vintage58
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Fair enough. But every decade has its share of "Achy Breaky Hearts," and the amount of truly great music from the 1970s clearly outweighs (by far, at that) whatever cheesy pop songs the decade may have produced—certainly to the point of rendering the 1970s almost completely ineligible for "bad music as one of its hallmarks" status.You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
That's Rock 'n' Roll - Shaun Cassidy
Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast - Wayne Newton
The Candy Man - Sammy Davis Jr
Let Your Love Flow - the Bellamy Brothers
Kiss You All Over - Exile
December 1963 (Oh What a Night) - the Four Seasons
My Melody of Love - Bobby Vinton
Burning Bridges - the Mike Curb Congregation
Different Worlds - Maureen McGovern
I think those will suffice. I don't know about other planets.
Such status would, I think, be way more rightfully conferred upon the 1990s and the 2000s. Now there are a couple of decades with some positively terrible music! You listed ten 1970s songs that you view as awful, right? Well, I think it might be an infinitely more telling process to try to list the truly great songs of a particular decade. You would need a lot of looseleaf to do that for the 1970s! But go ahead and try to list ten great songs of the 1990s and the 2000s. You'll then see what it really means for a decade to have bad music as one of its hallmarks.
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