This is basically a thread to ask opinions on what you out there think were the greatest continuous ten year periods for various popular musical genres (i.e. rock, pop, rap, country, alternative, jazz, blues, etc.).

Golden Age Of Metal: 1979-1989, the era spanning NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) to the shred years.

NWOBHM: Motorhead, Diamond Head, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Girlschool, Angel Witch, Saxon, and of course, Iron Maiden. Judas Priest were tied in to it, tentatively, and so were even Def Leppard. NWOBHM is credited with spawning the thrash movement in America. At the end of the 70's, legendary bands of the "first tier" of metal such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin were considered dead and irrelevant in the wake of the punk scene, which itself died in England. However, young musicians took the streetwise, raw approach of the punk scene and transformed it into a vibrant form of music whose influence would be felt for years all over.

Shred: Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Megadeth, Michael Angelo Batio, Reb Beach, Ritchie Kotzen, Extreme, Jason Becker, and Racer X, whose guitarist Paul Gilbert went on to form Mr. Big with stellar bassist Billy Sheehan. Mostly known for the the technically adept guitarists in each band, while many of them had solo careers with specialty albums on such labels as Shrapnel. The downside of this was that these guitarists, while remaining stellar artists, were guilty of "too much of a good thing", sacrificing the ability to communicate musical ideas with good songwriting for the sake of impressing audiences with fretboard antics.

1980 to 1989

1990 to 1999

2000 to 2009

Sorry I don’t have a 10 year span