So @ work, I live the cube life and yesterday, my neighbor was talking

[The Polack MSgt]

Shit about music.

Ignorant dismissive nonsense about music - from someone who likes Florida Georgia Line?

Yeah. That bothers me.

Anyway the quote that got me stewing was "70s music sucked, it was all awful" He is - of course - WRONG.

Hell he'd have been wrong if he drooled out this string of gibberish words about ANY 10 year period of music.

But the 70s? There were timeless master pieces released in every genre, although Funk and Disco seem to be the most talked about.

So excuse me as I soothe my butthurt with some examples of classic 70s music

Of course R&B/Disco/Funk was a huge part of that decade. So I'll start there.

This Commodores cut is amazing

In the 70s Jazz infused pop and rock songs and even had an occasional turn on broadcast radio

Perhaps no one blended popular music with Jazz and Rock elements as well as Steely Dan

Although bands such Hiroshima and Weather Report pushed at the boundaries of Jazz and Popular music too.

Country music was getting sick of sequins formulaic writing and slick production.

And the people who led that insurrection were longtime stars and songwriters based in Texas

And Rock and Roll exploded into a dozens of areas ands styles. The decade that started with the Beatles saying goodbye

Ended with the Talking Heads playing Life During Wartime

And in between all of that, there were the Stones releasing classics, Led Zeppelin being Led Zeppelin and a 7 year golden age of Southern Rock.

But the band that defined what a 70 Rock Band was? That would be Aerosmith

It's easy now to forget how great they were then. Because they buried their gems under a pile of "Crying Amazing Baby"nonsense in the 2000s. But oh my word they were a rampaging beast of a hard rock band in the 70s

[captain queeg]

1. Mama kin

[The Polack MSgt]

10. Love that song as well.

Almost went with this one - because GUITARS!

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[PJMcK]

2. Clearly, your cube-mate is musically ignorant

To state that any period of time had lousy music simply shows that they have no idea what they're talking about.

Every era has good art and less than good art, in all genres. This has been true throughout Western history. The good survives and the rest fades away.

You picked some excellent choices. Thanks for the afternoon playlist!

[The Polack MSgt]

5. Exactly right. I can find trash and treasue in every decade

Enjoy the tunes.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. And Joni...

[The Polack MSgt]

7. Nice - Haven't listened to this record in years

Thanks!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

11. My pleasure!

There was a LOT of great music in the 70's, no matter what your taste!

[qazplm135]

4. I was born in 70

and I find just about everything about the 70s unappealing.
The clothes, the music, the TV and movies, smoking everywhere, the colors, the style.

There's obviously a handful of great things...Star Wars, the Exorcist, Good Times...but a whole lot of dreck.

The 70s to me was a transition period from the 60s to the 80s.
It was also a period of Vietnam where we were truly scattered and lost as a nation.

now, the Reagan years were not great politically for sure, so don't get that twisted.

[The Polack MSgt]

6. I believe in the 90% rule

that is - 90% of everything is bad.

There were steamy piles of awful in the 60s and 80s too - But I would never dismiss out of hand a 10 year span of anything

[qazplm135]

15. I don't know

a lot of new things were created in the 80s. Technology and culture united. The 60s and 80s were a time when things were significantly changing, for good and for ill...and that creates culture and art (for good and for ill).

The 70s was rather stagnant by comparison...and IMO the culture and art it created was likewise stagnant.

saying every decade is the same is no different than "dismissing out of a hand a 10 year span of anything."
You've just traded in a small broad statement for a large broad statement.

[world wide wally]

8. The 70's were the golden days of music.

Every genre.

[Anon-C]

9. Teach em, MSgt!

[DBoon]

12. David Bowie, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Television, The Clash, Kraftwerk

To add to the other lists

[The Polack MSgt]

13. When I do a post like this, the hardest part for me

Is limiting myself to a handful of examples.

Hell I spent 10 minutes deciding on Talking Heads as the new wave entry.

Leaving out any vids from the Sex Pistols, Stiff Little Fingers, AC/DC, Clash, Allman Bros., Rush, hurt me as well.

Hell, I never even mentioned the Singer Songwriter movement - No Jim Croce, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Seals and Crofts, Joni Mitchel or Harry Chapin.

I could have posted this many or more songs just on 70s funk and would still feel like I had left out too many greats... I am a little shamed about Bowie though...

That is a solid list DBoon, no doubt about it.

[DBoon]

14. No Prob

I listed these not just for their inherent talent but for being pioneers in musical genres that lasted decades.

Would there be EDM without Kraftwerk?

Would there be Ambient/Trace without Eno?

"David Bowie influenced more genres than any other rock musician" [link:https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6843061/david-bowie-influence-genres-rock-star|

[littlemissmartypants]

16. I just want sideburns to come back into fashion. The rest is gravy.

Thanks for the post, The Polack MSgt.

[sdfernando]

17. I can't believe you left out QUEEN

Their Night at the Opera album was nothing short of amazing.

[The Polack MSgt]

18. Yeah - In hindsight, I should have included Queen

[Ohiogal]

19. Not listen to 70s music??

I might as well cut my arm off.

I hope you set that guy straight, MSgt.

[The Polack MSgt]

20. Well he's kinda Trumpish. I limit my face 2 face time because of that

Shockingly enough he is also one of those habitual dude explainers.

So i let my "accidental" giggles comment for me...

[cemaphonic]

21. It was a pretty pivotal decade for classical music too

Philip Glass and others got people interested again after decades of composers only writing music for other composers.