Name an act whose work best sums up a musical decade

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 . . .)

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.)

70s: George Clinton
80s: Prince

'00s - girl talk, duh

Caribou really encapsulates something about the 00s for me,

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

I think my possible answers for the 2000s are P!nk, solo Gwen Stefani, and The Black Eyed Peas.

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.

One song for the '70s: "Surrender."

One for the 90's: "Super Bon Bon"

peter gabriel covered some ground in the 80s

a VERY small-scale mid-'90s one could be Madder Rose

50s miles davis
60s miles davis
70s miles davis

the man who sold the world to scary monsters is pretty amazing when you think about it. that's a whole lotta decade.

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.

The latter was my intention, but whatever, have a party.

post correction: grey lagoons not grey gardens

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.

i dunno, nothing sums up the 60's more than Revolver to me.

^ yup

idk james brown kinda summed up the 60s with a single song, "papa's got a brand new bag"

robert palmer forecast/mirrored mid 70s to 90 as well as you could, but i don't know that he sums up?

"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.

Also, the sixties were the decade where men started carrying handbags.

håndtaske is danish for handbag

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/80/b3/fc/80b3fc620bbe8371fe4b2933a5838fc0--cale-the-velvet-underground.jpg

håndtaske is danish for handbag

― 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.

idk james brown kinda summed up the 60s with a single song, "papa's got a brand new bag"

― fact checking cuz, Friday, January 5, 2018 5:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hell yes. would vote for JB.

Alanis Morisette for the 90s.

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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

The Cure

Kanye nails the second half of the 00s imo.

Honestly all of the aughts, especially if you include production work

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― clemenza, Sunday, January 7, 2018 3:45 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mm i'm going to go with "cellularly"

xp Kanye absolutely defines all of the 00s

Look at producers

1990-1995: Spin Doctors

The entire '90s are obviously contained within Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe.

20s: Louis Armstrong's Hot Five & Hot Seven

90s definitely some risible dance/heavy rock crossover like Apollo 440's 'Ain't Talking About Dub'.

Crap thread.