Let's be 1971...yes, seventy-one this time. Are we up for it?

I'm the pimptastic Buick Riviera.

I'm Bree Daniels' shag haircut

I’m Olivia Newton-John’s groovy dance moves.

FOLLIES!!!!!

I'm Carole King and [bold]I OWN 1971[/bold] - NOT Cher.

and while I'm here, let me tell you a little about myself...my life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever-changing view, a wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold, a tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold.

And I'm Telemachus as a kitten - before I became the most famous cat in the whole wide world!

I'm the maxi!

I'm that hideous fuckin' bus

I'm DL fave Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and I was released in 1971.

[quote]I'm DL fave Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and I was released in 1971.

and I'm Portobello Road in 1971

I'm little "Cheer-Up-Charlie," and not only did I defy all odds with a stunning claim to the FINAL golden ticket, I also assumed full rightful ownership of the chocolate factory, itself! Veruka Salt? I stuck a Wonka Pop in that bitch's mouth and set her ass on the ho stroll TO MAKE ME SOME MORE MONEY! She'll tell you how many licks it takes to get to the gooey center!

I'm Candy Darling, Blonde On A Bum Trip.

I'm a little bit funny

I think I love you.

"Out here in the fields..."

One of the few albums that makes me want to crank up the volume and dance my ass off. Who needed disco?

I'm the pipe - knock on me twice if the answer if nooo--ooh

I'm Bangladesh

OP!!! For my fifth bday party, a boy gave me that single record as a gift. Even then I knew there was something funny there.

R1 you win!

Oh and when all the young ones say go away elder gays, fuck em

"Down in Rome I wasn't gettin' enough/of the things that keep a young man alive."

Such a good song, R19. One to play for the people who think Rod's always been a joke.

The other biggie from that summer album, R20.

Right on, R20. Add "Handbags and Gladrags" to that list.

I loved the entire album, r22. Not a bad song on it. What a disappointment the next album was (and every album that followed).

I have been in a failed western this year, and something shot in France no one saw.

Next year I will take to television.

You could say I am floundering.

*** THE BOYFRIEND ***

My favorite Elton John album.

I'm Ken Russell's other 1971 film. The Catholic Church wasn't a fan.

Oh R25 I just loved that movie. Still listen to the soundtrack.

Stifle ya dingbats!

I'm 70s crazy daisy flower power, and I'm on just about every surface you can think of, especially muslin sheets.

Is that the "hit your hump, sister" movie, R27?

I’m the avocado colored kitchen appliances.

And I’m Disney World! I open in 1971, saving everyone from having to go to Monkey Jungle again.

Who could forget this very commercial hit?

[quote]Who could forget this very commercial hit?

Gurl, do you know how to be a "Let's be" thread?

Your links are good but it's not hard.

Like this:

I'm the inner city house and I make you want to holler

I'm those freaky long cardigans

I am also Hot Pants. THE fashion of 1971.

I'm the Cunt of the Thread, aka r34. I AM the total input/output controller.

We're Barry Manilow and Bette Midler, artists performing at The Continental Baths.

Sorry r34, I didn't receive a sheet of mimeographed instructions.

[quote]I'm the inner city house and I make you want to holler

Oh, dear muffed that one.

I'm the inner city BLUES and I make you want to holler

I'm London - having my final days as the fashion centre of the world, before the Americans and NYC take hold of the '70s.

I’m The Pentagon Papers. I blew Tricia Nixon’s honeymoon off the front pages!

I'm just another day

I'm that icky Imagine song.

I'm Nathan Jones. I've been gone too long .

I'm Tricia Nixon. Check out my Cox!

We're the dance event at The Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse.

I'm the casts of Dark Shadows, That Girl, & Family Affair, looking for work.

I'm Uncle Albert - I don't know what you're so sorry about.

I’m Donny Osmond who was the first artist to have a #1 cover hit #1 with my version of “Go Away Little Girl.”

In fact me and my Brothers had more gold records combined than any other acts that year!

I'm a New Hollywood director, confident that I've got at least 20 years relevance ahead.

We are WOMAN POWER.

I'm the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks.

I am pubic hair and men still have me. Women too.

I am ATTICA! ATTICA!

I’m the dial phone. You’ll ONLY find me in the kitchen on the wall.

You're not as fun. --1978

I am Decameron.

We're the Jackson 5 cartoon!

Read me, and learn. ---Pentagon Papers

[quote]You're not as fun. --1978

If you mean by that, not as kitsch and silly, you're right. I'm more serious and grown up.

I’m “Lay It on the Line.” David Cassidys first co-written song off The Partridge Familys new album “Up to Date .”

