The Music Explosion Of 1978

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Was 1978 the greatest year for Rock music ever? Let's discuss.
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@gabrielgolden4336 Год назад

What I love most about Rick is how much he loves music.

@ironymatt Год назад

For the greatest precision in air guitar virtuosity, there's none better

@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 Год назад

@@ironymatt Air-Guitar Hero.....

@thomasluby1754 Год назад

Agee! 🙂🙂🙂

@adam872 Год назад

He's the fan in all of us, but with immense musical knowledge

@tavismaplesden Год назад

I like his shirt

@brianostube Год назад

I've often felt that 1972/73 were incredible years: Eagles, Zeppelin, Yes, ELP, America, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Deep Purple, Allmans, Genesis, Stevie Wonder, Chicago, Jethro Tull, Steely Dan, David Bowie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Todd Rundgren, Wings, ... so many amazing albums in those two years!!!

@RicG. Год назад

Agree - much better than Rick's list.

@matthies8431 Год назад

@@RicG. not much better. In my opinion they are equally good

@autk Год назад

Certainly an emphasis on more progressive rock in that list, and more diverse for sure. Like that list, lots of my favorites!

@geol1936 Год назад

Debut records.........

@DigoMalaca Год назад

The seventies were the pinnacle in terms of music production.

@itsPOPROX Год назад

That Cars debut album is practically perfect. From start to finish it sound so good then once it ends you have to play it through again.

@brianbee Год назад

Cars debut album is like a Greatest Hits.

@chuckfarley567 Год назад

With headphones......

@seminolefantodd4736 Год назад

That album was a welcome salve to 17-year old angsty me. It was my introduction to "new wave" and remains in my top 10.

@PierreGarrabrant Год назад

Candy O is one of the greatest second albums of all time

@holden2gether Год назад

I played that album until everybody else was sick of hearing it, then I played it some more ;) Great album.

@markmuller8829 Год назад

I finished high school in Australia in 1978 as a 17 year old. After my final Year 12 exam I was driving home from school for the last time, feeling strange and wondering where life would lead me. On that drive home feeling those emotions I was listening to the radio, when suddenly this newly released record started playing........ it was Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. That haunting sax and melody, searing lead guitar and Gerry's soothing vocals, perfectly melded with my mood, my feelings, my sense of wonder. It was perfect! To this day, whenever I here Baker Street, I'm suddenly 17 again driving home from school for the last time, out into the big, wide world.......

@MickH60 Год назад

I'm an Aussie too, 15 in 1978, Baker Street is still legendary.... What a song....

@YandTIII Год назад

Gerry Rafferty’s city to city was a brilliant album!

@musicbro8225 Год назад

Such contrast between the sax hook and his vocals... Incredible song! Rick should do a 'what makes this song great'.

@jimgorycki4013 Год назад

What's even more amazing was that Gerry Rafferty was in a band called "Stealer's Wheel" and they came out with a classic called "stuck in the middle with you" in 1972

@Elitist20 Год назад

Same age as you, doing HSC the same year. Never forget Baker Street. And on the home front: The Angels and Cold Chisel!

@davechristian1525 Год назад

It was a genuinely great year in a great time in music. Blondie's Parallel Lines, Springsteen's Darkness, Patti Smith's Easter, Elvis Costello's This Year's Model, and one of the best live albums ever Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus. Also Foreigner's second record, Double Vision. (Great call on Don't Look Back. Solid record that doesn't get enough love.)

@Elitist20 Год назад

Same age as Rick. From the ones he played I have Dire Straits, Kate Bush, Devo, Rolling Stones and Brian Eno (though I only got it a few years ago). From the ones you named I have Blondie, Patti Smith and Elvis Costello. What a year!

@gregd2838 Год назад

Also, Journey's Infinity album came out in 1978. Songs like "Feeling That Way" "Lights" and "Wheel In the Sky" were on that album. Good catch with Double Vision too.

@carlcushmanhybels8159 Год назад

Agree, Great year in a great time in music. Blondie's "Parallel Lines"... Yes. Very glad someone else here recognizes Little Feat's "Waiting For Columbus," agreeing "One of the best live albums ever."

@davechristian1525 Год назад

@@gregd2838 That's a GREAT one. That is when Journey became the version that most people know.

@jml-rj5re Год назад

@@gregd2838 Classic albums

@stevecotterill7981 Год назад

When I first saw Van Halen, as the support act to Black Sabbath, at the Birmingham Odeon in England in 1978 it changed my life. The excitement, sound, raw talent, American swagger… it was unbelievable. I still love Van Halen in my sixties. What a time to be alive. Thank you. 👍🇬🇧

@path6598 Год назад

saw that tour at the Hammersmith Odeon.

@richshelton7303 Год назад

I saw them open for Black Sabbath as well in Amarillo Tx!

@memorylane7068 Год назад

I first saw them opening up for Sabbath in '78 as well. The world was never the same.

@AlGreen74 Год назад

1978 an incredible year for Rock. You forgot to mention Toto's debut album, one the greatest band ever.

@giorgiomarconi4646 Год назад

My favorite band… since always

@donnafields2271 Год назад

I was thinking the same thing! I know “Hold the Line” came out that year. ❤ Toto ❤️

@marshalbaek5580 Год назад

@@donnafields2271Hold The Line I still believe was their best song ever.

@danquinnell3502 Год назад

Fortunately got to see them this year. Did not disappoint. Liked them much more that Journeys current lineup hat they opened for.

@kcash6359 Год назад

Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street"

@63shakeandbake Год назад

I always tell kids today they have no idea how amazing it was to grow up listening to the music of the 70s. Seeing all the great albums come out chronologically, one band trying to outdo each other, and all the different genres! The music is timeless and will live on forever!

@FrancescaTmusic Год назад

I love the music of that time!! I wish I was alive then! Thank goodness my mom and dad played it a lot when I was growing up!!

@davidlarsen-tj4tn Год назад

I tell my son who is 26 now all the time he’ll never know how great it was going to a record store and getting one of your favorite bands albums/cassettes. Even taking hours going through the bins looking for new bands to listen to.

@FrancescaTmusic Год назад

@@davidlarsen-tj4tn ahhhhh would love that!! I love doing that now to the old record stores!! Guess I’m an old soul!

@Woodstockneverhappened Год назад

I’m 64 and had the privilege of having a brother five years older than me. He introduced me to the scene very early. He took me to my first show in 1972 Three Dog Night at a local high school first time. I also smoked weed. How many of y’all can member Height Ashbury summer of love 67 and how many great bands came out of there. I’ve been in the Height Ashbury area numerous times last time being roughly 3 years ago so sad the way it is now. No more “California Dreaming” for me. ✌️❤️ 🎸

@kree8iv Год назад

So you're the one! They deeply resent us, you know. We keep telling them about how great being a teenager in the mid-to-late 70's was and they have deep FOMO. So much so, that they hate hearing it anymore. They've been finding the music by themselves, and many of them are looking for a simpler time within their own time. It's not fair to them. They have life so much rougher than we do in many respects.

