davenn said:
uh huh
for me personally, the 50's 60's and 70's were the best 3 decades for music
( note tho, I do enjoy a bit of classical)
I started listening to music in the early 50s, before Elvis got so popular. One of my earliest musical memories of music I really liked was Ivory Joe Hunter. He made quite a few records, but seems to have vanished into oblivion.
A lot of the music from that time was pretty sappy (e.g., "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" - Paul Anka, "Rockin' Robin" - Bobby Day, "Hot Diggity" - Perry Como), and a lot of the music that was to become "rock 'n' roll" was played only on stations that played "race music." Some white singers covered tunes originally done by black singers, but there started to be quite a few black performers whose records got wider play - Chuck Berry, Little Richard, as well as groups such as the Platters, the Coasters, and quite a few others.
The early 60s had a lot more really sappy music, with way too many songs about lost love in a tragic car wreck. There were also a lot of eminently forgettable groups such as Tommy James and the Shondells, Ohio Express, the Lemon Pipers, Herman's Hermits, and a lot of others. Of course, the 60s also had surf music, with the Beach Boys, the Ventures, and in my neck of the woods, Dick Dale and the DelTones, who played every weekend in a couple of places in Southern California. (BTW, Dick Dale made something of a comeback in the soundtrack of "Pulp Fiction.") The surf music genre was pretty much eclipsed by the "British Invasion", starting with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five, and others. A few years later, things got very interesting, with FM radio stations playing much longer cuts, such as The Doors' long version of "Light My Fire." A lot of stations abandoned their old formats of one 3-minute song after another, and would play whole sides of albums uninterrupted.
The late 60s are what a lot of people refer to as "The 60s", with a mix of psychedelia (Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Co - Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix - whose first big song was "Purple Haze", a reference to LSD if there ever was one, the Grateful Dead, the Doors, together with English groups like Cream, Blind Faith, and others. I'd have to say that all the excitement of the 60s and early 70s fizzled out (IMO), leaving us with disco and a lot of other stuff that just doesn't do it for me (punk, for example, starting with Marc Bolin of T Rex).
A lot of music in the 50s and 60s I didn't especially care for at the time, but came to appreciate a lot later. One in particular was the Ben E. King classic "Stand By Me," featured in the movie of the same name. A lot of that R & B music has stood the test of time, at least for me.
You do know what music is; right?
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