does music from the 70s have any worth?

MRT144 · January 25, 2003, 15:22

there sure was a lot of crap music in the 70s, particularly a lot of disco towards the late 70s. But i think there were two bands that help me have faith in music from the 70s...

led zeppelin the greatest hard rock band of all time and earth wind and fire.

both bands played very different music but exhibit so much quality its almost a shame there arent bands like this today.

discuss

Oerdin · January 25, 2003, 15:24

As a general rule the 1970's can be thought of as the anus of time. Nothing but crap came out of it.

*WELL* a few good things came out of the 70's like me...

Caligastia · January 25, 2003, 15:25

Rush

cavebear · January 25, 2003, 15:27

Well, the early 70's still had some decent rock coming from it. And Paul Simon stayed active, too (when did Graceland come out?). But good music seemed to die until the Ambient Music showed up later...

Ming · January 25, 2003, 15:37

Huh... the 70's produced more good stuff in a single year than all the crap that is being produced now

All the great 60's bands were still cranking it out in the 70's, and their work inspired others to greatness. The stuff now just sucks...

Oerdin · January 25, 2003, 15:39

Quote:

Originally posted by Ming
The stuff now just sucks...

I like apples because they are crisp and delicious while oranges on the other hand are mushy and yucky.

Caligastia · January 25, 2003, 15:55

Quote:

Originally posted by Ming
Huh... the 70's produced more good stuff in a single year than all the crap that is being produced now

All the great 60's bands were still cranking it out in the 70's, and their work inspired others to greatness. The stuff now just sucks...

Youre not listening to the right stuff. Tool's last album was awesome!

notyoueither · January 25, 2003, 15:57

Donny Osmond!

theponyguy1 · January 25, 2003, 16:08

Weezer;s first two albums were awesome and the b-sides to their first two albums were awesome too. Then the Green Album came out...

Caesar the Great · January 25, 2003, 16:23

there was just as much crap back then as there is now

but there was some more good music back then... and it was probably more accesible too

Caesar the Great · January 25, 2003, 16:26

fleetwood mac, aerosmith, boston, springsteen, eagles, floyd etc

thats just off the top of my head

MRT144 · January 25, 2003, 16:31

is that the crap

Provost Harrison · January 25, 2003, 16:42

Quote:

Originally posted by Ming
Huh... the 70's produced more good stuff in a single year than all the crap that is being produced now

All the great 60's bands were still cranking it out in the 70's, and their work inspired others to greatness. The stuff now just sucks...

I bet when you were a kid you'd still reckon you'd like the music of the time. Well you don't, see, you have become the old man you despised as a youngster

Pekka · January 25, 2003, 16:43

Watch it! 70s was the golden times of music!
There is sooooo much awesome stuff from that era.

Adam Smith · January 25, 2003, 16:52

Exhibit A For The Defense....

Not to mention Live At Leeds, Quadrophenia, Who Are You, The Kids Are All Right, .... especially the live tracks.

edits: can't type or spell today

Provost Harrison · January 25, 2003, 16:57

You can say that about any era Pekka, believe it or not, if you dig deep enough...

SlowwHand · January 25, 2003, 17:01

The only taste some of you have is in your mouth.

Oerdin · January 25, 2003, 17:04

Take a look at this picture and then tell the 70's are not best forgotten.

Provost Harrison · January 25, 2003, 17:04

Sometimes I think some of you had a gestation period of 60 years

The Mad Monk · January 25, 2003, 17:10

The Eagles

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Blondie

Jackson Browne

Billy Joel

Jethro Tull

Jim Croce

Meatloaf

The Pretenders

...need I continue?

Buck Birdseed · January 25, 2003, 17:21

Mainstream music pretty much died in 1970 or so, with a lot of actually decent sixties bands turning into bloated, horrible prog-rock monsters. Take Pink Floyd- lovable but awful art-rock scalliwags in the late sixties, enormous, ponderous dinosaurs churning out the most horrible, streamlined bore-rock imaginable just a few years later. Others lasted a few years more- the Stones until 1972, the Kinks 71- but I can't really think of an established sixties band/artist that actually succeeded in productiong nervy, interesting stuff well into the seventies, except possibly Dylan.

No, the decade belonged to much more unlikely heroes. Britains Glam Rockers ruled for a few years, producting at least two earth-shattering acts (T-Rex and David Bowie) plus a number of other decent ones, Philadelphia International kept producing excellent Soul, Bob Marley and Lee "Scratch" Perry were in full swing, but most of the good stuff belonged firmly in the underground.

