Problem: music in 1976 sucked

This is true, but just because it's 1976 doesn't mean they are ONLY listening to music that came out in 1976.

No.

Fleetwood Mac ruled the 70s. And their music was very good.

At least back then, you had to know how to play an instrument, sing and how to write your songs with good hooks.

Today they just steal everything that isn't locked under copyright and even that doesn't stop them.

I miss those days. It wasn't simpler just a lot less frenetic.

Hey, it was a whole lot better in '76 than it has been for the last 20 years or so.

Anything after Ray Charles, James Brown & George Thorogood sucked, lol.

As with every era of popular music, eventually the "money men" find a way to co-opt it and turn something wonderful into so much manufactured garbage. One need only look at what is happening in music today (and what has been happening since the start of the "American Idol" era) to see how bad it can get. In the past, there are has always been some sort of grass roots rebellion among musicians and fans that forces the industry to change (at least until the money men can figure out a way to co-opt the new sound). In 1976, one of those "rebellions" was just getting started with the rise of the punks in response to the "corporate" and "prog" rock that was becoming a bit too pretentious and boring for its own good. However, at that point, you weren't hearing any punk rock on the radio. Since this movie is about teenagers in their cars listening to the radio, the soundtrack mimics what they would have heard coming out of their car radios. In that sense, the soundtrack was perfect even if, yeah, some of the songs weren't exactly what we'd call great music today.

Well I was in Houston for most of '73 and it was a great time for all kinds of music. Don't where your radio was set to, dude or what kind of taste in music you had. There were all kinds of fusing of different genres. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was topping the FM playlists. I was always searching for the new sounds. In '73 the Dutch bands were big. Bands like Focus and Finch, which were guitar/synth bands every bit as prog-rock as Emerson, Lake & Palmer. On K1O1 in Houston in the summer of 73, you could hear 2 or 3 cuts from H of H (which is a great album), PF's Dark Side, ZZ Top's Tres Hombres, Mandrill's Composite Truth, Focus' Hocus Pocus, Steely Dan's Countdown to Ecstacy, Stevie Wonder's Talking Book, Earth, Wind & Fire's Heads To the Sky, and so much more. I always point to that year as one of the best. I would later discover a lot of the greatest electronic and jazz music came out that year also. I have a playlist on my phone called Houston '73.

Music sold out when disco came in. Punk began to purge it along with the commercial rock, but with the release of Saturday Night Fever, disco was brought back to life worse than before. To make things more nauseating, Urban Cowboy brought country to pop radio. Luckily, punk was continuing to have a purging effect, and spawned New Wave, but I wasn't into any of that yet. I turned to jazz, the original alternative music, led there unknowingly by my old favorite bands like the Doors and Traffic, Mexican rockers like El Chicano, Azteca, Malo and especially Santana, who had recorded their first fusion jazz album right under our noses, Caravanserai in 72, making the transition so smoothly, we never doubted it was rock. In 73, FM radio was playing cuts from Carlos and John McLaughlin's Love, Devotion & Surrender album.


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OK, first off... you're an idiot. Hopefully in this last year and a half you've had time to think about this post. I was a teenager in 1976, and there was amazing music all over the place. But of course, some with their ears muffled by their butt cheeks would't necessarily know that. You're just so wrong. Every gen says the same thing about their time being the best. But non idiots like myself know that good music can come from anywhere, and does. There has been good music in every generation, every decade - and in different genres. Your pinheaded narrow view of music, the industry and life in general is to be laughed at and derided. Not only that, bro, but since you also graduated HS in 1973, you're a f'ing dinosaur. Just an old man with outdated opinions and poop in his depends. Do me a favor and go take a nap. Leave the musical opinions to those of us who appreciate it, and understand how to see beyond our own noses. Damn, 61 years old and you are this bitter? Go away.

I don't cherish the more flashy music of that era, but there was some good stuff being made ('specially if you're into more than just rock music). As far as the soundtrack in this movie goes, it's not bad but so much of it is filled with songs you hear in virtually every movie set in the 1970's, so... meh.


Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!