A heady mix of drugs and optimism?
I mean we have better drugs and more drugs now. Were they really that optimistic?
They weren’t in charge yet
Not as many people, not as many options, talent was more concentrated and less worried about dying because of all the shit that’s been fucked up since the 60’s.
I don‘t think it was. They just asked a bunch of old people.
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It will never stop being hilarious that Bret Stephens searched Google Books for “Jews as bedbugs” and, finding one hit in a random dissertation which didn’t really support his hypothesis, promptly exposed his own search in the link.
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Yet the fuck still has a job.
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Pretty much. Have to know your audience. About half of that stuff has aged very well. About half has aged terribly.
It’s possible that those are not actually the greatest albums of all time by any measure that would stand up to even cursory scrutiny. Perhaps they are the best known albums of current times that are widely liked, qualities which mutually reinforce one another in a perpetual snowball effect and also depend heavily on the sustained influence of the regrettably still not dead boomer generation?
Just a thought.
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I think at least some of them were. I mean, when I listen to “The Times They Are A-Changin’” it just makes me sad.
(This could just be my take though. Basically the fascists won is what I’m saying.)
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Is there a travel thread here? I went to South Korea for a week, had a blast, happy to answer questions and post some pictures.
It’s not so much that 65-75 was the golden age of music.
But 65-75 was the greatest decade change of music. Rolling Stone tried to measure influence. I mean pre-65 post-75 is a crazy change
The Shock Of The New always creates the best art.
The production and musicianship may be objectively better now but that’s not how this stuff works.
When were the best periods/movements for art?
Renaissance
Impressionism/Post-Impressionism
Dada
German Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism maybe
All of them revolutionary.
It’s not a coincidence that the same period (late 60s to mid 70s) marks a golden age of Hollywood with the emergence of radically-minded film makers.
This explanation will never satisfy reactionaries who like things to remain the same and repeated formulae (cough @LouisCyphre ).
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The Kinks are the most underrated rock band ever
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Not sure if full album links work here:
No no really. The 1970s were characterised mainly by disillusioment with the (inevitable) failure of flower power plus the ramifications of Watergate and harsher economic realities. cf Neil Young
Which is better art? The blueprint or the copy of the blueprint?
(slightly facetious)
I got a jury summons!
I hope I get picked. I hope it’s a good case.