and im sure if this gets the green, the pathologicals will come out of the woodwork to express their opinions on the subjects.

If that guys thinks nothing interesting happened in music this year, then he hasn't been paying attention.

OK, I just read that whole article and that guy might be the worst music critic ever. How do I get his job?

Croooow!: OK, I just read that whole article and that guy might be the worst music critic ever. How do I get his job?

starts with "blo"

ends with "ob"

Piss Up A Rope
Croooow!: OK, I just read that whole article and that guy might be the worst music critic ever. How do I get his job?

starts with "blo"

ends with "ob"

Blonde Dye-Job? I'M ON IT!

/scampers away

"I'm meeting you half way you stupid hippies!"

Croooow!: If that guys thinks nothing interesting happened in music this year, then he hasn't been paying attention.

This.

Anyone that claims they have "authority" when it comes to music appreciation just comes off as a giant d-bag in my book.

Piss Up A Rope: starts with "blo" ends with "ob"

Where do I find this "bloob"?

1967 was also the year that saw the birth of one of the greatest human beings ever to walk the planet.

/ though it still sucks to have turned 40 this year
// modesty is my best feature

The 60s had some great music, definitely, but I'd never visit there.

The cops suck, no Internets, kind bud is hard to find and it gets you two years for a single joint, oh and then there's the draft for the Iraq of the 60s: Vietnam.

Nope. I'll take the present-day.

whidbey: The 60s had some great music, definitely, but I'd never visit there.

The cops suck, no Internets, kind bud is hard to find and it gets you two years for a single joint, oh and then there's the draft for the Iraq of the 60s: Vietnam.

Nope. I'll take the present-day.

No microwaves or teevee remotes either.

Croooow!: Piss Up A Rope: starts with "blo" ends with "ob"

Where do I find this "bloob"?

You left the flolfolflofl out of the middle. It's "bloflolfolfloflob."

.

Croooow!: If that guys thinks nothing interesting happened in music this year, then he hasn't been paying attention.

the year I turned 15. All I can say is there hasn't been many years like it since then. Golden year.

Everyone knows rock music attained perfection in 1974, it's a scientific fact.


/or not

Piss Up A Rope: pathologicals

This may be ignorant but what does that mean? Anyway i must be one because I have said hatred

I personally have not been very impressed with some of the modern bands lately, they just don't sound good.

GIS for "dirty hippies".



Stupid hippies.

Croooow!: If that guys thinks nothing interesting happened in music this year, then he hasn't been paying attention.

Now, I hate music jerks as much as anyone, but as someone who occasionally writes in a music blog (it has literally tens of readers!), I have to say: interesting is certainly the operative word of that sentence.

Boris S. Wort: Everyone knows rock music attained perfection in 1974, it's a scientific fact.


/or not

Sheer Heart Attack!

/no?

Years ending in 7 seem to be the best years for music. I'm not so sure this decade, but it was a fairly decent year. Still, I think 2006 has it beat.

Torc: Years ending in 7 seem to be the best years for music. I'm not so sure this decade, but it was a fairly decent year. Still, I think 2006 has it beat.

2004 was the best this decade.

I was born in 1977! Yay for being born in a good year!

Gunny Highway:

because I have said hatred

Ha ha ha! I'm an unapologetic hippie and there ain't nothin you can do about it! I hope my very existence gives you gastritis, 'cause I'm in for the duration!

:)

.

DistendedPendulusFrenulum:

All of a sudden i have been feelings of upper abdominal pain and discomfort, Gastric hemorrhage, Hypochlorhydria, Appetite loss, and some Belching, Nausea, Vomiting, Fever, Lethargy.

UGHHHHHHHHHHH

"Hippieeees.... Hippieees all around me, they say they wanna save the world but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad"

/also smoke pot
//and smell bad

JerseyTim: Torc: Years ending in 7 seem to be the best years for music. I'm not so sure this decade, but it was a fairly decent year. Still, I think 2006 has it beat.

2004 was the best this decade.

