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Post by joe on Aug 27, 2024 2:49:34 GMT
The '80's music in retrospect, holds up a lot better than I regarded it at the time. Maybe pop music has gotten continually more crappy as the years progressed. Or maybe, just get off my lawn. I wonder if younger people have similar reverence for their grooves and jams from the 90's, 00's, 10's and 20's. It does seem like music isn't as an important entertainment to today's ears as it was to grandpa Buck's. My adult children (36 and 33) love music but both recognize the I grew up during the golden age of pop music. I have older brothers, so I was heavily influenced with 50’s and 60’s top 40 and 70’s album rock. My sense is that the quality dropped off starting with disco and new wave, then rap and hip hop. Now, if one loves that stuff, then they could argue that music just got better and better. But I beg to differ. To me, the best years for pop music were 66-67-68.
I used to tell people that music went down the toilet in the 70's. In the 70's most of my music came from the radio in my car. At some point in the 70's disco started dominating the airwaves here and I hated disco. So I falsely equated 70's=disco=bad. Took me quite awhile to undo the association. (FYI if one rules out the 70's that would cut out the first 6 BOC albums.)
For grins, tonight I went to the 70's music page on Wikipedia and I found a lot of my all time favorites there. Same thing for the late 60's. Went to the 80's page - slim pickings, but some goodies here and there. Didn't look any further.
The constant for me seems to be what I grew up with in my teens and 20's is what I still like the most today. Always exceptions of course.
Rap and hip-hop to me are so far downhill they're below ground. But a lot of people disagree. Doesn't affect me.
Wonder if any new genre that I really like will come out in my lifetime?
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Post by marty on Aug 27, 2024 13:32:36 GMT
My adult children (36 and 33) love music but both recognize the I grew up during the golden age of pop music. I have older brothers, so I was heavily influenced with 50’s and 60’s top 40 and 70’s album rock. My sense is that the quality dropped off starting with disco and new wave, then rap and hip hop. Now, if one loves that stuff, then they could argue that music just got better and better. But I beg to differ. To me, the best years for pop music were 66-67-68.
I used to tell people that music went down the toilet in the 70's. In the 70's most of my music came from the radio in my car. At some point in the 70's disco started dominating the airwaves here and I hated disco. So I falsely equated 70's=disco=bad. Took me quite awhile to undo the association. (FYI if one rules out the 70's that would cut out the first 6 BOC albums.)
For grins, tonight I went to the 70's music page on Wikipedia and I found a lot of my all time favorites there. Same thing for the late 60's. Went to the 80's page - slim pickings, but some goodies here and there. Didn't look any further.
The constant for me seems to be what I grew up with in my teens and 20's is what I still like the most today. Always exceptions of course.
Rap and hip-hop to me are so far downhill they're below ground. But a lot of people disagree. Doesn't affect me.
Wonder if any new genre that I really like will come out in my lifetime?
Disco in the 70’s, rap and hip hop in later decades didn’t eliminate the baby, it just added more bath water. So, I don’t think the quality of rock or radio pop diminished necessarily, but was over ran and crowded out by those genres that are less appealing, to say the least.Maybe the 80’s and 90’s stuff that I like has seemed to hold up, in part, because it is available in specific formats and I can cherry pick by creating playlists. In the day, we had to Wade through the bath water to get to the baby, or stick to albums instead of radio, which is what I did, because even non disco 70’s radio music was influenced by disco, where 60’s radio was driven by the solo singers, early on, then British Invasion, then the golden age peaked as garage rock and psychedelia seeped in and along with Motown, emerging funk and harder rock, gave the bubble gum a greater flavor. The 70’s music was great, particularly as we shifted away from the radio, towards live performance, album rock, and singer songwriter radio.
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Post by redhouserocker on Aug 27, 2024 13:49:39 GMT
I used to tell people that music went down the toilet in the 70's. In the 70's most of my music came from the radio in my car. At some point in the 70's disco started dominating the airwaves here and I hated disco. So I falsely equated 70's=disco=bad. Took me quite awhile to undo the association. (FYI if one rules out the 70's that would cut out the first 6 BOC albums.)
For grins, tonight I went to the 70's music page on Wikipedia and I found a lot of my all time favorites there. Same thing for the late 60's. Went to the 80's page - slim pickings, but some goodies here and there. Didn't look any further.
The constant for me seems to be what I grew up with in my teens and 20's is what I still like the most today. Always exceptions of course.
Rap and hip-hop to me are so far downhill they're below ground. But a lot of people disagree. Doesn't affect me.
Wonder if any new genre that I really like will come out in my lifetime?
Disco in the 70’s, rap and hip hop in later decades didn’t eliminate the baby, it just added more bath water. So, I don’t think the quality of rock or radio pop diminished necessarily, but was over ran and crowded out by those genres that are less appealing, to say the least.Maybe the 80’s and 90’s stuff that I like has seemed to hold up, in part, because it is available in specific formats and I can cherry pick by creating playlists. In the day, we had to Wade through the bath water to get to the baby, or stick to albums instead of radio, which is what I did, because even non disco 70’s radio music was influenced by disco, where 60’s radio was driven by the solo singers, early on, then British Invasion, then the golden age peaked as garage rock and psychedelia seeped in and along with Motown, emerging funk and harder rock, gave the bubble gum a greater flavor. The 70’s music was great, particularly as we shifted away from the radio, towards live performance, album rock, and singer songwriter radio. Nice analysis...pretty much sums up how I feel about it too...
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Post by sirrastus on Aug 30, 2024 17:45:39 GMT
Hey Buck Do you remember a NJ guitarist {South Plainfield} named Bernie Brausewetter ? was my brother's guitar teaching and in a few local bands....................... said he had dinner with you a few times years ago Interesting as my GF lives in So Plainfield.Her son doesn't play an instrument and lives in No Carolina with his wife but he was a star on So Plainfields High School baseball team Chris Hewitt maybe the name sounds familiar.Yup I take the train to Metuchen when I come in.
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Post by warrior21 on Aug 30, 2024 22:33:49 GMT
Hey Buck Do you remember a NJ guitarist {South Plainfield} named Bernie Brausewetter ? was my brother's guitar teaching and in a few local bands....................... said he had dinner with you a few times years ago Interesting as my GF lives in So Plainfield.Her son doesn't play an instrument and lives in No Carolina with his wife but he was a star on So Plainfields High School baseball team Chris Hewitt maybe the name sounds familiar.Yup I take the train to Metuchen when I come in. As I live in central NJ, love how Buck name-checks Metuchen, Princeton Junction, and Trenton in Train True.
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Post by robreich on Sept 2, 2024 18:39:56 GMT
One nice outcome of spinning End of Every Song frequently on Spotify is that I usually get Flat Out tunes right after it.
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Post by bobs333 on Sept 3, 2024 2:18:29 GMT
Interesting as my GF lives in So Plainfield.Her son doesn't play an instrument and lives in No Carolina with his wife but he was a star on So Plainfields High School baseball team Chris Hewitt maybe the name sounds familiar.Yup I take the train to Metuchen when I come in.
I`m from South Plainfield 1981 grad year Don`t recognize the name Hewitt but that's cool
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Post by Buck on Sept 3, 2024 22:05:14 GMT
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