RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In

Posted by belyin (A) on April 21, 2017 at 00:13:48

In Reply to: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In posted by Newey on April 20, 2017 at 23:34:23:

Well, everyone's idea of hip will be different-to me, none of the records you list above would have ever been considered hip, with the possible exception of Neil Young, and Spirit. I was only a early teen in those years, but we considered David Bowie the hippest ting going at that time. Later, I would discover solo Lou Reed, solo Iggy Pop, the first Modern Lovers record (recorded in '72 but released in '76,) and the New York Dolls, all from the early 70's. Obviously, I grew up in white America!

Now I would say the hippest things in the early 70's were in the r'and b' field: Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and as always James Brown. And you shouldn't forget that the early seventies saw the emergence of the first third world superstar-Bob Marley and the Wailers, whose records would have been on the turntables of hippest folks of the time--black or white.

But you have to find your own path to hip; you can be hipped to the hip, but only if you're hip. You dig? But one could place to start to get a handle on the 70's would be via the self declared "Dean" of the rock critics (and rock critics were larger than live cultural figures in their own right in the 70's) Robert Christigau, who as the Village Voice's head rock critic was one of the major delineators and arbitrators of hip.

Christagau's Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (Open in New Window)

This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:

Follow Ups Full Thread

Topic - You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - Newey 23:34:23 04/20/17 (25)

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - Drumhead 04:53:26 05/10/17 (0)

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - Goober58 00:00:23 05/10/17 (0)

Add - Frihed89 10:46:47 04/28/17 (0)

RE: Stones - digda_beat 15:53:36 04/25/17 (0)

albums - tunenut 19:37:03 04/24/17 (3)

RE: albums - digda_beat 15:56:11 04/25/17 (2)

RE: albums - tunenut 20:36:30 04/25/17 (1)

RE: albums - digda_beat 00:50:36 04/27/17 (0)

DTSOM - G Squared 14:09:44 04/24/17 (0)

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - Kingshead 14:14:34 04/22/17 (0)

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - Ogsarg 08:11:14 04/22/17 (0)

How about... - John_the_Scot 06:36:09 04/22/17 (0)

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - OneFish 05:57:56 04/22/17 (0)

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - dean_martin 18:30:42 04/21/17 (1)

And - dean_martin 18:34:29 04/21/17 (0)

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - Road Warrior 16:52:05 04/21/17 (2)

War, Lou, Jerry Jeff, Neil, Issac Hayes, Nilsson.... - reelsmith. 18:57:36 04/21/17 (1)

Ain't that the truth and that doesn't count the biggies from back in those daze^ - Road Warrior 21:54:49 04/21/17 (0)

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - dwill123 16:17:40 04/21/17 (0)

It was the 70s so it has to be albums... surely... - My name is Fred 16:03:19 04/21/17 (0)

Here are a few I like from that period ... - reelsmith. 12:59:00 04/21/17 (0)

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - 6bq5 10:21:39 04/21/17 (0)

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - SF tech 09:47:16 04/21/17 (0)

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - 6bq5 09:31:12 04/21/17 (0)

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - belyin 00:13:48 04/21/17 (0)

Follow Ups

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In - belyin 00:13:48 04/21/17 (0)

RE: You Add Your Picks To The List - Put Your Music In

Post a Message!