I was thinking about Rock music, and asked myself about Rock music's best decade. I think from the 60 to the 70 Rock music, and Pop music lived a very happy era, everyone was really happy making and listening to music, until the fucking 80, there was all this UNDERGROUND v/s POP... it sux.
I stay with the 60, (65 to 69) 70 was cool but... Led Zeppelin is too boring.
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I dunno about best per se, but probably ...
I dunno about best per se, but probably the most important decade for rock was the 60's.
-the Led Zep thing- each to their own ...
-the Led Zep thing- each to their own dude.
late 60s threw the 70s. Plus early 90s...
late 60s threw the 70s. Plus early 90s
late 60s = best ever period in music, ...
late 60s = best ever period in music, 1969 is undisputedly musics greatest year EVER!!!
//everyone was really happy making and ...
//everyone was really happy making and listening to music, until the fucking 80,
Nah man... Everyone in the eighties decade were by far the happiest... with the amount of cocaine going nobody could be sad. 80's were like the hangover of the 70's. When everyone sobered up in the 80's, looked in the mirror and saw their big hair... they went on to make the most interesting rock music.
Elvis was the best decade, both PoP and ...
Elvis was the best decade, both PoP and Rock at the same time. And fuck he was a sexy bitch.
elvis is the BEAST!!! - i mean to me he ...
elvis is the BEAST!!! - i mean to me he invented music
sam, you should be sent to a rice field ...
sam, you should be sent to a rice field for that comment
hey dont knock it saul - some of your ...
hey dont knock it saul - some of your favorite death metal bands have there roots in elvis - elvis was originally southern blues heavy metal originated from southern blues of the 50s.
get the picture?
Did Elvis have any influences?...
Did Elvis have any influences?
I think that Elvis is important, but ...
I think that Elvis is important, but it's NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT person in Rock.
Without Elvis, there would be no BEATLES, but Elvis influences over the Beatles you can hear them on their first albums (62 to 65). So in other words, Elvis was a major help for the 4 fabs to play music, not to write good stuff. In fact, Elvis hated those hippie albums. He was always against "young drugaddict hippies"... funny, very funny, cause he O.D. and died.
I'm always comparing Elvis to Hendrix, cause most of the old people choose Elvis instead of Hendrix, just because Hendrix drugaddict life was better known.
Elvis and Hendrix died the same way, DRUGS.
Ehhh, shit, I was saying Hi to my grandparents and I forgot the whole thing.
Ehh where was I??
I thought the Beatles were more into ...
I thought the Beatles were more into Chuck Berry than Elvis Presley. Didn't Lennon make some quip about Berry being the fifth Beatle?
Although Elvis's impact on pop music can't be downplayed, I don't know of any way in which Elvis himself was actually innovative. Which is not to say I don't like some Elvis songs, but he'll be like, say, Eminem... someone talented who gave a lot of people a way into a kind of music they previously weren't interested in / hadn't been exposed to.
I didn't want to pick Eminem because I'm not trying to play the race card, but I can't think of another contemporary example off-hand. Please don't pick apart my comparison too much. :)
Now I think about it, pop music's not really about innovation or technical skill is it? (this is not a criticism - I don't have much interest in listening to music solely because it's different or is complicated)
Here's the template. Apply it to any ...
Here's the template. Apply it to any year.
10 years ago - too recent to have many fond or negative feelings about.
20 years ago - horribly embarassing. "The decade taste forgot".
30 years ago - new appreciation for the styles previously laughed at.
40 years ago - a golden age of innovation and style.
50 years ago - groundbreaking creative period, the likes of which may never be seen again.
Haha, I've always thought pretty much ...
Haha, I've always thought pretty much the same thing, at least that about 20-30 years after fashions have past is when people start to think they're OK again. Look how huge the 50s were in the 80s!
In John Ralston Saul's 'The Doubter's Companion' (basically a satirical dictionary) he defines a fashion as a thing which we are embarrassed about when we're caught up in the next one. Spot on, I reckon.
Oh, I have that book! It's so cool. ...
Oh, I have that book! It's so cool. Perhaps this is a sign that I should dust it off and give it another reading.
As far as I can remember, The only good ...
As far as I can remember, The only good thing out of the 50s was TV...
60s - Lets pretend we went to the moon!
70s - "Better than the Best, and harder than the rest"
80s - Jandals on the end of drainpipes....
Mind you, even tho. the 70s were the best.... I mean Hendrix man..... phaaa.... An extremely good 90s film was set in the 80s.... U can probably guess it, hell you lot might think of an even better example!
