#7

60s - Beach Boys
70s - Joni Mitchell (/Bowie / Sparks)
80s - Feelies
90s - Outkast (/Pavement / Vic Chesnutt)
00s - Kanye
10s - Julia Holter

#8

60s - Beatles
70s - elvis costello /squeeze
80s - madonna
90s - weezer /pumpkins
00s - blood brothers
10s - fucked up

#9

60s - who cares it’s overrated
70s - springsteen
80s - kraftwerk
90s - maybe elliott smith
2000s - sun kil moon
2010s - sun kil moon

#10

1960s Velvet Underground
1970s Pink Floyd
1980s REM
1990s Aphex Twin
2000s Radiohead
2010s Arcade Fire

#11

Oh I get it now!

1960s - Miles Davis
1970s - Grateful Dead
1980s - Julian Cope
1990s - Radiohead
2000s - Boards of Canada
2010s - Animal Collective

Arsehole answers.

#12

60s - bob dylan
70s - kraftwerk
80s - sonic youth
90s - Fugazi
00s - sufjan stevens
10s - tiger crew

#13

1950s - Miles Davis
1960s - Bob Dylan
1970s - David Bowie
1980s - Joy Division/New Order (bit of a cheat)
1990s - Aphex Twin
2000s - MF Doom (all projects and aliases)
2010s - Joanna Newsom

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#14

50s - Bernard Herrmann
60s - Ennio Morricone
70s - Al Green
80s - R.E.M.
90s - Elliott Smith
00s - Electrelane
10s - Julia Holter

#15

60’s Bob Dylan
70’s Pink Floyd
80’s Talk Talk
90’s Nirvana
00’s Radiohead
10’s Swans

#16

30s Duke Ellington
40s Charlie Parker
50s Howlin’ Wolf
60s The Beatles
70s Brian Eno
80s Morrissey (Inc. The Smiths)
90s Cardiacs
00s Radiohead

#17

60s Velvet Underground
70s Neil Young
80s Go-Betweens
90s Nick Cave
00s Spoon
10s Joanna Newsom

Not as difficult as I thought… 70’s the hardest to call by far.
Can, Bowie, Iggy/Stooges, Stevie Wonder all worth consideration.

#18

Good thread!

50’s - Miles Davis
60’s - Bob Dylan
70’s - Bowie
80’s - Pixies
90’s - Weezer (or Pavement)
00’s - Brand New
10s - Kendrick (or all the Burial EP’s)

#19

60s - Dylan
70s - Neil Young
80s - Talking Heads
90s - Yo la Tengo
00s - Radiohead
10s - Nils Frahm

#20

v hard

60’s - beatles
70’s - can’t decide between kraftwerk or bowie
80’s Bernard sumner (thus getting me both versions of substance, closer & still from jd & prime era new order)
90’s the fall
then it gets v hard
2000’s would say the national as someone mentioned up thread, but that gives you the 1st four albums only
spoon is a v good shout but think i’ll go with Low
10’s - well let’s wait & see on that one

#21

80s - Prince
Every other decade - don’t know, basically just wanted to say that Prince’s decade in the 80s surpasses anyone else’s 10-year period in the history of recorded music.

#22

60s - Beatles (maybe idc really)
70s - Joni Mitchell
80s - REM
90s - Outkast
00s - Kanye
10s - Sufjan

#23

60s: Beatles (would also accept Velvets)
70s: Bowie (Ramones)
80s: Smiths (+ Morrissey solo?) (Nick Cave, Pixies)
90s: Magnetic Fields or Nick Cave
00s: The Mountain Goats
10s: Sun Kil Moon maybe. Or Nick Cave again.

00s easy. 60s and 70s lots of options. 80s and 90s harder to pin one down, and 10s I really don’t know. I’m obviously getting old.

#24

Really struggling with this. Apologies for all the runners up

60s- The Velvet Underground
70s- Bob Dylan (Roxy Music, solo Eno, Bowie, Iggy, Lou Reed)
80s- The Cure (Prince, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Kate Bush, New Order, Cocteau Twins, The Fall, Echo and the Bunnymen- very hard decade)
90s- Fugazi (Bjork, Aphex Twin, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Autechre, Kyuss)
00s- LCD Soundsystem (Joanna Newsom, Stars of the Lid, The Microphones)
10s- Not sure yet- great releases by Grouper, Andy Stott, Julia Holter, Colin Stetson, Ian William Craig

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#25

60s Arethra Franklin
70s Bowie
80s The Cure
90s Stone Roses
00s Arcade Fire
10s Chromatics (ASSUMING THIS 2 YEAR OVER-DUE FUCKING ALBUM COMES OUT BY THE END OF THE DECADE FFS)

#26

60s - Bob Dylan
70s - Leonard Cohen
80s - The Cure
90s - Manic Street Preachers
00s - Converge
10s - FKA Twigs (only one LP so far, but 3 brilliant EPs and the promise of something really special to come*)

*plus also damn don’t these lists get very white and male very quickly? I think music I love from the past always has less diversity than music I’m loving right now.