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zinfamous said:
honestly, I don't like a lot of Barret's Floyd, either. But I do love Astronomy Domine, and Pompeii of course. AD is fucking awesome when played live.

that is definitely psychedelic Floyd--you're right. I assumed you were thinking Meddle (maybe my favorite Floyd album?) and beyond. That is when they went more prog rock.
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Well let's put it this way, the first disc of Pulse is not my favorite. I don't even like The Wall...unless it's performed live.
 
Perknose said:
So wrong.

What's known as the sixties, especially in music, didn't even get started until around 1964, and while it was dying by 1972 or so, it sort of staggered on until ~ 1974.

Dylan, Hendrix, Clapton, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones (when they were actually relevant), Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane -- more than you can shake a (Thai) stick at!

Nothing that came later can really top the Psychedelic Era! Nothing even comes close. Drugs made it so! 😛!
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yeah, but Clapton was a soulless imitator of all those before him.


Man, I hate Clapton. 😀
 
zinfamous said:
I think a lot of people associate music and acts that actually came into their own in the 70s with what was going on in the 60s...
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That's a factually ridiculous statement. If you disagree, then please name all the "major groups" that you say people associate with the 60's that you say "didn't come into to their own" until the 70's. 😎
 
Actually the best you can ever feel from music is rolling balls and doing a K-bump while listening to 90s trance being spun by your DJ friend in his house..........so I've heard.

Literallly, it is the best that music can possibly sound. Chemistry/science is an amazing thing....so ive heard.
 
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OCGuy said:
Actually the best you can ever feel from music is rolling balls and doing a K-bump while listening to 90s trance being spun by your DJ friend in his house..........so I've heard.

Literallly, it is the best that music can possibly sound. Chemisty/science is an amazing thing....so ive heard.
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This is how I recognized every single Underworld tune being played at the olympics...
 
Perknose said:
That's a factually ridiculous statement. If you disagree, then please name all the "major groups" that you say people associate with the 60's that you say "didn't come into to their own" until the 70's. 😎
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god damn it Perk--you're right. All the people I'm thinking about apparently died in 1970, and Airplane was mostly done by then.

😀

But The Stones were at their best in the 70s! (Exile on Main Street) :colbert:
 
My favorite 60's music:

Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Beatles
Crosby Stills & Nash
Neil Young
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Santana
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
King Crimson
The Grateful Dead
Canned Heat
The Doors

Yeah, it's really psychedelic-era music from ~65'-73' more than 60's music.
 
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I like some music from the eighties but prefer the 60's/70's. I also consider the 'sixties' to go up to about '74 when it comes to music.

The thing is, there was new technology; drum machines, sampling, sequencers, MIDI. There was a lot of experimentation going on so it was interesting in that sense. And of course MTV. I'm not real crazy about music videos (live performances the exception) but it was cool to see the bands muddle through this new thing.

I was a teenager in the seventies and we grew up with transistor radios. You imagined in your own mind what the song was about.
 
zinfamous said:
Odd. You can't really suggest Floyd and psychedelic music outside of Syd's influence--that is psychedelic Floyd. They stopped being Psychedelic after that. (just tossing in some sythesizers)



for sure. I was going to mention Pet Sounds, arguably the most important Rock album ever. Pet Sounds more or less prefigures every album that was released after.
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And he did it with equipment that is very primitive by today's standards. I think in general bands of the 60's-70's had to find ways to use existing technology and coming up with unique sounds and methods on their own, take the 10cc 1975 hit "I'm not in love" the chorus sounds, what was it?, here's the Wiki on how that effect was created:

"The ethereal sound was created by laboriously building up multiple overdubs of the voices of Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing a single note in unison. This multi-track was then mixed and dubbed down onto 16-track tape. This process was repeated across all 16 tracks to create a lush 256-voice "virtual" choir that could "sing" chromatic chords.[1] A number of these prepared multi-tracks were then cut into several endless loops, each of which contained the basic notes of the main chords used in the song. The chorus loops could then be played by using the mixing desk rather like a keyboard -- each chord could be sounded by bringing up the fader for that loop."
 
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OILFIELDTRASH said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9gKyRmic20&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwOU3bnuU0k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSv-lKwOQvE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmAPYkPeYU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzV_0l5ILI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Xd...-9CbGwkf12a4S32Vhikzy0ru&index=3&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqv5...-9CbGwkf12a4S32Vhikzy0ru&index=4&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeLdF7ONGts&feature=BFa&list=AL94UKMTqg-9CbGwkf12a4S32Vhikzy0ru

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA_zS6-dO7Q&feature=slpl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PotB76gi2_4&feature=BFa&list=AL94UKMTqg-9CbGwkf12a4S32Vhikzy0ru

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvaSgKF9ib0&feature=slpl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNNYFdklVJI&feature=endscreen&NR=1
 
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BUTCH1 said:
I must inform you that Elvis Arron Presley died in August 1977. His last charted hit, "Moody blue" was also released that year from an album with the same title..
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I think sdifox knows Elvis wasn't around in the '80s. He's saying that Elvis music was much better than anything in the '80s. I disagree.
 
BUTCH1 said:
I must inform you that Elvis Arron Presley died in August 1977. His last charted hit, "Moody blue" was also released that year from an album with the same title..
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You lie, he is singing in a bar called The Domain of the King.
 
80's had their own style of music and the bonus cheese of MTV. While I lived through the 70's, too, it was not that far a cry from 60's music for it to even compare. 80's for the win, OP is right.
 
umbrella39 said:
80's had their own style of music and the bonus cheese of MTV. While I lived through the 70's, too, it was not that far a cry from 60's music for it to even compare. 80's for the win, OP is right.
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The '80's had it's share of good music but the bulk of it was synth-pop (simple minds) or hair bands, whitesnake, great white, whitehead, white lion, it's a total white-out!!.
 
sdifox said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmAPYkPeYU
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Lol, the Guess Who. I saw them live at the Fillmore East in 1969 on New Years Eve. We were all there to see the Band of Gypsies, and the Guess Who were on the underbill along with a short-lived band of Buddy Miles -- I forget but I don't think it was The Express.

Hendrix, Billy Cox and Miles all blew us the fuck away as the Band of Gypsies, of course. I feel so lucky to have been there. Miles other band was talented, but must have been newly together. What stands out is Miles cutting another member's solo off by launching into his own louder one. 😉

Sorry, but my friends and I didn't give a damn about the Guess Who, which we thought of as a lightweight pop band. And they pretty much sucked live. Ok, maybe they weren't that bad, but their drummer was, and they must have known it and hated him.

They deliberately gave him a long, extended solo, during which all the other members walked off the stage, cruelly exposing him. He soon ran out of things to do/got gassed, and was reduced to some steady, desultory tapping with one stick, alone on stage. I'm not kidding and I'm not exaggerating, the whole thing was stupendously, embarrassingly lame.

The sold out, amped up audience went silent until finally someone yelled out, for all to hear, "For God's sake, DO SOMETHING!" That cracked us all up and finally the rest of the band came back on stage. They had to have done that to the drummer on purpose.

My only thought is that he had to be a replacement guy. No band would have done that to a regular member, and no band of their "stature" could have had a drummer that untalented. <shrug>

Cliffs:

Band of Gypsies. :thumbsup:

Fillmore East. :thumbsup:

New Years in The Big Apple. :thumbsup:

Guess Who. :thumbsdown:

Their drummer. :thumbsdown: D: :thumbsdown:
 
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