The Golden Age Of Rock & Roll

[Johnny Robbo]

I saw a talk show on BBC4 recently where Danny Baker & his guests (including a certain Mr. Clarkson) discussed their favourite rock albums. It seems Jezza (like me) has a soft spot for Supertramp's "Crime of the Century", by the way.

Anyhow, one point that was made by Danny Baker is that the 1970s was a golden age for rock music. Of course, everyone reckons the music they grew up listening to is the best music ever made, but he made a convincing case for why he wasn't just looking back with rose-tinted spectacles.

Anyway, I agreed with him & stole his argument & got a blog post out of it

https://jrobsonguitar.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/the-golden-age-of-rock-roll/

Any thoughts chaps?

Cheers,

John.

[Oldrottenhead]

i saw said programme and have to agree that the period produced a wide range of movements that crossed over from underground to mainstream. i mean from prog to punk in the space of two or three years.

however i do feel each decade produces better and a wider range of music, but is more individual and split into various genres and sub genres, so there have been no great underground movements that have crossed over into the mainstream, yeah you have had grunge and britpop etc, but music is now so diverse and individual and because of the internet so more accessible.

every LP i ever owned (as i had pretty off the beaten track tastes in music) had to be sought out, although i no longer have any vinyl LPs i can remember where and when i purchased every one and i bought a lot. the process of getting music back in the seventies was an event in itself. also it was expensive so if i bought an LP and I didn't like it right away i would force myself to listen to it until i liked it. lol.

[Oldrottenhead]

and Danny Baker should be on the TV much more than he is. i remember him from when he used to write for one of the first punk fanzines "sniffin' glue".

[Johnny Robbo]

if i bought an LP and I didn't like it right away i would force myself to listen to it until i liked it. lol.

Yeah... I know that feeling & as Clarkson said on the show, because you considered yourself a "supporter" of a particular band, you'd never admit that their new album wasn't brilliant. Animals by Pink Floyd springs to mind with me... I wanted to like it. I really did. Never quite managed it, though.

Yeah... Danny Baker should be on the box more than he is. That show we're talking about could easily be a series. Just found the whole thing on Youtube:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGGXPa5otgs

[Oldrottenhead]

it was a series they covered a different decade i think for each episode. same for me with animals the other one for me was supertramp's crisis? what crisis? most depressing album ever. lol.

[bruno]

Interesting blog post Johnny - there was some damn fine and influential music in the 70's, but there was a fair amount of duff music then as well 
B

[Blooby]

I'm partial to the late 60's through the mid to late 70's, but I'm sure that many of the folks into Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, an the like would disagree.

Blooby

[Greeny]

It's very hard to compare musical decades and single one out as being 'better'.

I would veer towards the 70's - classic singer-songwriters, glam, punk, prog, and new wave, but I also love all the psychedelic stuff from 1967-1968, and early 80's electronica.

I'd prefer not to choose!

I do love any programmes or documentaries discussing music though. And Danny Baker is very good at it.