Best decade for music?

Name your favorite band from that decade

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Tough question to try and answer objectively.
If you say the 60's then that was possibly the first time popular music got serious radio airplay time.

I'll say the 1970's.
True, we had all that Slade; Wizard; Sweet; David Cassidy; Osmonds stuff.
But we also had Fleetwood Mac; Led Zeppelin; Bob Marley; The Specials; Selecter; The Beat; The Jam; The sex pistols; Generation X;......

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@Picklebobble2 You old Mod!

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User NO !! Mods were a generation earlier ! The Who; Small Faces; The Kinks; The Animals; The Yardbirds etc.
The bands like Selecter and The Specials; Bad Manners; Bodysnatchers etc were part of the Two-tone Ska revivalist stuff.

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@Picklebobble2 True true! I was referring I guess more to the Mod revival of the late 70s e 80s with the Jam, Madness, and cross-over with Ska, no? I defer to you; I could be lumping them in together.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User Weird how EVERY generation has 'Their time' when it comes to popular music !
one of the oddest things i ever saw onstage was when Marty Wild (English Rock n roll singer from the '50's) introduced his daughter, Kim to an audience of post-punk new wave fans at a concert.

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@Picklebobble2 The new wave kids were there to see Marty Wild? I loved the Sex Pistols and the Clash. Never got into Siouxsie. Huge Elvis Costello fan, too.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User No he was just introducing her to the audience before she went on.
Elvis Costello was surprisingly good in concert with The Attractions.
I did see Siouxie and the Banshees they were supporting The Psychedelic furs i think....may have been the other way around... But they were pretty good too !