What's the Best 10 Year Period in Rock & Roll?

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Permalink Reply by Mr. In Between on April 25, 2011 at 10:04am

Def a great period! Gotta agree on that.

 

A period of rock music I totally hate is the 90's. That era spawned grunge - it seems all the songs were very minor key sounding dark music and gravelly-low voiced goat singers.

 

It seems like alot of the mainstream rock has kept the gravelly voiced goat guy to this day.

 

Can any guy these days in the mainstream rock arena sing like the guys used to back in the golden age of rock (1968-1978)?

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Harry on April 25, 2011 at 10:10am

But you gotta forgive the 90s for Guided By Voices alone.....

 

Edit:  Also...Shoegaze is mostly from the 90s.  Come On!  Go post some love in my Dream Pop/Shoegaze thread.....

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Permalink Reply by Harry on April 25, 2011 at 10:19am

I must be a weather vane or a chameleon, but I swear...the only period from the 50s on forward that I could not mount a full-throated endorsement of as being THE best period is....the 50s..

 

And that includes "right now"....right now is the best.....

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Permalink Reply by Mr. In Between on April 26, 2011 at 1:39am

GBV are not mainstream - notice I said mainstream - there's alot of great bands that happened in the 90's that don't have the gravelly growly goat singer guy.

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Permalink Reply by Harry on April 26, 2011 at 5:32am

Hey Mr. In Between, sorry

I guess I was focused on this part:

 

"A period of rock music that I totally hate is the 90s"  ;>)

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Edinger on April 26, 2011 at 7:06am

Hard to go wrong with 68 - 78. While not referring to a 10 year time frame, here's a cool article written by Chris Carter from Dramarama about his love of 1972:

http://www.creemmagazine.com/_site/BeatGoesOn/1972/1972Top40.html

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Permalink Reply by Harry on April 26, 2011 at 8:36am

Gravelly voiced goat tunes which Rule:

Hangin By A Moment by Lifehouse

Lightning Crashes by Live

Several Daughtry tunes

 

Any others?

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Permalink Reply by Mr. In Between on June 29, 2011 at 4:31pm

nope - those totally blow.

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Permalink Reply by Mr. In Between on June 30, 2011 at 12:59pm

oh yeah - right - here goes.... those songs/artists are the soundtrack to goat foreplay! - so I've heard.

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Permalink Reply by maximum jack on April 26, 2011 at 11:14am

1968 seems like exact point Rock started taking itself too serious.  I much prefer 1964-1967 (thought not a ten year span).  I know there were a lot of great bands/albums in the late 60's early 70's, but really what about the pompous crap that Punk was railing against?  In retrospect, these Classic Rock bands are really what killed Rock & Roll (if you do indeed believe it died).  Every Baby Boomer with a suit couldn't get their heads around how great the new wave of music was in the mid-late 70's and so we got stuck with radio stations in every city in the U.S. that played the exact same 11 Led Zep, 14 Beatles, and 12 Rolling Stones songs, ad infinitum.  All that being said, here's my must-listen-to list from the eleven year period  1968-1978:

 