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for onc eim with you there Grampa i ...
for onc eim with you there Grampa i have to agree that the 60s and 70s where the greatest music has ever had (favorites being between 1966 and 76 - the era of Rock, originality and freedom) sadley since Kurt Cobain passed Music has forever been going on a downhill run with the domination of no-talent attention starved manufactured pop "acts" that fade after 3 weeks on the charts then its all back to collecting welfare cheques from WINZ every week, for music to be successful it has to be remembered for generations to come - Musical legends such hendrix, sabbath, The Beatles, the who, led zepplin, nirvana and Korn will probably be remembered and listened to for generations to come whereas no-talent crap like Britney Spears, NSync, Backstreet Boys and Avril will be forgotten in 5 years and in 20 or so years mention these names and people ill think "who the hell??"
< 10 years ago - The Birth of No-Talent noise nobody would even dare call "music"
10 years ago - Began the downturn of music
20 years ago - something id laugh at nowadays
30 years ago - The Peak of rock and rock legends
40 years ago - The Beginning of Legendary groups and the rock era
50 years ago - The Birth of a sound that changed the way music would be listened to for generations to come, truely an innovating period indeed.
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the backstreet boys own korn...
the backstreet boys own korn
// 50 years ago - The Birth of a sound ...
// 50 years ago - The Birth of a sound that changed the way music would be listened to for generations to come, truely an innovating period indeed.
This may well describe the amazing stuff happening today. The innovative stuff that's happening is not rock, of course, else it couldn't be truly innovative.
//whereas no-talent crap like Britney ...
//whereas no-talent crap like Britney Spears, NSync, Backstreet Boys and Avril will be forgotten in 5 years and in 20 or so years mention these names and people ill think "who the hell??"
Fuck I hope so. I really don't want little people of the future thinking that the only music that existed back when I was short was that mass produced crap. Imagine teens of the future looking through there parents not record but cd collections and finding nothing but the afore mentioned bollocks. eeuschh
//whereas no-talent crap like Britney ...
//whereas no-talent crap like Britney Spears, NSync, Backstreet Boys and Avril will be forgotten in 5 years and in 20 or so years mention these names and people ill think "who the hell??
yeah, just like Kylie Minogue and George Michael.
Here's a link to the top 100 singles ...
Here's a link to the top 100 singles of 1969. These were the artists that would've been getting radio play back then. How many of these artists are people still listening to?
Pretty stoked to see 'Cissy Strut' in there. I love that tune. And it's funny to think of Isaac Hayes being the man back then, when now he's just the voice of a cartoon chef who makes crap double entendres. :) :)
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It's really good to see the number of ...
It's really good to see the number of lite pop songs, like the Cowsills doing the theme from "Hair" and the so-sweet-it-hurts "Build Me Up Buttercup" by the Foundations. No doubt all the long-haired, pot smoking angsty teenage boys of the day bemoaned all the crap that was in the charts.
It's also interesting to see the number of groups named in the "[First name, Last name] and the [Nouns]" way. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Tommy James and the Shondells, Sonny Charles and the Checkmates, John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band. Actually it's even more interesting that Mr Lennon took that form of billing because when they first started the Beatles caused a bit of a ruckus by billing the whole band as one name.
heheheh hippie albums. 1969 was also ...
heheheh hippie albums.
1969 was also the Debut of Black Sabbaths first album and single Evil Woman/Wicked World
// "[First name, Last name] and the ...
// "[First name, Last name] and the [Nouns]"
Heh, in the 80s there were a lot of acts called "[First name]", then in the 90s I reckon it all tended towards "[Noun]" - preferably "[Monosyllabic noun]". I think we might look back on the noughties and note the number of tunes by "DJ [Noun] featuring [First name]". [First name] is still pretty popular for starlets, though. :)
<i>//No doubt all the long-haired, pot ...
//No doubt all the long-haired, pot smoking angsty teenage boys of the day bemoaned all the crap that was in the charts.
They'd all be into Black Sabbath, Iron Butterfly, Blue Cheer and Uriah Heep.
80's...
80's
60's for the beatles 70's for ...
60's for the beatles
70's for obvious reasons
The late 70's provided the blueprint ...
The late 70's provided the blueprint for modern rock music that came after - david bowies berlin era - punk, beginnings of new wave. basically a reaction againt the long haired sleaze rock that had just begun to get a bit stale by then. Joy Division, The Cure, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Wire, Elvis Costello, etc etc. oh to be there...