#'70s

[bayareabadboy]

#Young Frankenstein #Gene Wilder #Teri garr #classic movies #'70s #Mel Brooks

[breezingby]

#Art #'60s #'70s #psychedelic rock art #. . . Tripping

[retropopcult]

“Fish for dinner!”, 1979.  These kids seem really excited for it.

#1970s #fresh catch #boys #reaction #mom #children #'70s

[vale-free-art]

Space Pirate Captain Harlock

It's certainly not something of my generation, but I grew up with it thanks to my father, so here he is.

(Earth in the background: https://www.pexels.com/it-it/foto/pianeta-terra-87651/)

#captain halock #space pirate captain harlock #'70s #'80s #'70s anime #Fanart #my art #Vale-free-art #anime art #digital art

[shakespearean-fish]

look how they massacred my boy

#1970s #'70s #Woodsy Owl

[thefailurecult]

#adam warlock #jim starlin #afro #disco #'70s

[music-is-my-life-man]

Prince, 1975

#prince #prince rogers nelson #singer #songwriter #musician #r&b #rock #pop #soul #1975 #1970s #1970s music #1970s rock #1970's #70s #70s rock #70s pop #70s soul #'70s

[huh1whatever2you3say]

#'60s #'70s #'60s/'70s theme #april #aesthetic #from pinterest #off pinterest #jane birkin #makeup #photography

[blackscarabfilmz]

Barry Manilow: 🎵 There was blood and a single gun shot. But just who shot who? 🎵

Me: Wow, I wonder who was shot! He could milk this suspense for half the song!

Barry Manilow, literally the next line after the chorus: 🎵 She lost her love... 🎵

#barry manilow #seventies #joke #funny #'70s #70s #copacabana #music #song

[f0restpunk]

Hyatt Regency, San Francisco 1974

#1974 #70s #'70s #San Francisco #San Francisco psychogeography #built environment #psychogeography #brutalism #brutalist #brutalist architecture #The Palace of Green Porcelain #retrofuturism #architecture #architectural photography

[bayareabadboy]

#Smokey and the Bandit #Burt Reynolds #'70s #classic movies #Trans Am #ta

[orangeagates]

#Spotify #the beatles #'60s #'70s

[retropopcult]

Stacy Peralta skateboarding at a pool in Coldwater Canyon.  Photographed June 1977 by Hugh Holland.

#skateboarder #1970s #Southern California #skater #The Bones Brigade #los angeles #Dogtown #summer #swimming pool #'70s #LA

[howifeltabouthim]

Wherever I am, I'm a seventies art hack, a pop relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows. I'm in the bottomless pit of cultural oblivion.

Catherine Lacey, from Biography of X

#washed up #wherever you go you take yourself #can't escape yourself #self-deprecating #dated #'70s #artist #oblivion #what a line #description #characterization #my favorite quote #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #catherine lacey #biography of x

[whatevergreen]

Arnold makes up by Mr Flikker Via Flickr: Jerry Kirby's fellow singer and "girlfriend" helps a bandmate with his eye shadow.

#drag #makeup #queen #rock #soul #headdress #mirror #backstage #gay #musicians #black #San Francisco #reflection #predigital #black and white #African American #disco #1970s #'70s #seventies #[...]ษ[...]ว[...]ะ[...] #pédé #homo #Arnold Elzy #Arnold Elsie #Arnold Elsy #Arnold Elzie #LZ Love #Sylvester #backup

[mywifeleftme]

28: Selda // Vurulduk Ey Halkim Unutma Bizi

Vurulduk Ey Halkim Unutma Bizi Selda 1976, Türküola

The western thirst for vintage psych rock is unquenchable, which has led to a ton of great reissues in the past decade from far-flung psychedelic hotbeds like Zambia, Japan, and Turkey—the latter home of the great Selda Bağcan. Selda’s ‘70s folk rock recordings are as galvanizing as any punk, by turns as warlike and ecstatic as the leftist poetry and Islamic scales that give life to the songs. 1976’s Vurulduk Ey Halkim Unutma Bizi (We Were Shot, My People, Don’t Let Us Forget) isn’t as fuzz-drenched as the self-titled LP that proceeded it earlier in the same year, but it is equally fiery.

I’ve always found that folk music from around the Mediterranean Sea has a swashbuckling quality, the interplay of string players like two perfectly matched fencers thrusting and parrying atop a long dining table. The crossed guitar and baglama illustrated on Vurulduk Ey Halkim Unutma Bizi’s back cover comes across as a statement of purpose. It’s music that gets the blood pumping, for dance or protest alike, and Selda matches it vocally. She’s the heartfelt call to the snaky electric baglama and organ’s response on “Karaoglan”; the frosty embodiment of a woman finally pushed to close a door forever on “Bundan Sonra”; the mountain wind on the forlorn “Maden Dagi.”

It’s not surprising that Turkey’s far right authorities found Selda’s music threatening enough to harass her for most of the following decade—it’s heady stuff even without the help of intelligible words. Online translation butchers the lyrics included on the sleeve, yet the imagery in the fragments is powerful:

We bled, we became soil, We withdrew, we became a flag, We became leaves, we came to this day We made the bread abundant, We made the pain honey. (from “Aciyi Bal Eyledik” [“We Turned the Pain Into Honey”])

In “Bundan Sonra” (“After This”), describing some unknown, unforgiveable betrayal:

Quran, Bible, if you were a psalm I would not open you from now on, If you were the juice of the river of paradise I would not drink you from now on. […] Is my death your wish? Your word has worked for me— If you were heaven’s line I wouldn’t cross you from now on.

Imagery of Lorca-esque purity:

They burned their last cigarette like a lamp in their mouths They lit their last cigarette They lit their last cigarette like a lamp in their mouths And they sat Under the dry-leaved cannon tree. (from “Maden Iscileri” [“Miners”])

As with Victor Jara and other politically militant bards of the South American nueva cancion movement, it’s possible to have a rich and fulfilling experience with Selda’s music on its purely sonic merits. But for me anyway, understanding its connections to movements for the rights of working people deepens my appreciation. Vurulduk Ey Halkim Unutma Bizi is a great one.

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#Selda #selda bağcan #pharaway sounds #turkish music #anatolian rock #'70s #vinyl records #music review #'70s music