I Love The 70's

Oh I love the 80's. The 70's were very cool too!

Did they mean to make the 70's seem so much funnier than the 80's, or is it just my impression of the 70's?

WTF? The music sucked. The fashion sucked. The movies sucked. The TV sucked.

I turned to alcohol for an entire decade just to avoid he '80s.

The '70s were way cooler.

The only thing that sucks more than the '80s is the '90s.

Hey now the (retro) trend setters are redigesting the vomit that was break dancing, they've run out of "culture" to copy. There's nothing new after that. I figure they can have one big Bon Jovi festival before they either start over again with '50s cool or they come up with something of their own.

I disagree.

Music got cool again in the 90's.

we got acid jazz, trip hop, big beat, jungle, lounge, drum & bass, and a couple of great artists in other genres as well.

-s*

i just watch that show to hear Mo Rocca's witty commentary

it's an acquired taste

(and yeah I'm old enoufg to remeber the 80's)

my question is are the people they interview old enough to remember?

also, do u think they had a preview of the trends, music etc before they were filmed?

he is funny but I like Hal Sparks comments and the guy from Ed

ya I like Hal Sparks too.. I wish he were back on Talk Soup

i never saw him on talk soup...i used to love the original guy on talk soup...jim or john henson...whatever his name is...but i bet i would have liked hal on it...i remember hal from dude wheres my car yes i actually watched that movie

Is that what all that noise was?!

And don't forget acid hop, jungle jazz, lounge bass and big acid drum house beat.

Indeed.

Greg Kinnear was originally on Talk Soup. Then John Henson. Greg Kinnear was funny. Henson was a dork.

Henson was a dork, but at least he was a lovable dork with blindingly white teeth! Who hosts that show these days? Is it even on the air?

Are you trying to tell me that you missed Jamiroquai, Portishead, and Massive Attack? Moloko?

I find that difficult to believe, even if the names don't ring a bell.

Oh, and:

Cheers to the 80s. Boy, did I hate them.

-s*

Got Jamiroquai and Moloko in the car actually. I like one Portishead song (Glory Box) and a bit of MA but I wouldn't buy their stuff.

You're right though, there was good music made in the '90s. And there was in the '80s too. There just wasn't that much of it compared to the '50s, '60s and '70s.

Luckily Jamiroquai does a great Stevie Wonder impersonation. "If I like it, I just do it, Ooh-ooh-ooh."

Being an old fart, I DO remember ALL of the 70's, even the mid-60's.

The EARLY 70's were cool, but Disco ruined everything.

The 1976 thru 1981 period is where the music SUCKeD! The New Wave stuff had a 'new' sound, where Disco didn't.


By the mid-80's that "80's Style" music had been cloned and ruined, so by the 90's it was back to garbage and pink noise on the radio.


Rap isn't music - it's Spoken Word, and as full of BS, incorrect stereotypes and urban legend subjects as you'll find. Sad that so many of the ignorant masses listen, but somebody has to be stupid enough to work at McDonalds.

Today, there is no new inspiration in music. Copy, dub, sample - the sounds a 'music writer' makes.

The talent of a performer is inversly proportional to the number of gadgets they use during performance.

My thoughts exactly. I always have the urge to bring Songs in the Key of Life with me wherever I go and force people playing that scruffy man's music to play the original version. But any way to get people to go back to SW 70s music is worth it...

Sure.

Though there is some Jamiroquai stuff that is "original" as well.

Trip-hop (kicked off by Portishead) was a real ear-opener to me. After ten years of hell with the occasional morsel, Finally people were doing something new, using computers not to replace tape machines but to actually do stuff that you just couldn't do with tape. And then doing it not because they could (as in the 80s music, and 90s cinema), but because it was necessary musically. People started using 'puters as tools, rather than showing them off.

Lots of cool electronic stuff in the 90s.

Though lots of non-electronic stuff kept me thinking that so-and-so'd already done it a lot better twenty years ago, too.

-s*

Have you never seen The Breakfast Club, with Molly Ringwold (sp?) ? Or Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi?

Representin' for my 80s, hizzo bizzle hizzy.

The 70s had George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy... aaaah!

The great part about these shows is that you didn't have to love the 70s or 80s to enjoy watching the shows - in fact, if you liked them at all you might get offended.

They are sort of a way of looking back and saying, "What the !@#$ were we thinking!!"

All the best commentary (from the previously mentioned Mo 'Media Gadfly' Rocca, Hal Sparks and "the Ed Guy") is making fun of the trend.

Of course, I was born in '74, so I start remembering some of the trends toward the end of the 70s. Being from Montana, most of the trends probably got to us a little late, so I remembered many of the things from '75 on.

It's fun to watch it and go "I HAD one of those things. What the !@#$ was I thinking!"

Of course, I do it more often with the 80s.

Ah, the Mothership Connection. I think I need some funk... runs off to set iTunes to play only funk tunes.

In ten years, there will be a new-found love for the '80s. In 1985 (when I was a senior in high school), I never thought that 70s fashion would ever be revisited.

People who dig a certain decade, never lived in it.

Actually (and this is coming from a real Star Wars fanboy of old), RotJ is a really, really bad film. TESB rocks though.

Late 70's - don't forget the B.T. Express, Brothers Johnson, MANDRILL(!!!!), Bar-Kays, Rose Royce...

Also in the late 70s: Roots reggae.

Well, at least the 80s gave us Prince. (Yeah, I know he got started in the late 70s, but not really). And Michael Jackson (*shudder* - except for "Thriller")

-s*

Here I was thinking you were so much older than I- and you go and name a year that sets us at even.

Remember banana seats and gorilla handlebars on bikes, the girly ones had streamers off the bar ends?

Remember the playing card in the spokes? I was in Minnesota at the time and we drove through Montana in 80 and 81 on our way out to Washington state - collected volcanic ash from Mt. St.Helens.

Ouch, I promise not to act old anymore.



Yeah, I couldn't wait to get the banana seat off my bike when my dad brought it home!

Although, the coolest bike I have ever been on had a banana seat - an Orange Crate. Even had motorcycle style disk brakes. It was sweet.



Yeah, we got lots of ash that year and in 88 from the fires in Yellowstone.

You should have stopped by to say hello and played a game of Beer Run on my Apple ][+!

Hey, me too!
Can anybody say The Police�pre Syncronicity.

The 70's was a great decade for me personally. I got married, graduated from nursing school, became a RN, commissioned in the USAF, bought my first house, began my career at the VA, & entered the USAFR.

The Pol-eece pre-sink-ro-nis-itty.