Take the quiz - how many 70's bands do you recognize

[LynneSin]

http://www.zimbio.com/trivia/XcLU8eGCTjY/How+Many+70s+Bands+Can+Name

I got an 89%. I can't believe I missed fricking Steve Miller Band. I mean I only have seen them in concert like 6 times but geez that was starting in the 80s. No clue what the guy looked like in the 70s.

Missed Lynyrd Skynyrd because let's face it - can anyone actually name the original members of that band? And I think I got Santana wrong too. But other than that it was pretty easy. I mean if there were 5 people on the screen some you could eliminate like CSN or ELP. D'uh

[KMOD]

1. I got 96%

I missed Joy Division. Who the heck is Joy Division? I don't remember them.

[CBGLuthier]

2. Probably their biggest hit

Sadly the lead singer committed suicide so they were not around long.

[mackerel]

36. I loved that Manchester sound. I think Curtis has epilepsy too.

[Sedona]

3. 96% Joy Division?

[Arugula Latte]

8. Incredibly influential Manchester England band.

They helped usher in a whole new sound, and they are still very revered and cited today, along with the Smiths, another Manchester band who came along just a bit later.

Joy Division's lead singer Ian Curtis killed himself in 1980. The band only released two albums. Joy Division spawned New Order after Ian died.

The movie "24 Hour Party People" chronicles some of this music scene in Manchester in the 80s-90s.

[KMOD]

10. ahhh. I am familiar with New Order.

I dig them.

Thanks.

[Arugula Latte]

12. You're welcome!

For the most part New Order has quite a different sound than Joy Division.

[hifiguy]

65. "Closer", the final Joy Division album

is a masterpiece, pure and simple. It has more than stood the test of time..

[LynneSin]

11. Stop whatever you are doing now and find yourself some Joy Divsion!!

I Joy Division

Essentially Joy Division is the prequel to New Order with one exception. Before New Order existed there was Joy Division and the lead singer was Ian Curtis. Ian Curtis had this absolutely amazing very distinctive voice that will haunt you when you hear it. If you can find a rare live video of Joy Division in concert he also had this disturbing way he moved when he sang, kind of a jerkish back and forth movement. Their first album is 'Unknown Pleasures' and probably one of my absolutely favorite non-Zeppelin albums out there. It's a great album to listen to on a Saturday afternoon when you're stuck in the house in a weird funk and want to listen to something moody and brooding and off-center.

But what happened to Joy Division and how did they become New Order you ask? Well that is the sad story. Unfortunately Ian Curtis was severely afflicted with epilepsy, which some say a few times on stage he actually had seizures and his treatment with medication was sometimes hit or miss. He also suffered with depression too. The combination of these 2 things was probably what lead to his suicide in 1980.

The surviving members did opt to continue on but instead of keeping the name Joy Division decided to use a new band name which was New Order.

Joy Division is considered Post-Punk in their sound but honestly I think they are the pre-cursor to what became the New Wave sound of the 80s

[KMOD]

27. I will definately check them out

[hifiguy]

67. Curtis' wife also left him a few weeks before he committed suicide.

Very talented, very troubled guy.

He sounded sort of like a cross of Jim Morrison at his less pretentious and late Iggy - a deep, dark mournful voice.

The three truly great bands that emerged in the first flash of post-punk were Magazine, Joy Division, and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Thank Celestia the art-school kids took over again after punk quickly burned itself out.

[femmocrat]

4. 82%

Some lucky guesses and process of elimination. LOL

I did hear of Joy Division. My son used to listen to their music in the 1980s.

[denbot]

18. 82% also

The 70's were REALLY rough on me....

[femmocrat]

20. I really didn't recognize a lot of those bands.

I just made some lucky guesses. My music addiction ended around 1970 when the Beatles broke up.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Never heard of Joy Division.

[Arugula Latte]

9. See my post #8

[Jokerman]

6. 100%!

OK, Joy Division was a lucky guess and I may not have got Steve Miller Band if you hadn't mentioned them in the OP.

