Anyone got love for the 1970s?

sxt

Some of the Best years in music and film without a doubt. Lifestyle Carefree but not wild like the 60s, not confused like the 80s and 90s, not overly sensitive and consumerised like the 00s onwards .

Any love?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

sxt wrote: »

Some of the Best years in music and film without a doubt. Lifestyle Carefree but not wild like the 60s, not confused like the 80s and 90s, not overly sensitive and consumerised like the 00s onwards .

Any love?

Yes, great music and film but a lean time to live in Ireland.

snowflaker

I wasn't alive- unless you ask anti abortion groups. I was unborn.

sxt

snowflaker wrote: »

I wasn't alive-

Doesn't mean https://youtu.be/_W42rMjYWlk couldn't be stayin alive?

70's rock, still sounds great today.
Soul, funk, same.

Ulysses Gaze

sxt wrote: »

Some of the Best years in music and film without a doubt. Lifestyle Carefree but not wild like the 60s, not confused like the 80s and 90s, not overly sensitive and consumerised like the 00s onwards .

Any love?

Yes. Some great music in that decade

cml387

We had the best summer ever in ireland (1976).

David Bowie on TOTP singing Starman.

Joined the E.U.

Won the Eurovision for the first time (ok it was Dana but she was cute in those days).

Yeah it was ok.

jonon9

Yeah you cant beat a 1970s bush.

Dirty Dingus McGee

jonon9 wrote: »

Yeah you cant beat a 1970s bush.

Yeah.This song was a cracker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4

Rubberlegs

'73 was a great year for my family
My earliest memories of music are from the mid 70s , Queen, David Bowie etc , music for me that still sounds as good today and I still listen to it.
The checked flares and roll neck jumpers not so much:)

Academic

sxt wrote: »

Some of the Best years in music [...]

A bit of a mixed bag for me. Early 70s, yes, but much of the best was a direct development from some of the better 60s music. The mid-decade of course introduced the horror of disco ...

bobbyss

Slade
Mungo Jerry
T Rex
Doc Martins
Suzy Quatro
Boot Boys
...eh ... Gary Glitter

Harry Palmr

I look back on the IRA/UDA/UVF, the Arab-Israeli wars and skyrocketing interest rates and fuel prices and the strikes and the power cuts with great nostalgia! Thank god the music and films were so good. Otherwise it was a bit **** (oh and Monty Python and related project were excellent of course)

Are Am Eye

snowflaker wrote: »

I wasn't alive- unless you ask anti abortion groups. I was unborn.

I'm sorry to differ with you sir, but you are the care taker. You've always been the caretaker. I should know sir. I've always been here.

Atlantic Dawn

Maybe 5 songs at most from the tailend of the 70's I like, the rest i think are rubbish.

Zaph

My recollection of the 70s was that it was very brown.

buried

The 70's are the start of where it all went completely and utterly f**ked. I have as much love for it as I have the inclination for ripping my own dick off with my bare hands and throwing it in the f**king river.

LETHAL LADY

Zaph wrote: »

My recollection of the 70s was that it was very brown.

So were the 80s, awful brown patterns everywhere. I prefer the 60's for the music even though I'm a late 70s baby.

Harry Palmr

Zaph wrote: »

My recollection of the 70s was that it was very brown.

Earth tones as they were known. Some spectacular bathroom suits back then. A lot of avocado :pac:

LETHAL LADY

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Earth tones as they were known. Some spectacular bathroom suits back then. A lot of avocado :pac:

There was still one in my house when I bought it in the late 90s.

YourSuperior

Some great music back then.

jacksie66

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KungPao

I like the Sex Pistols et al, but not so much the Jimmy Savile's and Gary Glitter's.

dd972

Should have been in Ardoyne, Andersontown or The Falls, good times! Where did the good 'ol days go? :pac:

snowflaker

Are Am Eye wrote: »

I'm sorry to differ with you sir, but you are the care taker. You've always been the caretaker. I should know sir. I've always been here.

Paleblood

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Maybe 5 songs at most from the tailend of the 70's I like, the rest i think are rubbish.

I think that says more about your taste in music than it does about the 1970s.

Are Am Eye

snowflaker wrote: »

A 70s movie


https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SiZ-XgJKAIk/hqdefault.jpg

Can just about remember 1978 when Kate Bush "Wuthering Heights" was on non stop. And Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street".

dasdog

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Maybe 5 songs at most from the tailend of the 70's I like, the rest i think are rubbish.

Punk, hiphop and metal disagree. Prog and disco don't seem pleased either. Some great rock music aside early 70's ghetto funk ruled the decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKJo2eHnCXM

Falcon L

Taste: On The Boards


I rest my case.

