Posted on 01/29/2011 12:21:50 PM PST by big black dog
Come on.
The later 1960's druggies who believed they could change the world through drugs, wild sex, and weird music came to realize they weren't changing anything -- at least in whatever sober moments they/we had.
Bur we still have the music!
Narrowing that down, the years 64-67 were the very best. The hits were great from that era but my favorites were the huge numbers of local garage bands that made the coolest 45s ever.
No, it was not--in fact, it doesn't even come close. The 1920's was the best decade for popular music, followed by the 1930's.
Just as the MSM desired to be gatekeepers - the now obsolete music publishing industry once limited the number of performers who could get a shot before the general public. That era is over, and good riddance.
I do think there will still be an artist here and there who may rise to some fame, but not at the levels of the past. There is just too much access to so many different styles of music, and people can carry as much music as they like with them at all times.
Unless you lost your virginity to it, I can't see why. Everything Hendrix did was better.
Their Classics!
From which years are the majority of the tunes you hear used in advertisements in 2011? The 60s!!!
I vote for 30’s and 40’s Big Band and Swing.
Tony Orlando and Dawn! The best!
"The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace (1974) is certainly a curiosity. Since the gun battle described in the song took place on Chicago's "East Side," it must have been a naval battle.
One can extract good music out of every decade. Rock has declined alot but Country has been much better. Black jazz of the 40’s, 50’s was great leading up to MoTown 60’s-70’s.
Now Rap is crap but one can look deep to the less popular bands for quality. So much of popular music has focused on the visual theatrics and not enough on the quality of the musicians IMO.
Why, oh why did Hewlett-Packard have to bring back that torturous song “Brand New Key” in their commercial?
Oh, man, you're talking about the Ugly Oldies. "Afternoon Delight," *shudder* "Muskrat Love" *ack*, and I think that awful, dreary, sappy, whining song whose lyrics are, "I Keep Holding On" (other lyrics, "Holding Back the Years." I hate that song! It's depressing and laborious. At least "Afternoon Delight" was peppy!
After 1973 or 1974 music really sucked. You had disco. You had arena rock poseurs with their rock anthems. You had all those bands named after cities or states or geographical features. You had Captain-and-Tennille-type pop -- rodent love, etc. And the war-horses of the 60s -- the Who, Rod Stewart, etc. -- got really self-indulgent and repetitive.
It wasn't all awful, but people were glad when the 80s came around. We can laugh now at the second British invasion with its curious hairstyles, the early smoke and wind-machine days of music videos, and the repulsiveness of punk, but that came as a breath of fresh air after disco and the rest of the 1970s (have to admit it was a good time for American film, but even with movies, it was good to see those days finally come to a close).
After having lived thru the 50’s with Your Hit Parade and Dick Clark, the 60’s with the English invasion and the Beach Boys was the best.
I never had an album or CD of his, but Rod Stewart has an every-man's voice and sings ballads with a lot of spirit, an upbeat spirit. I can't really think of anything I've heard of his that I didn't like, where I'd change the radio channel.
I think Rod Stewart's a real singer.
I would love to catch the Rod Stewart Stevie Nicks concert tour
Suprised ZZ Top not mentioned,
One of the best shows I ever saw was Orbison and KD Lang
What a voice that Orbison...the man had such trajedys in his life
Two words: Big Band!!
I listen to music from the 40’s on up to today’s modern era. Not a whole lot of music from today’s era “moves” me... I prefer music from the late 60’s all the way through the early 90’s. As a musician myself I could list 100’s of great artists both famous and not who produced some fantastic music during this time period. Of course I can also name 100’s of artists through the same period who sucked!
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