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03-07-2011, 09:09 PM | #261 (permalink) | ||
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I consider the 70's more intriguing than the 60's in some ways from a socio-music point of view. 1972, for instance, saw both Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick and Yes's Close To The Edge shooting straight to the top of the Billboard 200 for a time that year. And by that point Emerson, Lake and Palmer were well on their way to superstardom also: they'd be selling out arenas left and right until the end of the decade despite how pretentious, lengthy and overblown many of their works are.
Anyway, I think the former of the two albums mentioned (Thick As A Brick) is of particular curiosity because it's basically a 44 minute suite that got cut in half because of the vinyl format, and yet it was both a critical and commercial smash hit: were people's attention spans really that much better in my parent's generation than today? Although I'm pointing out the obvious here, music like that isn't marketed to as wide a range of demographics as it used to be, if at all. It's a curious phenomenon that seems to be unique to that decade.
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03-07-2011, 11:16 PM | #262 (permalink) | |
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03-08-2011, 09:01 AM | #265 (permalink) |
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03-08-2011, 02:52 PM | #267 (permalink) | ||
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I agree with most of your points. Maybe we disagree just because most of what I listen to is from the 60s/70s. I still firmly believe that certain decades see a greater output of better quality music than other decades. I mean, proof that creatively stagnant (comparatively) eras exist in the first place is the Dark Ages. I don't see how this can't be applied to music as well. Last edited by zachsd; 03-08-2011 at 03:01 PM. |
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03-08-2011, 03:32 PM | #268 (permalink) |
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unfortunately I have.
That aside, Phish fans absolutely think the 60's were better. And I'll roll the dice on them believing the Dead are better than Phish.
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The way I see it, there are periods that see creative explosions in the short span of time (I agree with that), but what comes after that is not creatively stagnant. On the contrary, those periods usually present further development of new ideas, more linear development and most importantly, more focused. Creative explosions carry some chaos with them, what comes afterwards is crystallizing and fulfilling of potentials. When it comes to music, I see another creative explosion, beside 60s, that also lasted for a short time - punk/new wave/post-punk period. In the light of what I said above, I see the 80s as a further development and fulfillment of those new ideas, so definitely not stagnant.
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And also - Phish fans HATE Dead comparisions; Phish is nothing like Grateful Dead.
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