The Seventies (TV Mini Series) What's Goin' On (2015) User Reviews

Music to my ears

[Mr-Fusion · 8/10 · 11 March 2017]

Now this is the kind of high note to go out on. Considering the downbeat vibes put out so far, 'What's Going' On' is a breath of fresh air, when the '70s was an unpredictable breeding ground of new movements in music. Established legends fold (The Beatles) while new names explode onto the scene. The clips shown here are from great live performances, the songs are toe-tappers and "The Seventies" closes out with a lot of fun.

Great episode.

8/10

Great episode, missing one big genre though

[hastrumpet · 7/10 · 1 December 2018]

This episode was really quite entertaining. Any documentary about music is something I'm a sucker for, and this was a pretty good umbrella 40-minute episode for music in the 70s. My one complaint is that it completely skipped the progressive rock movement that started becoming big during this time. Bands like Pink Floyd, Yes, and The Who aren't really even touched on, which surprised me. It's kind of misleading since on Netflix, it says that prog rock is one of the subjects of the episode. Besides this though, it's a fun tribute to 70s music.

Created an account just to respond to the other guy who commented

[smwict · 7/10 · 18 August 2019]

Just watched this episode for the first time, the series is US centric and prog rock is definitely not an American thing so why would they include it

Apparently nothing 'going on' in Nashville

[scrapmanluke · 6/10 · 24 December 2017]

I enjoyed this episode with the exception of no mention of anything happening in the world of country music in the decade.

Nashville faced huge upheaval and reinvented itself during the decade.

It was on the pulse of the working man with songs like "Take This Job and Shove It" which was a WORLD-WIDE number 1 hit in 1978 across all .genres.

You had the whole CB/trucker song movement-largely fueled by the political protests over the 55 (double-nickel) speed limit.

I felt the producers took a very myopic view of the music industry in the production of the show.