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I was born in the 80s. The LATE 80s. Late enough that I didn't have to worry about any of this crap! I'm so glad I was.
:rofl: Yes, you missed it. I wish I could have at least skipped it.
I was born in the 80s. The LATE 80s. Late enough that I didn't have to worry about any of this crap! I'm so glad I was.
and then i still remember this playing on the radio constantly back then. My dad even had the 45! :eusa_doh:
[video=youtube;dqsjabzdx-4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqsjabzdx-4[/video]
So, with that, you're admitting you didn't hear anything beyond mainstream music, but even if you had, you know you wouldn't have liked it? If you're going to cite Pink Floyd and B-52s in response to my comment, then we can dispense with the idea we're going to have any real conversation about music of the 70s. I won't pretend to know a lot about your 78s if you'll show the conversation the same courtesy and acknowledge your ignorance. Why anyone would claim knowledge of something they never had any interest in knowing about is beyond me.Well, I was collecting and playing Shellac since I was a child, and so for me the 'Seventies were a time of discovery, of "Classic Period" Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman's 1935 sides, early Duke Ellington, The Hot Five and Hot Seven sides, and later in the decade Whiteman "Potato Heads". Acutally, by last musical discovery of the '70's was a big stack of Hit of the Week cardboard discs, found on the day after Christmas, 1979. Of course I heard all of the usual stuff at college. Fellow in the next room played "The Wall" ad nauseum at high volume. Flying Lizards briefly became all the rage (they actually had some pretty good stuff other than "Money"), and of course the B-52's were good for a laugh, but I always returned to the stacks of 78's.
And then I still remember this playing on the radio constantly back then. My Dad even had the 45! :eusa_doh:
[video=youtube;dQsjAbZDx-4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQsjAbZDx-4[/video]
Two beautiful foxes.....
...been awhile since I last heard (or used) that line.
Nah, those are British foxes, courtesy of the Internet.
Two beautiful foxes that were great singers.................AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA the 70s did have 'some' good things about it.
Two beautiful foxes that were great singers.................AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA the 70s did have 'some' good things about it.
[video=youtube;neJL3L1solQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neJL3L1solQ[/video]
So, with that, you're admitting you didn't hear anything beyond mainstream music, but even if you had, you know you wouldn't have liked it? If you're going to cite Pink Floyd and B-52s in response to my comment, then we can dispense with the idea we're going to have any real conversation about music of the 70s. I won't pretend to know a lot about your 78s if you'll show the conversation the same courtesy and acknowledge your ignorance. Why anyone would claim knowledge of something they never had any interest in knowing about is beyond me.
*edited for poor grammar
There was very little of the '70s that I found pleasant, even when I was there.
By the time I was 14 (1973), I had established a style that stayed with me through the rest of the decade, and well into my adult life. I completely bypassed the disco era, in both clothing and music.
I've never met a person who had a thorough knowledge of early to mid-Twentieth Century music who actually preferred Rock, even musicians who made their living playing Rock, for doing so was more remunerative than playing the stuff which they preferred.
I've always had the sense that part of the reason rock has endured as long as it has is that the gigantic all-engulfing amoeba that is the boomer generation has so completely obliterated the memory of anything before 1945 that those who have followed have just accepted it as the status quo.