Thread: Pick the 30 year slot which you feel had the best music

poll coming

Damn accidentally kept poll anonymous

The best era is not listed in the poll, which is 3000 to 3030.

I picked 1551 - 1580.

"ALAS MY LOVE YOU DO ME FROM BEHIND AND **** ME OFF DISCOURTIOUSLY
GREEEENSLEEEEEVES!"

1701-1730

Bach won for me.

What if my desired 30 years goes from the middle of one of yours to the middle of the next?

Wait a minute! All those thirty year chunks had really interesting music in them. And some really awful music, too, I suppose I should add.

But there's no "All" (or banana) option.

Anyway, since inevitably the music in any given chunk is different from that in many, most, or all of the other chunks, it is conceptually impossible to assign "best" to any of them.

I tend to spend most of my listening time in the last twenty years (only half of which is on this chart), but I still wouldn't choose that as "the best." I like the approach articulated here, in a novel by George MacDonald, a conversation between a raven and the main character:

Vane: "Am I wrong in presuming that a man is superior to a bird?"

Raven: "That is as it may be. We do not waste our intellects in generalizing, but take man or bird as we find him."

There is a similar thread here.

On key difference between the two threads- the one linked asked for "favorite," the one here asked for "best."

I voted 1850-1880, a certain German opera composer's mature years...

Originally Posted by some guy

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But there's no "All" (or banana) option...

Speaking of which, Elvis Presley, King of Rock n'roll, loved to eat fried banana sandwiches, so correspondingly I voted 1941-1970, his years of peak activity.

If I would have been serious, I would have voted when Beethoven's late string quartets were written, but I think Beethoven is like the Classical God & Elvis is the Rock God, so what's the difference? (apart from the very important fried banana sandwiches!)...

Originally Posted by Couchie

I voted 1850-1880, a certain German opera composer's mature years...

No clue... Meyerbeer?

Originally Posted by Trout

No clue... Meyerbeer?

My guess is he thinks Verdi was German.

1881-1910 - Mahler clinched it for me.

Wait a minute. Wagner had mature years?

^ Funny people are funny.