Posted on 01/29/2011 12:21:50 PM PST by big black dog
Come on.
The later 1960's druggies who believed they could change the world through drugs, wild sex, and weird music came to realize they weren't changing anything -- at least in whatever sober moments they/we had.
Bur we still have the music!
Hey hey mama said the way you move,
Gon' make you sweat, gon' make you groove.
Right on! Love the Dan...
My taste is all over the map, I especially like alt rock and even some punk from the 80’s - 90’s. I’m fond of dub reggae and ska. I like music with a soaring, old soul sound whether it’s authentic 60’s Motown, authentic gospel or a modern iteration. I love The Grateful Dead, have a Pandora station named “Box Of Rain” for the Dead, Phish, Sam Bush, The Flecktones and other folky jam bands.
Trouble is, if any of the above have ever been really popular, I don’t need to seek them out and so I don’t want to hear it on there. It took some effort to get the right sounds without getting too much overexposed music, but finally succeeded in weeding it out and winnowing it down.
The Doors
LOL, and Disco saved America from it all? hahahha.
The seventies was the era when drugs became exponentially popular in the U.S., as the first half of the sixties was essentially just a spillover from the fifties. I'd say it wasn't until the later sixties, (1966 on), that drugs and immorality started to become rampant in most parts of America. Hell, what was the difference between 1968 and 1971? In fact, it was the first half of the seventies that sort of codified or "normalized" the burgeoning decadence of the late sixties revolution. The 1970's TV sitcoms began having the middleaged fathers wear long hair and sport mustaches and sideburns, while the 30-something mothers began wearing mini-skirts like the teen girls of the late sixties.
As one who lived through the decades of the 60's and 70's as a teen and young adult, I'd have to say that the 70's were far worse than the 60's as a whole, because that's the decade when the filth and decadence of the middle-to-late 60's was allowed to became the norm, while it still had the chance to reject it. Instead, it chose to revel in it, introducing legalized abortion and pulling homosexual perversion off the mental illness list, hence normalizing it. Further, the 70's was when feminism came into full power and force, women turning on men, weakening them and the family structure, and opening the door to the marginalization of the white male, as witnessed by the bigotted, ignorant, wife abusing, WASP, 'typical white male', Archie Bunker.
Wishbone Ash:
Not that well known, but still at it doing about 150 shows a year. Their album, Argus (1972), was way ahead of its time in my opinion. Maybe the first to use twin guitar leads. Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUolWNHxRiM&feature=fvw
No.
Exhibt A: “ ..in the desert you can remember your name ‘cause there ain’t no one to cause you no pain, fa la la la la la la la la la la...”
No.
Exhibt A: “ ..in the desert you can remember your name ‘cause there ain’t no one there to cause you no pain, fa la la la la la la la la la la...”
The early years of MTV are, by definition, the peak of pop. The best selling album of all time was “thriller” by micheal jackson circa 1982 which released the first or second year of MTV broadcast. Phil collins, early madonna, early prince, micheal jackson, early bon jovi, early def leppard, billy idol...
These are the kings of pop music. The cure, the clash, the ramones, and the sex pistols were a part of the era too.
Sat next to one of the Aerosmith guitar guys one day flying out of Boston. Lots of fun!
Archie Bunker may have been a deliberately negative stereotype for propaganda purposes, but there wasn’t anything WASP about him.
Ummmm.... Floyd?
Which one’s pink?
I agree. 64-73 were the best years: Motown, Rolling Stones, Santana, Pink Floyd, Cream, Alan Parsons, Alman Brothers, Joni Mitchel, Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs ...
It must have been good because most of it can still be heard on the radio today!
Was it Joe Perry? That dude’s a conservative!
The Bee Gees and ABBA were great. Few people know that ABBA is the second best selling group of all time.
Disco/Hustle Music is the best.
Rainbow
Hawkwind
Yes
Pink Floyd
Eloy
Jethro Tull
Vangelis
Mandalaband
Rush
Deep Purple
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Harvey Mason.
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