Do you all agree when Prince said the 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden ages of music?

@gochurchgo I agree that Prince was pretty damn overrated. He was just a Sly Stone wannabe in my eyes. I'm of a certain age to remember Sly And The Family Stone at their peak from 67-71 (I was born in 1959) and the way how Prince copied Sly is sad.

But Generation X grew up with Prince, they didn't live through Sly's era... Which is a shame for them because they have no idea what they missed regarding a prolific 60s band 

@tablejockey I doubt it. I mean... The 90s and 00s were terrible decades for music to be honest and it hasn't held up very well. 

@bluorion 

Remember when music of the 90s were sampling the old music of the 60s-80s?? That alone confirmed your point a long time ago that those 3 decades were still even alive since

@audioguy85 

Yes! 50s is definitely in there. Thought it was interesting when he didn't mention the 50s. But 50s-80s were the best era's for music

@tablejockey loool your comment regarding people considering rappers and Mariah Carey classics made me laugh. It reminded of Joni Mitchell's Taming The Tiger

@tyray 

Your comment shows your age. Probably some other GenX'er who wasn't alive during Sly and The Family Stone's heyday throughout the 60s - 71 

I'm willing to bet you believe this whole "27 instruments myth" that Prince could supposedly play right? Sorry to burst your bubble but it was all hype and to promote himself. 

Prince a song writing genius? All the man wrote were sexual lyrics, that's not some "songwriting genius" at all. Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder etc are song writing geniuses. 

"The person, musician that made Sly and The family Stone stand out was Larry Graham the bass player of the group. Not Sly. IMHO"

Well that's objectively false but I wouldn't expect a GenXer like yourself to know any better because you weren't even alive then. The band to this day praised Sly Stone for his contributions. 

Prince never had his own style. Prince copied Jimi Hendrix, Little Richard, James Brown, Sly and The Family Stone, Santana, Bowie and loads more... 

@tyray

Wrong. I notice not once in your post did you mention of actually going to any of Sly’s or Prince’s for that matter concerts? And yet you ’seem’ to know all about these guys.
Of course Prince praised Sly and The Family Stone. Is that supposed to be some golden cornel of knowledge you’re trying to impart to us here on Agon?
Prince for many years would have the entire horn and rhythm section of Sly and The Family Stone tour with his band. But you knew that already didn’t you, right?
Oh, and the stand out of Sly’s band was and still is, Larry Graham. The founding member of Graham Central Station, and one of the founding members of Sly and The Family Stone. Is that funky enough for you?
The bass licks from Larry Graham on the Stone albums to this day, have never been duplicated. Only Graham could/can make a Sly song sound like a Sly song. It’s just facts. Can I get a witness?

Well I did see Sly and The Family Stone live in the early 70s... Sadly never showed up and I never saw Prince during his peak in the 80s but going by your logic I have to see them to know about them? What a obtuse logic that is

Yet... Sly produced the records, wrote all the music, actually it was Freddie Stone and Sly Stone who were the founding members of the band, Sly Stone was actually the one who picked Larry Graham so where did you get that nonsense from? You're only hyping Larry Graham because of his work with Prince lol you're too obvious.

You weren’t even alive when Sly and The Family Stone were having top 10 hits between 1967-1971 during their peak so what would you honestly know? You shouldn’t be calling people a "troll" if you can’t refute anything that I have said since you were asking me and the other poster what made Prince "overrated" and gave some factaul reasons and then you ended up crying... You GenX’ers are soft.

@tyray you were born long before 67? Doubt it, your comments have said the exact opposite.

You’re really saying "really Sherlock" in reference to Sly being the one who picked Larry Graham... But you were wrong when you said Larry was "one of the founding members" for Sly and The Family Stone lol! You’ve already proven that you don’t know much about the band.

I’m done with 60s babies.

@tablejockey 

No my "flame suit" is perfectly cool down. It wasn't just my post that was removed. Funny how you didn't acknowledge that.

@speakmaster 

I think Stock Aiken Waterman caused a big decline in music to be honest... 

So far everyone agrees with Prince. Is a shame music just went downhill so badly in the 90s

Seriously guys, what went wrong with music after the 80s? Music was everything to us in the 50s-80s and after that really. It just started to fall apart, many music genres went downhill then tol