Originally Posted by LaVieEnRose:
“There must have been something you liked. Surely?”
out of all the styles that ive lived through since merseybeat, the 70's FOR ME had the weakest. punk was probably me fav style, but most of that holds nothing for me now. of course there was kate bush, new wave, and some decent folk/folk rock .
Originally Posted by scrilla:
“People will rate a particular era because of what they like from it and not what they didn't though. The truly great music (subjective) will more than compensate for all the dreck that is around. The frustration will be that everywhere you go, you get to hear the garbage - and so, so frequently.”
the point from my pov though is that there was more musical styles i really really hated which outweighed the music i did, and the music i did like fares unfavourably to tracks i liked from other decades / eras.
i did an exercise about 8 years ago, one winter (seasonal worker) as i had time. i went through each year from 1960 and rated each new track to chart (top 40). unsurprisingly the mid 60's dominated my fav years, and my fav tracks. the 70's were pitifully low in both fav years (by points) and fav tracks (by points).
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“I don't think you like Soul music though: you've stated that you prefer Dusty Springfield to Aretha Franklin and I think you may have also claimed that 1960's British R&B is better than the original US version. Could be wrong on that last one.”
yep i prefer dusty to aretha, but i did say aretha was the queen of soul over dusty. the point with soul/black music is that it went through marked style changes from the 60's to the 70's. look at the difference between black groups 60's - 4 tops, temptations (ok they spanned the 2 decades) , smokey robinson and the miracles, supremes, martha and the vandellas, compared to the three degrees, chi lites, stylistics, moments, real thing, sweet sensation, tams etc ... i love 60's motown, great, solid, gutsy music set to a great dance beat.... totally superior to the wet sugary crap peddled by caberet artists in the 70's.
solo artists?.... arthur conley, otis redding, wilson picket, any day over 70's al green, barry shite, marvin gaye (ok i understand not everyone will agree on this as that music wasnt all bad (apart from barry shite) it just wasnt my taste).
stevie wonder highlights this difference best - loved his pre 1970 material - disliked his post 1970 material.
yes, i prefered the anglicised version of r n b, the yardbirds are my fav group ever. we took a lot of american styles and made them our own, british r n b spoke to me in a way american r n b didnt. british acts created a version that i could connect too - for me it had soul.
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“Also decades will throw forth far more music than we ever get to hear at the time. I'm still busy buying old music that I would never have been able to hear when it was released. The sheer amount of past wonders that I'm still being exposed to can contribute to shaping my views on previous musical eras.”
true - but if you didnt like the general styles and production techniques, you will be less inclined to try that period for lost gems.
and this point you raise is exactly why im doing the 'rare 60's classics ' thread
Originally Posted by
moonlily:
“There was Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, Curved Air,David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Joni Mitchell
……..and Barry White
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the only artist i liked there wasnt the solo act!
detested barry shite - its claimed that more babies have been concieved by couples listening to his music then anyone else..... i can think of nothing more likely to give me the droop then listening to that fat sluggard grumbling away in his sleazy style :vomits:
Originally Posted by Superwomble:
“I feel sorry for you with such an enormous chip. Most of the things here you hate, I love. For me the 70s was the greatest era of music. I never condemned any decade as being all bad, the one thing I loved about the 70s was the massive variety it brought. I never was a big fan of the 80s, but there was some great stuff there too and I wouldnt condemn a whole decade of music just because there were aspects of it I didnt like.”
i didnt condemn the whole decade, i said its my least favourite and certainly wouldnt want to be back there because for me it was my least favourite musically. you must have a least favoured decade.... mines the 70's.