1970s Music in Sheaman

In Sheaman the 1970s was a major change in the music scene with the major success of Disco and Club music in the early to mid 1970s and Progressive rock around the same time. It also saw a massive rise in Punk Rock and new Wave in the mid to late 1970s that was majorly influential towards the music of the 1980s in Sheaman. Some bands popular in the 70s were the Angelic Voices (an Art Rock, progressive rock band), Marching Berries (a Punk-Rock and Art Rock band), The Alienators (A Punk-Rock, Alt-Rock band), and Marie Charleston (a Soul, Rock n' Roll musician).

## Rock

### **Soft Rock**

Soft Rock was highly popular in the early 1970s and was a part of the new wave of music and music began transitioning in the late 60s into the "glam era" when a lot of soft-rock-glam-rock music was popular. The genre was considered the best-selling genre until 1975 when Punk Rock completely smashed the records that Soft Rock was making and dethroned Soft Rock's position in music of the 70s. Although Soft was popular in the early 70s it already saw signs of slowing down by 1973 as Proto-Punk (or Post-Garage as it was known at the time) started to gain attraction as well as Disco music which soon started climbing the music ladder as soon as 1973 and beginning the end of soft rock. Some soft rock artists included The Sonics, Velvet Underground, Hamish Lennox and The Carpenters being some of the most popular Soft Rock bands of the 1970s.

### **Hard Rock/Heavy Metal**

Hard Rock initially was relatively popular in the early 70s with bands such as Constable & Marshal, Murder on 7th street, Jesus & the angels and Chocolate Rice Pudding being popular hard rock bands in the early 70s. However once Punk Rock started to become popular in the mid 70s hard rock picked up immensely alongside Punk Rock and became very mainstream and pushed bands like Alienators and Constable & Marshal up to the top. Hard Rock continued in popularity especially because of the Alienator releasing Hardcore Punk songs and continuing its popularity in Sheaman. As Punk Rock gathered major popularity in the mid & late 70s the band, Exiled To Hell was one of the only bands to beat Punk songs at the time with their return after a 6 year breakup after 1971 they returned in 1977 and released "Paradise California" which had Post-Punk elements but was mostly considered a hard rock/progressive rock album. The album was greatly popular but they would release another album called "Cant You See" in November 1977, the same year that massively blew up as a Heavy Metal/Hard Rock album. The album was immensely popular and even defeated The Alienators self-titled album that released the same year. The band would go on to release their last album in the 70s called "Take me down" in 1979 that was pretty popular but was easily beaten by the The Alienator's album "Protest with Shit" that came out the same year.

### **Punk**

#### Proto-Punk/Post-Garage

Although seen as a later version and even a declining version of Garage rock it is known more commonly as Proto-Punk nowadays but mostly referred to as Post-Garage in Sheaman. The genre emerged from bands like the Sonics and the Velvet Underground as well as David Bowie but it was much more popular in Sheaman seeing major popularity in between 1972 and 1974 in Sheaman. Bands like Constable & Marshal, Hamish Lennox and the murder on 7th street were popular Post-Garage bands in the early 70s and many of those bands continued on and became Punk-Rock bands. but Hamish Lennox did not adhere to the idea of Punk-Rock and continued on his legacy and established Folk Garage music. The genre paved way for Punk-Rock to exist and was an early version of what would become one of the most popular if not the most popular genre of music in Sheaman.

