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What's knowing about 70s music got to do with being an American?You may ask how it is possible a 52 years old dude knows so little about the music of the 70's, but I am not American.
What's knowing about 70s music got to do with being an American?You may ask how it is possible a 52 years old dude knows so little about the music of the 70's, but I am not American.
For us Aussies not a lot, just depends on the radio stations attitude to local vs overseas music …some in the BBC in the UK hated the pirate Radio Caroline station playing stuff they didn’t deem “suitable”..What's knowing about 70s music got to do with being an American?
No, that would have been before my time. What I meant though, our diet of top 40 radio music in the 70s mainly consisted of Australian, British and US hits.For us Aussies not a lot, just depends on the radio stations attitude to local vs overseas music …some in the BBC in the UK hated the pirate Radio Caroline station playing stuff they didn’t deem “suitable”..
Were you around to remember the record label war and music bans in Australia at the turn of the 60’s / 70’s ?
Cover versions everywhere …Lol
True, but some of the European countries radio stations weren’t that “liberal” in the early 70’s with US music at least …especially with English being a second language in the vast majority of Europe …No, that would have been before my time. What I meant though, our diet of top 40 radio music in the 70s mainly consisted of Australian, British and US hits.
Because by the 1970’s Americans were starting to catch up with and compete with the “Brit Invasion”!What's knowing about 70s music got to do with being an American?
I was talking about American 70s music. Sunshine pop is an American phenomenon originating from California in the 60s as far as I have understood.What's knowing about 70s music got to do with being an American?
Talking about an "Aussie" band formed in the mid 70's, but enjoying their biggest success in the early 80's I discovered Air Supply a couple of years ago. I hate Yacht Rock as a music genre, but for some reason I love the music of Air Supply. Ironically my country Finland is geographically as far away as possible from the countries where Air Supply is the most popular: Japan, Australia/New Zealand, South Africa, South and especially North America (the US). I don't know if Air Supply has ever even performed in Europe.For us Aussies not a lot, just depends on the radio stations attitude to local vs overseas music …some in the BBC in the UK hated the pirate Radio Caroline station playing stuff they didn’t deem “suitable”..
Were you around to remember the record label war and music bans in Australia at the turn of the 60’s / 70’s ?
Cover versions everywhere …Lol
Sure. Sweden has ABBA and if we look at modern day successful pop music, Swedish producer Max Martin is responsible of half of it to exaggerate a little. Pop music is Sweden's 2nd biggest export sector I believe. Sweden has super-good music education system in schools and it shows how they rule pop music alongside The US and UK.Norway, Sweden and Finland have produced many popular bands,
Every country has 24 hour days, but you are talking about daylight of course. Finland has little daylight in the winter time, but in the summertime it is the opposite: We have nightless night (yötön yö) as present in the new Alan Wake II game. Come to Finland in late June and tell me we don't have daylight! Damn, you will be struggling to sleep because it never gets dark and you are not used to sleep in such conditions like we Finns are!maybe it's linked to their weather and shorter days?