OT: 70s Music Thread
Piggybacking ThadMattasgoblin's 60's music post here because I wanted to talk music but I don't in general give a flip about the 60s music-wise. Embed live versions of your choices if you can. Check the first post for my contributions.
The 70s provided the best funk, best looking bands, and by far the best videos.
Average White Band is my favorite group and their "Cut the Cake" is liquid sex.
My other favorite band is Tower of Power. They had about a zillion singers, but this guy is like someone crossed Chris Tucker and Terry Crewes DNA. Keep an eye out for the suit on the tenor and his unbelievable dancing skills.
Now to the more mainstream stuff. Earth, Wind, and Fire is probably the most iconic funk/disco band of the 70s. I think September is their best.
To make sure this isn't all funk, I'll include Doobie Brothers' Long Train Running. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they dislike this song. The best version on YT is here(https://youtu.be/9sSWbl4S8KU), but embedding is disabled. Here's a good version without the original vocalist, but still has that great 70s/early 80s video vibe.
Road to Shambala Three Dog Night, Stayin Alive Bee gees, I will Survive Gloria Gaynor
Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone. My favorite Zeppelin song and an amazing song in general.
All Led Zeppelin
The Moody Blues
I've made a tape, then a CD, of the "Best of Michigan" music that I still listen to today.
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Love the One You're With - Steven Stills
Funk 49 - James Gang (Joe Walsh)
Nature's Way - Spirit
Ride My Seesaw - Moody Blues
Can't hear that without thinking of Ted Stryker and his drinking problem.
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Been on an ELO kick lately thanks to a earworm planted by someone playingtheir radio at the desk in my aisle a few days ago. It happened to be one of my favorite ELO songs too...
Gotta love Simon & Garfunkle
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"Born To Run" is the best rock song of all time (not just the 70's) for my money. It's just the perfect song (message, music, pace....). Not my favorite Springsteen song....but still the best rock song.
Springsteen was my first concert. October 3, 1980 at Crisler Arena. It was the first night of "The River" tour. He opened with "Born To Run".....and forgot the words. I was 15 years old (couldn't drive) and my mom picked me up from the concert at 11:30. Springsteen played until well past midnight back in the day. I missed Bob Seger coming on stage to sing "Thunder Road"!
"Mother of Pearl" (1973)
... Followed closely by "If There is Something," "Pyjamarama," "Psalm," "The Thrill of It All," "Prairie Rose," "Grey Lagoons," and a host of others.
Their album covers were always interesting too.
usually Bryan Ferry's current girlfriend. The cover of Siren was Jerry Hall, for instance.
any song from Who's next.
Great,great, great, great, album.
Who's Next is, Quadrophenia is even better. I just listened again to that entire double album about a week ago (for the first time in about a year); that awesome entire side 4 of that album still gives me chills. Forever my favorite Who album.
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I will also say a great,great,great album. I like Quadrophenia better then Tommy.
From the day I bought it in the record store in 1973 I thought it was the Who's greatest masterpiece up to that time. Great arrangements and recording.
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Electric Light Orchestra-bought all their albums and saw them in concert at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1976
Too many to pick just one but I do love:
Guitar Man by Bread
Ten Years Gone by Zeppelin
Trouble by Cat Stevens
Pretty much every song on Some Girls by the Stones
Though not my favorite Who song, Who Are You is one of the best of the 70's.
Also the decade of the best movies.
This is harder.
Just songs and not bands.
War-Edwin Starr
Ain't No Sunshine-Bill Withers
Higher-Sly and the Family Stone
Kiss You all over-Exile
Serpentine Fire-Earth, Wind, and Fire
Guh, I really wish I would have remembered Bill Withers for the OP.
Has to be the live version of Highway Star performed in Japan.
Live at Leeds
Who's Next
Quadrophenia
Also, like Led Zeppelin (especially IV and Physical Graffiti), Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon).
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Quadrophenia is my all-time favorite Who album.
Great songs - The Real Me, Cut My Hair, Punk Meets the Godfather, I'm One, 5:15, Sea and Sand, Drowned, Bell Boy, Love Reign O'er Me.
Awesome album.
totally respect that, thank you!-it is a timeless classic that, in my opinion, does an amazing job of capturing the frustrated mood of an outsider, underdog, and most specifically, male adolescent. with the plot of the opera taking place in the early 60's, the themes hold up to this day. townshend = genius.
townshend = genius
And Entwistle / Moon = greatest rock rhythm section of all time.
(I give serious props to Bonham / Jones of Zeppelin, but to me Entwistle/Moon is on another cosmic level.)
Sans Moon, but with Entwistle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dlN55SoF4Q
This song is Entwistle's masterpiece. Astonishing bass playing.
I personally feel that the greatest Who song is Music Must Change but it is so far ahead of it's time we still haven't evolved enough to truly appreciate it.
Great song!
At the begining you can hear footsteps on a wood floor. That's Townshend stepping out the 6/8 time. Story is Moon was struggling with that song's time requirement -- his drug and alcohol problems catching up with him -- so Pete improvised by walking out the rhythm on his cottage's wood floor.
Home and Away and most especially I Don't Need No Doctor!
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I second that. The Gorham-Robertson lineup was the best IMHO. Night Life-Johnny the Fox-Jailbreak were all fantastic albums. Love the twin harmonies, Downey's swinging drums, and Phil's lyrics and easy delivery.
Thin Lizzy opened for Queen in a concert I went to in Saginaw in 1977 or thereabouts. They had some great songs and had a really good live show.
You have lived the life I've dreamed of. Lucky bastard!
My favorite 70's stuff includes GFR's I'm Your Captain, the Rolling Stones Midnight Rambler (released December 69 so I count as 70's) and my favorite rock song of the 70's Neil Young's Down By The River.
most of Frank Zappa's songs had lyrics that offended somebody. But that doesn't alter the fact that the man was a musical genius, much of his best work occurred in the 70's
Thanks for the kind words. I try to piss off everyone.
Apostrophe or Over Nite Sensation? That's the real question...