in the current issue of time inc specials magazine, time/life, the argument is that 1968 is the greatest year in rock. i haven't delved into that thought, but i don't think i would argue against it too much because i think the 60s and 70s were the golden age of music. thoughts?
3rdgenJC: in the current issue of time inc specials magazine, time/life, the argument is that 1968 is the greatest year in rock. i haven't delved into that thought, but i don't think i would argue against it too much because i think the 60s and 70s were the golden age of music. thoughts?
I don't think I would argue against it neither. The early boomers were the best of both worlds, liberals who came from a less than liberal society are the only good liberals because something goes wrong when people never have it so good. The liberals now are not smart, not creative, not anything that a liberal should be because I think affluence makes society more interesting than the people in it. The early boomers were good because they were raised under the discipline of old with the opportunity of the new. But by the 1980s these people were spent and music never really recovered from the 1980s.
ChesneyChrist: I don't think I would argue against it neither. The early boomers were the best of both worlds, liberals who came from a less than liberal society are the only good liberals because something goes wrong when people never have it so good. The liberals now are not smart, not creative, not anything that a liberal should be because I think affluence makes society more interesting than the people in it. The early boomers were good because they were raised under the discipline of old with the opportunity of the new. But by the 1980s these people were spent and music never really recovered from the 1980s.
And in addition to this, and also an expression of this, we had the space race and the moon landing. People were looking up at the stars but that died away into shoulder pads and made in China. The culture had a collective aspiration for a bit and it was a different time back then, more respect for people who can use long words and oftentimes the people who used long words could hit you back. The culture is divorced now you don't get thinking people who are handy and that's why we don't respect the sophisticated, we don't place our hopes in the intelligent.
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