The 1950s early rock & roll was good/great ...
Posted on 04/26/2014 3:28:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
You’ve got to be kidding...10 to 1 you’ll revise your opinions later...
I will have to agree with you. CW was better than rock in the 80’s.
I’m pushing 49 this year so I’m pretty set ;)
I really really do not like most of the Woodstock era. I don’t like anything about it. The earlier 60s? Some of it was good.
the 70s had Disco. It is only marginally better to me than Woodstock bands. I do appreciate the talent of the performers. I just don’t click with the music. Other than the Disco rera, the early 70s stuff just didn’t appeal. That said, of course there are exceptions. I love “America” for example. But again, most of the music just is not my thing.
70’s rules
No song will transport me back to the ‘80s quicker than this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A
I liked the ‘style’ of Sinatra more than Sinatra’s singing himself. For whatever reason it was like Bing Crosby through the mirror darlky. Hard to explain.
No argument from me. Music quality definitely went down hill. A few bright spots, but overall not great.
80’s meant one thing...HAIR METAL \m/
I graduated from high school in 1984.
Oh, yes...the 80’s...my favorites.
I was in Germany with the Army back in the mid-80’s. I heard a LOT of good music then.
The Flying Picketts-Only You
Yaz (Yazoo in Britain)-Don’t Go
Alphaville- Big In Japan
Shakin’ Stevens - In Letter To You
Nena- 99 Luftballoons
Dead or Alive- You Spin Me Right Round
Simple Minds- Don’t You (Forget About Me)
Tears for Fears- Shout, Everybody Wants To Rule The World
I could go on.....
Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker, Patti Smith, Blue Oyster Cult, Johnny Winter........
I'm not even a fan of John Mellencamp and Van Halen, but how do you leave any of the tracks from the "1984" and "Uh Huh" albums off this list?
Graduated 1976 - I was just thinking of the records we used to stack on the turn table at parties: All American Boy, Full House, Paranoid, Street Party, Rock & Roll Music to the World, Dark Side of the Moon - along with "oldies": Are You Experienced?, Quadraphenia, Idlewild South....
By the time I graduated, I’d lost interest in rock and was listening to country: Alabama, Charlie Daniels, Gatlin Brothers.
These days, I like some rock again: Seether, Halestorm, Skillet, Stone Sour ...
I find that those 1980s hits that ended up on movie soundtracks are particularly memorable. It's hard to tell which defines the 80s more -- the movies or the soundtracks!
Damn straight. Just awful choices.
What I like about you - Romantics
Rock with you - yeap, he was awesome in his day, and fell twice as far as he rose.
Blister in the sun - Violent Femmes
Once in a lifetime - Talking Heads
Everybody wants some - VAN HALEN - 'MERICA!!!
My last decade of American music. Lasted to my early 20's. Then "Gangsta cRap" become popular and I exercised a cultural exit strategy. I'm nigh 50 now and when my children pick out music, it's Latin. Sinto muito...Lo siento, y'all...
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