I'm sorry, the 1970's rocked

[Taverner]

I was just a child, looking on with awe, but they rocked

Those threads rocked into the 1980's, and manifested themselves in different ways

But the 1970's rocked

The music...the sexual culture of the day...the feeling of punctuated equilibrium...

[mwooldri]

1. Any comments on this then?

[Taverner]

2. ABBA rawked!

Hey, who else could do shameless pop ditties without irony and make it sound good?

[Yavin4]

25. People Did A Lot of Drugs

Only people who are high could design something like that.

[mwooldri]

3. That vehicle awfully looks like this:

At least this is what we had in the UK...

[onestepforward]

4. This was my 70s baby...

The previous owner added quite a bit power and I never lost a race in it :)

[Lindsey]

5. It's insering peoples take on things. To me, the 70's was the

worst decade. The 60's, the 80's and the 90's were the best for me. When I think of the 70's I think of Disco which I really can't stand.Different strokes for Different folks.

[onestepforward]

7. I enjoyed the 80s and 90s too,

but I was a free-spirited teenager in the 70s!

[PJPhreak]

9. 1975...The only time in automobile history,

That one could buy a good running example of these for $1500...

[davsand]

14. American Muscle has most certainly gone by the wayside.

So has chrome, for that matter...

I sure did love some of the cars from that era. We may never see their likes again.



Laura

[bluesbassman]

31. I did...

Bit of a beater look, but it'd pull the front wheels off the ground. :)

[PJPhreak]

35. lol,so did I...

My Challenger was a 71 rt (Clone of the one above in fact!) with a 340/Factory 3 Speed Hurst on the floor...Loved It! First and second were a bit longer than the 4-Speeds,so I was pullin hard and going away while others were grapplin for that last shift. I could out accelerate most any comparable Musclecar (Small Block/Single 4 BBL)

Had a '70 Nova with the factory Hurst '3 on the Floor also...same thing,Quick car!

[Skittles]

6. I spent all my teen years in the seventies

it was, indeed, awesome :D

[Art_from_Ark]

8. I was a teen in the '70s as well

and I think that decade sucked. Totally. Practically all the way from January 1, 1970 to December 31, 1979. The anti-'60s. The music sucked. The movies and TV shows mostly sucked. The inflation sucked. The oil crises sucked. The accelerated dependence on automobiles and disappearance of vibrant downtown areas sucked.

[Skittles]

16. all I do is compare them the the 80's

and it puts it all in perspective

[Art_from_Ark]

34. Well, if you put it that way

compared with the Reagan '80s, the '70s were indeed a great decade :)

[BuelahWitch]

10. I've been feeling nostalgic for the '70s this week too, for some reason

Been listening to some Al Green, Tower of Power and Stevie Wonder for the past few days...

[canoeist52]

11. '73 Ford Pinto Wagon

I rest my case.

[PJPhreak]

21. Lol...Vega's Rule!

I could never understand why the "Fordheads" never took to the Pinto...they hot-rodded as well as these...

Yenko Vega...This Ain't your momma's Vega!


Baldwin-Motion Stage II Vega...

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Early '70s were okay,

later not so much.

[redqueen]

13. It sucked for me. Out loud. Way out loud.

"Sexual culture of the day" triggers memories of some of the more nauseating comments on those Polanski threads.

[mitchum]

15. Yes they did!

made me the hedonist that I am today

[kwassa]

17. Both the 60s and 80s were better.

The 70s were all about disco, the me-generation, little tiny bottles of coke .... qualudes, and other downers. The positive aspects of the 69s were killed, or at least went into hibernation for a long, long time.

Kent State, the defining moment of change.

[Pryderi]

24. 70s music was NOT all about disco. What about hard rock, punk rock, new age, rap, barry manilow,

etc?

[kwassa]

27. Barry Manilow. Didn't he write the songs?

It mostly was about disco; punk happened toward the end.

Three of my art school classmates moved to New York after graduation and started a band. They called it The Talking Heads.

[kwassa]

28. dupe

[jmowreader]

32. Dude, the Eighties were NOT better

Culturally they were better, but the Eighties featured eight years of Ronald Reagan.

[guitar man]

18. Always loved the cars

This is me and my '72 Lincoln mark iv, pic was taken around '93. I loved that car.

[Pryderi]

19. The 70s had the most variety of music...Disco, heavy metal, glam, rap etc.

[6000eliot]

20. Not to mention soul and funk!

I also love country-rock and prog.

[Bucky]

22. A short golden time. The 80s brought back the ugly in us. But for a while we were all groovy.

Groovy never lasts. Remember that.

[S n o w b a l l]

23. Yes, they did!

So did the '80's & 90's. But I came of age in the '70's and loved the disco dancing and the clubs. And the disco dresses. Great memories. These are the songs I mostly remember dancing to from the disco era. It was a great time in my life and I'm glad I was living to experience it. I was really into R&B at that time too...great R&B music from that decade.

The Top 10 Singles of 1979
1.
"My Sharona" - The Knack
2.
"Le Freak" - Chic
3.
"Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" - Rod Stewart
4.
"Bad Girls" - Donna Summer
5.
"YMCA" - Village People
6.
"Reunited" - Peaches and Herb
7.
"Ring My Bell" - Anita Ward
8.
"I Will Survive" - Gloria Gaynor
9.
"Too Much Heaven" - Bee Gees
10.
"Hot Stuff" - Donna Summer

[Yavin4]

26. Greatest Decade Ever for Movies

The Godfather I & II
The Sting
Star Wars
Jaws
Close Encounters
Apocalypse Now
Chinatown
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. You left out Rocky Horror !!!!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. For me, the seventies were about late college, all of graduate school,

making great friends, living in Japan and experiencing the wider world in other ways, and my first real teaching job.

They were the decade in which I transitioned from youth to adulthood.

As a graduate student, I mostly avoided disco.

Considering what came after, the seventies were the good old days.

[omega minimo]

33. "...the feeling of punctuated equilibrium..."

what does that mean?