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1979 Was it the best ever year for music?

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Created by myscreenname > 9 months ago, 12 Feb 2021
myscreenname
1231 posts
12 Feb 2021 6:23PM
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I heard something the other day that I think rings true. "Your musical tastes for life are set 15 years after you were born."

1979 had so much going on. Disco, Punk, New Wave, some memorable hits and the launch of many influential artists.

Was 1979 the best ever year for music?

GPA
WA, 2519 posts
12 Feb 2021 7:09PM
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I heard a similar thing - by the time you are 33yo you stop seeking out new music and stick with what you like...

Interesting - I'm 54yo and was a teenager through the 80's - clubbing and pubbing through to my mid 20's. My son is 23yo and my soon to be SIL is 30yo - both really get into the 70's and 80's classics that I tend to play when cooking the Sunday BBQ. They know the bands and words to many of the songs...

Carantoc
WA, 6322 posts
12 Feb 2021 7:16PM
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Let's see now....

UK top 10 singles in 1979 :
Y.M.C.A - Village People
We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard
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Maybe top 10 albums in 1979 might be better ...
Barbara Streisand's Greatest Hits Vol 2
The Very Best of Leo Sayer
.....


Yeah, right 1979.......mmm... Are these your favorite artists myscreenname ?

I guess that you rue Bronski Beat and Right Said Fred weren't around when you were 15 ??

Mark _australia
WA, 22089 posts
12 Feb 2021 10:05PM
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I don't think I agree with the 15 year old thing. I moved through at least 4 few genres as 'favourite' over adult life, and now come back to the one that's in the middle - certainly not my teenage tastes. But having a teenager and a much younger partner, I've heard a lot of their modern stuff and really like it as its based on the electronic or hiphop that I liked 20yrs ago. (Some trap is really good...)
Today I listened to about an hour each of psytrance, reggae and mid 90's alt rock in the shaping room. My poor neighbours though......

oldtelefart
148 posts
13 Feb 2021 5:01AM
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When I was 15 it was the late 60's. Listening to Cream, Hendrix, Traffic, and some weird jazz, Roland Kirk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis.

Mid-70's the rot had set in. Disco and Glam.
Today's hits are mostly computer-generated swill, with the occasional Ed Sheeran-type whiny acoustic singer songwriter.

Nowadays I mainly listen to Steely Dan and Stravinsky.

myscreenname
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13 Feb 2021 5:09AM
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I've been playing a 1979 play list on Spotify and most of it is pretty diverse and amazing.

louderthanwar.com/1979-40-years-on-was-this-the-greatest-ever-year-for-music/

If there is a better year than 1979 I want to give it a run and compare.



www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/favorite-songs.html

Buster fin
WA, 2568 posts
13 Feb 2021 6:16AM
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1984

kiterboy
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13 Feb 2021 3:44PM
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Mark _australia said..But having a teenager and a much younger partner, I've heard a lot of their modern stuff and really like it as its based on the electronic or hiphop that I liked 20yrs ago.


So what's the modern Thai music scene like?

hilly
TAS, 7195 posts
13 Feb 2021 7:50PM
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I was 16 1979 and still clearly remember the songs, loved the punk and ska bands. Amazing how they stick in your memories. What a time to be alive

Orange Whip
QLD, 1039 posts
13 Feb 2021 8:04PM
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Carantoc said..
Let's see now....

UK top 10 singles in 1979 :
Y.M.C.A - Village People
We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard
....

Maybe top 10 albums in 1979 might be better ...
Barbara Streisand's Greatest Hits Vol 2
The Very Best of Leo Sayer
.....


Yeah, right 1979.......mmm... Are these your favorite artists myscreenname ?

I guess that you rue Bronski Beat and Right Said Fred weren't around when you were 15 ??


That's a ****ed assumption that everyone listened to what polled top 10, not everyone is a sheep

Mark _australia
WA, 22089 posts
13 Feb 2021 11:39PM
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kiterboy said..

Mark _australia said..But having a teenager and a much younger partner, I've heard a lot of their modern stuff and really like it as its based on the electronic or hiphop that I liked 20yrs ago.



So what's the modern Thai music scene like?


Am I missing something?

Haircut
QLD, 6480 posts
23 Feb 2021 7:12PM
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okay...checking other years for bestest music year everrer on super puta

yep, 1979 was the best year ever

Flatty
QLD, 239 posts
23 Feb 2021 9:43PM
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Pugwash
WA, 7670 posts
23 Feb 2021 7:56PM
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I understand it's a good year for humans that visit seabreeze

Ian K
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23 Feb 2021 8:11PM
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AquaPlow
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23 Feb 2021 10:23PM
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TartsPA said..

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I heard a similar thing - by the time you are 33yo you stop seeking out new music and stick with what you like..


