Nothin' says 'hip' like a giant super chicken decal on your hood. Maybe add one of those chromed chains from your wallet to a belt loop and a dirty NASCAR t-shirt to really tell the ladies you're a man to be reckoned with.
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What we wanted for Xmas 1976
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In 76 I buried my dad (we never really got along), I was stationed in Japan, I was well on my way to being an uncontrollable Alkie.
I wanted Disco to disappear...
I wanted Disco to disappear...
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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Gawd, I HATED disco! 
The entire era of the late '70's sucked exhaust.
Fashion, music, politics, the entire scene...I longed for release.
The entire era of the late '70's sucked exhaust.
Fashion, music, politics, the entire scene...I longed for release.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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Punk!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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The 70s were great!
The Neville Brothers started performing together. Reggae reached its peak. Little Feat recorded their best records. Bob Dylan recorded some of his best, The Rolling Stones recorded their last meaningful records. A lot of the flowering which is usually credited to the 60s happened: Marvin Gaye and the Temptations broke out of the 3 1/2 minute pop song mould with much better and more interesting recordings.
Some of the best funk ever was recorded "Flashlight".
Disco was a blast. Only an-hedonics who can't dance and can't stand the fact that other people are having a good time while they are boring assholes were ever against it.
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The Neville Brothers started performing together. Reggae reached its peak. Little Feat recorded their best records. Bob Dylan recorded some of his best, The Rolling Stones recorded their last meaningful records. A lot of the flowering which is usually credited to the 60s happened: Marvin Gaye and the Temptations broke out of the 3 1/2 minute pop song mould with much better and more interesting recordings.
Some of the best funk ever was recorded "Flashlight".
Disco was a blast. Only an-hedonics who can't dance and can't stand the fact that other people are having a good time while they are boring assholes were ever against it.
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The late 70s begat Van Halen, and once again, it all changed....
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Van Halen didn't change anything. Bland hair metal/cock rock.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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I can't even watch 'That 70's Show' ...other than 'Star Wars' and 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', it had no redeeming qualities. Reggae may have reached its peak, but it didn't start there, nor did it stop there. Disco is dead - Ska stroke lives on!
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Re: What we wanted for Xmas 1976
I believe punk rock came along later.Gob wrote:Punk!
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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And we see why RS mag turned you down for a job....
VH's arrival in 78 sparked the same worldwide change of pace that other artists did, like Dylan with Highway 61 revistied, Zep with 1, Pearl Jam with 10 (Im not going to get into more examples of the same, its likely you have not heard of them or have had them) in such that the industry stopped what it was doing and went 'wha...?' and took off in a different direction.
It would have been more correct (but not in tune with the 70's topic) to list the early 80's as a black hole musically until the better true hair got going
VH's arrival in 78 sparked the same worldwide change of pace that other artists did, like Dylan with Highway 61 revistied, Zep with 1, Pearl Jam with 10 (Im not going to get into more examples of the same, its likely you have not heard of them or have had them) in such that the industry stopped what it was doing and went 'wha...?' and took off in a different direction.
It would have been more correct (but not in tune with the 70's topic) to list the early 80's as a black hole musically until the better true hair got going
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mid 70s for the US with the ramones....but yo uare right, it didnt have much of a worldwide audience until the 80'sdales wrote:I believe punk rock came along later.Gob wrote:Punk!
