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Anyone who can listen to early Donna Summer disco and not see its value is pretty cray cray.

Besides all the Other amazing 70s music mentioned there’s tons more all over. Can, Kraftwerk, Faust, T.Rex, Lou Reed, Parliament, Jon Cale, Neil Young, Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, BOC, Captain Beefheart, the Stones were still good in the first half, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Devo, Brian Eno, Roky Erickson, amazing Indian and Italian cinema music, the Residents, Roy Harper, King Crimson, the first 3 PIL albums, the Soft Boys, Iggy Pop, Throbbing Gristle, all the great Tropicalia stuff out of Brazil. Just off the top of my head.

Dude the 70s rocked. It was just the Carpenters and the Eagles who sucked.
 
I gotta interrupt the 70's music talk for just a moment.

So somebody mentioned a bit back about different looks for characters and whatnot and it got me thinking. There was a moment in time where I wanted just about every look a character could have. I have about 10 different Spider-Men and who knows how many Iron Mans (Mens?). Over time it's just kinda become a lot, and I have thinned out a lot of my collection to the closest I could get for a a "classic, definitive" version of said character. I got the Skysled Hawkeye because that to me is the look that really identifies the character for me, and I got rid of the rest. Same for Cyclops and Wolverine. I found I don't really need 5/6 versions of them.

My point being is as I look at the basic line, I got a feeling if I decide to jump on board, I might start with those as the seem to be designs that are an "instant character recognition" look than any particular comic look. I am ok with that. I feel those type of designs have a place in the line.
 
PanchaMaestro said:
Anyone who can listen to early Donna Summer disco and not see its value is pretty cray cray.

Besides all the Other amazing 70s music mentioned there’s tons more all over. Can, Kraftwerk, Faust, T.Rex, Lou Reed, Parliament, Jon Cale, Neil Young, Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, BOC, Captain Beefheart, the Stones were still good in the first half, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Devo, Brian Eno, Roky Erickson, amazing Indian and Italian cinema music, the Residents, Roy Harper, King Crimson, the first 3 PIL albums, the Soft Boys, Iggy Pop, Throbbing Gristle, all the great Tropicalia stuff out of Brazil. Just off the top of my head.

Dude the 70s rocked. It was just the Carpenters and the Eagles who sucked.
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Listing a critically high volume of my favorite bands here. In my humble opinion (likely because I grew up with my old man blaring it constantly), early seventies Mick Taylor Stones is the best Stones. And early, weird Blue Oyster Cult pairs superbly with reading seventies horror comics. My ideal evening involves the album "Spectres" and a stack of Wrightson Swamp Thing.

To just add my two cents to the rattling off badass seventies bands: Blondie (yes, they sold out, but dammit, they've been my ride or die since high school), the Damned, Stiff Little Fingers, the MC5, the Stooges, the New York Dolls, Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Suicide, Television, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, the Dictators, Tuff Darts, the Undertones, Magazine, the Rezillos, the Buzzcocks, Generation X, the Jam, X-Ray Spex, the Vibrators, the Stranglers, Siouxsie and the Banshees ... I think I'll cut myself off here.
 
I'm but a youth, but every person I know that claims to hate the Eagles really only hates them because of the Big Lebowski.

They have never known the joy of Take It Easy on a balmy summer sunset.
 
I have two very clear memories of the disco era. The first is how brilliant bands like Chic and A Taste of Honey were, at least musically. The second is how cringe the pop culture aspect of it had become by 1979. The disco that Middle America rebelled against was the watered down version that Corporate America was shoving down their throats which was a far cry from the social and cultural movement that it had originated as.
 
Xavion2025 said:
I have two very clear memories of the disco era. The first is how brilliant bands like Chic and A Taste of Honey were, at least musically. The second is how cringe the pop culture aspect of it had become by 1979. The disco that Middle America rebelled against was the watered down version that Corporate America was shoving down their throats which was a far cry from the social and cultural movement that it has had originated as.
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As the proud owner of a "Disco Sucks" shirt, it was really about this. I just like railing against the thing that feels corporate and stale, especially as a fan of all the music I just gushed about a little ways up the page. Every movement/ sound/ scene is eventually ruined once some douchebag from business school realizes that there's a buck to be made.

I still love the musical "Xanadu" for some reason, though.

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I'm but a youth, but every person I know that claims to hate the Eagles really only hates them because of the Big Lebowski.

They have never known the joy of Take It Easy on a balmy summer sunset.
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They're a fun band to make fun of, I blame it on how easy of a target Don Henley creates by taking himself supremely seriously. My mom went to an Eagles show where he scolded the audience for trying to sing along.

I both hate them and still went to take my picture at the "Standin' on a Corner" statue of Glenn Frey in Winslow, Arizona while driving Route 66 last summer, so clearly I have no real principles.
 
I was born in 1975 so I definitely don't remember much of anything the 70s since I didn't even start Kindergarten until 1980. LOL! I think that I'm likely better off for having grown up in the 80s instead. ;)
 
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I'm but a youth, but every person I know that claims to hate the Eagles really only hates them because of the Big Lebowski.
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I love the Eagles. Hotel California is, like, my second favorite rock song after Don’t Fear the Reaper.

The Big Lebowski, however, I can take or leave. Love the Coens, but this is not a film of theirs I particularly like.
 
Love the music of the Eagles. Don Henley not so much. The rest of the band seemed like regular guys who wanted to make music. But with success comes fame and wealth and…disagreements. Lots of drama in the ranks.

But they changed the game. Told David Geffen to go pound sand over tour costs he was overcharging the band for. Henley and Frey formed a management company and a logistics company for tours. Better efficiency and a lower cost. Others followed the model.

There’s a fascinating nearly four hour documentary on the Eagles where I learned all of this. Used to be on Showtime. Might be on Paramount Plus now. If that doesn’t work, possibly YouTube.
 
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