> As someone unburdened by nostalgia, my evaluation of “the best decade in music” is somewhat different from the choices made by more “normal” people. If we’re truly attempting to identify the decade during which the greatest quantity of beloved and enduring music was composed, I believe that to be the 1820s.
> greatest quantity
> two composers and roughly two dozens of works
Mate. I won't even go into how Schubert is vastly overrated (unlike Beethoven who is both overrated and underrated) but this doesn't make a good point.
Personally, as someone very much into extreme/superlative music - "weird" metal, zeuhl, no wave, post-hardcore, industrial, "new wave" (gothic rock, cold/dark/ethereal wave, alt rock, 4AD) but also romantic music, city pop and eurobeat - 85-00 was the peak of sensible experimentation, both in quantity and quality.
> greatest quantity
> two composers and roughly two dozens of works
Mate. I won't even go into how Schubert is vastly overrated (unlike Beethoven who is both overrated and underrated) but this doesn't make a good point.
Personally, as someone very much into extreme/superlative music - "weird" metal, zeuhl, no wave, post-hardcore, industrial, "new wave" (gothic rock, cold/dark/ethereal wave, alt rock, 4AD) but also romantic music, city pop and eurobeat - 85-00 was the peak of sensible experimentation, both in quantity and quality.