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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuess what decade NBC went to comercial on during the music tribute?
The fucking seventies----THE GREATEST MUSICAL DECADE IN HISTORY!!!!!!!!
FUCKING WANKERS!
flamingdem
(39,308 posts)It really harshed my mellow!
BOG PERSON
(2,916 posts)the original postmodern celebrity.
BOG PERSON
(2,916 posts)thank you
glinda
(14,807 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)The proof is in the grooves.
gopiscrap
(23,726 posts)derby378
(30,252 posts)And not just any musical act - one of the most blatantly anti-authoritarian acts of the 70s.
trumad
(41,692 posts)and then bam---commercial break.
They come back and they're in the eighties.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)and the Rays. I suspected our viewing access was being edited - time zones & all, but that was bullsh**!
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)or The Clash?
I mean, they play The Clash in the goddamn supermarket for goodness sake.
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Avalux
(35,015 posts)I got freaked out the other day when I heard old REM in the drug store.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)This stuff has long since stopped being "anti-authoritarian," and has become the soundtrack of consumer capitalism. And 60's classic rock even more so. But that's also because "anti-authoritarianism" is the preferred stance of consumer capitalism - you stick it to The Man by buying The Man's "edgy" products and eating more butter in your diet (take THAT, health Nazis!). It's why the old 60's version of rebellion is no longer interesting or effective. It just turned into marketing.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Although I haven't heard White Riot anywhere.
BTW, a grocery store (can't remember which) has set up a 'man aisle' with just about every unhealthy, calorie-laden product you can imagine.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)... was that there was no Clash song, at least as far as I could hear. The Pistols were nothing but a classic PR stunt. The Clash were among the greats.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)No lyrics, just the opening bars.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)The Clash were no different than any band that came before them or any band that came after them. The same can not be said for the Pistols. They refused to genuflect to any "hallowed rockandroll tradition"
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Punk reacted to disco. Then disco ate punk.
OK, fine. Somebody's going to say that Joy Division wasn't punk. Here:
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Joy Division will always be one of my favorites of all time.
flamingdem
(39,308 posts)great guitar riffs
xmas74
(29,670 posts)Wish we'd heard that last night, though I did think I'd heard some New Order. (Or maybe I imagined it.)
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)New Order is also an amazing group - as well it should have been with the instrumental 3/4 of JD as its core. Ian Curtis actually was what Jim Morrison would have given his eyeteeth to be.
xmas74
(29,670 posts)played around her. She's learned an early appreciation of that whole segment of music.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)were the first post-punk bands. Ian Dury and the Blockheads came quickly on their heels. Classic British art-school music, all of them, except for Dury, who was pub-rock/music hall with a vaguely punky edge and a strong R&B influence.
Tha vast majority of the first-wave punk bands were absolutely forgettable noise except for the Glen Matlock-era Pistols and the Clash
flamingdem
(39,308 posts)I almost had to get up from my chair!
I think they are post-punk.
pwb
(11,246 posts)IMO.
Peepsite
(113 posts)On 5-6 hour tape delay anyhow, why is it we had to miss 5 minutes of the performance every time there was a commercial? It's not like they were broadcasting live.