11/20/2020 of Best decade of Music

When was the best decade of Music

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Lancelot said:
man that's a tough one. I'll go with the 1960s since it had the Beatles, Elvis, Woodstock, etc.
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i consider Elvis more 50s than 60s...the 60s was my second choice...besides the Beatles and Woodstock, they also had the Grateful Dead, The Doors, Hendrix, Janis, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Dylan, and the British Invasion bands to name a few...but i go with the 90s...like the Beatles in the 60s, Nirvana was a nuclear bomb that changed everything that came after them; when tracking music that's considered "mainstream", the emergence of the Beatles in the 60s and Nirvana in the 90s are clear lines of demarcation...

and that doesn't even count other bands like Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, STP, Sublime, Beck, the Foo Fighters (best band i've ever seen in person), the Mighty Mighty Bosstones (another kick-ass live band), the Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, Local H, and carryovers from the 80s like the Beastie Boys, REM, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bad Religion, and Jane's Addiction, who did some of their best work in the 90s...and there's so many other bands i could name...can you tell i love music ha

 
Sam Adams said:
i consider Elvis more 50s than 60s...the 60s was my second choice...besides the Beatles and Woodstock, they also had the Grateful Dead, The Doors, Hendrix, Janis, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Dylan, and the British Invasion bands to name a few...but i go with the 90s...like the Beatles in the 60s, Nirvana was a nuclear bomb that changed everything that came after them; when tracking music that's considered "mainstream", the emergence of the Beatles in the 60s and Nirvana in the 90s are clear lines of demarcation...

and that doesn't even count other bands like Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, STP, Sublime, Beck, the Foo Fighters (best band i've ever seen in person), the Mighty Mighty Bosstones (another kick-ass live band), the Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, Local H, and carryovers from the 80s like the Beastie Boys, REM, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bad Religion, and Jane's Addiction, who did some of their best work in the 90s...and there's so many other bands i could name...can you tell i love music ha
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Ha! I almost went with 90s as well. We had a very in depth discussion about this on slack 

 
Reifsteck said:
it's 2020's and with that logic 70's and 80's would be the same thin. Which they aren't.
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There was no year 0.  A decade is 10 years, so the first decade a.d. was year 1 to year 10.

So yes, the 70s were 71-80 and the 80s were 81-90

 
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Laffopuritain said:
There was no year 0.  A decade is 10 years, so the first decade a.d. was year 1 to year 10.

So yes, the 70s were 71-80 and the 80s were 81-90
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Culturally, the 70s are 1970 to 1979. They're called the 70s for a reason, after all. Historically/technically, you are right though that decades "should" start with 1 rather than 0 because there was no year zero. We're not labelling them usually based on history though, but cultural comfort/ease and a decade just means a period of 10 years.

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/27/791546842/people-cant-even-agree-on-when-the-decade-ends

 
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Nizam Adrienne said:
Culturally, the 70s are 1970 to 1979. They're called the 70s for a reason, after all. Historically/technically, you are right though that decades "should" start with 1 rather than 0 because there was no year zero. We're not labelling them usually based on history though, but cultural comfort/ease and a decade just means a period of 10 years.

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/27/791546842/people-cant-even-agree-on-when-the-decade-ends
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As if I'm going to take NPRs word for it.  They claim that Biden won the election.  

Everyone knows a decade is a specific period of ten years- not just any 10 year period.

 
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