@CanisPundit well done!!
@John_Downey I had Tommy and Dark Side of the Moon as hand me downs when I was 9 years old. They merged with my DNA along with all Beatles output.
I feel a little old seeing the 20/20 LP picks here as I generally like an earlier record of those same bands...
@tgraph52 @CanisPundit @John_Downey
S’alrite. We like you anyway, Grampa Simps- er, I mean TB. 👍🤓
@InUnfunky @CanisPundit @John_Downey
It's OK. I also feel very fortunate to have been a teenager in the 60s when some really great new music was coming out, week after week. Being there when it was happening was incredible rather than seeing it all as 'retro'.
@tgraph52 @InUnfunky @John_Downey I too am appreciative for the music (recorded and live) I grew up with. My tastes run older than I am though. My parents were not musicians, but they had a great mix of contemporary and older albums playing at home and Top 40 AM radio on in the car.
@CanisPundit @tgraph52 @InUnfunky we'll never see another decade have the same impact I don't think. The technology, the economics, the appetite and the access all hit at the right moment. That's what gave it the added spin.
Townshend was right, the genre celebrated itself too quickly; but it was a pretty novel occurence in culture
@John_Downey @CanisPundit @InUnfunky
I'm not sure people understand the damage that MTV wrought.
@tgraph52 @John_Downey @InUnfunky MTV and the communications act Clinton signed that consolidated (made shiterific) the radio stations and the music industry followed what a handful of program directors wanted.
@CanisPundit @tgraph52 @InUnfunky
exactly
nothing to do with art or with true "market forces (listeners)" driving profits
it was, again, supply side economics screwing us
Petty was dead on with The Last DJ
@tgraph52 @CanisPundit @InUnfunky
The best thing MTV ever did was the Goodman interview with Bowie
that should have shut the thing down right now
can't be successful, huh?
I wonder is MTV playing Kim Gordon's Psychodelic Orgasm now? Does MTV still exist? I stopped watching TV during the baseball strike
@John_Downey @CanisPundit @InUnfunky
I don't have cable.. but the last time I was in a motel I saw MTV was playing a lot of reality TV bullshit. No more videos... at least the little I looked.
@tgraph52 @CanisPundit @InUnfunky
that I remember, the switch to personal drama trainwreck content
never watched an episode, the trailer was offputting enough
@CanisPundit @John_Downey @InUnfunky
MTV told the industry - if you can't make an MTV video, you can't be a successful musician... as if the 2 were somehow related.