Say something interesting about 60s pop music

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I've noticed there seems to be a great indifference to 60s pop. I mean, a few acts are brought up randomly but it's not like there is any kind of general consensus. I know there isn't much people agree on here, but I do see a vague general consensus on acts from the 70s and beyond, and it's held in more regard (more likely to be talked about and analyzed). Since so many people like to talk about 60s pop that AREN'T on this forum and they all usually say about the same thing, I'm interested in what everyone here thinks of the 60s as a whole.

― James Morris (HorrayJames), Friday, 25 July 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Tell me you're kidding...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 25 July 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the 60's was top notch.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 25 July 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

dang strait

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 25 July 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah -- is this, like, a contentious issue? I feel like that SNL skit where they had Larry King saying "controversial" statements like, "John McEnroe was a very good tennis player" and "Coke is good, but so is Pepsi."

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 25 July 2003 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Let me put it this way. If you analyzed the topic of the thread the way you are analyzing the point of thread's existence, it would make sense.

― James Morris (HorrayJames), Friday, 25 July 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I got all giddy when Tommy Roe's "Sweet Pea" came on the radio earlier this evening. It was sweet. People looked at me weird while I was singing and dancing in my car.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 25 July 2003 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I only know "In The Year 2525"

― dave q, Friday, 25 July 2003 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

something interesting? howzabout that certain 60's pop producers were fucking insane?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

y'mean like some of 'em kill ladies in their house?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

among other things, sure.

or they kill themselves.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 25 July 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the Grass Roots.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

One 60s guy I've never listened to is Burt Bacharach. Part of me wants to because of all the praised that is heaped upon him and another part of me doesn't because I'm afraid it will sound like other praised artists from the 60s that just comes off as flat and silly in a pretentious way. Whatchy'all think of Burt?

BTW, that's just one example but there definitley is a hesitance to listen to a lot of music from the 60s for the same reasons, hence the thread.

― James Morris (HorrayJames), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Bacharach's tunes are great and wonderful and well-written, but to be honest, I prefer modern takes on his stuff to the originals (Costello's version of "I'll Never Fall in Love," The Posies' version of "What the World Needs Now," Ben Folds Five's version of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"). The original versions are all just a little too schmaltzy for my taste.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I like a lot of songs penned (sorry, I just had to use that word) by Burt Bacharach, in other people's versions (Dionne Warwick, Aretha Frankling, Roberta Flack (I think), Dusty Springfield, the Carpenters). I'm not very familiar with his own versions of his songs. Some of this extends into the 70's though. I wouldn't associate the word "pretentious" with his music. These are generally kind of mellow, somewhat sentimental, pop songs.

― Al Andalous, Friday, 25 July 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

You may even be right that 60's pop doesn't get discussed that much here (though I wouldn't want to have to argue the point). If it's true, I think it probably is due to something like this: there's a fairly heavy emphasis here on what's current; many of the younger posters aren't going to spend a lot of time on 60's pop when they have plenty to interest them in current pop music; and a lot of the older posters may already know much of that material and be more interested in discovering or discussing things they haven't heard. I don't know though, since I haven't counted threads or anything.

― Al Andalous, Friday, 25 July 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

In January 1960, pop was a form of light entertainment for either casual consumption or younger audiences. By January 1970, pop was the most complex, differentiated, and charged form of expression in a culture typified by mechanical reproduction and mass distribution. File under 'interesting' or 'truism' according to taste.

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Saturday, 26 July 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not very familiar with his own versions of his songs.

Uh... I don't think he has own versions of his songs.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 27 July 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty sure he sang and recorded at least a few of his songs, but he's not considered a good singer.

― Al Andalous, Sunday, 27 July 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Bacharach hit the charts himself in 1969, with the show's "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" reaching the Top 100. Surprisingly, this was not his only foray into recording; Bacharach had reached number four in the U.K. charts in May 1965 with "Trains and Boats and Planes," and he released several popular solo albums during the late '60s."

Make It Easy on Yourself is a puzzling record. Some tracks are instrumental, some tracks feature session vocalists, and Bacharach himself sings only one track. Still, the album is a lesson in great songwriting. Bacharach's charm is his skill in dealing with abstracts

From www.allmusic.com

― Al Andalous, Sunday, 27 July 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I have purchased a sort of cheapo "greatest hits of 60s" thing. I shall now [DP] listen and comment. Player will be on shuffle, though only one CD at a time.

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 27 July 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, 98.6, it's good to have you back again.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 27 July 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

(The thing was an 8 cd thing. breath do not hold almightily etc)

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 27 July 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, I'll have to break commenting promise. What does one make of Frank Ifield?

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 27 July 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

o god the thing plays the birds and the bees by jewel atkens (whoever.)

Ah! And there's Good Vibrations! Suddenly!

Play nice. Sixties = uglygame, innit?

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 27 July 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The '60s was (were?) my childhood--and even though I found "my" music years later, somewhere between punk and post-punk--I love everything (ILX?), junk and non-junk alike, made between 1962 and 1968. All of it: the Kinks, Hugo Wintherhalter, Alvin Cash and the Registers, Every Mother's Son, Dyke and the Blazers, Paul Mauriac... I have no perspective, and can't imagine any. Around the time of Woodstock things started to suck, though.

― Uncle (Methuselah), Sunday, 27 July 2003 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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