Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
If it please the court, I submit for your consideration: What a tragic loss when Croce died. This is just one of his great songs… Eric Clapton almost makes the 70s the best musical decade all by himself. This song is one of the best ever… This song was played at virtually every dance I [...]
I don’t really mean to get into a contest between the two decades. In all truth every decade has got great music. And there really isn’t a clean break for the decades anyway, many of the great music of the sixties was a direct link to the fifties, which had great music of its own, [...]
Dadman started something here, I may not be able to get what I want, but I’ll get what I need. And what I need might just be a little Respect! Or maybe it’s my Baby Love? No doubt the sixties were a rough time, but even so, in so many ways it was a wonderful [...]
There is no doubt that the Sixties were overrun with naive socialists who thought they were the first and only generation who had questioned authority, spoke out against war and experimented with civil disobedience. They were wrong on so many levels, and most are still wrong to this day. But the music… man the music…
How many songs from the Seventies have become culturally iconic to the point that they routinely turn up in movie after movie? Now this song wasn’t in the Harry Potter movie, but it’s been in movies from “An American Werewolf in London” to “Girl Interrupted.” Why? Because the song is primal, it taps into something [...]
By the end of the Sixties, the Beach Boys and the Beatles had revolutionized studio recording techniques, pioneering much of what made the Seventies music so tight, but most of the great songs of the Sixties, like this one and the DayTripper below it, were recorded in single sessions with all of the performers performing [...]
I defy you to find a more compelling, recognizable and blood-pounding guitar riff than the one that pulsates through this early Beatles song.
Now I’m not going to argue with Dadman’s assertion that the Seventies had great music. But I will say that I tend to prefer the Sixties. And this is one reason why: I give you Buffalo Springfield.
Almost all of Bob Seger’s songs. Ol’ Bob was a musical force in the 70s producing memorable hits like Night Moves, Mainstreet, and this tune, Turn the Page. But Ol’ Bob is just the tip of the gargantuan iceberg of musical quality otherwise known as the 70s…
The Beatles Let It Be, released in 1970. Yes, I do consider The Beatles to be part of the 70s tapestry of musical greatness. This is one of my favorite songs of all time. I still love it everytime I hear it. If memory serves me, I even sang it in my middle school choir [...]
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