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Post by Slinger on Jan 4, 2021 11:02:16 GMT
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Post by Clive on Jan 4, 2021 11:31:27 GMT
You are and I am too! But...look at the quality of the albums!
They may not sound current to today's youth but how many of the albums of 2020 or 2021 albums will stand out in 50 years time?
Maybe I'm looking at this all wrong. It's all about tracks now... Yes, I'm old.
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Post by Slinger on Jan 4, 2021 12:29:16 GMT
You are and I am too! But...look at the quality of the albums! They may not sound current to today's youth but how many of the albums of 2020 or 2021 albums will stand out in 50 years time? Maybe I'm looking at this all wrong. It's all about tracks now... Yes, I'm old. You're right about the quality, Clive. Pretty much every album in that list deserves to be called a "classic," in my book. They're also albums that spent weeks and weeks in the charts. Meddle, for instance, only peaked at #3, but it spent 85 weeks in the chart. LA Woman, peaked at #9 and spent 36 weeks on the chart, but it was only The Doors' 6 th most popular album. In 50 years time, no matter how good they are, or are considered to be, I can't see people having the same conversations about Little Mix, or Juice Wrld (sic). Guess who's #20 in the current official top50 right now. It's Fleetwood Mac with "50 Years, Don't Stop". #6 is Neil Diamond, #8 is Queen, #14 is Elton John, and so it goes on. Again, I can't see the ephemeral bitts of fluff currently troubling the charts still being there, going strong, after 50 years. We may be old, but we've got bloody good taste.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 4, 2021 13:21:58 GMT
The music's good
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Post by ChrisB on Jan 4, 2021 13:30:16 GMT
Don't forget that for every title in that list there were another 50 or 100 albums of absolute shite. We only remember the good stuff.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 4, 2021 13:46:00 GMT
I desperately try to forget the bad ones
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Post by julesd68 on Jan 4, 2021 13:53:32 GMT
Don't forget that for every title in that list there were another 50 or 100 albums of absolute shite. We only remember the good stuff. Agreed - there was plenty of shite in the charts back then too so I don't think so much has changed. There are plenty of contemporary albums from recent years that will be remembered in years to come.
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Post by julesd68 on Jan 4, 2021 13:54:20 GMT
Maybe I'm looking at this all wrong. It's all about tracks now... Yes, I'm old. Don't worry Clive - you're the Peter Pan of South Manchester!
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Post by jandl100 on Jan 4, 2021 16:00:20 GMT
Our parents 50 years ago.... "All this rock and electronic nonsense, it's not like real music from Elvis and Louis Armstrong and Ella. Now that's what I call music." Yes, you're very, very old. Thinking that the music that just happened to be produced when you were young is the best ever is a sure sign of it!
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Post by petea on Jan 4, 2021 16:14:06 GMT
I think you missed a 'very' out, Paul. You know I've never heard of a single one of those!
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Post by Slinger on Jan 4, 2021 16:21:27 GMT
Thinking that the music that just happened to be produced when you were young is the best ever is a sure sign of it! So does preferring classical music mean you've got a painting in the attic, Jerry?
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Post by jandl100 on Jan 4, 2021 16:31:05 GMT
Thinking that the music that just happened i67.tinypic.comto be produced when you were young is the best ever is a sure sign of it! So does preferring classical music mean you've got a painting in the attic, Jerry? No, it just means that I know that great music can be produced at any time.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 4, 2021 17:52:13 GMT
There's a lot of good albums in that list.
I agree that all eras produced some great albums and lots of shit.
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Post by Slinger on Jan 4, 2021 18:44:01 GMT
There's a lot of good albums in that list. I agree that all eras produced some great albums and lots of shit. I remember staying in a hotel on the south coast, and finding out that the owner used to be a DJ for minor pirate radio station. Myself, and a few of the other guests spent a long night in the bar discussing "the old days" and he promised us an evening of reminiscences if we fancied it. He had loads of old tapes of the pirate days, including the sinking of the Mi Amigo (Radio Caroline) etc. We had another long evening in the bar sharing some wonderful memories, but we all agreed that the one thing that had been lost in the mists of time, and twisted into an idealised past, was how crap so much of the music was. There was a lot of great stuff too, but run-of-the-mill "pop" music of the sixties really was quite abysmal. It was quite a rude awakening.
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Post by Clive on Jan 4, 2021 19:20:59 GMT
The list in Slinger’s post has a lot of good albums, I suspect that was one of the better years. I asked my 28 year old daughter...she’s convinced 2021 won’t produce anything like that number of memorable albums. Possibly part of the issue is the speed with which fads expire nowadays.
Yes I realise that most people have a soft spot for music they grew up with but that’s not how I’m thinking. A lot of young people listen to music from 50 years ago. For some older people it’s music from 500 years ago!
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Post by MartinT on Jan 4, 2021 20:47:30 GMT
This is why any 'greatest songs of all time' lists are doomed to misrepresentation, since most voters are young and will vote for their generation of music which means a disproportionate quantity of recent music.
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Post by robbiegong on Jan 4, 2021 20:58:04 GMT
The 70's alone was just awesome for so many genres of music, a golden, classic era in my opinion - 'popular' music / solo artists male and female and bands, soul, funk, reggae..... Probably the majority of stuf I never tire of listening to is from that era.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jan 4, 2021 21:12:21 GMT
Old Gits!
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 5, 2021 16:11:00 GMT
The way I buy music often surprises me when I look at the date My answer to so many questions of music forums All of them Pose the questions as you see fit
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Post by Barrington on Jan 26, 2021 13:16:28 GMT
All though I have several of those albums only one stands out as a clear memory and that is ELPs "Pictures" I remember buying it and marveling at how different it was from ..well everything really , I was 15 .
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