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1972 - The worst year in music? It has to be ...

Prog was for thick people who thought they're clever. Thick people who are clever were already making the monks-MC5-stooges-dolls-canon.
Always seemed a bit more class-based from my perspective - the posh kids liked the widdly-widdly "deep-thinking" muso-rock, and the rest liked the more immediate thrills of the various "garage" bands and their heirs.
 
I think it has. There was no electronic music in 1972, for all intents and purposes.

No, Johnny, you're absolutely right, Johnny.

:facepalm:
No Silver Apples or United States of America, no "Gesang Der Junglinge" by Stockhausen, No White Noise or the hundreds of other popular electronic albums from the '60s (and some from earlier).
 
That reminds me of an anarchist acquaintance, who described Communism as 'capitalism without the good bits'.

Note the big 'C', as butchersapron has insightfully put it in the past.
 
And this was 1971 but i can't resist because it's a stunning track



(Egg: A visit to Newport Hospital)

cor!

thanks for that, a favourite band at the time, I saw them a lot, but have more or less forgotten about them. Proper tingle up the spine when I started to recognise the words :D
 
74 seems like a transitional year to me... seems all the 67-72 directions being followed were dying in 74. Not vintage. 1975 = punk to me, but aside from that...
happy to be proved wrong, but list them.
I used to record Peel regularly in 72/73 and again from punk onwards but not so much in between.
 
No, Johnny, you're absolutely right, Johnny.

:facepalm:
No Silver Apples or United States of America, no "Gesang Der Junglinge" by Stockhausen, No White Noise or the hundreds of other popular electronic albums from the '60s (and some from earlier).

Yes, Stockhausen and Adaskin and the twelve-tone people were around.

I thought we were talking popular music.
 
Just been listening to Lal and Mike Waterson's Bright Phoebus - which iTunes tells me is from 1972.
Not everyone's cup of tea, granted - but I like it.
 
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