I'm happy to say that this isn't mine and that I own no Village People stuff.
Posted on 05/31/2005 7:26:28 AM PDT by pissant
The 1970s were a time of some serious changes in our society and culture. Some good, most bad. Here at the Pissant Reasearch Center, we've compiled the Top 5 lists of the good and bad which that forgetful decade foisted upon us.
TOP 5 BAD THINGS FROM THE 1970s
5. Polyester suits
4. Detroits Automobiles
3. Jane Fonda
2. Disco
1. Jimmy Carter
TOP 5 GOOD THINGS FROM THE 1970s (this is tough)
5. Scooby Doo
4. Dorothy Hammill
3. Monday Night Football team (Cossell, Meridith, Gifford)
2. John Paul II
1. Count Chocula & Frankenberry
LOL! YIKES
add a black light, a lava lamp and body paint and you had a party of two.
Worst - the hair, the glasses, and the pleather couches, to which your butt stuck on hot days, wearing those tiny polyester shorts
That suit will not decompose for another 5000 years. ;o)
I get ya. Lotsa souped up Vegas were found on the side of the freeway, as I recall!
Oh, and anything reminiscent of CB/trucker chic, including Smokey and the Bandit and C.W. McCall's entire discography.
Sang best by Will Ferrel in "Anchorman"
Sorry to step on anyone's toes here; but I got a big kick out of the song "Afternoon Delight" back then (it was the harmony).. and then there was "muskrat love" ... and what about the Beegees? Did they usher in the age of "metrosexualism"? And John Denver? Recycling? And words like...:
I'm feeling "centered".. "My inner child"... "Loving Divorces from one's parents"... "Freeing the inner individual" (but tossing 'em into race and sex boxes to force a "cult" thinking"..)... Backpacking... communes... peacock feathers, hottubbing, the rush for "shrooms" and Lentil Soup? "Nikes for the Working Woman"... "Sure men are brutes, but they just cain't help themselves...
"Rolfing, Primal Scream Therapy, polarity balancing, I-Ching...Group therapy, EST, Past Life Regression Therapy, HOROSCOPES, Moonies..... Hot pants, Minis, Midis, Female "Empowerment" centers and groups, MCP taunts, anti-war slogans like "Baby Killers"..."
Not that I'm trying to wreck havoc on the list I'm sure you would happily add too... ;>
Who immediately adopted a new "uniform".
The snotty snearing attitude can be found in plenty of 60s US garage punk high schoolers who were imitating the Rolling Stones.
Lenny Kaye collected up a bunch of those singles as the 2 record set Nuggets (1972). He referred to the music as "punk".
Later John Holstrom stickered NYC with "PUNK is coming" logos to hype his new magazine.
Punk did not begin with the Sex Pistols, nor were they they best of the bands.
Originally punk was a reaction AGAINST leftist political correctness and now it is politically correct (just look at how many vegan gay feminist punk bands and fests there are).
I peek through them. Does that count?
Martin, that is the funniest thing ever!
Even threw in the ACME for good effect!
worst - Jimmy Carter
best - Nobel Prizes for Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman
I'm happy to say that this isn't mine and that I own no Village People stuff.
You were THAT HOT!
CSNY still gets played by me. I'm still grasping for the 70s when life was easy
Convoyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Gotta disagree.....plenty of disco with heart and soul....and I'd take it today over much of the live music out there....most of it is WAY too loud and WAY too amateurish....
Bad: Bellbottom Jeans on men!
LOL Apparently, I'm not the only one. *sticking tongue out*
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