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I was born in 1955. We have seen so many changes during our lifetime! Ahhhh yes, music is a universal language but has unique messages for each era.

I can’t say that I have a favorite era or style of music because each era has a variety of music. Plus, it’s simply a matter of personal taste.

My grandfather’s family came here from England and he loved to dance (waltz). He loved classical music.

My grandmother played her records, the early jazz music of that generation. I loved listening to music with my grandmother at her house. She told me about the hemlines getting shorter and cutting their long hair! She was German.

I didn’t know my dad’s parents. They died before I was born but they were Irish and Scottish.

My parents listened to swing music, Sinatra, Bennett, and so many others.

I was influenced by all of it and developed my own taste in music of the past and current music. Same with my kids. Variety is the spice of life!

Music is influenced by the region. New Orleans has a big influence from jazz and blues.

Same with food. We can learn a lot about an area through their food and music.

Having my Baby - Paul Anka

oh, and who can forget Disco Duck (even when they try)

No more favourites! - we're supposed to be choosing the wince-making worst!

My my! At Waterloo Napoleon did surrender!
Oh yeah! and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way...

REALLY????!!! "Quite similar" to a 14 hour pitched battle involving 141,000 troops, horse, foot, dragoons and artillery? Must have been quite some date.

Anyone have a favorite song that they love that they played over and over on your record player? I was born in 1962 so I loved all the 70s songs. My favorite one was “Back in Love Again” by LTD.

xray,

Fun thread! Thanks for the change of pace 😊.

Omg I love the 70s songs!!! The one I hate and still do and always will is “Killing me softly with his song” 1973 by Roberta Flack. I hate that song. But Muskrat love is a very close second!! I hate that song too!!!

Need, guessing that you're not a huge BeeGees fan, then, how do you feel about voting for Tragedy?

More soberingly, I am discovering how much abrupt editing of old Top of the Pops footage has gone on to try to erase Jimmy Savile from it.

NOBODY didn't know that he was a repulsive old perve. I could see at a glance that he was, and I was ten. So much for all the protestations about not realising how dangerous he was to vulnerable young people.

Okay, first let me say that Led Zeppelin saved me from disco! 😂 hahaha, I detest so much of the 70’s music, especially when the disco crap reared it’s ugly head!

Picking the worst 70’s song though is almost impossible to do because there are so many crappy songs to choose from, right? I could list a bazillion really bad songs from the seventies!

But here goes, I wanted to throw up from the very first time I heard this song! It has to be, ‘You Light Up My Life’ by Debby Boone

Personally, I think maybe the reason that everyone did cocaine in the 70’s was to escape some of the most nauseating music! Hahaha 😂

The 70’s were weird! Crazy memories. Does anyone remember The Gong Show? Hahaha

Ohmygod it's even got a kind of muskrat voiceover with authentic When Harry Met Sally effects - ROFL helplessly - !

Nooo going back to the 80's where I belong...

Now The Neutron Dance by The Pointer Sisters is a b-a-a-d song but oh so much fun - start the dance party now! Check out the YouTube for the shoulder pads!

Just had to google Muskrat Love... unmm. WHAT!

Muskrat Lo-o-o-ove that key change! Those keyboard sound effects! Just speechless 😱

Gosh what a time it was!

This is a great thread idea, xrayjodib :) Do you want to expand it, too, into all the 70s tracks where opinion is sharply divided between

Wonderful? Awful???

Bohemian Rhapsody
Wuthering Heights*
Sugar Baby Love

oh heavens - Puppy Love. Yeah that was pretty terrible... I think I've still got the album somewhere... :/

* PS - just had to go and see how it's doing on YouTube and found this comment from Luke, 8 months ago: "I’m nearly positive that my Aunt Jessica did this entire choreography after her schizophrenic break down." But most of the reviews are from men who are still just as much in love as they were when they were 12 💓

This will be controversial, but there is one that makes me want to throw things at the radio, or else reach in, take the ladies by the neck, and give them a good shake.

Abba's "The Winner Takes It All."

I know the reaction it provokes in me - namely, "for God's sake woman get a grip and move on!" - is not universal because I have seen - smh - educated, intelligent, rational, young *men* shed a manly tear on listening to it. Smh. Smh.

Is Muskrat Love an actual song??? - I must look it up!

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around the Old Oak Tree. Thankfully it rarely plays.