Do you think pop music got more focused in the mid-late 70's?

Mad_Hater said:
Where do you draw the line? Def Leppard is heavier rock than Steppenwolf yet that's pop. "Love Bites" is a lot heavier than "Born to Be Wild" yet it's considered a pop-power ballad... Every hair band ballad ever made is pop yet they're heavier than any steppenwolf song ever made... What classifies as pop isn't as simple as Taylor Swift.
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Mad_Hater said:
Anything that somehow becomes mainstream is pop. What do you hear more in commercials now; Born to Be Wild or Frankie Avalon? Case Dismissed lol.
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Mad_Hater said:
Where do you draw the line? Def Leppard is heavier rock than Steppenwolf yet that's pop. "Love Bites" is a lot heavier than "Born to Be Wild" yet it's considered a pop-power ballad... Every hair band ballad ever made is pop yet they're heavier than any steppenwolf song ever made... What classifies as pop isn't as simple as Taylor Swift.
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Mad_Hater said:
But honestly what wasn't bubble gum in 1972; Sabbath? It's all bubble gum at the end of the day...
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Mad_Hater said:
This comes out...

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This is a interesting conversation.
I think pop music evolved just like rock music did. Rock however went in different directions.

The Beatles and stones were trying to emulate R&B. And they were sucessful.
Pop music became focused but for more money to the record company
No one mentioned Free.
All Right Now rocked but by many it's still pop.

I have another question.
What bands are punk ?
 
ibmorjamn said:
This is a interesting conversation.
I think pop music evolved just like rock music did. Rock however went in different directions.

The Beatles and stones were trying to emulate R&B. And they were sucessful.
Pop music became focused but for more money to the record company
No one mentioned Free.
All Right Now rocked but by many it's still pop.

I have another question.
What bands are punk ?
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The Who, in my opinion were indeed 'the' architects and a punk band to a degree almost a decade before The Sex Pistols who get all the credit.

The Sex Pistols are, again in my opinion, a very shiddy band. In other words they sucked the testicles of goats.
 
Sorry guys, but I love KC. I also love Queen, Zep, Sabbath, Foghat, Boston, thin Lizzy, Croce, cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond. John Denver. To me if it's good it's good. I remember when you could hear it all on AM radio. The 70's were a great time fro music.
 
3bolt79 said:
Sorry guys, but I love KC. I also love Queen, Zep, Sabbath, Foghat, Boston, thin Lizzy, Croce, cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond. John Denver. To me if it's good it's good. I remember when you could hear it all on AM radio. The 70's were a great time fro music.
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It was the best times for music (late 60's too)

So many new bands, artists, boundaries getting pushed and risks being taken like never before.
 
iblive said:
I’m really tired and should be in bed. Especially since I’m getting up early to smoke a brisket for my bride’s birthday……

But I gotta ask…. If you rub the lamp just right….. does the genre come out? :io:
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If by rubbing you mean stuffing a "C Note" ($100 bill to the youngsters) into her waistband....
Why yes, yes it does.
 
3bolt79 said:
Sorry guys, but I love KC. I also love Queen, Zep, Sabbath, Foghat, Boston, thin Lizzy, Croce, cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond. John Denver. To me if it's good it's good. I remember when you could hear it all on AM radio. The 70's were a great time fro music.
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I think that was the point.
KC knew (knows) how to play dance music, therefore popular.
Then you hear"Stormbringer," and you forget all about dance music. It was the metal that endured and the disko that was forgettable; a flash in the pan.
 
1910 Fruitgum Company is Bubblegum.
So are Andy Kim's Archies tunes.

Labels are for libraries. For cataloging.

To quote Ellington: "There's good music...and the other kind."

I like a good song that makes me want to listen to it more than once.

40 years from now, they'll still be playing Chic. Iron Maiden...not so much.

There are great songs and performances in the Disco era. Timeless songs. Then there's the other kind. :)
 
Sam The Lion said:
1910 Fruitgum Company is Bubblegum.
So are Andy Kim's Archies tunes.

Labels are for libraries. For cataloging.

To quote Ellington: "There's good music...and the other kind."

I like a good song that makes me want to listen to it more than once.

40 years from now, they'll still be playing Chic. Iron Maiden...not so much.

There are great songs and performances in the Disco era. Timeless songs. Then there's the other kind. :)
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How about when you are forced to listen to it more than once?
Night moves...night moves...night moves...night moves.....
I remember I remember, I remember I remember,
Night moves...night moves...night moves... night moves...

See? it gets on your nerves. That's why it sucks.
 
71 through to 77 wasn't too bad, in fact it was a pretty good time for music on the radio (with the BBC playlist it had to be independent radio stations).
 
Beagle said:
71 through to 77 wasn't too bad, in fact it was a pretty good time for music on the radio (with the BBC playlist it had to be independent radio stations).
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There was a “hard rock”‘station we listened to in the 70s. Wasn’t too awful bad…. Still played to many Top40 tunes. Gotta pay the bills.

Then I came across this station that played a bit of everything. Rock. Blues. Jazz. And it wasn’t Top40. For lack of a better term…. They played the “B” sides. They cost me a lot of money over the years since many times, the non-Top40 tunes were WAY better….. and I’d have to go buy the album.
 
Ant said:
The Who, in my opinion were indeed 'the' architects and a punk band to a degree almost a decade before The Sex Pistols who get all the credit.

The Sex Pistols are, again in my opinion, a very shiddy band. In other words they sucked the testicles of goats.
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Actually Iggy pop gets some credit. Anarchy was the sex Pistols.
I remember a search I did once and Google came up with the Clash and the Ramones? Not exactly punk, I guess radio needs it.
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Pop music in the ´70s ? I must have missed it.
I am lucky there was enough great music everywhere and I hadn´t listen to Pop.
Some Pop music later was great like some songs of Michael Jackson if you call for the King.

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Pop is short for popular. Popular music is the kind that lots of people like. If it appears in Billboard's popularity charts, it's pop music. Every musician who's ever had any significant commercial success was making Popular music.

But pop is also a musical genre. Genres are categories created by and for music distributors like radio. Radio decided that Hank Williams Sr. was country, and that Buddy Holly was rock n roll. They were contemporaries, both made recordings in the Decca quonset hut studio in Nashville. They likely shared instrumentalists. Their respective sounds are more similar than to what rock and country later became. The point being, these categories are artificial and subjective. And sometimes overlap. Is this song disco, or would it be better categorized as soul, house, funk, r&b, pop, rock....? When the Rolling Stones attempt to play country or disco, it still only played on rock radio.

And I look over into the abyss of metal genres, and I don't really understand the difference between metalcore and grindcore and death metal and Swedish death metal and the other 70-odd metal genres.
 
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