Sounds of the Seventies

rupahuq Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 12:13:25 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

It seems to be 70s a go-go at the moment with reverberations of that decade all over the place. But despite its recent denigration perhaps there is something to be said for the decade that taste forgot?



Liam Byrne says that we are not a nation of Alf Garnetts. All this in a week when Martin Amis and Morrissey http://rupahuq.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/morrissey-too-hot-for-sky-but-now-a-blogger-himself/
have had their own brushes with controversy on related issues - the latter being a topic on last week's Question Time http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/7117499.stm. Could recent news lead one to conclude that we are however a nation of Reggie Perrins though? Or that the spirit of one-time friend of Bangladesh and Labour MP John Stonehouse is alive (after being presumed dead)? Perhaps Hazel Blears’ declaration during Labour’s deputy leadership contest that there would be “no return to the era of Life On Mars” was a tad premature. This link with containing the quip (where sadly women politicians including Harriet Harman are reduced to a comparison of handbags) seems to be from an age ago. Is there anything good politically or culturally that came out of that decade (apart from my birth, haw haw)?




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Re: Sounds of the Seventies (#1)

by laurencemarshall on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 03:15:14 PM GMT

C'mon! Star Wars!


Re: Sounds of the Seventies (#2)

by wgm on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 09:50:29 PM GMT

Politically, the CRE and the Race Relations Act, child benefit and rendundancy pay were some of the achievements of the troubled Labour governments of that decade.
Culturally, there's plenty of decent music from that era such as Bolan/T-Rex, Bowie in his prime, The Faces, ELO are a few I like, amongst those I'm less keen on but who many rate: Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple - and what about punk, new wave, disco and reggae?
Star Wars yes, but also Close Encounters, The Godfather and Godfather II, Taxi Driver and my favourite Apocalypse Now.


Re: Sounds of the Seventies (#3)

by rupahuq on Tue Dec 11, 2007 at 10:27:06 PM GMT

Probably unfashionable to be knocking Led Zep right now when their reunion has had so much blanket covreage but I agree. Punk was meant to be a cobweb busting exercise to do away with old lags surely?


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