200% surefluffy_little_something wrote:I wonder how much this poll says about the age composition of the KVR membership
Your favourite decade for music is...?
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- KVRAF
- 5745 posts since 11 Feb, 2005 from Bordeaux France
You can't always get what you waaaant...
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- KVRAF
- 5440 posts since 4 Aug, 2006 from Helsinki
Sure it says something - but what? - what is the correlation (or should we say relation) between the age and music taste/favourite decade?stanlea wrote:200% surefluffy_little_something wrote:I wonder how much this poll says about the age composition of the KVR membership
My guess is, its not linear, i.e. you are favour in the decade when you were in some spesific same age (e.g. 14-20). Anyway, I have found or learned to like/respect afterwards many pieces, bands, styles, even genres. E.g. when I was young, I though punk and Sex Pistols were rubbish, much later realized what a innovative guitar player Steve Jones was, great drummer Paul Cook was, and how good many of their songs are.
Same concerns disco genre (best of it), or some Stock Eitken Waterman stuff, or even Trance, EDM.
Many, many other similar examples.
And BTW - by decade is most artificial way to devide music.
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- KVRAF
- 8130 posts since 13 Jan, 2003 from Darkest Kent, UK
Absolutely and I think we all know that, just fun to run with these thought experiments occasionally.Harry_HH wrote:And BTW - by decade is most artificial way to devide music.
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- Banned
- 5357 posts since 7 May, 2015
Mushy Mushy wrote:Forget decade, I'll go with an exact year: 1991.
Nirvana: Nevermind
RHCP: Blood Sugar Sex Majik
U2: Achtung Baby (eh)
Pearl Jam: Ten
GNR: Use Your Illusion 1 & 2
Metallica: Black
Soundgarden: BadMotorFinger
Motorhead: 1916
Smashing Pumpkins: Gish
Massive Attack: Blue Lines
Michael Jackson: Dangerous
Temple of the Dog: Temple of the Dog
That calibre in one single year will never be beaten.
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- KVRAF
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
Ha, I'm not a fan either but there's no denying it was a landmark album.
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
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- KVRAF
- 37492 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Overall the 70's - so much great prog, jazz, fusion, modern classical, experimental, Joni Mitchell's best period, John Martyn, King Crimson, Floyd, then followed by punk and new wave, probably the most experimental and genre defying period in modern music and when electronic music really took off.
Hated much of the poppier 80's for its superficialty - too much yuppy music, but some good stuff - Soft Cell/Marc Almond for example, and Cocteau Twins, 'post punk' bands like The Raincoats. Peter Hammill and Kate Bush did some of their best work in the 80's.
90's was probably my next favourite - a real return for proper rock after the 80's excesses of stadium and MOR rock and big hair. Also some good intelligent danceish bands like Electribe 101 and The Prodigy. Also Portishead, Massive Attack, Trickey - the whole Bristol scene was fantastic at the time.
Hated much of the poppier 80's for its superficialty - too much yuppy music, but some good stuff - Soft Cell/Marc Almond for example, and Cocteau Twins, 'post punk' bands like The Raincoats. Peter Hammill and Kate Bush did some of their best work in the 80's.
90's was probably my next favourite - a real return for proper rock after the 80's excesses of stadium and MOR rock and big hair. Also some good intelligent danceish bands like Electribe 101 and The Prodigy. Also Portishead, Massive Attack, Trickey - the whole Bristol scene was fantastic at the time.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 25849 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
I got a soft spot for the '00s too
Labels like Ultimae put out some excellent psychill stuff
Labels like Ultimae put out some excellent psychill stuff
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- KVRian
- 873 posts since 26 Aug, 2005 from Oregon, USA
Now, this is 2016, no need for nostalgia anymore.
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- Banned
- 892 posts since 23 Jan, 2011
the 70's...before computers came along and ruined music forever.
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- KVRAF
- 11950 posts since 31 Aug, 2013 from Someplace else
I'd have to go with the 60s. I had not yet turned 4 when the Beatles hit the Ed Sullivan show, but I had an older brother, and I still remember us sitting around the tv watching it. I don't remember much else, but I know we saw it. I was a fan from that moment. So, I think there absolutely is a correlation between our youth and our favourite music.
If I had my druthers, though, my favourite decade would be between 1964-1974. Everything from the British Invasion to Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon,' and Genesis' 'Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.'
It took me until 1983 to acknowledge 'The Police,' and 1988 to acknowledge 'U2.' By the mid-80s, though, I was becoming my parents, and less and less music on the radio was catching my attention, so I retreated to my lps and cassettes of 'my era' as well as writing my own stuff. I hated disco, though given what has come after, I have to admit that a lot of it was more musical than the techno and hip-hop/rap stuff, the latter of which I absolutely loathe. In general, the more a genre is propelled by machine, the less likely I am to like it. Ditto for forms that have no melody or harmony.
NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
If I had my druthers, though, my favourite decade would be between 1964-1974. Everything from the British Invasion to Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon,' and Genesis' 'Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.'
It took me until 1983 to acknowledge 'The Police,' and 1988 to acknowledge 'U2.' By the mid-80s, though, I was becoming my parents, and less and less music on the radio was catching my attention, so I retreated to my lps and cassettes of 'my era' as well as writing my own stuff. I hated disco, though given what has come after, I have to admit that a lot of it was more musical than the techno and hip-hop/rap stuff, the latter of which I absolutely loathe. In general, the more a genre is propelled by machine, the less likely I am to like it. Ditto for forms that have no melody or harmony.
NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
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- KVRAF
- 5387 posts since 25 Jan, 2014 from The End of The World as We Knowit
Here is an animated timeline that shows the Billboard top 5 songs since 1956, all the while playing the top song during a given week, so you can see if your fuzzy memory matches hard reality:
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