Well well.

Can we be so musically unknowable not to recognize when something is being done to it's up-most.

FORGET AGE and that what I or you grew up on crap, that is SENTIMENT! talking, while I have LOADS of sentiment music to me knows no boundaries. So put aside your hearts for two seconds and use your EARS and minds. Plain and simple I LOVE 40's Big Band music and it was YEARS before I was born... so dates mean CRAP. And if you love classical music than your clear out of the century.

For POPULAR MUSIC and what music was MOST POPULAR at the time the
two dominant decades are the 1960's & the 1970's not only in sales, because sales are not sometimes the fairest judgment but by depth and diversity and PEEK!!!

The 1950's which was a GREAT time for music is one of my favorites.
BUT........ Aside from loving the sentiments and the pretty melodies and wonderful vocal harmonies. And the the BIRTH of Rock N Roll

It is so musically TINY compared to the what was coming...

The same 3 or 4 chord progressions used 10,000 times over & over and over can never be the BEST of what we have to offer in popular music sorry....
What does aid in it being a great decade was also Jazz influence remaining and still popular in the scene, SMALLER ensembles were catching on instead of the mostly LARGE orchestration of Jazz in the 40's. So while Jazz was popular R&R became the dominant music on the planet.. the way Hip Hop/Rap is today only with much more impact I believe. Also thanks to the like of people like the late GREAT Hank Williams Country music really starts taking strong form in the mainstream universally.

While I think well (know) the 30's and 40's RULE because
#1 - MUSICIANS ruled the planet, even singers were an after thought. Not only was Benny Goodman's band GREAT GREAT GREAT by every stretch of the word, they were the MOST POPULAR! Wow! what a concept.... And earlier Jolson was a great pioneer to ALL of showbusiness

However it was still largely dominated by SHOWTUNES, all up and down the charts,,, take a look if you don't believe.
Music was BIG side by side with theater and that can get a little..
Well ya know, I'm not gonna give a popular music history lesson here today lol

And were are talking about POPULAR Music here folks....
and what music was most POPULAR so that means Led Zeppelin who never charted and sold more albums then ANYBODY!!!!!!! Music here folks....

I can never decide between the two decades as they both have such overwhelming things in both...
Listen 60's and 70's DID IT ALL, in popular music and music that was MOST popular and it ain't never been done with the same effectiveness before or since. Melodies,Melodies,Melodies,!

I'll end this discussion with two words that are unarguable and un-debate-able

BEATLES & MOTOWN

In the same decade, What can touch these two? The end! lol

"If Beethoven were alive in the 60's he'd stop to check out Hendrix"





Thanks!
Peace Mike
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