zep / floyd / yes are all neatly contained in the '70s, either pretty much breaking up or broken altogether before the next decade really gets going. (though starting with drama (1980) trevor horn arguably defined the '80s . . .)
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 January 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
Bowie: singer-songwriter (more Anthony Newly than Jackson Browne...), glam (verging on metal? I'll let someone else make that call), Philly Soul, art/electronica/whatever, disco, new wave.
(I don't really get the Allman Brothers, YMP--weren't they as anchored in one genre, Southern Rock, as you could be? Unless Southern Rock chops up a few different ways.)
― clemenza, Friday, 5 January 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
70s: George Clinton80s: Prince
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 5 January 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
'00s - girl talk, duh
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 January 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
Caribou really encapsulates something about the 00s for me,
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 5 January 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
Okay, let's up the ante here: how about reducing it to a single song?
My '70s nomination:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPlSV5WmBfA
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Friday, 5 January 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
I think my possible answers for the 2000s are P!nk, solo Gwen Stefani, and The Black Eyed Peas.
― MarkoP, Friday, 5 January 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
Jay-Z is another one I thought of for the 2000s since he worked with a lot of producers whose sounds really defined that decade like Neptunes, Timbaland, Kanye West, Just Blaze, Eminem, and even put out an album with Linkin Park.
― MarkoP, Friday, 5 January 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
One song for the '70s: "Surrender."
― clemenza, Friday, 5 January 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
One for the 90's: "Super Bon Bon"
― frogbs, Friday, 5 January 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
peter gabriel covered some ground in the 80s
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 January 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
a VERY small-scale mid-'90s one could be Madder Rose
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 5 January 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
50s miles davis60s miles davis70s miles davis
― marcos, Friday, 5 January 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
the man who sold the world to scary monsters is pretty amazing when you think about it. that's a whole lotta decade.
― scott seward, Friday, 5 January 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
Is the question in this thread "which band had a sound most representative of that decade" or "or which band combined the most sounds of that decade in their output?" Because folks are doing both.
― Buttery males (Dan Peterson), Friday, 5 January 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
The latter was my intention, but whatever, have a party.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Friday, 5 January 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
post correction: grey lagoons not grey gardens
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 5 January 2018 21:32 (six years ago) link
The Monkees are pretty representative of the '60s. they did both the mainstream tv bubblegum pop thing and the psychedelic garage thing, oftentimes on the same records.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 5 January 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
i dunno, nothing sums up the 60's more than Revolver to me.
― akm, Friday, 5 January 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
^ yup
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
idk james brown kinda summed up the 60s with a single song, "papa's got a brand new bag"
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 January 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
robert palmer forecast/mirrored mid 70s to 90 as well as you could, but i don't know that he sums up?
― y'know, LIBS! libertarians, libertines, even liberians and librarians (Hunt3r), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
"papa's got a brand new bag"
i mean, i can hear the beatles and miles davis and the who and the four tops and the supremes and the shangri-las and bob dylan and so much more inside those two minutes.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 January 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
Also, the sixties were the decade where men started carrying handbags.
― Frederik B, Friday, 5 January 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
håndtaske is danish for handbag
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 January 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/80/b3/fc/80b3fc620bbe8371fe4b2933a5838fc0--cale-the-velvet-underground.jpg
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
― mookieproof, 5. januar 2018 23:57 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Earlier today I couldn't log on ilx for some reason, and I seriously thought that joke had gotten me 51'd... I was a bit drunk yesterday.
― Frederik B, Friday, 5 January 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Friday, January 5, 2018 5:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hell yes. would vote for JB.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link
Alanis Morisette for the 90s.
― MarkoP, Sunday, 7 January 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
That's a ____________ choice. (Fill in some word that never turns up in real conversation, just on an Alanis Morissette lyric sheet.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 January 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
I still believe the eighties were never more distilled down into one song/video more than in this example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIs5StN8J-0
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 7 January 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link
The Cure
― flappy bird, Sunday, 7 January 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
Kanye nails the second half of the 00s imo.
― austinb, Sunday, 7 January 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
Honestly all of the aughts, especially if you include production work
― austinb, Sunday, 7 January 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
― clemenza, Sunday, January 7, 2018 3:45 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
mm i'm going to go with "cellularly"
― budo jeru, Sunday, 7 January 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
xp Kanye absolutely defines all of the 00s
― flappy bird, Monday, 8 January 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
Look at producers
― flappy bird, Monday, 8 January 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
1990-1995: Spin Doctors
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 January 2018 01:24 (six years ago) link
The entire '90s are obviously contained within Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe.
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 8 January 2018 09:47 (six years ago) link
20s: Louis Armstrong's Hot Five & Hot Seven
― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 8 January 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
90s definitely some risible dance/heavy rock crossover like Apollo 440's 'Ain't Talking About Dub'.
― chap, Monday, 8 January 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
Crap thread.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link