Did you mean worst in the title?

OK< you fixed it

I'd have to vote for the 1860s. Absolute crap. I can take only so much harmonica and washboard.

While I totally agree, I am trying to keep the poll relevant to decades in which most of us were born in.

This decade. 

I voted for the 80's without giving it too much thought.  My head immediately said, "It's too early to decide on the 00's"...Holy poop-on-a-stick, where the hell did this decade go already?

I'd say the 80's were the 2nd best on this list - with the current decade and the 70's duking it out for worst.

I'd have to vote for the 1860s. Absolute crap. I can take only so much harmonica and washboard.

Back off, we were at war!  Most of the nicer instruments were melted down for cannon shot.

I'd have to say it's either this decade or the 80's.  There's crap music made in every decade, but those two seem to be the ones where the crap music was the most popular.  Hold a gun to my head and I'd say the recent spate of harmonizer use and "My Humps" puts the current decade over the top.

Quote from: Lucky17 on July 23, 2009, 01:59:50 PM

I'd have to vote for the 1860s. Absolute crap. I can take only so much harmonica and washboard.

Back off, we were at war!  Most of the nicer instruments were melted down for cannon shot.

I'd have to say it's either this decade or the 80's.  There's crap music made in every decade, but those two seem to be the ones where the crap music was the most popular.  Hold a gun to my head and I'd say the recent spate of harmonizer use and "My Humps" puts the current decade over the top.

A TP apiece 

Quote from: SSFan V on July 23, 2009, 02:08:16 PM

Quote from: Redz on July 23, 2009, 02:07:03 PM

I voted for the 80's without giving it too much thought.  My head immediately said, "It's too early to decide on the 00's"...Holy poop-on-a-stick, where the hell did this decade go already?

I'd say the 80's were the 2nd best on this list - with the current decade and the 70's duking it out for worst.

the 70s had a ton of solid stuff... This is Wikipedia (I know, I know) but still just look here and try to imagine a 2000s list to compare to this.

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The early 1970s saw the rise of popular soft rock/pop rock music, with recording artists such as The Carpenters, Elton John, James Taylor, Billy Joel, John Denver, The Eagles, America, Chicago, The Doobie Brothers, Paul McCartney and Wings, Bread and Steely Dan as well as the further rise of such popular, influential rhythm and blues (R&B) artists as multi-instrumentalist Stevie Wonder and the popular quintet The Jackson 5. A major event in music in the early 70s, was the death of popular rock star Jimi Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix was found dead under circumstances which have never been fully explained. Funk, an offshoot of blues, was also very popular. The mid-1970s also saw the rise of disco music, which dominated during the last half of the decade with bands like the Bee Gees, ABBA, Boney M, Donna Summer, KC and the Sunshine Band, etc. In response to this, rock music became increasingly hard-edged with artists such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Minimalism also emerged, lead by composers such as Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Michael Nyman. This was a break from the intellectual serial music of the tradition of Schoenberg which lasted from the early 1900s to 1960s.

Experimental classical music influenced both art rock and progressive rock as well as the punk rock and New Wave genres. Hard rock and Heavy metal also emerged among British bands Led Zeppelin, The Who, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, and Judas Priest. Australian band AC/DC also found its hard rock origins in the early 1970s. In Europe, there was a surge of popularity in the early decade for glam rock. The mid-'70s saw the rise of punk music from its protopunk/garage band roots in the 1960s and early 1970s. Major acts include the Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, the Sex Pistols, and The Clash. The highest-selling album was Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973). It remained on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart for 741 weeks. The rise of Disco music occurred in the late 1970s; however, the first half of the 1970s saw many jazz musicians from the Miles Davis school achieve cross-over success through jazz-rock fusion. In Germany, Manfred Eicher started the ECM label, which quickly made a name for 'chamber jazz'. Towards the end of the decade, Jamaican reggae music, already popular in the Caribbean and Africa since the early 1970s, became very popular in the U.S. and in Europe, mostly because of reggae superstar and legend Bob Marley. The late '70s also saw the beginning of hip hop music with the song "Rapper's Delight" by Sugarhill Gang. Country music remained very popular in the U.S. In 1977, it became more mainstream after Kenny Rogers became a solo singer and scored many hits on both the country and pop charts.

The only reason I didn't vote for the 70's was because of the birth of "alternative music" -- but simply because it was the era of disco, the 70's have to be right at the top.