# Can we agree that the worst decade for popular music was the 1970s? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-agree-that-the-worst-decade-for-popular-music-was-the-1970s/690944 "2014-06-16T23:43:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 111
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-agree-that-the-worst-decade-for-popular-music-was-the-1970s/690944/111 "2014-06-19T00:00:29Z")
Including the tail end of the 60s in the discussion is a bit of a cheat, and for the change in the country’s zeitgeist, I’d start no earlier than Nixon’s reelection. For pop culture purposes, the 70s thus really probably spanned from around 1973 to 1980. E.g., the Beatles broke up in 1970, but you wouldn’t call them a 70s band. But Wings, you would. As someone pointed out in [a thread about the “creepy Seventies”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=634400): > [@Creepy Seventies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-seventies/605727/10): > > Yeah, the early 70s were still the 60s, the real 70s didn’t get started until the mid-70s. > > There’s a particular filthy dirty sleazy look to the 70s, like the clothes, the hair, the skin, the furniture and the food are coated with a thin layer of slime. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-agree-that-the-worst-decade-for-popular-music-was-the-1970s/690944)._