Credence Clearwater Revival -- any fans?

cnh wrote: »

For those of us in GGs age-grade cohort the 80s were kind of like the DARK AGES in Music...a long drawn out cacophony of the bad and the worse. A very forgettable decade except for some 'minor' bumps.

People seem to not 'remember' just how influential the 60s and 70s were for "Music"! And just how significant the African-American roots of what became the 60s and 70s were! For me, as a kid growing up....it took a couple of decades to come to terms with how important Motown was, for example. I had trouble identifying with the music. Now "I" understand it much better! Maturity in music appreciation is certainly a part of a true music education and a musical 'life', well lived.

cnh

Going back in the very convoluted way I have to start looking at some of the stuff in the 60s and 70s decades later, I can very much see how disappointed you guys must have been with the 1980s.

Well, I think some acts classified as "college rock" (the precursor to the label "progressive" or "alternative") such as R.E.M. and a few bands from the U.K.(i.e. The Smiths) might stand the test of time, but the vast majority from the 1980s will be fogotten with the passage of decades. Since listening to music is a subjective process, I think that for people like me who came of age in that period we may always have at least a tenuous connection with it but will be based more on nostalgia than on solid songwriting and muscianship.