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Posted by: Cqmerqn Aug 20 2019, 10:52 AM

Pick your favourite decade in terms of music

For me, it’s definitely the 2000’s, so many classics!

Posted by: Jade Aug 20 2019, 10:56 AM

2000s for me too! Biased of course as I was born in 1997 so grew up throughout that decade. I love how diverse the charts were too.

Posted by: coi Aug 20 2019, 10:57 AM

Best in terms of music rather than best in terms of the charts, right?

Because I'd say the 2010s have had a lot of incredible songs but the charts have been fairly uninteresting in comparison to the 1990s and 2000s.

Posted by: Cqmerqn Aug 20 2019, 10:58 AM

The music

Posted by: Jade Aug 20 2019, 10:59 AM

01. 2000s
02. 1990s
03. 2010s
04. 1960s
05. 1980s
06. 1970s
07. 1950s

Posted by: BillyH Aug 20 2019, 11:01 AM

It'll be the decade everyone grew up/was introduced to chart music so I can see the 1990s & 2000s fairly equally winning this!

The 1990s for me, even though I only really started following the charts in Easter 1999 - almost all of my favourites are from that decade, although the late 1980s and early 2000s aren't far off! 1988-2004 is my favourite continuous era smile.gif

Posted by: coi Aug 20 2019, 11:01 AM

For music in general then:

1. 2010s
2. 2000s
3. 1990s
4. 1980s
5. 1950s
6. 1970s
7. 1960s

But I'd have much preferred to follow the charts in the 1990s and 2000s than in the 2010s, as there was much more excitement and variety.

Posted by: danG Aug 20 2019, 11:31 AM

The 2010s though mostly the early-mid 2010s in terms of chart music. It's gone a bit downhill recently.

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn Aug 20 2019, 11:34 AM

It's easily the 1990s for me, I wish I could live through it again properly.

Posted by: davidas Aug 20 2019, 11:34 AM

Definitely 2000s

Posted by: cantthinkofaname Aug 20 2019, 11:48 AM

1. 2010s
2. 1980s
3. 2000s
4. 1990s
5. 1970s
6. 1960s
7. 1950s

Posted by: TheSnake Aug 20 2019, 12:05 PM

It used to be the 1980s for me, but my perspective has changed on that decade, great for the first few years of it (1980-1982 particularly) but then things became rather generic after the new wave era died and too dominated by cheesy pop and middle of the road stuff by the middle/end of the decade, although at least there are some good dance tracks by the end.

Now I would have to say the 1990s in general seem better despite too many boyband ballads. The 00s were great but the early part of the decade (2000-2006) was better than the last few years of imo. I like the first few years of the 2010s but it all went downhill quickly. The 70s was very good for rock music and I like the disco era too.

1. 1990s
2. 2000s
3. 1980s
4. 1970s
5. 2010s
6. 1960s
7. 1950s

Posted by: gooddelta Aug 20 2019, 12:13 PM

Tough because a greater proportion of my all-time favourites are from the 00s but I would still opt for the 90s overall.

The 90s didn't exactly have an amazing first few years for music, but 1994 through to 1999 were for the most part pretty magical, with the final two years really amazing for me.

In terms of the 00s, I adored 2000-2002, 2006-7 and 2009. 2003 is better looking back than I gave it credit for at the time, a real transition period but without many huge personal faves but it was of course the year of Delta Goodrem <3 and 2004 had some fantastic albums, but was less good in terms of singles. 2005 and 2008 had their bright spots but were overall weak years musically for me.

This decade has been a strange one, I really liked 2010-11 despite too many 'club bangers' and generic sounding songs dominating the charts, 2012-2014 were better and probably the last few years I enjoyed a lot of songs in the charts. The last five years, I guess since Spotify dominance has taken over, I rarely find much that I love in the mainstream and variety and people taking risks with music is rare. I would love the 20s to have more of a musical identity to them than the last five years have seen.

Posted by: TheSnake Aug 20 2019, 12:29 PM

QUOTE(gooddelta @ Aug 20 2019, 01:13 PM) *
2005 and 2008 had their bright spots but were overall weak years musically for me.


2004-6 was when is started taking more notice of the music channels (The Box I think it was) so I quite like those years, although many of my faves especially on the dance side of things.

