I WISH IT WAS THE 70s damnit

ur not alone, i wish it was the 60's or 70's too, i dont care which one as long as i make it to the 80's.

 

I don't know about T Rexs songs making no sense, Marc Bolan wrote these lyrics and they ring true to this day.

O Girl
Electric witch you are
Limp in society's ditch you are
Visually fine
Oh yes you are
But mentally dying

O boy
Just like a boat you are
Sunk but somehow you float you are
Mentally weak
But so much you speak

 

Are you part of the new garage rock scene? It's coming back slowly, but it's really lame right now. I don't think rock is truely dead, or will ever truely die, but it really got thin for a while, and is still thin. People like White Stripes and the Strokes are the retro-revival scene, which is fine, I don't like their music, but their making steps in the right direction.

You know, your brain is not developed enough to have memories beyond age 3 years old. Are you sure these crib things weren't acid trip flashbacks? lol

 

I think the garage revival has just about finished... unfortunately

 

I feel where you are coming from and you make many good point's. Just remember that there was JUST as much violence, if not more, amongst American's back then...just not as publicized. The early 70's were very violent, Veitnam was reaching it's boiling point...i.e... KENT STATE. Thing's were much less politically correct back then, this gives the false view of a more peaceful time. People were still fighting for the right to vote in the 70's. The music was a shitload better back then, but America was still pretty pissed.

 

Don't you mean BEFORE the age of 3? Hehehehehehehehehe!!!! Are you sure you're not trippin' right now?

 

Yeah, before three. But, my point really was that we live in a generation full of uneducated, intellectually void, artistically void human beings who have no desire to make music that means anything. Ofcourse this is a subjectivity. To some, I guess violence fueled music, or "I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one" is an artistically deep statement, but I'd rather live in a time that included music that actually spoke of peace, love, the struggle to understand our own existence etc.. Like I said,... something is wrong when your two most popular genres of music are violence fueled. Ofcourse culture will always, invariably, involve violence, but it was (seemingly, I wouldn't know) a much more peaceful and accepting time.

People were still fighting for the right to vote? Maybe you can clarify, but if you mean African-Americans, they got the unrestricted right to vote after the 1965 Civil Rights act. I think the violence at Kent state was an atrocity, but violence in response to protest such as this was actually an attest to what I said in the first paragraph. People were intellectually involved, people were trying to stop a war of murder, a quagmire of guerilla warfare for the pure sake of saving face in the midst of the Cold War against the Soviets. The guys of the 'hardcore' scene, or the 'urban' scene, most of them are not making any stand whatsoever against this modern-day quagmire in Iraq, mainly because we've become on the over-all an intellectually void generation. There are some good people in this generation, but the most of them , like me are desiring to move back in time, for obvious reasons. We're trapped amongst imbeciles who are culturally decadent, creatively and artistically void, and are apathetic toward the problems in our present situation. They simply care about fighting each other instead of the powers that be who've created this mess, and picking up 'hoes'. That's a great generation to be part of, let me tell you!

 

Black people in many southern state's were still fighting for the right to vote up until the mid 70's. Just because a bill was passed in 65', doesn't mean that it was enacted immediately everywhere. I agree with what you have to say. All I'm saying is that it (70's) wasn't the peaceful society that you make it seem. Everything that is going on today, happened then as well. just different degree's and situation's.

 

Well, like I said, it's invariable that any decade and political period/climate, will invariably have violence. I'm speaking solely on terms of the people and the ideals of the generation; peace was... peace no longer is. Like I said, I can't speak from experience, obviously, I was born in 1985, but it seems as though the generation, the culture was better from every aspect and every context. That's simply why I'd like to be part of the seventies. None of us youngin's can be very sure we'd have liked the seventies and the generation, all I can know is from the books I've read, the people I've spoken to and the documentaries I've seen.

 

I think you would have liked the 70's, MusicMan.

It was a time when you could go to the corner drugstore and by a 45 with two good songs for about $0.69. Today it takes couple hours of working at Burger King to afford a music CD. The radio stations back then weren't all oldies or specialty formats. All the rock stations in my town were top 40. Every few weeks there were new good songs coming out.

Inflation was a bummer toward the late 70's. You could actually see the prices going up week by week at the supermarket. There also weren't any superstores like Wal-Mart and Home Depot. Supermarkets closed around 5pm and didn't stay open 24/7 like today. Many of the little mom and pop stores closed down due to the economy and competition from larger businesses.

Politically, things weren't as authoritarian in the U.S. in the 70's as they are today. The government wasn't on a list of pre-emptive invasions of other countries. There were problems with the Soviets invading countries, but the U.S. hadn't yet seen an attack on it's mainland like 911. The problem with relations between the Mideast and the U.S. wasn't nearly as bad in the 70's like it is today. It started getting worse in the 80's and has now turned into an 'us vs. them' global and ideological war.

 

Yeah... the cars from the 40s and 50s kicked ass. Nothing could beat a '53 Buick Roadmaster.

 

The 70's ruled, man! I spent most of my time running around naked, and when I wasn't I was getting my diaper changed a couple of times a day, I didn't have to start school until the end of the Carter administration, and all 4 Beatles were alive and kickin'!

True, as the decade wore on the fashion sense declined massively, but you can't knock a decade that brought us both Shaft and The Rockford Files!

 

Ok guys, I'll have to admit lots of good stuff about the 70's. Life was still innocent and safe and sweet. People just wanted to have a good time and hang out together. Some of the music was ok, except for something called Bubblegum Pop..."Yummy, yummy, yummy I've got love in my tummy and I feel like loving you" (er...really deep man!)

 

Don't forget, The Archies!
You are my Candy Girl! And ya got me wantin you...
Aww, Sugar. Aww, Honey, Honey...

 

I would do anything to be alive in the 60s and 70s. Oh man Oh man! I hate the genereation ai am stuck in but in a way its good because our genereation can do whatever we want and we can lead ourselves into a new revolution! Its up to us and our children!

 

i thinki everyone wishes that.


expecially if i was about 18 in '67. i would have probably been a groupie. or just a hippie. but yea i wish i lived then too.

 

I was a hat-check girl(I know!) ,spendin' my time in the Disco clubs,(LockeRoom!),closing them down at 7a.m. & seeing 'All These People' goin' to work,in suits,in cars,the blinding early morning sun,the IHOP,The MAJESTIC & DOBIES replenished our spirits with bad coffee,grits & eggs,m,m,m....The people floating around were so flambeaunt(sp?)It was great! *The bikers,the heads,the fags all munching & talkin' shit at the same time! Oh no! Barbara Streisands' "MEMORIES" is starting up in my head...HELP ME!!!!! *no offense meant!

 

I would be followin Pink Floyd around

 

Like Goddess Om, I remember the 70's as safe and all about being together. Parties, concerts, basements... it didn't matter where, as long as the tunes were up and the bud was in abundance.

 

in my world it is the 1970's, it's the "me decade", i dress 70's, listen to 70's music and feel the 70's.