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Musically: How lucky was I to be born in 1965? Being a long time org’r, I witnessed and read all the threads, all the opinions, arguments & different musical tastes. One common thread (all pun intended) is we like and know good music when we hear it. I’m so happy to have found a place where so many folks have eclectic tastes and share the same ears.
Being born in 1965: I was able to witness the birth and death of so many music styles, sounds, formats, artists, etc. I was there for: • AM radio (when AM radio was cool) • FM Radio (when DJ’s programmed what they like to hear, not what the sponsors think we should hear). This is why I can’t stand the radio today. • The birth of FUNK – James B., Parliament, Bootsy……and so much more! • The progression of Rock N Roll, Soft Rock, Easy Listening……… • The expansion of Soul & R&B. The 70’s and the early 80’s where the best years for R&B!! • The quick lived Disco era. JAZZ: Fusion, Traditional, Smooth, Electric, etc. The late 60's trough the late 70's. It's was insanely an incredible time. • I got to see all the cool Friday night and Saturday night music shows (Midnight Special, Don Kirsher’s Rock Concert, etc) • The dawn and death of Soul Train. All the performances. OMG! • The beginning of MTV – (Growing up in a small town, this expanded my music taste like nothing else. I still thank early MTV for music that I’m still listening to today. • The beginning of BET and VIDEO SOUL! The best!!! The Jackson 5, Michael Jackson & The Jacksons. I say no more. • The dawn of the Minneapolis sound and all its glory. (I was 13 when Prince released For You and 18 when Purple Rain hit the theaters. How lucky was I?) • Concert tickets were so cheap back then. I got to see so many artists in their prime or just starting out. Way TOO many to lists. So many of those artists are MEGA stars now! I saw them when they didn’t know their way around the stage, including Prince! • The birth and Hip Hop! I was there when “Rapper’s Delight” first came on the radio and blew our minds. • The birth of the CD. 1983. • 1985 – 1995 Age 20 – 30. Most music was targeted to my age group and with the birth of the CD, music was being cranked out like never before and I consumed to much. Looking at the music industry now and (IMO) that lack of music and talent, I’m so glad I lived through what I feel where the glory years! Thank God for You Tube and the internet, so we can school the young ones and they can discover all of what I saw first hand. I feel bad for this generation musically. Radio stations that play the same 5 songs five every hour, overpriced concert tickets, but I envy you too. If we had the technology of today back then, I would NEVER leave my house. I would like to hear your stories and opinions if you like to share. My two cents………and maybe my last post. Peace & Be wild!  [Edited 3/12/10 11:01am] | |
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I was born in early 1968 (birthday in 10 days), and I think it was a great year to be born. I say that because I was right in the middle of high school during the great 80's phase of music. I started high school in 1982. That November Thriller was released. Just as that died down a bit, the Jackson's toured, and Purple Rain was released in 1984. My junior year was colorful with ATWIAD, and I graduated with the bright colors of black and white with the help of Parade. I went through a personal revolution in my life, as I went through the best (and only...so far) Revolution years. I think though I knew of Prince and had his records from 1979 or so, it's why I'm such a huge fan because those years with the plethora of music coming out from him, and the change and variety of it - it truly was the soundtrack of my youth. His songs, as well as other artists like Culture Club, Cyndi Lauper, MJ, Duran Duran, and others, spoke to me, and said the things I wanted to say at times.
Plus if you take 1968, my year of birth, and reverse the last two digits, it becomes the year I graduated, 1986. Not sure what other years you can do that with. We're The Foxes We're The Chicks We're The Class of 1986! hahaha Good times. | |
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I was born in 1967 and yes it was a great time to be born.
In my youth and teens we had: The disco era of the late 1970s. The funk era of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The skating rink era of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The 8 Track tapes and 8 Track recorder era. Club DJs that actually mixed and were entertaining rather than just playing one song after another. Radio that had live DJs who were actually in the studio when their voice went out over the air instead of pre-recording their voice and music for a computer to play later. Cool ass cars that had their own distinctive look such as Cadillacs and Lincolns. Clothes with style, flash, and shine. Outrageousness was in and ordinary and down to earth was dull. In my early 20s we had: The house/dance music era of the early 1990s. Club DJs still continuing to mix. Actually, I would have been luckier if I had been born 10 years earlier in 1957 so I could have actually gone out and partied as an adult in my 20s during the disco era and as an adult in my 30s during the house/dance era. Being born in 1967, hell, by the time I was around 24 or 25, the music scene had become shit hop infested and as slow as a senior citizens' center. 
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 Man, I hope it's not really your last post!!!
 I was born in '65, too!!!!
