Apple Shares Trailer for Docuseries '1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything' Coming to Apple TV+ May 21

[Ruggy]

Yes, a good year no doubt but odd to mention The Who when most of their best stuff had already been written.
Jimmy was already dead and it's hard to imagine a year that changed everything when Jimmy had already gone.
The Cream had already disbanded.
Led Zep II was 69 and I think that was their most important album.
It's a bit late in my opinion.
From a British point of view the American Forces Network in the 60s inspiring all those brilliant young kids like Page, Blackmore, Beck, Townsend and Clapton and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers are what changed everything.
And it wasn't for nothing that Jimmy went to the UK in 66 where he first made it big.

 

[George Dawes]

The 70s were arguably the most important decade in popular music , from rock to metal to new wave to disco to punk etc etc

 

[PDubNYC]

Yes, a good year no doubt but odd to mention The Who when most of their best stuff had already been written.
Jimmy was already dead and it's hard to imagine a year that changed everything when Jimmy had already gone.
The Cream had already disbanded.
Led Zep II was 69 and I think that was their most important album.
It's a bit late in my opinion.
From a British point of view the American Forces Network in the 60s inspiring all those brilliant young kids like Page, Blackmore, Beck, Townsend and Clapton and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers are what changed everything.
And it wasn't for nothing that Jimmy went to the UK in 66 where he first made it big.

unintentional and harmless, but it is "Jimi". Somehow reading "Jimmy" stabbed my eyes every time you wrote it

 

[mactactic]

I think 1977 would have been more interesting, the beginning of punk & new wave and hip hop. That sound of music has echoed threw the 80’s to now.

 

[Breaking Good]

If you are old enough to have listened to music during the 70's (like me), you know it sucked.

Yes, there has been great music and great musicians from every age and every genre. But on the whole music from the 70's just sucked.

Don't believe me? Listen to SiriusXM the 70's on 07 for an hour and you'll understand. The music from the 70's has this melancholy undertone throughout it.

 

[wovel]

The year I was born. I’ll be watching this one for sure

Same. No one told me turning 50 meant documentaries.

 

[ArrayDecay]

Every year is important. 1974 was important. So was 1959.

 

[DeepIn2U]

Maybe they should focus on the musicians and composers who died in the 1970’s and how that changed the world.

oh that’s an easy hot minute - they all died at 23.
Sorry life should be celebrated not focused on how many or how it ended.

I’m looking forward to this production

 

[JEY]

If you are old enough to have listened to music during the 70's (like me), you know it sucked.

Yes, there has been great music and great musicians from every age and every genre. But on the whole music from the 70's just sucked.

Don't believe me? Listen to SiriusXM the 70's on 07 for an hour and you'll understand. The music from the 70's has this melancholy undertone throughout it.

The worst music and the best music can exist at the same time. For the most part, when have commercial radio stations ever had a clue?

That being said, I think it's silly to generalize music in any way; certainly lumping music together of one year like it deserves more recognition is silly. Much like forcing music into genres.

Perhaps picking a certain year allows an interesting and specific discussion of music and culture. It's not like one can make a series like this and actually cover the ever changing thing that is music. How far do we go back to discuss how we arrived here? It would be a silly task to try and say everything that is relevant. Focus is needed, in my opinion. They picked a certain focus, and I'm curious what they have to say.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Groovy, man. I am looking forward to seeing this.

 

[name99]

Sounds like nostalgia.

For most of the audience it's not nostalgia; you'd have to be older then 50 (and honestly at least 60) to have much lived experience of 1971 and its music.

The real emotion is one that cannot be admitted aloud by most people; it's the emotion of living in Soviet Russia or Calvinist Geneva or post-1979 Iran or Republican England -- it's the knowledge that you're living in a time of thought control, a time when every word and action has to be carefully measured, along with the knowledge that just a generation ago things were different, speech was much free-er, alternative lifestyles were more feasible.

Yes yes I know this is not the narrative about our times that we are supposed to believe. Just like Moscow, Geneva, Tehran, London we're supposed to believe that the revolution has ushered into the greatest of all times for all people; and that our commissars are doing God's work even as they gleefully destroy human lives.
Well, believe you want. I'm old enough and have lived long enough in enough different places to understand the mood now, and why it's the way it is.

 

[mrsmith1]

Really looking forward to seeing this. It’s partly based on the book by British journalist and write, David Hepworth

 

[penguinlust]

I find it interesting that the trailer doesn't mention Led Zeppelin when Led Zeppelin IV is, by far, the best-selling album from that year. If they don't touch on that they'll have missed the elephant in the room.

 

[michaelb5000]

I think 1977 would have been more interesting, the beginning of punk & new wave and hip hop. That sound of music has echoed threw the 80’s to now.

I would say 1979 for music and importance, but for the same reasons you mention, so 79 gets you London Calling (so is both the best of punk and the end of punk) as well as the rise of rap in the Sugar Hill Gang and new wave in many bands + the end of classic rock in the Wall and the final album and subsequent breakup of Zep (which was in 1980).

 

[Virgilinsanity]

“You won’t have a new thing, until you have a new music”. Mick Jagger, 1971.

 

[Corsig]

Same. No one told me turning 50 meant documentaries.

Lol No one told me turning 50 (July 30) would suck so bad

 

[Datalinks]

Looks like everybody was stoned in 1971 apart from Nixon

 

[asleep]

I was there. 71 was a very good, 69 better imo.

Those were in the sweetspot of a lot of good music years.

 

[Skobie1kanobie]

I love AppleTV+ so much. I hope they continue with their current curation of quality content. Click on almost anything and its at least a 7/10.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

What about Pink Floyds 1971 album Meddle? The album is the first of the so called 'classic era' and includes the song echoes. But okay, maybe this music is just timeless?

Meddle is such an incredible record, and in just six tracts, it's hard to even describe. It's grand, intimate, silly, rough, sleek, unpolished, wild, serene, noisy, incredibly sophisticated and still completely DIY and a pile of sonic experiments, bound to be popular forever, and already ephemeral with the master tapes at the end of their lifecycle. And if you didn't think much of the album, Pompeii (which is similarly ephemaral) will sear it into your brain. It's a charming, beautiful, explosive prototype.

 

[mactactic]

I would say 1979 for music and importance, but for the same reasons you mention, so 79 gets you London Calling (so is both the best of punk and the end of punk) as well as the rise of rap in the Sugar Hill Gang and new wave in many bands + the end of classic rock in the Wall and the final album and subsequent breakup of Zep (which was in 1980).

New York dolls 1977, Joy Division, The runaways, The Damned.