What decade paved the way for pop music today? Poll

Joe Jackson single-handedly paved the way for pop today

 

The details of my life are quite inconsequential...
very well, where do I begin?

My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.

My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I suggest you try it.

 

Clearly Zapp & Roger and the autotune is the answer...

 

I can pinpoint the exact day:

September 19, 1997: Auto-Tune is released

 

If we had hung out together in my younger days we’d both be dead…

 

Nah… I’m charming and lucky.

 

i dont think there is one single decade that paved the way for current music. its all building off itself. everything influences everything that comes after it in some way. you wouldnt have had 60's music w/out the 50's and you wouldnt have had 50's music w/out the 40's.

without the carter family there would be no rascal flats
without chuck berry there would be no buck cherry
without robert johnson there would be no greata van fleet

 

The 80s. The Yuppies won and took over the world because we're all indifferent.

 

We didn’t all lose.

 

Very true - I would add..

without Sister Rosetta Thorpe..there would be no Chuck Berry