Why was it so shitty?
Oil Crisis lead to an economic downturn that had a snowball effect resulting in cities like New York becoming complete shitholes, the death of Walt Disney also had a strong impact on popular media, as it brought about the animation dark ages. This was also a post-60s world and record labels didn't know how to followup on acts like The Beatles who had just recently broken up, leading to the year 1974 in particular being deemed "The Worst Year for Music with absolutely no memorable hits on the charts that year, and this was then followed by the rise of Disco, which recieved enough backlash to warrant a bunch of bored retards to gather a bunch of disco records to burn them in the middle of a baseball field (Disco Demolition Night). It was just a combination of things honestly.
>>18360070Realization began to set in that Western civilization was fucked. And back then they didn't have the internet as an opiate to keep the masses distracted
>>18360087>And back then they didn't have the internet as an opiate to keep the masses distractedThe internet was technically invented in the 1970s, with the Department of Defense Internet Architecture Model published in the early 70s and the IPv4 specification we still use today being written in 1978. Obviously normalfags didn't get online until the early to mid 1990s. The internet was a mistake and has done more harm than good to humanity as a whole by the way
>>18360070The last half of Vietnam, shit economy, and a lot of music that sucked-be it disco or whatever. Even some of the music that wouldn't technically classify as disco and was just pop music sucked too. Supertramp sounds like a bunch of neutered boys. And the popular fashion looked retarded too. Bell bottom jeans looks retarded. The boomer nostalgia for it that used to be so common in media a decade or two ago was just boomer writers getting to be middle aged and missing their youth. If it ain't already obvious, I don't like that decade and think it was complete shit.
>>18360133>The boomer nostalgia for it that used to be so common in media a decade or two ago was just boomer writers getting to be middle aged and missing their youth.There was never any boomer nostalgia for the 70s, whenever there was a reference to that decade in popular media it was usually the writers making fun of people who were nostalgia for that decade. In fact, making fun of the 70s is probably a trope in and of itself
>>18360133>a lot of music that suckedWhy do tastelets spam this opinion? Listen to anything that isn't tacky shit like disco, even big songwriters like Bowie were in their golden yearshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoXrRsGroGs
>>183600791974 was the debut of Rush, I beg your pardon. and I'm going to see them sans Neil this September.
>>18360222You must have some deep pockets to be seeing them. My friend and I are trying but the best we can find are $357 for nosebleeds and that's a lot of money for a band whose main attraction has passed on
>>18360070It can’t be overstated how the US was “hungover” from Vietnam and the social changes. The sexual liberation brought on by the late 1960s had gone from peace and optimism to little more than drug fueled hedonism with a lot of people. The old moral code had disintegrated but the “rules” for what was acceptable going forward were still in play.
>>18360231I have connections, is all I can say.
The early 1970s kinda creeps me out I’ll explain why:There’s a weird vibe to the 1968-1974 ish period.It feels almost like a post apocalyptic society. Like as if the 1960s ended with a boom and this was the hangover. There was all the drugs, grit, cities in slime, crime, and shambles; all the sleazy sex stuff (Deep Throat, peep shows), broken down families, racial tension, all the myriad social issues facing the country such as fathers being absentee running off with girls in the 60s, drug addiction all over the country, p*dophilia was relatively normalized socially, teen pregnancy, all the covered up problems before the 60s being thrown up to the surface, a sense of violence;All this amidst a back drop of dozens of serial killers being active all at once, even hundreds possibly; and no one knew, yet; they still kept the doors unlocked.Even the look - the long bushy thing sideburns, the way people look in photos, the hair, the clothes look so fake due to the stuff usedThere’s just an uncanny valley to the early 1970s that gives me the same uncanny creepy vibes the 50s gave the creators of Fallout
>>18360244Good for you man, milk em as much as you can. I have a friend who has some with a venue in New Hampshire, we saw Adrian Belew for like $20 each
>>18360247>p*dophilia was relations normalized sociallyWops were the nogs of their day. Sinatra being "Old Blue Eyes"(white passing) was the foot in the door that made them somewhat acceptable. The entire subplot or "The Godfather" is about WOPs trying to finally be accepted by White people, but """they""" keep pulling him back in. Note also the Jew mobsters running right along side their """Roman""" counterparts.In the 70s is it was all pedo, like Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver", young Brooke Shields pics, etc.....CP was almost legal in the US in the 70s, thanks to the jews, which is what lead to the religious revivals of the 80s.In the 80s it was all ugly jew "nerds" getting hot white chicks in their """rom coms""". "Weird Science", "Revenge of the Nerds", "Ferris Bueller", "Fast Times at Ridegemont High", "When Harry Met Sally", EVERY Woody Allen movie, etc.....etc.......every single one is just jews trying to get white women.In the 90s it was the push for Nogs and it hasn't let up since.The 00s was the Gay push.The teens was Beaners.The '20s are Trans.It's all so tiresome........and utterly predict
>>18360079FBPB.You just forgot to mention the end of Bretton Woods, Stagflation, Volcker Shock and Watergate. America ruined Bretton Woods by refusing to allow the Bancor to be used and insisting on the USD instead because they were at the time the world's largest creditor. This lead to the US hitting the Triffin Dilemma head on in the 70s and unilaterally ending the system. Almost immediately, wages became unhinged from productivity and our modern nightmare was set in motion.
