Your favorite bands by decade

What the title says*

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Mine are subject to change as any "favorites" list would be:

1940's: Ray Charles
1950's: Elvis Presley
1960's: The Beatles
1970's: Black Sabbath
1980's: Guns N' Roses
1990's: Faith No More
2000's: Disturbed
2010's: Pending. So far the Rival Sons seem pretty cool.

edited 6th Jan '12 12:52:42 AM by Alucard

Gonna go in reverse order here:

• 2010s: Too early to tell, plus I can't think of anyone who debuted this decade who I've heard.
• 2000s: Cage The Elephant. Best rock band in a long time.
• 1990s: Nirvana. Because I'm cliché like that.
• 80s: They Might Be Giants. Wonderfully weird, masterfully musical.
• 70s: Electric Light Orchestra. Some of the most wonderful, best produced music I've ever heard. Especially their A New World Record album.
• 60s: The Beatles. No question. Runner ups are The Who and Simon And Garfunkel, though.
• 50s: Chuck Berry, though Elvis Presley is a close second.
• 40s: Hmm...well, to be honest, I don't know much 1940s music, or too much before the '40s either, so I'll need to think about this.

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50s: Miles Davis
60s: The Beach Boys
70s: Ramones
80s: Sonic Youth
90s: Pavement
00s: Boris

edited 6th Jan '12 6:57:35 PM by sca_punk

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• 60s: Beatles
• 70s: Led Zeppelin
• 80s: Rush*
  sure, they started in the 70s, but I prefer their 80s work
• 90s: Soundgarden
• 00s: Unsure. Possibly Mastodon, or Electric Wizard, or Sunn O)))

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• 20s: Louis Armstrong
• 30s: Benny Goodman
• 40s: Duke Ellington
• 50s: Tito Puente
• 60s: Dick Dale
• 70s: Electric Light Orchestra
• 80s: Daniel Amos
• 90s: Starflyer 59
• 00s: Sufjan Stevens
• 10s: Too early to say.

Not sure about much before the late '50s, but, I guess these will do. Note that I'm going by their most active or crucial periods:

'60s: The United States of America *

'70s: This Heat or Wire *

The living dual inception of a new progressive music, between whom a choice I could not make.

'80s: Coil *

Though their later work is often phenomenal, it was with Scatology and Horse Rotorvator that they brought the electronic freak-show to an art-form.

'90s: Swans or Bügskull *

Another split ticket, with two too different to choose between, each representing a different aspect to what I love about music.

'00s: Animal Collective *

Possibly cliché here, but the diversity is what really intrigues me here, and the weird quality of creeping resonance to their best work.

Mind you now, this is just how I'm feeling in the moment, and excluding many bands for whom I hold much affection, some more so than some of the ones that I have listed, but these are the ones, I feel, that most fit their respective eras.

edited 7th Jan '12 10:28:14 AM by JHM

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