70s Schlock: A decade of greatness

RaceBannon

http://youtu.be/THW-5OUTSt8

http://youtu.be/auLyfd49-UE

YellowSnow

We just disagree, Race...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8_FOQ7-P30

PurpleThrobber

Uh....Dan Hartman hit in 1984 with that song.

RaceBannon

PurpleThrobber said:

Uh....Dan Hartman hit in 1984 with that song.

If you dont confuse the 70s and 80s you weren't there

YellowSnow

Paul wrote a lot of 70's schlock but I think Silly Love Songs takes the cake...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK5oJcn99d4

PurpleThrobber

RaceBannon said:

PurpleThrobber said:

Uh....Dan Hartman hit in 1984 with that song.

If you dont confuse the 70s and 80s you weren't there

The 1870's and 80's or the 1970's and 80's?

dnc

PurpleThrobber said:

RaceBannon said:

PurpleThrobber said:

Uh....Dan Hartman hit in 1984 with that song.

If you dont confuse the 70s and 80s you weren't there

The 1870's and 80's or the 1970's and 80's?

I think Race was pretty clear. If you don't confuse the 1870s and the 1980s then you weren't there.

PurpleThrobber

dnc said:

PurpleThrobber said:

RaceBannon said:

PurpleThrobber said:

Uh....Dan Hartman hit in 1984 with that song.

If you dont confuse the 70s and 80s you weren't there

The 1870's and 80's or the 1970's and 80's?

I think Race was pretty clear. If you don't confuse the 1870s and the 1980s then you weren't there.

To be fair, @RaceBannon used to shake his groove thing at ΣΤΥΔΙΟ LIV

Yousef_#1UberDriver

Take Uber ride with PurpleBaze. He plays Smoke on the Water on a loop!

SFGbob

YellowSnow said:

Paul wrote a lot of 70's schlock but I think Silly Love Songs takes the cake...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK5oJcn99d4

Ebony and Ivory far, far worse.

PurpleThrobber

SFGbob said:

YellowSnow said:

Paul wrote a lot of 70's schlock but I think Silly Love Songs takes the cake...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK5oJcn99d4

Ebony and Ivory far, far worse.

Say Say Say what you want....


But you’re not wrong.

“Paul, I’m a lover not a fighter” might be the faggiest riff of all faggy riffs ever.

chuck

It seems to ne like the McCartney songs mentioned (extremely faggy btw) were 80s not 70s, aside from Silly Love Songs.

I grew up on 70s schlock, or at least I'd call much of it that now. Elvis, Rod Stewart, the BeeGees, the cats in the cradle, Wildfire, and so on. I came out of it not liking but at least able to tolerate some of the chick singers like Joan Baez, Carly simon, Carol King, and even Linda Ronstadt (who I mostly just wanted to bed). I liked Cat Steven's and Jim Croce OK, but they were too hippy for Mom so she didn't play them as much.

The amazing thing to me later on was how much awesome rock i was missing thanks to my mom and her shit vinyl collection. I didn't even know until I was an adult that my dad actually listened to good music all that time.

89ute

https://youtu.be/IW7ZimYRfZI

YellowSnow

SFGbob said:

YellowSnow said:

Paul wrote a lot of 70's schlock but I think Silly Love Songs takes the cake...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK5oJcn99d4

Ebony and Ivory far, far worse.

Save it for the early 80s schlock thread.

YellowSnow

chuck said:

It seems to ne like the McCartney songs mentioned (extremely faggy btw) were 80s not 70s, aside from Silly Love Songs.

I grew up on 70s schlock, or at least I'd call much of it that now. Elvis, Rod Stewart, the BeeGees, the cats in the cradle, Wildfire, and so on. I came out of it not liking but at least able to tolerate some of the chick singers like Joan Baez, Carly simon, Carol King, and even Linda Ronstadt (who I mostly just wanted to bed). I liked Cat Steven's and Jim Croce OK, but they were too hippy for Mom so she didn't play them as much.

The amazing thing to me later on was how much awesome rock i was missing thanks to my mom and her shit vinyl collection. I didn't even know until I was an adult that my dad actually listened to good music all that time.

Cat Stevens aka @Yousef_#1UberDriver was amazing. Among the top 4 folk based singer songwriters of that era.

Paul’s early body of solo work was good through Band on the Run. Everything thereafter was schlocky crap.

The best solo album by a Beatle is All Things Must Pass and it’s not even close.

YellowSnow

89ute said:

https://youtu.be/IW7ZimYRfZI

It burns my ears. Yuck.

chuck

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

It seems to ne like the McCartney songs mentioned (extremely faggy btw) were 80s not 70s, aside from Silly Love Songs.

I grew up on 70s schlock, or at least I'd call much of it that now. Elvis, Rod Stewart, the BeeGees, the cats in the cradle, Wildfire, and so on. I came out of it not liking but at least able to tolerate some of the chick singers like Joan Baez, Carly simon, Carol King, and even Linda Ronstadt (who I mostly just wanted to bed). I liked Cat Steven's and Jim Croce OK, but they were too hippy for Mom so she didn't play them as much.

The amazing thing to me later on was how much awesome rock i was missing thanks to my mom and her shit vinyl collection. I didn't even know until I was an adult that my dad actually listened to good music all that time.

Cat Stevens aka @Yousef_#1UberDriver was amazing. Among the top 4 folk based singer songwriters of that era.

Paul’s early body of solo work was good through Band on the Run. Everything thereafter was schlocky crap.

The best solo album by a Beatle is All Things Must Pass and it’s not even close.

Solid choice, but I favor Plastic Ono, imagine, and even double fantasy (just ignore everything with Yoko's name or voice in it).

YellowSnow

Plastic Ono and Imagine were amazing records. My opinion, however, is that George had more classic songs on his first than either of those two. Now if John had done a double album to debut i would probably feel differently.

DerekJohnson

YellowSnow said:

Plastic Ono and Imagine were amazing records. My opinion, however, is that George had more classic songs on his first than either of those two. Now if John had done a double album to debut i would probably feel differently.

A Beatles scholar I used to listen to said that George coming out with the debut double album was a FUCK YOU to John and Paul

YellowSnow

DerekJohnson said:

YellowSnow said:

Plastic Ono and Imagine were amazing records. My opinion, however, is that George had more classic songs on his first than either of those two. Now if John had done a double album to debut i would probably feel differently.

A Beatles scholar I used to listen to said that George coming out with the debut double album was a FUCK YOU to John and Paul

I don't think George ever attained the songwriting prowess of John or Paul. That said, he had built up a surplus great material in 1969/70 which couldn't fit on Let it Be or Abbey Road based on his normal 2 songs per LP quota.

I've long said, it you take the 13- 14 best songs off each of their solo debuts, you might have the best Beatles LP ever.

Instant Karma
Mother
My Sweet Lord
Isn't it a Pitty
What is Life?
Maybe I'm Amazed

That album would have been YUGE.

LebamDawg

I think the worst was Stewart getting into discoish music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hphwfq1wLJs