Yamanoto

Chopper bikes & that tennis girl scratching her sublime arse are the two finest things to come out of the 1970s.

SecretsOfEarth

ABBA - love them.

Atoms for Peace

The 70's was the high-point of Hollywood cinema.

fatbhoy

snowflaker wrote: »

I think he was quoting what the barman says to Jack Nicholson's character in The Shining.

I'm a bit too.

bodhrandude

Classic moments like this.

fatknacker

Corduroys, moustaches and paedos.

peckerhead

Denim were de daze.

my immediate thoughts on the seventies:
- brown, pink, yellow
- stuffy smell of smoke, old lads drinking beer in pubs with wood on the walls
- poor quality colour video footage
- people look greasy
- dublin v kerry gaelic football matches
- big paedo-looking sideburns, glasses, moustaches, long hair, flared trousers, polo neck jumpers, sheepskin coats ... surely the most objectively unaesthetic fashions of the last 100 years?
- adults are rougher with children (their own and others) and scarier than they are now

BalcombeSt4

I couldn't get any satisfaction that deccade. No, no, no, hey, hey, hey, that's what I used to say.

Masala

Summers were really hot and the sun always shining!!!

A town 10 miles away was a special to visit... and Dublin for a culchie was on an different planet!!

And thumbing was a safe way to get around.......

And 'tapping' the old black public phones was great fun especially if u got it right and got thru to your mate and then hog the box fir an hour!!

Auldloon

The world lost Jim Morrison and gained Me!

alan partridge aha

The cars of the 70s

Galwayguy35

Don't remember much about it apart from 1979 when I started school.

Found a programme page from one of the papers back then when we were clearing out the home place, very little on the box.

YourSuperior

Masala wrote: »

Summers were really hot and the sun always shining!!!

A town 10 miles away was a special to visit... and Dublin for a culchie was on an different planet!!

And thumbing was a safe way to get around.......

And 'tapping' the old black public phones was great fun especially if u got it right and got thru to your mate and then hog the box fir an hour!!

Yeah, what's going on there? Did randomers just become more dangerous as the years rolled on? It must be the rise in car ownership, better cars, transport, etc, rather than safety.

Masala

And waiting all week to go to the 'hop' in the local hall!!
Anf the woman in the house next door would open her house for burgers....and a can if coke!!!

And every summer the 'Carnival' would come to town and country N western acts would play in the big tent. Next day we search the floorboards for loose change lost during the odd jive!!

And you knew EVERYBODY in town .... their fathers, mothers, brother sisters tv. And everyone knew your name and would always say hello on the street!!! Innocent times!!

bobbyss

Deleted User wrote: »

my immediate thoughts on the seventies:
- brown, pink, yellow
- stuffy smell of smoke, old lads drinking beer in pubs with wood on the walls
- poor quality colour video footage
- people look greasy
- dublin v kerry gaelic football matches
- big paedo-looking sideburns, glasses, moustaches, long hair, flared trousers, polo neck jumpers, sheepskin coats ... surely the most objectively unaesthetic fashions of the last 100 years?
- adults are rougher with children (their own and others) and scarier than they are now

Just waiting for Bobby Doyle to get a red.

DEFTLEFTHAND

It was the end of the free loving sixties.

A dark and edgier time, music got heavier, hard drug use became rampant amongst rock stars. A lot of people didn't make it through the decade.

mzungu

As decades go, it was pretty darn good.

uch

Sorry lads, born in 1970, so I love the specials,

uch

But we were the ones that had the likes of Linda Lucardi and sam fox as sexy

JupiterKid

Born in 1975 so I only remember the last year or two of the 70s. Yes, great music but sh*te fashion.

A pretty good time to be young and professional in urban America or Britain or Western Europe. Ireland was still pretty poor and Church dominated but we were slowly "getting there." The economy boomed in the first half of the decade - and then the oil crisis happened...

For most of the rest of the world, it was pretty awful - totalitarian oppressive regimes, bloody uprisings/coups, political and economic instability and other misery.

Terrorism also took off in the 70s - the North, Middle East but also groups like the SLA (who kidnapped and recruited heiress Patty Hearst) in the USA and the RAF in Germany. Lots of pro Communist sentiment amongst the youth.

Women's rights advanced greatly in the West, the gay rights movement began and racism became much less acceptable.

So if you were a well to do Baby Boomer in North America and Western Europe, the 70s was hedonistic and fun. For most, it wasn't.

It basically was the transition between the idealistic 60s and the greed is good 80s.