Posted on 05/04/2025 7:01:31 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Ah, “John Barleycorn Must Die” was by Traffic. IIRC, the 1st Traffic tune I ever heard (my brother had taped it, possibly off KSHE?) was “Glad”, followed by “Freedom Rider”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ow1yz0P84E
Steve Winwood’s vocals don’t do anything for me, but, the music was great!
That was also the time when alternative radio stations started popping up, the Manchester Sound and Shoegaze were becoming popular.
Oooo! :)
Two votes for that one, so far. ;)
Noted. Mom used to play Johnny Rivers on her Hi-Fi. ;)
Her sister had every first-release Beatles LP and 45. Wish we still had that collection.
I could live with that. My fave of theirs is ‘Rubber Soul.’ ;)
Rock didn’t die. It was assasinated, much like Hollywood movies. The industry killed it off.
Sorry, but grossly disagree with that assessment.
70s were full of a lot of great music.
If anything 1 thing killed it, it was likely MTV, where how you looked became far more important than talent.. by the time Grunge came about, as lousy musically as most of that was, “rock” had largely become an unintentional self parody.
Remember, Beatles were beaten out by CCR as the best selling Band, before the beetles broke up. Of course CCR infighting ended them long before they likely would have.
Corporate production in the 1990’s killed off music. They use analytics to determine the sounds and harmonics that work the best, so they create songs that use only those things. The millennial whine, for instance.
Here in California K-surf had a great radio station for music about 2 years ago but it was to good it was bought out and the garbage stations took the back the channels.
I always heard that was the day the music died. Well, some of it did, but some of it was just getting a good start.
“”never listen to AM/FM any more. At all.””
That is all we listen to for the last 20 years. TV and FM radio went to total s**t.
1973. The 50 year celebration was 2 years ago. Just because the press didn’t start labeling it for 5 years doesn’t mean it didn’t exist. Most genres are defined in the rearview mirror.
It ended when the Grammy’s became awarding hip hop or rap awards in 1989.
Great album, surprised it was on a FM station.
I wouldn’t say collusion. It’s just how things went. The critics (especially Jan Wenner) pretty universally hated hard rock, heavy metal, and prog rock. It was a badge of honor, especially in heavy metal, to be critically reviled and still sell a bunch of records. It’s what really gave metal it’s “outsider” status.
For whatever reason the critics dug hip hop. So as its sales climbed the sales and the critics aligned. I’m sure no one was as surprised as the critics, to finally see the music they “approved” making sales for the first time in ages. The decades of popular music they hated showed the critics aren’t terribly influential.
Frank Zappa’s Leather. It’s a quadruple album, with almost all of his various styles.
It died when they put ABBA into the Rock Hall of Fame.
They were not a rock act. They were a POP act. Make a Pop Hall of Fame and let them be a first ballot inaugural class. But toss them out of the Rock Hall!!!!
It’s highly subjective
Classic Rock has had legs like no other
But for me as 90s rock waned into the 2000s was when I completely quit following new stuff
I guess I’d run a good 40 years of it by then
Yes there is new stuff but it’s mostly self promoted and 95% sounds redone
Back then we thought it would go on forever
We were wrong
As the big players and groups die off literally it’ll fade a lot
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