We didn’t make a “video” for it though, so they wouldn't have to pay me royalties. The song rocked!

I'm a lade - ee.

I am a shag haircut!

I'm a groovy crocheted "shrink" top, and I fit over your sheer bubble-texture body suit and hot pants.

I am me! Born in '71, bitches.

I am granny boots.

I am colorful knitwear.

I am satin.

I’m Laos - about to be overrun, raped, and bombed by opposing forces in the Vietnam War. My girl Cambodia got worked over good last year.

"We're Extroverted Shirts - If you're fat and forty, forget it."

I'm the Man in Black.

I am a Chopper bike..

I’m Laos - about to be overrun, raped, and bombed. My gurl Cambodia got worked over good last year.

This song always reminds me of driving to school with my friends in my 10th grade year:

I'm TV's Peter Deuel. I shot myself under the Christmas tree on New Year's Eve.

I am YOKO - buy my book!

I’m the demo for Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s forthcoming musical version of Lost Horizon-it’s gonna be HUGE, baby!

I'm Jim Morrison. I'll die in this year.

I’m the cuffs on Jacqueline Courtney’s nurses uniform on the daytime soap Another World. I’ve got lines of dialogue scribbled all over me!

I died in 1970, but my final album was released this year. Another nail in the coffin of the 60s.

I KNEW someone would remember, R77. And AS&J was a damned good show too, from my twelve year-old's perspective.

"I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do...."

I am Joni Mitchell’s Blue.

I'm still waiting to be born 4 years later.

We're the Louds. Good lord, are our lives about to be fucked.

R85, where are you waiting, gurl.

I'm the sophomore year for the Carpenters, with three huge hits ...For All We Know, Rainy Days and Mondays, and Superstar.

I am the colors orange, green and yellow seen everywhere.

Gawd, R57.

Disco peaked, I guess. Yippee.

Oh yes, and there was Jonestown and the City Hall murders.

[quote]I'm gypsies, tramps and thieves....yes, all three!

That's the only song of Cher's that I like.

I'm the 'Shag' hairdo. Likely one of the ugliest styles of all time.

TRiVIA: Recognize the model ?

That's Stephanie Beacham, who a dozen+ years later would play Sable Colby on tv.

I'm a brand new living room, 1971 style. Looks like a secondary set form THE BRADY BUNCH.

I'm a 1971 OLDSMOBILE TORONADO

Do I look more like I would be in a chase scene in an episode of BARNABY JONES, McCLOUD or MANNiX ?

I'm the gurl with the mousey hair.

Hehe, looks cozy as hell, R93. It goes with the Harvey Wallbangers (g)

Put on me Ludwig van', droogs.

Stephanie appears to be regretting the hairstyle. And because the women's movement needs a man's approval ...

I'm the most popular ice-cream in America.

I'm a beautiful leather patchwork handbag. So stylish...........

Puke, gag.

I'm Susan George and this creepy thing is going to make me a star in America...for a while

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I'm the nutty film The Hospital. I should have more of a cult following, because I'm rather good.

I'm the Kate Hepburn pre-Ziggy Bowie that recorded "Life On Mars?"

I'm Clifford Irving. I've been writing a biography since last year about Howard Hughes whom I claim to know. I was hoping to have it published in early 1972 but have been told that there may be some issues .................

I'm Daniel Day-Lewis in my first (non-speaking) role.

I am Liv Lindeland, PLAYBOY'S Playmate Of The Year (1971)

I'm Liberace's Hot Pants!

I am Sunday Bloody Sunday - one of the first mainstream movies to depict gay love.

I am Misty, play me.

My debut will be a smash, it will give "Tapestry" a hearty nudge, and its hit will be one of the longest singles featured on AM radio, ever. I'll change the way the world looks at folkies and female singer-songwriters, and I'll marry one of pop's superheroes. And I like the drums LOUD, please.

My name is Chastity. My parents Sonny & Cher got a tv series on as a replacement but turned out so well that the network signed them for longer. Each week I get to walk out at the end and join my parents who sing their signature song I Got You Babe and then we walk off together. Aren't I just the cutest little girl. Wonder how I'll look in 40 years.

I am Jason King - women find me devastatingly attractive.

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I'm the '60s and I won't end until next year.

I’m Mary Richards trying to explain the facts of life to Bess until I discover she knows more about them than I do.

[quote]I'm the '60s and I won't end until next year.

The Americans were very behind in those days.

I'm First Lady Patricia Nixon greeting Snorky from "The Banana Splits."

I'm gay men's fashions in this German flick.

I'm Roger Moore and I proudly designed all my clothes on The Persuaders.

Hello America, I'm Cat!

