My dad was a teenager during the sixties and my mom was in the seventies and whenever I watch movies like dazed and confused, or almost famous and this show I always get jealous becuase being a teenager now sucks I mean just the fact that people think paris hilton can sing makes me sick serisouly I have the spirit of the sixties but stuck in the twenty first century. Everything seems so much better before...
You Cannot Rape The Willing.
i couldnt agree more buddy.
shareI wish I had, too....
shareya seriously!!! im the exact same way, like the only music i listen to, movies i love, art i love, all comes from the 60's!! like music from that decade actually MEANT something, unlike most of the crap from today like Paris Hilton...i mean the people that other people worshipped like John Lennon and Jim Morrisson actually DID stuff and like were real icons, unlike stupid pop stars of today. my friends make fun of me because i'm stuck in the 60's...but i really wish i could live then!!
Umm excuse me? You're crowding my aura.
I think I have more of the spirit of '76. "More Than A Feeling" is my anthem, yet all my friends have "The Real Slim Shady" sing-a-longs.
I am not your captain.
exactly i thought i was almost alone in my thinking. my dad is awed (and proud) that when we are in the car we both can listen to the same music. i meant so much, now there is no meaning in songs. i mean dont get me wrong i like "some" of the new stuff but honestly i like alot of older stuff. its like the 80s all over again with matterialism. where i live surprisingly in the last few years the music choices are really split 60's 70's vs. rap. Im so amazed. history goes around in a secular repeating motion. and the crap of back then is back today.
live your life to the fullest, you only got one.
lol jeez i thought you guys would be saying that you'd love to live there back because of the drugs. I gotta agree though, it everyone said there was soo much freedom and great music back then. Too bad so many people back then became hypocrits, you know how you can't do what they did back then.
sharei agree completely. Todays teenagers seem so naive. They have no taste in music whatsoever. The fact that paris hilton and jessica sipmson are todays role models as opposed to the beatles and led zepp. is sickening. Im only 15, and im happy i don't take part in any of that. I hate rap, there is just no meaning to it. Nothing good about it. I love the learning about the 60's and the 70's. Everything and everyone just seemed to be more carefree and just all around happier. Those time periods just all sound much much more appealing. That show that recently came out on mtv called the drug years was so interesting. I learned so many new things. I'd love to be able to just go out on a friday night with a group of people tripping on acid.. and just laying in the grass all night listening to music without a care in the world. AH.
share"i agree completely. Todays teenagers seem so naive. They have no taste in music whatsoever. The fact that paris hilton and jessica sipmson are todays role models as opposed to the beatles and led zepp. is sickening. Im only 15, and im happy i don't take part in any of that. I hate rap, there is just no meaning to it. Nothing good about it. I love the learning about the 60's and the 70's. Everything and everyone just seemed to be more carefree and just all around happier. Those time periods just all sound much much more appealing. That show that recently came out on mtv called the drug years was so interesting. I learned so many new things. I'd love to be able to just go out on a friday night with a group of people tripping on acid.. and just laying in the grass all night listening to music without a care in the world. AH. "
You think todays teenagers seem completely naive? Congratulations, you're one of them. To say something like rap has nothing good about it is an absurd statement. Obviously, the majority of todays rap is complete garbage, but just like rock music, there were pioneers and people talking about things they truly believed in. Tupac, Biggie, Dr. Dre, the list can go on and on. Know about a topic before you make a ridiculous assumption about it.
Here's to us poor schmoes, working for the man. Even if he is a hot, sexy female man.
i agree! i HATE paris, lindsay, jessica all of them. its really sad that they make
SO much money. i dont like rap at all but my brothers love it. they dont understand why i dont like it and they dont understand why i love rock so much.im not even going to try and argue with them because they would never feel the same
way i do about rock.also rap started in the late 70s early 80s but rock started 50/60s so well see how it goes. i would love just not to care about anything at all. i would do anything to go back to 60s/70s. also it was on vh1 not mtv. mtv wouldnt waste their time on aring this.they think laguna beach and super sweet 16 is better. EW. and you cant even compare the music today then during 60s/70s.
