In the year I was born, 1977, punk ruled in the UK, and in New York Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were formed and disco was over its peak.
Share what you know about the year you were born.
Punk has always spoken to me and I growing up I thought of myself as born in the punk era. I love the Clash and can enjoy sone other classic punk bands but it is more the punk mentality, towards music, but also towards other things, that spoke to me.
Even though the first hip hop record (Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight”) would only be released a year later, hip hop was growing out of the underground. Hip hop culture is s similar to punk in many ways and I fell in love with it in the nineties, by mistake considered the “golden age of hip hop”.
Disco was starting to experience a backlash in 1978 as Saturday Night Fever (1977) propelled it into the mainstream and caused literally everyone to jump on the bandwagon. House music was on the horizon but nit there yet and disco never really went away.
It took me till the mid nineties to start appreciating electronic dance music , first through crossover acts like the Chemical Brothers and the Prodigy. But I fell in love either way house music and if i had to choose one genre that I love the most it would be house music.
So yeah, I see the year I was born mainly through the lena of music and there was sone great music made in 1978.