Wasn't the 1970s the best decade for popular music ever?

[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!

[Fiji Hill]

Best rock song of all time - “House of the Rising Sun” - The Animals - 1964.

That's a great song, and it rocks, but is it rock? Rock and roll is normally written in 4/4 time, but "House" is in 6/8 time.

[Dryman]

Modern technology is a wonderful thing. MP3s of the Chihuahua ChaChaCha.

[DejaJude]

Nope, the 50’s were the best IMO.

[Chickensoup]

http://dalesdesigns.net/rock-on.htm

Tim Hawkins funny

[Finny]

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 ...

Yes indeed. If you haven't done so, you might watch Sam Elliot in "Lifeguard," made in 1976. It is a horrible sappy fascinating movie that accurately portrays the youth lifestyle and morals, at least in certain areas of the country, of the era (and the horrific interior decor! Only the '70s could bring about the nightmarish wallpaper in Ann Archer's kitchen!).

[My hearts in London - Everett]

Actually, I think the music from the 30s, 40s, and 50s is the best ~ and I wasn’t born until the 60s.

[ladyjane]

Brad Whitford. Not Joe Perry. We didn’t talk politics. Had a great time!

A couple of days before that I flew one seat away from Ted Nugent.

I hear Nancy Pelosi is flying commercial again. Haven’t had the pleasure of flying with her. LOL

[BluesDuke]

Well, there was, among others, this . . .

And this . . .

And this . . .

And this . . .

And these . . .

So the '70s weren't all that bad for music . . .

[balls]

Let’s not for get one-hit wunders like Iron Butterfly and this gem: (Video)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xz6ex_iron-butterfly-inagaddadavida_music

[raybbr]

Since the gun battle described in the song took place on Chicago's "East Side," it must have been a naval battle.

There is an "east side" of Chicago. It's south of 100th street and east of the Calumet River.

[redhead]

NO, but the Eighties were really good. (Does the word, “Disco” mean anything to you?)

[Fiji Hill]

There is an "east side" of Chicago. It's south of 100th street and east of the Calumet River.

I checked, and indeed, there is. In fact, I once drove through it.

[Fiji Hill]

NO, but the Eighties were really good. (Does the word, “Disco” mean anything to you?)

[lonestar]

50’s-60’s RULE!

The singers could actually SING!

They stopped singing and start yelling in the 90's, IIRC.

[EDINVA]

“The 60’s music was mostly psychedelic nonsense and anti-war protest.”

That was the very late 60’s. The first part of the 60’s was good ole time rock ‘n roll. Stuff they are still covering today.

I think everyone’s idea of the ‘best music’ is whatever they grew up with. The fact that it evokes memories of their youth helps.

[Hotlanta Mike]

No. the 70’s were too controlled by big corporations, and that limited what types of music were promoted and largely produced.

Today is actually a much better time for music, but It is incumbent on the listener to search the Internet to find artists they like - radio as a portal to new music is dead.

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Free Talk and Music Radio Online

http://radiotime.com/index.aspx

[redhead]

In the “olden” days in Valdez, we finally got a radio station. But their library must have been incredibly small, because all they played was disco. Mercy. That was almost the end of that station. Finally, they sent around a poll. (that meant they took them to the grocery stores, all two of them) They asked Valdezeans what kind of music they wanted to hear. The hands down winner by a huge margin was “ANYTHING but disco!!”

[Hotlanta Mike]

There was a tv interview if I recall correctly where he said it was important for people not to get caught up into idol worship of politicans. He was speaking about JFK and said who knows if the guy, if he had lived, would have been a successful president.

And in 2008 the majority of the electorate voted for their American Idol for POTUS, without having the complete background on this fraud.

[thecodont]

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.

Thank you so much for this post. It summarizes everything I've hated about that time period.

I was very small in the early 1960s, and hoped that when I grew up, I would be able to enter and enjoy that world as an adult. Alas....

[Fiji Hill]

The 60’s music was mostly psychedelic nonsense and anti-war protest.

Oh, yeah? Here are ten of my favorite 1960's tunes--and there's not a psychedelic or war protest tune in the bunch:

1. Six Days on the Road--Dave Dudley, 1963

2. Al di là (Beyond)--Emilio Pericoli, 1962

3. Leave Me Alone--Baby Washington, 1963

4. She's Gone--The Gainors, 1960

5. Mecca--Gene Pitney, 1963

6. Don't Make Me Over--Dionne Warwick, 1962

7. Half Heaven, Half Heart-Ache--Gene Pitney, 1963

8. A Woman, a Lover, a Friend--Jackie Wilson, 1960

9. Bless You--Tony Orlando, 1961

10. What's the Matter, Baby?--Timi Yuro, 1962