Anyone else notice that (and this happened quite a few times) "I Love The '70s" was kinda loose with the dates? For instance, one year's episode would feature a show that premiered like three years earlier? And I think the whole "The Who Vs. Led Zeppelin" debate would've been in the earlier '70s as opposed to 1978.
Thoughts, comments, reply.
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"I Love The '70s" was kinda loose with the dates? For instance, one year's episode would feature a show that premiered like three years earlier?"
Could you be a little more specific. I kind of thought the same thing but thought maybe it meant when the show hit a level of popularity or something. The one thing that I couldn't deal with was some of the people talking like they were older about something. For instance one guy (?) was talking about breaking out the jack and coke in '76 for the bicentennial. And later he said something about "I was almost 5 at the time" about something else.
The dates of the years of the material didn't bother me near as much as some of the cast talking about stuff that they watched or listened to at the time. I was born at the beginning of the 70's but I can't remember specific stuff of a show until I watched them again re-runs in the 80's. It just cracked me up that most of them would fall into the same category.
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The comment about breaking out the coke for the Bicentennial was a joke. Besides, it's easy for some people to talk about things back then because some might be kids, or some of the 70s stuff bleeded into the 80s, like Isis and Shazam and Grizzly Adams and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
shareTrue! I realize after watching a lot more of these shows that Michael Ian Black is jokester but with such a serious (deapan) sarcastic delivery. Wich totally cracks me up after seeing more. After seeing more, I have learned to not take much of it as seriousness but as pure fun. I think that one episode was one of the very first ones I saw, so I learned.
I agree it is easy to talk about some of the stuff when it carrys over to when one is a little older or in re-runs (syndication) But many of those episodes of them talking like that they were talking as if they had seen it in the first run or whatever. Like Starsky and Hutch or those shows, when they were all in the 70's and those talking about it were what Four? I can understand seeing it later on but some of it just sounded ridiculous. Especially when they had people on there that were born after the show debuted.
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I was a little surprised when they had The Who vs Led Zeppelin in 1978, too. Then again, the bands had such a strong fan base, they could have been strong that year. I was living in Atlanta in 1978. One of the newspapers did a poll of favorite rock groups. Led Zeppelin placed first even though they hadn't toured in awhile and they had no new records. In the Out Door was released later.
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Led Zeppelin hadn't released a record in 2 years and was recording their worst album in '78. The Who had 2 good songs left in them at that point. Though my dad, who was really into the music scene in the 70's had no idea such a debate ever occured, I guess it would be better off in '74.
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I don't remember the debate either but I wasn't in high school in the late '70's. Guess your Dad was! But it did seem late in the decade that debate if it ever existed. I do remember that album, Coda?, was the only one of theirs to end up in the bargain bin. Led Zeppelin's fans were loyal, though. When In Through the Out Door was released, kids flocked to the records stores and bought other albumns as well. One thing that occurred to me was, if high school athletes athletes in the '70s liked The Who, how many of them worked as firefighters in New York City on 9/11? And, loved The Who's performance after 9/11, besides which they gave a great performance.
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I noticed they featured Devo in "1978"- they may have been a band then, but they were really popular in, like, 1982..........
shareYes, I was surprised, too. I remember 1980 but I get your point.
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I'm only 16, but I know a lot about the 70's (mainly cause I envy everyone who lived then. My favorite band is The Who). My dad said that the debate wasn't Zep vs. The Who with his friends but it was The Rolling Stones Vs. The Who.
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The Rolling Stones dissed The Who's tour of America one summer, implying they were rehashing old sounds. In the '60's, it was The Rolling Stones vs The Beatles, mainly that the Stones were true to their blues roots while The Beatles's tried everything. I have to mention Devo to the post above. They were big in 1980. There is a town west of Philadelphia called Devon, where the Devon Horse Show is held every spring. There was a sign on Route 202 indicating the Devon exit. For years, some Devo fan would paint over the last letter so the sign said Devo. It even made the paper.
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