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Makes you wish you were alive in the 70's
They had bowie and we have ed sheeran.
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Don't get too carried away there was a lot of dross in the 1970s, for just one example google chirpy chirpy cheep cheep.
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We will always have Bowie.
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the 70's is the last decade id like to re-visit.
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Don't get too carried away there was a lot of dross in the 1970s, for just one example google chirpy chirpy cheep cheep.
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What's wrong with Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep anyway?.
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the 70's is the last decade id like to re-visit.
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70s was my childhood.
Bowie Bolan Bay City Rollers Cassidy I unfortunately fell into the latter category. I did grow out of that though. ![]() Adore Bowie and Bolan now.
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As I have said before in the future the 70s will be recognised as the greatest decade for popular music - Glam, Prog, Funk, Disco, Punk, Electronic..... the 60s idealism tempered with a bit of 70s realism, perfect.
Bowie, Bolan, Roxy, Sex Pistols, Dr Feelgood, The Clash, Oldfield, Genesis, Eno, Numan, Wonder, Gaye, Blondie, Abba, Kate Bush, Siouxsie, Marley, Jackson, Kraftwerk, Donna Summer, Bee Gees, Earth, Wind and Fire....... I was lucky enough to live through it. |
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As I have said before in the future the 70s will be recognised as the greatest decade for popular music - Glam, Prog, Funk, Disco, Punk, Electronic..... the 60s idealism tempered with a bit of 70s realism, perfect.
Bowie, Bolan, Roxy, Sex Pistols, Dr Feelgood, The Clash, Oldfield, Genesis, Eno, Numan, Wonder, Gaye, Blondie, Abba, Kate Bush, Siouxsie, Marley, Jackson, Kraftwerk, Donna Summer, Bee Gees, Earth, Wind and Fire....... I was lucky enough to live through it. |
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I think the reason music started to be recorded in studio was so that it could be put out on a format that people could purchase and play for their repeated enjoyment. More people will own Bowie records than Ed Sheerin ones. They'll probably listen to them because they can. Quote:
As I have said before in the future the 70s will be recognised as the greatest decade for popular music - Glam, Prog, Funk, Disco, Punk, Electronic..... the 60s idealism tempered with a bit of 70s realism, perfect.
Bowie, Bolan, Roxy, Sex Pistols, Dr Feelgood, The Clash, Oldfield, Genesis, Eno, Numan, Wonder, Gaye, Blondie, Abba, Kate Bush, Siouxsie, Marley, Jackson, Kraftwerk, Donna Summer, Bee Gees, Earth, Wind and Fire....... I was lucky enough to live through it. Thought I'd get in early as this thread will inevitably transform into "a which decade was the best"-athon. The fifties were pretty great although I wasn't around as a witness.
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Really? I was happy until 1975, then I met a horrible bloke and it all went wrong, if it wasn't for that bloke , the seventies would be my favourite decade.
i dislike the 70's not so much for the lack of great music (imho) but for amount of utter shite... pop - chirpy chirpy cheep cheep, a bloody nursery rhyme! grandad , anything by our kid, nolans, dooleys, brotherhood of man or the faceless mid decade wet crap like sherbet, pilot, etc prog rock - bloody over produced, incoherent, jumble of random noises. sweet soul and philly - soul at its worst. caberet acts like the stylistics, and drifters singing about 'little girls' , awful dance routines like performing animals. glam rock - ok, there was some good stuff, but there was a lot of glamed up crap too, and the fashions were absolutely crap. bloody clowns on acid. theres no other period in music that FOR ME has so much music i HATE. |
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theres no other period in music that FOR ME has so much music i HATE.
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i dislike the 70's not so much for the lack of great music (imho) but for amount of utter shite...
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sweet soul and philly - soul at its worst.
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. |
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The 70s was the decade I grew up , the good music was great and the bad was indescribably sh!te !
The decade was pretty grim so it seems to me (looking back ) that no matter what music you were into we all really went for it (including those who loved the sh!te) because particularly in the early 70s you just had to have something to counteract the endless strikes , power cuts , political problems etc . |
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The 70s was the decade I grew up , the good music was great and the bad was indescribably sh!te !
The decade was pretty grim so it seems to me (looking back ) that no matter what music you were into we all really went for it (including those who loved the sh!te) because particularly in the early 70s you just had to have something to counteract the endless strikes , power cuts , political problems etc . ![]() (Come to think of it .... ) |
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They had bowie and we have ed sheeran.
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well its true that if your life isnt going well it is hard to like as many tracks as easily that you would when things were great..
i dislike the 70's not so much for the lack of great music (imho) but for amount of utter shite... pop - chirpy chirpy cheep cheep, a bloody nursery rhyme! grandad , anything by our kid, nolans, dooleys, brotherhood of man or the faceless mid decade wet crap like sherbet, pilot, etc prog rock - bloody over produced, incoherent, jumble of random noises. sweet soul and philly - soul at its worst. caberet acts like the stylistics, and drifters singing about 'little girls' , awful dance routines like performing animals. glam rock - ok, there was some good stuff, but there was a lot of glamed up crap too, and the fashions were absolutely crap. bloody clowns on acid. theres no other period in music that FOR ME has so much music i HATE. ……..and Barry White
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For me, the 70s was all about Roxy Music.
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I was too young in the 70's to appreciate the great music, TV and movies. So I make up for it nowadays by ignoring the 80's on the whole that was in the main derivative dross.
There was a slight upturn in the 90's, but music now is dire. I don't wish I was old enough to be at gigs in the 70's. Or else I would be an older fart than I am now. |
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well its true that if your life isnt going well it is hard to like as many tracks as easily that you would when things were great..
i dislike the 70's not so much for the lack of great music (imho) but for amount of utter shite... pop - chirpy chirpy cheep cheep, a bloody nursery rhyme! grandad , anything by our kid, nolans, dooleys, brotherhood of man or the faceless mid decade wet crap like sherbet, pilot, etc prog rock - bloody over produced, incoherent, jumble of random noises. sweet soul and philly - soul at its worst. caberet acts like the stylistics, and drifters singing about 'little girls' , awful dance routines like performing animals. glam rock - ok, there was some good stuff, but there was a lot of glamed up crap too, and the fashions were absolutely crap. bloody clowns on acid. theres no other period in music that FOR ME has so much music i HATE. |
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Grew up in the 70,s with Quo got to see them the first time in 79 would have loved to see them from 70 onwards
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Indeed. Going to see Led Zeppelin live was probably the best thing ever to happen in my life at that point
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There must have been something you liked. Surely?
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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.
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). Quote:
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. Quote:
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 ![]() Quote:
There was Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, Curved Air,David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Joni Mitchell
……..and Barry White ![]() ![]() 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: Quote:
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.
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More people will own Bowie records than Ed Sheerin ones. They'll probably listen to them because they can.
Thought I'd get in early as this thread will inevitably transform into "a which decade was the best"-athon. The fifties were pretty great although I wasn't around as a witness.
