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I know the temptation is to say you like all eras for different reasons etc. but, if you had to choose, say, one decade's worth of music to listen to for the rest of our life, which would it be? For me it's definitely the 1990s; specifically, 1989 to about 2001/2. So much stuff I love from this period: Alice in Chains, Sepultura, Deftones, Nirvana, Meshuggah, Mogwai, At The Drive-In, Soundgarden, Slipknot, Korn, Decapitated, Converge, Faith No More, Rage Against the Machine, Electric Wizard, Eyehategod, Refused, Glassjaw, Pantera... the list goes on! :D What about you guys?

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The 80's thraah scene was what got me into metal, then I started listening to heaps of 90's bands like Grunge and a lot of Progressive and melodic death metal bands. But I would have to say the 80's was were it all started and what made me a metalhead :D

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Re: Favourite era for music? 1987 - 1994. That was the area of the most rapid development, cultivation, and absolutely huge concentration of quality and originality in metal. The largest amount of my favorite albums were released in this period in pretty much every genre of metal, so I would definitely call this metal's Golden Age. As was said previously, there is excellent music from all across the spectrum in every era that genre has existed in, although not necessarily evenly dispersed between subgenres, but never has there been a time so densely packed with quality as those years IMO. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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90's Not just for rock/metal. 90's hip-hop/rap was the best and even though I hated it at the time, 90's pop brings back awesome memories for me now.
Interesting, I find that I prefer more modern hip hop. Very late 90s to mid 2000s. And I prefer 80s pop, though I don't have very many associations with it because my parents and I didn't listen to the radio much.
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Interesting' date=' I find that I prefer more modern hip hop. Very late 90s to mid 2000s. And I prefer 80s pop, though I don't have very many associations with it because my parents and I didn't listen to the radio much.[/quote'] 2006 is my cut off. I haven't liked anything out post 06 Sent from my LGMS500 using Tapatalk
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Tough call this one. But for overall importance of the development of music I'd call the 70's with the back end (76 onwards) especially for the increasing heaviness in rock that was to become metal. Still finding great albums from the 70's that are simply superb. If I had to a year of personal meaning then probably 1990 so many great albums that year.

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Re: Favourite era for music? Interesting, it seems like there is some consensus for the 90's, whereas most metal forums would probably lean towards the 80's. You won't catch me disagreeing though, the 90's (especially the earlier half) saw metal flourish as it was driven more underground, black and death metal really started taking off, doom metal was spreading its wings and had a period of extreme creativity, progressive and avant-garde metal also became more adventurous, I would say that I probably have more music from the 90's than any other decade. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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i like music from any era be it the 60's, 70 etc. some of the best songs are oldies, in the 2000's i personally think 2009 was the best year for music as some of the best albums came out in 2009, such as cannibal corpse - evisceration plague, The Agonist - Lullabies for the dormant mind, Devildriver Pray for villians, as well as many other albums . [TABLE=class: wikitable] [TR] [TD] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

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i like music from any era be it the 60's, 70 etc. some of the best songs are oldies, in the 2000's i personally think 2009 was the best year for music as some of the best albums came out in 2009, such as cannibal corpse - evisceration plague, The Agonist - Lullabies for the dormant mind, Devildriver Pray for villians, as well as many other albums . [TABLE=class: wikitable] [TR] [TD] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]
I also enjoy a lot of 60's/70's like the Psychedelic stuff, Bob Seger and Neil Young. The Animals play some great rock and roll!
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