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panik ([personal profile] panik) wrote2008-01-17 07:55 pm
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Dear God Almighty...

I don't  know if anyone else is watching BBC4; Top of the Pops, an end-of-year retrospective show from 1978. Now, I'm old enough to remember the seventies - it was Glam Rock and Punk and Disco, wasn't it? Dear God; so far we've had Grease and The Brotherhood of Man! O: - and The Smurfs and Mull Of f***ing Kintyre!! (how can we make this bloody awful dirge of a song even worse than it already is? I know, let's add some bagpipes!) and Noel sodding Edmonds in flares.

And just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse... Matchstalk men and bleedin Matchstalk Cats n Dogs.

I mean, as if we didn't have enough to put up with with the rubbish piling on the streets, the power cuts, the dead rotting unburied in the morgues, the Winter of Discontent and all the rest....

Has my memory been playing tricks on me? Was it really this bad?
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[identity profile] fluterbev.livejournal.com 2008-01-17 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Has my memory been playing tricks on me? Was it really this bad?

I'm afraid it really was that bad! Which is why, around the same time, I completely stopped listening to popular music and threw myself wholeheartedly into traditional music.

Well, there were noteable exceptions, of course ::points to icon and genuflects::

LOL!

[identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com 2008-01-17 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
The thing is, we all remember the good stuff, but it was actually the dross that makes the bestsellers every bloody year - Last night we watched the 'pop on trial' debate about the 60's.

So, we're talking The sixties... Greatest decade in the history of popular culture, and you're thinking; Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and Brian Wilson and Syd Barrett; Mods and Hippies and acid and that, and what were the biggest hits? Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdink, Cliff Richard and (biggest seller of the decade) Tears for Souvenirs, Ken Dodd.

Not that I have anything against Doddy but...

If nothing else, it proves that taste has always been the preserve of the few and memory is highly selective. *g*

Re: LOL!

[identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com 2008-01-18 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
That show almost made me cry with the sad!

But it just goes to show - it's the 70's; you're thinking, Floyd and Zep etc. and what do we get? Boney M. ::shakes head with the horror::
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