How many "new" genres were introduced in the 1970s?

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How many "new" genres were introduced in the 1970s?

Postby GoogaMooga » 03 Dec 2019, 19:52

Hello! Hello. Digging a bare-bones 20 tracker by Sweet (also known as The Sweet), and man, the memories. It was great to be a kid in those days, experience all that new music unfold in real time.

Really, did any other decade offer as much diversity, introduce as many new genres? I put "new" in quotation marks, because there were for the most part forerunners to the big genres that emerged full force in the 1970s.

Let's list, let's do this thing:

glam
prog
punk
hair metal
disco
rap
industrial
electronica
dub reggae
salsa
AOR
pub rock
new wave
post punk
soft rock
wimp rock
yacht rock
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Re: How many "new" genres were introduced in the 1970s?

Postby naughty boy » 03 Dec 2019, 22:06

freg
nole-pitework
ghostmilk
'ar'
nol-pop
region-ooo
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Re: How many "new" genres were introduced in the 1970s?

Postby Muskrat » 04 Dec 2019, 01:28

Death bluegrass
Hawaiian jazz
Prog polka
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Postby GoogaMooga » 04 Dec 2019, 05:35

Muskrat wrote:Death bluegrass
Hawaiian jazz
Prog polka


Brilliant! :D (and probably true...)
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Postby Quaco » 04 Dec 2019, 09:00

It would be interesting to list how many genres (or sub-genres) were introduced in the '90s. Hundreds! (And none as interesting as at least 3/4 of this list.)
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Postby soundchaser » 04 Dec 2019, 15:15

Great thread idea, GM. Quite a few favourites of mine here and I’ll admit to disco and yacht rock as guilty pleasures.

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Postby harvey k-tel » 04 Dec 2019, 15:22

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Postby C » 04 Dec 2019, 16:37

GoogaMooga wrote:yacht rock


I've never heard the term before

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Postby GoogaMooga » 04 Dec 2019, 17:22

I forgot psychobilly and hardcore, but I am not sure if they were 70s or 80s.
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Postby GoogaMooga » 04 Dec 2019, 17:23

soundchaser wrote:Great thread idea, GM. Quite a few favourites of mine here and I’ll admit to disco and yacht rock as guilty pleasures.

There, I’ve said It.


Thanks, I'll join you in liking those ones.
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GoogaMooga wrote:I forgot psychobilly and hardcore, but I am not sure if they were 70s or 80s.



hardbilly was definitely 70s

that makes 328, Harv! :P
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Postby Mike Boom » 04 Dec 2019, 18:22

328 -1 = 327 - Hair Metal is an eighties thang not 70's
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Postby soundchaser » 05 Dec 2019, 10:21

C wrote:
GoogaMooga wrote:yacht rock


I've never heard the term before

https://magazine.vinylmeplease.com/maga ... own-vinyl/

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As near as damn it, C, this is yacht rock:



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Postby ConnyOlivetti » 06 Dec 2019, 17:52

GoogaMooga wrote:
electronica


Never heard of it during the 70's
Belongs more to the 90's if I'm not wrong.....
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Postby GoogaMooga » 06 Dec 2019, 19:32

ConnyOlivetti wrote:
GoogaMooga wrote:
electronica


Never heard of it during the 70's
Belongs more to the 90's if I'm not wrong.....


Okay, what would you call early electronic bands like Kraftwerk then?
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GoogaMooga wrote:
ConnyOlivetti wrote:
GoogaMooga wrote:
electronica


Never heard of it during the 70's
Belongs more to the 90's if I'm not wrong.....


Okay, what would you call early electronic bands like Kraftwerk then?


German.

When we were at school 75-79. Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream were referred to as German rather than any particular genre.
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Speaking of German:

Kraut Rock.
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Postby Mike Boom » 06 Dec 2019, 22:29

I don’t know what “Wimp Rock” is either ?
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Mike Boom wrote:I don’t know what “Wimp Rock” is either ?


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GoogaMooga wrote:
ConnyOlivetti wrote:
GoogaMooga wrote:
electronica


Never heard of it during the 70's
Belongs more to the 90's if I'm not wrong.....


Okay, what would you call early electronic bands like Kraftwerk then?


I think we just called it synth music, or syntheseizer music
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