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Poll
Question: Favorite Moment in Rock History?
Option 1: Pre-1956 votes: 0
Option 2: 1956-1966 votes: 1
Option 3: 1967-1977 votes: 6
Option 4: 1978-1988 votes: 12
Option 5: 1988-1998 votes: 4
Option 6: 1999-2009 votes: 0
Title: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Queequeg on September 15, 2011, 09:02:37 PM
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..
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 15, 2011, 09:09:42 PM
The 90s.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: PDH on September 15, 2011, 09:10:26 PM
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.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: MadImmortalMan on September 15, 2011, 09:12:55 PM
I'd say 1972-1982.



Voted for 67-77.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Ideologue on September 15, 2011, 09:20:07 PM
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?
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: ulmont on September 15, 2011, 09:32:57 PM
Damn.  I want 1984-94.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: jimmy olsen on September 15, 2011, 09:36:13 PM
67-77 :punk:
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Josquius on September 15, 2011, 09:36:50 PM
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)
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: jimmy olsen on September 15, 2011, 09:38:35 PM
Quote from: Tyr on September 15, 2011, 09:36:50 PM
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
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: CountDeMoney on September 15, 2011, 11:02:41 PM
1989-1995.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Ideologue on September 15, 2011, 11:06:58 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 15, 2011, 11:02:41 PM
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?
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Barrister on September 15, 2011, 11:23:11 PM
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
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Razgovory on September 16, 2011, 12:28:56 AM
Pre-Cambrian.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: 11B4V on September 16, 2011, 01:13:38 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 15, 2011, 09:09:42 PM
The 90s.

Early '90's
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: MadImmortalMan on September 16, 2011, 01:57:00 AM
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.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Ideologue on September 16, 2011, 02:33:58 AM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 16, 2011, 01:57:00 AM
I think Green Day contributed to the crappening too (in a different way) even though I really liked Dookie.

I see what you did there.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Crazy_Ivan80 on September 16, 2011, 04:20:27 AM
lol, for some reason I thought about geology when reading this title...

:Embarrass:
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 16, 2011, 04:29:40 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 15, 2011, 11:06:58 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 15, 2011, 11:02:41 PM
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?

It touched mine.  :blush:
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Grey Fox on September 16, 2011, 07:03:03 AM
The Vietnam era.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: CountDeMoney on September 16, 2011, 07:05:09 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 15, 2011, 11:06:58 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 15, 2011, 11:02:41 PM
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?

Yes.  Yes it did.

And that era was the beginning, height and end of the Grunge Era.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: jimmy olsen on September 16, 2011, 07:18:31 AM
Sickening.

I've never been so disappointed in Languish in my life.  :mad:
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Sheilbh on September 16, 2011, 07:20:32 AM
78-88.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: CountDeMoney on September 16, 2011, 07:38:22 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 16, 2011, 07:18:31 AM
Sickening.

I've never been so disappointed in Languish in my life.  :mad:

Go fuck yourself.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Ed Anger on September 16, 2011, 08:01:08 AM
Grunge era. AiC, Soundgarden.

The 70's second.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: FunkMonk on September 16, 2011, 08:21:33 AM
I choose 78-98, because I can do that.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Maximus on September 16, 2011, 05:30:40 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on September 16, 2011, 12:28:56 AM
Pre-Cambrian.
Damn it, that was my answer.
Title: Re: Favorite Decade in Rock History?
Post by: Ideologue on September 16, 2011, 06:00:50 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 16, 2011, 07:05:09 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 15, 2011, 11:06:58 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 15, 2011, 11:02:41 PM
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?

Yes.  Yes it did.

Fair enough.  It was pretty good.