1974

[Danger Man]

-ABBA win the Eurovision
-Netherlands 1 West Germany 2
-Watergate
-Proper terrorism all over Europe
-Rumble in the Jungle

Chinatown
Godfather Part II
The Conversation
The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
Dark Star
The Parallax View
Way of the Dragon

Something Happened
Carrie
Fear of Flying

Can't Pay, Won't Pay


This proves that 1974 was the best year ever and the thread might as well be locked, to be honest.  But if you want to make a case for another year, then please go ahead.

Good luck with 2011....



(I didn't even mention The Goodies.....)

[biggytitbo]

You have made a terrible oversight by ignoring the best guitar band of the 70s and their great 1974 double single Juniors Farm/Sally G.


And you missed F for Fake off your films list. Agree otherwise.

[Danger Man]

I'm keeping 'music' and 'telly' in reserve in case anyone is fool enough to challenge me.

A quick blast of Kung Fu Fighting should shut the doubters up.

[Howj Begg]

Why do you need new bands? Everyone knows rock attained perfection in
1974. It's a scientific fact.

[Talulah, really!]

'74 FFS, dream on, Granddad,

2001

Twin Towers,
A Space Odyssey,
Now that's what I call music! 48,
& The Office.

End of.

[Serge]

1977 albums:

'Low' David Bowie
"Heroes" David Bowie
'Trans-Europe Express' Kraftwerk
'Before And After Science' Brian Eno
'Cluster And Eno'
'The Idiot' Iggy Pop
'Lust For Life' Iggy Pop
'Animals' Pink Floyd
'Flammende Herzen' Michael Rother
'Saw Delight' Can
'I Remember Yesterday' Donna Summer
'Once Upon A Time' Donna Summer
'From Here To Eternity' Giorgio Moroder
'Supernature' Cerrone
'Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols'
'The Clash'
'Spiral Scratch' Buzzcocks
'Marquee Moon' Television
'77' Talking Heads
'Two Sevens Clash' Culture
'Heart Of The Congos' The Congos
'New Boots And Panties' Ian Dury
'Pink Flag' Wire
'Bad Reputation' Thin Lizzy
'Chic'

Quite frankly, with that little lot to keep me busy, I doubt I'd have noticed if anything else was happening in the World.

[Danger Man]

Hmmmm....quite a strong case for 1977's music there.

But 1974 had The Wombles and The Bay City Rollers so we'll call it a draw.

[Danger Man]

& The Office.

And The Armando Iannucci Show.



This has already started to go wrong......

[Serge]

I have to say that I probably enjoyed 1974 a great deal, as I was only three at the time. And, of course, this bloke took over as The Doctor:

[Saucer51]

Hmmmm....quite a strong case for 1977's music there.

But 1974 had The Wombles and The Bay City Rollers so we'll call it a draw.

Then again it also had the Guildford and Birmingham pub bombings. All those innocent people blown up and the ones thrown in jail.

[Danger Man]

The IRA are covered in 'Proper Terrorism all over Europe"

They were still quite cool in 1974 (although no Baader Meinhof but then, who is?) and not the TOTAL FUCKING CUNTS they became in 1982 when they killed seven horses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_and_Regent's_Park_bombings


All of the years in the 1980's are disqualified from this thread on account of them being in the 1980's, the worst decade ever (and I include 1910-1920 in that)

[Tamarind Massacre]

Someone once gave me one of those birthday cards that has a DVD with news clips from the year of your birth.

I was born in 1975.

1975 was unremittingly grim, apparently.  I think there was one nice bit of news on there.  I can't remember what it was, but it seemed like a bit of a desperate "it wasn't all bad!" gesture.

[HappyTree]

Queen II, greatest album of all time - 1974

[The Roofdog]

'The Godfather Part II' and 'The Conversation' in the same year, bloody hell.

And then he made 'Jack' starring Robin Williams.

[Buelligan]

1974 was the year Maggie made it's move to become Leader of the Opposition... BUT ShaNaNa released Hot Sox... the Ulster Volunteer Force killed 30 humans and fucked up another 300... BUT Wolverine made his first appearance in the Incredible Hulk... India detonated its first nuclear bomb... BUT the Rubik's Cube was invented.   All things considered, it was a pretty ace year.

[Danger Man]

1975 was unremittingly grim, apparently.

Yes. It was.

If only for the simple fact that everybody thought "Fuck me, 1974 was brilliant, wasn't it?" and just gave up.

There wasn't another decent year until 1996, which I'll start a thread about the next time I come home from a Real Ale Festival completely pissed.

[madhair60]

1987

birth of madhair60

ftw.

[Neville Chamberlain]

1974 - Year of release of Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt!

[biggytitbo]

1978 was quite good - Wuthering Heights and Carry on Emmanuelle.

[Blumf]

Carry on Emmanuelle.

Erm... 'good'?

[babyshambler]

Ahhh, '74. Leeds are the Champions of England and the Who play a nice little set at the valley, Charlton. Ace.

[biggytitbo]

Ahh 1974...you could still prostitue yourself on the streets of West Yorkshire back in them days without getting smashed in the head with a hammer by some lunatic with his bollocks tied up in a cashmere hammock. Them were the days.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

I wasn't born then, so it can't have been that good.

[Buelligan]

Nice avatar.

[Danger Man]

This thread now has its own theme tune.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXurEgKTzGQ

[VegaLA]

The 70s were SHIT! Thank God for Dr Who.

Also thank God that the 80'S media started in 77.

Jean michel Jarre, Joy Division, Goblin and err...films like Dawn of the Dead and Star wars.
However I watched Scarface for the first time in years the other week and looking at the clothes fashion I thought it was shot in 1980, quite surprised that the 70's hung in there till at least 1983.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Away from Top of the Pops, 1970s Britain looks fucking grim and miserable.

From what I vaguely remember of it: Strikes, power cuts, bowl hair cuts for kids, shortages of bread and milk in the shops, glue bags in the park next to the swings, SPANGLES, Six Million Dollar Man t-shirts and bionic action figure and Starsky and Hutch.

Oh, and the beatings and that dark, dark cellar.

[Jah Wobbler]

Python, colour Steptoe and no Thatcherism  tops all of that.

[Buelligan]

The Thatcher was there, I remember.  It was all stored up in her horrid little heed.

[biggytitbo]

I saw this gritty documentary about the 70's Britain once. It followed this young fellow on his window cleaning round and to be honest the era looked a lot better than its reputation.