You Cannot Rape The Willing.
i feel you dude.
even before I watched this GREAT documentary, i wish i could go back in time and just live out a day in the life of the 60s and 70s.
if i go go back and take a time capsule, my three top moments to visit/be a part of would be:
1) Martin's "I Have a Dream" speech on the Mall in DC
2) The Summer of Love in Haight-Ashbury
3) Woodstock '69
Such an awesome time. had so much meaning. there was a reason (and a good reason), to stand up for human rights, for a true spiritual freedom and humanity in general.
today it is some sh*it. i much rather pump jefferson airplane's 'surrealistic airplane' and pink flyod's 'dark side of the moon' than what's on the radio today.
oh wait, i do. lol
WHATEVER DRUGGIE
shareYou're not the only young person who fills this way. My dad was a teenager in the sixties as well, served in 'Nam. It was a scary time, the country had alot of change put into in a very short amount of time. The country's heart couldn't take what was going on around it, so people fed their head instead.
Maybe our generation has something great in it, our country is going through a difficult time, the economy is unstable, our enviroment as at more risk than ever before. Maybe a piece of that unforgetable era can be carried into our future, a guiding light. I like that sig, you cannot rape the willing, I think that applies here too. If we don't do something soon, we'll just be *beep* ourselves.
I was just talking about this with my mother today about how I wish I was living in the 60's or 70's right now instead of the 2000's. She laughed and said she felt the very same way when she was my age (she went to highschool in the early 70's) except she wished she was a teen in the 30's or 40's. I guess all teens are going to go through the angst of wishing for a simpler life with better music. Just think, our kids might be saying one that they wish they were teens in the early 2000's when myspace was the big thing and Panic! At the Disco and Fall out boy were still around. But, none the less, I'd do almost anything to be a teen in the 60's.
shareI agree with you. all my friends think that i am strange to know so much or to even care about the 60's.
i don't like living in "today"
my small town will never understand.
i thought i was the only one in thinking that the 60's are cool.
well i am the only one who thinks it's cool(here anyway). and i don't think the drugs are the cool part, that just happened to be the time of great drug use.
This is so crazy. the things people have said in this thread echo exactly the words I have said before. I'm a songwriter, and to me, nothing beats the incredible songs of the 60's and 70's. I'm 18, and frightened of the culture my generation has created. Everyone who knows me says that I was born in the wrong era, and they couldn't be more right.
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i'm exactly the same way. i just feel so conected to the 60's era. it just feels like a part of me. my friends make fun of me because they think its weird that i feel hippie & obssed with the sixties. i guess its either you like it or not.
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You Cannot Rape The Willing.
I feel the same too. That universal moment in time where everything just felt right. The time was right the people were right, the music, the drugs, everything came into place to create a time that can never be replicated again. The message of love and peace is so different from today, where today it's just us alienating ourselves living in a prescription drug induced apathy. I've felt that my life has been a complete waste, I have done nothing with my life just like others around me. We all just go through the motions of the day worrying about trivial things not realizing that there is so much we could be capable of. The people in the 60's and 70's did something. All were doing is worrying about how many Myspace friends we have.
It wasn't called the "Sucky Seventies" for nothing! I was a kid in the 70's, graduated high school in the 80's....I longed for the 60's when I was in high school. I loved all the music from the 60's. I was the biggest Who fan in my school. A few of us literally listened to The Who all day, every day and wore our target Who shirts to school! We wanted to be "Mods".
I discovered punk rock in the late 70's while in grade school and went through the great punk music of the early 80's.
Now kids, are wearing Ramones T-shirts, Pistols T-shirts, Who shirts and borrowing my old Dead Kennedys, TSOL and Minutemen CD's and cassettes wishing they grew up in the 80's!