I'm Shirley MacLaine, looking a bit bonkers.

I'm Harold, she's Maude.

I'm a first edition of The Exorcist. If you knew nothing about me, you might think it's a story about aliens.

1971. I made my first porn for Alex de Renzy. One of many. Cool year. Life was good. Free, no limits and a daily adventure in San Francisco. Good times.

I'm me, wondering how come there hasn't been a link to the 1971 Oscars yet.

I'm the "beautiful boy" in Death In Venice.

I'm the best song in the film adaptation.

I got a new 12-cylinder mill this year.

It's a bit of a mixed bag, really

We're the guest line up tonight on Cavett's show.

By tonight we mean that literally. 10:00 on DECADES.

I'm Nathanial Frey and I'm thanking god that the overwhelming number people who will know me as an actor will remember me as a straight young married man rather than as a bitter lonely pocked mocked aging faggot which I was only the year before.

Best selling car of the year. Again.

We're 18, 19, and 20 year olds who've been granted the right to vote in the US.

Dirty Harry

I'm holding my own as your foreign counterpart, R132.

But they're nipping (no pun intended) at my heels.

Uh....r131.....oh.....um.....

I know R136. You only see it the second after you post.

R131..please scrape your shoes off well before entering again the DL.

'Cause, baby, you done stepped in it!

[quote]I'm holding my own as your foreign counterpart, [R132]

Holding your own in the USA - but I'm still the most popular car in Europe.

I'm Gene Wilder, singing "Pure Imagination" in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." My version of this movie will remain the best in the hearts and minds of the generation who saw me.

I am a young man waiting to be used as ground beef to be sold by the store of the Johnson, Nixon, Bush, and Cheney families at an astronomic mark up.

Is that true, R139?

Of course the Mini went on for decades after the Beetle was pretty much finished. And errrm, yeah, I was referring to the USA, since that's my frame of reference and that IS a Chevrolet (g). In terms of actual vehicle sales (regardless of category) in the States it's Ford's F-series pickup that was the sales champ for almost half a century. It's the workhorse of the USA and I'm proud to have owned three of them.

Donna Fargo

Happiest Girl in the Whole USA

You can see if you compare this thread with the other one, that 1971 was a very different kettle of fish from 1978. I'm not sure everything changes in the same way these days.

R141 (sigh..)

Yes, the war designed to humiliate the USA and its military was still in full cry. I guess this thread needed to have a wrench thrown into its (rather frivolous) works.

I hope all the creatures you mentioned partake in "the rules of engagement" in hell.

[quote]Of course the Mini went on for decades after the Beetle was pretty much finished. And errrm, yeah, I was referring to the USA,

They banned the Mini in America. But a few famous people tarted them up and took them home.

I'm a pretty cool looking film called The French Connection.

The French Erection, oooh I remember that one. Oh wait ....

I'm Tony Geary, before I got my hair permed and became "Luke and Laura"

I'm the revolution; I will not be televised, bruthas.

I was named Motor Trend’s Car of the Year for 1971 — before people realized what a piece of shit I turned out to be.

R146 A lot of interesting cars from overseas got the chop after the Safety Act of 1967.

I used to get all the British automotive rags from a Scotsman my mom worked with. That, and the little enclave in the SFBA I lived in at the time was chock-full of monied eccentrics who had garages filled with foreign makes you'd never see outside of California. So I was able to keep up. But eventually parts supplies dried up, it all became too much work, and they all went away.

Oh well...

Along with the legendary CBS Saturday night shows a few years later, I'm the most fondly remembered prime time lineup of the 70s: The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Room 222, The Odd Couple, and Love, American Style. C'mon get happy in the twilight of Sixties sunshine pop.

I'm the Vietnam War. I was still going on, and people were getting fucking sick and tired of me.

I'm Disney World. Welcome me !

I'm the giallo movies being made in Italy!

I'm a new television series titled ALL IN THE FAMILY. Hope I'm a hit !!

I'm a hippie!

I'm a brand new pair of roller skates.

I'm Billy Jack on the bloody morning after.

I'm the late great Richard Milhouse Nixon.

I'm Mimsy.

I'm Walt Whitman High School

no comment

I am Laura Ahley clothing, made in Wales, and I make everyone look like they're Laura Ingalls Wilder.

I am the 2018 Man of the Moment -

Mr. Olympia 1971

Maudie is here.....

From England I came, an engineering triumph in spite of my faults. Beautifully crafted of fine materials, I was affordable too.

I'm 1971 pretending to be 1951...in fact, wait for it, because in a few years the 70s are going to be obsessed with their own kitschy version 50s.

