Best years in music

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

I was also born in the 60's, so I was too young to enjoy 60's rock as it was happening. But I spent a lot of high school and even college listening to late 60's (into some early 70's) rock. Main stream stuff like early Stones, Led Zeppelin, early Pink Floyd, and Velvet Underground less main stream stuff psychedelic and progressive rock. King Crimson, Yes, etc. I mostly ignored mid and late 70s rock (outside of some punk and Grateful Dead) and ignored 80's stuff except to the extent that it obviously got played around me (I got into Rush because my Dungeon and Dragons buddies were way into it) and at parties. Sure, there was some fun dance music, Boston, Cars, and even the Go Go's and so on. And the occasional group would catch my attention. REM, Talking Heads, etc. But it was a lot of late 60's music when I was picking the albums.

I had left KU/Lawrence by the early 90's but I liked grunge. I hated it when rap took over but I enjoyed the 90's rave scene and enjoyed all the Dead shows that were easy to get to in the NorCal area.

You can find good rock from 1965 on. Each to their own, but I guess I would still choose something in the 1968 to 1972 or so window. Especially given how ground breaking it was at the time, which is a little hard to appreciate now.

I pretty much loathe late 60s-early 70s progressive/psychedelic rock, particularly the Doors and Led Zeppelin. And while I don't hate the Beatles, I'm definitely not a fan. I guess I do like some early Stones stuff, but that's about it. For the most part, only things from that era I like are Star Trek, muscle cars and war movies.

You and I should never take a long road trip.