After watching that 1970s programme on channel 5, it seem that a lot of the things we do now were sparked off in the 1970s. credit cards, blockbuster movies, maccy ds, pre-recorded home videos, punk, apple computers, video games etc etc must mean that this decade was probably the most important decade to us in 2006. what do you think?

 

i for one didnt realise that a lot of these things can be routed back in the 70s, it's actually more important to us now than i probably have imagined from looking at similar programmes that have gone before and have just laughed at funny disco people.

 

(then again funny disco people are fun, never hurt the cuban brothers :lol: :lol: )

not really, you could pick any decade in the last 50 odd years and find a list like that..

i dunno i didn't livv through it, if anything i would make it so i was boprn in te 60's that wy id be old enough to live through the 70's, i dunno why the 70-'s has such a hold ion me id just like to see it.

I expect each decade has it's accolates, but I loved the 70's I was a hippy-chick at the beginning and a funny disco-person by the end :lol:

I expect each decade has it's accolates,

 

suppose i'll have to wait for the 80s to start to give an opinion (that is the tv series that five will probably do next, not the actual decade :lol: :lol: )

 

 

think the first email was sent in the 70s as well

The 70's + 80's must have been great to live through as like a teenager or something. I was born in 1989 so I missed out lol.

The 70's + 80's must have been great to live through as like a teenager or something. I was born in 1989 so I missed out lol.

 

well if you've got itv 3 you could get a good idea of the shows :lol:

Yeah I've seen programs.

Having lived through the decade like Secret Song - I was a pre-teen child at the start and an adult at the end of it. Like most impressionable teenagers I went with the crowd on some things and wanted to be individual on others which is why I liked Marc Bolan and T Rex before he was totally glammed up ("why have you got TREX on your Maths book Pat ... do you like cooking fat or something") Duhhhh .... Then of course later in the decade when Marc was dead, punk had gone all arty farty with the Clash thinking they were gods (a bit like Coldplay nowadays)and disco was the thing I was out with my mates on the pull boogie-ing to Que Sera Mi Vida (How am I going to live) by the Johnson Brothers whilst my pal Jayne constantly fell down the stairs drunk ..... meanwhile secretly at home I listened to Paul Weller (before he got his head totally up his arse) of The Jam and declared him to be a poet. By the end of the decade I was with the Undertones from Londonderry Northern Ireland .... doing totally mad things and racing round the country watching gigs

 

A bit like nowadays now my kids are grown up ..... There is nothing new under the sun ....

 

 

 

 

Edited April 12, 200619 yr by Trishiboo

hi trishiboo..... i see from your profile that you were born 10 months after me! ...lol.. so im still the oldest member here...i think! lol. (i cant edit my profile, it wont let me )

 

unlike you though i was into pop from the earliest i can remember, my mum used to have the radio on, and i and my sisters just listend to music from the beatles onwards. my roots are firmly in the 60's, even for a kid i loved the kinks, animals, small faces etc etc etc... i couldnt stand 'glam' in the 70's , nor prog rock, and totally detested sweet soul/philly. punk revived my faith in music, and its political ramifications are still with us. i wasnt a clash fan, but totally support their stance on racism. i see no simularity between the clash and coldplay... clash = class.

i wasnt born in the 1970s, but i get the feeling that music was more important then. Remember the 70s were quite a grim decade in this country. With growing unemployment, a flaging economy, power strikes, 3 days week, a divided split country, IRA bombing Mainland Britain etc.

 

So music was a escape from the real world if you like. So kids really got into music, weather it be soul boys, punks, prog fans, for most young people in those days, music was the most important thing in their lifes. It not the same anymore, simply because we have more to do now.

Edited April 12, 200619 yr by Joey Deacon

I don't have ITV3 so I haven't seen the programme - just have the memories (which go back a bit further ;) ) and most of them revolve around music (and boys :P ) - well there were no computers/games then - we used to play outside ;) ... the pictures, concerts, fairs and discos spring readily to mind :)

 

I guess whenever I hear references to the 70's today - it's either Glam Rock (definitely was a big fan of TRex :heart: ) or Disco that seems to be the main focus, with the Punk era coming in more towards the end. Those trends, I think, seemed to come and go. But much like now - there was all kinds of music around ... and much like now I liked a broad range of unassociated genres - very early 70's were mainly about rock for me - Santana (Santana Abraxas was my first ever self-purchased album, which I had to hide from my parents because it had a bare lady on the front :blink: :lol: ) Led Zepplin - my first concert - so, the beginning for me was still full of the Woodstock influences of the 60's - hense 'hippy chick'. At the same time though, I was very into the Motown/Soul singers like Marvin Gaye and could be found at the local youth club disco dancing in a line with the rest of them in my 'hot' pants :lol:

I don't have ITV3 so I haven't seen the programme - just have the memories (which go back a bit further ;) ) and most of them revolve around music (and boys :P ) - well there were no computers/games then - we used to play outside ;) ... the pictures, concerts, fairs and discos spring readily to mind :)

 

 

no the 70s programme is on channel five at 9pm on friday evenings.

