<p>As I find myself home alone on a HS football night, I am browsing the cable channels, and, behold, there are music channels! You can tell I don’t utilize the remote much. I found the 70’s channel, and gosh, it brings back great memories. Not that I want to go back to that time, but do you all have “twinges” of the past when you hear those songs?</p>
<p>Absolutely. And I am nostalgic in response to some of the worst songs!! I also drive my kids crazy by feeling compelled to dance a little which is SO embarrassing to them…Makes me smile though</p>
<p>We play a game here, called “Mom! Guess the name of this band!” which we play when we listen to THEIR radio stations in the car. No matter if I actually know the band’s name or not, I always guess either The Beatles (duh!) or “Liver Damage,” which was the name of Chip Douglas’ band on My Three Sons! Wow, nostalgia.</p>
<p>Oh crap, DD is home, and Yes I am woman just came on! She thinks I am nuts enough without belting this out!</p>
<p>Helen Reddy! You go GAMOM!</p>
<p>I was listening to Smash Mouth on CD in my car a couple of years ago. TallSon said, “Dad! Turn off the music of my generation and turn on the music of yours, please!” He doesn’t care for much of anything produced during his lifetime.</p>
<p>I like music from the 70s. Particularly, Fleetwood Mac is one of my all-time favorite bands. :)</p>
<p>EDIT:
I just remembered that my username is from a Fleetwood Mac song.</p>
<p>The era spanning from the mid-1960s til around 1982 will someday be regarded as the Renaissance of Rock. The Golden Era. Never in history has such a phenomenon occurred. The music of that era was original…each band unique…and oh such passion and creativity!</p>
<p>The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Dylan, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Roxy Music, Cream, Scorpions, UFO, Jethro Tull, Yes, Styx, Kansas, Supertramp, Judas Priest, The Doors, Elton John, Santana, Wishbone Ash, Ultravox, B-52’s, The Cure…and so many others. Each with their own, distinctive sound.</p>
<p>Ah…the Golden Years of Rock.</p>
<p>From the Hippie Era to the Dawn of New Wave, but before commercialization destroyed the creativity with homogenization…masterpieces, all!</p>
<p>Someday, this era will be regarded with utmost respect, as The Medieval Renaissance is regarded today.</p>
<p>Mark my words.</p>
<p>golddustwoman, I was fortnate to have 11th row floor seats to Fleetwood Mac a few years ago at Phillips Arena in Atlanta, swear to you, I thought I was 25, wow, delusions without drugs, go figure!</p>
<p>I never heard of those ( okay I had a friend who listened to the Beatles…DD and I saw Across the Universe)…it was all about Motown…I like Fleetwood Mac now though</p>
<p>Shinkwrap, the 70’s were Motown! Disco era and then a few hippy’s thrown in.</p>
<p>Huh??? Where were you? I was in the midst of it…the glorious hippie era…what was Motown? Ah, the pop stations…hey, did you know there was a whole 'nother world out there? A world of album radio, of heavy music, of visionary dreams…ah, such fond memories.</p>
<p>But the MUSIC! Always, the most important: THE MUSIC!</p>
<p>Not pop, no, that was irrelevant…THE MUSIC!</p>
<p>You mean you missed it??? I feel so sad for you.</p>
<p>I hated (HATED!!) so many of those 70’s pop and disco songs, but now listen to them happily for nostalgia’s sake… </p>
<p>I loved the late 70’s and early 80’s stuff-- so much fun. Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, Rockpile, Patti Smith, Squeeze, the Clash… classic rock too. It never gets old (to me, at least). </p>
<p>Was surprised to hear that CBS FM (NY’s “classic oldies” station) now includes music from the 80’s in their playlists. Oldies is supposed to mean corny doo-wop, Neil Diamond, motown, etc, NOT the stuff we listened to! Sheesh.</p>
<p>lealdragon, sorry if I wasn’t clear on the “entire” music scene, I just meant that the “dance, disco” type made me very nosalgic right now. Don’t get me wrong, I love lots of the bands on your list. Sorry for the mis=info</p>
<p>Huh??? Where were you? </p>
<p>Bed Stuy, Brooklyn; Jamaica, Queens, my friend that liked the Beetles lived on “the other side of the tracks” in Flushing. That was the 'nother world I knew…maybe Hendrix</p>
<p>To each his own (smile)…</p>
<p>OP: do you all have “twinges” of the past when you hear those songs?</p>
<p>Yes, definitely! And I can definitely understand how the WWII generation feels while listening to String of Pearls, Long Ago & Far Away, Moonlight Serenade, etc. What a romantic era in music… Even without a world war as a backdrop, music is an amazing memory trigger.</p>
<p>And GAmom you’re right when it comes to concerts. I’ve felt hot and cold about Bruce Springsteen and some of his “phases” over the years, but going to one of his shows at Madison Square Garden a few years ago definitely made me feel young again, at least for a few hours! You can sing yourself hoarse because everyone else is doing the same thing! Exhilarating.</p>
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<p>Seems a little wide to me. This era would embrace disco too, which was most certainly NOT part of any Golden Age. I would put the golden era from the coming of the Beatles to the beginning of disco, which almost exactly corresponds to the period from the death of JFK to the resignation of Nixon.</p>
<p>And did anyone out there have those very first musical discovery moments as a kid, when you latched onto a song or album, and just couldn’t stop playing it?
For me it was sneaking to brother’s stereo for Layla, and sister’s for After the Gold Rush and Sweet Baby James. Had to rearrange everything to a ‘t’ so they wouldn’t know I’d been touching their stuff.</p>
<p>Yes, I have “twinges” of the past, you can always identify times in your life with that “certain song”. I am also having a major pity party now, 24 minutes ago, i turned 49, and i am none the less to happy about it. It’s my party, I can cry in my… ugh</p>
<p>HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GAmom!!!
And it definitely calls for a better song than “It’s my Party.” That Lesley Gore could be a real downer sometimes!</p>