2008 is quite good because of Basshunter unexpectedly making #1 for 5 weeks at the start, the brief revival of that sort of dance music and also the fact there was some good #1s. There was perhaps a bit of an overload of slushy R&B ballads that year but I find them quite nostalgic now.

Posted by: Mack. Aug 20 2019, 12:34 PM

It would be the 2000s, when I started taking notice of the charts, from the music channels on Freeview, The Hits and TMF.

Posted by: Harve Aug 20 2019, 12:34 PM

Honestly, the 10s.

Posted by: gavindeejay Aug 20 2019, 12:42 PM

For me 2000's particularly the start of the decade when I was a teenager and started getting into music and the charts. Music was so good back then and the charts had a great variety of music from bubble gum pop to indie, rock, dance, garage, r&b, boybands, girlbands etc... Was a great time to be alive!

1. 2000's
2. 1990's
3. 2010's
4. 1980's
5. 1960's
6. 1970's
7. 1950's

Posted by: Jack Aug 20 2019, 12:53 PM

1990s EASILY. What a joyous time!

You would never be able to get fun cheesy pop hits doing well like they did back then again. 2000's a close second, 2010's is pretty hit and miss, the last couple of years chart wise, have been terrible.

Posted by: dandy* Aug 20 2019, 01:03 PM

90s - it was amazing! Literally anything could chart, you got bonkers one off singles along with great pop and amazing indie movements. Plus dance really got going with trance / big beat as well as the euro classics! I was lucky enough to be in sixth form during the Britpop era and it actually felt like a cultural moment at the time, so many amazing nights out in 95-98!
00s
80s
70s
10s
60s
50s

Posted by: Jade Aug 20 2019, 01:08 PM

For me the current decade of commercial music started to go downhill in 2015. Take dance for example, we went from such an exciting year for dance in 2014 to a lot more of a generic and watered down sound coming to the forefront sad.gif It's pretty bleak when only 2 songs from my top 40 right now are in the actual top 40.

Posted by: Harve Aug 20 2019, 01:11 PM

My justification for the 10s is simply through the sheer amount of stuff nowadays that makes me think, 'Wow, I can't imagine this existing 10 years ago' and I don't remember getting that feeling when I was younger. And it's not as if the sounds of decades past just disappear either.

I have no idea what is or isn't charting though, this is just based off the music I listen to.

Posted by: danG Aug 20 2019, 01:39 PM

QUOTE(Jade @ Aug 20 2019, 02:08 PM) *
For me the current decade of commercial music started to go downhill in 2015. Take dance for example, we went from such an exciting year for dance in 2014 to a lot more of a generic and watered down sound coming to the forefront sad.gif It's pretty bleak when only 2 songs from my top 40 right now are in the actual top 40.
There's still a load of interesting dance tracks being released, most of them just don't make top 40 now and it's just something we have to get used to sadly.
I'll take any dance hit we can get but the Joel Corry and Sam Feldt tracks currently doing well aren't anywhere near my personal top 40, they're both just 'quite good'. At least we have great dance hits from Avicii, Sigala, Kygo, Meduza as well.

Posted by: gooddelta Aug 20 2019, 01:54 PM

QUOTE(TheSnake @ Aug 20 2019, 01:29 PM) *
2004-6 was when is started taking more notice of the music channels (The Box I think it was) so I quite like those years, although many of my faves especially on the dance side of things.

2008 is quite good because of Basshunter unexpectedly making #1 for 5 weeks at the start, the brief revival of that sort of dance music and also the fact there was some good #1s. There was perhaps a bit of an overload of slushy R&B ballads that year but I find them quite nostalgic now.


Dance in 2004-6 was the looped house 80s covers era, which aside from a few tracks I wasn't hugely fond of. I did enjoy the brief Eurodance revival of 2006-8 though, Infernal, Cascada, Basshunter, Micky Modelle and a few others...it was especially great when dance albums started doing really well in 2008. Darren Styles had a big selling top five album somehow, Scooter and Basshunter both got No.1s etc...