I see very little there that actually stands out or wasn't by bands that had better albums later. Really, what on that list stands out as good? Smile is essentially a reissue, From a Basement on a Hill was recorded (obviously) a year prior. Funeral was great, though I've always been partial to Broken Social Scene and The New Pornographers, who both had their best albums out in 2005. Although in paging through the Rate Your Music top albums of the 2000s, the year 2000 comes up pretty strong.

I don't know. For me, I never really view years as being overwhelmingly good or bad. The weakest years produce great albums and the strongest ones produce a fair amount of crap. The late 60s were something special, but that also because the genre itself was so new. I think there's albums from 2007 that will still get real (i.e. not just nostalgic) airplay in 25 years.

Torc: Really, what on that list stands out as good?

Van Lear Rose is an AMAZING album. It's in my top 10 all time. I love A Grand Don't Come for Free, it's great storytelling and I haven't stopped listening to it. Funeral is as strong a debut album as there's ever been. The College Dropout is 90% amazing, Madvillainy is crazy good.

Not just the albums, the singles in 2004 were terrific. "Take Me Out" is a perfect pop song. "Float On" and "Maps" are great tunes.

Boris S. Wort: Everyone knows rock music attained perfection in 1974, it's a scientific fact.


/or not

I dunno, I'd say it had gotten pretty rundown by then.

Way WAY too much prog...

Is this guy kidding or what?

If there was any justice in the world then verbo-spooge hacks like the writer, who never miss an obvious media-friendly cliche, from teh early rowdy pre-hippies to the punx to Guns and Roses (is this guy kidding or what?), would be forced to slide down a two story bannister lined with razor blades into a kiddie pool full of rubbing alcohol where they would be mashed up with big sledgehammers from their extremities inwards while thousands laughed.

UberDave

Beat me to it. I was thinking the exact same thing.

\Stupid Box Network executives.

All these cats with holey jeans, Am dirty hair and titty rings,
Say what your scene man, we got these questions. Is it true that you have sold your soul? I say hey man, I don't know
Lend me a quarter won't you, I'll call my accountant.

CHORUS:
Let's get off this, and get on with it,
If you wanna change the world shut your mouth and start to spin it
Get off this, get on with it
If you wanna change the world shut your mouth and start this minute

Petty little Ayatollah come around to judge and stone ya
all we're trying to do is make a fortune
Yeah we ain't got no government loans, and no one sends a check from home
And get this: we're just doin' what we wanna

-Cracker

For the video Link (new window)

I was all prepared to have a monumental failgasm when I went to read that, but he wasn't so far off. I was 12 in '67 and already buying records (still have a mono copy of Surrealistic Pillow); it was definitely an important year. But I particularly appreciated his comments re: 1977. That was probably the year that my life changed musically. Though I didn't actually hear Television until '78 when they opened for Peter Gabriel in Houston... so maybe I'd qualify that and say mid '77 to mid '78.

I couldn't read more than 25 words of that guy's writing if you paid me. God awful.

WHIDBEY

actually a lid of good herb was $5. gold, red,michoacan, colitos, etc.

Saracuda: I was born in 1977! Yay for being born in a good year!

dammit, you had it easy. I was born in a



/got nothing

My first green! Now all I need to do is work on that whole "joke" thing...

And for those of you wondering, the guy who wrote this (David Thorpe) is definitely being sarcastic. He's also the guy that wrote the Your Band Sucks column for Something Awful, and he's farking hilarious.

F*ck it, I'll be the first to say that I'm actually a big fan of that misanthrope David Thorpe's writing. I love his sh*t in The Dig. He's a funny f*cker and actually listens and references tons of current music. You can't effectively mock something if you don't know it, and this guy knows it. Read some of his other stuff from his archives. He might mention over 20-30 acts and skewer each one pretty damn good (or give them props, but it's rare because he's a dick, most music today truly blows or it's just too fun to pass up mocking it) in a 750 word column.

Hail the A*shole David Thorpe!

Well...to be fair...there were a lot of real dumbass hippies.