As you mentioned, thing that made a big impression on me was that wide range of sounds in the air, growing up--even as a toddler, I remember hearing everything from Miles and Wes Montgomery to the Beatles, Sly and Jimi, Aretha and James Brown, Sergio Mendes---and Classical pieces from Beethoven to Debussy and Aaron Copeland....Radio was playing everything back then... My parents were big Jazz fans, but they also brought home R&B, Rock, and Classical...I still remember hearing Rotary Connection, Three Dog Night, Frank Zappa, and early Kool & The Gang for the first time... It's also interesting that at that time there was a lot of mixing of genres-- Miles started playing with rock and funk musicians, producers like Charles Stepney were blending Classical, Funk, Rock and Jazz...genre-bending groups like Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Chicago (then Chicago Transit Authority)were having their heyday...Santana and Mahavishnu, Weather Report...and then there was a thing called Funkadelic, led by a wild dude in a bedsheet named George Clinton...there was just a whole lot of mixing of genres styles, and expanding ranges...a Jazz/Fusion/Afro outfit from Chicago, originally called the Salty Pepers and led by ex-Ramsey Lewis drummer Maurice White, would eventually morph into a band called Earth, Wind and Fire .... Burt Bacarach and Dionne Warwick were creating Pop gems...and influencing a composer named Thom Bell, who was creating his own timeless music with groups like the Delfonics, The Stylistics and The Spinners... I remember my dad bringing home all these albums that would soon become classics-- Marvin Gaye - What's Going On, and Stevie Wonder's - Music Of My Mind...Isaac Hayes- Shaft, Donny Hathaway - Extension Of A Man, and Curtis Mayfield- Superfly So yeah, it's interesting --kind of sad, but illuminating--to grow up with all that and see how the music is treated in general now...but I also see that Music lovers of all ages have gradually been able to sift through the crap and find the real treasures, Past and Present, in fact you might argue that the current crate-digging community has even more reverence for those past sounds, even though they don't have the same context..... ... [Edited 3/12/10 12:40pm] " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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I think that this time in the western world between 1955 and 1995 was an unprecedented musical explosion, a renaissance of the likes that we'll probably never witness again.
On the one hand, it's terribly unfair to expect that this will go on forever. On the other hand, the musical infrastructure now is failing so fast that most of the money left is being tossed at short-term profit that exploits superficiality. In other words, there's been an earthquake and most of the best has been shaken underground. But even the best I don't believe could fairly be compared to this magnificent period of cultural upheaval, where music gave us the soundtrack to these extraordinary times. Perhaps we should eventually start turning to the eastern world for Part II? == Damn! Proofread, sucker! == [Edited 3/12/10 12:55pm] | |
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ernestsewell said:
We're The Foxes We're The Chicks We're The Class of 1986! We're the baddest class alive... We're the class of 85! Andy is a four letter word. | |
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Born in '71, and I thank God for it.
I feel like I got to at least taste the best of the last 40 years.  | |
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A whole lot luckier than me. I was born in 1987.
On the Org since 2005.
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vainandy said: I was born in 1967 and yes it was a great time to be born.
In my youth and teens we had: The disco era of the late 1970s. The funk era of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The skating rink era of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The 8 Track tapes and 8 Track recorder era. Club DJs that actually mixed and were entertaining rather than just playing one song after another. Radio that had live DJs who were actually in the studio when their voice went out over the air instead of pre-recording their voice and music for a computer to play later. Cool ass cars that had their own distinctive look such as Cadillacs and Lincolns. Clothes with style, flash, and shine. Outrageousness was in and ordinary and down to earth was dull. In my early 20s we had: The house/dance music era of the early 1990s. Club DJs still continuing to mix. Actually, I would have been luckier if I had been born 10 years earlier in 1957 so I could have actually gone out and partied as an adult in my 20s during the disco era and as an adult in my 30s during the house/dance era. Being born in 1967, hell, by the time I was around 24 or 25, the music scene had become shit hop infested and as slow as a senior citizens' center.
. . . [Edited 3/12/10 11:54am] being born in 88 it sucks , my friends tell me all the time i should have been born 20 - 30 years earlier
i grew up on michael jackson ( dangerous history) and elton john and some 70s 80s music channel my moms bf used to play while driving to grandma. looking back at those times, the times in the car where the best | |
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tricky2 said: Being born in 1965: I was able to witness the birth and death of so many music styles, sounds, formats, artists, etc.
I've got you beat by four years.
Shit, I was born in the birthplace of rap/hip-hop - the South Bronx. It's amazing how it blew up - from cats rhyming over records at house/street parties to now. [Edited 3/13/10 11:45am] |
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LoveIsTheMessage said: A whole lot luckier than me. I was born in 1987.
You poor kids are so deprived. It's a crime what that you've been subjected to musically! | |
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LoveIsTheMessage said: A whole lot luckier than me. I was born in 1987.
 It's all good.
..you're living proof It doesn't matter kid    National Funk League✮✮ | |
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Born in 72" like everyone born before me I am very grateful to have witnessed the birth of rap/hip-hop, The Minneapolis sound (when people thought that Prince and Morris Day were related), and the "Golden Years" of Hip-Hop/Gangstar Rap 1988 through the release of "The Chronic" in 92", not to mention Purple Rain, Thriller, Like a Virgin, and Born in the USA. The evolution of music came from a pure and honest place during the time period in which we were blessed to be born in...I am very thankful. Where would we all be if we didn't love this energy called MUSIC!?  | |
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vainandy said: ernestsewell said:
We're The Foxes We're The Chicks We're The Class of 1986! We're the baddest class alive... We're the class of 85! While y'all aging like a wine I was class of ninney-nine | |
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Cinnie said: vainandy said: We're the baddest class alive... We're the class of 85! While y'all aging like a wine I was class of ninney-nine That explains SO much. | |
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LoveIsTheMessage said: A whole lot luckier than me. I was born in 1987.
