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Fri Aug-18-06 02:26 PM
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1978 was an awesome year for rock music.... |
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In no particular order, feel free to add/correct...some of this I like better than others.
1979 was awesome too, maybe somebody wants to contribute that list.
Debuts:
Van Halen The Cars Devo Prince The Police Joe Jackson Kate Bush The Boomtown Rats Dire Straits The Jam
The Who -- Who Are You Elvis Costello -- This Year's Model The Band--Last Waltz Queen--Jazz Pieces of Eight--Styx Bruce Springsteen--Darkness on the Edge of Town Rolling Stones--Some Girls Ramones--Road to Ruin Heart--Dog and Butterfly Lynyrd Skynyrd--Skynyrd's First and..Last Grateful Dead--Shakedown Street Neil Young--Comes a Time Doobie Brothers--Minute By Minute Joe Walsh--But Seriously Folks Billy Joel--52nd Street Rush--Hemispheres Boston--Don't Look Back Toto--Toto Blondie--Parallel Lines Buzzcocks--Love Bites Cheap Trick--Heaven Tonight
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Fri Aug-18-06 02:30 PM
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1. the dB's formed in 1978 |
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Even if nothing else happened in the music world that would have made it an awesome year
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Fri Aug-18-06 04:53 PM
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Fri Aug-18-06 04:12 PM
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Edited on Fri Aug-18-06 04:12 PM by smtpgirl
Judas Priest Scorpions Saxon The Stranglers Sex Pistols Dead Kennedy's Kix
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Fri Aug-18-06 04:12 PM
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3. 1978 was an awesome year because |
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Fri Aug-18-06 04:13 PM
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4. I graduated high school in 1978 |
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Fri Aug-18-06 04:40 PM
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5. I'm glad you love it, but if you don't mind, I'll stick to the '60's. |
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Fri Aug-18-06 04:41 PM
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I'm not suggesting you're "wrong", I'd just like to know why you feel that way
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Fri Aug-18-06 06:17 PM
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10. I guess it depends on how old you are and what music you |
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were weaned on. I was born in the mid '50's, cut my teeth on Elvis, grew up with the Beatles, Stones, etc..., graduated from Led Zeppelin U.
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The year I got out of the Navy. All the hippies and freaks had disappearred. But Zappa released Joe's Garage, and I discovered the Clash.
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