The summer of 2006 and the second half of 2007 were my two favourite periods for music in the 00s. The former had too many great moments to list but it was quite something to see Hips Don't Lie, Smile, Maneater, Voodoo Child and Everytime We Touch all smashing at the same time <3 And then 2007 started out fairly pedestrian and even had a lull in the early summer for me but from about July to the end of the year I was constantly wowed - Song 4 Mutya, With Every Heartbeat, Rule The World, Bleeding Love, About You Now, Call The Shots, Big Girls Don't Cry, Delta Goodrem's Believe Again, it just seemed like quality pop was in vogue and dominating <3

Posted by: Jαsє Aug 20 2019, 02:57 PM

2000's with the 90's a close second! wub.gif

Posted by: Steve201 Aug 20 2019, 03:30 PM

I grew up in the 90s/00s but after watching totp on BBC 4 from the 1980s this has to be my favourite era. So much changed over a few short years regarding how music sounded. Nearly EVERY no1 is a classic nowadays engrained in the culture of society that everyone knows the words to.

Posted by: ThePensmith Aug 20 2019, 03:53 PM

See I'm a 90s kid at heart. Around spring 1996 (I was nearly 7 at the time) was when I started listening to the top 40 and paying attention to Top of the Pops, Smash Hits and things like that. Admittedly I'm more of a late 90s man - I was only a bubba for much of the first part of the decade - but there was so much great music around, and pop music in particular was brilliant. I can remember Spice Girls and Britney Spears launching, All Saints, B*Witched and S Club 7 when they all began too, I remember vividly things like the Elton John record for Princess Diana being huge, Cher spending seven weeks at number one with 'Believe'. 1999 in particular has always been my favourite year for music and writing about it every week this year for my blog has reminded me of why because literally anything went where music was concerned.

Posted by: SKOB Aug 20 2019, 04:04 PM

Let's check decade by decade:

1950’s: some amazing pop music was created, such as classics by Sinatra, Doris Day, Dean Martin, Elvis etc. However, in general the output has been improved since.
1960’s: brilliant decade - The Beatles, The Supremes, big soul and pop hits, folk like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. Velvet Underground, Simon & Garfunkel... Lost of classic stuff. Love the baroque side of the decade. One of my fave decades!!!
1970’s: I'm a disco hater, the cheesy stuff was just awful. But fabulous classic albums in return such as Rumours by Fleetwood Mac and Off the Wall by Michael Jackson.
1980’s: The most versatile decade imo but pop hits were kind of formulaic. Learn to love lots of them but hate many of them too. I mean who wanted all that rock'n'roll revival with Shakin' Stevens & others... NO ONE! Don't really like 80s rock either apart from big ballads such as Alone and Total Eclipse of the Heart. Prince, Michael and Janet Jackson and Madonna though wub.gif
1990’s: A bit of evolved and more classy version of the 80s. I adore the versatility and grunge and r&b but also some of the trendy stuff back then sound just AWFUL now (like Kula Shaker?!?)
2000’s: Ok what's not to like? Fantastic decade for r&b, pop, indie rock... at one point EVERYTHING was popular which is super rare. The birth of Lady Gaga wub.gif
2010’s: I think we are going to look back at this decade with amaze ... It's been such a great journey for rap, electronic and pop music. Just brrilliant rock is lacking due to people finding the band format a bit innecessary for making music. I still think this is the best so far because the pure unpredictability: who would've guessed that retro songs like Uptown Funk and Get Lucky would be the biggest hits of their year or that a classic pop singer would be the biggest star in the world (Adele) or that a guy with just a guitar and looper would have the biggest tour of all time. Oh, and Shallow hitting #1 both sides of the Atlantic. Oh, and a black gay rapper having a #1 song with a country star from the 90s. heart.gif

Posted by: Bjork Aug 20 2019, 04:16 PM

the 2000s for me, followed by the 1990s, then the 2010s
and not a fan of old music from the 60s and 70s... early 80s I don't like either although I love the 87-90 period

I have big favourites in all the last 3 decades (Tori Amos in the 1990s, Damien Rice in the 2000s, Ben Howard in the 2010s) so cannot complain

Posted by: No Sleeep Aug 20 2019, 04:18 PM

So close between the 90s and 00s but I’ll have to go with 2000s for the nostalgia factor! I was born in 2000 and really into music for as long as I can remember so they’re just extra special to me wub.gif

1. 2000s
2. 1990s
3. 1980s
4. 2010s
5. 1970s
6. 1960s
7. 1950s

Posted by: Jester Aug 20 2019, 04:28 PM

The 90s by miles!