 

the itv3 comment was just a pisstake. my dad is always watching old 70 things on their like rising damp and never the twain :puke2: :puke2: and random detectives. it's the channel for old blokes stuck in a timewarp :puke2: :lol:

But much like now - there was all kinds of music around ... and much like now I liked a broad range of unassociated genres - very early 70's were mainly about rock for me - Santana (Santana Abraxas was my first ever self-purchased album, which I had to hide from my parents because it had a bare lady on the front :blink: :lol: )

 

well maybe if they took the same approach with that michelle branch collaboration it might have been such a bigger hit :lol: :lol:

I don't have ITV3 so I haven't seen the programme - just have the memories (which go back a bit further ;) ) and most of them revolve around music (and boys :P ) - well there were no computers/games then - we used to play outside ;) ... the pictures, concerts, fairs and discos spring readily to mind :)

 

I guess whenever I hear references to the 70's today - it's either Glam Rock (definitely was a big fan of TRex :heart: ) or Disco that seems to be the main focus, with the Punk era coming in more towards the end. Those trends, I think, seemed to come and go. But much like now - there was all kinds of music around ... and much like now I liked a broad range of unassociated genres - very early 70's were mainly about rock for me - Santana (Santana Abraxas was my first ever self-purchased album, which I had to hide from my parents because it had a bare lady on the front :blink: :lol: ) Led Zepplin - my first concert - so, the beginning for me was still full of the Woodstock influences of the 60's - hense 'hippy chick'. At the same time though, I was very into the Motown/Soul singers like Marvin Gaye and could be found at the local youth club disco dancing in a line with the rest of them in my 'hot' pants :lol:

 

 

i wouldnt actually agree that theres 'all types of music around now'... it is too controlled by business and hasnt got the freedom to experiment the way they could in the 70's. im not a fan of most of the 70's styles, hated glam. philly, prog rock, pop, sweet soul.... (but loved punk/new wave) but at least there was variety.

 

ps.... thought 'abraxas' was released in '69.. ?

i wouldnt actually agree that theres 'all types of music around now'... it is too controlled by business and hasnt got the freedom to experiment the way they could in the 70's. im not a fan of most of the 70's styles, hated glam. philly, prog rock, pop, sweet soul.... (but loved punk/new wave) but at least there was variety.

 

ps.... thought 'abraxas' was released in '69.. ?

 

think if you go looking for it away from the top ten you will find all the experimental stuff.

 

dont know about the date for abraxas, never heard of it. then again maybe culturally "the 70s" actually started in 1969 and lasted till about 1982?

i wouldnt actually agree that theres 'all types of music around now'... it is too controlled by business and hasnt got the freedom to experiment the way they could in the 70's. im not a fan of most of the 70's styles, hated glam. philly, prog rock, pop, sweet soul.... (but loved punk/new wave) but at least there was variety.

 

ps.... thought 'abraxas' was released in '69.. ?

 

It may have been '69 I really can't remember, but I either bought it or was still playing it in 1970+ anyway - it's not like Santana disappeared on 31/12/69 on the stroke of midnight ;) - he's still around now. Funnily enough I noticed 'Marks & Spencers' using 'Samba Pa Ti' on a TV advert recently too :)

 

I do think there's all types of music around now, but yes, probably you need to look for some things away from the maintstream/charts as tigerboy said, but I also agree that the industry is far more business orientated and controlled now though :( - I think it was easier for artists who emerged then, to stick around and weather their highs and lows over the years, than it is now.

 

Just editing to say that Elton John, David Bowie & Queen were all artists that I got into in the 70s too - oh and Roxy Music and Michael Jackson ....there were tons I could be here all night - but it will seem that way to me - because they were my teenage years ;)

Edited April 13, 200619 yr by Secret_Song

no the 70s programme is on channel five at 9pm on friday evenings.

 

the itv3 comment was just a pisstake. my dad is always watching old 70 things on their like rising damp and never the twain :puke2: :puke2: and random detectives. it's the channel for old blokes stuck in a timewarp :puke2: :lol:

 

Sorry I missed that post - Rising Damp - ooooh Miss Jones :lol:

 

Oh I might have a gander on Friday then ;)

 

It may have been '69 I really can't remember, but I either bought it or was still playing it in 1970+ anyway - it's not like Santana disappeared on 31/12/69 on the stroke of midnight ;) - he's still around now. Funnily enough I noticed 'Marks & Spencers' using 'Samba Pa Ti' on a TV advert recently too :)

 

I do think there's all types of music around now, but yes, probably you need to look for some things away from the maintstream/charts as tigerboy said, but I also agree that the industry is far more business orientated and controlled now though :( - I think it was easier for artists who emerged then, to stick around and weather their highs and lows over the years, than it is now.

 

Just editing to say that Elton John, David Bowie & Queen were all artists that I got into in the 70s too - oh and Roxy Music and Michael Jackson ....there were tons I could be here all night - but it will seem that way to me - because they were my teenage years ;)

 

 

please dont tell me that you were born before jan 14th 1957.... or ill lose my place as the boards oldest git! lol .... (i think im the oldest)

I remember in 1973 someone brought into school a radio cassette recorder .

Everyone surrounded him because they'd never seen one before.

It was like something from another planet.

Up till then , if you wanted to record songs you had to dangle a microphone over the TV , or put it right next to the radio or record player.

Everyone in the room had to be asked to stay quiet while you were recording.