Which decade had the worst music?

[Wezil]

Hold Your Head Up

/nitpik

[Heresson]

current era of music is the worst. Or perhaps 60s, I don't know that much about it. Still, Rolling Stones and Beatles were there, and at the end of this time a couple of 70s bands were created, so it couldn't be that bad.
In 1997 it was still pretty good, but since then it all went downhill

[Japher]

When music genre's "jumped the shark":

Rap - After Dre's Chronic album
Heavy Metal - After Metallica's Black album
Grunge - When Curt go Bang finally killed himself
R&B - still good
Rock - After Pearl Jam's Vitalogy album

[Imran Siddiqui]

Pearl Jam was/is grunge, Japher.

[Japher]

really?

I didn't think so

[Japher]

well color me stupid... it all sucks now, regardless

[Heresson]

As long as I know, the guy arguing Japher is right

edit:
I got mistaken by Japher's double post

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Japher
really?

I didn't think so

(Insert wikipedia joke here)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Jam

Their name is intimately tied to the rock scene of the early 1990s, and they are considered one of the "Big Four" of the grunge movement[2], alongside Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden.

And they are from Seattle!

[Joseph]

Today.

[-Jrabbit]

A little rock geneology for you:
Argent was technically an offshoot of the Zombies.

...and "Hold Your head Up" was really their only popular single (in the US). They were keyboard-heavy, but Rod Argent's preferred instrument was the hammond organ.

[-Jrabbit]

Addressing something Tiamat was saying several posts back, I guess my semi-encyclopedic knowledge of 70s rock is skewed, as I worked at a "progressive" college radio station. I knew all the rock groups, lots of jazz and blues, but was basically sheltered from Top 40 radio.

We thought stuff like "Afternoon Delight" and such was just laughable pap.

[Dis]

okay, I have a really shameful admission here. Admitting this should be enough to get me banned from Apolyton.

But similar in theme with the afternoon delight (which I would call soft rock), soft rock was popular in the late 70's along with disco. There was a song by Christopher Cross I liked. It was called Sailing Away.

And I have this song on my hardrive. . I can't believe I admitted to that. I'll never be able to show my face in here again.

Afternoon Delight isn't bad when you think of it's subject matter.

But when I was a kid it was not acceptable for a man (or boy) to admit to listening to soft rock.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Afternoon Delight on "Arrested Development"

[SlowwHand]

Escape (The Piña Colada Song)

[Soltz]

I'd vote the 70's as the 'best of times and the worst of times'

I loathe disco