Your favourite musical period and why?

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My favourite period of music was probably the early to mid nineties. There were just lots of great artists doing some of their best work.

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magic (1991) still their best work in my opinion

Metallica: Metallica (1991) The beginning of the end for some, but this album got me into metal

Snoop Doggy Dogg: Doggystyle (1993) I think this is a classic

Pearl Jam: Ten (1991) Vs (1993) Amazing records

Guns’n’Roses: Use your illusion 1 and 2 (1991) Not as intense as Appetite but both albums have their moments

Nirvana: Nevermind (1991) In Utero (1993)

Oasis: Definitely Maybe (1994) Whats the story (morning glory) (1995) Nothing they have done since has come close

Rage Against The Machine: Rage Against The Machine (1991) I’m not sure that I’ve heard another album with such energy and aggression

White Zombie: Astro Creep 2000 (1995)

Pantera: Vulgar Display of power (1992) Far Beyond Driven (1994)


I could go on but I’ll probably bore you all to tears. What is your favourite period and could you recommend any albums?
 
Late 60's and early 70s.

Reason: Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Eric Clapton, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd etc.
 
bill.s.preston said:
My favourite period of music was probably the early to mid nineties. There were just lots of great artists doing some of their best work.

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magic (1991) still their best work in my opinion

Metallica: Metallica (1991) The beginning of the end for some, but this album got me into metal

Snoop Doggy Dogg: Doggystyle (1993) I think this is a classic

Pearl Jam: Ten (1991) Vs (1993) Amazing records

Guns’n’Roses: Use your illusion 1 and 2 (1991) Not as intense as Appetite but both albums have their moments

Nirvana: Nevermind (1991) In Utero (1993)

Oasis: Definitely Maybe (1994) Whats the story (morning glory) (1995) Nothing they have done since has come close

Rage Against The Machine: Rage Against The Machine (1991) I’m not sure that I’ve heard another album with such energy and aggression

White Zombie: Astro Creep 2000 (1995)

Pantera: Vulgar Display of power (1992) Far Beyond Driven (1994)


I could go on but I’ll probably bore you all to tears. What is your favourite period and could you recommend any albums?
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With you all the way. Mid 90s ruled. Add to your list Carter USM, Neds Atomic Dustbin, Charlatans, Ride, Verve, The Wonder Stuff... and on the electronica side, Prodigy, Goldie and Orbital. Great times.
 
Doevle said:
Late 60's and early 70s.

Reason: Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Eric Clapton, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd etc.
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Seconded, even when I wasnt born then. Also liked Metallica in the early 90's, it reached me only then along Deep Purple and Eagles.

Boney M, Abba, Kites and few other bands were also my favourites along with MJ.

Dr Alban's earlier albums were also brilliant along with Guns N Roses and Nirvana.
 
Simon Adebesi said:
With you all the way. Mid 90s ruled. Add to your list Carter USM, Neds Atomic Dustbin, Charlatans, Ride, Verve, The Wonder Stuff... and on the electronica side, Prodigy, Goldie and Orbital. Great times.
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I never really got into Carter or the Wonderstuff but I know they're rated by a lot of people. I'd definitely agree with the Prodigy, Orbital and the Verve. House music, hardcore, techno etc really grew from its infancy and blew up around that time and the Prodigy were huge back then.
 
Too tough a question. Possibly late 70's to early 80's off the top of my head though. Punk sputtering into new wave. Glam rock flourishing. Very exciting times. And the early 80's were wrought with great, influential new wave.
 
Right now. There's never been more music or a greater variety of it, and it's never been easier to get. Even most of the weird underground stuff is just two clicks away (if you get there before all 50 copies are sold, and if you don't, you can download it).
 
Interesting. Most people are judging it on creative output. You are judging it (predominantly) on cheap availability.

I disagree about now being a rich vein in terms of decent music being produced but I think I am just out of the loop these days, to be fair.

My theory is that people tend to love what they knew when they were teenagers more than anything else throughout their lives. I just think that period is so intense in terms of how passionate people feel about things like music that the passion never leaves you, and is never replicated by what you experience later in life.

That is certainly how it is with me.
 
Simon Adebesi said:
With you all the way. Mid 90s ruled. Add to your list Carter USM, Neds Atomic Dustbin, Charlatans, Ride, Verve, The Wonder Stuff... and on the electronica side, Prodigy, Goldie and Orbital. Great times.
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A 3rd vote from me for early/mid 90s

I used to listen to mostly hiphop in those days:
dr dre , wu tang clan (and all the solo stuff), cypress hill, nas, 2pac etc

but it was also around the time that i started to open up to different music with a lot of the rock and electronic bands that have already been mentioned.
 
