Frank on 60’s-70's Music
Frank listened to a lot of music from the past. Here is a text string with his thoughts on music from the 70’s.
Texts from Frank:
Totally unrelated, but the 70s have to be the peak of human's musical ability and material. I don't think man will ever create music in the way we did in the 70s
Guessing you've listened to the temptations some yeah?
Was listening thru some of their albums and just came across this
https://open.spotify.com/track/4O0001bUt3kZdupcHZQdd2?si=oOpq9scCTdKnNwK2WgukJA
Like, oh my god
And this is like the least listened to song on this little album, but by far the best
There was like these few years early to mid 70s where soul music went from old school, late 60s soul, but before it turned more funky and on to 80s shit, where a bunch of these classic soul groups became psychedelic- quite literally psychedelic soul, it's called- and started sounding more like psychedelic rock. It was a very brief period for most groups but god damn the music that came out of those few years (Philly and Detroit especially) was incredible
Like, for example, for the Supremes it was the album reflections, in '68 (so actually a little earlier). This is classic (one of your favorites- I remember, trust me) from 66:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1OppEieGNdItZbE14gLBEv?si=u06tctUHQ3m9jGmdRUvNhg
That's the classic Supremes that everyone knew, up until 68, when they release reflections- kicking it off like this:
https://open.spotify.com/track/4yChgYDVcQrAgIEIErW27b?si=rd7cap7LTzeTnrPRFEQadA
Like, the difference is astounding. Then they continue to the second track:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Vt8HH4r49hsrED8kCd2AL?si=oGYgnPUpT7yZM9MQA7vvzg
Listen to the very first riff there, amazing. Then the 3rd, which you really think is going to be a more classic Supremes sound at first, but then as soon as the verse starts we go right back to the psychedelic underpinnings:
https://open.spotify.com/track/6GffueKJJ5oCOLYGfXmfsc?si=yp_0d9YjQ-WwJXCky-Ffvg
On to the fourth (self explanatory at this point):
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ltNWOGnN0JS0HHKYumNNf?si=aYXOyK2ETtWn5z07-ZzCLw
Wavers after that, but those first four are incredible, and ahead of their time, being 68. Sad that was kinda the OG Supremes last album
I've never listened to much Sly and the family stone, but have read multiple places that they were one of the main groups responsible for kicking off the whole psychedelic soul thing
And I'll amend the original statement about 70s being the musical decade of our species- I think maybe more like '68-'78. After that we start to lose ourselves to the 80s, which- for some genres- I think was one of the worst and most embarrassing musical periods, at least in the US
I hate stereotypical 80s music with an intense passion
HA temptations literally named an album "psychedelic shack". Did not know that. Amazing
And I definitely misspoke, that period of psychedelic definitely started late 60s for a lot of people. What happened in the late 60s? Even the Detroit boy bands on Motown started taking acid?
I responded:
Amazing commentary on the changes in music at that time. Late 60s saw upheaval not only in music but society as a whole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzZh6-h9fM
You really should check out some woodstock stuff. Santana was amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPauXWjY4T8
classic woodstock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo8FVhwil7Q
I always liked this anti-war ballad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dATyZBEeDJ4
But before all this happened Motown (Detroit as motor town) completely changed music. There were a lot of courageous musicians changing music.
Back to Frank:
"Right? I wish it hadn't changed again 10 years later... Such is life I guess. And thanks, means a lot actually, coming from you especially
I'll have to check out these songs when I get sec shortly, I never really delved into the whole Woodstock thing much. Most of my knowledge of music from that period (outside of the obvious that I used to listen to) comes from sampling, or more specifically, comes from listening to album after album, group after group looking for (unused) samples. Over the past year I have listened to so much music from that ten year period it's crazy. Point being tho, that I'm mostly listening to soul and jazz stuff when I do that; a LOT of Motown for sure"
Altho you should check out some of Philly's soul output in that era too, I was surprised
I think Motown were obviously the trailblazers and trendsetters for anything soul-related though. Trust me, I definitely see what you were on about with Motown when I was a little kid haha. I've actually read quite a bit about the history and all too
Back to your earlier texts, gotta say my favorite anti war anthem has to be that Buffalo Springfield song. I forget the name but you obviously know which one I'm talking about
One of my favorite songs in general
That's a been a favorite for long before this past year though
For what it's worth, is the song I'm talking about
Actually, maybe that's more of an anti govt (and specifically anti police) song than anti war specifically, but one and the same in that counterculture movement. Some absolutely incredible lines in that song that still ring so true today. Absolutely timeless piece of art
Honestly, everyone has heard that song, but I feel like almost no one of my generation actually listens to the lyrics of it
It's a lot more charged than the overall vibe of it suggests
I'm sure you know what I'm talking about but link for ease of listening:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1qRA5BS78u3gME0loMl9AA?si=eBbT0LtMTGWD-2AOS5hBvA
"There's battle lines being drawn/nobody's right, if everybody's wrong”
^favorite line
