Do you think music from the Vietnam Era is coming back into relevance in today's America?

SPC Charles Brown — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:02:22 -0500

For those of us who grew up or had come of age during the Vietnam Era the music was mind blowing/boggling depending which side of the fence you were on. My question is this: Is the music of the Vietnam Era coming back into relevance in today's America?

Why or Why Not?

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 2 at 2015 3:20 PM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:20:47 -0500

I answered maybe because there are a couple of music groups out there who are trying to bring relevance.

Unfortunately I believe there is too much violence in today's music. Very rebellious.

Just my take. :)

Response by PO3 Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 2 at 2015 7:31 PM

PO3 Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:31:45 -0500

Did the music ever lose its relevance? I think it kept its relevance in relation to its own time and place.

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 2 at 2015 7:36 PM

CW5 Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:36:11 -0500

SPC Charles Brown, your question implies that Vietnam era music was ever not relevant. WTF are you talking about??? :-)

To wit, the Forrest Gump soundtrack ... one of the best collections of music ever!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL664C9F208AFB7719

Forest Gump soundtrack

Songs from the movie Forest Gump found on You Tube

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 2 at 2015 7:39 PM

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:39:36 -0500

I've always found it relevant, and most of it good (in fact preferable to modern Pop, to me at least).

I can also add the the young Cadets I work with enjoy when I pop on the Forrest Gump Soundtrack. Further, we do a whole lesson about Protest in my Ethics Course, and I play many songs from the 60s. The Cadets seem to "dig" it :)

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 2 at 2015 7:42 PM

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:42:52 -0500

I will also add, though, that if you are going into the deeper sense of "civil disobedience" and protest that marked the Vietnam Era, I find it intriguing. I certainly felt like there was a surge during... well... the Surge :) Groups like Greenday and such tried to be political, and make commentary, but I think Modern Social Media has crippled music's capabilities today. During the 60s, music was probably the easiest way to reach a large audience, and couple be replicated and repeated. Not even television could do that in such a mass way. Now in the 2000s, Social Media, Computers, Streaming and Recording Technology, and the like, have made music a form of entertainment, but I no longer feel the most powerful, not the most readily available, or able to be disseminated en mass.

Your thoughts?

Response by TSgt Joshua Copeland made Jan 2 at 2015 9:23 PM

TSgt Joshua Copeland — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:23:13 -0500

Well, late 70's/early 80's music and style are coming back. The proof is that the guardians of the galaxy awesome mix tape #1 was the first soundtrack to hit #1 on the billboards chart to have absolutely no new music on it.

Response by LTC Stephen C. made Jan 2 at 2015 9:43 PM

LTC Stephen C. — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:43:36 -0500

SPC Charles Brown, it's never been irrelevant to me! I listen to that stuff everyday on oldies' stations!

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 2 at 2015 9:48 PM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:48:33 -0500

There is music like CCR, Dylan and Buffalo Springfield, the great Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez and The Rolling Stones. A lot of tearful and contradictory emotions associated with the events of the day. Kent St, JFK, RFK, MLK, the list goes on and on and on.

Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 2 at 2015 9:55 PM

MSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:55:15 -0500

What!!!! Wait a minute, when did Merle Haggard become Irrelevant!!!!

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 2 at 2015 10:05 PM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:05:54 -0500

http://youtu.be/rqXjLCXgbdk

http://youtu.be/PaZkKE_kmYY

Hmm.. Loved Goldie Hawn !!!

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Response by SSG Laureano Pabon made Jan 2 at 2015 11:49 PM

SSG Laureano Pabon — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:49:59 -0500

I selected Maybe, but in order to understand what I mean, here is a song from the Vietnam era and see how its seen today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIjR8D9bk8M

WAR : WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?

Edwin Starr's song to images from Iraq. An anti-war video but NOT anti-troops serving America.

Response by PO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 2 at 2015 11:47 PM

PO1 Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:47:02 -0500

uh....there was a time the music of the 60's WASN'T relative?

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 2 at 2015 11:56 PM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:56:46 -0500

50s, 60s, 70s music is about all I listen to. I believe that a few hundred years from now, if the world is still turning, people will still be listening to '60s music. Johnny Cash, Ian and Sylvia, Peter Paul and Mary are some of my favorites, but there are dozens more that I personally enjoy listening to. Porter Wagoner, Buck Owens, Tom T. Hall, SSG Barry Sadler, June Carter, Loretta Lynn. Way too many to mention. Even though I don't care for a lot of his songs, I love his style of music -- Pete Seeger.

Response by SPC Charles Brown made Jan 3 at 2015 12:30 AM

SPC Charles Brown — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 00:30:48 -0500

Ok, let me come to my own defense. What I meant was not that the music from 1963 to 1973 was ever irrelevant, rather that as the war continues in Afghanistan, groups such as Avenged Sevenfold, Nickleback and a few others have begun repeating the sentiments of my childhood. Has the music world come full circle? And, has using social media such as youtube, Facebook, and even RallyPoint have been used to forward the ideas of the past back into the thought processes of today's youth specifically and the populace in general. It seems to me that the music from Vietnam could easily be translated to Afghanistan and Iraq.

To make my case I offer up the following references:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQxH_8raCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dATyZBEeDJ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V-afAs1gwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGm_vWuzlig

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Response by SrA Marc Haynes made Jan 3 at 2015 7:53 AM

SrA Marc Haynes — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 07:53:15 -0500

I think looking over the music of the last 10-15 years I think a lot of it is very rooted in the past. If I remember correctly one of Alice in Chains songs is about a band member's father's (2 's in a row doesn't seem right) experience in Veitnam and after his return. SPC Charles Brown what do mean by relevance today?

Response by SGT Charles Vernier made Jan 5 at 2015 1:15 PM

SGT Charles Vernier — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:15:48 -0500

CPL C Brown I think I see what you are trying to say here. Perhaps you feel like history is repeating itself?

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 6 at 2015 11:59 AM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 11:59:16 -0500

It is absolutely relevant to todays America. We have been at war for over a decade and counting and at every turn we are finding out that well maybe what we said was there is not there or maybe what we said we are fighting of ris not really what we are fighting for. The music of that area speaks to those issues and others that are just as troublesome now as they were back then.

Response by SPC Nancy Greene made Sep 14 at 2019 1:06 AM

SPC Nancy Greene — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 01:06:08 -0400

I think the Vietnam Era music is coming back. Probably because it was great music, not techno, rap crap.

Response by Jennifer Lee (Doerflinger) Hill made Nov 5 at 2019 9:06 PM

Jennifer Lee (Doerflinger) Hill — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 21:06:31 -0500

We needed another category: when was it ever not relevant? Never, of course.