Your fav decade for music was...?

rickenvox said:
After everyone naming the obvious, I'm going to go with the 00s. Some amazing albums and new genres in this timeframe. It was a musical renaissance.

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yes please.
 
It’s hard to make a strong case for the aughts...even though there’s good records because so many of the good records are good because they’re records that point at other better records from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Pop in the aughts is context-bound in a way that defeats the pure animal joy of 60s and 70s pop.
 
Peen Simmons said:
Also, rickenvox...you’re repping a Snow Patrol LP and a decidedly second rate Bright Eyes album.

Edit: also, Silversun Pickups? Did you have an earectomy in the ‘00s?
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Gotta include that particular Silversun Pickups album as my Big Muff was used on it.

That Bright Eyes album has one of his best songs, that is if you like old time music. And Snow Patrol was just fine at that time, they could've stopped making albums after that one. At least I didn't put up The Stills. There was a scene and that was just part of that scene. I could have also put up Coldplay for an album like Parachutes, but now everyone's perception of them has been tainted by putting out albums well past their most creative period. But they were a big part of that early 00s sound and influenced a lot of other bands. They became nauseating within a few short years of that, long before their Super Bowl appearance. But you have to consider acts as they were in their heyday without the advantage of seeing their demise when you're talking about a specific decade.
 
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Peen Simmons said:
It’s hard to make a strong case for the aughts...even though there’s good records because so many of the good records are good because they’re records that point at other better records from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Pop in the aughts is context-bound in a way that defeats the pure animal joy of 60s and 70s pop.
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Because When I'm Sixty-Four and Day Dream came out of nowhere with no context. No you're just not old enough to know the influences on the 60s that came before the 60s, or didn't want to explore those eras in addition to your historical/non-experiential research on the 60s.

And you didn't address the post rock I included.
 
rickenvox said:
Because When I'm Sixty-Four and Day Dream came out of nowhere with no context. No you're just not old enough to know the influences on the 60s that came before the 60s, or didn't want to explore those eras in addition to your historical/non-experiential research on the 60s.

And you didn't address the post rock I included.
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There’s context sure, but there’s also sheer goddamn quality which isn’t so much a selling point for Interpol...where the appeal was, partly, that they expertly recreated what people thought Joy Division sounded like.

Post-rock can suck it.

There’s certainly good music from the ‘00s...but that entire decade has wink-nudge airquotes around it. So much pantomime “good music” and “real music.”

You did correctly identify the best Spoon LP, so points for that.
 
Peen Simmons said:
There’s context sure, but there’s also sheer goddamn quality which isn’t so much a selling point for Interpol...where the appeal was, partly, that they expertly recreated what people thought Joy Division sounded like.

Post-rock can suck it.
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Hmmm, those rock critic associations are made on the absolute loosest criteria. Interpol sounds nothing remotely like Joy Division other than they both have monotone voices and maybe some similar bass lines. The orchestration of the repetitive guitar parts in Interpol is something Joy Division never came close to achieving. They sounded as much like Joy Division as they did Nick Cave (or insert any other low pitch monotone singer).
 
rickenvox said:
Hmmm, those rock critic associations are made on the absolute loosest criteria. Interpol sounds nothing remotely like Joy Division other than they both have monotone voices and maybe some similar bass lines. The orchestration of the repetitive guitar parts in Interpol is something Joy Division never came close to achieving. They sounded as much like Joy Division as they did Nick Cave (or insert any other low pitch monotone singer).
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But that was the take at the time. Anyway, Interpol sounds like imaginary Joy Division.

It was definitely a common comparison.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4113-turn-on-the-bright-lights/amp/
 
Flamencology said:
Oh cool. A Californian subtly trying to convince a Chicagoan of the enormity of his cock by demonstrating a basic awareness of British music hall tradition.
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wrong metaphor. there has never been any correlation between music geek trivia and cock size, in a positive way.
 
surfsteve said:
@rickenvox , sell me the Tommy Bolin HiWatt. I'll agree with your findings for best decade.
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You're the second person this week who has said they want to buy that amp. Tommy Bolin and Robin Trower (Procol Harum days) before him owned it. I'm actually putting it up on Reverb within a week or two. If you are serious PM me. And check the Vintage Guitar Price Guide or Reverb for the ballpark price. I'm going low but within those parameters (no additional value for its history as it's undocumented, but from a few good sources).

Also I could change my mind today and go with the 70s.
 
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