The best year for music?

atypical_boro said:
Anyone under the age of 60 going to post on this thread? 😁
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I grew up with Arctic Monkeys and that era.
They’re still my favourite. I like a variety of stuff from all over the shop so it’s hard to pin down a year.
Can’t argue with late 60’s though. ‘Popular’ music back then was more about what an artist wanted to say, how they felt. Now it’s about what will sell and what people want to hear. It’s no debate really - albums back then became classics and feel timeless.
The mainstream culture doesn’t care about albums now and to me they all feel dated after 5 years anyway.
Good music still exists.
2010/11/12 was good. Tame impala, High Flying Birds , Arctic Monkeys records, The Horrors (skying), Florence & the Machine.
Personally I’m not keen on drill or house or grime or whatever. There’s sincerity within those genres . JME, Akala, Kano to name a few good grime guys but it’s hit and miss for me.
 
CaptainsArmband04 said:
I grew up with Arctic Monkeys and that era.
They’re still my favourite. I like a variety of stuff from all over the shop so it’s hard to pin down a year.
Can’t argue with late 60’s though. ‘Popular’ music back then was more about what an artist wanted to say, how they felt. Now it’s about what will sell and what people want to hear. It’s no debate really - albums back then became classics and feel timeless.
The mainstream culture doesn’t care about albums now and to me they all feel dated after 5 years anyway.
Good music still exists.
2010/11/12 was good. Tame impala, High Flying Birds , Arctic Monkeys records, The Horrors (skying), Florence & the Machine.
Personally I’m not keen on drill or house or grime or whatever. There’s sincerity within those genres . JME, Akala, Kano to name a few good grime guys but it’s hit and miss for me.
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Also this is about when Mac Demarco seemed to explode and threw indie onto a path of jingly jangly tracks that has inspired a slew of decent Aussie bands and the likes
 
I’m not engaged with music in the details in the same way I was.
I take a wider view now and with social constructs breaking down around our ears, financial systems in ruins and global events happening at a frightening rate, my feeling is that we will see music reaching new levels at the back end of the (20)20’s - akin to the 60’s.
Heck, even psychedelics are slowly breaking their way back into our culture.
The times they are a changing
 
1971 according to David Hepworth, he wrote a book about it - '1971 Never a Dull Moment - Rocks Golden Year'. Certainly a contender.
 
I'd say 1990 through to about 1998, but then that also correlates with my teenage / uni years which I suspect is when everyone thinks was the best era fro music.

Besides as well as all the great music mentioned from whatever year / decade, there was also a load of guff - watching TOTP repeats on BBC4 on a Friday night reminds you of that.

If I was to forget about what the 90's meant to me personally then maybe the early to mid 50's when Blue Note were releasing about 5 LP's a year all of them absolute quality (Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk etc)
 
I've been doing the "5albums" thing on twitter, listening to albums from a particular year.

1963 was excellent for Jazz but my personal contender is 2007 - some incredible albums that year.
 
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