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Message started by Donnie on 09/21/17 at 22:30:57

Title: Best period in music?
Post by Donnie on 09/21/17 at 22:30:57

So what do you think is the best period of music?
I'm betting that most of us will answer that it was in a time period that spanned from your early teens until your mid twenties.

Title: Re: Best period in music?
Post by Lon on 09/21/17 at 22:34:32

In my case no, I think that the time period I'm most interested in is about '50 to '70, from when I was not yet born (I was born in '55) til I was about 15. I am fascinated by the jazz music of this period, and both earlier and later, but these 20 years really have a strong allure to me.

I didn't really start collecting and listening to it hard until the end of the 'seventies, I started with some Miles Davis in '72 or so and gradually was drawn deeper into jazz history and music by the end of that decade. To the point that by the mid-eighties I hardly listened to other genres with any continuity. . . jazz became a musical obsession.

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Post by Martindfletcher on 09/22/17 at 03:15:45

I can safely say for the most part the '80's was my least favorite. Few exceptions.

Title: Re: Best period in music?
Post by RayBan on 10/09/17 at 17:51:10

70's were great...

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Post by alper_yilmaz on 10/09/17 at 21:04:46

To me, it depends on the genre of music.

For rock, pretty much all of 60s and first half of 70s, I would say.

Being a jazz musician, even though I like everything, I have a soft spot for 50s and 60s bebop and hard bop spanning from Bird all the way to Shorter. But what has come out of the New York scene since mid-90s, I find amazing.

I am not a big fan of pop, but I like the kitsch stuff from 80s, maybe for having my teenage years then.

For classical, anything and everything! On another note, these days I am reading Morton Feldman's "Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman." Highly recommended...

Title: Re: Best period in music?
Post by Morecowbell on 02/28/18 at 03:39:14

Not really. I use to think it was the90s but it's actually the 30s, 60s and 80s. 30s because of guys like Richie Valens, 60s because of early hippie rock and 80s because of synth music.

Title: Re: Best period in music?
Post by Lon on 02/28/18 at 10:49:23

Morecowbell wrote on 02/28/18 at 03:39:14:

Not really. I use to think it was the90s but it's actually the 30s, 60s and 80s. 30s because of guys like Richie Valens, 60s because of early hippie rock and 80s because of synth music.

I'm sure it's typo--50s, as Richie Valens was born in '41 and died in '59. What a tragedy.

Title: Re: Best period in music?
Post by Jeff1 on 04/14/18 at 13:31:12

So what do you think is the best period of music?
I'm betting that most of us will answer that it was in a time period that spanned from your early teens until your mid twenties.

I think you came up with a question that would be interesting as well to ask it as it would pertain to different periods in the evolution of music along with humans.

As an example lets take the general theory that teenagers want to listen to something other than what their parents listen to. How about a point in history when there was less variety. The classical period. So any composers who were considered "cool" by the standards of that period which younger people were drawn to? How about early man using stick to hit a rock or log creating a basic rhythm. Was it perhaps a young cave boy who took an animal skin and stretched it to make a drum? That bit of technological breakthrough is still used today. What an innovator. At a certain point someone dreamed of electronic music until it was a reality.

We find our favorite in the past and present because it exists but it is a wonder about what music genera and innovation we have yet to dream up and make new? Do you think AI will make music pleasing to them? They certainly wouldn't need to convert it to analog. A pop song duration to them may be milliseconds or perhaps a continuous stream of improvised impulses something we humans would not even recognize as music.

Anyway that was the thought journey your question took me on. I enjoyed thinking about your question. Thanks.

Title: Re: Best period in music?
Post by Timothy McCarty on 04/23/19 at 16:19:15

Interesting post. I think most people lose their ability to try to understand new music at about 35. I found that to be true of myself. When I hit college I started listening to jazz and 20th century classical, went back to rock for a bit and now am neck deep in the jazz and modern classical.

Title: Re: Best period in music?
Post by Crowes on 07/28/19 at 19:47:43

For rock, the 90s were amazing! You had so much variety. We were realy spoiled!

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Post by pursuitofnow on 07/28/19 at 22:44:48

I think right now is the best period in music. Never have we had the amount of music to consume and be inspired by. As a musician, I am influenced by everything I listen to which is a fun journey in itself to explore. We all have the best play back systems available with the only constraint being our wallets and the engineering that went into the album. With so many genres and mediums of absorbing music, I can't think of a better time than now.

Title: Re: Best period in music?
Post by Brian on 10/24/19 at 04:04:28

For classical I have not been able to like the 20th Cent., Henry Purcell's era may be my favorite.

For pop, before the mid 70s when disco replaced music on the radio. I especially prefer the late fifties and early sixties. Say from "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" 1958, until British Invasion 1964. Although I like British Invasion too.

Brian

Title: Re: Best period in music?
Post by piezoman on 03/14/20 at 00:20:40

As for rock, its progresdive rock for my taste. ELP, early-mid 70s Yes abd Genesis, among gobs of prog jazz rock from Europe.

Acoustic blues to hard electric Texas blues rock.

Female jazz vocals.

As for classical, I love the baroque and classical periods especially chamber music. Late renaissance period in lute musoc is nice, and the romantic period following the classical period definitely works.

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Post by Xarro on 04/20/20 at 15:01:11

without a doubt 70s! Love it all my life

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Post by s3steve on 05/25/20 at 20:38:40

It depends on your music tastes and what you like to listen to.

I was playing records Friday night ended up playing a lot of different music made in 1980. This was Rock, Fusion Jazz, Jazz, New Wave and Punk.

To be honest some of my friends back in the day thought it was weird I'd through on a Buddy Rich LP after playing The Cramps!
It's all about the exposure!

There seems to have been a lot of different things going on 1980!
Nowadays it seems music is a little more segmented into separate styles and not as much blending of styles. At least it seems it isn't as common today as it once was.

Title: Re: Best period in music?
Post by piezoman on 06/11/20 at 20:59:27

baroque period [1600-1730]
classical period [1730-1830]
romantic period [1930-1900]

especially the mid-late baroque period :)

Title: Re: Best period in music?
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