@viktorbek5098 Год назад

Well, this is a walk down memory lane, grinning for the duration of the whole video, made me grateful to have lived through it all...thank you😊

@photobearcmh Год назад

Rick has a way of connecting you back to when you first heard those songs. Many of his videos have brought me to tears.

@davidwollpert5276 Год назад

Exactly! The 70s were such a great decade for music! It was the best drug around, euphoria and transcendence being its only side effects.

@marke2452 Год назад

Joe Jackson's debut just missed the cut, releasing in January of 79. One of my favorites.

@flynow5614 Год назад

Big JJ fan.Body and sole.

@islandtime1402 Год назад

Did Joe ever find out if she was really going out with him? 🤣 Honestly, I preferred the 1982 release of Night and Day by Joe Jackson.

@flynow5614 Год назад

@@islandtime1402 turns out she was his number two. Funny I bought night and day today. 1982 sealed, well it's not sealed anymore. Sounds great.

@marke2452 Год назад

@@TonyLovell Especially the bass.

@stevenhandford3728 Год назад

This man is the living personification of "The joy of music"

@whatwouldhousedo5136 Год назад

As much as I was a metalhead at the time, I've loved the first DEVO album since it was released. Amazing album front to back- funny, paranoid, spastic, bizarre, kick ass, melodic, and poignant all at the same time. And nothing has sounded like it before or since. I still listen to it regularly. Also just to add the Toto's debut was also 1978.

@MickH60 Год назад

I was driving down a hill close to my home when Devo's "Beautiful world" came on the radio, Also being a hard rock/ early metalhead, I was surprised just how good it sounded. I seem to remember exactly where I was when I heard memorable songs. It's kinda cool, a real trip down memory lane....

@akfreed6949 Год назад

I read in some Devo video that when they were in school they got beat up for wearing Devo t-shirts . What is worse is they got beat up by kids wearing Van Halen t-shirts . I don't think Eddie Van Halen would like that . He never had anything against music that wasn't his genre .

@gregmag66 Год назад

Thank you for giving Devo some love, totally under appreciated as to how they influenced music. Another influencer, Kraftwerk released Man Machine in 1978. Two other notables are Funkadelic’s One Nation Under a Groove and BOC’s Some Enchanted Evening

@yellowjackboots2624 Год назад

Right on, my man. Didn't think he'd mention Devo. Space Junk is such a great song, the whole album is great.

@angusmackay7281 Год назад

The whole period from 78 through 82 in ridiculously stacked with great music. Hard to pick a winner, but this isn't a bad shout.

@jeffreyquinn3820 Год назад

The trouble with commercial radio of the time was that it played all the lackluster imitations and not the originals.

@bryanwilliams3665 Год назад

Everyones list ( yours and mine included) is as correct as anyone else's. And certainly music critics/reviewers opinions are no more valid than yours or mine. Who is ANYONE to tell anyone else what THAT person is hearing.

@bryanwilliams3665 Год назад

@jonathancrews2866 Yes, that's fair enough. I was probably highlighting people get confused here with the terminology "The Best" vs "Their Favourite".

@jimcolby2885 Год назад

Best years of my high school career first car, cruising with these tunes... on 8 track. Boy did we tear it up. .

@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 Год назад

1984 was best 80s year.

@brendansullivan3408 Год назад

It it only me? At ~5:20 into video the audio loses sync and gets totally messed up

@chucklakeridge7944 Год назад

yeah, right at 5:25. I get the same sync issue. Why noone esle mentions this is strange.

@jgischer Год назад

Me too. It seems like there's another song in the audio that isn't included in the video.

@olivierduc9726 Год назад

Same with me, sounds like during the audio part about Peter Gabriel the video jumps to the Ramones! 😕

@chucklakeridge7944 Год назад

@@olivierduc9726 Thats exactly what I get too, its the video, not the buffering.

@TranscendentBen Год назад

Was it fine before we saw it? Did RU-vid mess it up somehow?

@sonicguppy Год назад

There was a ridiculous amount of great music in 78. To add, This Years Model, Parallel Lines, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Blue Valentine, Heaven Tonight, C'est Chic, Queens 'Jazz', The Pat Metheny Group, Kenny Wheeler's 'Dear Wan'….....what an abundance of greatness

@purplebondsaiyan2987 4 месяца назад

All Great Albums As Well!!!

@CarlosSierralta Год назад

1991. The list of great albums was great. I was born on 79’ I know I’m biased by the 90’s. But was a great year IMHO, even in South America, there was a lot happening that year

@Henrique_Henriques Год назад

I agree

@gregkrupski6054 Год назад

I think that 91 goes to grunge not Rock.

@qbsrd Год назад

@@gregkrupski6054 The Black Album, Use Your Illusion, Loveless and the Teenage FanClub album weren't Grunge

@autk Год назад

@@gregkrupski6054agree, it was really anti rock and a deliberate 3 chord departure from the technique of glam bands guitar virtuosos to basic almost punk level

@TimPoitevin Год назад

@@gregkrupski6054Grunge is far closer to rock than Billy Joel , or the Rolling Stones, or The Cars, or Devo. Truth is, grunge is far more guitar-based, riff-laden, loud music (aka "rock") than a lot of what came out in 1978.

@macleadg Год назад

Your air guitar is iconic, but your air drumming is underrated, Rick.

@alagarswamyingersoll Год назад

😂😂😂

@macleadg Год назад

@@alagarswamyingersoll He really should do tutorials on air guitar & drumming.

@davidevens2954 Год назад

He loses a couple of points for using an air pick for a Mark Knopfler part though.

@theditto69 Год назад

@@macleadgat the same time?

@macleadg Год назад

@@theditto69 Yes! lol

@pendrew Год назад

The Cars debut album is brilliant from start to finish. Simply epic.

@regular_guy70s Год назад

First time I heard it in 1989, I played it for a week straight.

@fishvondoom3063 Год назад

It's like a greatest hits album. And every Elliot Easton lead is not only brilliant, but perfectly appropriate for each song. Love it to this day.

@georgewilliams4258 Год назад

I had the first album a few months before it started to get airplay when they played it to death I can't stand the Cars to this day.

@stealthyBLK Год назад

YES! I jumped up when it popped up on the screen! hahahaa!

@MultiSkyman1 Год назад

@@fishvondoom3063 Underrated player for sure.

@lindaleeb6659 Год назад

The Man with the Child in His Eyes gives me goosebumps, even after so many years. So glad you included Kate. 78 really was a great music year. So many amazing albums.

@genericusername1365 Год назад

She will be inducted this year (2023) into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She deserves it. My fave album by her is The Dreaming, but they're all good.