Im "It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes Darling" and strangely only lasted one season. They'd never get away with such an upper middle class title in today's "classless" Britain. (Look for Joanna Lumley in an early role).

I am diamonds and I am forever.

and I'm the song that automatically began playing in your mind you read the title of that film.

Donny Osmonds, Sweet and Innocent.

I'm pretending to be your friend...

We interrupt this thread with a word from our sponsor.

I'm the hit single version

I'm too late

I'm Carole, dancin' about like a freak.

I'm Monkberry Moon Delight

I’m me in 2018, looking at the gay men’s hairdos in R119 world the equal parts horror and fascination.

I'm Gay Lib London.

I was so glad he broke away from Mr. How Can You Sleep?, r181.

I'm Byron and I can really shake it down.

I was born

I'm aboard on a London Double Decker Bus

I'm Helen Gurley Brown, in the midst of negotiations with Burt Reynolds for the centerfold.

I'm the True Cigarette song (@ 1:55)

I'm a soft and sweet wise and wonderful mystical magical nanny.

We're boldly and proudly marching in New York's 2nd Gay Liberation Parade.

We're the lesbians, bringing you the sunshine.

I’m Gay Liberation - waiting for my comeback. When did all these trannies start showing up?

I'm my diaper, filling up with shit on the regular.

I'm the whitest black chick who ever had to white in order to succeed, and I'm okay with that! Ain't no mountain high enough.....

Talking of which, R195 -I'm Diana - remember me and my[bold] 1971 mega-hit record.[/bold]

& we're The New Supremes doing pretty good with out her.

You know, those guys in r191 wouldn't look at all out of place today. It's amazing that the picture is from over 45 years ago, and they would be in their mid sixties or early seventies today.

R196 - How will we ever forget? Here's your song from Diana's first solo network television special in 1971, Diana! '

[quote]You know, those guys in [R191] wouldn't look at all out of place today. It's amazing that the picture is from over 45 years ago

Gurl, gays don't look like that today. Are you fucking kidding?

[quote]You know, those guys in [[R191]] wouldn't look at all out of place today. It's amazing that the picture is from over 45 years ago

Yeah, right - nothing's changed!

I am the Black Gold of the Sun!

I'm the new 1971 Mustang - and I look like shit in comparison to the old one.

PIMPIN' AWLL DAY, EVRUH DAY!

I am a typical DL poster in a commercial with my one true love.

Boring, R200.

I'm Liddle Kiddles....on the way out.

R203, you really are ugly. Fuck! I thankfully forgot all about you.

I started this year!

r185 -- Some people called Buddy Miles "Bloody Piles."

I'm Mr Freedom Shop in still trendy London, just.

I'm also Mr. Freedom clothes.

I shit you NOT! That's Samantha Markle top right. The Afro - it was THAT popular!

We're London hippies we have to earn a living somehow.

I'm Twiggy, in my room in Bloomsbury.

I’m the Mike Douglas Show and I’ve just celebrated my tenth anniversary on tv! How time flies — and to celebrate that new 70s sensibility I’ve tweaked the trademark groovy flower symbol that says “it’s Mike!” like nothing else.

I am BIBA. I'm the hottest, hippest boutique in London and I would have owned the 70s, except my owner went nuts and decided to turn me into a six-story department store that barely lasted a year.

I'm a bright, bright, bright sunshiny day.

I am fashion icon and Nazi-lover Coco Chanel's complete collapse.

I'm Malibu Barbie, and I have it all over those mod Barbie basic bitches.

Blimey - this thread has done very well, and thought it might be a bit of a dud. 220 responses in ONE DAY and 1270 views.

1978 has 338 posts, but it's been going for weeks now.

Also, I must say the films and music were rather top notch in 1971, weren't they? and so much going on, in general. Classy.

some 1971 hairstyles

February 15th, 1971 - Britain goes decimal. No more shillings, guineas and pennies.

My birthday! ^ I’m decimalisation baby 👶

OP R221 Some consider 1971 The Best Year in Rock Music. I don't think anyone could make that claim for 1978.

[quote]No more shillings, guineas and pennies.

You talkin’ bout us? U a punk!

I was born!

So was I!

1971 births of Jared Leto, Winona Ryder, Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Holden, Snoop Dogg.

Too bad Mrs. Wahlberg didn't abort in 1970.

I am the Sylmar Quake rocking LA at 6.7 on the Richter Scale.

HEY YOU GUYS!

I'm "The Electric Company" and I started this year.

I'm the Montreux Casino

I'm Saint-Tropez

I'm Yoko in Cannes

R234, meet R230.

