8 March 2006: I predict 1975...& I am RIGHT!

[RGMike]

Well, "Magic" sorta helps illustrate my point: '75? Great music, cheesy music and some great cheesy music. That was '75.

Greatest summary of a year ever.

P.S.  Coincidentally, inspired by Alicat's putting "Who Loves You" on a '75 mix for me, I've been working on a short speculation piece on why so many '60s artists had critical and commercial comebacks in that year.  Four Seasons, John Sebastian, Jefferson Starship, Ben E. King, David Ruffin, etc.

and your theory is?  pop/nostalgia goes in 10-year cycles?

[Gazoo]

Although some of you will call it a Katrina, I give another co-BOS vote to S&G, whom I mentioned in my Aztec Two-Step preview.

P.S.  Is it "nothing but the dead and dying" or "nothing but the dead of night" in their little town?  My mind mondegreens it as the latter.

[urth]

S&G, My Little Katrina. Amazing how quickly a song can go from a rarity to a katrina.

It'd be great to hear George Harrison's Crackerbox Palace or This Song, although now that I think of it, those were released in 76. Never mind.

[Gazoo]

Well, "Magic" sorta helps illustrate my point: '75? Great music, cheesy music and some great cheesy music. That was '75.

Greatest summary of a year ever.

P.S.  Coincidentally, inspired by Alicat's putting "Who Loves You" on a '75 mix for me, I've been working on a short speculation piece on why so many '60s artists had critical and commercial comebacks in that year.  Four Seasons, John Sebastian, Jefferson Starship, Ben E. King, David Ruffin, etc.

and your theory is?  pop/nostalgia goes in 10-year cycles?

I'll let you know when I'm done.  

But a hypothesis I'm working from suggests a response, conscious or un-, to the trash singles (a term I use lovingly) that dominated the charts in '73 and '74.

[princessofcairo]

Although some of you will call it a Katrina, I give another co-BOS vote to S&G, whom I mentioned in my Aztec Two-Step preview.

P.S.  Is it "nothing but the dead and dying" or "nothing but the dead of night" in their little town?  My mind mondegreens it as the latter.

def the former.

[Gazoo]

S&G, My Little Katrina. Amazing how quickly a song can go from a rarity to a katrina.

It'd be great to hear George Harrison's Crackerbox Palace or This Song, although now that I think of it, those were released in 76. Never mind.

George in '75 would have been "You," I think, which would have gotten an easy BOS from me too.

[mshray]

Well, "Magic" sorta helps illustrate my point: '75? Great music, cheesy music and some great cheesy music. That was '75.

Yep, it's also the year of both the "Autobahn" & the "Convoy".

[RGMike]

Well, "Magic" sorta helps illustrate my point: '75? Great music, cheesy music and some great cheesy music. That was '75.

Greatest summary of a year ever.

P.S.  Coincidentally, inspired by Alicat's putting "Who Loves You" on a '75 mix for me, I've been working on a short speculation piece on why so many '60s artists had critical and commercial comebacks in that year.  Four Seasons, John Sebastian, Jefferson Starship, Ben E. King, David Ruffin, etc.

and your theory is?  pop/nostalgia goes in 10-year cycles?

I'll let you know when I'm done.  

But a hypothesis I'm working from suggests a response, conscious or un-, to the trash singles (a term I use lovingly) that dominated the charts in '73 and '74.

some would call "Welcome Back" one of those trash singles. Tho' it wasn't a hit single until '76...

And it's "Dead & Dying", on the S&G. Don't Aztec 2-Step do a bunch of S&G covers? I thought I saw something about that on their site.

[Gazoo]

Well, "Magic" sorta helps illustrate my point: '75? Great music, cheesy music and some great cheesy music. That was '75.

Yep, it's also the year of both the "Autobahn" & the "Convoy".

This is why 1975 is for me the second-greatest year in rock music history (the first being 1967).

[RGMike]

listening on the 'net and that PSA about Lewis & Clark came on: so the Indian woman's name (Sacajawea) is pronounced "Sah-COG-a-way-uh", not "Sack-a-ja-wee-uh"?  Live'n'learn.

[mshray]

Well, "Magic" sorta helps illustrate my point: '75? Great music, cheesy music and some great cheesy music. That was '75.

Greatest summary of a year ever.

P.S.  Coincidentally, inspired by Alicat's putting "Who Loves You" on a '75 mix for me, I've been working on a short speculation piece on why so many '60s artists had critical and commercial comebacks in that year.  Four Seasons, John Sebastian, Jefferson Starship, Ben E. King, David Ruffin, etc.

and your theory is?  pop/nostalgia goes in 10-year cycles?

Although it may or may not be 10 year cycles, 1975 was THE year for the nostalgia craze.  Happy Days had premiered in fall of '74 and it was such a hit that it started a fad that made the cover of Newsweek & (iirc) Time.

And everywhere AOR guys told all their old fogeys, "Holy shit, dude! You better put soemthing out there."

[princessofcairo]

listening on the 'net and that PSA about Lewis & Clark came on: so the Indian woman's name (Sacajawea) is pronounced "Sah-COG-a-way-uh", not "Sack-a-ja-wee-uh"?  Live'n'learn.

huh. that's been throwing me, too. maybe it's allstate, stan?

[RGMike]

listening on the 'net and that PSA about Lewis & Clark came on: so the Indian woman's name (Sacajawea) is pronounced "Sah-COG-a-way-uh", not "Sack-a-ja-wee-uh"?  Live'n'learn.

huh. that's been throwing me, too. maybe it's allstate, stan?

everything I learned in grammar school is wrong.

[princessofcairo]

listening on the 'net and that PSA about Lewis & Clark came on: so the Indian woman's name (Sacajawea) is pronounced "Sah-COG-a-way-uh", not "Sack-a-ja-wee-uh"?  Live'n'learn.

huh. that's been throwing me, too. maybe it's allstate, stan?

everything I learned in grammar school is wrong.

well, everything you needed to learn was "taught" in kindergarten.

[Gazoo]

listening on the 'net and that PSA about Lewis & Clark came on: so the Indian woman's name (Sacajawea) is pronounced "Sah-COG-a-way-uh", not "Sack-a-ja-wee-uh"?  Live'n'learn.

The kids on Stevie Wonder's "Black Man" pronounce it "Sac-a-JOW-ee-ah," iirc, further complicating matters.