Around what decade does music start losing quality?

Answer 1

There was an orgasm of a new music between '67 and '76.

After that, corporations started putting out CRAP, because they realized

most people are tone deaf, and profit is easy pandering garbage to the insensible.

Answer 2

after the mid 90's it started to deteriorate.

Answer 3

EXACTLY in the early-mid 90's, with some wiggle room depending.

Around 1993 or 1994, The corruptive production of music started becoming pretty obvious in terms of the relative decibel volume.  Before the over-remastering of older albums, you could play a CD of a new artist and an old artist and never change the volume and hear the new artist's song(s) were much louder with fewer instruments and much less variation in the musical phrases.  

It's called the Loudness War.  Any producer that says they don't have to deal with that is not a real producer.  There might have been many other degradations in music before and after those years, but that one phenomenon is pretty significant over everything else.

Answer 4

The late 80s/early 90s.

Answer 5

Don't blame music for the death of your corrupted industry, heathen. It's doing just fine. Find some!

Answer 6

Whichever decade you turn 30 in.

Answer 7

Poor quality fades fast, and good quality lasts forever.  We have a live performance planned where we will perform works that were written this year - and DH will play some Scarlatti works that were written 500 years ago, and are still jaw-dropping gorgeous and inventive.  People's taste will change, and everyone has their favorites, and things that leave them cold.  It's a big planet with a long history - there is room for us all.  POPULAR music is destined to be temporary, with the exception of some works in each decade - not even each year - that rise above the morass of witless Katy Perry/Taylor Swift/green-hair garbage that is not that good now, and stone cold - not soon enough.  It's not contemporary - just temporary.

Answer 8

I would say the 1960's. 

Answer 9

At the beginning of the 1990's.

Answer 10

It's all down to personal taste and what genres you listen to, for me personally being mainly into Rock and Pop I think the 90's.  Alternative Rock darlings like REM and Nirvana signing to major labels and being endorsed by MTV and in general record companies being more interested in legacy acts and reissues and no longer taking risks or investing in talent.