Je suis L'impératrice Farah Diba à Saint-Moritz

I'm Talitha Getty in Marrakech

We're teens in Baghdad

We're too beau mecs in a forgotten movie

I'm "McMillan & Wife," starring handsome Rock Hudson and beautiful Susan Saint James. I'm an immediate hit, airing in rotation with fellow popular shows "Columbo" and "McCloud" as part of "The NBC Mystery Movie."

R170 I cannot believe there is another person into audiophilia on DL.

They are always with very very rare exceptions straight white men.

I'm me in 2018 thinking this is Datalounge and where was Mia in 1971 and why hasn't she been mentioned yet?

Answer: she was in England filming a creepy thing called "Blind Terror"

I'm the concert for Bangladesh

I'm also The Mad Dogs And Englishmen Concert

I'm a song for you.

I'm bone spurs

We are Buffy Sainte Marie and Jill St John. While we like to vegg out in front of “McMillan & Wife“ as much as the next person, we are sick to fucking DEATH of telling people we are not on that show.

I'm a dog being comforted by a hot marine in Vietnam

I graduated from high school in 1971 and am an authentic valley girl. You all sound old and boring.

I'm an acid trip in Algeria

I'm a saucy feminist.

We're Hollywood street trade.

I'm a prestige brutalist building, polluting a fine college campus near you.

We're superfly fashion strolling in Harlem.

We're especially brutal in the UK and decorate cinema classics.

I'm one of those new little Japanese cars some people are starting to worry about.

and I'm a 1971 Cadillac - fuck off you ugly little squirt!

and this is me with my roof down

R259 r260 Fuck BOTH of you!

A fucking FORD? Fuck YOU!

This is me, under a tree, in all my beauty, in romantic green.

The event of the year in Persepolis, Iran. 2,500 years of Persian Empire.

Quit the swearing this is UPMARKET 1971!

I'm Gilbert when I used to dress up like a freak to get noticed and guess what?...it worked.

Being Stanford, who beat Ohio State 27 to 17 in the 1971 Rose Bowl.

I'm Stairway to Heaven. I became a cliche later on, but I'm still a great fucking song.

I'm Jeremiah and I was a bullfrog.

I'm John Paul Getty III. Even after the kidnappers cut off my ear, my grandpa wouldn't pay the full ransom to get me back. He paid 2.2 million, the most he could get a tax deduction for, and loaned the rest to my father at 4% interest.

I'm the last number one record of 1971 - and I still sound pretty cool.

Oops, I just realized the Getty kidnapping was in 73. Oh well, close enough.

I am McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Generations of film students will be forced to watch me, and we won't understand what all the fuss was about.

I'm Prell, and I can strip the paint off a car.

[quote]Oops, I just realized the Getty kidnapping was in 73. Oh well, close enough.

Such a lovely feel-good addition to the thread, you just couldn't resist.

I’m not worried about you, R259! Americans will buy American!

I'm Pantene, and I used to be chichi and upmarket.

I'm the glorious music at the beginning of The Go-Between.

[quote] Such a lovely feel-good addition to the thread, you just couldn't resist.

Honestly, I just wanted to post that picture of young JP III, whom I've always found rather tasty (before the OD and paralysis, of course).

I'm DL faves Alan and Julie in The Go-Between.

I'm "The Frantic Dithers." Avoid me by buying from your neighborhood Avon lady!

I'm Ann-Margret in Carnal Knowledge... I won a Golden Globe in 1972 and was nominated for an academy award for my role!

Don't pull your love out on me baby 😉

I am DL icon Jean Seberg in my top grossing film, AIRPORT.

I hate the stupid movie, I hate my stupid costume, I hate stupid Burt Lancaster, and I'm going back to France for [italic] good, [/italic] this time.

I am the Seberg's actual 1971 film, long forgotten...

What is it about Airport (1970) that makes you think it belongs on this thread, R284?

Actually R198, I just hope those young men are still alive to enjoy their 60s and 70s.

They are smoking 100s

I am hip hugger jeans with wide bell bottoms.

preferably by Landlubber, r289.

I'm Love, Peace and Soul

Je suis Chanel No. 19!

Truth and Soul clothing

Baby I'm a want you (even though I'm not sure what I mean exactly).

I'm the magical moment when Barbra sings "why do stars fall dooooo -wn from the sky".

Colors never seen in nature were big that year.

I'd happily and proudly drive that, R296.

I'm the door love walked out of.

Im baby Chastity......still a girl

Im Lady Arrowsmith shoes and Im at 8th St down in the Village

r45 love that song

and here it is >

I'm creepy photographer Diane Arbus, slitting my wrists in my bathtub.

and I'm Floy Joy and I'm THE man.

