When I listen to the classic rock station on the radio i notice there are a bunch of songs that reference 1969 in some form or fashion. It baffles me that these songs just revolve around how great these people think this year was. Other than the humorous sexual inuendo that is the number i fail to see the appeal of could have been any kind of awesomeness of this year. Lets have a small look form my point of view
NUMBER ONE - there was no Star Wars. I dont know if i should list this as first and foremost or the dagger that seals the deal at the end.
Star Trek the Original series was cancelled - WTF!!! i have no words for this given we landed on the moon and the whole obsession with space stuff kicked into full swing.
Dark Side of the Moon was still about 4 years away from release. I mean if you are a true Floyd fan (and im not) was there ever a time before Darkside? I heard a person call the radio station the other day and requested a song purposely NOT from Darkside and NOT from The Wall...they said they didnt have any songs from other albums to play....WTF???
The Vietnam war was in full swing
You wierdos elected Nixon - this is debateable but ill just chalk this up to a generation of drug addict hippies on way too much LSD.
Charles Manson was alive and well and doing his thing. This is easily countered with Jeffery Dahmer but still, this guy had a cult and a following.
Vince Lombardi had retired as head coach of the Green Bay Packers the previous year after winning the Super Bowl.
You still had to be 21 to vote.
THERE WAS NO WALT DISNEY WORLD!!!
OK Ill give you the landing on the moon - which created the space toy craze which should have fueled Star Trek...idiots.
NO I am not going to give credit to Woodstock. If that happened today everyone of those drug addicts would be doing time for possession amoung other things. Yes i realize that Jimi Hendrix is revered as the greatest guitarist ever, however, everytime i see a top however many list there is almost always a bullet about how much LSD everyone was on back then. Is it possible that if all the people were sober that Hendrix, Joplin, the Beatles, etc, etc would never have achieved stardom? But this is a post all its own.
Now those that know me will argue back with things like there was no RAP or HIPHOP music, no Twilight or Justin Bieber, well these are minor compared to the first 3 things i listed.
now you will notice i have chosen to not get totally unfair and talk about things like cellphones and technology related things. I deem this to be slightly unfair. either way it just seems to me that there was a severe lack of culture or culture induced by artificial means (LSD). Or perhaps the pure amount of ignorance was sheer bliss? if there is an answer that has to be it. but then that would suggest as time went on the subsequent years would be looked upon as better. I dont know there just seems to be a large quantity of people that never left the concert and seem to be stuck there forever.
Anyway, yeah, 1969 sucked ass.
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