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Greatest Post WW2 Decade of Country Music
YellowSnow
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Greatest Post WW2 Decade of Country Music 13 votes
1950's
15%
2 votes
1960's
7%
1 vote
1970's
23%
3 votes
1980's
0%
1990s
46%
6 votes
2000's
7%
1 vote
2010's
0%
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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
The 70s were the greatest music decade
The 80s owned movies
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 !!!
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.
Pretty sure country had a rise and fall that timed well with the decade that America cared about NASCAR.
Dale Earnhardt the day the music died
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
What song are we talking about here? Whitney Houston?
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.
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.
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 …
Peak King George is the 80s, rather easily.
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.
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.