Music: What period is your favorite?

[oz]

Hey guys, I'm listening to some good music right now and it started me to wondering what period the rest of you prefer to listen to?

Of course, I know that the following periods can overlap some, and types of music can vary, but hopefully the poll will work out to where we can see what's the most popular period among the majority here.

Thanks for voting.

[elija]

1980's but they all have their good and bad points

[MikeTbob]

For me the 1970's rule!
I mean, I listen to music from every decade, but the 70's are my favorites.

[Dapper Dan]

I wish it could be multiple choice as I really love many songs from the 1930's forward. My two most favourite decades would be the 1960's and the 1980's. I also love all types of music. I listen to a very wide range of artists. From Henry Mancini to ZZ top. From Hank Ballard and the Midnighters to Buck Owens and the Buckaroos. I'm as "at home" listening to Antonio Carlos Jobim and Tony Bennett as I am listening to George Straight or Junior Brown.

[oz]

Yep, it's hard to decide on any certain period.

I'm with you guys, and find most all music appealing in some way, except that I'm not a fan of opera, although I do highly appreciate and respect the talent required to perform it.

All that out of the way, I'm voting for the 60's as my favorite. There's just something about the innocence in the music of that period that appeals to me. Of course, that might very well be what lots of folks don't like about it.

[cousinlucky]

I wish I could choose a time frame but depending on my life circumstances my music mood changed an awful lot. I was living with a woman once who adored Alice Coltrane's harp and piano work. I had heard some of her husband's jazz work but I did not know about Alice Coltrane because her musical style was classical. Listening to Alice Coltrane got me to see the differences between the male and female " ear " when it came to music.

Being an old man I do not care for heavy metal or rap. However a young musician, who clerked in a store I frenquented, gave me a copy of his band's heavy medal cd and I really, really, like their music.

Good music causes goose bumps on my forearms. Musical instruments is one of the Arts that I had to give up as a teenager. I was forced to learn other things.

[techieMoe]

What, no entry for pre-20th-century? I rock out to music from the 1700s. Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart.

[gruven]

I can't really vote here, because I like such a diverse amount of music.

I love swing, jazz, classical, and slipknot.

[elija]

What, no entry for pre-20th-century? I rock out to music from the 1700s. Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart.

I agree with this - except for Mozart's operas <shudder>

How many of us are picking our teen decade (must go find the age poll). Moe, I guess you're not unless you are really really old

[Giles]

I second (or maybe third or forth) the comments about pre-C20th music. I suspect more people would recognise distinctively baroque music than would recognise distinctively 1920s music, but I may be wrong...

Also, no-one's voted for the 90s yet? I'm shocked

Giles