Thursday, February 10, 2011

Poll: Favourite Decade?

I was looking around the Blogger settings the other day when I noticed that I could set-up a quick ad-hoc poll here on the site without much effort. In light of a recent topic discussed on CBC Radio3, I've put up a poll question for the month of February: if you could only listen to music from a single decade, what would it be? What is your favourite decade of music?

Now, as we found out during the R3 broadcast, the early favourites seem to be the 1970s and the 2000s, but you have to realize what you're giving up to choose any single decade. The Beatles recorded 99% of their material in the 1960s... Pink Floyd recorded (arguably) their best stuff during the 1970s... The Smiths put out all their material in the 1980s... so, as you can see, it might not be as much about what you like to listen to as it is what you couldn't live without hearing again. And, for those great artists or bands who have recorded over the span of multiple decades (e.g., Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones) make this sort of choice even harder!

So, if you've got a second, make a selection over there on the right (below the list of 'genres') and come back at the end of the month (if not sooner) and see how the results are shaping up!

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