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Originally Posted by Charlatan
You're crazy! The mid-70s was ripe with great music. Pop music almost always sucks, pay it no heed. 
Patti Smith
The Ramones
Television
Richard Hell and the Voivods
Talking Heads
Lou Reed's best solo works
David Bowie's Berlin trilogy of albums
Iggy Pop's solo work
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Maybe.
I don't know, I just think from around '72 to the Hotel California, Rumours, Bat out of Hell, Stranger, etc. era the music from the 70's was really devoid of creativity as a whole. I just believe the industry was relying on past formulas and selling them, so if you lived in the heartland you weren't as aware of the underground music as say those living in NYC and L.A. where the bands of the future were solidifying the sound.
Yeah, you had punk coming in and with it a new sound but as a whole the music was bland. I think because IMHO the new bands that would later be major players (the Eagles, the Runaways, Queen, Fleetwood Mac adding Lindsey and Stevie, the Sex Pistols, Blondie, etc) were just starting to break into the business and had not quite yet solidified their sounds.
Sorry to threadjack.