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Problem: music in 1976 sucked

posted 10 years ago by mburns955
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Graduated HS in 1973 and I think the movie captures the tone of the 70's
But music started to be big business in 1973-1974 time period and it's for the
Most part all down hill afterwards (90's grunge and some punk the exception.
Boston Fleetwood Mac Kansas etc blew. In the movie "Almost Famous" the character
Lester Bangs tells the kid (it's 1973) that music is dead. He was right. By the time I
Got to see Zepelin in 73, they were doing 8 straight days at Garden and had finished all
Their great music (up to h of h album) and everything was about money. Fillmore East
Closed cause they couldn't pay the bands. When money arrives, quality disappears.

[–] millsyooksy 8 years ago

I thought music in the 60's and 70's was the shiznit

[–] Degree7 8 years ago

A list of albums from 1976:

Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder

Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller Band

Desire - Bob Dylan

A New World Record - Electric Light Orchestra

A Day At the Races - Queen

Wings at the Speed of Sound - Paul McCartney and Wings

Silk Decrees - Boz Scaggs

The Royal Scam - Steely Dan

Black and Blue - Rolling Stones

Station to Station - David Bowie

Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy

Rastaman Vibrations - Bob Marley & the Wailers

Genesis - A Trick of the Tail

Legalize It - Peter Tosh

Blue Moves - Elton John

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

One More From the Road - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Well as you can see, this was actually a pretty awesome year for pop music, and the next few years would get even better, with the debuts of many seminal new wave/punk acts.

~ I'm a 21st century man and I don't wanna be here.

[–] purplebear17 8 years ago

Each year has good music.

[–] Degree7 8 years ago

Some years are better than others.

~ I'm a 21st century man and I don't wanna be here.

[–] JrnlofEddieDeezenStudies 8 years ago

Wow, couldn't more strongly disagree that music in 1976 sucked.

[–] Movie_Riggs 8 years ago

Ah, hogwash. Rock and roll was still alive back then. Today's music? Gross. It's like putting a spoon in a blender, turning it on, and stepping on a cat's tail simultaneously.

The day Chuck Norris dies is the day the world ends.

[–] sarkaprokopova 8 years ago

Today's "artists" all sound the same, have zero musical talent and song without any true meaning... their songs are pure nonsense.

There are no real great artists of this 21st century but rather clueless and drunken die-hard celebrities who do it for $$$$.

I was a teen in the 90's but damn the radio at least still played gems from the earlier years. Real music stopped in the 90's - it went all downhill from there and in the past few years I have stopped listening to radio all-together and I don't even follow the crap on Youtube.

[–] 06986 8 years ago

I could not believe a movie that takes place in the 70s and is called Dazed and Confused did not have the Zeppelin song Dazed and Confused in it.

[–] Future_Games 8 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAgp8Y-cUng

It boggles my mind how anyone can think this sucks, the last two minutes are out of this world.

You keep on reminding me of a darkness only I can see

[–] Screen_O_Genic 8 years ago

Nah, it was great, definitely better compared to now. Aerosmith and KISS were at their peak, and AC/DC was slowly gaining momentum. Outside of the mainstream New York Punk was emerging, and the Ramones released their landmark debut that year. One doesn't have to remind one of the said scene in London. Not to mention Disco was brewing and would explode the following year. Great times.

After all... tomorrow is another day.

[–] themidgarzolom 8 years ago

"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man"