Like Krautrock, some of the most influential and inspirational music ever. It's not a coincidence that many rate Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" as the most influential album ever- without it, we wouldn't have Hip-Hop, Electronica, Techno...

And, of course, like the huge legacy of Punk and it's predecessors. The Stooges were astounding in the decade's early parts, leading to the evolution of everything from The Dictators to Television, a veritable deluge of astounding mid-seventies bands.

And Power-Pop! is there really any other seventies act quite as marvellous as Big Star? Some of the more commercial stuff in the genre is quite good too, I've got a secret love for Greg Kihn for some reason.

And that's before we get to Funk, to Dub, to Neil Young and Gram Parsons, The Clash, the Talking Heads, to dancehall, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, Al Green, The Staples Singers, Barry White, Sly Stone, Dr. John, The Temptations, Charlie Rich... It was a brilliant ****ing decade. Not as good as the sixties, but miles better than the eighties.

JohnT · January 25, 2003, 17:23

F! Lost a rather long post.

In essence:

Soul and funk,

. Great for getting laid, and some pretty badass tunes as well. Didn't anybody read the earlier 70's music thread?

Disco: Cheezy, but fun. Music for dancing and clubbing, but not music you listen to while driving or in the company of sober people. Nice thing about disco is that it has no pretensions to being anything other than music to get f*cked up to.

Hard Rock: When all that mattered was the music and the lifestyle. True sex, drugs, and rock and roll that can never be duplicated by glossed out hairbands, whiny grungers (and I like grunge), or the usual flow of teeny-boppers. "Man, we're rock stars! Let's party!!!!"

Right now I'm listening to Barry White "Never gonna give you up", when I started the earlier post, Love's Unlimited Orchestra, Love's theme (one of the cheesiest instrumentals ever).

JohnT · January 25, 2003, 17:24

What Buck said.

Buck Birdseed · January 25, 2003, 17:27

What it lacked was good commercial music, except some of the Soul. I don't really mind Disco compared to much of the eighties and nineties stuff, but certainly there were many, many Boney M style Eurodisco trash acts that ****ed over the good stuff (Earth Wind and Fire, Chic, etc.) royally. But remember, the mainstream commercial music of the early-to-mid-seventies was even worse- The Osmonds, The Carter Family, The Carpenters, ABBA... *shudder*

It's all a bit strange, 'cause the break from good to bad music in pure pop is pretty much cleanly along the 1969/1970 divide. Innocent, well-produced bubblegum suddely became crass, exploitative tat practically overnight.

SlowwHand · January 25, 2003, 17:34

Disco, was not designed to be merely listened to.
It was for dancing, and while I'd hardly place it among my all-time favorites, it served it's purpose well.

Provost Harrison · January 25, 2003, 17:36

Now look what you've done, you've set Snapcase off!

JohnT · January 25, 2003, 17:40

Quote:

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
What it lacked was good commercial music, except some of the Soul. I don't really mind Disco compared to much of the eighties and nineties stuff, but certainly there were many, many Boney M style Eurodisco trash acts that ****ed over the good stuff (Earth Wind and Fire, Chic, etc.) royally. But remember, the mainstream commercial music of the early-to-mid-seventies was even worse- The Osmonds, The Carter Family, The Carpenters, ABBA... *shudder*

It's all a bit strange, 'cause the break from good to bad music in pure pop is pretty much cleanly along the 1969/1970 divide. Innocent, well-produced bubblegum suddely became crass, exploitative tat practically overnight.

You are spot on accurate. The... white bread music, for want of a better term, was horrible.

"Don't Give Up on us Baby", "Seasons in the Sun", "Muskrat Love", "Philadelphia Freedom", "Rhinestone Cowboy", "Wildfire" ... John Denver. Ugh.

Jeltz · January 25, 2003, 17:40

Some of you got to be kidding!? The 70's was the time when rock music and especially hard rock was really born.
*cough* Does anyone remember Deep Purple? The very same band, on which modern (hard)rock is widely based. Rainbow, another good example. And the ones already mentioned!

SlowwHand · January 25, 2003, 17:45

John, why don't you dwell on the negatives for a while?

Any era has crap music. So did the 70's. But good, too.

Provost Harrison · January 25, 2003, 17:49

Thankyou SlowwHand, that is all I was trying to say...there is good and bad in every era...I mean, the 70s had punk, how could you fault that?