Reply To: Community Chat – A Place for Weary Flingers

[Desperate Dan]

I’ve just realised @brianN that there is footage of all the goals in the 1979 FA Cup Final at the end of the video, so it’s later than the EP. I really can’t imagine Tony Banks being a football fan – rather beneath him.

Struggling to pick out one outstanding year in the 1980s. It’s not a terrible decade but when artists like Prince and Madonna are heralded as the peak, it’s a long way down on the 1970s. And the 1990s were generally much better, I think.

My ranking would be

1970s, 1960s, 1990s, 1980s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s.

Some artists have meaningful contributions to all of these decades.

A US perception might be quite different – always amazed at how many incredible British bands are virtually unknown over there. The reverse I think is rarely true.