@tonydalton459 Год назад

I think she was only 13 when she wrote that. Astonishing.

@DavidEVogel 4 месяца назад

I would also consider Kate Bush as "one in a million." Her imitators (Tori Amos) never equaled the output of Kate.

@bobsala7780 Год назад

The best year for music is in whatever year we were 16 years old.

@jonmccormick602 Год назад

Absolutely! ‘73 for me and, being heavily into Prog, spoiled for choice!

@ObjectorSnark Год назад

@@jonmccormick602 '73 was the full flowering of prog

@David_Richard_241 Год назад

I graduated that summer. WHAT a summer it was, man.

@timgarrett203 Год назад

16 to 18 or so I would say. High school and first loves.

@David_Richard_241 Год назад

@@timgarrett203 Indeed.

@joeldf6859 Год назад

1978... I can really only add a few more. Heart releases what is probably their most complete album - Dog & Butterfly. Blondie - Parallel Lines with "Hanging on the Telephone", "One Way Or Another", "Fade Away and Radiate", and of course "Heart of Glass". Foreigner - Double Vision. Growing up, it seamed that '76 was a stand-out year that I remember most at the ripe old age of 11, but there certainly was great music all during that time for quite a few years.

@seanoneil277 Год назад

Agree for sure about Blondie. As to Heart, Dog & Butterfly may be more complete in song type, but I lost interest in them at that album and thereafter. I sort of liked it when they were a Canadian Led Zeppelin with two good women singers, driving and stomping their way through songs. I was in HS then and all my music loving friends agreed about Dog & Butterfly, it was inevitable after Barracuda, Crazy on You, Magic Man from the first 2 albums, those songs were great and even non-music-geek people loved them.

@tomasom4497 Год назад

I first saw groups live like Cheap Trick, UFO, Pat Travers Band, Van Halen, Blue Oyster Cult, DEVO and the B-52s all in that year. Remember The Knack with My Sharona? The following year.

@robertgreen6433 Год назад

@@seanoneil277 Except they weren't a Canadian band. Heart formed in Seatle Washington

@MrXyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Год назад

Yes, I thought Blondie too. I see that it wasn't their first record release in 78 but Parallel Lines was definitely their Breakout album.

@seanoneil277 Год назад

@@robertgreen6433 No Canadians? Roger Fisher from USA?

@djblades76 Год назад

The Scream by Siouxsie and the Banshees is another debut album worth mentioning, and Parallel Lines by Blondie is also a classic album from that year.

@tommcdonald1873 Год назад

Great call out, I listened to Hanging on the Telephone one of the great covers from that album. Scream was the birth effectively of both post punk and gothic rock and Siouxsie is still out there performing.

@brizzieleif5258 Год назад

Magazine's debut album Real Life was released in 1978.

@bobg6638 Год назад

The first albums by Boston and The Cars were GREAT. Two of the very best.

@Tranquillado Год назад

I think The Cars and Van Halen are *the* bookends for all the amazing debuts ’78 bestowed on music lovers.

@LSqrd1960 Год назад

The debuts from Cars, Police and Dire Straits were all huge. Great albums, each sounded different from anything we’d heard before.

@johnjperricone7856 Год назад

Van Halen, too. Never heard anything like EVH before, probably still haven't. I guess hearing Sweet Child 'o Mine and Slash for the first time was powerful, Tom Morello for the first time too; but EVH was in a completely different category. I guess I forgot that Dire Straits was also '78, but the guitar part in Sultans still resonates. I've seen Knopfler talk about it, how he recorded it finger-picking style, no pick, and how he never plays it the same on stage.

@thewaygokid3135 Год назад

All those and VH sounded like totally cool new rock ideas. Then DEVO showed up. It was so weird I had to listen.

@eamonhannon1103 Год назад

I was in a bed sit in London belting out Dire Straits every night . Then people in the house started asking me who were the band I was playing .

@marshallgeorge3819 Год назад

Hemispheres is just a technical masterpiece - I never tire of listening to that album.

@analogkid4557 Год назад

I thought of this album too, lol!

@patbusnello9658 Год назад

I was holding my breath waiting for it and Rick never disappoints!🧠🤘

@MultiSkyman1 Год назад

@@analogkid4557 I was 17 in 1978, and the only thing that mattered to me was RUSH and the fact that I never had been on a date!

@owenedwardsguitar7094 Год назад

Hemispheres was my introduction to Rush as a 10 year old in 81. I will never forget that moment

@khrdina Год назад

That album is *still* one of the best albums in my collection.

@eddiejr540 Год назад

As much as VH shocked us with “eruption”…I felt the same about the Boston records…I had never heard a guitar tone like that before in my life…and I was mesmerized 👍

@juanesara4870 Год назад

boston were SUPER ahead of their time, but nobody talks about it

@VengerDFW Год назад

After Boston released their debut album, all the kids playing guitar tried to get that sound on their guitar... right until Van Halen out. And then that was that...

@tommyfender1968 Год назад

Trying to mimic Boston’s debut album, I saved all my money for a 12 string guitar

@aschule5684 Год назад

Tom Shultz's "ROCKMAN" GUITAR tone is hands down my favorite guitar tone. A friend bought a ROCKMAN and when I got to use it "I wanted one"

@salerio4876 Год назад

They say that Mutt Lange created Def Leppard's entire sound (career?) from the Tom Shultz "Rockman."

@StevieDamnit Год назад

Rick talks about this year so much, it was only matter of time until he made a video on it(Although the Peter Garbiel album he's referring to came out in 1980, not '78). I would also add that 1979 had a lot of great releases: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures Talking Head's - Fear of Music The Clash - London Calling The B-52's debut Wire - 154 Supertramp - Breakfast in America Tubeway Army - Replicas Pink Floyd - The Wall Gang of Four - Entertainment! Michael Jackson - Off the Wall The Slits - Cut The Police - Reggatta de Blanc Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East I could go on and on...

@herbtube7824 Год назад

Not really…

@pulaski1 Год назад

TBH I don't think there was a _bad_ year between 1970 and 1990. Things went down hill rapidly from 1991.

@zyxwvut4740 Год назад

Yeah, I always felt the same way about '79! Don't forget: Donna Summer - Bad Girls Diana Ross - The Boss Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedos Blondie - Eat to the Beat AC/DC - Highway to Hell Kenny Loggins - Keep the Fire (Michael Jackson does backing vocals on one track!) David Bowie -Lodger (third of the Berlin trilogy) The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette Minnie Ripperton - Minnie (Just 2 months before she died) Blue Öyster Cult - Mirrors

@marke2452 Год назад

@@zyxwvut4740 Joe Jackson - Look Sharp

@MrGorpm Год назад

I caught the Gabriel album flaw as well, Peter Gabriel 2 (Scratch) was 1978. There were several stand out albums for me in '78 (Scratch included). Magazine: Real Life The Jam: All Mod Cons Jean-Michel Jarre: Équinoxe Jeff Wayne: Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War Of The Worlds

@MCVPhotography Год назад

If I'm correct, Toto debuted their excellent first album in 1978.