I would have loved to see Michael Jackson live during the BAD and DANGEROUS tours.
 
Simon Adebesi said:
Interesting. Most people are judging it on creative output. You are judging it (predominantly) on cheap availability.

I disagree about now being a rich vein in terms of decent music being produced but I think I am just out of the loop these days, to be fair.

My theory is that people tend to love what they knew when they were teenagers more than anything else throughout their lives. I just think that period is so intense in terms of how passionate people feel about things like music that the passion never leaves you, and is never replicated by what you experience later in life.

That is certainly how it is with me.
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Spot on. Another contributing factor being that most have more time to take in and experience music and art in their adolescence. And naturally, most take in what is being presented at that place and time. Piecing together timelines of genres and movements in pop music of which one wasn't a part of isn't an easy thing to do.
 
Simon Adebesi said:
Interesting. Most people are judging it on creative output. You are judging it (predominantly) on cheap availability.
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Don't forget volume and variety. And most people seem to be judging it on a handful of bands and albums, which seems a little simplistic when billions of records are released every year. My stance is to think there's more music around today, and therefore probably more good music. And nobody has the time to listen to enough music to be able to confirm or refute that theory, so I'll cling on to it.
 
pillory said:
Right now. There's never been more music or a greater variety of it, and it's never been easier to get. Even most of the weird underground stuff is just two clicks away (if you get there before all 50 copies are sold, and if you don't, you can download it).
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I know what you mean but sometimes I think the easy access can have a negative side - nowadays I often dont give some albums enough of a chance because there is so much other stuff to listen to

Simon Adebesi said:
My theory is that people tend to love what they knew when they were teenagers more than anything else throughout their lives. I just think that period is so intense in terms of how passionate people feel about things like music that the passion never leaves you, and is never replicated by what you experience later in life.

That is certainly how it is with me.
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Ye sounds about right to me
 
pillory said:
Don't forget volume and variety. And most people seem to be judging it on a handful of bands and albums, which seems a little simplistic when billions of records are released every year. My stance is to think there's more music around today, and therefore probably more good music. And nobody has the time to listen to enough music to be able to confirm or refute that theory, so I'll cling on to it.
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Quite an assumption to be fair. Money is the driving force behind most of today's music. As a rule of thumb, the more money is involved in any artistic creation the more likely that project is to be complete shite.
 
pillory said:
For some of the artists in the charts, perhaps. For the billions of artists who make music that'll never ever sell more than a thousand copies, no.
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But if you think you'll have access to a tenth of that music, you're quite mistaken.
 
roodboy said:
I know what you mean but sometimes I think the easy access can have a negative side - nowadays I often dont give some albums enough of a chance because there is so much other stuff to listen to
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That's true, and will probably be even more true when I have kids and stuff, but I still think it's a positive thing overall.
 
JCurr said:
But if you think you'll have access to a tenth of that music, you're quite mistaken.
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I think I pointed out earlier that I'm quite aware of the fact that I'll never be able to check out more than a small fraction of what's out there, but it's not very hard to leave the boring commercial stuff out of that fraction, and there are also plenty of music sites and magazines that make it easier to avoid the boring non-commercial stuff as well. (But the main point is that the commercial tip of the iceberg is quite irrelevant to my experience of the world of music.)
 
roodboy said:
I know what you mean but sometimes I think the easy access can have a negative side - nowadays I often dont give some albums enough of a chance because there is so much other stuff to listen to
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The great crux of the digital age...
 
pillory said:
I think I pointed out earlier that I'm quite aware of the fact that I'll never be able to check out more than a small fraction of what's out there, but it's not very hard to leave the boring commercial stuff out of that fraction, and there are also plenty of music sites and magazines that make it easier to avoid the boring non-commercial stuff as well. (But the main point is that the commercial tip of the iceberg is quite irrelevant to my experience of the world of music.)
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Fair point. But the boom of modern major label music is quite a large portion of the pie. That's my point.
 
Late 90's Boy Band and Girl Band revolution.

With bands like NSYNC, Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys and many more filling the charts and airwaves it was a great time to be alive.
 
65-75

Beatles - Rubber Soul, Sgt Peppers, White album, Let it be, Revolver
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
The Doors - The Doors, Soft Parade
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the tracks
The Yardbirds - For your love
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I-IV, Physical Graffiti
The Kinks - The kinks are the village green society
Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence, Bookends, Bridge over troubled water
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
David Bowie - Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are you experienced, Electric Ladyland
Marvin Gaye - What's going on, Lets get it on
Albert King - Born under a bad sign

Scary thing is I'm sure I'm still missing a lot of classic albums out from this period.
 
