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What was the best music decade, 60's, 70', or 80's?
Music History ^ | 6/14/23 | Dallasbiff

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 1980s; history; music; vanity
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To: SamAdams76

Was that the video with Klaus Nomi in it?

What’s funny is that more people probably heard of Klaus because of Rush Limbaugh.


141 posted on 06/14/2023 8:56:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Alberta's Child

You and most of these Freepers must HATE to DANCE!


142 posted on 06/14/2023 8:59:38 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: dfwgator

WTH is STAX?


143 posted on 06/14/2023 9:00:02 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: FreedomPoster
My list was limited to 1979 whereas "Rumours" came out in 1977. Personally I thought "Tusk" was a better album overall, especially if you were to take the best 12 of those 20 tracks.

If they had condensed "Tusk" to a single album, it would have done much better saleswise for them. A few of those Lindsey Buckingham tracks would have been better off as "B" sides or maybe held back for a solo album (which he would do a couple years later).

144 posted on 06/14/2023 9:00:14 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,301,904 Truth | 86,921,174 Twitter)
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To: Ann Archy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stax_Records


145 posted on 06/14/2023 9:00:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mware

“I’m most comfortable with a mix of 50’s and 60’s...”

Me too.


146 posted on 06/14/2023 9:01:32 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: SamAdams76

Fair, I was over-focused on the decade period at the top of your post.


147 posted on 06/14/2023 9:01:45 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: dfwgator

Thanks....never heard of it.


148 posted on 06/14/2023 9:03:14 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SamAdams76

The days of having to stay up late to watch good TV...”Don Kirchner’s Rock Concert,” “Monty Python,” “ Fernwood 2 Night”....


149 posted on 06/14/2023 9:08:00 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Alberta's Child
I was discussing "It's All I Can Do" on Twitter just a few days ago. Definitely the top track from "Candy-O".

That song certainly does set a mood and even today brings me back to a time and place - the summer of 1979. That was the first summer I had a driver's license and I borrowed my Dad's Chrysler and cruised up and down Revere Beach with the windows down, showing off to my fellow high school students. When hearing this song, I can still almost smell the salt air and fried clams (from Kelly's Roast Beef) from those hot, muggy nights.

Another song that does that for me is "Big Log" by Robert Plant. That was a few years later (1982 or 83) but at that time, I was in the Marine Corps at 29 Palms, CA. So that song always puts me in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

150 posted on 06/14/2023 9:08:10 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,301,904 Truth | 86,921,174 Twitter)
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To: DallasBiff

The Sixties were the breakthrough decade. Rock took over and artists were doing things with it that were unthinkable before. But a lot of Sixties artists didn’t really hit their stride until the Seventies.

By the end of the Seventies, music was pretty awful — or just boring: disco, metal, “arena rock.” The Eighties brought new life back to popular music. A new generation. A New British invasion. In music and everything else they were more enjoyable and entertaining than the Seventies.

That New Wave passed with the end of the Eighties. Rock and pop would struggle on, even into the new century, but rock is dead by now. It’s become niche music, like jazz. Pop has been taken over by rap.


151 posted on 06/14/2023 9:08:48 AM PDT by x
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To: dfwgator
Early 60s, meh, but 64 onwards, absolutely. Music styles literally changed by the month.

Music styles changed, but a lot of the psychodelic stuff was garbage. Just like a lot of people who had no business doing disco did disco (e.g. Elton John), a lot of name acts that had no business doing that introspective psychedelic stuff did it (e.g. Gary Lewis).

The Doors knew how to incorporate organs, but almost nobody else did. Nonetheless, we got organs. The only rubbish the Beatles made was during this period (e.g. Revolution #9, Tomorrow Never Knows, 1/4 of "The Beatles" (White Album).

Someone has to give a shout out to the early '70s Soul Music, and its lush orchestral arrangements (Barry White, Earth Wind and Fire, etc.)

Lyric writing went way down hill in the '60s when 25 year old drug heads took over from professionals.

Melody, Harmony, Rhythm. Do those, and you have music.
152 posted on 06/14/2023 9:10:26 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Ann Archy

You are correct!

They will all be deaf as a stone from the loud crap playing in their cars and earbuds.

I was sitting next to a car at a stoplight and both his and my car windows were rolled up and I could hear his trash blaring inside MY car with the radio going and I’m nearly deaf!..............


153 posted on 06/14/2023 9:11:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: dfwgator
Who's Next was good but this is The Who at their very best.And it's Keith Moon at his very best as well!
154 posted on 06/14/2023 9:11:53 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

I like the 70’s marginally. The early 70’s had Beatles, and individual Beatles music, continuing rock from the 60’s (who, Stones, Elvis return, Led Zeppelin) then on to the BTO, soft rock Eagles, Bee Gees, Chicago, the Disco era and finally the crossover of Country into mainstream with Kenny Rodgers, Waylon, Willie, etc.


155 posted on 06/14/2023 9:16:54 AM PDT by georgiarat (We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. William Faulkner )
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To: gundog

The Midnight Special was another one I stayed up late for.


156 posted on 06/14/2023 9:17:17 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,301,904 Truth | 86,921,174 Twitter)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The Who Sell Out is my favorite Who album.


157 posted on 06/14/2023 9:17:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
You are probably thinking of "TVC15"

I remember Klaus being SNL or some other late night show with Bowie doing that number.

158 posted on 06/14/2023 9:18:56 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,301,904 Truth | 86,921,174 Twitter)
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To: SamAdams76

Yeah. It felt kind of subversive staying up late to watch some stuff. Even SNL, in the early days. VCRs were only in schools.


159 posted on 06/14/2023 9:20:19 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: x

The day is coming when folks will generate their own music using AI.


160 posted on 06/14/2023 9:20:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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