The music from the good decades

The music from the 60s is still popular today. It reflects a lot upon the times, like I mentioned about all music in the introduction. Yes, many people associate it with those hippies who really did nothing with their lives but it was an important time in the history of the United States and all over. Many wars were going on and a lot of new music was coming out, new music that completely broke the rules and rewrote them back when our parents were growing up.

Some people would argue that the 60s was one of the last decades that talent actually existed in popular music. Some of the greatest songwriters of the last fifty years came out of this decade. Ray Charles and Elvis Presley were writing music. And while these old legends faded out towards the end of the decade, new talent emerged with artists such as Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin came out. The beach boys were still going and the Beatles were in full force at the end of the decade.

When we think about the sixties we generally think of the last few years, when everyone was being mesmerized by artists that shaped rock music as it would be for the next 40 years. A lot of music became highly political, with "rock stars" like Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles pushing their views into the ears of their millions of fans. This music, which was in part cool because of how much it was hated by the older generations, helped shape and was shaped by the identities of the "hippies" and the generation that was raised on this music. An acceptable drug culture also rose out of the 60s, Jimi Hendrix is still an icon for his music as well as his drug habits that ended up killing him.

The 70s carried on what the late sixties had started, and the music stayed with the policital, drug-friendly culture. Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and many other artists who are still popular today emerged from this decade. A Beatles breakup happened almost inevitably, it was almost surreal how popular they were. Regardless all of the members went on to successful solo careers.

The 80s were a little different, with the advent of weird, new sounds that came from new combinations of electricity and instruments. Newer styles came out, and new kinds of music became popular. Rock'n'roll was no longer the king. The rock became more simple, and more "hard" with bands like Metallica being born. Pop music, with artists like Price and Michael Jackson coming out, and the development of Hip-hop with artists such as Run-DMC.

The point of this rant about old music is that each decade's music reflects the people that were living in it. The 70s were trying to keep up what the 60s started politically and socially, and did so successfully. The 80s was a completely new generation that wanted to do things different, and all kinds of different Americans emerged from that decade with "terrible" fashion and some pretty different music style.

Tomorrow, the 90's until today!