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60s: Rolling Stones (but I don't care about anyone from this era that much) 70s: Led Zeppelin/Bruce Springsteen/Tom Waits (again, not one of my favorite decades_ 80s: R.E.M. (honorable mention Tom Waits) 90s: Pearl Jam (honorable mention Tom Waits/REM) 00s: Mark Lanegan
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Post subject: Re: favorite artist/band of each decade
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 4:00 am
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30s: Instead of one specific performer, for this decade I will pick the songs of Cole Porter. 40s: Billie Holiday 50s: Charles Mingus 60s: The Who 70s: Elvis Costello 80s: The Cure 90s: Pavement 00s: Broken Social Scene 10s: Three years into the decade, I think Beach House have taken an early lead for me.
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30s: Instead of one specific performer, for this decade I will pick the songs of Cole Porter. 40s: Billie Holiday 50s: Charles Mingus 60s: The Who 70s: Elvis Costello 80s: The Cure 90s: Pavement 00s: Broken Social Scene 10s: Three years into the decade, I think Beach House have taken an early lead for me.
seriously though. I like to think i listen to a pretty wide variety of music but when it comes down to a best it's usually a big name from that time.
I'll say 60's - Beatles 70's - Pink Floyd 80's - Pixies 90's - Pearl Jam 00's - Radiohead
Post subject: Re: favorite artist/band of each decade
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 5:46 am
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19xx - Big band music 19xx - Robert johnson 1950's - Little Richard 1960's - The Beatles 1970's - Led Zeppelin 1980's - U2 or Guns n Roses (toss up) 1980's - Pearl Jam 2000's - U2 2010's - Steven Wilson
Post subject: Re: favorite artist/band of each decade
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 11:05 am
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1930s: duke ellington 1940s: woodie guthrie 1950s: little richard 1960s: the doors, or the stones, or the beatles, or a number of other bands 1970s: lep zep 1980s: gnr or inxs 1990s: besides pearl jam? dave 2000s: radiohead 2010s: rhiana
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Post subject: Re: favorite artist/band of each decade
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 11:42 am
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deep wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
30s: Instead of one specific performer, for this decade I will pick the songs of Cole Porter. 40s: Billie Holiday 50s: Charles Mingus 60s: The Who 70s: Elvis Costello 80s: The Cure 90s: Pavement 00s: Broken Social Scene 10s: Three years into the decade, I think Beach House have taken an early lead for me.
seriously though. I like to think i listen to a pretty wide variety of music but when it comes down to a best it's usually a big name from that time.
Jorge's is hardly a list of indie obscurities. Most of the names on there are extremely well-known, especially now.
This is tough for me since so many of my favorite artists span four or five decades--I don't really affiliate any of them with any one decade. I will say that, as far as bands that I link exclusively to one decade go, there's no beating The Beatles for the 1960's or Roxy Music for the 1970's.
Post subject: Re: favorite artist/band of each decade
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 12:03 pm
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tyler wrote:
19xx - Big band music 19xx - Robert johnson 1950's - Little Richard 1960's - The Beatles 1970's - Led Zeppelin 1980's - U2 or Guns n Roses (toss up) 1980's - Pearl Jam 2000's - U2 2010's - Steven Wilson
u2 from last decade?
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60s: The Beatles 70s: Led Zep 80s: ???? 90s: Pearl Jam 00s: Pearl Jam
Now for the lame disclaimer: I was 7-16 years old throughout the 80s so my favorite music changed by the week. Right now, I'd probably go with U2 even though I wasn't into them at the time. These bands all competed for attention during this pivotal time period: The Who, Adam & The Ants, Huey Lewis & The News, Van Halen, and Big Daddy Kane.
The 00s are another tough one as Pearl Jam has remained my favorite artist - even though I don't think they were making the best music I normally listen to. I'd give that nod to Radiohead & Arcade Fire.
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