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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Staying Alive by one of those Gibbs people from the '70s - and I'm not happy about it.
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By all of them, actually. That was a Bee Gees hit from the persod when they switched from melodic orchestral pop to disco, and was a hit single propelled by the success of the film "Saturday Night Fever", which made John Travolta a star.
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One year ago this month a strange and terrible thing happened. I think it has to do with the fact that the people with the most disposable income are those in their 50's - like me. Many restaurants and shops tend to play music to attract those people. And I'm guessing that the people that sell canned music (Muzak, etc.) to those places decided a year ago to tell their customers that the changing demographics meant that they should start playing all the wretched pop music from the '70's - Andy Gibb, the Bee-Gees, Donna Summer, The Steve Miller Band, and such. Unfortunately, I grew up during that era but 95% of the music made my skin crawl. I remember being so happy when the '80's brought new music that I could stand to listen to again.
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I'll part company on the Steve Miller Band. Steve was a 60's guitar hero, coming out of the "San Francisco sound". He was firmly rooted in blues but with side trips to other genres. The Steve Miller Band's second album, Sailor, is one of my all time favorites. Steve's major problem from my POV was that he couldn't write
lyrics to save his life, and there are some songs of his I'd love to have with just the instrumental tracks and
no vocals.
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That is, until September, 2007 (a date which will live in infamy, by my estimation) when they all seemed to simultaneously flip the switch from playing '60's stuff in my favorite restaurants to that horrid stuff that followed in the "me" decade. Oh, god, can I endure it all again?!
Sorry if I've offended you (afterall, somebody must have liked it). I'll just go dig up something in the backyard now.
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I knew the millennium had arrived back in the 70's when I heard Pink Floyd as elevator music in a hotel. Not "Dark Side of the Moon", either -- a track from Ummagumma, which was one of everyone's favorite things to put on when the LSD was hitting. "I'm peaking! Put on Ummagumma!"
I
really wondered who programmed that music...
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Dennis