Worst Late 70's Band

**Frownland** · 04-23-2015, 04:20 PM

@Fred How is that edgy?

FRED HALE SR. · 04-23-2015, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Neurotripsicks

Now you're projecting. Instead of answering my original question which was not even intended for you to begin with in your own words, you attack me like it's my fault you're brainwashed.

You're cute.

I was actually analyzing, you really should read up on projecting. I am pretty cute, at least you got one thing right today.

FRED HALE SR. · 04-23-2015, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

@Fred How is that edgy?

Its about as Edgy as the Edge Of Seventeen dawg.

The Batlord · 04-23-2015, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Neurotripsicks

Comparison of how they used to be great and went downhill.

How did they go downhill? Both of those were fantastic.

Chula Vista · 04-24-2015, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

How did they go downhill? Both of those were fantastic.

Two completely different bands that just happened to have the same rhythm section. And ya, both really great. The Bob Welch version of FM was also pretty good too.

Plankton · 04-24-2015, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Neurotripsicks

Comparison of how they used to be great and went downhill.

2 different markets. The addition of McVie/Buckingham/Nicks brought them into a more marketable category with a softer more radio friendly sound, appealing to the other half of the world audience, which would be the female population. Your reasoning that the former is better is simply because you're genetically programmed to think along those lines since you're (I'm guessing) male.

Put those two songs in a women only survey, and a majority of the percentage will favor the Nicks tune, whereas the outcome would be the opposite for an all male survey.

Chula Vista · 04-24-2015, 09:30 AM

Another thing to remember is that Fleetwood Mac wasn't the only band taming down a harder edged sound to be more accessible to a mass market in the second half of the 70s. Back then it seemed like everyone was doing it. The Doobie Brothers, Supertramp, Steve Miller, Peter Frampton, and others tailored their music for the then booming and lucrative AOR FM radio format.

The Batlord · 04-24-2015, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

2 different markets. The addition of McVie/Buckingham/Nicks brought them into a more marketable category with a softer more radio friendly sound, appealing to the other half of the world audience, which would be the female population. Your reasoning that the former is better is simply because you're genetically programmed to think along those lines since you're (I'm guessing) male.

Put those two songs in a women only survey, and a majority of the percentage will favor the Nicks tune, whereas the outcome would be the opposite for an all male survey.

Meh. I dig them both pretty hard. But I went and listened to some of their earlier albums, like the self titled and Then Play On, and while they're cool, I don't see them as anything other bands haven't done better. Rumours-era Mac is far superior.

Plankton · 04-24-2015, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Meh. I dig them both pretty hard. But I went and listened to some of their earlier albums, like the self titled and Then Play On, and while they're cool, I don't see them as anything other bands haven't done better. Rumours-era Mac is far superior.

It was a generalization, and you don't count.

Unknown Soldier · 04-24-2015, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Meh. I dig them both pretty hard. But I went and listened to some of their earlier albums, like the self titled and Then Play On, and while they're cool, I don't see them as anything other bands haven't done better. Rumours-era Mac is far superior.

Given the fact that Rumours is one of the greatest albums ever recorded I concur, it's only real rivals from that era are albums from the likes of Steely Dan, Supertramp and the Eagles etc.

I've said it before but I'll say it again, you really are a closet AOR fan, just hurry up and get out of the closet.

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04-23-2015, 04:20 PM	#171 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	@Fred How is that edgy? __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

04-24-2015, 09:30 AM	#177 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Another thing to remember is that Fleetwood Mac wasn't the only band taming down a harder edged sound to be more accessible to a mass market in the second half of the 70s. Back then it seemed like everyone was doing it. The Doobie Brothers, Supertramp, Steve Miller, Peter Frampton, and others tailored their music for the then booming and lucrative AOR FM radio format. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”