And then Spotify came along.. Seeking on in my 60s
Huge range.. Love cherry picking.. At uni in UK.1979 The bands g8.. The survivors took it up a gear in eighties.. Some punk bands were truly aweful... But easy to catch Style council.. Buzzcocks the Clash.. Phil Collins shortly after Genesis split 40-50 in student bar. Bowie in different phases..

My generic likes playlist starts in 50s chugs thru till 2019.. When Trying random stuff often crash thru triple j top 100.. Easy to find something..
Cheers
AP

AquaPlow
QLD, 1051 posts
23 Feb 2021 10:48PM
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Not style council later in early 80s they came out of Dexys midnight runners..
Older bands still touring clubs... Saw cracker cockney rebel set prob 79ish..
Missed a Fleetwood mac around then it was music central looking back... Virgin records started sir richard branson back thenToo..
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myscreenname
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24 Feb 2021 2:30AM
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1979, freaking amazing year for music

DasM
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4 Mar 2021 5:49AM
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1970 or 1984

sausage
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4 Mar 2021 9:15AM
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AquaPlow said..
Not style council later in early 80s they came out of Dexys midnight runners..
Older bands still touring clubs... Saw cracker cockney rebel set prob 79ish..
Missed a Fleetwood mac around then it was music central looking back... Virgin records started sir richard branson back thenToo..
AP


Ha that's a pretty loose thread to ever say Style Council came out of DMR! Paul Weller from the brilliant 70's Punk rock band The Jam formed Style Council with Talbot who played for a multitude of bands - i don't think he was in Dexy's for very long at all?

If the 15 years after you're born has any merit then I'm with Buster Fin at 1984. Love a broad range of music and as you have said Aquaplow, Spotify is great for discovering new (& old) music

myscreenname
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5 Mar 2021 4:47PM
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sausage said..
I'm with Buster Fin at 1984. Love a broad range of music and as you have said Aquaplow, Spotify is great for discovering new (& old) music


Ok. 1979 vrs 1984 I'll start

cisco
QLD, 12311 posts
5 Mar 2021 11:07PM
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No 1969 was the best year for music.















Let us not forget the late and great Jimi Hendrix.



It was also a great year for the Triumph Bonneville being the last year that Rolls Royce manufactured the con rods for that iconic motorcycle.



Then there was the Trident.



Which was nowhere as good as the BSA Rocket 3 which was the only bike that came anywhere near keeping up with Agostini on his 500 cc MV Augusta at Oran Park when he came to Australia in 1971 to promote Moto GP.



That year also saw the Triumph TR6.

eppo
WA, 9372 posts
5 Mar 2021 10:31PM
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Any year the Beatles brought out a single was a pretty good year!! Although hilly had a 1979 playlist running the other night and the hits just kept on coming hey.

Ian K
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6 Mar 2021 1:38PM
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cisco said..
No 1969 was the best year for music.
That year also saw the Triumph TR6.


Have to agree with James May on the TR6. The blokiest bloke's car ever built. And it's got proper wheels. I can't get over modern alloy wheels. How many combinations and permutations of spokes are there? Surely we'll soon run out of snowflakes to model them on? And they even find their way onto bloke's utes! Has your post 1979 car got alloy wheels? You can't tell me they look OK?




cisco
QLD, 12311 posts
6 Mar 2021 5:56PM
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The Triumphs are "blokie cars" but the Austin Healy 300 is a "brutish car' as this guy says. They put a damned truck engine in them and they will pull away in top gear from 8 mph up to 140 mph without lugging.

Ian K
WA, 4039 posts
6 Mar 2021 5:13PM
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The Austin Healey was 1959. 1979 was the year. How good is this one? Dog dish hubcaps and all!

myscreenname
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6 Mar 2021 5:35PM
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1979 What a year! Brown Volvo's and Mi Sex



Well ahead of the times

cisco
QLD, 12311 posts
7 Mar 2021 4:43AM
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1979 the year of this song.

myscreenname
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7 Mar 2021 1:31PM
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1979 Kraftwerk

HotBodMon
NSW, 573 posts
8 Mar 2021 10:01AM
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rod the mod was attacked violently in 79

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robbo1111
NSW, 620 posts
12 Mar 2021 2:01PM
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myscreenname said..
I heard something the other day that I think rings true. "Your musical tastes for life are set 15 years after you were born."

1979 had so much going on. Disco, Punk, New Wave, some memorable hits and the launch of many influential artists.

Was 1979 the best ever year for music?


Agreed, particularly if you're into punk and post punk UK music- what a year. The Gang of Four, The Clash, The Slits, Joy Division, The Undertones, Blondie, The Damned, The Police, The Buzzcocks, The Specials.......the list goes on



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