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Post by Rob Ascough on Aug 3, 2006 15:36:43 GMT -5
I heard he was very good last time he toured in this area.
Something about that era seems to have stuck. I guess you can toss in the '70's as well because of the music. Look at how Pink Floyd is just as popular today as they were back in the days of Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and The Wall. It seems that '80's music is becoming "cool" again although it seems more like a "remember when?" fad than a "this stuff is timeless" fad.
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Post by thelastresort on Aug 3, 2006 15:40:17 GMT -5
no kidding. even at a ball game, they routinely play songs like "we will rock you" and others from the 70's. Funny, when I was at games in the 70's, I don't recall hearing any Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw or Bennie Goodman (same time distance).
maybe we move these to a separate thread, called "is it old?". With all the differing ages on this board, I'd be curious to see the opinions.
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Post by Rob Ascough on Aug 3, 2006 15:44:47 GMT -5
We should move it... how do we do that?
I think a lot of it has to do with the birth of "classic rock" radio. There are stations that play nothing but Zep, Rush, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Who and Aerosmith. Rock from that era is almost as readily available as rock from this era. Actually, in the NYC metro area, classic rock is easier to find than modern rock because there is a dedicated classic rock station but no more dedicated modern rock station. Weird.
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Post by thelastresort on Aug 3, 2006 15:53:56 GMT -5
We should move it... how do we do that? I think a lot of it has to do with the birth of "classic rock" radio. There are stations that play nothing but Zep, Rush, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Who and Aerosmith. Rock from that era is almost as readily available as rock from this era. Actually, in the NYC metro area, classic rock is easier to find than modern rock because there is a dedicated classic rock station but no more dedicated modern rock station. Weird. Not sure how to move it. Probably start with my post at 2:43PM today. Doo Wop Mike D, are you out there? can you do this?
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Post by Crippled_Visions on Aug 3, 2006 22:42:17 GMT -5
Frankie Vallie "oh what a night, late December back in '63", released in the fall of 1975. Can you imagine this December they release a song "Late December back in '94". I'd puke But would a junior high school student puke? I bet people born in 1928 felt like puking when they heard that Frankie Vallie song. It's all relative.
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Post by Crippled_Visions on Aug 3, 2006 22:45:22 GMT -5
no kidding. even at a ball game, they routinely play songs like "we will rock you" and others from the 70's. Funny, when I was at games in the 70's, I don't recall hearing any Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw or Bennie Goodman (same time distance). I still hear "take me out to the ball game" at the ball park, and that was written in 1908. Some songs just become timeless sport songs.
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Post by thelastresort on Aug 3, 2006 22:48:33 GMT -5
Well, I suppose I wouldn't "puke" per se, if it was a good song, I just meant "puke" because it would make no sense to me, 1994 and 2006 are the same time. I still probably wear T-shirts from 1994 And I know, the "Wedding Singer" movie in 1998 was about 1985, it was perhaps a little nostalgic with the mention to CD players, Van Halen breaking up, and the guy dressed like Don Johnson, but no where near the nostalgic distance covered by the other examples I mentioned, I suppose.
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Post by thelastresort on Aug 3, 2006 22:58:38 GMT -5
no kidding. even at a ball game, they routinely play songs like "we will rock you" and others from the 70's. Funny, when I was at games in the 70's, I don't recall hearing any Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw or Bennie Goodman (same time distance). I still hear "take me out to the ball game" at the ball park, and that was written in 1908. Some songs just become timeless sport songs. yes, I agree, but I think it might be a little more complicated. Like not just "sports songs", they routinely play "happy together" by the Turtles (1967), and various garden variety 60's and 70's songs which, in the 60's and 70's would be like hearing Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor from the 20's. Think about going to a chain restaurant. I was in a Chile's a few weeks ago, and heard songs like "Just the way you are", "sister golden hair" etc. And in say 1980, I heard songs like "just the way you are", "sister golden hair" etc., not Connie Francis and Tony Bennett, etc, which would be the time frame equivalent. Just seems odd, time has stood still.
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Post by Rob Ascough on Aug 4, 2006 8:18:51 GMT -5
I was watching a DVD last night that had a preview for a Happy Days DVD collection. I realized that show was set a few years back from when it was filmed. Same for That 70's Show a few decades later. I guess there will always be people that feel a strong connection to things that take them back to earlier points in their life, which is why we'll always have movies like Back to the Future and Queen's "We Are the Champions" played at sporting events. And when the novelty wears off, a new generation will wrongly assume those things to be documentaries on what life was REALLY like in _____.
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Post by nance on Sept 5, 2006 2:00:51 GMT -5
For some reason, the 50's and 60's always held a kind of magic ability to everyone. All the movies today play that kind of music. How many movies were even made from that time period. I feel very fortunate to have experienced that time period. Even my own kids say they loved that music!! What does that tell you? It was just a wonderful, enchanting time for everyone.
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Post by hulk007 on Sept 9, 2006 0:15:34 GMT -5
I agree, from after WWII until when JFK got shot that time span was perhaps the greatest period to grow up in.
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