decades of music

50's-rock & roll, country, blues
most important musician: Elvis Presley & Buddy Holly

start of rock and roll with elvis as the main rocker and buddy holly taking his place later it was a little country with blues on electric guitars but older audiences listened to country because rock & roll seemed satanic

60's-psycadelic rock, folk rock, southern rock
most important musician: John Lennon & Bob Dylan

the rise of many of the greatest guitarists ever and the beatles came to america and changed the world everybody started rebelling against the government and lots of kids looked up to Bob Dylan for his music

70's-punk, heavy metal, funk, disco
most important musician: jimmy paige

heavy metal appeared and scared many people like black sabbeth people dressed funky and went to skating rings and listened to disco hair metal arised with such bands like aerosmith and kiss later the youth began to see that peace wasent being done and thought we should be more aggressive about it changing kids into punks by the end of the decade

80's-new wave, hair metal, hip-hop, rap, thrash metal
most important musician:eddie van halen

new wave became popular and set many trends for the decade kids were more rebelious and an important metal was made called thrash metal with such bands as metallica slayer and megadeth also hip-hop started and break dancing was cool and so was rapping about politics

90's-grunge, pop, gangstah rap, trance
most important musician: Kurt Cobain & Maynard Keenan & tu-pac

grunge became very popular with its moany distorted sound because it spoke to alot of people until Kurt Cobain died also trance was popular for a while with its trippy techno sounds but soon died out rap became more aggressive and demanding more about sex drugs and killing people great bands emerged here also like tool also pop became big with backstreet boys and brittney spears

00's-screamo, allternative rock, new wave rap, r&b, nu metal, electronica, pop
most important musician: eminem?

just more allternative rock bands like lincoln park became mainstream nu metal became cool like system of a down and slipknot the mainstream music wasent really rock instead it was more new wave rap and electronica screamo was also popularized somehow ^_^ it scares many people but others enjoy it many of the few modern punk kids were emo and hated life being punk was NOT cool also pop is still around and hasent changed from the 90's most rock isent very good mainstream this decade it lacks genious...

10's-dubstep? whats next

any additions or corrections?
and what do you think will happen this new decade?

 

I definitely don't think Gene Simmons was the most important musician of the 80's, especially given the fact Kiss ruled the 70's.

 

Your time scale seems to be a little off.
Metallica's thrash era was in the 80's.
kiss had their best work in the 70's.

 

And Ozzy Osbourne wasn't really a musician nor was he really important, considering Black Sabbath had many other successful vocalists. Tony Iommi was the key to the band.

For 60s I would probably list Dylan over Lennon, but that's just personal taste - both were pretty important.

 

you forgot the whole indie movement in the 2000s. all the music you listed from the 2000s sucked, but there have been a lot of good indie bands to come out in the last several years.

 

indie rock is allternative rock just with a different name grunge is allternative exept it had gotten famous and more reconition plus grunge is more metal than rock allternative is 2 or more styles of something mixed together for example (heavy metal+punk=grunge) so yeah i listed it all

 

nice list except the gene simmons part.

 

all i can say for the 2010s is: pop, pop-like house (for example the new black eyed peas song and deadmau5), dubstep maybe, alternative/indie bands (that's not going anywhere for a while), electronica (same as previous), rnb, and more

im not into rock anymore so idk wtf is goin on with it. i wouldnt call linkin park alternative though.

 

so who should be the 00's 70's 80's musicians? and r&b will get added to 00's and dubstep can go in 10's its gonna get big... my friend showed me a few weeks ago

 

Most important Musicians:
60's: Jimi Hendrix
70's: Jimmy Page
80's: Eddie Van Halen
90's: Kurt Cobain
00's: Thom Yorke


Dubstep is already big and super trendy for a genre that's not really on the radio, also I've noticed some who swear by dubstep don't even really know what it is.

 

that is because dubstep is relativlly new and is just going mainstream to be honest and it is about to turn 2011 so dubstep will be mainstream in the 10's and jimi hendrix was important buut he deffenatlly dosent beat dylan or lennon...

 

well I play guitar so I have some bias there, id probably go for Lennon over Dylan then.

 

i think dubstep has a future in the next decade because it provides a new platform for rappers and hip-hop people to go to cuz arent those genres kinda in decline now?
Lil' Jon has appeared in numerous dnb songs as is and appeared at EDC with Afrojack. i think that may indicate some movement.

and there is a large segment of a radio station where i'm at that plays dubstep. so i've heard it on the radio.

also, britney spears has a dubstep song on her last album. that must indicate something too right? haha

 

i play bass guitar and lennon was a super important guy in history period without him guys wouldent even have long hair in america but dylan was the most... looked up to i guess you could say

 

Dp

 

its just new rave music... i could care less to be honest... trance was the best even without words it makes me trip without weed

 

Yes that dubstep sucks LOL

 

yeah that dubstep is whack, but dont all genres get whack when they get popular? what will happen with dubstep is probably what happened to rap, and rock. still, it'll probably be known for being in this next decade.

psshhhh
wrong and wrong.

 

meh... trance is still the best beats around no dought and i think the 10's will be a grunge revival

 

You prefer vocal trance?