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  1. 1. Best decade?

    • 50s
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    • 60s
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    • 70s
      17
    • 80s
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    • 90s
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    • This current decade (*4 years of)
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I flit from decade to decade  .. at times I have a bit of a 60's thing , other times an 80's thing .. occasionally I stroll into the 90's

 

the 70's I've never really got  and the 00's don't exist as far as I'm concerned

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Black music? Ragtime piano, New Orleans jazz, big bands, bebop, hard bop, r&b (see above), country blues, electric blues, doo-wop, southern soul, motown -

 

Can't we just lump all these together?

 

And I like disco. :P

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Black music? Ragtime piano, New Orleans jazz, big bands, bebop, hard bop, r&b (see above), country blues, electric blues, doo-wop, southern soul, motown -

 

Can't we just lump all these together?

 

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well, I suppose in the early '80's I would dress '70's suedehead and listen to '60's ska

 

right now, there's nothing better than a new little band in a nice little venue (Goldenfable / Mary Epworth / Mountain of love etc..)

 

so I'm a pop tart

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Punk was fine for the first year or so - good, raucous, two-minute, rock'n'roll singles - until the music press and the industry decided that anything pre-punk was verboten and uncool. And the sheep bought the concept, bigtime. Baby thrown out with the bathwater.

 

 

 

If you want that concept wrapped up in three minutes...

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can't pin it down. born in the 80's remembering the likes of blur and oasis and space as the bands growing up listening to I have affection for that period, but my listening habits are eclectic - as are most people's I imagine really, music for seasons and moods etc all changes. I suppose I do end up listening to a lot of music that predated my existence though, plenty of 70's stuff, enjoy rock, soul and blues from the 60s-early 80's span I suppose.  **** gangsta bling rap and all that white noise horseshit, mind. That and pop and modern rnb can **** off and all. 

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The problem with decade markers is that they're arbitrary. If I could pick '1977-1987' as a decade, I'd probably do that: punk hit hard and transitioned into post-punk, new wave went through a full and useful evolution, electronic music became mainstream, hip-hop was born and hadn't yet gone "gangsta," metal got really good, and Top 40 radio pop was positively virtuosic compared to the tripe that's offered up these days. But I'm also a big fan of the '90s for Britpop, shoegaze, and post-rock.

 

Edit: Oh, and "alternative" meant the Smiths and not Mumford & Sons.

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The problem with decade markers is that they're arbitrary. If I could pick '1977-1987' as a decade, I'd probably do that:

 

I agree. Except that for me it would be 1965 - 1975. 

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Then again, there are some good things about now...

 

Lez Zeppelin, Vag Halen and AC/DShe – meet the all-female tribute bands

Think the tribute act is the sole preserve of obsessive fanboys? Open your ears to the women who really know how to rock

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Lez Zeppelin have recorded Led Zep songs, even using the same vintage equipment as their heroes did back in the late 60s.

Vag Halen! AC/DShe! The names alone are enough to make you pay attention – but that's only the start of it. All-female tribute bands may have traditionally provoked guffaws in the exclusionary, testosterone-fuelled world of budget rock, but these days they are increasingly earning plaudits on the homage scene. Lez Zeppelin were the first tribute band (of any gender) to perform at Download festival, and in June they play a show at the Garage in London.

To thrive in this niche industry is no small feat, and these women are next-level virtuosos who refused to hang up their six-strings in frustration when tasked with mastering Jimmy Page's trickiest solos. They have note-perfect guitar skills, loyal audiences and an encyclopaedic knowledge of alpha-male rock that could put even the most ardent, B-side-collecting fanboys to shame. For these ladies, the tribute game is more than hero worship: it's about a riff-perfecting devotion to rock that exceeds imitation. Throw up those horns and watch them wail!

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Lez Zeppelin

Lez have been rocking since 2004 and are considered queens of the all-female homage game. They have recorded full-length albums with formerLed Zeppelin engineers, doing so with a diehard devotion that saw them tracking down the same (now vintage) equipment employed by LZ in 1968, to make their second album, Lez Zeppelin I. They can pull off the theremin solo on Whole Lotta Love with the skilful, preening show(wo)manship of true pros, but don't call them a tribute act: they prefer to think of themselves as a "she-incarnation" of rock's most hallowed foursome.

