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- Of all post-war decades, the 1970s has undoubtedly had the worst press, but the truth is that most ordinary families in 1970s Britain were better off than ever, writes historian Dominic Sandbrook.
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Jun 23, 2015 · While looking at the photos of the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972, it occurred to us that the 1970s were just awful. Worst decade ever. Here is our evidence: 1970: Invasion...
Aug 26, 2016 · But the difference between, say, being 167th and 181st really matters. If the Pitchfork writers, the absolute authorities on music from before they were born, decide that there are fourtien nobodies who wrote worse songs in the 70s than you, that’s a real honour.
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- The Buggles. The Buggles were a British New Wave duo who were certainly unique… Trevor Horn, the vocalist and bassist, said that their name was inspired by his oversized glasses, which made him look bug-eyed like a “buggle.”
- Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods. Bo Donaldson and the Haywoods were a U.K.- based pop group famous for their song “Billy Don’t Be A Hero” that was supposed to be about the American Civil War.
- Edison Lighthouse. Another English pop group active from 1969-1977. The name was inspired by the Eddystone Lighthouse, the world’s first off-shore lighthouse, that was constructed more than 300 years ago 14 miles off the coast of Plymouth.
- Genesis. Many connoisseurs of classic rock think Genesis has had little more than several bad songs… A simple google search shows several lists and blogs ranking the worst Genesis songs.
May 6, 2023 · As The Brennan Center for Justice notes, violent crime increased 60 percent nationwide during the 1970s—but that followed an increase of 126 percent in the 1960s. And yet we think of the 1960s as the decade of peace and love. And as Time Magazine notes, violent crime has actually been worse in more recent years.
- Jeff Somers
Attila is the only album by the psychedelic rock duo Attila, which featured a young Billy Joel. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called it "the worst album released in the history of rock & roll—hell, the history of recorded music itself." Joel himself has described it as "psychedelic bullshit".
Dec 14, 2021 · Is “Seasons in the Sun” the worst song of all time? You’ll find plenty of people on the Internet willing to say so. Terry Jacks’ hit is not a good song.
Aug 12, 2019 · Via Strange Attractor Press. Why Were the 1970s So… Weird? When the Counterculture Optimism Receded, Things Got Ugly. By Erik Davis. August 12, 2019. Stephen Paul Miller calls the 1970s the uncanny decade—the “undecade.” Things were particularly weird in these years, which remain shrouded in America’s cultural memory, as if by a kind of smog.
