Greatest Post WW2 Decade of Country Music
Greatest Post WW2 Decade of Country Music 13 votes
2 votes
1 vote
3 votes
6 votes
1 vote
Comments
-
1990s
Besides like Hank Jr and Waylon it was the only generation I enjoyed. Probably because my bus driver listened to it nonstop and eventually it grew on me
-
1970's
The 70s were the greatest music decade
The 80s owned movies
-
1970's
60s and 70s are pretty close in my view for country in overall greatness. So many classic country singles in the 60s. But the albums that Waylon, Dolly, Jerry Jeff, Hank Jr, Willie, etc, pulled off in the 70s were so cohesive and all killer, no filler. I can't vote against that era.
I used to be 60s were the greatest rock decade guy, but I'm pretty much a coin flip now between 60s and 70s and depends upon the day and my mood. Fuck the Beatles @RaceBannon !!!
-
1970's
My Dad played the shit out of Garth on our family road trips in the early 90s. I think this ruined it for me.
Frens in low places is the Sweet Caroline of cuntry music.
-
1990s
Pretty sure country had a rise and fall that timed well with the decade that America cared about NASCAR.
-
1970's
Dale Earnhardt the day the music died
-
1990s
I don’t hate Garth. But yes I feel your pain. That song is fucked out to no end. I don’t think I’d put him in my top 10 of 90s country artist for me personally.
-
1970's
I took a flyer once on Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison back in the mid 90s. Walked over to Tower on the Ave to buy it.
Any interest I had in "new" country died at that point.
-
1990s
I'm proud of you Pisser for putting the proper person fronting your poll graphic …
When you were talking about the 70s in another thread and you weren't including Dolly as an original I was about to drive myself down to Bend and smack some sense back into you
I'm not sure that there's anybody more original than Dolly
-
1970's
Dolly is great. Better than Whitney at the song she fucking wrote. Although your 90s vote should have disqualified you from running a cuntry bracket around here. Christ.
-
1970's
Better than Whitney? No fucking way.
Completely different than Whitney? Absolutely and a great song by Dolly.
-
Whitney’s version is iconic.
Dollys version is a demo tape.A demo tape of that’s raked massive royalties - on Whitney’s airplay.
-
1990s
What song are we talking about here? Whitney Houston?
-
1950's
Country Western music is one of my least favorite genres. However, I love these three artists and will listen to them any time
Patsy Cline
Hank Williams Sr
Hank Williams Jr
That’s it. It seems like the shelf life of a country western artist is a few years. Randy Travis was da bomb in 1989. Then he disappeared. Travis Tritt was everywhere and he seems gone. It seems like CW acts make the one big record and turn that into some sort of career longevity.
-
1960's
Ah, yellow, you were so close to actually getting it. The sixties ARE and will ALWAYS be the best decade for all music and any singular genre of music. There were several decent songs released in the 70s but it paled in comparison to the prior decade. And, yes, there are more than a few 70s songs on my playlist.
-
1990s
My vote goes to whatever decade that you view King George at the peak of King George
I defaulted to the 90s but you could easily go just as easily to the 80s or 00s …
-
1990s
-
1970's
Peak King George is the 80s, rather easily.
-
1970's
Well @EwaDawg as usual, I'll default to argument by authority here. I've got pretty much every classic rock album from either decade (and many of the jazz, country and R&B/soul ones) in the Yella Snow collection of physical media, and I can make a strong argument either way. I think the period of 1965- 67 was the most ground breaking 2 year in pop history. But the 70s is unique in that you have 2 eras- i.e., peak AOR and the birth of punk/new wave. And the end result of that is you've got so many fucking all time albums in the 70s, the sheer volume of which trumps the 60's.
-
1970's
Yes, Whitney's version is iconic and great, but it's cliche to say it's better than Dolly's OG. I prefer the more subtle, angelic nature of Dolly's Appalachian pipes vs the over the top gospel ones of Whitney. Plus I like the backstory of how she wrote the song.
-
1950's
…while we are talking about Dolly. The single Jolene slowed do to 33 is pretty cool. Perhaps posted before, but I’m too lazy to search
-
1990s
Then change my vote to the 80s
-
1990s
Jolene is one of the most iconic songs ever IMO
-
1990s
Friends in Low Places - early 90. I think KMPS had a daily listener top 10 and a live version with an extra verse was number 1 for years. Garth Brooks had a best selling album sold exclusively at McDonalds for three months. I recall the local McDonalds, in Seattle, selling out. Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson, Faith Hill, Dixie Chix, Shania Twain, Sheryl Crow-ish and others. Careers of others like George Strait had some of their biggest hits, and attention and air play was paid to veterans like George Jones.
-
tough call all the way around on this one
being the hick I am, I actually record the Legends of Country on RFD channel. It is the original Country Show that became the Grand Ol' Opry. All of that is 50's. Hard to listen to the 50's all day long, a couple of hours is Otay as Buhwheat would say.
80's is when country went main stream, Jimmy Dean, Barbara Mandrel both had TV shows, HeeHaw was great. Lots of classic and a Texas influence.
90's about the same as the 80's. I did not listen to too much country back then but knew all the popular singers.
When I moved to Lebam in late 2000's the only radio stations I could get were country stations and they played popular stuff - So if I voted, the 2000's is what got me into listening to country, was it the best? Nah, but changed my music tastes the most.
-
1990s
I picked 90s largely due to greatest exposure to the music then. Family in Kansas, formative years, spent many summers on the farm doing farm work back in the days where cassette tapes and then CD players were the only way to have portable music. So I listened to a lot of radio, of which the options were country or farm news radio. "This is Paul Harvey. Stand by for NEWS!"
Country music makes a lot more sense and is a lot more enjoyable when you listen to it while driving around in a tractor in a field for hours and hours at a time.
I know the major artists but haven't ever listened to much country which was made per-1987.