I'm the merry, merry month of May.

[quote]R286 What is it about Airport (1970) that makes you think it belongs on this thread?

Oh DEAR! You're so right, of course [bold] : ( [/bold] I got confused because Helen Hayes (pictured) won an Oscar for that moronic film in 1971.

I'm an in-the-closet Richard Chamberlain playing an in-the-closet Tchaikovsky.

I'm Mary, you can be Elizabeth,

R308 OMG...when I was little I used to love that movie SO MUCH when it would be on TV!

I'm a newborn. Literally.

Since everyone lies about their age here, that makes you about 87.

I'm Bobbie Gentry on The Andy Williams Show.

R129 - my dad had that car!! It was constantly in the shop for repairs unfortunately.

The Wet-Head is DEAD to me!

I'm Oscar-winner Marlon Brando, being forced by Paramount to audition ( AUDITION!) for the title role in the film version of that piece-of-shit, Book-of-the-Month Club "novel", "The Godfather". The effrontery!

I'm Michael Warren in Drive, He Said.

Back in 1971 there was only one Bridges who could act, and his name was Beau.

Sadly, Beau, your 1971 effort, The Christian Licorice Store, was a flop in which I acted circles around you while your brother was in a major 1971 hit.

I'm Angela Davis, falsely accused. The state says I supplied three convicts on trial in a Marin County courthouse with guns. They took a judge, an assistant D.A. and some jurors hostage. Three died in a shootout.

BULLSHIT, MUTHA'FUCKAH!

I'm your sweet Lord and I really want you to see me, too.

I'm Patty Duke - looks like I blew it and it's TV Movies for me from now on....check out my latest!

I'm Sally Field and I didn't blow it. Gave up Gidget to become a grand lesbian er I am grand thespian!

I think that bus is pretty groovy, R8

I'm dig old radio shows, this one from 1971 is great.

sorry **I dig old radio shows** not I'm dig.

Oh, God...

I'm jive!

Oh, Jan, I'm a figment of your imagination for obvious reasons!

I kicked off that legendary year with my fabulous debut on January 15.

I'm Bernadette Peters. A few more years until I'm a go-to character actress, over a decade until I'm Broadway Royalty.

Oh god the two of them were truly hilarious. What a dazzling lavish show. The best Peters has ever been. The recent revival a bare shadow of a magnificent musical.

Happy Sunday, R244

No, no, no...I knew loads of gay men into high-fidelity back then. But as I am often wont to do, I bring up the fact that I grew up in San Francisco. There were lots of brothers and sisters in the shops there-big chains or little salons.

The average straight guy would drop hundreds on a TV set, but his music 'system' would consist of a bastard-brand compact with an eight-track player and a groove grinder turntable. As often as not, the system was a freebie from a record club. A soldier friend of the family, who no one but me suspected was gay, had a fantastic system pieced together from PX shops he visited while serving in Japan. It took up an entire wall in his apartment. That's when I got hooked..on the hobby, and the owner. Hehe. Pity I wasn't of age.

I no longer have my Zero 100, but I still have its successor, the Zero 2000-essentially the same 'table. And it still works fine.

I had that stuff. I think we'd stopped calling it Hi-Fi by the time I got there. I can't even remember the words we used. Oh, yes...amplifier, turntable, speakers, tape deck - but I was never turned on too much to which brands. I inherited my brother's amplifier and bought all the other bits and used them until they needed replacing. I do remember the amplifier I inherited from my brother was WAY TOO powerful and kept blowing my various speakers.

Then by the late 80s I bought good quality stacks that all came together...and would add a CD player etc...

I don't miss all that at all.

But I'd like to add that my str8 brother was very into the makes etc...and there was a top shop in Lonodn that sold them that he was always talking about.

He was the first person I ever saw who'd hold a vinyl LP without touching the vinyl. Until then I and most people I knew just slung their records around and didn't bother caring for them much.

I always shopped at better audio stores, mid-fi, really—I never thought of myself as an audiophile. I've had equipment from KLH, Scott, Dual, Harman-Kardon, Yamaha, Advent, Setton, Denon, and later NAD, Kyocera, Bowers & Wilkins, Magneplanar, Rega.

Now I listen to all my music on my computer, over Bowers & Wilkins speakers. This is the happiest I've been except for a stint with listening to LPs on my Rega P3 with the B&W Matrix 805s.

Well B and W is considered high end considering the model.

But Bose? Never! I wouldn't even dream of auditioning one!

Has this been posted yet?

R335 Bose? Where did I say Bose?

I'm Ann-Margret's suddenly overly-plentiful breasts in CARNAL KNOWLEDGE.

