Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

[Jwag]

eh, yea not a disco fan. I guess I mean good rock and country. A major Pink Floyd fan here.

 

[Zombie_61]

I dunno if I would go that far.......

I'm with you on that one. I put disco and the vast majority of music produced in the last 15 years or so in the same category: Noise that I don't/won't/can't listen to.

 

[GHT]

And then we had the 1970's cars. We went from the James Bond of the, Aston Martin DB5, can't post two Youtube clips simultaneously, so you will have to click on the link if you were taking a vacation on Mars in the 1960's, and missed the original, and only worthy, Bond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce1aPY_JQXY

to the fibreglass Lotus Esprit, of the 1970's Roger Moore era.
[video=youtube;qhKifK99e8E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhKifK99e8E[/video]

 

[jamespowers]

Were you even born in the 70s?

Yes.

 

[jamespowers]

One problem is, people don't even know what Disco is! Watch Car Wash, and I bet you think every song on their is Disco? Well, it's not! [video=youtube;M5Z9-QCmZyw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Z9-QCmZyw[/video]

Then it just sucks in general.

 

[jamespowers]

I'm with you on that one. I put disco and the vast majority of music produced in the last 15 years or so in the same category: Noise that I don't/won't/can't listen to.

Noise is a good term.

 

[jamespowers]

And then we had the 1970's cars. We went from the James Bond of the, Aston Martin DB5, can't post two Youtube clips simultaneously, so you will have to click on the link if you were taking a vacation on Mars in the 1960's, and missed the original, and only worthy, Bond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce1aPY_JQXY

to the fibreglass Lotus Esprit, of the 1970's Roger Moore era.
[video=youtube;qhKifK99e8E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhKifK99e8E[/video]

Geez, even Bond stunk in the 70s. :doh:

 

[Stearmen]

Then it just sucks in general.

Still a great song any way you look at it! Then again, the 80s gave us Oingo Boingo, Nuff Said!

 

[LizzieMaine]

If the '70s were a ten-year national migraine, the '80s were lying curled up in a fetal position on the bathroom floor trying to recover from the migraine. For ten years.

 

[jamespowers]

Still a great song any way you look at it! Then again, the 80s gave us Oingo Boingo, Nuff Said!

You mean the way YOU want to look at it and Oingo Boingo sucks too---good eqivocation there.

 

[jamespowers]

If the '70s were a ten-year national migraine, the '80s were lying curled up in a fetal position on the bathroom floor trying to recover from the migraine. For ten years.

Yes, gas lines, Vietnam, 20% interest rates, high unemployment, ugly clothes, interior decorating and accessories was waaaaaaaaayyyy better. lol lol lol

 

[AmateisGal]

Yes, gas lines, Vietnam, 20% interest rates, high unemployment, ugly clothes, interior decorating and accessories was waaaaaaaaayyyy better. lol lol lol

I think things went downhill starting about 1965.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Nah, the slippery slope started in 1945. But the ultimate end result was the same.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Yes, gas lines, Vietnam, 20% interest rates, high unemployment, ugly clothes, interior decorating and accessories was waaaaaaaaayyyy better. lol lol lol

The eighties were awful. Unemployment here was in the twenties for a lot of the time, the clothes were ridiculous, the design sensibilities were even worse, the music was inane, and the general happy-talk zeitgeist was just plain dumb. Iran-Contra, the Savings and Loan debacle, "Greed is Good," yuppies in suspenders, I didn't enjoy any aspect of the eighties.

 

[Fading Fast]

The eighties were awful. Unemployment here was in the twenties for a lot of the time, the clothes were ridiculous, the design sensibilities were even worse, the music was inane, and the general happy-talk zeitgeist was just plain dumb. I didn't enjoy any aspect of the eighties.

So much of it matters where you lived. In NJ, the '80s were like life returned. Prices stabilized (trips to the super market weren't a nerve racking search for older, not-yet-marked-higher food), less people lost their jobs and more people were getting them and interest rates came down so people started to buy homes again. In general, economic life returned.

I am not - not at all, not for a moment - disputing in anyway your experience in Maine, but living in NJ, our experience (or at least my very "Wonder Year" middle-class family, friends and neighbors), in general, saw things get much better.

 

[LizzieMaine]

That was the era in which the evisercation of all of our local industry thru globalization reached a fever pitch -- in rapid succession we lost the textile industry, the shoe industry, the poultry industry, and the fish-processing industry, and the paper industry started its downward decline. Thousands of good union jobs were lost with no hope of replacement, and we're still struggling with the ripples from that -- we've turned into a "destination state" for retirees and gentrifiers, not a state capable of sustaining itself, or its native-born population. People from New York and New Jersey got fat off our blood, but we had nothing to show for it. No, I didn't like the eighties at all.

 

[2jakes]

I think things went downhill starting about 1965.

I know things went downhill starting in 1965.
At least that's the way I felt at 19 & visiting places with strange foreign names
courtesy of my uncle Sam.

 

[AmateisGal]

Nah, the slippery slope started in 1945. But the ultimate end result was the same.

Actually, I totally agree with you. I do like the fashion and music of the 50s, though.

 

[AmateisGal]

I know things went downhill starting in 1965.
At least that's the way I felt at 19 & visiting places with strange foreign names
courtesy of my uncle Sam.

 

[AmateisGal]

So much of it matters where you lived. In NJ, the '80s were like life returned. Prices stabilized (trips to the super market weren't a nerve racking search for older, not-yet-marked-higher food), less people lost their jobs and more people were getting them and interest rates came down so people started to buy homes again. In general, economic life returned.

I am not - not at all, not for a moment - disputing in anyway your experience in Maine, but living in NJ, our experience (or at least my very "Wonder Year" middle-class family, friends and neighbors), in general, saw things get much better.

Yeah, I really think it depends on where you lived as to how you viewed the 80s. For us, the farm crisis colored the 80s. Lean, lean times for us. I still remember walking around our family farm, picking up trash, cleaning up piles of junk or whatever was lying around, because we were expecting to be inundated with a bunch of people for the farm sale. Tough. But we still held on to the farm. My brother farms it now - he's the fourth generation to farm it.