I like jazz and big band music,so I'd have to say the 20's and the 40's. Man, I wish I could swing dance...but I digress...

I'm inclined to agree with both Bertho and Dalgliesh, but Bertho...the Carpenters???. The 60's was the best for excitement, innovation and originality. The 70's (leaving out the vacuum created by disco and bands like....well The Carpenters) was outstanding given that the early 70's improved on the quality of the 60's and the late 70's brought in a new era with "Punk" and "New Wave". Really, there was so much of an explosion of music in the late 70's and everyone wanted to classify it into one of these two brands. How can you classify music from people like Talking Heads, XTC, Blondie, Magazine, Iggy Pop et al?

Coolupway, you need to listen to more Australian music. You've obviously never heard of The Divinyls and their hit "I Touch Myself". Don't let my "critique" dampen your enthusiasm, I love your work.

Real World: 2000
My World: The Dark Age (nothing else has ever existed.)

Best decade of music: 90s. The 1790s, to be exact

Has to be the 1960's ( year 1964) - that was the decade that popular music came of age and was accepted as a form of music

60s-- The Beatles, Manfred Mann, Herman's Hermits
70's-- Queen, ELO, Boston, 10CC
80's-- Asia, Styx, Journey,
90's-- Now i'm struggling

'60s- The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits
'70s- Rod Stewart, New York Dolls, Van Halen
'80s- Bon Jovi, Guns "N Roses, Poison, Skid Row
'90s- don't really know

I never much liked what I heard on the radio and saw on MtV. My friends all liked metal. I felt like a scavenger, eating crumbs where I could find them.

Then Nirvana came along. Suddenly Guns and Roses was obsolete. Suddenly bands like Primus, Soundgarden, and Sonic Youth were getting airplay, even in my crummy little market, even on top 40 radio, even though the DJs at the local rock station hated punk, even punk crossed with metal. Suddenly bands like Helmet could get big money record deals. Suddenly the record chains carried all the bands I liked, marketed to me in a handy section called alternative.

I think my favorite decade lasted a year or two. I'm glad it happened, brief though it was. It was a peculiar feeling, being content with the status quo and liking pop music. It should happen to everyone once.