Years ending in 0 C/D

60 - meh
70 - excellent
80 - also excellent
90 - good
00 - middling

i only remember '90 and '00, and '90 is sort of a nostalgia blur. 2000 sucked but it was 1776 next to 2001.

I first started paying conscious attention to music in 1990 but only the Cocteau Twins "Heaven Or Las Vegas" comes into mind as a good album from that year and i discovered it much later.

Knebworth 1990 - what sort of deal was that about?

80: bad

90: bad

2000: dont' remember for some reason. probably bad

http://www.plong.com/MusicCatalog%5CL%5CLFO%20-%20Frequencies%5CLFO%20-%20Frequencies.jpg

sorry that was '91, but i just want to troll nextgrozart

60 - Can't tell
70 - Dud
80 - Classic
90 - Classic
00 - Classic

I was about to say that I don't mind "Frequency" but then I realised I meant the Altern-8 track. LFO's self-titled track was one of the first tunes I remember liking.

Most of them are not. 1980 certainly contained a lot of great music, 1970 also had its moments in early prog. But generally, no.

In the 60s, everything before 1963 was rather weak. 1970 had some OK prog, but otherwise nothing like what would follow just a few years later. 1980 was actually a great year even though 1981-83 would be even greater. 1990 was really bad and 2000 was the weakest year of the oughties so far.

70 - Dud

-- daavid,

'kin ell

http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/1970

just look at #42 eg

'70 may not have been dud, but was it as good as '69, '68 or '67? Likewise with '80. Not dud, but surely '79, '78 and '77 were better.

1960 - wasn't here
1970 - wet and gloomy
1980 - bit listless
1990 - not bad
2000 - depressing

That's that, then.

Likewise with '80. Not dud, but surely '79, '78 and '77 were better.

Looking at my Top 60 of 1980 at RYM, most of the best albums from 1980 were pointing forward towards 1981-82 rather than a continuation of 78-79. Some really good early synthpop albums there.

2000 was awesome for me, one of my best years ever. 1990, god knows.

Oh we're talking music, aren't we? I thought this was on ILE. 2000 was rubbish, then.

Musically:

1960 - bleurgh
1970 - can't find my way home
1980 - everything must change
1990 - purple flashing
2000 - hmm

the whole trying to find patterns in year numbers thing is lame

What is certain is that, from a popular music history kind of view, no year ending in 0 can be said to mark the beginnig of the following decade to much extent. The trends that were typical of the various decades usually either started at the end of the decade before, or mostly in years ending with 1, 2 or 3.

Q.E.D.

the whole trying to find patterns in year numbers thing is lame

Because everyone knows it happens in 7s!

1957 - don't knock ze rock!
1967 - far out!
1977 - oi oi!
1987 - weeeeeeowwweeeeee
1997 - solid third album by spiritualized
2007 - bzyang sans groink

Only years that are prime numbers are good.

Except for 1970, which was the greatest year EVAH

Deep Purple weren't all that.

Never like Dana much either

otoh Freda Payne

The Pipkins were moderately underrated.

'70 was awesome, based on looking at that list. Holy shit

Only years that are prime numbers are good.

-- Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 10 April 2008 14:04 (5 hours ago) Link

I'd say it's the opposite (almost):

Years that are prime numbers: C/D

the whole trying to find patterns in year numbers thing is lame

Ah, maybe so - but then it's interesting to see if there are correlations isn't it? Years ending in 7 tend to get lionised, but maybe the reason for that is that people start thinking "Fucking hell, we're three quarters of the way through the decade and we need something that's going to blow peoples' minds away".

Whereas years ending in 0 tend to be a bit unsure of themselves - maybe people are a bit frightened of not knowing what's to come and also wary of doing something that sounds like it's fromt he previous decade, and so bold, brash statements don't tend to see the light of day in those years on the whole.

unsurprisingly i don't agree with any of that. people don't make more effort just because of what point of a decade they're in.

it sounds more like a correlation among how music journalists might think rather than actual musicians.

Well everything's relative of course.

1960 - Breakthrough for Soul on pop charts as post-payola settles:

Sam Cooke's Chain Gang and Wonderful World
Drifters' Magic Moment and Save the Last Dance
Joe Jones' You Talk Too Much
Miracles' Shop Around
Billy Bland's Let the Little Girl Dance
Miracles' Shop Around
Ray Charles' Georgia On My Mind
Shirelles' Will You Love Me Tomorrow