Am I a boob job? Am I a pushup bra? Am I just an extra 10 lbs. all squeezed upwards?

No one knows.

I was just throwing in Bose to be superior to everyone who enjoys it.

But seriously I've never even heard it but there are many non audiophile people who love it.

So it's clearly good enough for people who simply love the music.

I had a mini BOSE Bluetooth speaker and it was a pain - I was always having to re-connect and it eventually failed. But the quality was amazing for a small speaker.

**the sound quality that is.

R339, I've only heard one Bose product, a radio/CD player about ten years ago. It was very bass-y, but it may have been the room acoustics.

r340, I had a Bowers & Wilkins wireless speaker, and had the same problem. It wasn't the speaker that was the problem, it was the wireless connection itself. The speaker worked fine when attached to my computer via ethernet cable. I ended up selling it. Too annoying. Someday maybe someone will get wireless music right.

I am 1971, lamenting this thread derailing to a couple of audio nerds.

This was my radio back in 1971. My mother bought it for me. I was disappointed. I wanted something more grown up and serious, even though I was 8.

I’m Nixon’s Phase I price controls, cynically designed to help him win re-election next year, but I’ll eventually wreak havoc on the economy by late 1973.

I'm one of these and I only play 45s.

r343

cunt

I'm Bretton Woods. Nixon threw me on the trash heap in 1971 along with the Boston Navy Yard.

R343 is not a cunt, he's right...that chat was killing off the thread. Shooting it dead in the water.

au contraire, R343...

I shoot you "dead in the water," r349 (whatever that means).

Hey, R351... lighten up, man. Cool it, baby! Don't make this into a heavy scene!

I have SPUNK !!!

So do I!

I'm a big fucking deal

I'm a hustler's underground fantasies.

Where is everyone - how come I'm linking this and we're already past 350?

Anyway - some of my best friends are...not here.

I’m the Juke-8.

You can practice singing while drunk in a bar until a record label comes a-calling.

I'm John Lennon being the bitterest hitch.

I'm the sharklike AMC Javelin.

My mother was born in 1971!

R343

She doesn't know what she means either, R351

[quote] Shooting it dead in the water.

Stick with idioms you're familiar with R349, like 'guuuurrrrrlll!' or 'I'll slap!'

Have some more Nilsson, moaning bitches.

I'm for the audio nerds' aim.

[quote]Stick with idioms you're familiar with [R349], like 'guuuurrrrrlll!' or 'I'll slap!'

What the fuck is I'll slap? and since when was 'guuuurrrrrlll!' an idiom?

[quote]Have some more Nilsson, moaning bitches.

Wrong year Miss Know-It-All...on top of that one of his nastiest songs. No wonder YOU chose it.

I'm Anjelica

I'm Mick's check suit

I'm a lesbian

I'm a work of erotic genius conceived by Warhol and Jagger.

I'm the flashing blue light.

I don’t get R371.

I'm a 2270 receiver amp. A pot-head uncle will give it to you in 10 years when you go to college and I'll your dorm windows out with my blasting warm sound. I'm still worth money in 2018.

I'm a sex machine

I'm a mindsticker....

yes, I agree, R375 - it's wonderful.

47th anniversary of its release was in May.

R376 (airy vocals)

[italic]"Don't you want to have a good shape? / He wants you with a GOOD shape. / Shape with Tab..."

I'm Pam and I'm a genius.

Honey, Beyonce who?

My best friends' mom chauffeuring us to the mall in her Dodge Dart, singing along with the radio in a low bass vibrato "Thieves,thieves tramps ARE thieves"

R379 I'm Marsha Mason, and I'm Pam.

I'm Pier Angeli, a starlet who dated James Dean.

I'm killing myself because I'm facing 40.

I'm HIV. I arrived in the U.S. via NYC this year.

[quote]The strain of H.I.V. responsible for almost all AIDS cases in the United States, which was carried from Zaire to Haiti around 1967, spread from there to New York City around 1971, researchers concluded in the journal Nature. From New York, it spread to San Francisco around 1976.

Well, then God knows what's arrived in 2018...we'll have to wait and see.

I'm ya Mama and I aint telling ya where I've gone.

Kellyanne Conway was 4, parents just divorced, and headed into kindergarten in Alto, NJ.

Who's the spooky creep leaving messages about AIDS on these 70s threads. He's a weirdo.

I'm Bonnie Raitt and ignore the fact that I am a child of privilege and I hope you enjoy my bluesy folk album album which I recorded in a barn in Minnesota. It's sure to be a hit! Or maybe my next album in 1972... or 1973... or 1974 ... or 1975 where Linda Ronstadt and I cover all the same songs.. But I'll bet you I'll have a hit album one day and it'll probably be right here in 1971!!!

