If I had to choose one decade for my musical enjoyment, with all others forsaken, I think I'd take the 40s - there's almost nothing about the era's sounds I don't enjoy, and even the noveity numbers don't get under my gums. (Much.) It's purely a matter of taste, of course; you can't say that the worst band of the 40s had better instrumental skills than 98% of the rock bands, but - no, wait, that's not correct, You can say that, because it's true, but you shouldn't say it, because that doesn't mean the music of the worst 40s band was better than the top 5% of the psychodelic era because -

Well, no, you can say that, because it's objectively true.

Sorry. Not really, though. I mean, not sorry at all.