Favourite musical ''era''?

[Rob]

I'd also go with the late 80's-early 90's era.  Hair metal was good, heavy metal was still fast, and GN'R ruled the friggin' world.  Bands like Megadeth, Metallica, Posion, Tesla, Motley Crue, and Iron Maiden were on top.  And you had bands like The Black Crowes, Pantera, and Skid Row just starting to get big.

[IronMaiden415]

the glam rock era from the 80's to the early 90's and the grunge era 

[Izzy]

No has yet said 2000-2005

[Walk]

2000-2005 has seen metalcore and melodic death metal get big, and I would rate it above 1995-2000.

[Elle]

mid - late 80's seems to be where most of my music's from - if it had a mullet I liked it 

[Hammy]

mid - late 80's seems to be where most of my music's from - if it had a mullet I liked it?

Agreed 80s, The Era of Cheese, from Poison to Warrant to Stan Bush.....It's ALL Great

[Mr. Dick Purple]

No has yet said 2000-2005

Cause that lapse of time has nothing good if we compared them with lets say 90 to 95.

[Izzy]

No has yet said 2000-2005

Cause that lapse of time has nothing good if we compared them with lets say 90 to 95.

I think that was the point i was making

[Rob]

2000-2005 has seen metalcore and melodic death metal get big, and I would rate it above 1995-2000.

I agree, at least recently there has been some decent rock and metal bands that have gotten pretty big.  From 1995-2000 was just awful.  There was barely any "rock" out there, and what was out there was just a sorry excuse for rock.  at least recently we've had some older bands get big again.

[MarioGunner]

1978-1995. The late 70's saw metal explode; it became faster, more aggressive, and better. In the 80's, there was thrash metal, grindcore, speed metal, power metal, heavy metal... Hell, the whole genre matured! In the early 90's, death metal and black metal hit their creative peaks. After 1995, it all seemed to get old and tired out. Lots of bands broke up or became mediocre in the mid 90's.

Lately, things are getting better. Metalcore is controversial, but it's amazing live, and power metal is currently very healthy.

This covers a nice era, and i would just like to say, that there a lot of material that is so damn good in the 85-95 decade. Now you have to dig to find good music, but power is good, very nice, and my advice, Rata Blanca, listen to some of that Argentinan band the las 2 albums "La LLave de la puerta Secreta" and "El Camino del Fuego"

[Nytunz]

Metal and Art Rock!

Bands Like : Tool, GnR, Apc, Nin!

and

Susperia, In Flames, Sepultura (Old), Pantera, Isis ..... ... ...


BTW: Also love FolkRock! Nick Drake!

[Izzy]

Metal and Art Rock!

Bands Like : Tool, GnR, Apc, Nin!

and

Susperia, In Flames, Sepultura (Old), Pantera, Isis ..... ... ...


BTW: Also love FolkRock! Nick Drake!

....the relevance that has to this thread is?

[Buddy J.B.]

anything before 1981-present when MTV came out, music just became commercialized to death since then. I hate the 80's but Guns n' Roses rescued the decade from completley sucking balls. Even G n' R and especially Slash said the 80's were one of the worst decades for music.

[Nytunz]

Metal and Art Rock!

Bands Like : Tool, GnR, Apc, Nin!

and

Susperia, In Flames, Sepultura (Old), Pantera, Isis ..... ... ...


BTW: Also love FolkRock! Nick Drake!

....the relevance that has to this thread is?

Well, lets say it this way..

1987 -1991 was great! The GNR era! And Aerosmith and all that stuff!

1991 - 1996 The first part of Tools, Kyuss era... StoneRock and Grunge (Alcie in chains, faith no more)

[The New Fiona Apple]

1960s because of the Impact

1980s because of the fun

[Rob]

anything before 1981-present when MTV came out, music just became commercialized to death since then. I hate the 80's but Guns n' Roses rescued the decade from completley sucking balls. Even G n' R and especially Slash said the 80's were one of the worst decades for music.

What exactly makes GN'R less commercial than other bands of that era.  GN'R was one of the biggest bands in the world at that time.  To me that makes them pretty commercial.  I don't see any prblem with being commercial.  If your music is amazing (which if course GN'R's was) then why shouldn't you be able to make some money off it?  The 80's were the golden era of music in my opinion.  GN'R, hair metal, thrash metal, regular metal (or whatever the fuck category Maiden, Priest, etc. fall under).

[badapple81]

I was looking through my collection and realised that well over 50% of my albums are from the 7 years from 1987-1994 (purely by coincidence the GNR years..)

Later era hair metal and grunge are my fav musical styles (how many can say that?), and form the bulk of my collection

Whats your favourite era or set of years (and don't say 1900-2005 or include 3 decades.... )

My collection is exactly the same. I remember as a kid I used to follow the charts song for song until around late 93-94 when I started to lose interest. 87 to 93 for me.

[polluxlm]

65-75

Notting beats this era. The best albums from The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Beach Boys, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd and Elton John.

[mrlee]

late 60s to early 90s.

then there are only a few select things i like after that era.

[pasnow]

Grunge Grunge Grunge Grunge!!

91-95
Nirvana, PJ, AIC, NIN, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, up until 95 it started to go downhill, the last bands to hang on were Green Day, Offspring, Bush etc... Then around 96 music really died off.? IMHO at least.?