Why do I hate the 1970s so much?

[jamespowers]

The first truly influential music video. It spawned years of imitators.

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Actually this was more like it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe9FMoElCoU

 

[jamespowers]

JamesPowers.... are you a mind reader!!
You quoted me before I posted!!

Scary ain't I?

 

[Rafter]

James"Powers'.... do you have "psychic" powers?
Are you a mind reader!! You quoted me before I posted!!

Yeah, the Manhattan Transfer. I always thought them a poor man's Abba or a rich man's Starland Vocal Band.

I hated "Afternoon Delight". I cringe every time I hear it
and any of the "smiley-faced feel good music" of that era.

And you can add Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band (but they made swing-style disco so a lot of people will just dimiss them out of hand...)

As for the "disco swing-style", there was the awful Disco Lucy, Brasil, Tangerine...in fact there were an endless number of "Disco-fied" swing songs!
Thinking about them makes me wanna barf!

That's why I embraced the Clash, Devo, and all the Punk that came out at the end of the 70's in defiance of Disco!

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

As for the "disco swing-style", there was the awful Disco Lucy, Brasil, Tangerine...in fact there were an endless number of "Disco-fied" swing songs!
Thinking about them makes me wanna barf!

That's why I embraced the Clash, Devo, and all the Punk that came out at the end of the 70's in defiance of Disco!

Same here.
Anybody remember "Hooked on Classics"?
(There should be a green sick face smiley for these threads.)

 

[jamespowers]

James"Powers'.... do you have "psychic" powers?
Are you a mind reader!! You quoted me before I posted!!

I hated "Afternoon Delight". I cringe every time I hear it
and any of the "smiley-faced feel good music" of that era.


As for the "disco swing-style", there was the awful Disco Lucy, Brasil, Tangerine...in fact there were an endless number of "Disco-fied" swing songs!
Thinking about them makes me wanna barf!

That's why I embraced the Clash, Devo, and all the Punk that came out at the end of the 70's in defiance of Disco!

The Clash eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAkfHShATKY

 

[jamespowers]

Same here.
Anybody remember "Hooked on Classics"?
(There should be a green sick face smiley for these threads.)

Oh geez, Disco Lucy?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB4-V3RKlRk
Even Lucy can't help that rot. :eusa_doh:

 

[reetpleat]

Two music groups that I loathe from the 70's embraced the thirties.


The Pointer Sister's wore depression era thrift store garb.

The Manhattan Transfer also had the depression era thing going on.http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002I8N.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Nothing against the pointer sisters. ALso love Morris Day and the Time, which wore kind of swing inspired stuff.

Hate the Manhatten Transfer, mainly because they did such a blasphemy to vintage music. Harry Connick Jr on the other hand...

 

[reetpleat]

Devo eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxH39QlRuhg

Never a big punk fan, liked the new wave rock. Love the Clash.

But I don't mind disco at all. Of course there was the pop bad stuff. But at its heart, it ws black r and b, as evolved from the late sixties funk and soul.

Frankly, I see black music in a long continuum running throught out the century. Disco never went away, it evolved into r and b and then rap and hip hop. Some of it is quite good and dancable.

I do like some seventies rock, but in no way do I see it as superior to disco. I honestly think it was a racial cultural thing. Few african americans ever said disco sucks.

Besides that, the Buggles sound pretty discoey to me. Dance beat and synthesizers. Much of the english dance new wave, as opposed to new wave rock, was made by brits who were digging not so much disco, as the detroit techno sound of the late seventies. But don't think that detroit dance music was too far away from disco.

 

[Senator Jack]

And 'Stars on 45' which was a medley of 50s records set to 120 bpm. There was also a Beatles version. There was also a disco version of Dark Side of the Moon. As Roger Kaputnik would say, 'Yecchh!'

 

[Marc Chevalier]

In the coke-addled '80s, the key was to be "hooked on" something.

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[Rafter]

Same here.
Anybody remember "Hooked on Classics"?
(There should be a green sick face smiley for these threads.)

Maj.Nick Danger,
You've got the wrong decade!
The "Hooked On" album series, which included "Hooked On Swing" was an 80's phenomena.
My brother bought me Hooked on Classics in 1982. I played it just one time.
Does anyone want it. It's very dusty but in mint condition!!

 

[Haversack]

I graduated high school in Sacramento in 1976 and UC Davis in 1980 so I have some appreciation for the decade. Looking back, one of the things I remember about the time was a general sense of relief that the Vietnam War and Watergate were over. There was also an attempt to reclaim some sense of innocence and wanting to forget the bad times recently past. That brought out the hedonism that the decade is known for. At the same time, desparation was at a low water mark. You didn't feel that you had to work every waking moment just to be able to live. You could still work a summer job which would earn you enough to go to college the rest of the year. The 'Greed is Good' ethos of the Eighties hadn't yet hit and consumerism wasn't the primary pasttime.

Haversack.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

And the hanky panky was especially fun. We boys who became teens in the early '80s were seriously envious of our older brothers. We missed out on their fun.

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[jake_fink]

Also embracing the 30s and somewhat beyond was Tom Waits, who has made good music from the first record right up to his latest.

 

[deanglen]

High School Graduation in 1977. The thing I hated most about the 70's:Drugs,Drugs,Drugs,Drugs,Drugs,Drugs. Bloody awful!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Yeah, there was a lot of public drug-taking in the '70s. Unfortunately, it continued into the '80s and '90s, though behind closed doors.

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[deanglen]

I'm probably just venting my own personal bad experiences. Those blasted things screwed up so many things in my life. I hate them.

dean

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

On a positive note.

Wow, so much to hate about the sickening seventies.
I was just thinking,...is there anything y'all actually really liked about the seventies???
I can think of some music, for instance, Emerson,Lake,and Palmer, Roxy Music, Yes, UK, King Crimson, Audience,...to name a few.

 

[dhermann1]

Drugs

You have a point there. I finally quit smoking pot around 1982 and it was the best move of my life.

 

[Lincsong]

Yeah, there was a lot of public drug-taking in the '70s. Unfortunately, it continued into the '80s and '90s, though behind closed doors.

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Still goes on in public in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.:rage: