an amorous party at a farm

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Courtesy of freakytigger and indeed FreakyTrigger, apparently we have all resolved our generational difficulties and become one big happy Radio Two family since 1966. Blimes.

Arbitrary Woodstock reference WTF

Of course you can't have an innaccurate and limited poll carried out without poptimists getting involved, with our great experience in POLL SCIENCE and superior democratic methods. Err. Anyway, I'm clearly not the best mod for this task but away we go.


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It would be more thorough but I appear to be experiencing mild 'stealing wireless fail' so thought I'd just shove it out here quick.

Comments

Re: there was a dog! he had two bones!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Martin's list would be very similar to Pfork's I strongly suspect - maybe tilting the balance towards soul and funk but probably not by much.

Can't see the Guardian's being better.

I agree with both points of your last sentence. I ignored the past for most of my life - this decade it's become a LOT easier to access the rich tapestries tho innit.

Re: there was a dog! he had two bones!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

In all fairness, the fifties and sixties I would bother with but the seventies seem like such a desolate tundra, as cis put it. Although that said I did used to listen to loads of rock/punk from then so eh.

Re: there was a dog! he had two bones!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i would say i think each period is equally worthy but i guess there is something about the technological (and cultural) transitions of the 70s that interest me more than what was going on before then. not as much as the 80s tho obv.

it strikes me as far from desolate tho - lots of different things going on, lots of relatively new ideas and game-changin'...either more so than before or as much.

Re: there was a dog! he had two bones!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

This is so, so wrong (the desolate tundra bit)

Re: there was a dog! he had two bones!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Mnn; to be honest, I think it's probably more I can't identify a specific seventies sound as well as I can a sixties or fifties or eighties one. I just had a think and there's loads of seventies stuff I like, it's just I think of it as [genre] not [era].

Re: there was a dog! he had two bones!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I had never really tried to think of "the 70s" as an era (rather than a succession of genres) until Ned Raggett gave me Rhino's Super Sounds Of The Seventies box set as a wedding present.

Having listened to that (and the similar Disky set)... it was a very, very odd time. Not necessarily more varied than the 80s, or the 90s, or whatever. Just much harder to get into the heads of the people making the records and imagine WHY they were writing and recording the things they were.