1969 was the best year for music

the radio told me so.

disagree?

Originally posted by trev33
the radio told me so.

disagree?

1967, and 1968 were just as good.

Without mentioning the early 70s.

1983 was a great year for Rock also.

Originally posted by Badwater
1983 was a great year for Rock also.

how so?

Men At Work, Cyndie Lauper, Culture Club, Devo, Madonna, Prince, Motley Crue, Billy Idol, The Scorpions, Ratt, Metallica, Ozzy Osborne, Accept, Dokken, Sonic Youth, Bryan Adams, ZZ Top, Dio, The Romantics, David Bowie, Kiss, Quiet Riot, Triumph, Y&T, The Tubes, Def Leppard, Duran Duran, Talking Heads, Huey Lewis and the News, The Eurythmics, The Police, Randy Newman, Spandau Ballet, U2, Weird Al....

There's more....Need I say more?

1979

15 going on sweet 16...

Punk survivors, rock survivors, new wave, mods and rockers, ska, lingering hippies, Aussie intruders, Stiff Records...

Armed Forces - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
The B-52s - The B-52s
Black Rose: A Rock Legend - Thin Lizzy
Bob Dylan at Budokan - Bob Dylan (live)
Breakfast in America - Supertramp
Can - Can
1st album - The Pretenders
Do It Yourself - Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Drums and Wires - XTC
Euroman Cometh - Jean-Jacques Burnel
Exposure - Robert Fripp
Fear of Music - Talking Heads
5 - J. J. Cale
Frenzy - Split Enz
Head Injuries - Midnight Oil
I'm the Man - Joe Jackson
Into the Music - Van Morrison
Life in a Day - Simple Minds (debut)
Lodger - David Bowie
London Calling - The Clash (UK Release)
Look Sharp! - Joe Jackson
Metal Box - Public Image Ltd.
Mingus - Joni Mitchell
One Step Beyond... - Madness
Prince - Prince
Quadrophenia - The Who (OST)
Reggatta de Blanc - The Police
Replicas - Tubeway Army
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Secondhand Daylight - Magazine
Setting Sons - The Jam
Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa
The Specials - The Specials
Squeezing Out Sparks - Graham Parker & the Rumour
TRB 2 - Tom Robinson Band
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
The Undertones - The Undertones
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
The Wall - Pink Floyd

Few, if any years, get any better than that.

Originally posted by FMF
1979

15 going on sweet 16...

Punk survivors, rock survivors, new wave, mods and rockers, ska, lingering hippies, Aussie intruders, Stiff Records...

Armed Forces - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
The B-52s - The B-52s
Black Rose: A Rock Legend - Thin Lizzy
Bob Dylan at Budokan - Bob Dylan (live)
Breakfast in America - Supertramp
Can - Can
1 leasures - Joy Division
The Wall - Pink Floyd

Few, if any years, get any better than that.

Great year but you forgot a couple goodies that are favourites of mine:

The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
DEVO - Duty Now for the Future
Suicide - Suicide
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Wire - 154
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
The Selecter - The Selecter

Originally posted by trev33
the radio told me so.

disagree?

From 1948 to '69 there was Carolyn Hester, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Martin Carthy, The Watersons, Tommy Makem, The Chieftains, The Weavers, Doc Watson, Reverend Gary Davis, John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Peter Paul and Mary, Jean Ritchie, Richard and Mimi Farina, Buffy St. Marie, The Kingston Trio, The Brothers Four, The Limeliters, Gordon Lightfoot, Stan Rogers, Jean Carrignon, Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk, Judy Henske, Odetta, Tom Paley, The New Lost City Ramblers, John Jackson, Bill Monroe, Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, Michael A Stewart, AKA Backwards Sam Firk, Stephan Michaelson, AKA Delta X, Bob Hoskins, AKA Fang, Mississippi John Hurt, Martin Bogen and Armstrong, Archie Edwards, Libba Cotton, Judy Bright, Stephan Grossman, Paul Geremia, Steve Goodman, Barbara Dane, Dave Bromberg, Peggy Seeger, Penny Seeger, Lou Gottleib, Alex Haselev, Glen Yarbourough, Gordon Bok, Michael Cooney,
Billy Bragg, June Tabor, Bert Jansch, John Renbourne, Jacqui McShee, Danny Thompson, Richard Thomson, Malvena Reynolds, Maddy Prior,
Etta Baker, Nick Drake, Donovan, Nic Jones, Dick Gaughan, Davey Graham, Tommy Peoples, Vincent Griffith, Debbie McClatchie, Son House, Muddy Waters, Jesse Fuller, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Sam Hinton, Phil Oches, Ed McCurdy, Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Neil, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, Ledbelly, Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie, Brownie Mcgee, Sonny Terry, Josh White, Those names just from memory, probably left out a bunch more. Find some bad music in that bunch.

Originally posted by sonhouse
From 1948 to '69 there was Carolyn Hester, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Martin Carthy, The Watersons, Tommy Makem, The Chieftains, The Weavers, Doc Watson, Reverend Gary Davis, John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Peter Paul and Mary, Jean Ritchie, Richard and Mimi Farina, Buffy St. Marie, The Kingston Trio, The Brothers Four, The Limeliters, Gor ...[text shortened]... ose names just from memory, probably left out a bunch more. Find some bad music in that bunch.

Best single year, not best two decades.

The guy from NKOTB was born in 1969 ...

Originally posted by darvlay
Best single year, not best two decades.

Almost all of those people had recorded albums in 1969.

Originally posted by FMF
1979

15 going on sweet 16...

Punk survivors, rock survivors, new wave, mods and rockers, ska, lingering hippies, Aussie intruders, Stiff Records...

...

Few, if any years, get any better than that.

Aussie Intruders and you leave off AC/DC's Highway to Hell? For that alone, your list is terminally flawed and remiss, berift of serious consideration. But wait, there's more!...You also leave off Judas Priest's Unleashed In The East, Cheap Trick's Dream Police, and At Budokan, The Cars Candy-O, The Knack, disco, The Scorpions, Led Zepplin, Van Helen, The Police, etc etc

Next!

What year did "walk like an egyptian" come out? I vote for that year.

Originally posted by dryhump
What year did "walk like an egyptian" come out? I vote for that year.

that was in the eighties 1986, Bangles on the Whistle test, awesome!

YouTube

I'm goin with 93-94

Partial list of bands on the radio at that time...

Tool
Rage against the machine
Nine inch nails
Ministry
front 242
Red hot chillipeppers
jane's addiction/porno for pyros
nirvana
pearl jam
soundgarden
stone temple pilots
alice N chains
Jesus and mary chain
smashing pumpkins
Primus
beastie boys
breeders
Hole
Tribe called quest
Nick Cave
L7
Cypress Hill
Sonic Youth
Beck