062. The Band Music From Big Pink (1968)
063. The Jeff Beck Group Truth (1968)
064. Blue Cheer Vincibus Eruptum (1968)
065. Leonard Cohen The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1968)
066. Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple (1968)
067. Incredible String Band Hangmans Beautiful Daughter (1968)
068. Van Morrison Astral Weeks (1968)
069. The Nazz Nazz (1968)
070. Os Mutantes Os Mutantes (1968)
071. Pretty Things S.F. Sorrow (1968)
072. Red Krayola God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It (1968)
073. Simon & Garfunkel Bookends (1968)
074. Small Faces Ogdens Nut Gone Flake (1968)
075. Soul Children Soul Children (1968)
076. Spirit The Family That Plays Together (1968)
077. Traffic Traffic (1968)
078. The United States of America The United States of America (1968)
079. Fank Zappa Were Only In It For the Money (1968)
080. Michael Yonkers Band Microminiature Love (ca. 1968, released 2003)
081. The Zombies Odessey and Oracle (1968)
082. Chicago Chicago Transit Authority (1969)
083. Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy and the Poor Boys (1969)
084. Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)
086. Fairport Convention Liege and Leaf (1969)
087. Fleetwood Mac Then Play On (1969)
088. Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969)
089. King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
090. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin (1969)
091. Renaissance Renaissance (1969)
092. Silver Apples Contact (1969)
093. Sly and the Family Stone Stand! (1969)
094. Alexander Skip Spence Oar (1969)
095. Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis (1969)
096. The Stooges The Stooges (1969)
097. Townes Van Zandt Townes Van Zandt (1969)
098. The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground (1969)
099. The Youngbloods Elephant Mountain (1969)
100. Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
101. Amon Dl II Yeti (1970)
102. Black Sabbath Black Sabbath (1970)
103. Nick Drake Bryter Layter (1970)
104. Grateful Dead American Beauty (1970)
105. George Harrison All Things Must Pass (1970)
106. John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (1970)
107. Curtis Mayfield Curtis (1970)
108. MC5 Back in the USA (1970)
109. Emitt Rhodes Emitt Rhodes (1970)
110. Badfinger Straight Up (1971)
111. Beach Boys Surfs Up (1971)
112. Alice Cooper Love It To Death (1971)
113. Faces A Nod Is As Good As A Wink . . . To a Blind Horse (1971)
114. Marvin Gaye Whats Going On (1971)
115. Elton John Tumbleweed Connection (1971)
116. Paul & Linda McCartney Ram (1971)
117. Pink Fairies Neverneverland (1971)
118. John Prine John Prine (1971)
119. Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat (1971)
120. Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story (1971)
121. T.Rex Electric Warrior (1971)
122. Big Star - #1 Record (1972)
123. David Bowie Ziggy Stardust (1972)
124. Can Ege Bamyasi (1972)
125. Faust Faust So Far (1972)
126. Al Green Lets Stay Together (1972)
127. Neu! Neu! (1972)
128. Gram Parsons G.P. (1972)
129. The Raspberries Fresh (1972)
130. Lou Reed Transformer (1972)
131. Paul Simon Paul Simon (1972)
132. Slade Slayed? (1972)
133. Yes Close to the Edge (1972)
134. Genesis Selling England By the Pound (1973)
135. New York Dolls New York Dolls (1973)
136. Judee Sill Heart Food (1973)
137. Stevie Wonder Innervisions (1973)
138. ZZ Top Tres Hombres (1973)
139. Brian Eno Here Come The Warm Jets (1974)
140. Hudson Brothers Totally Out of Control (1974)
141. Randy Newman Good Old Boys (1974)
142. Shugie Otis Inspiration Information (1974)
143. Sparks Kimono My House (1974)
144. The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! (1975)
145. Roxy Music Siren (1975)
146. Aerosmith Rocks (1976)
147. Blondie Blondie (1976)
148. Flamin Groovies Shake Some Action (1976)
149. The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers (1976)
150. Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1976)
151. Patti Smith Group Radio Ethiopia (1976)
152. Thin Lizzy Jailbreak (1976)
153. Cheap Trick In Color (1977)
154. The Clash The Clash (1977)
155. Elvis Costello My Aim Is True (1977)
156. The Damned Damned Damned Damned (1977)
157. Dead Boys Young Loud and Snotty (1977)
158. Richard Hell & the Voidoids Blank Generation (1977)
159. Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express (1977)
160. Motrhead Motrhead (1977)
161. Ramones Rocket to Russia (1977)
162. The Real Kids The Real Kids (1977)
163. The Saints (Im) Stranded (1977)
164. The Scruffs Wanna Meet the Scruffs? (1977)
165. Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks (1977)
166. Shoes Black Vinyl Shoes (1977)
167. The Stranglers No More Heroes (1977)
168. Suicide Suicide [First Album] (1977)
169. Television Marquee Moon (1977)
170. Pete Townsend & Ronnie Lane Rough Mix (1977)
171. Dwight Twilley Band Twilley Dont Mind (1977)
172. Wire Pink Flag (1977)
173. The Adverts Crossing the Sea with the Adverts (1978)
174. The Cars The Cars (1978)
175. Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978)
176. Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove (1978)
177. Nick Lowe The Jesus of Cool (1978)
178. Magazine Real Life (1978)
179. The Motors Approved By the Motors (1978)
180. Pere Ubu The Modern Dance (1978)
181. Radio Birdman Radios Appear (1978)
182. This Heat This Heat (1978)
183. Johnny Thunders So Alone (1978)

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Permalink Reply by Barry Eisenberg on June 22, 2011 at 8:25am

Totally agree with this....Got too arty/serious around '68. With some exceptions of course, 1968 generally starts a bummer time for my musical tastes untill the power pop/punk stage of 76-77. Clearly there are bands/music I love in the '68-'75 period, but in a general sense, it is dim. As are the 90s dim-- generally, for me (though I could listen to GBV and Material Issue all day).

Give me '63-'67 (British Invasion, Motown/Stax) and '77-'81 (power pop, mod revival, punk, British two-tone ska, The Jam, Costello, Lowe, Police, early REM).  

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Permalink Reply by billsifer on April 26, 2011 at 3:50pm

i don't think you can beat 68-78 as far as modern music is concerned. especially if like me, in addition to rock and punk, you also love soul, funk, country and singer songwriters.

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