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Judas Priestess

Guitarist D Mercedes spent two years choogling in the all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band Girls Girls Girls! before beginning this homage act in 2009, with co-founder and NYC punk legend Gyda Gash. Priestess match their heroes riff for epic riff, and have the official endorsement of follically challenged rock god Rob Halford himself. As journalist Laina Dawes has investigated in her 2012 book What Are You Doing Here?, women of colour have been especially marginalised by heavy metal's hyper-masculine, white-dude culture. Nevertheless, Priestess front-woman MilitiA – who writes for AFROPUNK.com and has fronted Dee "Twisted Sister" Snider's rock opera, Van Helsing's Curse – is a charismatic, badass vocalist capable of commanding any stage.

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Vag Halen

Thought feminist rockers were all po-faced, prudish killjoys? Check out Vag Halen and consider yourself schooled. Despite their Eddie V-referencing moniker, this queer, feminist troupe from Toronto are too capricious to pledge allegiance to any one, specific band of yore, and "muff dive" (rather than Jump) into a repertoire of cock-rock classics at their rowdy, lesbian-populated shows, while lascivious, semi-nude frontwoman Vanessa Dunn delivers rock's most revered, straight-man standards with sapphic gusto; you will never listen to that chorus on Clapton's Leila in the same way again.

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Misstallica

This smart Philadelphia quartet originally started out as Queen Diamond, a King Diamond tribute act, but a passion for 80s thrash metal saw them evolving into a whiplash-inducing Metallica tribute, fronted by dexterous shredder Gina Gleason. Gleason could beat James Hetfield in a growl-off, and with fret skills to match a young Jennifer Batten, she was a natural choice for Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson ONE production. Fans worried they will be subjected to numbers from the much-malignedSt Anger album – or worse, that Lou Reed collaboration Lulu – are in safe hands at a Misstallica show: they have a strict first-four-albums-only policy and refuse to play anything Ulrich and co recorded after 1988's … And Justice For All.

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Iron Maidens

Iron Maidens are a quintet of heavy-metal femmes hailing from Los Angeles. Their credo? Bring your daughters to the slaughter, of course. Fronted by Kirsten "Bruce Chickinson" Rosenberg and powered by Courtney "Adriana Smith" Cox and Nita "Mega Murray" Strauss's duelling guitars, the band have opened for the mighty Kiss, played a storming rendition of The Trooper to a 40,000-strong audience at Venezuela's heavy metal Gillmanfest and picked up a clutch of industry accolades, including wins at the LA music awards.

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AC/DShe

San Francisco's AC/DShe are out to shake you all night long. They have been around since 1997, honing AC/DC's Bon Scott-era oeuvre with a skill that has earned them support slots for Pat Benatar, Cheap Trick and Girlschool. Angus Young's schoolboy uniform is iconic garb in the world of rock apparel, but AC/DShe's lead axewoman Pamela Ausejo sports that blazer-and-shorts combo with just as much finesse, and can match Young's wild solos note for note to boot. "Our ultimate goal," says vocalist Amy Ward – who boasts an uncannily Scott-like timbre and gargantuan lungpower – "is to spread the gospel of AC/DC". For those about to rock to AC/DShe, we salute you.

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The Ramonas

The Ramonas are Cloey, Margy, Rohnny & Pee Pee Ramona, London's all-gal answer to punk's most revered and influential forefathers. The band began in 2004 at the behest of Clare Pproduct (of 

), who boasts the distinction of playing bass in Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg. They turned out a strong set at Manchester's Mockfest earlier this month and are on the line-up for BlackpoolRebellion festival this August.
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The problem with decade markers is that they're arbitrary. If I could pick '1977-1987' as a decade, I'd probably do that:

I agree. Except that for me it would be 1965 - 1975.

1965 to 1975 is the exact time frame I'd pick
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Definitely the 80s for me with Live Aid.

 

Was and still am a big Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw, U2 and Blondie fan.

 

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Sorry but just couldn't resist another on the American side of Live Aid. Just a bloody great song. Benjamin Orr sadly no longer with us.

 

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Definitely the 80s for me with Live Aid.

 

Was and still am a big Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw, U2 and Blondie fan.

 

 

Quite like Spandau Ballett myself, saw them at the Odeon,

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Talking of the american live aid back in the 80 have any sabbath or zeppelin fans saw the footage of both bands performing at that event? How the mighty had fallen, zeppelin sounded awful and sabbath looked awful, wernt a great display by either band but it was all for a good caurse so can't complain, just seeing both bands together on stage was a miracle, zep were minus their late drummer bonham so some people might say it wernt really zeppelin

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