LOL, tell me about. We gre up with No Limit Records and the Backstreet Boys. PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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I was born 86, and i didn't really know about music until i was 10 so that was around 96-97. But i did grow up listening to Michael Jackson Dangerous. I remember that era, and i do remembering listening to thriller.
I knew about music around the time, Spice Girls, Backstreet boys, Britney spears, Destiny's Child, Aaliyah and the pop stars were out. Music was fun for me all the way upto 2003. After that it pretty much sucked. Her and there I liked one or two songs a year. But after 2007, I haven't liked any new song that has come out except for a few artist like Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears(and even at that i only like a few songs of Mariah and Britney. But i enjoy pretty much majority of what janet does, she hasn't changed since forever. LOLOLOL). I just don't like music of today. I don't even know whats out on the radio have listened to radio since really 2002-2003. So really i don't know what the style of music is. All i can say is from the clips i hear of it, im not impress. |
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tricky2 said: Being a long time org’r, I witnessed and read all the threads, all the opinions, arguments & different musical tastes. One common thread (all pun intended) is we like and know good music when we hear it. I’m so happy to have found a place where so many folks have eclectic tastes and share the same ears.
Being born in 1965: I was able to witness the birth and death of so many music styles, sounds, formats, artists, etc. I was there for: • AM radio (when AM radio was cool) • FM Radio (when DJ’s programmed what they like to hear, not what the sponsors think we should hear). This is why I can’t stand the radio today. • The birth of FUNK – James B., Parliament, Bootsy……and so much more! • The progression of Rock N Roll, Soft Rock, Easy Listening……… • The expansion of Soul & R&B. The 70’s and the early 80’s where the best years for R&B!! • The quick lived Disco era. JAZZ: Fusion, Traditional, Smooth, Electric, etc. The late 60's trough the late 70's. It's was insanely an incredible time. • I got to see all the cool Friday night and Saturday night music shows (Midnight Special, Don Kirsher’s Rock Concert, etc) • The dawn and death of Soul Train. All the performances. OMG! • The beginning of MTV – (Growing up in a small town, this expanded my music taste like nothing else. I still thank early MTV for music that I’m still listening to today. • The beginning of BET and VIDEO SOUL! The best!!! The Jackson 5, Michael Jackson & The Jacksons. I say no more. • The dawn of the Minneapolis sound and all its glory. (I was 13 when Prince released For You and 18 when Purple Rain hit the theaters. How lucky was I?) • Concert tickets were so cheap back then. I got to see so many artists in their prime or just starting out. Way TOO many to lists. So many of those artists are MEGA stars now! I saw them when they didn’t know their way around the stage, including Prince! • The birth and Hip Hop! I was there when “Rapper’s Delight” first came on the radio and blew our minds. • The birth of the CD. 1983. • 1985 – 1995 Age 20 – 30. Most music was targeted to my age group and with the birth of the CD, music was being cranked out like never before and I consumed to much. Looking at the music industry now and (IMO) that lack of music and talent, I’m so glad I lived through what I feel where the glory years! Thank God for You Tube and the internet, so we can school the young ones and they can discover all of what I saw first hand. I feel bad for this generation musically. Radio stations that play the same 5 songs five every hour, overpriced concert tickets, but I envy you too. If we had the technology of today back then, I would NEVER leave my house. I would like to hear your stories and opinions if you like to share. My two cents………and maybe my last post. Peace & Be wild!
[Edited 3/12/10 11:01am] You lived through it and that was fun. But the younger generation can still go back and listen to that music and enjoy it just as much without having to live through it. |
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It's not the same...we knew prince when he was PRINCE! | |
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TotalAlisa said: You lived through it and that was fun. But the younger generation can still go back and listen to that music and enjoy it just as much without having to live through it.
Agreed, I'm glad I am living to see the age where all of history is so readily recallable. | |
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Aaron6 said: It's not the same...we knew prince when he was PRINCE!
And that's the bad side of living in the now lol some of y'all got to see them in their prime, no fair.  | |
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Cinnie said: TotalAlisa said: You lived through it and that was fun. But the younger generation can still go back and listen to that music and enjoy it just as much without having to live through it.
Agreed, I'm glad I am living to see the age where all of history is so readily recallable. I mean... not that it isn't recallable for people who lived it  (yet?  ) | |
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Cinnie said: Cinnie said: Agreed, I'm glad I am living to see the age where all of history is so readily recallable. I mean... not that it isn't recallable for people who lived it (yet? )
Only advantage we got is technology. [Edited 3/14/10 10:50am] | |
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Timmy84 said: Aaron6 said: It's not the same...we knew prince when he was PRINCE!
And that's the bad side of living in the now lol some of y'all got to see them in their prime, no fair.  | |
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