1979 Was it the best ever year for music?

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myscreenname > 9 months ago, 12 Feb 2021

myscreenname

2296 posts

12 Feb 2021 6:23pm

I heard something the other day that I think rings true. "Your musical tastes for life are set 15 years after you were born."

1979 had so much going on. Disco, Punk, New Wave, some memorable hits and the launch of many influential artists.

Was 1979 the best ever year for music?

GPA

2529 posts

12 Feb 2021 7:09pm

I heard a similar thing - by the time you are 33yo you stop seeking out new music and stick with what you like...

Interesting - I'm 54yo and was a teenager through the 80's - clubbing and pubbing through to my mid 20's. My son is 23yo and my soon to be SIL is 30yo - both really get into the 70's and 80's classics that I tend to play when cooking the Sunday BBQ. They know the bands and words to many of the songs...

Carantoc

7194 posts

12 Feb 2021 7:16pm

Let's see now....

UK top 10 singles in 1979 :
Y.M.C.A - Village People
We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard
....

Maybe top 10 albums in 1979 might be better ...
Barbara Streisand's Greatest Hits Vol 2
The Very Best of Leo Sayer
.....

Yeah, right 1979.......mmm... Are these your favorite artists myscreenname ?

I guess that you rue Bronski Beat and Right Said Fred weren't around when you were 15 ??

Mark _australia

23526 posts

12 Feb 2021 10:05pm

I don't think I agree with the 15 year old thing. I moved through at least 4 few genres as 'favourite' over adult life, and now come back to the one that's in the middle - certainly not my teenage tastes. But having a teenager and a much younger partner, I've heard a lot of their modern stuff and really like it as its based on the electronic or hiphop that I liked 20yrs ago. (Some trap is really good...)
Today I listened to about an hour each of psytrance, reggae and mid 90's alt rock in the shaping room. My poor neighbours though......

oldtelefart

148 posts

13 Feb 2021 5:01am

When I was 15 it was the late 60's. Listening to Cream, Hendrix, Traffic, and some weird jazz, Roland Kirk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis.

Mid-70's the rot had set in. Disco and Glam.
Today's hits are mostly computer-generated swill, with the occasional Ed Sheeran-type whiny acoustic singer songwriter.

Nowadays I mainly listen to Steely Dan and Stravinsky.

myscreenname

2296 posts

13 Feb 2021 5:09am

I've been playing a 1979 play list on Spotify and most of it is pretty diverse and amazing.

louderthanwar.com/1979-40-years-on-was-this-the-greatest-ever-year-for-music/

If there is a better year than 1979 I want to give it a run and compare.

www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/favorite-songs.html

Buster fin

2597 posts

13 Feb 2021 6:16am

1984

kiterboy

2614 posts

13 Feb 2021 3:44pm

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Mark _australia said..But having a teenager and a much younger partner, I've heard a lot of their modern stuff and really like it as its based on the electronic or hiphop that I liked 20yrs ago.

So what's the modern Thai music scene like?

hilly

7979 posts

13 Feb 2021 4:50pm

I was 16 1979 and still clearly remember the songs, loved the punk and ska bands. Amazing how they stick in your memories. What a time to be alive

Orange Whip

QLD

1074 posts

13 Feb 2021 8:04pm

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Carantoc said..
Let's see now....

UK top 10 singles in 1979 :
Y.M.C.A - Village People
We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard
....

Maybe top 10 albums in 1979 might be better ...
Barbara Streisand's Greatest Hits Vol 2
The Very Best of Leo Sayer
.....

Yeah, right 1979.......mmm... Are these your favorite artists myscreenname ?

I guess that you rue Bronski Beat and Right Said Fred weren't around when you were 15 ??

That's a ****ed assumption that everyone listened to what polled top 10, not everyone is a sheep

Mark _australia

23526 posts

13 Feb 2021 11:39pm

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kiterboy said..

Mark _australia said..But having a teenager and a much younger partner, I've heard a lot of their modern stuff and really like it as its based on the electronic or hiphop that I liked 20yrs ago.

So what's the modern Thai music scene like?

Am I missing something?

Haircut

QLD

6491 posts

23 Feb 2021 7:12pm

okay...checking other years for bestest music year everrer on super puta

yep, 1979 was the best year ever

Flatty

QLD

239 posts

23 Feb 2021 9:43pm

Pugwash

7730 posts

23 Feb 2021 7:56pm

I understand it's a good year for humans that visit seabreeze

Ian K

4164 posts

23 Feb 2021 8:11pm

AquaPlow

QLD

1064 posts

23 Feb 2021 10:23pm

TartsPA said..

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I heard a similar thing - by the time you are 33yo you stop seeking out new music and stick with what you like..

