes after the concert we were still trying to leave our seats, his guitar was still humming.

What about 1 hit wonders like 'It's a beautiful Day' playing "White Bird?"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Cin0QzuEss

well good point :pimp - anyway I am about the same and I fully agree

Hardly. You're just not looking in the right places.

name some bands

i like periods... :(

I have to agree with sperbonzo, that time was the best time for rock, regardless of the 80s that were very good as well. But those 10 years were just incredible. And I'd add to the list Motörhead and Aerosmith.

The last 20 years have been awful, I think that after Rage Against The Machine got separated, there has been hardly any good band. Probably Queens of The Stone Age, Foo Fighters and perhaps The Strokes but that's it.

Best PORN rock song
 

Alvin Lee & 10 Years After
Good morning little schoolgirl [I want to bally you all night long]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=R_OQfvKwUlg

I'm 48 - and my 19yr old daughter likes much of the classic rock (mostly 80s) that I grew up with. I recall a few years back she sported an AC/DC t-shirt one summer. She knows every track from Back in Black. :thumbsup

Granted, she also listens to some of the current sludge - but at least she likes stuff like Van Halen, etc.

As for me - although I like classic hard rock (and country)...I also enjoy stuff like old musicals (Rogers & Hammerstein 'Carousel') - way before my time. But, like my daughter, it's stuff my parents had around the house in the early days.

Hard to beat that I would say.

Great additions


:)

I was going to say 66-75 +/- 2 years

I have to agree with you.... or 1970-1980

Classic Rock
 

Classic Rock is 1955 to 1980
Local radio now says Classic Rock is anything before 2010
WTF????

I enjoy both new and older too but the 80's rock scene is def my favorite decade when It comes to music. I'd have to say the op's list of bands are great too

1970-1983!

the era before it was all free

Left out some biggies.

Aerosmith
Heart
Elton John
Kansas
Boston
Jefferson Starship


All bands still played on the radio today, cuz it was, for the most part, great shit.

I tend to agree with your opinion. It was an awesome time for rock music. :thumbsup

yeah I like this era as well

So...I'm the only mother fucker in this thread who is in LOVE with 90's rock?
I mean, I love the rock of the 60's and 70's...but the 90's. Man....the fucking 90's!!!

Yes. Foo Fighters is the last true rock band of our time.

My bad... I was just going off the top of my head. I couldn't get ALL of them!

:)

1980 to 1990 would be my choice

the best metal songs / albums came out in the 80s



piriod

On the Ron and Fez show on SiriusXM a few weeks ago they were talking about how the 90's really was the last golden age of rock music. You have Nirvana that kicked it off and actually put the nail in the coffin of the hair metal era, and then bands like Alice in Chains, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Weezer, Tool, Foo Fighters, White Zombie, and a shit ton others all made their bones in the '90's. Some people might go the bullshit sub genre route and try to classify some of these bands as grunge, alternative, or even metal, but as far as I'm concerned these are all just damn good rock bands...

Mmmmmmmmmmmm.................

Each ten-year period starting in 1946 to date was a good decade for Rock'n Roll.

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I'm with you to a point. I love some grunge. The best thing about it, IMO, it is killed off all those fucking miserable, cookie-cutter, tranny hair bands. Most were marginally talented at best, and the subject matter and lyrics to their songs were totally assclown.

The thing is, the airwaves then got saturated with miserable junkies moaning about one depressing thing or another. Total doom & gloom for a decade.

Way better than mainstream 80s rock, tho.

Eeeewww. To me, the 80s meant glam metal garbage and power ballads, and most of the cool rock bands from the 70s sold out in the 80s and swapped guitars for keyboards. :disgust

But it's a very subjective thing...

For me it's probably very late 70's to late 80's. Would include most of my favorites such as Rush, Rem, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Ozzy (with Randy Rhoads). I also like some of the grunge era bands a lot though, Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots come to mind the most.

Well, one thing's for sure...concerts were a lot cheaper back then. :1orglaugh

http://www.morethings.com/music/van_...-halen-101.jpg

Yeah, there are so many. I forgot Rush, too. I was never a huge fan, personally, but they had a distinctive sound, and were huge in the 70s.

http://zrockblog.com/wp-content/uplo...3/02/Rush5.jpg

http://classicrock.50webs.com/images/Aerosmith.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/ebca240b8...y7tqo1_500.jpg

http://www.fallingapartinonepiece.co...3277-001-l.jpg

http://cbswnewhd.files.wordpress.com...5&h=240&crop=1

Jesus what a fucking blast that show must have been. Talk about getting more than your moneys worth.

There are good bands these days, but they are lost in the clutter and difficult to find. The days where everyone in the USA was listening to the same album are obviously long gone.

I have Little Black Submarines by the Black Keys on repeat a lot, a good example of a great modern band.