Post by jtul07 on Oct 19, 2011 7:44:46 GMT -5
Oct 19, 2011 1:03:17 GMT -5 @darincody said:
The sad thing is that many of the great bands of the 70s had a collective brain fart almost simultaneously, and this only magnified the importance of the shortlived punk revolt, and the nearly-as-short new wave fad.
Led Zeppelin released In Through the Out Door (the worst album of the bunch) and John Bonham died (probably of embarrassment), Pink Floyd released the prophetically titled The Final Cut, ELP made Love Beach (with one of the tackiest album covers in rock history), Yes decided to piss off fans with Tormato and Drama, The Rolling Stones and Queen went disco, Genesis started making absurd pop albums, and even Tull alienated many fans with 'A' before going completely off the deep end and releasing the abominable Under Wraps. Let's also not forget the corporate rock scene of the late 70s as well with the conglomerate merger of ForeignerStyxBostonJourneyREO. All this within a space of a few terribly bewildering years.
No subtlety, no viruousity, no poetry. Only an occasional album that strikes my fancy. Bah.
Well, you lit a pretty big candle here Morothoron
As a Tull fan I think I share with many others here the "trauma" of 1980!!
Your spot on about ALL of the bum albums. Some of them, like Yes and Tull (and Genesis) suffered major personel changes. You forgot Gentle Giant's "Giant for a Day" a true stinker. After 1974, ELP seemed doomed to collapse in on themselves as they just ran out of gas in 76-77. One point about Tull, Stormwatch was a very good album and the resulting show was first rate right up there into the end of 1979.....then pfffft. Big changes.
Main point is the critics started knawing on all of these bands in 73 or there abouts and didn't ever let up until each of them probably also under pressure from their labels to get with the changes, (punk was selling and morphing into the new wave) and tried to do something out of their nature .......and failed big time. They were probably pretty tired too.
But punk wasn't what brought them down...... it was the record business itself.
I'll leave it to this guy to say it. This guy should get his own band
DarinWhen Frank Zappa speaks.......I listen.
His wisdom is timeless.