Posted by: Dircadirca Aug 20 2019, 04:45 PM

For me I feel like 2010s has to win it just on sheer volume. There is so much stuff out there that on a visceral level of tapping endorphins through scratching specific itches, it can't be matched. There's admittedly an unfair advantage as well, as there are now no shortage of musicians the same age as me, with similar backgrounds/experiences. It's much easy to connect to struggles that you're seen first hand, rather than stuff that's always been historical from my perspective. I love music of all eras, but about half of my music library is from this decade and no amount of historic backlogging (which I am in fact doing) will ever catch up to that.

Posted by: Hadji Aug 20 2019, 05:43 PM

1. 1980s
2. 1990s
3. 1960s
4. 2000s
5. 1970s
6. 1950s
7. 2010s

Posted by: Houdini Aug 20 2019, 05:49 PM

For a decade as whole the 2000's would be my favourite. In terms of individual periods for me it's the early 2010's that is my favourite, it's the mid section of the current decade up until now that stops this decade from being my favourite as a whole.

Posted by: pippa Aug 20 2019, 06:17 PM

The 1990;s followed by the 1980;s with 2000's in third.

Posted by: Catherine91 Aug 20 2019, 06:37 PM

Although I'm most familiar with the 00s and 10s, I think overall I like 90s music best. I like 80s music as well, so my ranking would be:

1. 90s
2. 00s
3. 10s
4. 80s

Any earlier than that is just 'old' to me, so I can't really rank the 50s-70s! laugh.gif

Posted by: Peral-Turret32 Aug 20 2019, 07:00 PM



1. 2010's (Technology in music has evolved, more artists are talking about their struggles, so many artistic albums like A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead and Volcano by Temples)
2. 1990's (Lots of greats. Oasis, Blur, The Prodigy, Massive Attack, a lot of the warehouse anthems)
3. 1970's (Mainly for the classic albums like Dark Side Of The Moon, Rumours, Aladdin Sane and Fear Of Music)
4. 1980's (I like those synth sounds)
5. 1960's (The Beatles, Motown and psychedelic rock {The Doors, Love, 13th Floor Elevators} are the main highlights)
6. 1950's (There are a lot of classics that have inspired future artists)

Posted by: Iz O'Malley Aug 21 2019, 05:02 AM

2000s, the stuff I like was dominant, there was a sound I've been chasing ever since the decade ended (anything that sounds like 'nostalgic 00s' is awesome) and for me there's just a huge volume of great albums and musical points from this era.

2010s is probably close with the amount of more modern-sounding music - and even though I've been around in those two decades for being musically aware, I still feel like they have the greatest number of songs that I don't know that I would enjoy.

Posted by: King Rollo Aug 21 2019, 10:03 AM

I opted for the 1980s for the sheer depth of great new music that was being released,whether it was in the top 40,or whether it was more obscure music being played on Radio 1 after 7pm. The 1970s were great for the amount of classic albums but there was a lot of cheesy music in the singles chart. The 1990s had some great dance music,particularly towards the end of the decade. The 60s were the years when pop and rock music was being developed into what it is now and were hugely influential,while the only good thing about the 50s is the birth of rock'n'roll. From the 2000s onwards,chart music has generally been a load of rubbish but the internet has enabled people of my age to find plenty of good new music that appeals to our own tastes.

1. 1980s
2. 1970s
3. 1990s
4. 2000s
5. 2010s
6. 1960s
7. 1950s

Posted by: M4NG0 Aug 21 2019, 10:49 AM

1990s without a shadow of a doubt.

Posted by: Jordan Lee Aug 21 2019, 10:56 AM

2000’s for me with the 90s close behind.

I was born in 95 so I grew up with music from those two decades and take great memories of quite a variety of stuff from those times.

After that I’d probably say

80’s
10’s
60’s
70’s
50’s (I cant think much of the 50s tbh)

Posted by: Dark Horse Aug 21 2019, 01:48 PM

the 80s of course... most good music was released in that decade...

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