Re: GRCade Decides: Best Decade
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:22 pm
Mommy Christmas wrote:ftfy. It's a poll. People get excited and panic.
And that's why we've had 14 years of Tory rule.
And that's why we've had 14 years of Tory rule.
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And that's why we've had 14 years of Tory rule.
Re: GRCade Decides: Best Decade
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:08 am
Outrunner wrote: I can't vote for a decade that opened with Manics.
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Re: GRCade Decides: Best Decade
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:13 am
They are gooseberry fool though.
Re: GRCade Decides: Best Decade
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:23 am
The Manics are class, are you having a laugh?
Re: GRCade Decides: Best Decade
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:26 am
Tomous wrote:The Manics are class, are you having a laugh?
It's far easier to list the bands Ad7 likes.
Re: GRCade Decides: Best Decade
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:27 am
Moggy wrote:Tomous wrote:The Manics are class, are you having a laugh?
It's far easier to list the bands Ad7 likes.
Don't forget wings!
Re: GRCade Decides: Best Decade
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:33 am
Victor Mildew wrote:Moggy wrote:Tomous wrote:The Manics are class, are you having a laugh?
It's far easier to list the bands Ad7 likes.
Don't forget wings!
I don't care about your sanitary towels.
Re: GRCade Decides: Best Decade
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:38 am
Re: GRCade Decides: Best Decade
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:08 am
Tomous wrote:The Manics are class, are you having a laugh?
I guess Ad must be the mass.
Re: GRCade Decides: Best Decade
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:25 am
If You Tolerate Wings, Then The Beatles Will Be Next
Re: GRCade Decides: Best Decade
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:35 am
After all of the arguing about which decade is best, I decided to put it to the test. Which meant listening to every single UK number 1 and rating them out of 100.
The results are now in and I can confirm that the average score per decade are as follows:
1950s: 66
1960s: 72
1970s: 73
1980s: 73
1990s: 72
2000s: 69
2010s: 64
2020s*: 68
*to date
I am the anti-Jawa and tend to score quite highly. For a song to get less than 60 means I pretty much hated it - strawberry float you Crazy Frog, strawberry float you. I also scored double A sides and EPs as one package, I did listen to it all though.
The 50s were not great. Lots of very samey sounding easy listening/showtunes type of song. Not bad as such, just not really for me.
There's not much separating the 60s,70s,80s and 90s. Some fantastic music but with some real horrors (Grandma, Blobby, Glitter
).
The 2000s started ok and there was some great stuff there. But music was headed in a Simon Cowell direction and the decade got worse and worse as it went on.
The 2010s were awful though.
The 2020s are (so far) a huge improvement on the 2010s. But it's a long way behind the glory days of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
So there you go, a fully scientific answer to the best decades based on the quality of their number 1 singles.
The results are now in and I can confirm that the average score per decade are as follows:
1950s: 66
1960s: 72
1970s: 73
1980s: 73
1990s: 72
2000s: 69
2010s: 64
2020s*: 68
*to date
I am the anti-Jawa and tend to score quite highly. For a song to get less than 60 means I pretty much hated it - strawberry float you Crazy Frog, strawberry float you. I also scored double A sides and EPs as one package, I did listen to it all though.
The 50s were not great. Lots of very samey sounding easy listening/showtunes type of song. Not bad as such, just not really for me.
There's not much separating the 60s,70s,80s and 90s. Some fantastic music but with some real horrors (Grandma, Blobby, Glitter
).The 2000s started ok and there was some great stuff there. But music was headed in a Simon Cowell direction and the decade got worse and worse as it went on.
The 2010s were awful though.
The 2020s are (so far) a huge improvement on the 2010s. But it's a long way behind the glory days of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
So there you go, a fully scientific answer to the best decades based on the quality of their number 1 singles.