Which decade had the best rock?

[theotherguy]

Which decade, in your opinion, had the best style of rock? I'm not really asking what your favorite kind of rock is, but in what decade your most liked rock songs are in....

I didn't choose to include any other styles of music, because it would simply complicate the poll and limit the results.

 

[CptStern]

the 70's ..rolling stones has their best decade, introduction of punk, led zeppelin, deep purple, ac/dc, Tom Sholtz, David Bowi's Ziggy stardust, Van Halen, the who's quadrophenia, Lou reed, the ramones, Iggy pop and the stooges etc etc etc

 

[Kamikazie]

70s definatly had the best.

 

[Direwolf]

I'll take 60's. Music was at least as good as any decade since, but Rock and Roll hadn't yet gained the cynicism that later became so prevalent.

 

[sinkoman]

Late 60's, early 70's.

The age of Cream.

 

[Laivasse]

Noughties. It's a golden age for extreme metal, building on the legends of the late 80's and 90's.

 

[Zephos]

I love the 90's, Nirvana...Pumpkins...Chili Peppers...oh and RATM

 

[Danimal]

70's and 80's. Hell anything before the late 90's was awsome.

Now it's all just love songs and that guy singing "Catch my Disease" I swear to god I can see it refferred to AIDS.

 

[gick]

Pffft. The 50s - Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley - whats not to like?

 

[knut]

Late 80's/early 90's for hardcore punk and real emo.

 

[Steven]

the 70's ..rolling stones has their best decade, introduction of punk, led zeppelin, deep purple, ac/dc, Tom Sholtz, David Bowi's Ziggy stardust, Van Halen, the who's quadrophenia, Lou reed, the ramones, Iggy pop and the stooges etc etc etc

Queen?

The 70's and 60's for the win.

 

[Qonfused]

Hell.

50s has oldies which own.
60s has oldies which own.
70s has David Bowie and others as Stern stated which own.
80s introduced the synthesizer which completely ****ing owns and has shaped music today.
90s ... introduction of rap? <.<
Today ... mainstream-wise blows.

 

[Ludah]

I voted 90's.

Not all that rock-savvy, although I found everything prior to that decade to be boring and antiqauted (not to downplay the influence numerous artists had had).

My brief fling with the genre pretty much ended just as it had begun, and now I just find most stuff to be crap nowadays.

 

[Remus]

I'll have to say seventies to early eighties had the best bands, now it's just commercial bull shit, bleah... ironic I'm nostalgic for an era of music when I didn't even exist yet .

 

[theotherguy]

I voted for 90's. This is mainly because grunge began, and its my favorite style of rock. 70's were cool, but the 80's just absolutley sucked. metal simply does not do it for me, neither do cheezy 80's style synths used in non-techno ways. And I am really starting to dislike rock music today. It's turned into this style that is like ultraheavy guitars playing amelodically with the singer rapping/screaming. (see Korn :x )

 

[Crushenator 500]

I disagee with everyone who says music is all shit nowadays, theres still good stuff coming out

I like music in pretty much every decade, but the best are the 60s and 70s imo for sure

 

[CptStern]

the good music of today is buried under a mountain of crap ... for every Feist there's a dozen Kelly clarkson

 

[Jangle]

70's. But hair metal comes a close second.

 

[knut]

It is impossible to say that everything of 'today' is shit and its limited to, say, 1 good band out of 10. Nonsense really. Every day a new band is releasing a EP or a demo and playing more gigs and gaining more attention, you just got to look for it in more ways then turning on you're TV or radio. Myspace wins for music.