Posted on 06/14/2023 7:36:06 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Official Music Video for It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) performed by R.E.M.
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The only reason I might be able to place a 2000+ song is if it was in “hot rotation” when we were dragging kids to AAU tournaments and they had control of the music. Otherwise, it’s kind of a blur.
Rush is that way to me. I like some of their work, usually the earlier stuff, hated most of their 80’s and 90’s work, and liked some of their last works. They were varied in their sound and experimented.
I forgot where they were from. Dang.
Do-Wop Oldies but goodies!
I agree on that one. There was an explosion of genres/sound.
Then Madonna came on the scene, along with a lot of prepackaged "corporate" music.
There were some subgenres (grunge, techno, hip hip (the 'old school')), but nothing else stood out.
I was born decades later, but the swing of late 1930s to 1940s is the best.
Although several of the groups I like originated out of the 60’s but the most memorable songs were produced in the 70’s so I’m going with the 70’s. Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Steely Dan etc.
The thing about high school then was, that everybody knew who everybody’s favorite band was, it was a part of your identity. And of course Monday morning, everyone would be wearing the T-Shirt of the band that played that weekend.
But the worse thing that can happen to a guy is for his band to suddenly become too big and become a band girls like.
This happened to my friend, who was the biggest REO Speedwagon fan, wore their T-Shirt almost every day.
That was until, Hi Infidelity came out. I casually asked him one day why he wasn’t wearing the REO Speedwagon T-Shirts anymore, and he replied, “I’m never listening to that effing band, ever again!” He felt betrayed, that they had gotten so big, and girls were now swooning over their songs.
Actually looking forward to records being released was a great thing....Cut a few classes when “The Wall” dropped.
Disco still sucks. But all three decades had SOME decent music amid the trash, but it got thinner and thinner during the ‘80s.
“To those who disagree, one word: Disco”
That would be me. “Disco” — most fun ever.
late 70’s and the 80’s
It’s funny how “Get Lucky” by Daft Punk, made me go back and appreciate just how good Nile Rodgers and Chic were.
If I have to stick with "decades", I would take the 1960s over the 1970s. The top act of the 1960s, The Beatles, is far better than the best act of the 1970s, Elton John, early in the decade, and The BeeGees, later. The secondary acts of both decades are good, so they cancel each other out.
I would say 64 to 84. Early 60s mostly a wasteland, late 80s music just fell off a cliff.
Scary now to think most of those guys are now in their late 60s, early 70s.
The Monkees were prepackaged corporate music. 1966.
“Of the choices offered I eould agree the 60’s, but it was the 50’s that lead to 60’s. I’m most comfortable with a mix of 50’s and 60’s, because it was the time of my youth.”
Your taste agrees the most so far with me. I think there was a more gentle, romantic, balladic period through the 50’s, then the music roughened up with less pleasant harmony, less sophisticated music, cruder lyrics, scruffy looking performers, groups with weird names.
It’s sad that excellent composers, musicians and performers waste their skills on crap just for fame and money.
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