I'm probably Ringo's only solo hit after The Beatles. Tell me if I'm wrong.

I'm Bill and this is my first hit record.

I just wondered did you ever...

R390, apparently you've never heard of Back Off Boogaloo, Photograph (went to No. 1 on Billboard), You're Sixteen (went to No. 1 on Billboard), Oh My My, The No-No Song, his remake of Only You, etc. Do a little research next time.

R393 DAMN RIGHT!

We're Dolores O'Riordan, Selena Quintanilla and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, all born in 1971. We hope our childhoods were rough enough to meet with R389's approval--dead siblings, poverty, divorce, etc. In fact, we're so legit, we're all dead.

R389, which Linda Ronstadt songs are on Bonnie's 1975 album, Home Plate?

I meant her 70's albums in general...

R395 kinda missed the point but thanks for playing.

R395- and they were much more successful than BR, who honestly is kind of an unctious hack who sounds like every other “child of an artist” artist (eg Norah Jones).

1971? I was in Paris singing "It's Impossible" with Sacha Distel.

R400, you mean "Ish Imposhible."

Typical 70s pop, in the most wonderful way

I'm rainy days and Mondays

We’re the fucking beetles on the back of Ram. Paul will later claim that we could’ve been ladybugs for all he knew, but we know what we are.

This is the first year I will be able to vote, so I am walking my neighborhood with Jerry Brown brochures and attending volunteer orientations with other eager high school students.

Thanks, R405!

I was 14. I discovered masturbation. I was on the freshman football team and wrestling squad. I saw so much cock and ass in the locker room.... It's a wonder I wasn't cumming constantly.

I'm the May 24,1971, cover of TIME magazine.

r407 NY or NJ?

I was 11. I had my first ejaculation playing with my cock thinking of Frank Zofinski. I was among the first with pubes in sixth grade.

Sounds like NJ.

I’m “Sound Magazine” by The Patridge Family.

R410's talking about this "ejaculation" on the 1978 thread as well.

R413 psycho stalker fuck.

r414 Not a particularly trenchant "psycho stalker fuck," though. Hardly worth noting.

Speaking of which, I am the Zodiac Killer...

I'm a brand new key.

I beg your pardon...

I'm Ra's Al Ghul - Batman's greatest foe of the entire 70's.

I would also appear in his hit early 90's cartoon series.

I would also appear in his film franchise reboot.

Most recently I would appear in the hit show "Gotham" played by Dr. Bashir of Star Trek DS9 fame.

I'm Talia Al Ghul, daughter of Ra's Al Ghul.

I was Batman's greatest love interest in the 70's.

I appeared in his early 90's cartoon series.

Many fans thought I would end up marrying him instead of that Catwoman creature.

Bitch!

I'm the T-shirt craze of the 70's.

I don't think anybody alive in the 70's made it out of the decade without wearing at least one of me at some point.

I'm Swamp Thing who would make my big comic book debut this year.

In about a decade the whole world would know who I am thanks in part to that actress on Maude.

Eat your hearts out Hulk & Flash!

[quote]I'm the T-shirt craze of the 70's.

These were YUUUGE in England...but I think a bit later in the decade...when anything very American was in.

The Defenders debuted this year.

Dr. Strange, Hulk & Namor the Sub-Mariner as the original lineup.

The next big film franchise is on the verge of happening!

We're Brenda and the Tabulations, representing the Top and Bottom Records label.

I'm the invention of the music video thingie.

R425: great song

I'm Jean Knight and I got a feminist anthem for that ass!

I’m Carole King’s “Tapestry” album and Jini Mitchell’s “Blue” LP. I’m endlessly played by young women everywhere.

At one point, Buick Riviera's were sought after by aspirational middle-class white women. My father's cousin's wife showed up at a family event with hers, and she was so proud of it.

I'm toiling for Simplicity Patterns so my mom can buy booze.

I'm listening to the 70s chanmel on Sirius/XM and they're doing American Top 40 with Casey Kasem this week in 1971. It's all good.

I’m that 70s sense, sadly gone, that comics were just for teenagers and nerdy 20-somethings and were rightly relegated to a tiny, dark corner of pop culture.

r432 How can you be a "'70s channel" in 1971?

I love listening to the Casy Kasem American Top 40 in the 70s. It's great that the music back then forced you to be exposed to all types of music (country, pop, rock, R&B, bubble-gum, ballads, instrumentals, dance), unlike today when everything is so segregated.

R196 I'm all the Motown labels in England that read "Tamla" because "Mo" was slang for homosexuals in Britain.