mas Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 With all due respect, i think just looking at the main categories of music that dominated each decade makes the difference radically apparent. 1960’s BritishInvasion FolkRock Garage MotownPsychedelic Rockand Pop Soul 1970’s Classic Rock GlamRock NorthernSoul ------- ~mid 70'sDisco Punk Just tally up the number of categories where you feel good about themajority of the music versus you negatives. The 60's own this issue,and if you like Rock, there is no doubt that the strongest period wasthe late 60's to the early 70's. [] But hey, like what you like. This is just intended solely as a fun inconsequential casual comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 How could you forget New Wave? Wasn't synth-pop just getting started near the end of the '70s also? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 I hear ya mas, and agree to the casualness. However, classic rock did not die by the mid 70's. Plus, classic rock had such virtuosity that so-called 60's rock sounded like mere child's play. Plus Zappa was still around to poke fun at all the pretenders. The late 60's and early 70's were definitely a heyday I must agree. I still hold that at the margin, by which I mean that the best of the 70's destroys the best of the sixties.p.s. Has anyone noticed that the thread starter made this one post and has never been heard from again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WMcD Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 I believe I'm with mas here. Certainly the turn of a decade (year 1970) was not a year establishing a watershed of cultural trends. Rather, IMHO, the years of 1965 to 1975 marked fairly well the very beginning, middle, and very end of a critical tidal swell period. Much was crunched in the middle times of that decade, of course. It is interesting to observe that this was when the baby boomers came to be young adults. And there was The War, civil rights, asasinations,The Beatles, the space race, the gas crisis, federal bumpers, no lead gas, etc. Gil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 True william f. gil, it is also interesting to observe that now so many cry about the country going to hell in a handbasket, that it is those baby boomers who are in charge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Wouldn't you say, 65 thru 75 was the real decade of musical change,................. EH, Duke ?????? If we only got a decade you pretty much nailed it,I would go 67 to 77.I'm glad we don't have to choose,there's lotsa good music from many decades. As far as longing for the 70's,I'd be glad to go do it again but I still do it now so....... Also,great pic's and JB needs an intervention,ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 With all due respect, i think just looking at the main categories of music that dominated each decade makes the difference radically apparent. 1960’s British Invasion Folk Rock Garage MotownPsychedelic Rock and Pop Soul 1970’s Classic Rock Glam Rock Northern Soul ------- ~mid 70'sDisco Punk Just tally up the number of categories where you feel good about the majority of the music versus you negatives. The 60's own this issue, and if you like Rock, there is no doubt that the strongest period was the late 60's to the early 70's. But hey, like what you like. This is just intended solely as a fun inconsequential casual comparison. So you want to go with popular culture now? And all this time you gave the impression you were above all that. Jazz is not on your list, maybe you did not seek it out at that time, maybe you just were not exposed to the finer things in music, except drummer jokes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbuckster Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Everyone is going to have a difference of opinion on this type subject, this is only gathering personal opinions on what was a great music decade .....I chose 65 to 75, because that music had the most change and meant something to me ............... from sorta' top 100 AM Radio, to Beach Boys,(Yes, I listened to the Beach Bums, I mean Boys), then progressed to SOUL MUSIC, real music, OTIS, ARETHA, WILSON, and Booker T and The MG's, ever notice how many albums bear STEVE CROPPERS name? and then that JIMI HENDRIX fellow took me for a ride, and I've never returned, EC, JEFF BECK, ALVIN LEE, MICK- KEITH, and the Lads from LED ZEPPELIN ............... Thanks Guys it's been Fun, still is to me, but life moves on !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some will tell you it was the SEX, some will tell you it was the DRUGS, I'm tellin' Ya', it was the MUSIC ................... "LONG LIVE ROCK" ........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mas Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 With all due respect, i think just looking at the main categories of music that dominated each decade makes the difference radically apparent. 1960’s British Invasion Folk Rock Garage MotownPsychedelic Rock and Pop Soul 1970’s Classic Rock Glam Rock Northern Soul ------- ~mid 70'sDisco Punk Just tally up the number of categories where you feel good about the majority of the music versus you negatives. The 60's own this issue, and if you like Rock, there is no doubt that the strongest period was the late 60's to the early 70's. But hey, like what you like. This is just intended solely as a fun inconsequential casual comparison. So you want to go with popular culture now? And all this time you gave the impression you were above all that. Jazz is not on your list, maybe you did not seek it out at that time, maybe you just were not exposed to the finer things in music, except drummer jokes. Give me a bit of a break!... We talk in the thread of Disco and you are chastizing me for dealing with pop culture? How much lower can we go??? That was the topic as defined by everyone so far! And it was a primary break point in the decade - whether either of us liked it or not! (And trust me, it can't get mush lower than Disco...or at least so i thought until the advent of Rap! - the music for people who can't play music!) And jazz - OK, maybe the advent of fusion, but as far as market share or prominence in the 70's, we may as well be talking about Polkas and Square Dancing - which I also failed to list. [] Like it or not, those were the major markets then. And I am not responsible for defining them either. Maybe that is another reason for not missing them them too badly as well![] [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I'll give you that break mas. I'm sorry, just pulling your chain with that one. Like I said earlier, there was good music then, but you had to look in the right places for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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