Posted on 05/25/2016 7:20:38 AM PDT by Borges
Classifying anyone as the “most successful” at anything tends to reflect more on the source than the subject. So keep that in mind when I make the following statement: John Philip Sousa is the most successful American musician of all time.
Marching music is a maddeningly durable genre, recognizable to pretty much everyone who has lived in the United States for any period. It works as a sonic shorthand for any filmmaker hoping to evoke the late 19th century and serves as the auditory backdrop for national holidays, the circus and college football. It’s not “popular” music, but it’s entrenched within the popular experience. It will be no less fashionable tomorrow than it is today.
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This whole thread is all wrong
When they look back hundreds of years there will be only one recognized as the Motzart of his age
Beef!
Trout will be venerated
Disco still sucks
The music of Bill O’Reilly and Levin
We laughed at it
Now all this bullshit social import attached to it
The music of cocaine, Amyl Nitrate and herpes
Man we hated it but it was where the superficial but hot girls were and they usually had a pool table area
To even out the odds since we were “freaks” we brought weed and ludes
Polyester sucks too and clunky Elton John oxfords
Oh, disco!
Did you know I worked at Studio 54 as a hat check girl? Yes, I did. I checked Mick Jagger’s bowling bowl and saw his wife (or ex-wife, I forget) ride in on a horse. Tons of loose cash was kept in the basement and a filthy comic book about Roy Cohn made the rounds in the disgusting theater seats.
Absolutely hated that job but a dear friend got it for me and I needed the money to stay in my sublet. And indeed, it was cocaine, amyl nitrate and herpes. A good friend of mine was one of the first to die of AIDS - needless, to say, a regular at that dump.
“Polyester sucks too “
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My ex came home one evening with a polyester,powder blue, leisure suit that was on sale-—a terrific bargain.:-)
The kids and I laughed so much we could barely stand up.
He never wore it.
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Van Morrison will be listened to in 100 years. I don’t really know if you can even say he’s a rock & roll singer, though he started out as such. He’s transcended that IMO. He’s a musical genius who I would put on the same level as some of the great historical composers.
Both Young Brothers and Bon Scott! Primo stuff during a period of hair bands and disco.
But they'll bring up the Beatles as an example of the transition to the affluence of the 1960s.
So long as there's an England -- however long that is -- the Beatles will be a symbol of the transformation of the country, and of the Western world.
Once you get that out of the way, what else is there in rock music that will last to impress future historians?
“Man we hated it but it was where the superficial but hot girls were and they usually had a pool table area”
...sometimes a dude had to make sacrifices, even to the point of putting himself in the audio range of disco music...
However I only knowingly subjected myself to this indignity once. I pursued an entirely different set of superficial hot chicks.
Does Whit Stillman’s “The Last Days of Disco”hold any special meaning for you?
https://www.google.com/#q=%22The+Last+Days+of+Disco%22&tbm=vid
How about Steve Winwood?
Winwood is a talented guy. Great voice. I have a soft spot for The Doors....some of their stuff is outstanding.
“There was an almost magical period spanning mid 60s thru mid 70s.”
Ain’t that the truth. And we assumed that this excellence is how the music world would always be. Boy were we ever wrong...
A Sprouts market out my way plays ‘Boomer era music. The teenager/20-somethings that work there say they love the music and would hate it if Sprouts switched to playing the music their generation has been stuck with. Poor kids.
I like Doors too. So many great bands. My real favorites of the era were and are The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and the various bands those two groups spawned.
And The Mamas and The Papas from a few years earlier when the incredible harmonies of the folkies were still in favor.
lol. Kill it before it grows again...
Hendrix. Hands down.
John Dowland and William Byrd of course.
“..CCR was from California and sorta sneered at back then as AM hit makers.....”
I loved Credence Clearwater Revival. Some of my blues-snob friends stick their noses up at the simple structure of CCR tunes, but I really enjoyed it. It’s upbeat music for me. And it helped that I had a girlfriend that I realllllly liked who I took to see them....
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