@raymondhartmeijer9300 Год назад

Yes! October 1978

@IT-kone Год назад

You know, Toto's first album also came out in 1978. Lots of good songs in it. (E: Whoops! Lots, not lot's! 🤭)

@joeb6245 Год назад

BRAVO!! Toto is sadly underrated by the masses

@CaptainSpyware Год назад

I'm a little surprised Rick didn't include "Toto" into the the video, and the record was a game changer. He knows them very well after all.

@MrIsaknb Год назад

I was also surprised he didn’t mention Toto…

@1matiasariel Год назад

Absolutely

@davidwollpert5276 Год назад

@@CaptainSpyware just slipped his mind…too many great albums that year.

@StaceJohnson Год назад

Once again, a list that should have included Styx. "Renegade" from _Pieces of Eight_ was massive. I'm curious why you don't talk more about them.

@delorangeade Год назад

Sadly ignored in these parts, but Thin Lizzy released Live and Dangerous in 1978, and that was the album that changed everything for me.

@CatAndBearone Год назад

I ADORE Thin Lizzy. So good! Dancing in the Moonlight is one of my all time favourite songs.

@Ianmackable Год назад

I was lucky enough to see them in '77, opening for Queen, with Gary Moore on co-lead guitar. They pretty much stole the show.

@delorangeade Год назад

@@CatAndBearone One of their best, but they had so many great songs across a range of genres.

@delorangeade Год назад

@@Ianmackable A legendary tour I think a lot of people would wish they had seen. Thin Lizzy was my first live show, but on their farewell tour with John Sykes. Still great.

@CatAndBearone Год назад

@@delorangeade oh absolutely! I just love it for the line about going to the cinema and always getting chocolate stains on his pants 😂 It cracks me up every time. I was born mid 80s so wasn't lucky enough to see them, but have photos with the statue of Phil in Dublin.

@billfitch8538 Год назад

How could you forget Toto's debut? I graduated in '78, so much great stuff!

@petergambino2129 Год назад

toto the nickleback of the 70's yuck

@JustinPanariello Год назад

Huge miss. Toto are stellar musicians. Nickelback my arse lol

@DanEBoyd Год назад

@@petergambino2129 MUCH rather listen to Toto, and I don't want to hear a single note of nickleback. But that is still an interesting comparison not without merit - the two bands compare in more of a commercial sense, than musically, to me though. I wasn't big on Toto in their heyday, but I sure didn't dislike them. Steve Lukather has received and earned more accolades as a guitar player, than did nickleback's guitar player - and I blindly say that confidently, without looking it up or knowing what I'm talking about. I have no idea - maybe he is a modern guitar god too.

@arturomorales1142 Год назад

And Cheap Trick

@ChadH2023 Год назад

@@petergambino2129 the dumbest thing I'll read this week.

@michmash7888 Год назад

And Rumours won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1978, beating out Hotel California and Aja! What a year for music indeed!

@ShaunHensley Год назад

We thought new great music would be released like the rising of the sun. From the 70s all the way through the 90s

@TLMuse Год назад

Just to be clear (and to explain Rick's omission of these), the official release dates for Rumours and Aja are in 1977, and for Hotel California in 1976. But man are you right-"what a year for music indeed!"

@johnholmes912 Год назад

Rumours was a pile of dross

@trysometruth Год назад

@@johnholmes912 Oh yeah??? Well... John Holms was a pornographic film actor.

@phillipschultz7869 Год назад

Of course he can't play Beagles because they block like a #@!#%. I think Slowwood do also.

@MaquiladoraIII Год назад

The Kick Inside is a great album and seems to be a little forgotten even amongst the current Katemania. "Moving" is absolutely stunning.

@katesjanice Год назад

I love The Sensual World too.

@neilloughran4437 Год назад

The sound of those records in 1978 was just phenomenal... love 70s production... so warm...

@vanhalenbr Год назад

True.... Rick Beato could do a video only on this, late 70s, early 80s production sound is so warm, tech makes things easier, but you miss something more natural...

@ericcire7709 Год назад

What is the difference? Audio engineers? Facilities? Budget? You would think today’s equipment would be as good or better with advances…

@leonardticsay8046 Год назад

@@ericcire7709digital interfaces, quantization, auto tune and other modern conveniences make contemporary music sound too sterile.

@t3hgir Год назад

if you listen to a nice analog recording right after a modern "punchy" recording it almost always sounds "quieter" but there is so much more warmth and actual punch to the dynamics, provided you have a good source+sound system.

@benjaminperez7328 Год назад

@@ericcire7709 Cocaine. High Grade George Jung-style COCAINE.

@jeremysmetana8583 Год назад

Shocking that you left off Journey's Infinity, the debut of Steve Perry with the band. The album that gave us Wheel in the Sky, Lights, Feeling that Way/Anytime and what could possibly be the longest held sung note in Rock in Winds of March.

@christophertaylor9100 Год назад

I guess technically it wasn't Journey's debut so it doesn't count like the others

@mikhail606 Год назад

Oh man, the genius of that Cars album, especially Let the Good Times Roll and Just What I Needed. Fuses all the best elements of pop, rock'n'roll and new wave into a single heavy sound.

@1530max Год назад

Cold Chisel released their first album in 1978, called “Cold Chisel”. An Australian band for those unaware that should have cracked it worldwide. My favourite band.

@thegreatstrogannofski3418 Год назад

Agree,but i think if you read jimmy barnes book, they were their own worst enemy with regards to breaking worldwide

@Boblobblaw88 Год назад

Being old sucks, but at least we still have all that great music!

@chrisw2546 Год назад

Yeah, but we still got to live 70s music when it happened. I won't trade that for ten years more of youth.

@treff9226 Год назад

I'd rather be old than cold. Cherish music from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and early 2000's. Sad that music went out of business after that.

@johnwick-ii6qq Год назад

@@treff9226the internet changed everything forever, a lot of people want to be like other ppl and alot of originality and creativity vanished, plus cocaine was really prevalent around that time so that made music better

@treff9226 Год назад

@@johnwick-ii6qq The big debate - do drugs contribute to creativity in art? I'd say in certain instances they do, and you're damn right about the internet and the negative effects it's had on music and other arts. A lot of my time spent on the internet is used to criticize the internet! Lol!

@NYCOPYGUY Год назад

Joe Jackson's debut single, "Is She Really Going Out With Him" was released in the fall of 1978. His debut album, Look Sharp followed a few months later in 1979.

@dianecaldwell5237 Год назад

Great memory! I love the music of Joe Jackson.

