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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
People need to get more specific.
"music" has been around as long as humans had shit to hit for a beat and voices to hum with.
in my estimation, the best decade for music was whichever decade J.S. Bach was in top form. probably around the 1730's
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in that case some of my favorite music include Yared's hymn, a kind of Ethiopian drum chant which reached its perfection in the 1460s when it was performed by 3000 priests (TAKE THAT GLEN BRANCA!) for the coronation of Emperor Zara Yacob..
also the nyahbinghi drum which originates in Mali/Guinea which was brought to the Caribbean where the Rastafari culture has adopted it as our own chants, and it is mystical and ancient in feel. drum and chant are ancient music, even in Europe, however it is the Africans who preserved it, and even brought it into the back beat of rock n roll.
Chuck Berry is just an up tempo nyahbinghi, I know, I play them both.