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!

[Miss Didi]

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.......

Did you know that the TV series Dallas was such a huge hit because America needed to forget about the Carter years and think big and dream of money and success again. Just a little TV trivia for the thread.

The 70's also gave us Boston and Foreigner, too. :)

[RegulatorCountry]

Who could forget “DisGo-Rilla,” Rick Dees’ ill-considered followup to “Disco Duck?”

Everybody but Rick Dees and a few odd hip-hop samples, apparently.

For the full horror of it all please visit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTOqeBEtyLY

[Mr. Blonde]

Lots of good music from any decade or time period. Sometimes it is harder to find than other times.

[The_Sword_of_Groo]

Hey! you stole my IPOD!

I do love some Little Feat!

[353FMG]

I vote 1947 - 1955, Big bands and bebop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBeQFt064N8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEQzcDzsn3g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjElQ6Ekr9o

[Conan the Librarian]

Three Dog Night.

Ok...and Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd.

[Popman]

IMHO, the past 25 years for music has been like Obamacare, a few jelly beans in a big bucket of horse manure.

Can't agree more

[boop]

I thought of Steely Dan too! I love “Dirty Work”.

[Pardeeville Liberator]

Right On

[The_Sword_of_Groo]

For those interested, here is a link where you can download (legally) for free. Its an archive of recorder-friendly bands. Tons of great music.

Thanks to my wife for the quickie html lesson!

www.archive.org

[5Madman2]

I have two more

DEEP PURPLE :)

Sabbath, Purple, Uriah Heep, and Zeppelin

True Rock at its best

[circlecity]

Alice Cooper - “Killer”

[mamelukesabre]

no. 1980s was. The first 5-6 years of MTV was the pinnacle of pop music of which we will never see the likes again. What ruined music is the same thing that ruined professional sports...money.

[mamelukesabre]

Not only is radio dead, but it appears to me the whole concept of a music store is also dead.

[mamelukesabre]

That’s what 80s music was but I don’t know why you want to include the late 70s in it.

[Hoodat]

Little Feat for you

Fat Man in the Bathtub

All That You Dream

Old Folks Boggie

And I gotta throw in one Traffic tune:

Dear Mr. Fantasy

[SVTCobra03]

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

[bobby.223]

The ‘Big Band’ era...especially the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey years featuring Frankie!!

[5Madman2]

Thanks for that link. I have been looking for somehting like that since Yahoo dumped that type of service

[rface]

I KNOW that the current hybrid of Country and 80s Rock is the high water mark of the Artistic Cultural American Musical Renaissance (especially 2000 - 2010)