@67marlins Год назад

@Diane Caldwell Do you recall a gorgeous song by him called, 'Always something breaking us in two", from February 1983?

@aisle_of_view Год назад

Instant Mash is great, both albums are stylistically similar and brilliant.

@aisle_of_view Год назад

Look Sharp! I'm the Man

@erichobbs4042 Год назад

I discovered that album when I figured out that Anthrax had covered Got The Time.

@cleuenberg Год назад

1978: The year when music was produced by people with tape machines capturing other people playing real instruments all together in a room. The sound of those records is phenomenal while today's people try to simulate sounds with computers and yet are mostly failing to achieve that level of musicality. Awesome compilation, thank you Rick!

@RupertReynolds1962 Год назад

There's a theory that art is a process that often works best when the artists are struggling against limitations--impending deafness, old and worn tape decks, planes flying overhead getting onto the recording, you name it. I think sometimes it can be true. And by making equipment better, maybe sometimes we've let artistry take a back seat?

@maxbeigh Год назад

It's the industry and market more than the tools. In the 70s (and before and after) the instruments and vocals were isolated or even recorded one at a time, the best guitar solo or vocal or snippet from many recordings could be used, a musician could accompany themself, and tape loops and drum machines were used. Often, a session musician with superior skills to an actual band member would substitute for the recording and some particularly brilliant and/or egotistical musicians would record every part themselves and then only use the band for touring. I think the mediocrity of popular music today has more to do to the age of the music listener. As baby boomers matured, they remained the core music customer because there were so many of them. Bands in the 70s and 80s were catering the sophisticated late teens and twenty somethings, not the teenyboppers who dominate the market in the 00s and 10s. There is also massive splintering of the market due to radio being less relevant. Amazing music is still being made, but little of it charts.

@maxbeigh Год назад

Dire Straights were known to record tiny bits of guitar solos and string them together and were scorned for their perfectionism. But they sounded amazing on record or live, so they could really play it.

@bunsw2070 Год назад

I think you're correct. It's just really hard work to find the good stuff. The stuff on the charts is beyond horrific. No wonder there are record numbers of drug overdoses and suicides today.

@RupertReynolds1962 Год назад

Oh yes, there's some REALLY good stuff out there. And I find some if it on YT to be fair--everything from classical guitar to Joe Public playing boogie-woogie on the upright piano in a London railway station! Seems to me that the big music publishers don't have a soul, so they don't notice when they knock it out of the music. My usual rant is What I Am, by Edie Brickell. V good album, too. When it was covered with Emma Bunton, all the notes were there spot-on (from memory), but it just felt a but too robotic. It made more money in the cover version :-(

@MMoses87 Год назад

I'm surprised Rick didn't feature Infinity by Journey released in '78 or Toto's debut album. So many choices in a single year

@Samantha-vlly Год назад

Agree Child’s Anthem was a great introductory song

@rosslarsen6144 Год назад

Wow yeah, Toto is a bit of a miss. Also Blondie's Parallel Lines.

@sd3falco Год назад

You could pick any year in the 70's and come up with tons of great music.

@rickyfl5 Год назад

What??? No mention of Toto's (1978) debut, self titled, record??? That is a cardinal sin...

@jevinday Год назад

You didn't mention City to City by Gerry Rafferty! That's my favorite 1978 record for sure. Every song is just so damn catchy. The lyrics are so intimate.

@Moveplaylift Год назад

An absolute classic!

@geraldfriend256 Год назад

Brilliant stuff

@dwaynewladyka577 Год назад

Absolutely! Cheers! ✌️

@Phil_Reid_N.Z Год назад

Yeah man that was massive👌🏻

@Jashue Год назад

More people should know about that album. It’s perfect.

@jacmandora1 Год назад

I'm surprised you forgot Gerry Raffertys City To City album that included Baker Street and Right Down The Line. Timeless classics.

@campinggrampa Год назад

There will never be a decade for music like we had in the 70’s.

@unprofound Год назад

Covers a ton of ground from 60's blues-inspired rock to the 80's new wave/pop. Punk mixed in there. The diversity of the decade is beyond compare.

@DianeLake-sw3ym Год назад

Without the disco

@flynow5614 Год назад

Just wait for Justin Bieber new record to get released.

@scottslotterbeck3796 Год назад

From 1965 to 1985. Led Zeppelin debut album was 1968 or '69, that was so groundbreaking. Cream was pre 1970, Gorden Lightfoot and Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield. Hell, Woodstock was '69.

@scottslotterbeck3796 Год назад

@@DianeLake-sw3ymSome disco was OK. BeeGees, Donna Summer.

@markbrooks4471 Год назад

In 1978. it was easily the Jam's All Mod Cons that caught my ear. I was already a fan, but the huge stylistic leap they made after their second record, Modern World was simply astounding. They'd made a record that could comfortably sit with the best works of their inspirations, The Who and Kinks. A classic.

@GlennErikMathisen Год назад

I was born in 1989, but I've noticed that 80 - 90% of the music I listen to was recorded somwhere between 1968 and 1980. I like a lot of newer and older stuff too, but the 70s kids got to experience the greatest music ever recorded IMO. Thankfully, I still can too. That is the beautiful thing about recordings. Cool video Rick!

@Jabbawock1972 Год назад

My Son was born 2000 but he also love the music, that we hear...late 70´s and 80´s Rock...today the music industry is so fast....you can get on top fast and fall down the ladder even faster....beside that imho todays even the bands are grouped around the singer...in old days mostly all band members were stars...and not just replacable faces behind their instruments...today no one who wants to sell records would do a 1 min intro in a song....everything have to be fast on the point...

@Johnrack Год назад

I turned 28 in 1978. After a few years not playing in live bands I started up again. What a year! As a guitarist I’d have to say that Van Halen was the true game changer band of the era.

@Johnrack Год назад

And BTW, I’ll still playing live and recording music, at 71. I retired at 60 and play blues and jazz now. It’s easier on my ears!

@stevenprichard1925 Год назад

Not a debut album, but Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon was also released in 1978 - probably his best work and definitely his most successful album.

@66bighorns Год назад

Thank you! Warren never gets recognized.

@stevenprichard1925 Год назад

@@66bighorns I know! The fact that he isn’t in the Rock n’ Roll HOF already (and wasn’t even nominated until this year) is a crime

@seankane9279 Год назад

An absolutely fantastic album

@mrlarry999 Год назад

Don’t forget that Journey released their Infinity album in 1978. It was huge.

@whamsie4022 Год назад

“Infinity” was their first album with Steve Perry. Perry had never recorded in a proper studio, so if you consider “Infinity” as Perry’s debut album, it belongs in this list.

@andym28 Год назад

Every time I hear names like journey Boston or kansas it just give me vibes if cheesy over produced mainstream us rock. Which is the best album that's not too cheesy or over produced.

