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Music anachronisms

posted 9 years ago by CineFileMou
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Back Door Man and Dirty Water came out in 1966. The show looks likes it's in the early '60s and it does not make sense to me. Early days, but the whole show does not make sense to me.

[–] chrisjamesferris 9 years ago

The car Burns' character drives is a '65 Impala so the show could be set in '66/67

[–] CineFileMou 9 years ago

Where are all the hippies? Surely there were some weird people walking around Manhattan in '64. I'm being generous because auto year models tend to be ahead.

Anyways I'm not going to invest anytime in this show. It looks pretty bad.

[–] Judger 9 years ago

There weren't hippies in ny in the mid sixties.

I was born in the house my father built

[–] CineFileMou 9 years ago

Okay, they were all out in Haight Ashbury but everyone looks so square. It really looks early '60s to me. Also, using Back Door Man as a selection would indicate there would be some sort of counter culture. I would have expected someone in the pool hall to look hip.

[–] koko-10 9 years ago

Just beatniks!

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

[–] rhondathissen 9 years ago

You're missing out - it's a great show.

[–] Dnaamg08 9 years ago

CCR released Susie Q in June of 1968...

So like Backdoor Man, they didn't do their research.

Pretty lame mistake actually.

And so far, no reference to the Beatles first trip to the U.S. in 1964.

Big event in NYC.

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[–] phillb29 9 years ago

I posted this in another thread but here it is again...According to this trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAqx0YF4-0A, the show is set in 1967.

[–] CineFileMou 9 years ago

That's a pretty square 1967 then. So in just a couple years it will look like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQSdi-UfGrU

[–] buffyfan145 9 years ago

Ed's talked about this on Twitter and in interviews but he and his music supervisors are choosing songs to fit scenes, not the correct time period. There's music from the 40s, 50s, and 60s. They won't go past the 60s.

[–] CineFileMou 9 years ago

Hmm, I'll have to check out the interview but I don't have a problem going back for the music, it's the going forward.

[–] nutsberryfarm 9 years ago

if they play katrina & the waves' walking on sunshine...that would be really weird.

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[–] sarah-103 9 years ago

Based on what the younger women are wearing, it's very clearly mid to late 1960s. The policemen and thier wives wouldn't be dressed in the latest styles.

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