Doevle said:
Late 60's and early 70s.

Reason: Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Eric Clapton, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd etc.
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Same

My second favorite is the early 90's which strengthens Simons theory since that was the music I listened when I was a kid
 
Ivor Ballokov said:
65-75

Beatles - Rubber Soul, Sgt Peppers, White album, Let it be, Revolver
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
The Doors - The Doors, Soft Parade
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the tracks
The Yardbirds - For your love
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I-IV, Physical Graffiti
The Kinks - The kinks are the village green society
Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence, Bookends, Bridge over troubled water
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
David Bowie - Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are you experienced, Electric Ladyland
Marvin Gaye - What's going on, Lets get it on
Albert King - Born under a bad sign

Scary thing is I'm sure I'm still missing a lot of classic albums out from this period.
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Definitely an influential era. I like the Beatles but I think I've heard so much of their stuff I'm a bit numb to it. Beach boys have some good stuff. Surprised you didn't include the stones. I like T-Rex from that era too.
 
TuTuHimm said:
Same

My second favorite is the early 90's which strengthens Simons theory since that was the music I listened when I was a kid
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I would tend to agree with Simon and I would take it a step further as I also enjoy some of the bands that my parents used to listen too when I was a youngster (3-10) which Kind of opens you up to earlier eras.
 
1998-2004 was the period I got into music and I can remember many a group, album and single in this period that will stay with me until the day I die.
 
bill.s.preston said:
Definitely an influential era. I like the Beatles but I think I've heard so much of their stuff I'm a bit numb to it. Beach boys have some good stuff. Surprised you didn't include the stones. I like T-Rex from that era too.
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I like T-Rex but I only have their greatest hits so couldn't name any particular album. Suppose the stones should have been in purely for their influence but I've never been able to get into them as a band.
 
Always liked a bit of 80's stuff even though I was born mid 89'

Like early 90's too.
 
90s, wtf.

The 60s-early seventies was a phenomenal period for music. I highly doubt anyone would even remember half of the bands mentioned in this thread 40 years from now. Most of the top bands still active from the late 60s are still filling stadiums and rocking away in the 60s.

BTW - the 60s was before my time.
 
mjs020294 said:
90s, wtf.

The 60s-early seventies was a phenomenal period for music. I highly doubt anyone would even remember half of the bands mentioned in this thread 40 years from now. Most of the top bands from the late 60s are still filling stadiums and rocking away in the 60s.

BTW - the 60s was before my ytime.
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It's all about personal taste. I agree that The late sixties/early seventies was a very good period. For me personally I listen to more music from the nineties than the 60's/70's/80's so It's my favourite period. I have albums by hendrix, the beatles, stones, Zepellin, sabbath, Bowie, T-rex etc but I always play the 90's stuff more.

I know the Rolling Stones still fill stadiums but I sincerely doubt that most of the top bands from that era are still doing it.
 
bill.s.preston said:
I know the Rolling Stones still fill stadiums but I sincerely doubt that most of the top bands from that era are still doing it.
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The Stones, the Who, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Fleetwood Mac etc. All have filled stadiums in the last few years.
 
bill.s.preston said:
It's all about personal taste. I agree that The late sixties/early seventies was a very good period. For me personally I listen to more music from the nineties than the 60's/70's/80's so It's my favourite period. I have albums by hendrix, the beatles, stones, Zepellin, sabbath, Bowie, T-rex etc but I always play the 90's stuff more.

I know the Rolling Stones still fill stadiums but I sincerely doubt that most of the top bands from that era are still doing it.
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I totally agree - i also have plenty of 60s/70s stuff and I like a lot of it but it will never be my favorite music period because I wasnt there to experience it first hand.

also think there will be plenty of 90s bands that stand the test of time and are remembered in decades to come ...
 
The 60s. Though I musically grew up in the 90s, a lot of those bands I have grown out of. Instead I keep going back to listening to Beatles, Kinks, Zombies, Yardbirds, that sort of thing.
 
mjs020294 said:
The Stones, the Who, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Fleetwood Mac etc. All have filled stadiums in the last few years.
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I know that occasionally there are a few charity/one off gigs but I thought most of them had pretty much dispanded. I'll take your word for it though.

You say the sixties were before your time. What was your time if you don't mind me asking?
 
I was still a teenager when the 80s started. Genesis and Pink Floyd were past their best by then but they were my favorite bands.
 
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