>>18360070Oil shock, bad climatic conditions and also many unfortunate coincidences politics wise. The seventies sucked worldwide, not just the U.S. I'm pretty sure the only place that didn't suffer during the 70s was maybe Japan, maybe.>>18360247Why are you even censoring pedophilia?
>>18360275>and WatergateWhat's interesting is that it wasn't just this event in the 70s that caused a fundamental breakdown of trust between Americans and the federal government. Watergate happened in 1972-74. The MKUltra project was revealed to the public in 1975 by the Church Commission. Following the Hughes–Ryan Amendment (named after the same guy who investigated/was murdered in Jonestown) and journalistic reports led by Seymour Hersh (the same who revealed the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam) of The New York Times, both in 1974, denouncing illegal CIA activities, official investigations were opened. The U.S. Senate, led by Senator Frank Church, held hearings investigating intelligence abuses, resulting in the disclosure of details about MKUltra. In 1973, then-CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of many MKUltra files to conceal the activities. Ironically, the discovery of this destruction of evidence, along with reports of cases such as the death of scientist Frank Olson, forced the investigation of remaining documents. The search for records by victims and researchers, using the Freedom of Information Act, forced the agency to find and reveal new documents in 1977, which demonstrated the extent of the experiments.This, after the political/racial shift of the 1960s, radicalized the elements of American society would become Ruby Ridge, Waco Siege, Oklahoma City bombing and other Posse Comitatus militias. It's ironic that the FBI fought against far-right groups in the 90s after conducting COINTELPRO against leftists groups in the 60-70s.
>>18360247>There was all the drugs, grit, cities in slime, crime, and shambles; all the sleazy sex stuff (Deep Throat, peep shows), broken down families, racial tension, all the myriad social issues facing the country such as fathers being absentee running off with girls in the 60s, drug addiction all over the country, p*dophilia was relatively normalized socially, teen pregnancy, all the covered up problems before the 60s being thrown up to the surfacewhat happened was a collective reaction to women's lib, men decided to get all rapey as a means of reasserting their authority over women. it wasn't like that in the 50s when traditional gender roles had existed without question.
Too many energetic, bored young people not enough jobs or opportunity for them and idle hands are the Devil's workshop.
>>18360249oh my biological father allegedly jammed with him
>>18360260>In the 70s is it was all pedo, like Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver", young Brooke Shields pics, etc.....CP was almost legal in the US in the 70s, thanks to the jews, which is what lead to the religious revivals of the 80s.there's a difference between being attracted to a toddler and being attracted to Brooke Shieldsand Weird Science and Revenge Of The Nerds are decent movies. but yeah not a fan of nogs or troons.
>>18360247I actually had bushy sideburns at one point.
>>18360247>All this amidst a back drop of dozens of serial killers being active all at once, even hundreds possibly; and no one knew, yet; they still kept the doors unlocked.finding dead bodies along the roadside or in abandoned buildings or alleys was commonplace back then. sometimes they just died of a drug overdose but murder victims weren't rare.
the postwar economic boom ended
>>18360296>bad climatic conditions?
>Why was it so shitty?Inflation
>>18360070boomers were in their 20s and 30s. put the pieces together
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