And WTF is up with the love for '77? You can talk all that "music critic" crap about the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Television that you want to talk. Apart from music critics and a few kids wearing mohawks and safety pins, nobody was listening to them THEN. IN REALITY the big thing going on in 1977 was Saturday Frikkin' Night Fever. Bee Gees. Lots and lots of Bee Gees.

And then MORE friggin' Bee Gees. THAT was 1977, not the gawddam Clash.

In retrospect, the Clash and Sex Pistols obviously hold up better over time. But they sure as hell weren't selling much "product" in 1977, ESPECIALLY not when you compare them to the damn Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

/there was also a great deal of love for KISS back then
//take that, 1977!

Crocodile: And WTF is up with the love for '77?

My Aim is True
Talking Heads '77
Afore mentioned ... Bollocks ...
Rumours
Low
Heroes
Aja
Animals

Disco Sucks! (The Bee Gees used to be guys, you know.)

/New York Mining Disaster 1941 ftw

barefoot in the head:

/New York Mining Disaster 1941 ftw


Was always quite partial to "Every Christian Lionhearted Man Will Show You."

barefoot in the head
Disco Sucks!

This is what I'm saying. I guarantee you that the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack sold more than all Clash, Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, and Ramones albums released that year COMBINED.

Disco was the dominant musical/social force then. Lauding 1977 for some gems that were discovered later ("Bollocks" didn't go gold in the USA until 1987, and didn't go platinum until 1991) creates a phantom vision of what TRULY happened that year:

KISS, and Disco.

And they sucked. SO SCREW YOU, 1977. Other than Star Wars, that was a year that I could have done without.

Crocodile: barefoot in the head
Disco Sucks!

This is what I'm saying. I guarantee you that the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack sold more than all Clash, Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, and Ramones albums released that year COMBINED.

Disco was the dominant musical/social force then. Lauding 1977 for some gems that were discovered later ("Bollocks" didn't go gold in the USA until 1987, and didn't go platinum until 1991) creates a phantom vision of what TRULY happened that year:

KISS, and Disco.

And they sucked. SO SCREW YOU, 1977. Other than Star Wars, that was a year that I could have done without.

Don't blame the calendar just cause you didn't know what was going on outside commercial crap radio....

/just sayin
//1966

cryptozoophiliac:

Don't blame the calendar just cause you didn't know what was going on outside commercial crap radio....


Indeed. Just because certain music wasn't commercially successful doesn't negate the influential force it had for people down the line. For example: The Velvet Underground, Big Star, and yes, Television... those just off the top of my head.

jpawlikowski:

dammit, you had it easy. I was born in a


You were born in a firestone ashtray?

My Aim is True
Talking Heads '77
Afore mentioned ... Bollocks ...
Rumours
Low
Heroes
Aja
Animals


This list is a 1977 winning machine, firing on all 8!

Oh, to be 17 again...

Ramones' Rocket to Russia
The Jam's In the City
Iggy Pop's Lust for Life
The Clash, The Clash
The Damned's Damned, Damned, Damned
Wire's Pink Flag
Richard Hell & the Voidoids' Blank Generation
Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True
The Dead Boys' Young, Loud and Snotty
The Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, Television's Marquee Moon
Talking Heads' Talking Heads: 77
Suicide's Suicide
Motörhead's Motörhead

Also: B-52's, Black Flag, Crass, Discharge and X.

1977 - The Clash

In 1977 I hope I go to heaven
Cos I been too long on the dole
And I cant work at all

Danger stranger
You better paint your face
No Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones
In 1977

In 1977
Knives in west 11
Lent so lucky to be rich
Sten guns in Knightsbridge

Danger stranger
You better paint your face
No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones
In 1977

In 1977
You're on the never never
You think it cant go on forever
But the papers say its better
I don't care cos I'm not all there
No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones

In 1977
Sod the jubilee
In 1978
In 1979
Stayed in bed
In 1980
In 1981
The toilet don't work
In 1982
In 1983
Here come the police
In 1984!

I just heard "Maps" for the first time last night (playing Rockband) and I have to say its extremely forgettable with lyrics that just.... well.... suck.


/Maaaaaaaaaappppssssss!!!!

the author sounds like a d ick head