Poll: 60's Music

[trooper6]

I'll go with The Supremes....hm...or maybe Martha and the Vandellas who are also awesome.

By the way:

The Shangri-Las, definitely. In terms of the amount of lyrical scope a person can shoehorn into a love song no other music from the 60s came close, they did pacy stuff too but were unusual in that they were at their best doing the ballads. Foreshadowing current trends in metalcore by several decades, not even Bob Dylan attempted anything as emotionally bare as this (and if he did, it would have just been whiny and annoying until someone else covered it, as per usual):

*snip*

BonsaiK, you are awesome.

I find it quite tiresome when people boil down the entire 60s to music that collegiate white dudes thought was best. Ignoring all of soul and R&B that was happening in the 60s (Aretha Franklin at Atlantic, Otis Redding at Stax, Motown!), the Jazz (hello Miles Davis!), the Country and Western (Loretta Lynn), Swinging Jazz Singers (some of Sinatra's best stuff, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Betty Carter)

Yeah. The entire 60s was not the British Invasion and the Psychedelia.

 

[Amberella]

I just love all 60's music! But I had to go with The Beatles! xD

In fact, I tend to listen to the oldies more than I do with today's music.

 

[BreakfastMan]

I actually love and still listen to both the Stones and the Beatles still (both have some awesome songs), but if I had to choose, I would go with the Beatles in the end. They simply have more songs that I like that the Stones.

 

[Cowabungaa]

While I like The Beatles and especially The Rolling Stones, I love the 60's a lot more for it's jazz and soul, the likes of
and

 

[BlindMessiah94]

You've completely overlooked Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Band, Velvet Underground, and early, extremely psychadellic Pink Floyd. All of which I listen to more than the Beatles and the Rolling Stones put together, nothing against them, of course.

This.
OP basically named like 5 bands from the 60's. It would be like me looking back on the 80's and saying

"It was pretty much just Michael Jackson and Abba".

There was also all the entire soul genre in the 60's which was awesome. So there was a wide variety of great artists to choose from, just like any other decade of music. Variety is everywhere!

[small]just not on the radio[/small]

 

[Zykon TheLich]

I'll have to go for the Stones, don't really like the Beatles. I quite like Joan Baez but IDK if that's really "60's".

These guys:

Hmmm... nice.

 

[irequirefood]

I don't really listen to any 60's stuff, but one of the few albums I love that was incredibly late 60's is In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson. It's just such an amazing album

 

[dinnerordie17]

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[DVS Storm]

There were a lot of really awesome bands in the 60's imo. My absolute favorites are Jimi Hendrix and The Doors. Also Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who.

 

[Biodeamon]

I don't really listen to music from the 60's. I like music from the 50's more.

 

[Sangreal Gothcraft]

this question is just to hard....Could throw in the the whole 60's scene was quite good.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I nominate Buddy Guy.

Then.
Now.
74 and still a badass.

 

[gyroscopeboy]

No Roy Orbison? What gives, guys!

Roy Orbison fucking OWNS!