Better than your attempt. I explained the decades up there. Underrating 90's sucks, guys.

country became huge,

rock music was big as fuck

and heavy metal was at its best during 90's.

50's weren't that important at all. Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richards and people like them were surely groundbreakers but easily not as much as 60's, 70's and 80's showcased.

Yes and even huger in 90's.

Yes? It was fantastic back then and fucking huge.

OH... DEAR... GOD.... YES. Have you even heard 90's metal? Just because YOU don't like harsher screams doesn't take away its immense influence. 90's metal was fucking fantastic and groundbreaking as hell. There were fucking many different subgenres of it and it became mainstream music.

Yeah, and that is all that matters, eh? Just because few artist from 50's created rock and roll doesn't make this decade the best ever. 90's created lots of new genres too.

Brooks was one of the most popular country acts of all time. 90's country was usually musically worse but it was fucking HUGE when it came to albums and concert tickets sold.

And? My point is that 90's don't lose points for "not having huge rock music" because they do.

I'm basing my "metal was at its best in the 90's" on facts: there were LOTS more subgenres than in 80's and classic albums. Even older heavy metal giants like Judas Priest, Metallica and Megadeth created new classic albums. Metal sold more than ever and it was MUCH more varied with tons of different subgenres.

Yes, 80's created few new subgenres of metal but those waves can't even touch the popularity and impact of 90's metal. Death metal, groove metal, progressive metal and stuff like that were at their most popular and influental during early 90's.

Bands like Pantera and Metallica were the biggest bands out there at the moment. 90's was the definitive decade for metal rock music because of the huge impact, influence, reputation and the amount of classic songs and albums from that decade. 80's were the innovator-years but 90's were the definitive-years for metal.

Yes, they did influence groups. Still, influencing artists who are going to create even bigger impact alone isn't going to get all the points for that decade.

50's created rock and roll music. 90's popularized metal. 90's popularized rap. 90's created huge amount of subgenres, for example trip hop, groove metal, alternative metal and so on. 90's popularized alternative rock in general with bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Mudhoney and Screaming Trees getting colossal amounts of popularity and acclaim from rock fans. 90's also brought new stuff to the table like mixing of the genres: rap metal in style of Rage Against the Machine, mixing funk and rock, metal and softer music, etc. Then there were bands like Radiohead, who created huge critically acclaimed albums and made them to be some of the most popular acts out there. And then there were bands like Oasis, The Stone Roses, Blur, The Verve and Pulp who popularized britpop of late 90's which was fucking huge too. Oh, and how about the dance music of 90's? Primal Scream and peers brought that to immense popularity too. And how about Jeff Buckley? He popularized whole new singing style and brought his unique hybrid of alternative rock to the forefront incfluencing tons of artists. These things are just some points about HUGE 90's. They easily beat 80's and 50's when it comes to the whole affectation of culture and music.

And yet, the 50's made all of that POSSIBLE.

In terms if influence and importance of future music, I think the 60s is unbeatable atm.

Nope, not purely opinion. And are you forgetting metal classics like Rust in Peace, The Black Album, Cowboys from Hell, Meantime, Painkiller, Angel Dust, Rage Against the Machine, Countdown to Extinction, System of a Down, Symbolic, Alice in Chains, Dirt, Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, Antichrist Superstar, The Downward Spiral, No More Tears and Vulgar Display of Power?

Nirvana's impact was definitely in the same level with Elvis and Berry. They came out from nowhere and forever changed the history of music.

This logic makes absolutely NO sense. If this was the case, 20's would be the greatest decade of rock music because they made all of THAT possible.

I did not state that. I stated that they weren't as important as 90's were to music.

90's showcased MUCH more diversity and copious amount of genres and subgenres evolving and getting popularized. 50's created rock and roll, cool, but 90'a created tons of different movements and subgenres.

My dream list, for me the ultimate top 10...

1. Freddie Mercury
2. Elvis Presley
3. Robert Plant
4. Sam Cooke
5. Roy Orbison
6. Roger Daltrey
7. Ian Gillan
8. Jeff Buckley
9. Steve Perry
10. Jackie Wilson

I don't care if you don't like 90's but the music was far more innovative then than in 50's.