Posted on 06/14/2023 7:36:06 AM PDT by DallasBiff
The best period was Whenever Appalachian mountain music was around.
“Teenage Wasteland” better knows as Baba O’Riley
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"Elizabeth Reed" was the name on a random headstone in a cemetery in Macon, Georgia where the band would hang out and write songs in their early days.
Great Steely Dan reference!
It’s a tight race in the early 70s. But Dark Side, Houses and Quadrophenia will always give 73 my vote. No Stones album though, so that hurts it a bit. Exile in 72, so there’s a big claim
“80s doesn’t age well, because of the over-reliance on synths and drum machines.”
It got worse in the 90’s up to today. Young people claim they do not like “corporate” music, yet, their music is nothing but artificially created by corporations and focus groups. They think grunge is some kind of natural. It was, at first, for a few albums, but it’s been corporate writers and planners since.
My preference is mid to late 60’s. Some select bands or specific songs of the 70’s.
Generally find little that appeals to me after that.
I agree!! Soli Deo Gloria!!
70’s - had a great mix of groups / singers at the end of their career and some just starting.
Nevermind was copied by corporate planners ever since. Little in the grunge scene was real after Pearl Jam and Nirvana’s first albums.
How true?
What’s going on?
Master of Reality
Every picture tells a story
Electric warrior
LA woman
Love it to Death and Killer
Maggot Brain
There’s a riot going on
Pearl
Tapestry
Future games I like that era Mac
Ninth grade
I prefer 71’s “Meddle” to “Dark Side” myself.
The Cars' Candy-O was released in late 1979, and I've always said the track "It's All I Can Do" is one of the most underrated hits of the era, and has a definitive 1980s-type sound to it.
Sure, that was definitely a theme. The transition from bohemian youth to middle age comfort by the baby boomers.
Although the main theme remained love and relations between men and women. Break-up and betrayal, heartbreak and recovery.
The subjects that concern my children are tied up in the politics of today. Wokeness, the attempts to re-define human beings, etc. They play out more in the world of Anime and on-line gaming than they do in the music world.
If you think about it, the baby boomers had only limited, low-bandwidth options for thematic conversations about the issues of the day, the Vietnam war and race relations being the main ones, with the changing roles of men and women and their relationships to each other always present too.
Young people today have vastly more bandwidth available to communicate with one another. The role played by music for the baby boomers is now taken on by the internet, with youtube and video games providing a far more immersive experience.
It was real embarrasing to see the hair metal bands trying to go grunge after Nevermind.
60s no contes
They started with The Bobbys (Darin, Vinton, Vee, Rydell, Dylan), folk revival (Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, and many other greats), beach music, girl groups, Motown, British invasion, garage bands, blues (US and British), acid rock, hippie music, The Doors, super groups (Cream, Led Zeppelin) and Jimi Hendrix. It ended with Woodstock.
Other decades, particularly the second half of the 50s, were excellent, but there is no comparison with the explosion of the 60s.
Anything is better than today.
At some point music like many movies became mass produced, formulary, and lost creativity and uniqueness.
I think they figured out the ideal length, beat, range, have some folks write together something, and pick a pretty face to sing or dance to that...
Pre 2000, there was metal, rock, punk, new age, country, techno, frigging Celtic if that floats your boat. There was a lot of true variety and new stuff that was unique/new and today that seems missing. You had a lot of artists that were writing some pretty intense lyrics that told stories or had depth to them: Billy Joel, Garth Brooks, etc.
Today it just feels mass produced and shallow. Dumb stuff that goes boom, boom, but just talks about how you’re bad or have a big di#$.
Anything older seems better, even before my time.
The Cars lost their mojo after Candy-O.
College apartment mates in 78-79, into our own favorites in various rock/blues genres, THAT album (really 3) was the one thing we could all agree on. We wore that one out.
We also saw Neil on the Rust Never Sleeps tour a year or so later.
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