Late Seventies

1. LateSeventies And doingjusticetotheAmericans… Grand FunkRailroad? BlueOysterCult?

2. LynyrdSkynyrd, orsouthern rock • „Confederate rock”, workingclass • CharacteristicsoundWas I Right orWrong?, from 1978 First and last • Cassette(bonusafterGimme back myBullets, 1975) • Halfthebanddiedinplanecrash, 1977 • Gimme back myBullets, from 1976 eponymous album • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIRZh_ZqdbI&feature=related • Foryour interest, The LastRebelfrom a muchlater album • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr5aXpeDWNI&feature=related

3. Like a restlessleaf, intheautumnbreezeOnce I was a tumblin’ weedLikea rollin’ stone, cold and allaloneLivingforthedaymytrainwouldcomeNevercaredforschooloranygoldenrulesPapa usedtoalwayssay I was a uselessfoolSo I leftmyhometo show ’emtheywaswrongAnd headed out ontheroad singing my song Thenonesunnyday, the man, he lookedmywayAnd everythingthat I dreamed of, itwasrealMoney, girls and cars, andbiglongcigarsAnd I caughtthefirstplanehomeso papa wouldsee When I wenthometo show ’emtheywaswrongAllthat I foundwastwotombstonesSomebodytellmepleasewasI right orwrong Oh, such a sad song First I gotlost, thenIgotfoundButtheonesthatI love areinthegroundPapa I onlywishyoucouldseemenowTake a listen papa Whoo, I learnthowto play myguitarGonna be a superstarPlay oneformommanowFirst I gotlost, thenIgotfoundThe ones I love areinthegroundWon’tyoutellmepleasewas I right orwrongIfthere’sanywayyoucanhearwhat I sayPapa, I nevermeanttodoyouwrongAllthemoney, girls and carsandalltheworld’slongcigarsPapa, I justwantyoutoknowtheycouldn’ttakeyourplace Was I Right orWrong

4. Kansas, or conglomerate rock • Recruited from around Topeka, Kansas • Closet Chronicles, from Point of Know Return album 1977 (cassette) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ld3prHzbdY • (British?) rock press hostility "a wan and ridiculous rehash of the bargain-basement exoticism employed by the British art-rock crowd." • Really masterminded by businessman Don Kirshner? • Talented keyboardist, violinist • Similar bands considered bland, pompous and fake were Styx, Journey and Canadian Rush • Major hit: Dust in the Wind • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ • Beautiful, isn’t it? Baroque rock? • Half the band turned to born-again christianity, Vynil confessions 1982 • Which band do they sound like in this song? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bhdgxmii-c • Or in this one? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q28lZkiWxUU

5. Once carried through the currentAnd being swept awayThe king is in the closetHe's hiding from todayAnd though he owns all fortunesThis room is where he'll stayAnd his world is filled with darkness, turning greyGazing out the windowOf the 42nd second floorHe is separate from all othersNo one knocks upon his doorAnd it might as well be raining 'cause the sunlight hurts his eyesAnd his ears will never hear the children's cries Once proud and full of passionHe fought the cause of manMany people loved his courageMany followed his commandHe changed the old into the newAnd the course of things to comeAnd then one day they noticed he was goneAt first it didn't matterNobody seemed to careThey all became too busyTo find him anywhere do no one knew hot even him ClosetChronicles

6. The problems he would findOn the day he journeyed deep into his mindI close my eyes I go far awayAway from this battlefieldIn my dreams well here I will enjoy itWhere innocence plays with all the laughing childrenThe kind who are crying right nowA taste of freedom from the painOf everything here I seeLife is sweet but I took it all for grantedAnd now I don't know if I could even tell youJust what we permit, we allowAllow me to forget the life I've made my ownI've held this nation in my handAnd yet it's not my homeAllow me just one answer just one reason why Why this refugee of the family of man must dieTell me why Daydreams filled his nighttimesAnd night dreams filled his daysConfusion and uncertaintyA puzzled mind of hazeYou thought he was so powerfulAnd set upon his waysWell he left us all to travel through this mazeI heard the king was dyingI heard the king was deadAnd with him died the chroniclesThat no one ever readThe closet's fully empty nowIt's occupied by noneI'll draw the drapes now destiny is done Closet Chronicles cont’d

7. Heart, a West-coast women’s band • SistersAnn and Nacy Wilson • Annsoughtsatisfactioninmusicbecause of childhoodstammer! • Hard rock, heavy metal and folkmusic • Crazyonyou, from 1976 debut, Dreamboat Annie • cassette • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V44HiAX91Hs • Full album • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW34QQuL2gU • Barracuda, from 1977 Little Queen • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q74u5Mo4Onw&feature=related • Bebe le Strange, fromeponymous album, 1980 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdsA4aq4HoM&feature=related • Whichbandfromthecoursewasfairlyclearlytheirmasters?

8. Crazy On You lyrics We may still have timeWe might still get byEvery time I think about it I want to cryWith the bombs and the devilsAnd the kids keep comingNowhere to breathe easy...no time to be youngBut I tell myself that I'm doing alrightThere's nothing left to do tonight but go crazy on youMy love is the evening breeze touching your skinThe gentle sweet singing of leaves in the wind The whisper that calls, after you in the nightAnd kisses your ear in the early lightYou don't need to wonder, you're doing fineAnd my love, the pleasure's mineLet me go crazy on you Wild man's world is crying in painWhat you gonna do when everybody's insaneSo afraid of fortune, so afraid of youWhat you gonna do?Crazy on you, let me go crazy on youI was willow last night in my dreamI bent down over a clear running streamI sang you the song that i heard up aboveAnd you keep me alive with your sweet flowing loveCrazy, crazy on you,Let me go crazy, crazy on you

9. The Eagles, or soft (Californian) rock • Verysuccessfulband, notalwayssoft, whocoulddono wronginthe 1970s. • No other American bandsold more records. • Hotel California, fromeponymous album 1976 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnkJcjBCG88 • Outlaw Man, from 1973 Desperado • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y3tFxtze98&feature=BFa&list=AL94UKMTqg-9BxkPteGt2eH1Y45r9fl80-

10. The last? BBC video sequel • Asyouwatch, quitetlynote down thenames of theperformerswhoinvadedthe US. • WhatmusicwasmainstreaminAmerica, to be wagedwaragainst, atthe end of the 1970s? Backwardness? Long-hairedconventionalism? • Whatdoesitsaywasthenew British invasion? • WhywasitdiffcultforAmericanstounderstand punk? Whatwasthe American pretence – asthecriticsays -- thatpreventedthemfromunderstanding? • Whywasthe Sex Pistolsonly a trojanhorse? • WhyweretheBritsfrustrated and angry? Whatwasthecause, doyouthink, of theseethinganger, asthe video states? • Whatwastherole of American radiostationsinmaintaining/perpetuatingmusicthenewwaveBritsthoughtwasoutdated? • Whatdowelearnabouttheearlydays of MTV? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UiLnmnil8E

11. Homework • Listeningtothemusicidentified here • LynyrdSkynyrd, Kansas, Heart and Eaglesreadings • Criticscriticalappreciation • Comparisonwithyourowninsights • Watching BBC video onpreviousslide • Answeringcomprehensionquestions.