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Utter nonsense. Van Halen did absolutely nothing new.quaddriver wrote: VH's arrival in 78 sparked the same worldwide change of pace that other artists did, like Dylan with Highway 61 revistied, Zep with 1, Pearl Jam with 10
Dales,
Sex Pistols/Clash/Damned were all major players in 76-77
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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quaddriver wrote: mid 70s for the US with the ramones....but yo uare right, it didnt have much of a worldwide audience until the 80's
Oh god, is there anything that you are not prepared to display your ignorance on. Punk was all but dead by the 80's, it's main years were 76-79. new Wave, New Romantics, Synth pop, hair metal had all taken over from it by 81-82
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so sez you, I will have to stick with the more conventional (and accepted) wisdomGob wrote:Utter nonsense. Van Halen did absolutely nothing new.quaddriver wrote: VH's arrival in 78 sparked the same worldwide change of pace that other artists did, like Dylan with Highway 61 revistied, Zep with 1, Pearl Jam with 10
But then again, guitar based rock rules in the US and the UK (of old), as well as most of europe. This is why you wont find much agreement with guitarists. (check berry, jimi, eddie, and curt are considered the 4 pioneering guiatarist)
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Gob, seriously, PLEASE try to get SOMETHING right before posting?Gob wrote:quaddriver wrote: mid 70s for the US with the ramones....but yo uare right, it didnt have much of a worldwide audience until the 80's
Oh god, is there anything that you are not prepared to display your ignorance on. Punk was all but dead by the 80's, it's main years were 76-79. new Wave, New Romantics, Synth pop, hair metal had all taken over from it by 81-82
3 small venue bands do not a movement make. Dales, was right.By the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and Oi! had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a broad range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk and the alternative rock movement.
(if you want to try your mettle then lock us both in a room without benefit of google. trust me when I say you are in territory you best only visit and not try to stay in)
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Let's see your evidence for them as a band of change and originality then.
I'm not saying the were a bad band, quite the opposite, I loved their stuff. But they were no influence and came up with no major changes to music.
But I see your moving the goalposts again. No one has any doubt Eddie was great, one of the great, rock guitarists, he just wasn’t particularly innovative. Even his tapping, though skilful, was not original.
I'm not saying the were a bad band, quite the opposite, I loved their stuff. But they were no influence and came up with no major changes to music.
But I see your moving the goalposts again. No one has any doubt Eddie was great, one of the great, rock guitarists, he just wasn’t particularly innovative. Even his tapping, though skilful, was not original.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Like Puck Rock was Music. Yea, just as much as Hip Hop/Rap is...
A social movement isn't necessarily a music genre.
A social movement isn't necessarily a music genre.
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quaddriver wrote:Gob, seriously, PLEASE try to get SOMETHING right before posting?Gob wrote:quaddriver wrote: mid 70s for the US with the ramones....but yo uare right, it didnt have much of a worldwide audience until the 80's
Oh god, is there anything that you are not prepared to display your ignorance on. Punk was all but dead by the 80's, it's main years were 76-79. new Wave, New Romantics, Synth pop, hair metal had all taken over from it by 81-82
3 small venue bands do not a movement make. Dales, was right.By the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and Oi! had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a broad range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk and the alternative rock movement.
(if you want to try your mettle then lock us both in a room without benefit of google. trust me when I say you are in territory you best only visit and not try to stay in)
oh you're just being silly now and trying to show how stupid you can be.
Gob wrote:Punk was all but dead by the 80's, it's main years were 76-79
Both styles which did not make it into the mainstream. Before telling someoone how you can beat them without google, try not quoting wiki as your point proving yourself wrong!An idiot wrote:By the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and Oi! had become the predominant mode of punk rock.
here's another wiki quote for you
Now what fucking moron was telling us that these show that Punk got worldwide acceptance in the 80'straditional hardcore has never experienced mainstream commercial success
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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People who were (are?) fans Van Halen were mostly wanabee guitarists who thought the noise they made was impressive because it was loud and fast.
The group's influence on the direction of rock music at the time cannot be compared to Dylan, Zeppelin or even Pearl Jam's.
Of course, there are people who believe that David Cassidy, Shaun Cassidy and Donny Osmond were very influential in changing the direction of music.
It all depends on how sophisticated your taste is...
The group's influence on the direction of rock music at the time cannot be compared to Dylan, Zeppelin or even Pearl Jam's.
Of course, there are people who believe that David Cassidy, Shaun Cassidy and Donny Osmond were very influential in changing the direction of music.
It all depends on how sophisticated your taste is...