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!

[Publius6961]

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[SteamShovel]

KC and the sunshine band?

Wild Cherry.....

.....Just kidding, and I think you were too ;-)

[Hoodat]

Now you've gone and done it.

Get Down Tonight

[RangerM]

Based on what seems to be popular today, I’d say the song-writing was absolutely better back then.

If you listen to today’s music (the songs that contain music and not a series of thump-beats) you can often hear melodies recorded in the ‘70s.

[Defiant]

Rather than draw artificial lines at years that end in 0, and using 10 years as an arbitrary period of time, I would suggest that 1964-1973 was the most innovative period in rock history.

[Obadiah]

Good points. The 60’s music was mostly psychedelic nonsense and anti-war protest. Sure, the 70’s were influenced by the corporate types, but they forced the musicians to produce quality stuff, not just random crap, say, like rap.

[Howie66]

Agreed!!

Disco (like da Bears) still SUCKS!!

[Fido969]

Me an’ you an’ a dog named Boo... travelin’ and a livin’ off the land...

[enduserindy]

If you listen to the John Lennon interviews he admits the left (young hippies)was wrong. Its his last interview - 3 days before death.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/john-lennon-remembered-aa-9-4-aa2-8-8-20101208

[peggybac]

And: Marshall Tucker, Poco, NRPS, Pure Prairie League, Billy Joel, Boz Skaggs, Jimmy Spheeris, Rickie Lee Jones, Linda Ronstadt, Moody Blues.....

[edpc]

The news was only one hour a day, so there wasn’t time to obsess on every “crisis”.

You mean like the Yom Kippur War, Watergate, Nixon's resignation, OPEC oil embargo, fall of Saigon, coming of the next Ice Age, inflation, Three Mile Island, odd/even gas days, Iranian hostages, etc.......

[Signalman]

The 60s were good, especially 65-67. The Seventies, for the most part sucked and was plagued by a lot of light-weight crap (Disco, “You Light Up My Life”, “Afternoon Delight” etc. The 80s were a definite improvement over the 70s. After the 80s, I lost interest in “popular music”.

[roostercogburn]

Singers and songwriters. Eagles, Taylor, Croce, Simon, Fogelberg,Seger, Springsteen

70’s were great. And the closer the Beatles got to the 70’s the better they got!

[OldDeckHand]

I have to agree. The 70s gave us Zeppelin and Floyd - arguably the high water mark for Rock music. In other words, it was rock but it was still very musically complex and sophisticated - created by musicians who were just that, musicians - tremendous technicians and craftsman

No one is ever going to convince me that the members of Nirvanna were as remotely talented (musically) as the least talented member of either Zeppelin or Floyd.

[cripplecreek]

Lets not forget, that the 70s were the height of Rod Stewart’s popularity. LOL

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

No doubt.

[Bryanw92]

I didn’t say that there weren’t problems, but until ABC invented the “Crisis” news show (i.e Koppell’s 11:30 pm Hostage Crisis special every night that become Nightline after Reagan was inaugurated and Iranian “students” had a change of heart), we watched the news and thought, “Damn. That’s bad...now let’s boogie!!”

[Krankor]

Yep, 60's music was best- just for the drums.

[aomagrat]

I only have two words to say about ‘70’s music...

BLACK SABBATH!

[pf flyers]

Brian Wilson.