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Post by Credo on Nov 25, 2019 23:18:51 GMT -8
This list, billed as the Top 100 Most Iconic Songs of the 60's, is pretty good. Hard to argue with the selections. Being on the younger side of this board, I'm a little more partial to the 70s and 80s but what a decade of music it was between 1960-1969.
It's well worth the 16 minute stroll down memory lane.
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Post by slk230 on Nov 26, 2019 4:32:28 GMT -8
I totally agree with you as those were my days and were the very best. I would also add the 50's were pretty darn good also. The music of the 50's/60's was about love and feeling good. Much of today's music is IMO crazy.
Songs of killing cops and denigrating women??? Rap? Is that even really music?
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Post by Bick on Nov 26, 2019 7:12:08 GMT -8
Seems like today you can find feel good songs mostly in the country genre. Pretty sappy lyrics, but at least you can understand them... I had a BBQ stain on my white T shirt...
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Post by MDDad on Nov 26, 2019 9:14:25 GMT -8
A few observations:
(1) Yes, the 1960's were the best decade for music ever. From the innocent, carefree, teeny-bopper songs of the first half of the decade to the more accusing, harder-edged, socially conscious songs of the second half, it was a period like no other. However, a top 100 list with only one Bob Dylan song is probably a sacrilege. Dylan and Kris Kristofferson were the two greatest poet-lyricists in the history of pop music.
(2) Given that I'm older and white, no, rap is not really singing, and it can barely be called music. It's stringing together a bunch of bad rhymes and involves no singing talent. Anyone can rap, but very few can sing.
(3) Country music has reverted back to the slick Nashville sound of the 1970's, where every male singer sounds the same, and female singers have been all but excluded from the business. The best documentary I've ever seen was the 16-hour Ken Burns series on country music that aired on PBS two months ago. Anyone who takes the time to listen to Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard and a few others would be saddened at what country music has become today.
(4) I think the 1960's were the best decade of music ever, but I fully expect Luca to chime in and convince us how great the 30's were.
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Post by davidsf on Nov 26, 2019 9:45:42 GMT -8
I figure I became more musically aware in the 60’s. I’m with MDDad in acknowledging the early part of the decade was music characterized by girls, cars, relationships and fun, but by, say ‘67, was more influenced by rebellion, drugs, and flower power.
As to that romp down memory lane, I would have added a couple from Paul Revere and the Raiders (maybe Kicks or Cherokee Nation), but I’m sure we can each come up with some we feel should have been represented.
i recall... must’a been ‘64 or ‘65, a radio contest (had to be either KFWB or KHJ) asking which was the better band, The Rolling Stones, or the Beatles. Of course, I voted for The Rolling Stones which is why, I figure, I have never really liked the Beatles.
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Post by RSM789 on Nov 26, 2019 11:19:03 GMT -8
There are 2 types of people in the world.
The first group believes the music from when they were in high school was the best ever. It is all they listen to, even if they have to continually change the mode (record to tape to CD to streaming) in order to listen to it.
The second group likes the music from their high school years, but have branched out over the years to newer and different types of music.
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Post by MDDad on Nov 26, 2019 11:27:02 GMT -8
This may seem a little off the topic, but...
I think it's been a pretty lousy year for movies, but I watched a real hidden gem last night called "Yesterday". It's about a struggling Indian singer-songwriter in London. He gets hit by a bus and wakes up in a world where the Beatles never existed. It's funny and poignant, and filled with great Beatles songs. Give it a try and maybe you'll change your mind.
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Post by Credo on Nov 26, 2019 12:07:20 GMT -8
This may seem a little off the topic, but... I think it's been a pretty lousy year for movies, but I watched a real hidden gem last night called "Yesterday". It's about a struggling Indian singer-songwriter in London. He gets hit by a bus and wakes up in a world where the Beatles never existed. It's funny and poignant, and filled with great Beatles songs. Give it a try and maybe you'll change your mind. Saw it with my wife and 12-year-old son a while back. Fun movie and interesting concept. When the main character first plays "Yesterday" I got a few chills. Nice cameo by Ed Sheehan, who is a major musician today, though before seeing the movie I wouldn't have recognized him if he walked in my house. That puts me in Category 1, as posited by RSM. |
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Post by MDDad on Nov 26, 2019 12:48:26 GMT -8
Credo, since his name is Ed Sheeran, you're definitely in Category 1. And he's one of the few modern artists I really, really like.
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Post by Credo on Nov 26, 2019 13:52:21 GMT -8
Credo, since his name is Ed Sheeran, you're definitely in Category 1. And he's one of the few modern artists I really, really like. Yes, that was a typo. If we find out you're a fan of Justin Bieber, you might as well be excommunicated from this board. |
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Post by MDDad on Nov 26, 2019 14:25:03 GMT -8
I think Bieber sucks. In fact, I think he's a girl.
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Post by RSM789 on Nov 26, 2019 14:35:05 GMT -8
Beiber may suck as a person, but this is a pretty good song nonetheless (I am category 2)
You can blow past the first minute of the video, it is just bad acting & no music.
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Post by MDDad on Nov 26, 2019 14:54:23 GMT -8
Sorry, I think the song sucks too. He's clearly a transgender dude with some very bad Michael Jackson dance moves.
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Post by ProfessorFate on Nov 26, 2019 18:22:24 GMT -8
I agree with the movie "Yesterday" being great.
The late 50s-early 60s were sensational music-wise. The late 60s, and all of the 70s was a vast wasteland (with a few exceptions, of course). The 80s were very good though, as a lot of it was somewhat a rebirth of the early 60s.
Loved Patsy Cline, (though after the fact) and Johnny Cash, but really liked country in the 90's with Martina McBride, Faith Hill, Shania Twain, and many lesser known, but still great, artists.
Hip-hop/Rap...is NOT music.
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Post by RSM789 on Nov 27, 2019 13:28:56 GMT -8
Sorry, I think the song sucks too... I would expect such an opinion from a category 1 (not an insult, an observation). Like a large percentage of the population, music outside of the time you were going through puberty just doesn't sound good to you. I think the more diplomatic answer would be that you just don't like the song, for I don't really see neither you nor I as being experts on what is indeed "good music". |
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