#### Punk Rock

As early as 1974 Punk Rock began taking shape and the album titled "Supersonic" by Constable & Marshal in 1974 which was considered the start of Punk Rock in Sheaman and one of the most popular genres of music in the country. Punk soon developed into a much bigger genre the following year in 1975 with many Post-Garage bands such as murder on 7th Street, Barbara Barber, the Marching Berries and Screaming Eagle being the most known bands that developed from Post-Garage to Punk Rock. Punk Rock saw its fame show at its highest points in the late 70s and in 1977 a band called "The Alienator" was formed which is considered the best Sheaman Punk Rock band by the Rolling Stones and has been majorly influential to political decision throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s in Sheaman. such as the Death Penalty Act 1980 and the Corporal Punishment Criminalization Act 1981 and also many laws regarding free speech under the Jackonian Dictatorship (1974-1980) even influencing the feces protest in 1979. The band went on to release three album in the 1970s: The Alienator (1977), Stop the War (1978) and Protest with Shit (1979) which all became songs that every adult in 70s could relate to and listen to. Punk Rock was described as "More of a movement than just a genre of music" by political journalist Tom Keerey in 1980 after the President pardoned all of the protesters who were arrested after the feces protest in 1979. The movement never died in the 70s and was constantly popular and had many bands that produced Punk Rock music but it would begin to reshape as early as late 1979 and 1980 into Post-Punk.

### **Art Rock & Psychedelic Rock**

Throughout the early 1970s Art Rock was decently popular but was mostly kicked out of the spotlight after Punk-Rock started to become popular and shadowed most genres in Sheaman. Psychedelic Rock managed to stay very popular throughout the 1970s but saw some decline after 1977 but still remained popular. Art Rock artists such as Jesus & the Angels, The Angelic Voices, Chocolate Rice Pudding, The Marching Berries, Heads and Kaylee Carcun were among the most popular Psychedelic and Art rock artists. The genres dominated the early 1970s and led the music scene as what rock was in Sheaman but as mentioned previously the genres were both tampered with by Punk-Rock which mostly made Art Rock an unpopular genre by 1975 but it took until after 1977 for Psychedelic Rock to start its decline. Both genres played an important part in the early to mid 1970s but were mostly foreshadowed by Punk-Rock.

### **Rock N' Roll comeback & decline**

In Sheaman Rock n' Roll disappeared as a popular genre in the early 1960s but saw a revival in 1969 after popular Rock n' Roll band called "The Fortune Tellers" released an album called "Open your eyes" that was followed by a lot of recognition by popular music outlets. The genre continued to have success in the early 70s with many artists such as the Carpenters, Marie Charleston, Mama Saimiune and Quesadilla & the Plumbers in Paris being prominent in the early 70s as Rock n' Rolls artists but as early as 1973 Rock n' Roll had already begun to falter. The death of the lead singer of The Fortune Tellers, Karl Terry was a massive blow to the genre in 1973 and from then on the genre was in decline and by 1975 had once again disappeared like it had in the early 1960s.

## Pop

### **Disco**

Although the 70s were dominated by rock/rock related music genres Disco was generally the only pop genre that was very popular in the 70s but for pop fans it defined the 70s for them and many European bands had large influence on Disco in Sheaman. Disco was mostly popular in the mid to late 1970s in Sheaman abut it was slightly overshadowed by Punk music in the mid to late 1970s. The genre was influenced by bands such as ABBA, the Beegees and Donna Summer to just name a few and the genre itself did not have a lot of bands from Sheaman but of the Disco bands in Sheaman Jason & Caleb and Country Club Aesthetic were some popular disco bands from Sheaman in the 70s. The genre was known for being popular with gay people and minorities in the country and slowly became political as the decade went on which led to many anti-gay and anti-disco protests in the late 70s which led to many counter protests by gay people and minorities. Overall disco was a massively influential genre of music in the 70s and brought many communities together because of it.

## Country

### **Death of Country**

As early as the mid 1960s Country was in decline in Sheaman and had lost a lot of following but 1971 is considered the death of country music with the country singer Dallas Forton and his failure of an album "Treasured Roads." This album failed miserably and being one of the last popular country artists made the failure of his album, the failure of the genre itself. Martin C. Carey, a journalist, described Treasured Roads as "The end of an era for country music" and many other journalists backed this statement. Sales for country music had been in decline since 1964 but 1971 saw the largest decline in country music sales ever and SHMS (a music station) stopped playing country music on their main channels and so did many other radio stations, following in their footsteps.

## See Also

1960s Music in Sheaman

1980s Music in Sheaman