Rock Eras

[Balta1701]

I still like the Cretaceous.

 

What?

[knightni]

I still like the Cretaceous.

 

What?

Rawk.

 

That reminds me that I like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Aerosmith.

 

They all played in the Cretaceous Period.

[BigEdWalsh]

60's and early 70's for me. I loved the British invasion stuff, american garage bands and psychedelia.

 

[BigEdWalsh]

The 50's and early 60's aren't gettin' much love. I didn't vote for that period but I loved that time. I really liked old doo wop and R 'n B and even rockabilly (Gene Vincent, Elvis etc.).

[FlaSoxxJim]

The 50's and early 60's aren't gettin' much love. I didn't vote for that period but I loved that time. I really liked old doo wop and R 'n B and even rockabilly (Gene Vincent, Elvis etc.).

 

I love all of that — and I have a pretty impressive vinyl doo-wop collection that I amassed back in my collecting days. And, this era is the beginning of rock and roll, so there sure is a lot going for that era. But, I think for innovation and the sheer magnitude of god music being released, I have to give the nod to the second wave of mod-60s to early 70s.

[bmags]

I still like the Cretaceous.

 

What?

 

damn it, I wanted to make the first epoch joke.

[bmags]

I think when you look at it all as a whole, we are living in the worst time frame for music from the 1950's through today.

 

depends how little of the music you are listening to.

[Kid Gleason]

The 50's and early 60's aren't gettin' much love. I didn't vote for that period but I loved that time. I really liked old doo wop and R 'n B and even rockabilly (Gene Vincent, Elvis etc.).

 

I'm a Rockabilly fanatic, but I am still much more of a Punk than anything else, so that is where my true heart has to be.

[Milkman delivers]

depends how little of the music you are listening to.

 

I'm open to listening to anything. Any good suggestions?

[bjm676]

'60s - '70s without a doubt.

 

Beatles, The Who, Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Hendrix, etc.

 

That music is timeless.

 

 

There are a few bands today that make great music. Wilco, My Morning Jacket, Pearl Jam, Spoon. But they are not in the same category as the other ones.

[StrangeSox]

Wilco stopped making good music in 2006. Their last two albums have been awful, imo.

 

I'm going to have to go with the late 60's and 70's also.

[bmags]

I'm open to listening to anything. Any good suggestions?

 

My point was kind of, a lot of these highlighted bands from previous decades have the benefit of time to remove them from the mucky bands of their era. I mean we are looking at late 60s and attributing the Velvets to that time, which is correct, but they weren't that well known outside new york and didn't get a lot of traction until lou reed struck it big with transformer.

 

And so then we get to cherry pick 80s bands like the replacements and pixies, husker du, when the overwhelming bombardment of music was absolute s*** at the time.

 

And so now, in the midst of getting bombarded with nickelback, country and autotune (which I actually like, but I'll play ball), I think it's easy to say this is the worst time for rock, and i guess by classical rock standards it is. But for me, I'll take this time over 10 years ago, because though awesome albums came out and some of my favorite bands were in their prime (soft bulletin, lonesome crowded west, terror twighlight/brighten the corners) they were just completely buried as, frankly, the worst pop phase of any since hair bands, nu-rock and rap-rock took hold.

 

The music I listen to now is much closer, if not the, form of pop-rock now. Grizzly Bear debuted at #4, Animal Collective's vinyl! came out top 25.

 

So I think It'll be easier to tell 5 years from now where this era stands, but also, it's important to note the sheer amount of music we have access to nowadays, means likely a "Fad" or "wave" might not ever come again. (out of nowhere I mean, musical directional shifts might be much more subtle). So, beyond the obvious, there might be an absolute gem of an album right now that will be slow to gain traction, but will have the ability to through social networking and the internet. So this is going to be a hard time to get a gauge on.

 

That said for the sheer fact that the popular music coincided with the best kind of rock going on, I'd say the late 60's to early 70s takes it, then pop music goes into the abyss for many years.

[StrangeSox]

autotuner makes me want to puncture my ear drums. Why does anyone think that sounds good?

[knightni]

Ron, what music do you listen to now?

 

If you try Pandora and make a station of bands you like, the system selects different bands similar to bands that you like and plays their music.

[bmags]

autotuner makes me want to puncture my ear drums. Why does anyone think that sounds good?

 

I think there has been some really good pop songs with autotune.

[SoxAce]

Any of them before the 2000s are good for me. It's a shame I'm still pretty young and I hate what music has become in the 2000s on for every type of music. It's sad. Just no originality/creativity/etc.. anymore. 90's, 80s, 70s I still listen to unless my uncle is around and he'll pop some 60s in there which I like as well.

[bmags]

Just no originality/creativity/etc.. anymore.

 

I mean, I disagree.

[BigEdWalsh]

Ron, what music do you listen to now?

 

If you try Pandora and make a station of bands you like, the system selects different bands similar to bands that you like and plays their music.

Hey thanks for the Pandora link. I used to use Pandora and then I didn't have a computer for a couple of years. I had forgotten about Pandora. I was surprised to see the "stations" I had saved were still there. Pretty cool!

[Yoda]

Mid 60's to early 70's ( Beatles, Cream, The Who, Hendrix, Stones, Creedence, Zeppelin . . .) but when it comes to picking up the guitar and jamming the evening away I would definitely have to go with Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Bo Diddley and such others.

[Milkman delivers]

Ron, what music do you listen to now?

 

If you try Pandora and make a station of bands you like, the system selects different bands similar to bands that you like and plays their music.

 

I listen to mostly classic rock with a little bit of everything thrown in there randomly. I have been to pandora, but nothing new seems that good to me...not sure why.

[knightni]

I listen to mostly classic rock with a little bit of everything thrown in there randomly. I have been to pandora, but nothing new seems that good to me...not sure why.

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, Buckcherry, Queens of the Stone Age,

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Try some of those.