Posted on 01/29/2011 12:21:50 PM PST by big black dog
Now, give me Joe Walsh, (everything he did was amazing) Bob Seger, Super Tramp, Yes, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, but some from the ‘80’s like Van Halen, Police, Peter Gabriel & Journey were awesome.
Creative Rock is just all around great. from both decades.
I was a child at the advent of the 70’s and didn’t graduate high school until shortly thereafter. My take on that era of music comes from one of burnout due to the repetitive nature of Top 40 radio. I could live my life happily without ever hearing “Stairway To Heaven” or “Free Bird” again.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve revisited music of that time and discovered a trove of great music that never really saw the light of day commercially, B sides from well known artists, lesser known artists and such. There was great music then, as there was great music before and after. It all depends upon your taste and your ability to locate music that suits it.
Locating it has become ludicrously easy via several online sources, most prominently Pandora, http://www.pandora.com. If you can live with the occasional commercial interruption (one every ten minutes or so with audio, plus ads on screen) you can set up your own personal “radio station” for free, for up to 40 hours per month. Select a tune or a group that you love, and the music begins to play.
Algorithms have been assigned to each song to create the “Musical Genome Project,” a tremendous library of songs (I’ve yet to encounter one that has not been included), and this enables other music to be selected via this algorithm to follow your initial selection, that appears to comport to your taste and preference. Each new song can be given a “thumbs up” or a “thumbs down,” which further hones the algorithm for your particular “station.”
If you have diverse tastes, you can set up many different “stations” with differing styles and genres. You can also do a custom mix of your “stations,” playing alternating selections from two or more of them, just to keep things interesting.
If you really like Pandora, you can subscribe for $2 per month and avoid both the time limitation for listening and the commercials. It’s great, I have it on right now.
The early 70s had its moments then all those hard rock and classic rock bands started to slowly fade away or change direction. from 1975 to 981, there was an effort to destroy Rock with disco and commercial soft rock.
How about the “immortals” 30 year careers. Aerosmith, Tom Petty, Genesis, Stones, and some I forget.
You may be right.
I mean, many of my favorite songs growing up were from the 70’s.
However, the 70’s also produced some of the most utterly HIDEOUS music as well. By way of example, I give you...
You Light Up My Life(Most over-played song in the world at the time)
Never Been to Me (Whi8ny screed about one woman’s view of what she views as a failed life of leisure)
Muskrat Love (The Captain and Tennille’s WTF love song)
Seasons in the Sun (Terry Jacks...dear God, WHY, man?)
Shannon (A song about a dog that got accidentally washed out to sea. Seriously.)
Feelings (Morris Albert, Brazilian torture device)
Heartbeat, It’s Love Beat (The DeFranco Family. Need I say more.)
Puke-inducing, all.
1954 to 1963. The GOLDEN Age iof Rock n’ Roll.
Pink Floyd
The Who
Allman Brothers
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Rush (anything before 1982)
David Bowie
Peter Gabriel (Screw Phil Collins)
Traffic
Delbert McClinton
Yes
Grateful Dead
Little Feat
“One word: Disco!”
Yup. The ‘70s had the best music — and I had the most fun.
Uhm, that's three words!
Four words: art rock!
You forgot Widfire and the Night Chicago Died..How about Watchin Scotty Grow? Billy don’t be a Hero was 70’s too I think.
Michael Jackson, (70’s bubblegum)
All Disco!
Massively bad!
>>The Beatles and Jethro Tull are all you need.<<
And GFR and Deep Purple.
I see rock in bout 10 year cycles. Advent of rock ‘55 to ‘65-birth of pychedelia, harder edged stuff; to 75 or a bit later and the disco era. largely downhill since then.
64 to about 83 for rock.
50 to 92 for country.
40 to 75 for Jazz.
Bluegrass is still very good.
Great pop died with Sinatra.
If you listened to Waylon and Willie, the Philly Sound, Delbert and Mink DeVille, the Cramps, Joe King Carrasco, the Stones, then the 1970s were great, but the pretentious art rock, mentioned by some above as “fabulous”, was what killed and buried rock’n’roll for good. Stairway to Heaven? Duuuuude!
Agh! Ugh!!
Oh geez...I had totally forgotten about those...probably my brain attempting to prevent nausea.
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