I WISH IT WAS THE 70s damnit

Ya I agree with you. Whats so good about the millenium and shit? lol

peace
chickens

 

There was a segment on 60 minutes about generation Y. It said how from age 5 most of us kids were being carted around in mini vans to soccer practices, piano lessons, etc. etc. and were programmed to be overachievers. Were all competing for the best grades and for the best colleges and we all feel the need for the newest things like cell phones and mp3 players. Mabey this pressure wasn't there in the 60s and 70s, kids were just more laidback. Not that I would know I didn't live it, neither did my parents, they were fucking yuppies...

 

its all about the BEAT man!!! send me to the fifties and beer and wild jazz- woooo

and then i'd make sure to tell everyone about everything. like expensive smokes.

 

Ouch! dont be so harsh- round where i'm from Yuppie is a hurtful negatively charged word. You said it your self, they carted you around- maybe thats why. heh- well... just love them, please, for me.

 

ppl think i look 70's all the time...i wish i cud go there one day,even if i just went shoppin

 

We can get there sometime, yes? cause i go ta time warp. But if alls we gonna due is shoppe, then i think i might hafta estend da inbatation to some one else.

but it would be kinda like a giant thrift store! Everything would be so cheap, as it was in the 70's and especially the 50s.

O' blessed timewarp, when shall i have you?

 

of course id do more than go shoppin!
id go play guitar with lotsa random hippy dudes and go styalk led zepelin for the day

 

I hear you 'Helzie'. All the 'good' bands were around then, the bands that changed the world of music today. If you look at most bands today they havn't in any way revolutionized music at all because there is not enough originality, which is why there should be a massive attack from one band that change the music industry as it is today.

 

for what it's worth: the 70s didn't happen because somebody said "i wish it was 1910 again".
the 70s happend because people said "let's do something cool and creative, something that no one believes can be done, whether anyone's ever done it before or not!"

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in the 70's:

• i would lie in my best friend's treehouse, listening to the sound of cicadas and neighborhood dogs, and watching my friend and my brother dig holes in the ground below, until we heard the bell on the ice cream man's truck and everyone went running (barefoot) for bomb pops and nutty buddies and scooter crunch. i remember sliding under the fence to get into the catholic school's playground, which was kept locked up but every kid in the neighborhood used anyway.
• my twin brother and i not only got along, we were best friends. there was no politics or relligion or lifestyle differences to divide us. we were just "the twins". he has disowned me now, and our politics and religion and lifestyles are so polarized you wouldn't believe we were from the same planet, let alone siblings.
• i would visit my cousins' house in the summer or for hiolidays. there were so many of them, and each one was cool in a different way. i have a memory of being lifted onto someone's shoulders in one of their rooms and looking at the tolkien calendar on the wall. two of the others had bunk beds and the one with the top bunk had a long stuffed fuzzy snake she kept up there. i remember the excitement of watching the rankin-bass animated special of the hobbit every year, and my cousin frightening me with his "gollum" impersonation. there was always some kind of creative project going on: my aunt made quilts and collected dolls and doll houses, some of the cousins painted, or sewed, or made paper flowers. there was always something artistic going on.
• we watched sesame street every day, and since we got the canadian station thanks to the huge tv antenna my dad built we even got to watch it in french. when he was doing a christmas show in buffalo, we went to see bob mcgrath (the actor who played bob on sesame street.) i was picked out of the audience to come up on stage and help bob light the christmas tree. i stood up on stage next to bob in my cindy brady ponytails and pretty white dress with the yellow roses on it and black patent mary janes, and i closed my eyes and made a wish like he said to, and damned if that tree didn't light right up! my brother and i had our picture taken with him & we were in the newspaper.
• when i was in the second grade, we had a health lesson in class one day where the teacher brought this hippie lady in and she talked about whole grains and yogurt and taught us all how to make granola. i sat in the back of the classroom with wide eyes and thought, WOW! and my whole life changed forever. now my parents and brother know who to blame.
• most of the weird shit that screwed me up for life hadn't happened yet. i was confident and comfortable with myself in the way that healthy children are, and i still had a chance of growing up to be "normal", whatever the hell that is supposed to be. they were simpler times when all i had to worry about was winning the coloring contest at picket park and learning to ride my bike.

 

You sound like you were very cute in those little pony tails! lol. I can't remember anything past 3 years ago, honestly. I have no memory of middle-school or anything from early ninth grade. Sad, I suppose.


No one can really define normal, so that's okay that you're not "normal". Are you a socialst or something? Nothing's wrong with a little socialism and tye-dye! I'm a Capitalism fan myself, though. lol Your family is a bunch of bourgeoisie capitalist pigs! blah Why isn't it about riding your bike and coloring? heh Maybe it should be. Mortgage can be a bitch, but beyond that it's okay. I try to stay happy throughout that type of responsibility now. Living in my dad's basement was so much cooler.

 

That was beautiful, Kitty. If only we could've held on to that innocence forever. Then again, when we were younger, we were dieing to be 'grown up' so I guess we are a race unable to be pleased.