@Waterfield_Robbie Год назад

Please Rick! This gotta become a new thing!! Do more videos like this from other years! That'd be pretty cool! I found it very entertaining!!

@stevekravcik609 Год назад

I love the fact that Rick is about all types of music. Who else juxtaposes Eno’s Ambient 1 with the Stones, Earth Wind and Fire and Devo? Love it. Don’t forget Grease. And yes, 1978 was a fantastic music year. Best ever.

@mofolk8896 Год назад

This brought back so many great high school music memories! Dire Straits is an album I own on vinyl, cd, and iTunes. I still like listening to it from beginning to end.

@artheriford Год назад

MK is the man. One of my favorites

@jaym8027 Год назад

That Dire Straits record was solid from start to finish, no wasted tracks at all.

@villehytonen7279 Год назад

It really is. Great album.

@GunnarMunktroja Год назад

Soundtrack of my youth

@michaelraiger623 Год назад

From that first chord on Down to the Waterline you know you’re listening to something completely new and completely amazing.

@PierreGarrabrant Год назад

Dire Straights was a good palette cleanser to VH 1 so different but both groundbreaking. 1978 was the year where the most LPs were sold

@imoffthehillma8013 Год назад

Damn right mate - I regularly listen to that whole album. Never gets old.

@davidevens2954 Год назад

Melt by Peter Gabriel is such a good album that Rick moved it back in time 2 years to include it in this video.

@davidryan7386 Год назад

PG 2 from 78 sucked so.....lol

@ianharkin2691 Год назад

When that came up I thought huh, wasn't that 1980? 🤔

@davidevens2954 Год назад

@@davidryan7386 I like PG2 personally, but it's probably the weakest of the four self-titled albums.

@JS45678 Год назад

How on earth could we have gone from this type of truly creative, artistic music to where the radio is today?? Mind boggling!

@TheDivayenta Год назад

My theory is it’s partly due to the loss of Music class in primary education. So many of us got a musical leg up by learning how to play an instrument.

@dannyspitzer1267 Год назад

Yeah It's severely messed up.

@minisurfbanana 11 месяцев назад

Theres still radio???

@briancooper1412 11 месяцев назад

You went from music people trying to run a business to business people trying to make music.

@midrangesupport 9 месяцев назад

"we are DEVO", that's how

@fechdj1812 Год назад

I was in my first band in 1978 and can remember hearing Van Halen's Eruption. No one I knew had any idea what was going on. What a great player Eddie was!

@RupertReynolds1962 Год назад

I'm still trying to work it out! (I don't play guitar enough to say much more). I mean he's playing arpeggios, and I thought at first maybe he's just using one string and using the frets very cleanly. But the arpeggios cover about an octave, so I don't get it... Whatever he did, he was the first I heard doing it :-) And is it just me, or does Van Halen give a nod to classical composition style in that fantastic solo?

@Late70sRocker Год назад

Oh yes, 1978! Such a rich year of music. There was Warren Zevon, Molly Hatchet’s debut album and can’t forget Cheap Trick Live at Budokan. JUST missing, recorded in October 78 and released on January 2, 1979 my favorite live LP, UFO Strangers in the Night.

@johnwingett2611 Год назад

Strangers is the best live album. Period.

@aisle_of_view Год назад

Love Strangers, Schenker's a guitar god. Also love Zevon's When Johnny Strikes Up the Band.

@dougrobinson8602 Год назад

Molly Hatchet, The Outlaws, and some of the other Southern Rock "guitar armies" will always be a guilty pleasure of mine. When a DJ cued up 'Green Grass and High Tides" or "Dreams I'll Never See", you knew for sure he was taking a potty break.

@RockandRollWoman Год назад

The 70s were a music explosion extraordinaire. I feel lucky to have experienced it first hand. I'm still experiencing it!

@reXdownhamOG Год назад

We knew how great it was while it was happening, but didn’t realize how much it would improve with age!

@lilycat1694 Год назад

Great comment & I agree.

@christophertaylor9100 Год назад

It was a weird mix of amazing and horrific. Side by side you had muskrat love and Moby Dick, you had Roundabout and Tony Orlando and Dawn

@RockandRollWoman Год назад

@reXdownham I had no idea how classic my music would become. Don't know about you, but I didn't have the equivalent of Dad Rock. I did have good FM radio, skip transmission for distant AM stations at night, and friends whose older siblings could afford to buy Zep, Yes, ELP, Pink Floyd, Steve Miller, Warren Zevon, Grand Funk, BS&T, Motown out my ears ... I have to stop now because the potential list is soo long and I have stuff to get done! Lucky us with so many excellent choices that have stood the test of time. 🎶🎶🎶😁🎶🎶🎶

@rogerwilcojr Год назад

Not a lot of distractions and a lot longer attention spans.

@sammi5281 Год назад

Rick is still 16 all these years later and that’s awesome !

@skysailor22630 Год назад

Rick is a man with the child in his eyes.

@sethcaine3659 7 месяцев назад

reverse those numbers

@Nygle123 Год назад

What a wonderful reminder of how lucky I was to grow up in an era were so much amazing music was written. Love this video, Rick!

@Wyliedawg Год назад

When I get down on myself I'll play Boston's "Man I'll Never Be" and Steely Dan's "Deacon Blues" and quickly realize nobody but me can turn things around, think to myself "I'm better than this moment", pick myself up and go forward. Truly inspirational music. 💓

@jagsnumberone88 Год назад

Van Halen's debut alone makes this one of the most important years in modern music history. 2 other great albums released in 78 was REO Speedwagon's "You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish" and Journey's "Infinity"

@brianrobinson5512 Год назад

2 amazing albums!

@lawdogwales5921 Год назад

Bon Jovi

@jagsnumberone88 Год назад

@@lawdogwales5921 Bon Jovi's first album wasn't until 1984.

@madbug1965 Год назад

I was in 7th grade in 1978. Man, I remember every single one of these songs when they came out 😁

@anildash Год назад

How can we omit Prince’s debut that year! Produced, Arranged, Composed and Performed By!

@kennet7837 Год назад

Probably wasn't included because of copyright.

@mikeymutual5489 Год назад

@@kennet7837 And it wasn't very good.

@cwize Год назад

I'd say it's loved and recognized "retroactively" - didn't do a whole lot when it came out. Almost top 20 on the soul chart but 163 on the Hot 100 album chart.

@AppleOno Год назад

Rick probably stuck to records he was aware of at the time, but yes, Prince too debuted in 1978. An amazing year for music!

@Christocalese Год назад

It also happened in 1991: Nirvana Nevermind, RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Pearl Jam Ten, Smashing Pumpkins Gish, U2 Actung Baby, Soundgarden Badmotorfinger, REM Out of Time, Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion I & II, Temple of the Dog, and the Metallica Black Album. 🤘🏻

@colokor Год назад

Great point! I feel I was able to enjoy both times of rock and roll excellence…and shortly after came Nirvana and STP!

