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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jan 21, 2022 13:13:35 GMT 1
I think both are great ideas and we should do both lol so I'm not much help
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Post by greendemon on Jan 21, 2022 13:27:16 GMT 1
If that's the case, then the logical thing would be to do 60s first and then multi-decades...
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jan 21, 2022 15:49:41 GMT 1
I'd definitely enter a 60s Time Machine - it was a fantastic decade for music. I'd gladly enter a 50s one too, but appreciate that isn't likely to happen!
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Post by Jordan on Jan 21, 2022 16:07:26 GMT 1
I have my lineup ready for a 1960s time machine... that's all I'm saying.
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Post by Smurfie on Jan 22, 2022 14:49:13 GMT 1
I have my lineup ready for a 1960s time machine... that's all I'm saying. Nowhere close on this. Though have my Haven Idol Express choice sorted, and songs picked.
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Post by greendemon on Jan 22, 2022 14:51:10 GMT 1
I guess it won't be until the end of the year that we do the next TM anyway. Plenty of time to familiarise oneself with an entire decade of music
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 24, 2022 18:03:13 GMT 1
I'd definitely enter a 60s Time Machine - it was a fantastic decade for music. I'd gladly enter a 50s one too, but appreciate that isn't likely to happen! I have done 4 years of the 1950s in retro charts, and there's loads of good music in those years, but I think people would find the first 6 years rather challenging.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jan 25, 2022 11:28:08 GMT 1
Early 50s is mostly a selection of poorly recorded static with a background noise of amateur muffled musicians either crooning, trying to play jazz/soul music or instrumentals. Not something I can see many people being interested in. Pop groups and rock didn't exist, neither did bands who sing and play guitars. I think there are some good songs towards the end of the decade but not enough to justify or interest people and you will probably get so many duplicates as some years only have 3 or 4 stand out songs
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Post by greendemon on Jan 25, 2022 12:22:39 GMT 1
I'd be more up for 1750s or 1850s than 1950s!
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 25, 2022 12:42:59 GMT 1
Early 50s is mostly a selection of poorly recorded static with a background noise of amateur muffled musicians either crooning, trying to play jazz/soul music or instrumentals. Not something I can see many people being interested in. Pop groups and rock didn't exist, neither did bands who play guitars. I think there are some good songs towards the end of the decade but not enough to justify or interest people A lot of it is jazz-instrumentation and there was "rhythm and blues", like what Fats Domino was recording in the early 50s, and that pretty much became "rock and roll" later. Ok, the recording equipment might not have been great, but the musicians knew how to play their instruments. F.Y.I, possibly the biggest hit of 1950 was this:
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 25, 2022 12:46:08 GMT 1
I'd be more up for 1750s or 1850s than 1950s! 1780s maybe when Mozart was in his prime. Not sure about 1750s - he was born in 1756.
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Post by greendemon on Jan 25, 2022 12:49:41 GMT 1
Other composers were available.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jan 25, 2022 13:24:24 GMT 1
Glory days of traditional pop.
1950s were much better than 2020s.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jan 25, 2022 13:27:07 GMT 1
Nah, there is plenty of decent music to be found in any year if you look for it.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jan 25, 2022 14:46:24 GMT 1
I just like music that doesn't sound like its been recorded on a potato, low frequency noises that sound like they were recorded underwater or on an aeroplane, you know the ones with a constant hum or static and muffled music, they actually make me feel physically sick! ha
Low frequency noise sensitivity symptoms include feelings of irritation, headache, nausea. disorienta- tion, digestive disorders
Not what I call a good time, I'm sure they were great live, especially the Rhythm and Blues scene but the technology to capture the audio wasn't available and some early 60s songs suffer too so the 50s is a write off for me sorry
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Post by TheThorne on Jan 25, 2022 15:27:29 GMT 1
I just like music that doesn't sound like its been recorded on a potato, low frequency noises that sound like they were recorded underwater or on an aeroplane, you know the ones with a constant hum or static and muffled music, they actually make me feel physically sick! ha Low frequency noise sensitivity symptoms include feelings of irritation, headache, nausea. disorienta- tion, digestive disorders Not what I call a good time, I'm sure they were great live, especially the Rhythm and Blues scene but the technology to capture the audio wasn't available and some early 60s songs suffer too so the 50s is a write off for me sorry Your not much of a Lo fi fan in general are you really? , see the comeback singles from Pavement and Sonic Youth which both could do with a little more dynamics. I’m struggling with them even never mind music from that era.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jan 25, 2022 16:01:36 GMT 1
I just like music that doesn't sound like its been recorded on a potato, low frequency noises that sound like they were recorded underwater or on an aeroplane, you know the ones with a constant hum or static and muffled music, they actually make me feel physically sick! ha Low frequency noise sensitivity symptoms include feelings of irritation, headache, nausea. disorienta- tion, digestive disorders Not what I call a good time, I'm sure they were great live, especially the Rhythm and Blues scene but the technology to capture the audio wasn't available and some early 60s songs suffer too so the 50s is a write off for me sorry Your not much of a Lo fi fan in general are you really? , see the comeback singles from Pavement and Sonic Youth which both could do with a little more dynamics. I’m struggling with them even never mind music from that era. Ha yeah, even more modern lo-fi songs I struggle with musically, they aren't as bad as the older recordings but I find myself struggling to enjoy them all the same (maybe a bit like being ill from eating a certain food and never having the appetite to try it again), but I can listen to modern purposefully recorded Lo fi songs without my skin crawling and feelings of nausea, the best i can describe it is physical discomfort like the pressure you feel when your on an aeroplane then you start feeling a bit unwell within a minute of playing the song lol, honest i have perfect hearing too, even had a full ear test in December, microscopes in my ear, checking the ear drum, suctioning some wax out, but a bit of wax is all they found so I'm thinking its just some kind of low frequency noise sensitivity because I've only ever experienced it listening to recordings from the 50s and 60s recorded the old way, odd but true lol
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 25, 2022 16:05:31 GMT 1
Ok so I made this playlist for this week 72 years ago from songs in the Billboard top 20 and the UK top 30 according to the Steve Waters book. A fair amount of snoozefest and I couldn't be bothered with all the versions of Mule Train so kept it to 2 but there you go..
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Post by Dave on Jan 26, 2022 15:40:17 GMT 1
The 50s shouldn't be a problem to do if enough people interested. There could be minor problems with several artists recording the same songs around the same time and songs charting in different years than the UK, if Billboard is used as a reference. A little leeway might be needed.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 26, 2022 16:36:01 GMT 1
The 50s shouldn't be a problem to do if enough people interested. There could be minor problems with several artists recording the same songs around the same time and songs charting in different years than the UK, if Billboard is used as a reference. A little leeway might be needed. We've had that issue in all the decades so far - a song that was on an album or a hit in the USA before it was a hit in the UK. That multiple artists recorded the same song at the same time is not an issue either. You submit the artist and the song, and if someone else enters a different artist doing the same song it is not considered a duplicate. That list above was just based on the Billboard pop 20 and Steve Waters' UK chart at the time, and they didn't even overlap, but that's just one week in January, showing there's a whole year of 1950 ahead of it. Some dull ballads in there, some swing, some silly pop duets. Louis Jordan has two songs in there which mark pretty much the end of his career - he is a 1940s legend in music.
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