I like to hold onto those memories of not knowing what hatred or self consciousness was even now. It keeps me sane. Because, if we were able to live without those things back then, what's keeping us from living without them now? Pandora's Box of Worms?

 

...and yet, I loose sight of the big picture here now.... YOU MET BOB MCGRATH??!! NEATO!!!

 

Aw man Robert Plant was really sexy and talented what an amazing voice...God I loved those tight pants lol

 

I really don't understand why people wish for it to be a past time....just live today, make your life worthwhile TODAY TODAY TODAY! Stop dreaming for the past, because you will never get there.

 

altho.....I really do want good rock n roll to come back.

 

I don't believe that people in the sixties and seventies were wishing the music was like it was in the fifties. Most of the old hippies I know couldn't stand Django Reinhardt, or Frank Sinatra. Simply put, the Doors came along to make something new that wasn't anything like that not to recreate it. Rock music is dead, basically. I guess you could say the new retro-revival thing is helping to bring rock back, but it's hard to really tell if it's a passing phase of the music industry, or the beginning of a rejuvination. I don't really want to try to come up with something original like Rock 'N Roll did,... I want to revitalize Rock, because I'm into it. I'm not in the mood to listen to or create synthasized garbage, which is exactly why I wish it was the seventies. Most don't want rock music to come back. Believe it or not, we're the minority. Hopefully that'll start changing at some point in the next few years or so.

We're not going to look back on J.Lo, Eminem, 50 cent, Korn, or Hatebreed and wish it was the '00s. Maybe some people are, but I can't see what would possess them. The point of the entire thread, and of my post, was that people like us simply don't have a place here. But, it's true that we need to start making a place, rather than bitching about it. I'm in a rock band called the Riders on the Storm that tour, locally, though. It's like the Doors, except the one problem I've presented... in order to reach the masses, the masses have to want to be reached, and they simply don't want to be anymore. Being in this band, in my opinion, is me doing my fair share to help bring back something real. I was really impressed with Northern England and Germany though. They are still creating rock music, music with a soul, and the people there are intelligent enough to buy enough of it that it's still hitting the top of the charts and reaching thousands upon thousands of people. The Brit pop is pretty bad, though. I can't believe that our generation is as mindless as it is. You'll hear someone insult a band as complex and talented as Rush or Pink Floyd, and then go on a 30 minute tangent about how good rap and pop artists are. It's their thing, but c'mon, it's sad. Grow a brain or don't buy albums... you're wasting plastic. lol

You know what I think it is? This is going to sound incredibly stupid, but it's a lack of drugs, I swear. These kids need some acid or some shrooms, or some higher grade ganja for Christ's sake. Maybe then they'll stop fighting and start writing some better tunes than C5, A5, D5 "I hate you, I totally hate you blaaaaahhh!". It can really get to someone when they've been playing music all their lives, and have dedicated 10-20-30 years mastering their instrument, only to have mindless kids buy rap albums. Watching a guy sell a million records and influencing millions of people, simply for speaking obscenities over a recorded beat, when you've dedicated years and years of your life to mastering an instrument isn't the worst thing in the world, but it's very close. But I've digressed into some other subject now!

I need to just run off to the Haight Ashbury district or something,... even then, it's not the same as it was. Let us just hope somehow rock grows on people again, and it becomes a nation-wide sweep, and let us hope that it happens before we're all 50 years old.

 

Lyrics to a song that hit top charts in the seventies:

Kansas: Dust in the Wind (one of my favorites)

I close my eyes
Only for a moment and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes a curiosity

Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind

Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind

Don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And not another minute will your money buy

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind.

Beautiful song structure and phrasing.


A song that hit the top of the charts in the early '00s:

Hatebreed:Burn the Lies
They're so persuasive with their fucking lies
Not an ounce of respect
They'll do anything to sell deception

Burn the lies
Their words of ignorance
Shove them back
Back down their throats
All that I have for you is hate!

...sure, I'd totally buy that!

Even worse... I think?? is a top hit by Jay Z:

Jay Z:99 Problems
If you havin' girl problems, I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems, but a bitch a'int one.
I got the rap patrol on the gat (a gun I guess?) patrol
Foes that wanna make sure my casket's closed
Rap critics that say he's "money cash hoes" (isn't he? lol)
I'm from the hood stupid
What kinda facts is those?
If you grew up with holes in your zapitos
You'd celebrate the minute you havin' doe (nice participle, Jay!)
I'm like "Fuck the critics"
They can kiss my whole asshole!

I'd totally buy this album too! There's simply something wrong with our generation, or degeneration, apparently.

Atleast there are still guys out there like Sam (Orsino2) making pretty creative and cool music in our age, but again, we're really not in the majority, no matter how much we'd like to think we are, or as we'd like to be.

 

I missed my generation. No doubt about it. I don't belong here. Being born in the 50's and growing up in the 60's...what a heaven that would be. But I guess I was meant to live now. Anyone got a time machine?