70s Saving Graces

[Tom Stanton]

At 10:27 AM 7/10/97 -0400, Joaquin Stick wrote:
>> 
>> Harrison Sherwood sez:
>> 
>> Not that anybody in 1977 did, anyway. Great time to be alive and
>> chock-full o' Nothing.
>
>Hey now, any decade that witnessed the musical birth/death/rebirth cycle
>of Lou Reed *at least* three times can't be all bad. Let's not forget,
>while we're on this somewhat more genteel topic that Bowie peaked in the
>70s, Funkadelic provided the basslines for an entire generation of
>sampler-happy teenagers and Debbie Harry and Afrika Bambataa "cooked the
>whole [rap] thing up". Uh wait, scratch that last one, I'm still thinking
>over that post with a quizzical expression. 

What!? No mention of the Sugar Hill Gang? How about Fab Freddy & the 
Furious Five? What of Glam-rock? The Sex Pistols? Talking Heads?
Joan Jett? & a whole lotta others? The 70s were not such a bad time
if you avoided the "popular culture" of the period...