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Anyone got love for the 1970s?

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  • #62
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,500 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    This is what all the cool dudes were wearing in the summer of '78:

    488373.jpg

    Crimplene at its finest! Alas too expensive for us:pac:


  • #63
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,144 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    £10.99 was a lot of money relative to people’s wages then - you had to save to buy clothes thanks to high tariffs and uncompetitive business practices. Penney’s wasn’t the phenomenon it is now


  • #64
    Beasty
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    Built my first HiFi system when I got to Manchester University in 1979.

    Picked up a pair of KLH 317 speakers from a Laskys in Manchester (long since gone) - £79.99. Had to hire a taxi to get them back to the stiudent flats - first time I had been in a taxi in my life

    I'm sure I still have those speakers somewhere. The rest of the system was Pioneer stuff - again it's probably stashed away somewhere in the house


  • #65
    jcorr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭jcorr


    It's 2020 next year, then we will be in the "twenties", we'll be able to look back during the 30s and say hey what did you do during the 20s

    Sorry that's got absolutely nothing to do with the 1970s. Lol. I was born in 1982 so just missed out on the 70s


  • #66
    Mad_maxx
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    Tucker Big Flower wrote: »
    Yes, great music and film but a lean time to live in Ireland.

    Eighties were arguably worse economically in Ireland as both the UK and the USA boomed in the eighties, seventies were a **** show everywhere


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  • #67
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    The whole latter half of the 1900s was the begin all and end all of stuffs worth remembering. With the 70s smack bang in the middle


  • #68
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,190 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Hmmm... too many overratted films including:

    The Exorcist
    The Omen
    A Clockwork Orange
    The Exorcist
    One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
    Annie Hall
    Apocalypse Now

    the 80's things started to get cool and then we had the 90's, the best decade ever


  • #69
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    The 70's was the high-point of Hollywood cinema.

    Patton
    French connection
    Godfather
    Godfather 2
    One flew over the cookies nest
    Rocky
    Star wars
    Superman
    Appocolypse now

    Awesome decade in film


  • #70
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    The 1970s is now considered by film historians to be the second best decade for Hollywood cinema after the 1930s - with excellent plots, daring new subject matter, great actors and new cinematographic techniques dominant in this decade.

    It was also the decade that gave birth to the cinema blockbuster - Jaws in 1975, Star Wars in 1977 and Superman in 1978. The Horror genre reached its golden age in 1970s, with classics such as The Exorcist (1973), The Omen, Carrie (both 1976) and Halloween (1978).

    There are just far too many great films from the 1970s to list here. But some real standout films include the following:

    M.A.S.H (1970)
    Airport (1970)
    Five Easy Pieces (1970)
    The Andromeda Strain (1971)
    The French Connection (1971)
    Dirty Harry (1971)
    Klute (1971)
    Play Misty For Me (1971)
    A Clockwork Orange (1971)
    The Godfather (1972)
    Cabaret (1972)
    Deliverance (1972)
    Pink Flamingoes (1972)
    Mean Streets (1973)
    The Wicker Man (1973)
    Serpico (1973)
    The Exorcist (1973)
    The Sting (1973)
    Sleeper (1973)
    The Great Gatsby (1974)
    Blazing Saddles (1974)
    Chinatown (1974)
    The Taking Of Pelham 123 (1974)
    Jaws (1975)
    One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
    The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
    Network (1976)
    The Omen (1976)
    Taxi Driver (1976)
    Carrie (1976)
    All The President’s Men (1976)
    Star Wars (1977)
    Capricorn One (1977)
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
    Saturday Night Fever (1977)
    Annie Hall (1977)
    The Deer Hunter (1978)
    Superman (1978)
    Grease (1978)
    Halloween (1978)
    Midnight Express (1978)
    Apocalypse Now (1979)
    Alien (1979)
    The Life Of Brian (1979)
    The China Syndrome (1979)


    Marlon Brando in The Godfather, released in 1972. Considered to be one of the greatest
    films ever made.
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    Actually the forties are considered to be the best decade by movie critics


  • #71
    Greyfox
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Actually the forties are considered to be the best decade by movie critics

    The likes of Cassablanca is still amazing today but a lot of old films don't stand the test of time


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  • #72
    Bobblehats
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Actually the forties are considered to be the best decade by movie critics

    I find those times difficult too much grainy black and white schmaltz. And everybody seemed to be in such a rush


  • #73
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Greyfox wrote: »
    The likes of Cassablanca is still amazing today but a lot of old films don't stand the test of time

    Wouldn't be into an era that far back myself either


  • #74
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Jake1 wrote: »
    70's rock, still sounds great today.
    Soul, funk, same.

    Production values are inferior nowadays


  • #75
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Wasn't there for it, and Ireland wouldn't have been great - also there was a darkness following that optimism of the previous decade.

    But oh my god the fashion (disco, key parties, Boogie Nights), movies and music. Bearded 70s rock dudes - phwoar (not the damn Santa beards around now).

    Porn star maxi dresses ftw!


  • #76
    JupiterKid
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    The 1970s were not only renowned for superb cinema, but the quality of much of the content in television in this decade was excellent too - with critically acclaimed drama including The Waltons, Colombo, Upstairs Downstairs, Roots, The Onedin Line, Battlestar Galactica, Starsky and Hutch, The Sweeney, The Six Million Dollar Man, Charlie’s Angels, The Little House On The Prarie, The Streets Of San Francisco and The Persuaders to name but a few.

    Also the 1970s saw what is widely considered to the The finest comedy show ever made - Fawlty Towers. :) And other superb comedy from Monty Python, Saturday Night Live and Morecambe and Wise.

    The 70s also was the first decade to air TV shows based on nostalgia, at the time for the 1950s, with the hugely popular Happy Days, which aired from 1974 to 1983.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqAl4e799WM



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1qAF8VAgVA



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzyHxYxc-Mo


  • #77
    JupiterKid
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    The 1970s is the decade the Big Mac came to Ireland.

    The first McDonalds opened in Ireland in May 1977 on Grafton Street. Within 18 months a second McDonalds opened on O’Connell St. Now over 80 outlets in the country and counting...

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    The first McDonalds in Europe opened in 1971 in Holland and later that same year they came to Germany. The UK saw its first McDonalds in 1974.

    mcdonald-s-logo-0D95A820B2-seeklogo.com_.png


  • #78
    Montage of Feck
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    It was a golden age for Hollywood movies. Taxi driver, dog day afternoon, apocalypse now etc.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #79
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Actually the forties are considered to be the best decade by movie critics

    Most of them were too heavy on the propaganda during the forties. Even Casablanca was some very cringe moment's.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #80
    [Deleted User]
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    Tucker Big Flower wrote: »
    Yes, great music and film but a lean time to live in Ireland.

    To Irish people at the time though it surely felt less lean than times previous to it? My father says the 70s were great but there was no money in the 60s, until maybe the very late 60s.


  • #81
    Jonybgud
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    The 1970's are really no different to any other decade, it's just that they strike a chord with a certain generation who were young, wild and free at the time. No different to others identifying with the 1960's or 80's or 90's.

    The tragedy is that by the time you realise it wasn't the decade, the music or the venues at the time but your infectious free spirited grip on life you had at the time, it's all only visible in the mirror.


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  • #82
    is_that_so
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    Tucker Big Flower wrote: »
    Yes, great music and film but a lean time to live in Ireland.
    Yep, everyone was thin or skinny!


  • #83
    fryup
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    who remembers the big disco shootout....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpZKb7SufDw


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