The Best Year in Music. (According to You.)
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Topic: The Best Year in Music. (According to You.)
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: The Best Year in Music. (According to You.)
Date Posted: January 04 2017 at 04:29
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I used to say it was 1967 due to the Beatles' psych rock explosion, Procol Harum, Jimi Hendrix, etc, until my daughter said it was either 1982 or 1983, pointing out how lucky she was to be living in the age of new wave bands like the Police, Tears For Fears, et al. My kraut rock loving friend "Klaus" popped both of our balloons when he said it was sometime in the late 1800's when Wagner composed his final opera Parsifal! So, what was the best year in music according to you?
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 04 2017 at 05:49
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1727. the year Bach's St. Matthew Passion was first played -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 04 2017 at 08:54
Oh Jean, you European girls are classy.  ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: January 04 2017 at 09:20
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c. 1890, as the blues becomes something of its own, kicking off the whole chain of great American music genres in earnest. -------------  
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 04 2017 at 10:44
^Ry Cooder would absolutely agree. And so would Hendrix, Winter, Stevie Ray...  ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: andreol263
Date Posted: January 04 2017 at 11:01
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1981, the year where Art Zoyd relaunched/remastered the 1978/1979 debut, the year where Weidorje, 4 Visions and Eros was launched, and the flourishment of Rock In Opposition! ------------- 
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 04 2017 at 13:14
I am actually American by birth ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
SteveG wrote:Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: January 04 2017 at 15:36
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Great topic! You could probably write hefty tomes and volumes on this, digging into all the history of modern music as we know it, but as far as my gut instinct, it has to be 1973. '73 was one of the best years ever for both of my favourite genres, prog and Southern Rock. On the Southern Rock front, you had the transition from the Allmans, the forefathers of the genre, giving way to an explosion of new diversity and talent in the scene. The Allmans were showing that they still had wind in their sails with Brothers and Sisters, even after the loss of Duane and Berry, and the debut albums of their two most legendary successors came out: Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Marshall Tucker Band. And as far as prog... 1972 may have been the year of definitive masterpieces, but '73 was easily the more interesting year. The year that prog went over the top; Tales, Brain Salad Surgery, Larks' Tongues In Aspic, A Passion Play, etc. Bands were pushing themselves to the extremes, and the results were glorious, for better or for worse.
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: January 04 2017 at 15:45
Picking one is hard. Picking 3 isn't. '71-73 baby.  |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 04 2017 at 15:53
| 73' is hard to beat. Two to four classic albums released weekly. They don't make 'em like that anymore. |
Posted By: mechanicalflattery
Date Posted: January 04 2017 at 19:23
| Pretty much any year from 1970-1975 could be argued for, but I'll go with 1979 just for the four monoliths of This Heat's This Heat, Nurse With Wound's Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella, The Pop Group's Y, and Robert Ashley's Automatic Writing. All of those albums would make my top 25. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 05 2017 at 02:28
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1975, just the thickness of an old man's hair above 1971-73.
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 05 2017 at 04:07
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: January 05 2017 at 07:38
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1607: Monteverdi wrote L'Orfeo. /thread] |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 05 2017 at 13:13
67 was great , and any year from then to 73 would do....you could throw a dart at a wall chart of prog and classic rock releases and hit a good year on any of those years. I would probably pick 69 because of the first KC album which will always have special memories for me. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: January 05 2017 at 14:04
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72 was the apex (Yes, GG, Genesis...), 69 the real big event (KC) |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: January 05 2017 at 15:50
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1892, the year Hans Richter conducted the world premiere of the greatest symphony ever written, Anton Bruckner's towering, massive 8th Symphony, a work that at first was deemed "unplayable", but that sentiment was not long in lasting! |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: January 05 2017 at 16:14
| Circa 72,000 BC. Urk bashes Nurk and Snurk over the head with a smilodon thighbone, eliciting differently pitched grunts and in this process inventing tuned percussion. Urk's Concerto For Neanderthal Skulls No. 1 later premieres after several months of intensive composition. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: January 05 2017 at 16:35
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1913 ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |