here you go - I really wanted to get my xmas present, but now I am too late :(Anyway, today I'll talk to you about the greatest thing in the seventies (even if most of them actually started in the sixties, but hey): rock music. I've been watching a bbc-serie recently (more about that soon) and it has a really good soundtrack, which made me re-listen to many on my favourites and look for new ones, which means here is a selection of top-class jumpy music!
Let's start with some smooth, pshychedelic rock: my all-time favourites, Pink Floyd or a tribute to nanaimo (and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ;-) ) : Jefferson Airplane. And there is no post on the seventies without Sister Morphine.
But hey, let's hear some real rock-stuff: turn up the volume, get a drink and loosen your hair for Creedence Clearwater (or kredenc, as my father refers to them), The Who, Rolling Stones, Doors, or Led Zeppelin (no available songs thanks to Warner Music).
OK, let's finish our session with some glam-rock: the No1 jumping tune: Jean Genie and a classic T-Rex. Now, let's cool down with Life on Mars! (Space oddity is an extra, only of you have somebody to dance a slow with).
I have obviously left out loads of good stuff - who else shouldn't I have ?
13 comments:
actually I started to write my post a quarter of an hour earlier than tarelle so it appears before his - even if it appeared later...hmmm.
nana?
Lynx, I think you should have my gift. You'll like it. A nice girl has chosen it for me.
You know what? You win. If only just because I should have commented on the "saving the world and doing good" post for a long time. I will, soon. Promise.
You forgot something, definitely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvyDWGF290M&feature=related
I don't have some plug ins again ... so I just hope it works.
What is also not available is : "I don't ask where you mother gave birth to you,I don't ask who your father was ... " - if tarelle wouldn't know it yet :P
yeah, the kinks, definitely! (even though they are more 60s than 70s)
and no, "Etienne, le roi" doesn't qualify, it's so desperately 80s! :D
Ok, you really got me now. Who on Mars is this ETienne-Rex ? Some kind of shooting star oddity? A spatio-temporal Clash ?
You found a heavy kink in my Hungarian Rock Armor.
PAAAATRIIIICK!!!!
I don't understand the half of the comments, but I add mine nevertheless.
When my late boyfriend, A asked me why is the music of the 60's so exceptionally good, I told him because that was the time he was young.
I don't really mean it now, I think he (and Lynx) are right. Or maybe it was so long ago that the crappy ones went extinct?
It's like thinking that there were only excellent painters in the XVth century...? Can that be true, too? And why not?
There must be a sort of waxing and waning of all things, especially the art related ones.
Oh, I forgot to mention: the two of you (I mean Tarelle and Lynx here) has one present. On its way to Lynx address :)
Blessed be Thy Name, Thee who bringth peace upon us !
As to your question : don't ask me, an ultra-classicist! only trust my old friend Posterity to guide me and help me chose music, books, movies. Well, Lynx usually speaks for her, actually.
nana: just translate "I don't ask where you mother gave birth to you,I don't ask who your father was ... " into Hungarian, and you'll see :) (hint: István, a király)
and patrick is a famous French POP singer who is also contemporary so doesn't qualify :P
is it clearer yet? :)
and I guess you are right saying that we tend to forget the bad things (music, in this case)just watch this, to prove the point:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoknDiEcJWw
but we could cite the whole Eurovision, I guess :) but even then the 60's 70's were especially prolific, no doubt.
OK, it's slightly clearer now, thanks for your patience! (did you ever consider working with disabled people?)
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