<p>American Pie was from 1970. Different era from the Afternoon Delight days (shudder.)</p>
<p>Egads. You all are reminding me why I was so glad for the 80s to arrive!</p>
<p>Soo many…I graduated from h.s. in 1980…liked Carole King and James Taylor but also The Commodores,Earth Wind and Fire,BeeGees, Electric Light Orchestra,Elton John,Boston, Kansas, Bob Segar.</p>
<p>^To be nit-picky American Pie was released in 1971 and was number one in 1972. 
I liked the 80s bands too. Psychokiller was the background to my first year of architecture school. It seemed so right! REM, Springsteen, U2 they are all great too. I also liked The Smiths and The Housemartins. And since we were in Germany for the latter end of the 80s we got to know Grönemeyer who was really good. In a softer vein I also really like 10,000 Maniacs and The Cowboy Junkies.</p>
<p>God save the Queen
The fascist regime
Has made you a moron
A potential h-bomb
God save history
God save the mad parade
But Lord God have mercy
When all crimes are repaid
When there’s no future
How can there be sin?
We’re the flowers in the dustbin
We’re the poison in the human machine
We’re the future
Your future
God save the Queen
We mean it, man
We love our Queen
God save.</p>
<p>As for American Pie, we had a jukebox in our middle school cafeteria. The cool, pretty girls would play that thing every lunch. One day some kid with really long hair - we all had long hair - walked up to the jukebox while that song was playing and started kicking it really hard. Massive applause.</p>
<p>Listened to The Dead, Poco, Traffic, and went through a couple copies of Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East. Also listened to alot of Jackson Browne, Santana, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. </p>
<p>Who’s Next got a lot of play too.</p>
<p>Emily Bee - I still listen to Taj Mahal, Little Feat and Santana (especially Borboletta) and so do my kids!</p>
<p>Clash …the only band that matters
Boomtown Rats
English Beat
Dead Kennedy’s
Devo
Joe Jackson
Fabulous Poodles
Cure
Elvis Costelo
Joy Division
Nick Lowe</p>
<p>^ yes yes yes!</p>
<p>Poco played a concert at my college in the early 70’s. So did Harry Chapin, Bonnie Raitt, Loggins and Messina, Those were the days.</p>
<p>I still personally liked Carole King, James Taylor, Seals and Crofts, John Sebastian (solo and when he was with the Lovin’ Spoonful), and one of my absolute faves-- Laura Nyro. Anyone remember the Alessi Brothers? Loved them too. They were managed, IIRC, by either Peter Yarrow or Paul Stooky of Peter, Paul and Mary.</p>
<p>I liked mid-sixties Lovin’ Spoonful John Sebastian, but solo “Welcome Back Kotter” Sebastian did not work for me. Actually, I’m a huge fan of the mid-sixties bubblegum sound in general, which a lot of 80s music echoed, in an alt. kind of way.</p>
<p>I guess I pretty much like early 70s and very late 70s, just not so much middle 70s.</p>
<p>I’m a little older than many of you (born 1951). I woke up music-wise when the The Beatles came over for their first tour in Feb. 1964. I remember the Elvis and Buddy Holly era, but that music didn’t really speak to me. I was a kid and that was music for teenagers, who seemed more or less like adults to me then.</p>
<p>But when The Beatles came it changed everything. I recall that first tour as being the first time the cloud of gloom, that had hung over the country since the assassination of JFK the previous November, began to lift. When they came for their second tour a year or so later I remember wishing I could go to see one one of their concerts. All of us guys were sitting around pondering how on earth we could scratch up the impossible sum of $12.50 for a ticket (not to mention convince our parents to drive us). This in an era when a good seat at an excellent rock concert might cost about $2.00 or $2.50 and cheap seats were a dollar.</p>
<p>I liked nearly all the same artists that mathmom and Garland listed above, and I saw nearly all of them and more in concert, and I have damaged hearing now to prove it. My favorite group at the time was The Who, which I saw in concert three times - the first time when Keith Moon was still alive. The second time we had literally front row seats and at one point I made eye contact with John Entwhistle as he was playing. And he quickly looked away the way people do when you catch them looking at you. He was probably thinking “What is that nerdy-looking kid doing on the front row with all those hippies?”</p>
<p>I hated the Carpenters. I hated disco when it came along. Every girl I knew had Carole King’s Tapestry album and played it endlessly. I thought she was okay but over-rated. Same for John Denver.</p>
<p>My first concert was The Jimi Hendrix Experience in about '68 or '69 - when I was still in high school (what a way to start!). And other than a few stadium nostalgia concerts (e.g. Beach Boys) in middle age, and a few more modern ones that I later attended with my daughters when they were too young to go alone, my last concert was Blondie in about 1980. </p>
<p>Except for disco, I stayed with every genre of rock from the British Invasion up to Rap, including New Wave and and some Punk. But when Rap/Hip Hop came along I officially became Old. Rap just didn’t speak to me and still doesn’t.</p>
<p>I love Linda Rondstadt. Add to that Carla Bonoff, Carly Simon. What about groups like Boston. I really miss the close harmonies of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. I loved Buffalo Springfield. The great brass section of Blood Sweat and Tears! The orchestras in the Moody Blues.</p>
<p>Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, King Crimson, Roxy Music, Genesis, Supertramp, David Bowie, and so on. </p>
<p>And many more…</p>
<p>Yes, Karla Bonoff!! I also liked Boston. iTune is doing well today. :)</p>
<p>“Emily Bee - I still listen to Taj Mahal, Little Feat and Santana (especially Borboletta) and so do my kids!”</p>
<p>:) </p>
<p>Taj was the coolest. He use to play a great club in Boulder - The Blue Note - all the time.</p>
<p>Other than the big one-the Beatles, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Cream… a bit pre-70s perhaps.</p>
<p>ps - my sister was a big fan of Jim Reeves; I can still hear that characteristic voice singing “I hear the sounds of distant drums …”</p>
<p>Coureur, though a little younger than you, we basically concur. I sorta felt that way about Rap/Hip Hop, but my kids have introduced me to stuff that’s really quality and totally avoids the stereotypical stuff that gets the airplay.</p>
<p>OTOH, I also appreciate the recent trend of the popularity of music that echoes older roots, like Mumford and Sons and Alabama Shakes. (yes, purists, I get that Mumford are British. But if they appreciate the music, that’s great.)</p>
<p>I’m really happy to see musicians playing instruments again, and getting widespread recognition when they do so.</p>
<p>Garland,</p>
<p>It seems like we have similar music tastes. Crowded House from the mid 80’s comes to mind when I think of the alt 80’s bubblegum sound and John Wesley Harding from the early 90s.</p>
<p>Karla Bonoff, Linda Ronstadt, and the Eagles were my go-to’s for “quiet-time” music in college. When I was in a rock mood, though, it was The Who, Aerosmith, Bowie, Rush, Stones. My in-between “likes” were Boston, Chicago, Seger, Dave Mason, Jackson Brown … so many great artists! I went to many concerts, including Van Halen before they were famous. My favorite 70’s era concert was The Who at the Pontiac Silverdome … it was awesome!</p>
<p>I definitely like new music, though. My neighbors play music by their pool in the summer, and apparently no new music has been made since about 1980. I like all sorts of new music … from singer-songwriter to alternative to rock … no rap, though.</p>