My year. Not a meme.Well, maybe. No, not a meme.
Kim and Chris are talking about the year they graduated HS. My year was 1977.
Lots of crappy damned music that year. A couple good songs, too.
ELO- Telephone line.
Eagles. Hotel California.
MTB- Heard it in a love song
Sanford Townshend Band- Smoke from a Distant Fire
The rest are so damned horrid, for the most part, with a lot of bubblegum crap by Babs Streisand and KC and the Sunshine Band, i won’t copy the list here.
There were a BUNCH of good albums.
Exodus – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Police & Thieves – Junior Murvin
My Aim Is True – Elvis Costello
Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
Talking Heads: 77 – Talking Heads
Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols – The Sex Pistols
Rough Mix – Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane
The Stranger – Billy Joel
Animals – Pink Floyd
Aja – Steely Dan
Slowhand – Eric Clapton
Bat Out Of Hell – Meat Loaf
Songs From The Wood – Jethro Tull
Ahh…The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! – Bootsy Collins
I Robot – The Alan Parsons Project
New Boots And Panties!! – Ian Dury
News Of The World – Queen
Foreign Affairs – Tom Waits
CSN – Crosby, Stills & Nash
Out Of The Blue – Electric Light Orchestra
I listen to some of those songs today, think of the memories they bring back.
I’m happy to have survived that time. I wish some of those musicians were still there, still writing. Toy caldwell of MTB- that boy could sing and write and play a song.
if you’re a hillbilly, if you’re a redneck, you hear his music, and you grok it’s fullness.
heard it in a love song is my favorite.
Fire on the Mountain.
This old cowboy
Toy Caldwell died in 1993.
Damn. Enough navel gazing, This is why I hate memes.
WHich is why I didn’t even TRY and memeify it.
Yet another thing to add to the list of why ’93 was a shitty year.
My God I must be old, I didn’t recognise any of those. Time to get my will and burial papers out.
I didn’t listen to much rock in the seventies; disco pretty much ruined most of the music scene. I spent most of the seventies listening to country western.
’76 wasn’t much better. I had completely turned-off the AM radio and only listened to FM College radio since Jr. High – then I left and went overseas. I missed all of the bonding crap that happens in Senior Year.
’83 wasn’t much of a year for music. either.
Toy Caldwell may not have been God, but he now sits at His right hand.
Sheesh, all we had in the mid to late 70’s was AFRTS and Casey Casem’s “American Top 40”. Needless to say, the cassette player in the car and or the work center, got lots o use.
Can anyone say 8-track?
I didn’t even have an FM receiver till the mid 80’s.
Oh well. Most of what I drove in the early 70’s was already 20 years old so I was happy to have a radio to cover the sounds the ride made.
Carter was in office. I said, “let’s do it.”
Go figure.