Which of the following decades produced the best music?

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The 60's, with the 70's and 90's in a near tie. The industrial music of the 90's is an underated facet of the decade. The incredible classic rock of the early to mid 70's is nearly over-shadowed by the later decades atrocities of disco and "singer-songwriter" genre.

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1965-1975 saw some of the best music ever produced.
However for sake of the poll I voted 1960's since it had The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Cream, and many other amazing bands.

Much of Dylan and the Doors best work, and everything form Zep except their (stellar) first album, was during the 70's.

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1980s and it's not even close. The level of skill that developed in the rock and metal genres building on the great musicians that came before was unprecedented. Then sadly once Grunge came about it all just started to die. The best musicians today are the ones that were created in the 80s, nobody can really compare today, even the ones that are considered "good".

Oh please. Having actually grown up during that culturally blighted decade I can tell you from personal experience how bad it's music sucked. It was the high point of bubble gum Europop (and it's pretenders on this side of the Atlantic).

And don't extole to me the virtues of guitar virtuosos. I WAS in that crowd debating whether Yngwieor Van Halen did better arrpagios in the Mixolydian scale, etc. And the fact is 95% of that crew (outside Eddie Van Halen himself and a few Ozzy/Randy Rhodes compositions) created any actual rock and roll SONGS and MELODIES that have withstood the test of time. Budding little wanna-be Yngwies like us just didn't notice at the time because it was a vastly perferable alternative to pre-electronica Madonna or f&^king Michael Jackson.

Like I said, while there were oasises of exceptions during that decade-long cultural desert, 80's music just sucked.