What decade has the worst music?

I really don’t think there has ever been one.

I have always and will always love music. This is not based on it’s incarnations. This is based on it’s evolution.

Every decade. I hate music. It’s the work of the devil.

Every decade has had it’s share of amazingly good, mediocre and downright bad music.
I’m a 70’s person and honestly, if I NEVER hear any Elton John or Stevie Nicks again it would be too soon. lol
Tom Petty and John Cougar, timeless tunes and, I’m an old Dead Head from waay back, still have a Dead fest about once a year. :-)
I LOVE the 90’s music and my daughter who is 24 is constantly turning me on to new sounds. I must have 10,000 songs and albums on my computer. :-)

So far, this one. And it will only get worse.

The 90’s. I really don’t think you can name 10 great CD’s from that era.

@filmfann I love most of the 90’s music. Sublime, 3 doors down, Matchbox 20, Maroon 5, Greenday, on & on. I think the 90’s had some of the best music since the 70’s personally!

All music from any decade following the one you grew up in. It’s a given axiom. :-P

It would be hard to fixate on any real era, because there has never been a decade that has only good musicians, or only bad musicians.

That said, I don’t think I could really answer that for you.

I love 90s music. 90s R&B is my fave! I don’t think there is a worst, it’s just different and personal taste.

Subjective.

1900–1910 was bereft of enjoyable music from what I remember.

@filmfann Just off the top of my head:

Nirvana – Nevermind
Counting Crows – August and Everything After
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
Radiohead – OK Computer
Soundgarden – Superunknown
R.E.M. – Out of Time
Santana – Supernatural
Green Day – Dookie
Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill

Ten iconic albums for you, and that’s with me leaving out quite a lot and artificially limiting myself to one album per band. Nirvana had their MTV Unplugged in New York album in 1993, for example, and Nine Inch Nails released The Fragile (Trent Reznor’s most critically acclaimed work) in 1999. It’s also worth noting that They Might Be Giants—a band with an eclectic, but quite loyal following—released almost every single one of their major albums in the 90s.

@filmfann “The 90’s. I really don’t think you can name 10 great CD’s from that era.”

Okay, I’ll bite. I’ll even stick to albums most people like and not my personal picks since I tend to stray from the tastes of most people. I also won’t repeat artists even if they had more than one great album in the 90’s.

Green Day – Dookie
The Offspring – Smash
Weezer – Weezer (aka The Blue Album)
Rancid – ...And Out Come the Wolves
311 – 311
Dave Matthews Band – Crash
Aerosmith – Get a Grip
Metallica – Metallica (aka The Black Album)
Blur – Parklife
Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
Radiohead – OK Computer
R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
Bush – Sixteen Stone
Sublime – Sublime
Stone Temple Pilots – Core
Pearl Jam – Ten
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Alice in Chains – Dirt
Nirvana – Nevermind
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
Daft Punk – Homework
Beck – Odelay
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine
Soundgarden – Superunknown

I didn’t even get into other music styles outside of rock (except the Daft Punk album, which I could not ever exclude). I’m sure rap afficionados would include at least a Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac album, and I’m sure there’s more than just that even.

All repeats from @SavoirFaire are not intentional, so that should say something for those albums especially.

Honestly, I think the answer to this question can be summarized in a single image. There has always been good music; there has always been bad music. It’s just a matter of how hard you are looking.

Oh wow…more 90’s tunes I’ve forgotten about. :-)

Which decade does Alanis Morissette fall into? Because I think that qualifies as the worst music.

Mid 50s to the mid 80s were the 30 years that music had meaning and emotions. Especially, the 70s for love songs.

Then, it all went down the crapper. I think most of the good song writers have died and left us with just a lot of noise and not the good stuff a person can relate to.

Save the music of the 50s thru the mid 80s.

You might not ever hear music this good ever again.

@john65pennington Something tells me Johnny Cash would have completely disagreed with you.

I can’t think of a single good album that came out in the 510’s A.D.

Whenever country music originated is the defining moment that spawned a million puke enhancing lyrics sung by weirdos dressed as rodeo clowns.

Is the question about the music created during a particular decade, or is it about the music that was popular/marketed during a particular decade?

For the most part, officially-approved-and-marketed-music-industry-corporate-music is consistently poor. Sure, there are a few exceptions per decade.

But this doesn’t seem to be the usual focus of a question like this. We seem to assume that the 80s were void of any musicians making music that wasn’t pop-shits or hair metal. There are always real artists making all kinds of amazing music in every decade. There is so much variety out there, you’re bound to find something that resonates with you. To equate art or music created at any given time with the music industry doesn’t seem right.

Whichever decade you don’t like music from.

I don’t think any particular decade had all bad music.

For me it would probably be the 90’s.