Fugees still gets replay for me. The Score is just so incredibly solid. I still stand behind Digable Planets first album, good stuff.
Phil Collins’ In the Air Tonight. The drums changed the game.
60s brought us many things, but most importantly was the fusion of genres to form so many styles we now know today.
First of all I love how now, we can download an entire band’s discography and listen to them at our leisure.
For instance, Jazz and rock fusion, Progressive rock, Symphonic Rock, and Blues rock are some well known examples. And now, for instance, one band is said to have a “Technical/Extreme Space Jazz and Progressive Metal” sound. Confusing to say the least, but sort of makes sense once one listens to them.
It was also the age when young people grew up with these amplifiers, electric guitars and sounds, and they made them into music, see Jimi Hendrix, Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Allman brothers, for some examples.
And then bands such as the Beatles, Genesis, King Crimson, and Pink Floyd (and many others) were making ‘progressive’ rock, where the music was designed to take you on a journey, which is often associated with the at the time, ‘new’ electronic synthesizers, to turn a piano into a mellotron, an organ into a hammond, or with experimental technical advancements in music, turning familiar instruments into seemingly different beasts. Hendrix is of course one of the supreme examples, listening to a Hendrix album is like listening to 12 different guitarists.
Experimentation led to the next generation of music, and mostly the public wasn’t ready for the sounds some bands were throwing out in the 60s, but in the 70s, many became insanely popular, and in fact most went on to make their best music in the 70s.
And then Genesis betrayed me and gave into the 80s :mad: Fuck you phil collins, your music sucks.
Also none of this jazz rock fusion stuff couldn’t come about without great jazz musicians such as Coltrane, Miles Davis, Monk, and many of the other well known free jazz musicians, they turned the musical world upside down, and even they all had roots…
Bruford wouldn’t have been playing drums like that without jazz influence.
Yo mad, are you? Or you just heard songs from their first two albums, since their third one they turned into a completely different band. Bush (the band) whishes they had an album like Silverchair’s Diorama, no comparision whatsoever.
Motown era. It’s beautiful and “real” music.
The headbanger’s ball era.
None of y’all motha fucka’s dig on the funk?
man it had to be the 80’s without question.
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60s and 90s.
80s was horrible for mainstream music, when hair metal was running rampant everywhere.
I don’t really care for 80s rock as a whole anyways, only a couple of shining stars like Metallica really made me not hate it. Not a GnR fan at all.
90s was too strong, 60s is untouchable.
The 60s gave us Acid Rock though. That instantaneously takes it out of the running.
70s and 90s probably.
80s seemed like it was awful
Lol at hating on hair metal. 80’s gave us Devo, the good prince music, Michael Jackson’s Dangerous album and his other good stuff, Queen’s Live aid performance, London Calling…Bitches just don’t know about that 80’s. Besides, hair metal is a crap load of fun; you know, that thing that some musicians do: have fun with music.
The 90’s gave me Sublime…thats all I need.
Wasn’t that mainstream and a bit overrated. The whole of music was made ineffective once C&C Music Factory came into existence.
just so people wont get confused lol.
I know they wheren’t main stream but I dont care. Favorite Band. Nothing makes them innefective they cover a massive amount of Genres and never stopped experimenting and trying new shit… Love them till the day I die they never get old.
Came out in the 90s
60’s Motown style mainstream
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80’s, duh, hardly a tough question. Everything was better then.