Favorite Decade in Rock History?

[Queequeg]

Mine is 78-88.  Punk to New Wave to College Rock.  There's a bit of a gap in the middle, but that's most of what I listen to right there. 

1956 is slightly arbitrary, I guess, but I feel like the last part of most decades is generally most interesting as a foreshadow of what is to come-Talking Heads in the 70s, Pixies in the 80s, etc..

[Eddie Teach]

The 90s.

[PDH]

The early 80s.  I was at the university...getting drunk and laid.  Even the radio station tried to pretend it was up to date and played good stuff.

[MadImmortalMan]

I'd say 1972-1982.



Voted for 67-77.

[Ideologue]

78-88, although there's a lot of good 68-78 stuff, too, especially Bowie and Floyd, and I almost chose 88-98 because if I'm not misremembering the dates of Recipe for Hate, Generator, and Stranger Than Fiction, that's Bad Religion's most fertile period.

But, in the end, can you deny the Song of Songs?

[ulmont]

Damn.  I want 1984-94.

[jimmy olsen]

67-77

[Josquius]

Those dates are a bit arbitrary aren`t they?
Starting at 6s and going up one each time with two 8s....

From the list...yes, probally 78-88. Punk to post punk to proto indie.
The 90s were good too though, excepting the first year or two (grungy grungy) and the last year or two (rock totally vanished)

[jimmy olsen]

Those dates are a bit arbitrary aren`t they?
Starting at 6s and going up one each time with two 8s....

From the list...yes, probally 78-88. Punk to post punk to proto indie.
The 90s were good too though, excepting the first year or two (grungy grungy) and the last year or two (rock totally vanished)

You truly are a monster

[CountDeMoney]

1989-1995.

[Ideologue]

1989-1995.

How do you manage to be over a decade older than me but choose the younger music?  Did August and Everything After touch your blackened heart or something?

[Barrister]

I am glad the question is "favourite", not "best".

I do hesitate since some of my favourite 80s bands released some awesome albums in '89 or so - think Disintegration, Violator, Sonic Temple, hell even my guilty pleasure Dr. Feelgood.

But they really aren't 90s albums.

So, reluctantly, I'll vote 78-88

[Razgovory]

Pre-Cambrian.

[11B4V]

The 90s.

Early '90's

[MadImmortalMan]

The 90s were great until Limp Bizkit ruined everything. Actually that wave of goodness started about 1988. I think Green Day contributed to the crappening too (in a different way) even though I really liked Dookie. The bands that became more mainstream because of GD after that went down a very bad road that continues today.