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In reply to the discussion: Quite possibly the worst song from the 1970s [View all]Gorp
(716 posts)It has a skull with a knife through the top of it. That's pretty much how I felt about it, and her as well. She knows "classic rock" better than I do and I grew UP with it. I heard a hip hop version of "Stairway To Heaven" in a bar a while back and promptly finished my beverage and left. Some things are just wrong on every level possible.
My best friend from high school had a wide-carriage dot-matrix printer hooked up to his Apple II. We wrote a very simple program that printed "DISCO SUCKS" over and over and over and over and then took the paper (green bar) to school and slipped them into lockers through the vent slots. Nobody figured out who had done it, despite the fact that we were known geeks.
Progressive rock from the early 70's is still some of the best music ever made (Genesis, King Crimson, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, and such), and late 70's rock like Heart, Styx, Bad Company, Dire Straits, Talking Heads, and such was really good stuff, but disco sort of threw a shadow over the entire era. Most people, when asked about 70's music, think "Bee Gees" and John Travolta in his white idiot suit. He's done some good work, but the "Stayin' Alive" thing isn't among it.