Seventies or eighties?

[servodude]

For songs of the past 10 years I'd probably lump "Uptown Funk", "Happy" and "Can't Stop the Feeling" in the same boat ( to choose one genre)
- the kind of songs that will "actually work" at any wedding reception from the moment they're released (ah go on you know they're really well done!)
- even after they've gone through the too popular to be cool cycle a few times

-sd

I'd have to include "Get Lucky" in that short list.

John

Totally! And props for picking up an example of proper (to my ears) use of a vocoder/auto-tune
- still might fall foul of the "old codger's recent release" though: Nile must have been mid 60s
I suppose most of the other ones were engineered/arranged by folk who had been around the block a few times also - except for Mark Ronson who's (just) younger than me... but he probably stole a bunch of stuff from Quincy when he was going out with Rashida Jones)

-sd

[TUK020]

try these: a different selection

Awolnation: Sail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaAWdljhD5o

Synth/distortion done differently. The Glitch Mob: We can make the world stop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls-LYas5j8U

and a modern take on pop, with choreographed video
Weeknd: Blinded by the Lights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeUGGyNA6B8

[pje16]

Glad to see you are bringing up her properly
I watched the story of Ziggy last night on Amazon Prime (stumbled upon it quite by accident)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B07H1D1CHT
so am now giving another listen to one his finest
(a nice trip down a happy memory lane)

Micky Mouse has just grown up a cow!

We'll give it a watch (not sure if it's one we've seen already)
She's also picked up some of my interest in music gear and how it works - so we've watched the YouTube videos where Tony Visconti goes through how some of it was recorded and mastered
- that stuff is pure gold and would have given our lecturers conniptions back in the day ("you're recording it WITH the effects? no, no.. it'll never work .. Get to the back of the class")

-sd

thanks for the Visconti ref I'll give that a go at lunchtime
I hope you haven't seen Ziggy on Prime before (I hadn't, but have seen a few BBC shows about it over the years) it is well worth a watch

Cheers
just listened to Visconti talking about Heroes and Space Oddity
always interesting (I think) to hear the backgrpound to song recordings (and lyrics)

[Clitheroekid]

A very interesting set of responses. I was initially surprised to see how strong the vote was for the 70's, but on reflection it may have been because I wasn't specific enough about the question. I meant to ask which of the songs featured in the videos (i.e. the chart-toppers) did you prefer, but I think many posters thought I was asking which decade produced the best music.

If I'd asked myself that question my answer would undoubtedly have been the 70's, if only because of Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, two of the greatest albums ever made.

But having watched both videos it seemed to me there were far more songs from the 80's that have stood the test of time than there were from the 70's - still, chacun à son goût!

[pje16]

If I'd asked myself that question my answer would undoubtedly have been the 70's, if only because of Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, two of the greatest albums ever made.

How very true
I still lie in darkened room sometimes, close my eyes and listen to Time ( that intro is one of the best ever)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EzURpTF5c8

[CliffEdge]

Ah, now you move the goalposts.

Yes I agree with you if you mean chart music. But that's not what you said.

Well if the music is good it will rise up the charts Shirley?

But ok, link me two or three really good songs that you like from the last 10 years. They don't have to be chart hits. Something catchy and memorable. The sort of songs you might put on repeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROpY5i-f_Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZVL_8D048
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adLGHcj_fmA

GS

Excuse me, the record's stuck, the record's stuck, the record's stuck...

[MrFoolish]

Thanks for the links to the modern stuff. I didn't dislike any of it but nothing massively grabbed me either. It all seems, erm, safe. Sorry.

[Redmires]

Talking of Bowie & Visconti etc. Did anyone else see the retrospective on Mick Ronson on Sky TV a few weeks ago. Now there was a talent

And the best intro ever. Gotta be 'Stay With Me' by the Faces. It was on the Johnnie Walker 70's 1972 special I caught the the other day. Every song from 1972 and not a dud amongst them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00131gr

[MrFoolish]

A very interesting set of responses. I was initially surprised to see how strong the vote was for the 70's, but on reflection it may have been because I wasn't specific enough about the question. I meant to ask which of the songs featured in the videos (i.e. the chart-toppers) did you prefer, but I think many posters thought I was asking which decade produced the best music.

If I'd asked myself that question my answer would undoubtedly have been the 70's, if only because of Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, two of the greatest albums ever made.

But having watched both videos it seemed to me there were far more songs from the 80's that have stood the test of time than there were from the 70's - still, chacun à son goût!

Wish You Were Here is a wonderful album. I'd say the greatest ever. There's a funky instrumental section (the penultimate section) which just gets better and better as it fades out. I find it incredible.

I agree with you about the 80s too. There were so many killer songs that never made it to number one because there was so much competition every single week. I think it went downhill after Live Aid, but I suppose the dance music had its place.

[Redmires]

I was initially surprised to see how strong the vote was for the 70's, but on reflection it may have been because I wasn't specific enough about the question. I meant to ask which of the songs featured in the videos (i.e. the chart-toppers) did you prefer, but I think many posters thought I was asking which decade produced the best music.

Guilty as charged. I think most of us jumped straight in with a vote. I've watched the clips now and funnily enough, I remember more from the 80's than the 70's. Still prefer the 70's though.

[GoSeigen]

Well if the music is good it will rise up the charts Shirley?

But ok, link me two or three really good songs that you like from the last 10 years. They don't have to be chart hits. Something catchy and memorable. The sort of songs you might put on repeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROpY5i-f_Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZVL_8D048
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adLGHcj_fmA

GS

Excuse me, the record's stuck, the record's stuck, the record's stuck...

Sending out an S.O.S
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Thus it has always been. Even in the 80s.

GS

[swill453]

Excuse me, the record's stuck, the record's stuck, the record's stuck...

Not many under 40s will even know what that means.

Scott.

[CliffEdge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROpY5i-f_Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZVL_8D048
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adLGHcj_fmA

GS

Excuse me, the record's stuck, the record's stuck, the record's stuck...

Sending out an S.O.S
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Thus it has always been. Even in the 80s.

GS

Was that Sade? Their records made me wish for an electric drill.

[Redmires]

Excuse me, the record's stuck, the record's stuck, the record's stuck...

Not many under 40s will even know what that means.

Scott.

Or where it was from. Was it on the LP with the double groove ?

[pje16]

My younger daughter (14) is mad for Bowie (like buying Low on vinyl then saving up for a turntable mad) after we went to an exhibition on him - her plays in the car on yesterday's 5hr drive were mostly him and "the Front Bottoms" (from New Jersey)
-sd

Glad to see you are bringing up her properly
I watched the story of Ziggy last night on Amazon Prime (stumbled upon it quite by accident)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B07H1D1CHT
so am now giving another listen to one his finest
(a nice trip down a happy memory lane)

Micky Mouse has just grown up a cow!

We'll give it a watch (not sure if it's one we've seen already)
She's also picked up some of my interest in music gear and how it works - so we've watched the YouTube videos where Tony Visconti goes through how some of it was recorded and mastered
- that stuff is pure gold and would have given our lecturers conniptions back in the day ("you're recording it WITH the effects? no, no.. it'll never work .. Get to the back of the class")

-sd

thanks for the Visconti ref I'll give that a go at lunchtime
I hope you haven't seen Ziggy on Prime before (I hadn't, but have seen a few BBC shows about it over the years) it is well worth a watch

A bit late notice, but have only just spotted it
tonight BBC2 10pm
The story of Ziggy Stardust

a must watch for Bowie fans

PS Visconte on Youtube was good