However Hollywood changed with many new young director/ artists. That change the film industry completely... So the 70's was certainly a good time for movie goers.... And of course they are now all available to enjoy on DVD..... Thought provoking stuff...
Check out this list of some of my favorites: (some I haven't seen yet)
- The Conversation
- Mash
- McCabe & Mrs Miler
- The Long Goodbuy
- Deliverance
- Sleeper
- Annie Hall
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
- Badlands
- The Godfather
- The Exorcist
- Chinatown
- Who's that Knocking at my Door?
- Mean Streets
- Dog Day Afternoon
- The Philosophy King
- Carnal Knowledge
- A Touch of Class
- Young Frankenstein
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Carrie
- An Unmarried Woman
- Klute
- They Shoot Horses Don't They?
- All the Presidents Men
And Dig it!
Posts
3 comments:
With all due respect to the 60's
The 70's produced tons of amazing and historically significant music!
The Ramones
The Clash
The Police
Sex Pistols
The B-52’s
Blondie
Talking Heads
David Bowie
The Cars
AC/DC!!!!
AEROSMITH
Black Sabbath
Bob Marley
Cheap Trick
Deep Purple
Elvis Costello
Fleetwood Mac
Heart
Montrose
J. Geils Band
Joe Walsh (solo and otherwise)
Skynard!
Meatloaf (at LEAST Bat out of Hell)
Peter Frampton
Pink Floyd (the AOR stuff)
Rush
Steely Dan
Steve Miller
Ted Nugent
The WHO (all the AOR Stuff)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
T-Rex
Van Halen!!
UFO
Iggy Pop & The Stooges
Sweet
ZZ Top
Just to name a few!
also, your missing Jaws, Starwars, Close Encounters, Indiana Jones... the entire Spielberg/Lucas reinvention of Hollywood. And What discussion of 70's Hollywood can be complete without giving Burt Reynold's his due for his contributions to the decade!
Yes... Punk Rock was certainly an exception to the rule.. Many of the others you listed however are IMO rehashing stuff and not all that great... Like
Cheap trick
Montrose
Skynard
Meatloaf
Deep Purple
UFO
Heart
Steve miller
Etc...
The movies I listed were from a documentary I saw about the 70's awakening...Which tended to stay away from the big boys like star wars and stuff...
Ok, I agree I should have edited that list ALOT more (UFO??!!??)
But I stand by Meatloaf, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd and even Steve Miller - I think his early experiments with "electronica" (see into to Fly Like an Eagle) were significant.... I might not list it as a personal favorite, I'm just sayin' that it was important. :)
I kinda look to Rolling Stone's top 500 albums of all time list as an excellent reference as to what's significant outside my narrow world view!
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938174/the_rs_500_greatest_albums_of_all_time/
Post a Comment