In what decade do you think rock music peaked?

Question

It has been argued that rock peaked back in the 70's with arena rock, or even as far back as the 60's with the likes of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Jimi Hendrix. People have been crying "rock is dead!" for a few decades now. What do you think?

Answer 1

That's really a matter of opinion, based on the evolution of music one could really argue for any time period. There was a lot of great music in the sixties with the beatles, bob dylan, jimi hendrix, and many others, then there was the seventies with zeppelin, the whole punk movement, or the eighties one could argue various movements as either a peak or a low (ie thrash fans hating hair metal and hair metal fans hating thrash), and then of course the nu-metal explosion of the late nineties. as i said it all goes down to personal opinion as to what the best rock is and what era it came out of.

Answer 2

I think for POP music, it was definitely the '60s. But, as popular music matured and became more sophisticated, the "rock culture" evolved. Rock music flourished, and reached its peak in the '70s; the EARLY '70s, I think. By the later '70s - when it became SO big that "arena rock" became a necessity just to SEE them play - it lost some of its appeal, because it all just became too commercialized at that point. I can still remember going to major concerts before that happened, and tickets being only 5 or 6 bucks. There wasn't the need for all that security, and assigned seating. As a matter of fact, it was more like going to one big PARTY, with your favorite band up onstage!!!!

Ah - the GOOD OLD DAYS......!
(Yeah, "rock" these days is LAME!!!!)

Answer 3

It hits high mark in the late 70s, the 80s is when rock music took a nose dive. Rock is dead now, with bands like 3 days grace, Nickleback, My Chemical Romance, the final nails have been put in the coffin of rock. Thats not the bad part, there is no more original music in any genre.

Answer 4

I can't say when rock had its peak. each decade has its die hard fan base, and each decade brought on new styles of rock for the new generations.

Rock is just as alive as it ever was, but music all together has less of an impact as it did back then. It seems almost everything has been done now, comared to then, when things were being discovered.

Answer 5

70s

Answer 6

rock is dead ?
nah.. rock will Never die (nor has it ever "peaked").

right now Rock is doing what it has always done.
maybe not here in the West but in other parts of the world it is very much on a roll.

did you know that underground punk rock is big in the middle-east ? they would stone you to death if they caught you but the kids don't care. now that's hard core !

rock is big in China as well.

to really understand rock you need to know what it's doing around the world !

because rock breaks down barriers and changes social norms it would be easy to say that rocks most important years are still yet to come.

Answer 7

I agree that it peaked in the '70's

'70's best single decade of rock,
but I think the absolute best 10 years
were '65 to '75, ok ok, '64 to 74
If I have to be within 10 years.
I trust you all know why the change of one year.

Answer 8

You can make a case for almost evey decade that rock music has been in existence. My own opinion is that by the 1990's, pretty much every form of rock music that could exist had been developed, so in that sense, it peaked in that decade.

Answer 9

I say the 80's are the best then the 70's.

Answer 10

well to be honest with you, i never saw the likes of Elvis and buddy Holly as rock. I think when Led Zeppelin and AC/DC came out, true rock n roll evolved.