I am no music genius. I can't play any musical instrument as much as I have tried. I can't sing for shit, I have been told my singing makes peoples ears bleed (thanks to my lovely fiance) but that doesn't matter with music. Music doesn't care if you can play replicate it or not.
Music is possibly one of the greatest things in the world, in the universe in my opinion. In the first few cords of a song, it can take you back to a time, a place, a person a smell, a memory.
It's a feeling, it's an art, it changes people. It heals people.
Music has been around for centuries. Music instruments from a simple flute, to the french horn, to the guitar to the electric guitars, people have found ways to make music. Then of course, there are our voices.
The greatest era of music comes in the 20th century. Of course there have been many eras of music from the times of Beethoven and Mozart until unfortunately today's time of Justin Beiber and Keisha.
I almost wish I was born in my parents or grandparents era.
The 60s when rock and roll was new and taking off. It was a decade that was revolutionary in terms of popular music.
Popular music has a bad rap in my opinion. Pop music we all think of nowadays is cheesy boy or girl bands half heartedly singing while doing some ridiculous dance routine. However pop music is what it is. It's not called popular because no one likes it. Sure some of it is cheesy, but it stays in our minds, we make fools of ourselves doing the silly dance moves, and we laugh about it. That's the great ting about music, no matter what style of music it is.
The 60s saw the birth of rock music, pop music. Some of the greatest artists I still listen to date back to this time.
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, The Kinks, Fleetwood Mac, Cream, Bob Dylan, The Mamas and Papas, Jimi Hendrix, The Hollies, Tom Jones, ZZ top,Lyndyrd Skynyrd, Eagles, Procol Harum, Ottis Reading, Jackson 5, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes, Johnny Cash, The Doors and Led Zepplin.
All of the greatest music ever made was born from the 60s. Whether you love it or you hate it, whether your a British Invasion fan, a psychedelic rock fan, a folk fan, a blues rock fan, a mowtown fan, progressive rock, pop, soul or country music fan. Everything comes from this era.
How exciting would it have been to have lived to have grown up listening to this music which was brand new, exciting, fresh and unlike anything before?
The 70s brought us disco, one of the biggest Genres of music for the decade. We saw punk rock grow from this decade, heavy metal, glam rock, hard rock, new wave. Electronic music was born. Reggae was innovated in this decade, funk music, smooth jazz, even hip hop was spawned but didn't become popular until later on.
The Bee Gees, Gloria Gaynor, Diana Ross, Blondie, The Knack, Boston, Aerosmith,Journey,Kiss, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, Supertramp, Electric Light Orchestra, Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, Queen, Abba, Elton John, Deep Purple, Motorhead, David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Roxy Music, Slade, Sweet, Mud, The Clash, 10cc, Cat Stevens, The Wilers and Bob Marley, Dire Straits, U2, Joy Divison and Frank Valli.
Although some of these greats had started in the 60's either at first in bands or own their own, they became popular and huge during the 70s. Some formed in the mid to late 70s and didn't find huge fame until the 1980s.
The 80s saw the use of the synthesizer and so a number of electric music genres were born.
These included electro, techno, house, freestyle and eurodance. Dance music was born.
R&B, Hip hop and new wave continued to grow in popularity as did the rock scene with new wave, soft and hard rock and heavy/glam metal.
Michael Jackson, Madonna and Whitney Houston were huge at this time. New bands and artists included New Kids on the Block, Tiffany, Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, Europe, Van Halen, Foreigner, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer and Megadeath. Steve Vai and Joe Satriani and Eddie Van Halen achieved international recognition for their skills.
Alternative Rock and Independently signed bands emerged in this decade. Bands such as R.E.M, The Pixies and Sonic Youth.
Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Thorogood sparked the revival of electric blues and blues rock.
Dead or Alive, Depeche mode, New Order, A Flock of seagulls, Eurythmics, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Pet shop boys, Wham, The Cure, Duran Duran, Spandu Ballet were just a few of the most popular artists of the 80s.
The 90s saw teen pop and dance pop which grew from the 70s and 80s expand. Rock continued in the form of grunge, Britpop and industrial. Hip hop had it's golden age in the 90s, while electronic music continued to gain fame with genres such as house, techno, drum and bass.
The 90s saw the rise of -
Nirvana, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Alice in Chains, The Offspring, Rage Against the Machine, The GooGoo Dolls, Green Day, The Smashing Pumpkins, Foo
fighters, Stone temple pilots, Blink 182 and Pearl Jam.
Pop became huge in the mid 90s with boy and girl bands and pop rock singer-song writers.
The Spice Girls, Bryan Adams, Jeff Buckley, Alanis Morrisette, Shania Twain, Sheryl Crow, Backstreet boys, NSYNC, Christian Aguliera, Brittney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Destiny's child, Mariah Carey, Michael Bolton, Sade, Toni Braxton, Boyz II men, Mary J Blige, TLC, Dr Dre, Missy Elliot, Moby, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, Oasis, Blur,Feeder, The Verve, Radiohead, Travis, Supergrass, Pulp, Westlife, Boyzone, George Michael, Robbie Williams, Take that, Vengaboys.
90s saw DJs and superclubs emerge with the electronic music. Ministry of sound was created.
2000s was a nonediscript decade in that there were not many new genres born. With the exception of a few indie related genres such as emo. Convergence of difference styles was one of the more defining features of the decade.
2000s until the present day have brought a mix bag of different artists, most recently that of western influenced asian boy and girl groups such as SHINee, Super Junior, PSY, Big Bang and Girls generation to name a few.
We also saw the rise of the reality TV star with shows such as Popstars, American Idol, Xfactor and The Voice, which have produced a few mediocre adult contemporary top 40 so called singers. We have also had the pleasure of long time dead pop groups who have reunited from their 90s deaths after 10 years or so.
Now we have so many different music genres which have grown and grown throughout the decades to incorporate so many very different musical genres. Any type of music you like you are able to listen too. And in anyway you want to. We have live through 8-track and vinyl, tape decks and CD players, to downloads and MP3s.
Each decade love it or hate it has something to offer for everyone. I have favourites from each decade including the present day.
The Beatles, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Dire Straits, Michael Jackson, The Police, Bon Jovi, Journey, The Verve, Oasis, Blur, Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Take That, The Spice Girls, SHINee, Super Junior, Kasabian, Adele to name a few of my favourites throughout time.
Whether your a pop fan, a disco fan, a glam rock fan, a blues fan or a techno fan, music is a universal language. You can listen to music in any language and despite knowing that the lyrics mean you can find a beat, you can feel something.
Jimi Hendrix said 'music is my religion'. I'm with you on that Jimi.
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