@MaquiladoraIII Год назад

Also, 1977 weren't too shoddy either. Rumours, The Clash Eponymous, Marquee Moon, Heroes & Low, Trans-Europe Express, Lust for Life, The Idiot, Pink Flag, The Stranger... What a couple of years to be a music fan!

@juanesara4870 Год назад

also Van Halen F.U.C.K was released in 1991

@lesbolstad Год назад

Not even in the same ballpark. 78' was Major Leagues and 91' was Class A ball

@fatShowPony Год назад

@@juanesara4870and a return to form for Ozzy with No More Tears

@4211welderman Год назад

Best era of music ever. No auto tune no junk just pure voices and pure music!!! And it has stood the test of time!!!

@jackdonkey22 Год назад

You also didn't need to look fancy for videos yet

@bunsw2070 Год назад

There just wasn't as much good stuff overall. Plus radio was really bad. I'm pretty certain I'm emotionally scared from all the crap I heard in the 80s. Little girls must have been phoning the stations and swamping the suggestion in box or something. Huey Lewis and the News and that type of thing. Ugh. Women started wearing the pants and controlling the music. I'm 59 but if I lived my life over again I'd never have listened to radio after 1980. Today I never do but I have a phone loaded up when on the go and almost everything ever recorded at home, so it's easy to say that now. I guess I wanted to keep up with what was new. By the late 80s they had classic rock radio that played the same stuff over and over until you hated even that. Then alternative rock came and it was a blessing for a while. Now the artists and industry have married Satan or something. It's so bad. Testicles are shrinking throughout the west, maybe, probably.

@bunsw2070 Год назад

Remember the hair spray epidemic of the late 80s? Steel Panther, yeah!

@katesjanice Год назад

How could you forget Kansas’ live double album “Two for the Show”? No overdubs or other technical “fixes.” The album is just as it came off the tape truck. Amazing!

@Woodstockneverhappened Год назад

I couldn’t agree with you more I’ve seen Kansas eight times the original Kansas. They had such better songs. I think that dust in the wind, Journey to Mariabon, Song for America Icarus, born on wings of steel, Carry on

@nathanclark4674 8 месяцев назад

I have this album, and was completely blown away that this superb band was JUST AS GREAT live as in the studio! Really cemented the fact that they were impresarios and total pro's.

@huffpappy Год назад

"And Then There Were Three" by Genesis was also a great album from '78.

@TristanRiversMusic Год назад

Yes! I know lots of people would disagree but that was right in the middle of what I thought was the best era of Genesis. The perfect blend of pop sensibilities in their prog rock world.

@7775Kevin Год назад

Oh yeah. I’ve listened to that record forever.

@screwyootube1 Год назад

This might be heresy to some, but I’ve always found it difficult to get very far into Peter Gabriel-era Genesis. I think the best thing that happened to both Genesis AND Peter Gabriel was for them to break apart. Then, both acts shined more brightly (again, just IMO) than they could together!

@karayuschij Год назад

For me it has been the beginning of the end of Genesis :D

@civilian8697 Год назад

One of my favorites! As well as UK's debut (which I know Rick is a fan of) and my favorite album of all time, Happy The Man's Crafty Hands

@claudioolate2516 Год назад

So is rock really dead today compared to the old days?😢

@bobh28630 Год назад

Being a bit older (76 in a souple of days), my mind bending year for new music releases was likely 1965. However, your post re 1978 must be lauded as one of your best. The enthusiasm and wonder are magnificent! And, of course, getting to re-visit many of those tracks was a joy. There is much about the Internet that is negative but discovering your channel several years ago has been a truly positive expereince. Thank you.

@gregd2838 Год назад

Wasn't 1965 the same year that Dylan went electric?

@nogaalon9936 Год назад

I was born after 2000, and I've always wished that I could live in the 1970s. It always looked to me like an incredible time to be living in

@Randy-ul5hy Год назад

I was there..born in 1961 and it was just a blast!

@MickH60 Год назад

@@Randy-ul5hy 63 model here, I loved it.... I could have spent my whole life in the 70's...

@Thestargazer56 Год назад

Yes the 70s were great for me. I started high school , found JESUS, discovered girls , played sports, still the best music IMHO, finished high school, (played Alice Cooper's "School's Out in my 8-Track in the parking lot while doing burnouts in my 71 Challenger R/T, after graduation- they couldn't take back my diploma after all) started college, quit college, got married , had two fantastic sons, most of my friends were still close (and alive). Nowadays things have slowed down a bit.

@Tonestronaut Год назад

I was five years old in 1978. The Cars was the first album I fell in love with. I'd come home from a bad day of being bullied at school, and put The Cars on. It really cheered me up. It spoke to me of good times and the endless possibilities of music.

@DiecastNewb Год назад

Doesn't matter how many times I listen to it, Boston's harmonies ==goosebumps!

@13magic74 Год назад

you men Brad Delp's harmonies with himself!

@Nosmirk Год назад

Hearing all these amazing artists in '78 makes me realise the quality music industry is totaly gone these days!

@MultiSkyman1 Год назад

Yes I agree. But I would like to hear a discussion on why that is?

@matthewfowler6032 Год назад

That’s because the music industry is about the industry and not about the music.

@themusicboxx8419 Год назад

@@matthewfowler6032 Well said!

@biteme0973 Год назад

and Quality is the word which all songs and bands had back through the 70's and 80's

@HAMMERHEAD-g3h Год назад

@@MultiSkyman1I think it's pretty easy. There's just a lot more forms of entertainment and with streaming, pro tools etc, there's no big record labels to throw promotions everywhere like they used to. Let's be honest, young kids have always driven popular music. With the rise of video games, tick tock exedra, that's what young kids are doing nowadays. They are not creating, nor listening to music like we were. I can say this with confidence because I work at a school. Kids just don't listen to music that much. They're more concerned about making a video go viral with something silly or spending they're night playing video games online with their friends. We didn't have that. Me and my friends used to sit around and talk about which albums were the best, who had the best guitar player and which band was better. That just doesn't happen nowadays. You got to think about this to, I personally started playing guitar because I wanted to sound like the grates greats. If you aren't listening to music, you don't know what the great's are and you have no reason to pick an instrument up in the first place.

@justsomemincedgarlic Год назад

It was almost a decade earlier, but arguably the greatest debut album of all time is Led Zeppelin I. Their introduction to the world with Good Times Bad Times is iconic.

@veronicagee4335 Год назад

I turned 15 the summer of '78 and I was blown away by Dire Straits first album. To this day Sultans of Swing is my all-time favourite song. So much great music from the 70's!

