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Post by kmc on Nov 14, 2006 17:31:04 GMT -5
It's true. Holzman has made the case. He's right.
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Post by Kensterberg on Nov 14, 2006 17:33:09 GMT -5
Thanks Phil. Also, it's criminal that we haven't brought up Bob Marley's name more often on this board. Marley wasn't just responsible for bringing reggae to the mass market as a serious musical form, he really knocked down the door for all varieties of "world music" -- I don't think that African musicians (for example) would have gained such success in Europe in the eighties w/o Marley's shattering of the barriers for Third World musicians on Western playlists. And Marley's best work in the decade was certainly on a par with anyone's ... and he put out a hell of a lot of it! I'd probably rank Marley over Springsteen, thinking about it. |
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Post by Kensterberg on Nov 14, 2006 17:34:09 GMT -5
It's true. Holzman has made the case. He's right. Thanks Kenny. I guess I've got two jurors on my side now. ;D |
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Nov 14, 2006 18:13:51 GMT -5
I knew as soon as I sorta jokingly put up this poll(even though I do consider those two to rule the decade by a million light years) that people were going to be hollering "BOWIE" before too long. So now comes the real poll. And I'm sure Bowie will win.
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Nov 14, 2006 18:15:48 GMT -5
Btw, even though I like Floyd and Zeppelin equally, Zeppelin's 60s albums are, for me, far superior to Floyd's 60s albums, so judging by 70s work alone, I think I can go with Floyd......by a hair. So I can vote. Yayer, man. Yayer.
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Post by riley on Nov 14, 2006 18:56:41 GMT -5
It's true. Holzman has made the case. He's right. Thanks Kenny. I guess I've got two jurors on my side now. ;D I will also agree making it three jurors, even at the risk of Phil saying blah blah blah to me again. |
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Post by Kensterberg on Nov 14, 2006 19:01:24 GMT -5
I knew as soon as I sorta jokingly put up this poll(even though I do consider those two to rule the decade by a million light years) that people were going to be hollering "BOWIE" before too long. So now comes the real poll. And I'm sure Bowie will win. People are hollering BOWIE because he's the correct answer to this question. BTW, the Beatles owned the sixties, Prince and R.E.M. owned the eighties, and no one wanted the fucking nineties. (All the grunge/serious rockers from the first part of the decade abdicated the thrown, and fucking boy bands and Britney fucking Spears dominated the rest. Radiohead only released three albums in the decade, same for Wilco, Pearl Jam were too erratic (and shunned any sort of publicity); no one dominated the music scene throughout the entire decade the way that the Fabs did in the sixties, Bowie did in the seventies, and Prince and R.E.M. did in the eighties.) As for the nuthin's ... hell, as far as I'm concerned we can call this the Rileydog decade! ;D |
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Nov 14, 2006 19:03:35 GMT -5
Well yer chance to vote for Bowie is up and runnin'. Next door to this poll.
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Post by Dr. Drum on Nov 14, 2006 21:07:42 GMT -5
I love my Bowie as much as the next guy. One of the first artists to come to mind on this one for me, too. Certainly a very good answer to this question but not the only possibility, however. Cause if you break it down, in terms of artistic daring, conceptual clarity, musical sophistication, high style and plain old consistency, Roxy Music clearly has it over him in the first half of the 1970s. They started to fade just as Bowie was truly hitting his stride mid-decade and he took over from there but by then their work (the amazing run of Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure, Stranded, Country Life and Siren, plus a few ahead-of-the-curve non-LP singles) had either kick-started or anticipated most of the major developments (glam, punk, post-punk) of the 70s (and beyond) – at least the ones that James Brown or Bob Marley didn’t have a hand in. They weren’t as accessible as Bowie was pre-Berlin (and pre-Eno) and they didn’t translate to the States, so they tend to get forgotten in these types of discussions. However, by any objective measure, they own the first half of the Seventies hands down and arguably, by virtue of their underlying influence, the whole damn decade.
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Post by Ryosuke on Nov 15, 2006 0:11:25 GMT -5
no one dominated the music scene throughout the entire decade the way that the Fabs did in the sixties, Bowie did in the seventies, and Prince and R.E.M. did in the eighties. And no one is dominating the current decade either. And thank god for that - the music scene is less boring that way. |
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Post by Kensterberg on Nov 15, 2006 0:54:06 GMT -5
The current decade shall henceforth be known as "The Riley Years." His Dogness dominates the entire pop culture scene like no one else.
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Post by Ryosuke on Nov 15, 2006 0:59:14 GMT -5
His dominance must be limited to the Western world. I'm not seeing any Rileydog noodles or Rileydog potato chips here.
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Post by Kensterberg on Nov 15, 2006 1:04:32 GMT -5
I'm having a Rileydog (c) peanut butter and jelly sandwich for breakfast tomorrow. And I plan on drinking a refreshing Rileydog (c) beverage along with it.
My next computer will probably be a Rileybook (c), too.
The Dog is everywhere. ;D
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Post by Kensterberg on Nov 15, 2006 1:05:38 GMT -5
Oops, I thought that the little (c) would show up as the "c" in a circle copyright symbol. My bad.
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Post by Ryosuke on Nov 15, 2006 1:09:16 GMT -5
I wasn't aware that Rileydog secretes peanut butter and jelly. That's awesome.
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