Who makes the best milkshake?
Am I the only one who only ever feels nostalgia for the 1970’s?
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The 70’s was right in my teenage wheelhouse. And there was nothing better than Soul Train’s Line Dance.
The USSR never had a chance.
The late 70’s?
Punk?
YEAH!
New Wave?
YEAH!
Disco?
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You and Jack Black
Kelis.
“Milkshake was stripped-down brilliance. I saw this live late-night performance by Kelis and Pharrell’s crew when it originally broadcast, and it got my attention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2lK-C36kdU
This comment made me laugh with its accurate bluntness:
“I saw this after smoking weed maybe my 6th or 7th time. Me and and my buddy were f**ing speechless in a trance. Two horny 15 year olds that got mindf**ed by this sex bomb”
please not K.C. But there were some disco songs i liked.
Um…hello
Jackson 5 – Shake Your Body…
http://youtu.be/r3TIL1Tvtpg
There’s this live show by the J5 at the height of their powers, delivering their two best singles back-to-back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prfUzZU1oKw
How about those outfits, huh?
“Am I the only one who only ever feels nostalgia for the 1970’s?”
Definitely not. I’m the other one.
The only things I miss about the seventies are fresh fruit and actual milkshakes. They just don’t taste the same anymore.
I really don’t remember much after 68, but sometimes there’s a bit of deja vu…
This 1970’s music?
1970
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What I was listening to:
1970
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Lot’s of great ones there. Glad to see another reference to Johnnie Taylor. He deserves more of a listen for his other work as well. I also remember Black Oak Arkansas with affection. Layla is OK obviously, but I think it must be the most overplayed song from the 70s.
Too many great artists to name – as with any decade I suppose.
Great links. Apparently my musical taste is stuck in the 1970-72 period. I never would have realized that if not for your list.
Musically I still LIVE in the 70s. I’m still exploring terrain off the main hits and playing lessor known artists. I’m definitely OK with other decades and like numerous other genres, but there was a lot happening in the 70s that makes it stand out.
EARGASM
I’m not a disco fan much but the genre gets the reflexive disrespect too often IMHO. In high school, I was enjoying this musicianship with my buddies while chortling about this album title. Johnny Taylor’s smokey voice also lends a great sound to his other work which includes a lot of blues.
I’m dropping the long version in here because I just love the musicality of the verbal “riffs” in the beginning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDpC5YUhE5Y
“Am I the only one who only ever feels nostalgia for the 1970’s?”
No, the 70s and 80s were the best times of my life. I knew disco wouldn’t last because men don’t dance.
Electronic music is disco.
Hell No! You’re not the only one.
Me, I’m living in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Seventy Forty Three.
Rock on.
Not the only one. I have a folder full of Disco material, called Disco Diva. I love it all: Kc and the Sunshine band, Heatwave, Gloria Gaynor. Do the Hustle. And don’t forget the Funk: BT Express, the Ojays, the Phllly Sound. The Seventies: when music was still accessible and danceable, when folks danced to colored lights and clubs still believed in live music by locals.
Reagan seems to have killed it all. While there was still some danceable stuff: the later Funk, some rap, there came in a lot of emo stuff that has never really gone away. To the detriment of just about everybody: clubs, music and just fun in general.