Best 10 year period for Rock-n-Roll? Why?

Question

Not necessarily"the 50s or 60's" or "70's" ,80's or" 90's"...any
10 year block that was most influential, most talented, most creative.

I choose 1967 to 1977 and I'll tell you why later......I appreciate all thoughts and commentaries....

Starting in 1967 you really started to hear albums that took advanatge of stereo sound and experimentation.
The late 60's contained what I feel were the best Beatles albums with Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road. Doors debut album, Hendrix and Joplin, Stones Let it Bleed and Sticky Fingers going into early 70's. Led Zep in their prime. Early to mid 70's with Aerosmith, Bad Co, Floyd, Clapton, Boston, Seger, Springsteen, Bowie, Eagles,Fleetwood Mac,Genesis, Steely Dan, Doobies,
Tull, Jefferson Airplane. Southern Rock was at it's peak with Skynyrd, Tucker, Allman Bros, Molly Hatchet, Charlie Daniels, ZZ Top. Punk came on the scene around 1977 with Sex Pistols and The Clash. I'm so glad I was at an age to truley experience and appreciate this music era.

Answer 1

I choose 1966-75 to include early Beatles, Stones, Creedence and Stevie Wonder. The easy early 70's also included many black, blues and Chicano influences on our charts, which has fallen these days to people clinging more to the differences than the similarities.

I really think the period from 1964-1982 was the most formulative for rock. The rest of the years through 1990 were kind of becoming too selective, and since then it's been every style of music for itself.

I wish there were more artists like Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Rare Earth these days.

Answer 2

1963 to 1973, maybe give or take a year on either side. The rise of 60s pop, Northern Soul (and the peak of Mod), Ye-Ye and French Pop, Psych-pop, Garage rock, and Glam Rock. Metal, Punk, and Prog were no more than a small bleep on the radar and thus were largely inconsequential, sans an accidental hit here or there (but they weren't the dominating force in music).

Then... everything went downhill...

As for music in general (not just rock n roll), my second choice would probably be 1927 through 1937, give or take a year on each side... Before Big Band completely took over the mainstream (circa 1936) and killed the intimate smoke & piano sound of those classic songs.

Answer 3

I'm going to have to say 68-78... The Doors were at their heyday, psychedelic rock ran rampantly, and then came 1970 and the birth of classic rock by the British band Free, with their only internationally-charting song "All Right Now". At the time, it wasn't classic rock, just rock, but then 2 years later Deep Purple followed with "Smoke on the Water". The six-string sorcery had begun and would carry through various musical acts: Kansas, Boston, Thin Lizzy, Santana, Styx, Queen, Steely Dan, Lynyrd Skynyrd...

Answer 4

In my opinion it would be the 1960s thru the 1970s. It seems to me to be the best times of the greatest rock tunes ever.

Answer 5

i like the late 60's early 70's my self its the time when it was a lot of genres it was jsut good music that everybody could like

Answer 6

in my opinion, you'd be damn stupid NOT to agree with you. the late 1960's-mid 1970's had the best music as well as great artists who influenced a ton of new genres.

Answer 7

Yep
67 thru 77 blankets it for sure.

Answer 8

60's because that's what I remember the best!

Answer 9

i agree!!!!!