Skip some of the worst of both the 80s and 90s while getting the rise of alternative rock and grunge.
If not, the 70s.

but I really like 60's music as well.

I used to listen to Casey Kasem's American Top 40 throughout the 70's and would carefully write the list out every week as it played on the radio, color coding songs by their fall or rise from week to week, using different colored pens.

the last great Stones album, It's Only Rock 'N' Roll.

Internationally 1990-2008 , i have quite a few. But i went with the 60s for my dominant choices.

best.

However, my parents introduced me to music from the 60's and 70's which I absolutely adore. So, in true Gemini fashion, I can not possibly choose. There are too many wonderful gems in each decade!

1600-1610

I like music from the 40’s through the 2000’s. But the best Metal was created in the 80’s, so that has to be my choice.

...although I probably listen to more 90's music today (hard rock and heavy metal mostly).

The 80's decade was an awesome melting pot. MTV changed the rules of the game and helped bring on the rise of the hair bands. The old school 70's rockers had to adapt to this, and it was great to see them reinvent themselves. This includes David Coverdale and Ozzy and Judas Priest. Some 70's bands just kept doing their thing like Iron Maiden and Journey, and this was cool too. Even bands that did the "me too" thing like KISS were cool. The young gun LA bands were very green, but were ready-made for video and the early 80's captured their authentic, raw music scene on tape before it became processed to death in a few years.

Contrast that with the 90's. Record labels started chasing the grunge fad and dropping the 80's bands left and right. It was no longer a melting pot of old and new. That really wasn't cool. But there was a lot of killer new music that was created out of that transition.

Also the Baroque era for Classical.

music mostly, but also like some of the mid eighties and nineties too.

Was in High School in early 70's but 1991 had some great music.

Almost chose the 70s: the Ramones
But the 60 brought us the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Country Joe, Dr Hook, The Who, etc

taste is simply subjective. It has too touch you individually. Nothing pissed him off worse than just reflectively dismissing an artist without giving it a good listen. Second only to telling someone their taste in music was wrong (or sucked), because SUBJECTIVE! And he liked EVERYTHING! He delighted in "expanding my musical horizons."

Gone 14 years and the man still makes me smile, every time I listen to a song that reminds me of him, and truth told, they all do, because I remember when he introduced me to this or that artist.

Having said that, late 60's through the seventies. And Chopin's Nocturnes.

That's an excellent point.

Thank you for sharing it.

...I was unequipped to know that at the time, but later I did.

Sure, the LATE 60's were great, but most of the 70's killed it if you knew where to look.

Disclaimer: I voted for 60"s.

Yuup! I'm a fossil too, and surprised I'm still alive.

65-75

I wish there were enough options to include late/early decade choices too.

The 60s because of all the innovation going on. It's amazing to think of how much some bands grew in that decade. I mean, the Beatles went from playing Chuck Berry music in bars to Sgt. Pepper in just seven years. Similar growth for the Rolling Stones.

The 70s (which a lot of people think of as Disco and Punk, was also about heavy metal and some very innovative groups like Emerson, Lake and Palmer. The weed got better in the 70s, too. The 70s is also the golden age of concerts and when I became old enough to go to dozens of them.

Wow! You all made me feel young for a second!

Thanks!

Now, back to my Nirvana & Soundgarden tracks!

Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Everclear, Foo Fighters, Green Day, GNR, Incubus, Live, Metallica, Puddle of Mudd, Red Hot Chile Peppers, Sublime, The Black Crows, The Offspring, Tool, Weezer, White Zombie, etc etc etc

So the 90s it is!

Rap was great.
R&B was great.
Alternative rock was great.
Punk was great.
Even country was all right.

There was doo wop, girl groups, folk, folk-rock, psychedelic, hard rock, the beginnings of punk, and even country and western music was pretty good. Let's not forget jazz, either.

Music was great in the 1960s. Too bad very little else was as good. We forget the war, the My Lai massacre, anti-war demonstrations, race "riots", and all the other bad things from that era.

But we still have the music.

I can’t imagine limiting to one decade. Put on a 60’s music, I am singing. Put on 70’s, not disco, and I am singing. 80’s, 90’s, 00’s. Oh hell I even like the 40’s and 50’s… btw, I can’t sing anymore.

Seventies on xm radio.

They have no catchiness, in beat or lyric, which pulls me into tapping my toes or vocalizing along with. Even featured stars like Taylor Swift, and Adel, and much of rap. They may have caught your ear on some interesting, if not odd, reason but once they were removed I am not left feeling uplifted.

Throw on anything, for instance, by Phil Collins, Carly Simon, The Sundays and there is an instant groove. Is it that music of today is focused to appeal to a few whereas the '70s to 00's music is built for a wider appeal? Built on primal senses of beat, feelings, and tones?

On Edit, I also am partial to a lot of musicians: Doobie Brothers (Michael McDonald), Smashing Pumpkins, Sting, Stone Temple Pilots, some old country...

I love Imagine Dragons tunes, but I can’t keep up! Haha! I’m not as good at remembering newer lyrics, but I can find songs in almost decade that I love.

They will be back there in 2022-'waukee loves them.

Maybe I could catch them then! That’d be fun.

I listen to a wide variety of music. My favorite era overlaps two decades you provide as choices. That sound is mostly a mix of Punk and New Wave with a touch of Goth and Reggae that accompanied the second British invasion. Among my favorite bands are The Clash, Blondie, REM, U2, Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Pretenders, Big Country, The Cure and Talking Heads.

I chose the 80s. My default Sirius XM station is First Wave, channel 33.

...gets my vote!

The twenties were pretty important with the beginning of commercial recording. Those old country and blues records are amazing but the quality of the recorded sound makes listening a bit difficult sometimes.

I’m a BIG fan of great lyrics, and that whole thing got going with the “Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” in 1963 but probably didn’t peak till the mid seventies and continues to this day.

Acoustic guitar and string band music spans several decades.

Radio rock, pop, soul, and r&b peaked (for me) in the mid seventies.

If I had to pin it down I’d have to say it starts with “T for Texas” in 1927 and ends with “Rhododendron” just out last week.

Simply because I can't choose between the 70s & 80s.
I like them equally.

... that let users create polls which allow 2 (or even three) ranked-choices. Too bad we don't have something like that here. (If we did, I'd have used that as an option.)

But, I'd still have a tough time deciding whether to rank 70s 1 or 2, so might not have helped me! LOL!