@cogasawara1 Год назад

Kate Bush - so happy you played this album! My favorite song too. 💗. You just made me relive my Junior year in high school!

@elcuervodhaedo Год назад

Krafwerk - The Man Machine was released on 1978, a fundamental album for electronic music.

@chrisoldman9404 Год назад

I'm from Germany, and this album came up on my mind instantly when I heard "great 1978 albums". You're 100% right. Thx for mentioning it!

@sdingeswho Год назад

Rick, once again you’re absolutely spot-on - a couple of years ago I was pointing this out to a lady friend who hosts an acoustic-rock radio program, what a phenomenal year in music 1978 was! You expect all kinds of incredible years in the mid-to-late ‘60s, but you are the first person I’ve run into who has “noticed” 1978 🙂! You hit the Big 3, for me - Dire Straits’ debut, Don’t Look Back, and the mighty Stranger in Town, all 3 of which I frequently play to this very day 😁❤️! Full disclosure: I do happen to be around your age, Rick (1 year younger), but there’s more than just sentiment involved - ‘78 was an absolutely unbelievable year in music! The list of the Class of ‘78 that I assembled goes on way beyond these examples - I’ll see your list, and raise you Time Passages by Al Stewart, which features unbelievably-tasty lead guitar by Tim Renwick!

@stephen9302 Год назад

I was born in 1978. The solo of Mark Knoplfer in Sultans of Swing is just PERFECTION

@burkelong4376 Год назад

In '78 I had two young children who I introduced to all of this music. To this day they appreciate how lucky they were to be a part of such a unique moment in musical history.

@davidtollefson8411 Год назад

I remember that year well. One notable omission- Heaven Tonight by Cheap Trick. So much great, new-sounding rock music was being made then.

@artheriford Год назад

OHHHHH. that is a good one!

@animeelfgamer2412 Год назад

1978 and I was 18! What a great time for rock! WORJ in Orlando played whole albums every Saturday night and we couldn't wait! Also the drinking age was 18 then too!

@chriscarter2101 Год назад

This was the time i really got interested in music as a lad. I'd have included Gerry Rafferty's 'City to City' Album here. That still means a lot to me.

@valuedhumanoid6574 Год назад

This is proof that music is a time traveling machine. Every clip he played took me back to a specific time and place where I first heard it. I was12 years old and the Sultans of Swing took me back with my dad and me going to pick up a pontoon boat on a rainy Saturday. The Cars Just What I Needed took me to my aunts living room where I was listening to that album on her Pioneer stereo. And on and on. Just spent the last 5 minutes with chills...

@mowellen3 Год назад

It’s rare to see a shout-out to Hemispheres… still my favorite Rush album after all these years. We Rochestarians love our Rush.

@gr8whyte66 Год назад

And so do our Torontonians! 😉

@blpadge2 Год назад

1978 the height of disco, and these bands that would be the soundtrack to my life in the 80's releasing their first hits, Van Halen, The Police, The Cars, Dire Straits. WOW

@therej5052 Год назад

I'd say any year between 1967-1971 was great too.

@grayfool Год назад

The seventies in general was an amazing decade for great music. I am so glad I was a teenager during that period.

@Shambolicoholic Год назад

70s was rock artistry at its peak. Amazing.

@jeffreyquinn3820 Год назад

Most of what's been good ever since really wasn't rock 'n' roll. Heck, most of what was good in the seventies really wasn't, either. It was more of a marketing label than anything that was actually being produced.

@BoltRM Год назад

Rock.

@drifterman319 Год назад

That Boston Don't' Look Back album I wore out. A Man I'll Never Be, so majestically magnificent. Incredible rock ballad.

@DonSchenck Год назад

Having lived through that as a teenager ... I (we) took all this for granted. In hindsight: WOW. What a year.

@notbraindead7298 Год назад

Don: We took a lot more than music for granted.

@DonSchenck Год назад

@@notbraindead7298 Ain't that the truth.

@Gottenhimfella Год назад

I reckon 1971 was also extraordinary: Gordon Lightfoot "If You Could Read My Mind" Janis Joplin "Me and Bobby McGee" Ike & Tina Turner "Proud Mary" Jethro Tull "Aqualung", “Locomotive Breath” Marvin Gaye "What's Going On" Three Dog Night "Joy To The World" Rolling Stones "Brown Sugar" Rock Opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" Carole King "It's Too Late, Baby" Ringo Starr "It Don't Come Easy" Carly Simon "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" Emerson Lake & Palmer "Tarkus" and we’re only up to June! James Taylor "You've Got A Friend" The Concert For Bangladesh The Who "Won't Get Fooled Again" Bill Withers "Ain't No Sunshine" Rod Stewart "Maggie May", “Reason to Believe” Isaac Hayes "Theme From Shaft" John Lennon "Imagine", “Jealous Guy” Yes "Roundabout" Led Zeppelin "Stairway To Heaven" Sly & The Family Stone "Family Affair" David Bowie ”Changes”, “Oh You Pretty Things” and “Life on Mars”

@notbraindead7298 Год назад

@@Gottenhimfella Yes, that was an extraordinary year.

@johnmyers8921 Год назад

Some you didn't mention. Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight, Judas Priest - Stained Class, Tom Waits - Blue Valentine, Styx - Pieces of Eight, The Who - Who are you... So many good albums in 1978.

@spindriftdrinker Год назад

I was a big Who fan in the 70s - and I thought "Who By Numbers" was a rock masterpiece. Sadly, for me - that was the last good Who album. "Who Are You" was a disappointment, and then Moon was dead...

@kb9565 Год назад

Heaven Tonight definitely was a great album! Pieces of Eight great too!

@guilhermerafael7838 Год назад

This would make a great series, showing the most iconic debuts/moments of a particular year

@Tooncesthecatwhodrives Год назад

Agreed!

@rolloman667 Год назад

Professor of rock already doing this on youtube.

@Tooncesthecatwhodrives Год назад

@@rolloman667 I watch him as well lol. I watch Rick beato, professor of rock and Doug Helvering.

@seanmcmonagle4012 Год назад

Personally, 1991 was an incredible year, and so was 1987. I love 1978 madly. There was also Gerry Rafferty's City To City, Patti Smith's Easter, Springsteen's Darkness On The Edge Of Town, and...

@parodygm Год назад

Yeah, I immediately thought of '91 myself... Nirvana "Nevermind", Pearl Jam "Ten," Soundgarden "Badmotorfinger", MBV "Loveless", Pixies "Trompe le Monde", R.E.M "Out of Time", Smashing Pumpkins "Gish", Massive Attack "Blue Lines", Metallica S/T black album... phenomenal year.

@pmanglano Год назад

Great to hear Bob Seger mentioned. He's an extremely underrated musician. Also, in 1978 Bruce Springsteen put out "Darkness on the Edge of Town", one of his best albums, in my opinion.