Which decade had the worst music?

[Dis]

pina colada song. . ahh fun memories. I was real young back then. it's funny all my memories of that decade revolve around overplayed pop songs (and the nudist colony I saw when I was 6). I really can't remember much else. Just a dark desert road when my family moved.

Though I'm surprised anyone knew the actual name of that song. They should have just named it pina colada.

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Escape (The Piña Colada Song)

ArgggHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh I'd almost forgotten about that stupid song! Rupert something or other. I hated that song

Yeah Argent only had that one hit that I recall.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by MRT144


stfu. if you want to get technical then why use kraftwerk? im saying electronic music was birthed in whole in the 80s, not just inseminated. introduced to the masses and was accepted by the masses.

I'm hardly getting 'technical'.


It's not my fault you were hatched out after I was born and know diddly squat about the history of popular music.


Perhaps you should invest in a few compilations of 50s, 60s and 70s music and an etiquette guide while you're at it.


Then when you've done that, look up Robert Moog, Walter Carlos, Tangerine Dream, Can, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Hawkwind, Donna Summer, Rose Royce, Conny Plank et cetera et cetera.


Donna Summer- I Feel Love:

23/07/1977
4 weeks at #1 - 11 weeks on chart


I'd say that was rather 'popular' with the masses, wouldn't you ?


This too:

Switched On Bach

(The Triple-Grammy winning album that
launched the synthesizer, in our new
Optimum Remastered Edition.)

[MRT144]

again youre pointing to exceptions in the current of music at the time.

and sure giorgio moroder did a fine number with donna summer but that doesnt mean electronic music as youre defining it, anything that may incoporate a synth, was all of a sudden hugely popular.

thats the point im making, not that this was the first time people usedsynths but the first time they were used for so much, across so much music and so widely accepted. not only were they so widely accepted by rock bands but they created a whole new form of music using nothing but synths that had only been explored, not adopted so thouroughly except by the likes of kraftwerk, yellow magic orchestra, jean michelle jarre, etc etc

perhaps you are hung up on the word born. the way that im using it is in the sense that it became pervasive and indelible on music.

and i think you should perhaps come off your rocking chair, turn up your hearing aid and listen to what i have to say. its obvious you havent been to this point.

[SlowwHand]

Dis, "Come with me and let's make our escape".

If you think about it, it was a song of depth. They had forgotten, or never knew, how much they had in common.

[molly bloom]

Let me help you out MRT144:

1967 Walter Carlos (later Wendy) composed 'Switched on Bach' using a Moog synthesizer.

The Grateful Dead released 'Anthem of the Sun' and Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention released 'Uncle Meat'. Both albums made extensive use of electronic manipulation

and then:

1972 Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon was released; it used ensembles of synthesizers, also used concrete tracks as interludes between tunes.

I seem to recall 'Dark Side Of The Moon' being quite incredibly popular with the masses...

In 1964, Robert Moog presented one of the first analogue synths on the market - the Moog Synth.

Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer:

Hardly less influential for electronic dance music was the work of the producer Giorgio Moroder in Munich. In 1970, Moroder was already responsible for the first pop song produced with a synthesizer, scoring a small hit with the "synthie pop” 'Son Of My Father'.

'Love to Love you Baby' in 1976 was a 17 minutes, purely synthetic dance ecstasy oriented on orchestral Philadelphia soul, to which the expatriate American Donna Summer orgasmically moaned – and was therefore banned by the BBC.

In the U.S.A., the song became a number one hit. It also initiated the "maxi-single” and became, with its completely synthetic endless rhythm, an inspiration for house music.

and she followed this up with:

Having already stormed American dance clubs with the heavy breathing eroticism of 'Love To Love You, Baby' and the experiments of blending themes into a Disco suite on 'Love Trilogy', Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte and Donna Summer turned to a new concept for their 1977 album 'I Remember Yesterday'. The songs represent a wide range of historical periods and musical styles. It seemed natural that the album should end with a song to represent the future of Disco. Giorgio Moroder set to work using Moog synthesizers and soon 'I Feel Love' was born.

http://www.andwedanced.com/songs/ifeell.htm

Burn, baby burn, Disco Inferno!


Giorgio shows us the electronic equipment he didn't use to make his (un)popular music in the 1970s.

[SpencerH]

As I said before, I disagree with the idea that Donna Summer was electronic music simply because a Moog was played (in addition to standard instruments - I checked the cover of the 1 album by her that I have). The music was simply background for her singing (or moaning).

[SlowwHand]

Home > Dance > Donna Summer

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,170694,00.html

[Alex Woehr]

Which decade had the worst music?

The 60's were the worst. Period.

George Crumb
John Cage
Integral Serialism
Neoclassicism dead
Hindemith dead

Next question?

[MRT144]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Let me help you out MRT144:




and then:




I seem to recall 'Dark Side Of The Moon' being quite incredibly popular with the masses...




Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer:




and she followed this up with:

http://www.andwedanced.com/songs/ifeell.htm

Burn, baby burn, Disco Inferno!


Giorgio shows us the electronic equipment he didn't use to make his (un)popular music in the 1970s.

wow incidental uses of synths for other genres of music! ive been vbested by someone who cites examples of the same **** withuout actually dealing with what i typed.

you think anything and everything that has a synth is electronic music. your logic would lead us to believe that metalica playing with an orchestra makes metallica orchestral music. or that violins are heavy metal.

my definition of electronic music is music created solely or mostly with synthesizers or sampling. it would also not exsist unless these methods of reation were present. in this broad defiinition ive eliminated many of the people mentoned.

also note the fact i keep iteratin that it wasnt that popular till the 80s. when there was the birth of many artists and an a fan following that wasstrictly electronic.

so until you address this stfu

[Frozzy]

1. 70s
2. 80s
3. 90s
4. 60s
5. 00s

[SlowwHand]

I don't think it's right to rate 60's as low as some of you are. I know some of you trivialize the Beatles, but though there was Rock and Roll knocking at the world's door, the Beatles broke it down. With them came the flood, and any good 70's or whatever owes the Beatles and those that followed.

I won't even get started on Blues or 50's Rock and Roll.

[chequita guevara]

The 70s definately had the worst music. Come on, The Carpteners. The worst music of the 70s was the worst music of all, so bad it isn't even good. I have some bad music from the 60s, but it's hysterical (crooner versions of rock songs).

The 70s also had some of the best music, so it was a ****zophrenic decade.

[SlowwHand]

Here's one of the Carpteners now. Retired, so to speak.

[Frozzy]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I don't think it's right to rate 60's as low as some of you are. I know some of you trivialize the Beatles, but though there was Rock and Roll knocking at the world's door, the Beatles broke it down. With them came the flood, and any good 70's or whatever owes the Beatles and those that followed.

I won't even get started on Blues or 50's Rock and Roll.

True, but I still dont really get into much 60s stuff, despite its obvious influence.