And then Spotify came along.. Seeking on in my 60s

Huge range.. Love cherry picking.. At uni in UK.1979 The bands g8.. The survivors took it up a gear in eighties.. Some punk bands were truly aweful... But easy to catch Style council.. Buzzcocks the Clash.. Phil Collins shortly after Genesis split 40-50 in student bar. Bowie in different phases..

My generic likes playlist starts in 50s chugs thru till 2019.. When Trying random stuff often crash thru triple j top 100.. Easy to find something..
Cheers
AP

AquaPlow

QLD

1064 posts

23 Feb 2021 10:48pm

Not style council later in early 80s they came out of Dexys midnight runners..
Older bands still touring clubs... Saw cracker cockney rebel set prob 79ish..
Missed a Fleetwood mac around then it was music central looking back... Virgin records started sir richard branson back thenToo..

myscreenname

2296 posts

24 Feb 2021 2:30am

1979, freaking amazing year for music

DasM

15 posts

4 Mar 2021 5:49am

1970 or 1984

sausage

QLD

4873 posts

4 Mar 2021 9:15am

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AquaPlow said..
Not style council later in early 80s they came out of Dexys midnight runners..
Older bands still touring clubs... Saw cracker cockney rebel set prob 79ish..
Missed a Fleetwood mac around then it was music central looking back... Virgin records started sir richard branson back thenToo..

Ha that's a pretty loose thread to ever say Style Council came out of DMR! Paul Weller from the brilliant 70's Punk rock band The Jam formed Style Council with Talbot who played for a multitude of bands - i don't think he was in Dexy's for very long at all?

If the 15 years after you're born has any merit then I'm with Buster Fin at 1984. Love a broad range of music and as you have said Aquaplow, Spotify is great for discovering new (& old) music

myscreenname

2296 posts

5 Mar 2021 4:47pm

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sausage said..
I'm with Buster Fin at 1984. Love a broad range of music and as you have said Aquaplow, Spotify is great for discovering new (& old) music

Ok. 1979 vrs 1984 I'll start

cisco

QLD

12364 posts

5 Mar 2021 11:07pm

No 1969 was the best year for music.

Let us not forget the late and great Jimi Hendrix.

It was also a great year for the Triumph Bonneville being the last year that Rolls Royce manufactured the con rods for that iconic motorcycle.

Then there was the Trident.

Which was nowhere as good as the BSA Rocket 3 which was the only bike that came anywhere near keeping up with Agostini on his 500 cc MV Augusta at Oran Park when he came to Australia in 1971 to promote Moto GP.

That year also saw the Triumph TR6.

eppo

9762 posts

5 Mar 2021 10:31pm

Any year the Beatles brought out a single was a pretty good year!! Although hilly had a 1979 playlist running the other night and the hits just kept on coming hey.

Ian K

4164 posts

6 Mar 2021 1:38pm

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cisco said..
No 1969 was the best year for music.
That year also saw the Triumph TR6.

Have to agree with James May on the TR6. The blokiest bloke's car ever built. And it's got proper wheels. I can't get over modern alloy wheels. How many combinations and permutations of spokes are there? Surely we'll soon run out of snowflakes to model them on? And they even find their way onto bloke's utes! Has your post 1979 car got alloy wheels? You can't tell me they look OK?

cisco

QLD

12364 posts

6 Mar 2021 5:56pm

The Triumphs are "blokie cars" but the Austin Healy 300 is a "brutish car' as this guy says. They put a damned truck engine in them and they will pull away in top gear from 8 mph up to 140 mph without lugging.

Ian K

4164 posts

6 Mar 2021 5:13pm

The Austin Healey was 1959. 1979 was the year. How good is this one? Dog dish hubcaps and all!

myscreenname

2296 posts

6 Mar 2021 5:35pm

1979 What a year! Brown Volvo's and Mi Sex

Well ahead of the times

cisco

QLD

12364 posts

7 Mar 2021 4:43am

1979 the year of this song.

myscreenname

2296 posts

7 Mar 2021 1:31pm

1979 Kraftwerk

HotBodMon

NSW

612 posts

8 Mar 2021 10:01am

rod the mod was attacked violently in 79

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robbo1111

NSW

649 posts

12 Mar 2021 2:01pm

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myscreenname said..
I heard something the other day that I think rings true. "Your musical tastes for life are set 15 years after you were born."

1979 had so much going on. Disco, Punk, New Wave, some memorable hits and the launch of many influential artists.

Was 1979 the best ever year for music?

Agreed, particularly if you're into punk and post punk UK music- what a year. The Gang of Four, The Clash, The Slits, Joy Division, The Undertones, Blondie, The Damned, The Police, The Buzzcocks, The Specials.......the list goes on

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