January 26, 2003, 08:11
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Settler
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@Dissident: How about adding Rainbow? Never heard?
The 90's had countless one-hit wonders (those kinds that sold a lot, but I didn't listen to) and looks like the same is going to apply to this decade too. Face it people, rock, hard rock & metal were really born during the 70's.
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January 26, 2003, 11:00
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King
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One name: DAVID BOWIE
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January 26, 2003, 13:47
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The only decade that was utter trash for music was the '80s. Name one '80s band that people still like.
I think the difference between the '70s and now is that you could find good stuff on the airwaves in the '70s - more good stuff was relatively mainstream while today to get the really good stuff you have to dig. Right now I don't think I have a single group in my playlist that gets airtime on any radio station I can get (not saying much since we a country, a top-40, and an "alternative/hard-rock" station). Anybody else wonder why more stuff doesn't get airtime? I understand that major publishers push their crap on radio stations, but some good stuff should get on there occassionally due to the odds game.
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January 26, 2003, 14:14
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80's band that people still like
Metallica (although they probably suck now  ), but people still like them.
Again see my earlier post about decades. Every decade had good music. The 70's was the prime time for heavy metal. But the 80's had many good heavy metal bands. At least until hair metal took oever  . That's a sad point in history. And I liked a lot of that European pop from the 80's  . Yes I know, embarrassing.
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January 26, 2003, 15:11
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Deity
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I still like much from the 80s. Maybe it's just nostalgia for my growing-up years. Even Michael Jackson was good back then...
There's an all-80s stream (128k) on Shoutcast that is really cool.
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January 26, 2003, 22:59
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King
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The 70s sucked for a lot of reasons, but music thankfully wasn't one of them. The 70s was a crossroads for various musical styles. Waning were hippy rock groups, folk, vocal pop, jazz (of many styles). Nonetheless there were still bands touring that played these styles if you were into them. Waxing were glam rock, hard rock, heavy metal, punk, funk, electronic, and new wave. The sheer number of bands and styles meant that it was a golden age for the consumer, and one that was coming to a harsh end in the early 80s, when a lot of bands, labels etc. folded. We were left with musical marketing not in vogue since Elvis, where "stars" like Madonna, Prince and Michael Jackson parlayed their slim musical talents and much more considerable marketing talents into juggernauts that dominated the radio and sparked a counter revolution of indie labels and a lot of fun weird bands (Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers etc.).
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January 27, 2003, 02:34
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King
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The Seventies were my formative musical decade- a decade that in retrospect, made musical experimentation seem possible, when groups such as Cabaret Voltaire could cite Motown and Isaac Hayes as influences, although producing electronic soundscapes that sounded nothing like 'Baby Love', or 'I Stand Accused'.
Seventies albums that have lasted/will last:
David Bowie: Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust (although not my favourite album of his) Station to Station and Low
Roxy Music: Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure and Stranded
Can: Soon Over Babaluma and Ege Bamyasi
Curtis Mayfield: Superfly, There's No Place Like America Today
Isaac Hayes: Shaft and Black Moses
Magazine: Real Life
Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Scream
John Cale: Vintage Violence
Lou Reed: Transformer
Terry Callier: Fire On Ice
T. Rex: Electric Warrior
Blondie: Parallel Lines
Television: Marquee Moon
Patti Smith: Horses, Easter
Talking Heads: Fear of Music, More Songs About Buildings and Food
Clifton Chenier: Bayou Blues
Roberta Flack: Killing Me Softly
Laura Nyro: Gonna Take A Miracle
Aretha Franklin: Young, Gifted and Black, Spirit in the Dark
Isley Brothers: Harvest for the World
War: The World is a Ghetto
Nick Drake: Bryter Layter, Pink Moon
Fairport Convention: Babbacombe Lee
Sandy Denny: Sandy
Brian Eno: Another Green World, Music For Films and Discreet Music
Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic and Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Harold Budd: The Pavilion of Dreams
Philip Glass: Music in 12 (Parts 1 and 2)
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On? Let's Get It On and Here, My Dear
Bryan Ferry: The Bride Stripped Bare
Gil Scott Heron: From South Africa to South Carolina and Winter in America
Neil Young: Harvest
Emmylou Harris/Gram Parsons: Grievous Angel
Nico: Chelsea Girl, Desertshore
Kraftwerk: Autobahn, Trans Europe Express
Cabaret Voltaire: Mix Up
and many, many more
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January 27, 2003, 06:48
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Emperor
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And being a wannabee altenativo I am now stuck with crap from Genesis, Yes and all those other bands that made 25 minute songs just to show how technically perfect they were. Not to mention all that jazz-rock ****.
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I protest.
there was only one genesis song lasting some 23 minutes, and it was a suite.
genesis never claimed they are technically perfect.
Au contraire, some of them claimed that they aren't musicians at all, just composers.
there are songs that are a bit too long and boring - like "Duke's travels' - but there are few of them.
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