I grew up in the '70s, so naturally I like '70s music. I thought.
But a couple of days ago I had to take my car into the shop for some body work and I'm now driving a loaner vehicle. It has Sirius XM available, so I've been listening to their "70s on 7" channel on my drives to and from radiation treatment.
And.......boy, there's a lot of dreck! I'd consigned to the memory hole all the forgettable detritus the '70s left behind. I only remember the stuff I liked.
Oh well. At least the '60s are still great. Right?
My memories of the ’70s have been shattered
Shattered was a great song of the 1970s,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Y5J0ka4_k
Allman Brothers, esp Live At Fillmore East.
Marshall Tucker
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Tina Turner
Arlo Guthrie
The Band
And of course the calculus song: Take It To the Limit by the Eagles came on my radio every day as I drove from my apartment to my 5 day/week sophomore calculus class at Ga Tech in the fall of 1976.
Every decade has lots of popular junk in it. That's part of the ups and downs of the business.
Problem now is the lack of "ups". Even my millennial kids admit that the music of the 70s and 80s blows away what's available today.
There's plenty of good music being made. Just not very much good rock or pop. (Someone else will have to handle pop, that's never been my thing.)
Rock music is stuck in a rut. There's still stuff I like being made, but it tends to be more musically complex and less accessible, and definitely isn't car radio fare. Hip Hop has temporarily "won", even more so outside the US.
I'm not sure how that changes. Maybe a standout act finding something new to do. I don't see any micro-genre poised to break through.
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Well, just because they put dreck on their 70s channel doesn't mean you don't like 70s music.
Try SomaFM's 'Left Coast 70s'. It feels alot more like the music I listened to on mom and her friends' hifis as a kid. (They'd give me a set of headphones and let me listen to pretty much any record or tape I wanted to.)
Autistic kid in headphones in the 70s? Yeah. Ahead of the curve ^-^
I tried to download the 70s on 7 playlist. It was a complicated multistep process, ending up with "Virus Detected" before I actually opened the file. So I didn't. Then a "We just stopped a threat" message.
Anyway, it could be popular dreck or the good stuff. Sounds like door number one.