[NightWatcher]

7. 100% and I was born in '75

Most that I didn't immediately recognize had an identifiable character. I guessed on Joy Division and King Crimson...correctly.

I'd like to see that quiz with 90's grunge bands.

[LynneSin]

13. I knew King Crimson but then again I recalled my other options were

Abba, Fleetwood Mac and Queen

Since the photo included no females or Freddie Mercury I figured that had to be King Crimson.

[progressoid]

63. I got King Crimson because I barely recognized Robert Fripp.

I just sold a bunch of Fripp albums on Ebay.

[hifiguy]

68. Heresy!

Before he adopted the professorial look he has sported for 40 years, Fripp always looked like a misplaced Hobbit.

[progressoid]

71. Heresy because I didn't recognize him?

Or because I sold the albums?

[hifiguy]

72. The latter.

[progressoid]

73. It wasn't easy.

But I needed the $ and the space.

After the birth of our first daughter, I also needed some quick cash so I sold a stack of Zappa albums. He died a couple years later and they quadrupled in price.

[Callmecrazy]

14. I did better than I thought I would...

FINAL SCORE: 93%
Pretty good! You are either a child of the '70s or you listen to the classic rock radio station a lot.

[PufPuf23]

15. 86% - missed Steve Miller, Lynard Skynard and Black Sabbath

My technique was product of elimination or recognizing specific individuals or knowing three person bands

Bands I missed proved that Doobie Brothers was not a good strategy/

Saw Steve Miller twice at Fillmore West 1969 and 1970 and loved the albums but the concerts Steve Miller sets were disappointing; not Elvis Costello I'm POed and don't want to play today at Berkeley Community Theatre or Lee Michaels at Fillmore West the roadies broke my fucking organ and this piano doesn't do it for me, fuck this place bad, just disappointing.

[blogslut]

16. 93%

I missed Joy Division because I thought they were an 80's band. The other one I missed was Lynyrd Skynyrd because I never liked them.

[LynneSin]

26. In the 80s they became New Order

but you were close

[mockmonkey]

17. 100%

I thought I was going to do badly. Much of it wasn't that I knew who was pictured but rather who it wasn't.

[treestar]

49. And process of elimination

Did me some good too!

[rdking647]

19. 72%

it's tougher than i though to name the band by their photo

[Owl]

21. 93%. Never ever heard of Joy Division.

[treestar]

50. I heard of them but

Would not have known them from Adam. I guessed Joy Division right because I knew they were new wave 80s and picked them as the ones with short hair

[Brother Buzz]

22. 48%

It's true: If You Remember the 70s, You Weren't Really There.

[Le Taz Hot]

23. 96%

I still don't know who "Joy Division" is.

[shenmue]

32. British post-punk band; came from Manchester, England

Became known as New Order after their first vocalist, Ian Curtis, died in 1980. He killed himself.

[DinahMoeHum]

24. 96% - missed Black Sabbath

Seriously, though, many of the bands could be determined by deductive reasoning, aka "Calculatus Eliminatus"

[WinkyDink]

29. You didn't recognize Ozzie?! :-)

[TexasBushwhacker]

34. LOL - I thought "Is that Ozzy?"

So young! I got 96%. I missed King Crimson. There were some that were process of elimination though.

[Archae]

25. 79% here, I did awful.

Besides, who could ever recognize Steve Miller band, since no one sober ever showed up at their concerts?

[LynneSin]

38. I don't think I was ever sober for a Steve Miller concert

Back in the days the Mann Music Center use to let you bring unopened bottles of water into the concert. I learned how to unscrew the cap off of a bottle of Poland Spring so the seal would not break. I'd empty the bottle and then fill it up with vodka. I'd make a lot of friends at Steve Miller Band concerts!!!

[Archae]

41. Well, you do really have to be plowed to be at a SMB concert...

(snerrrk)

[LynneSin]

43. Yeah but SMB concerts were fun city

because you know all they lyrics to the songs so it was like one big drunk singalong. I think at one point I actually saw Steve Miller Band more times than Robert Plant and you know what a huge Plant fan I am (that has long since changed around 2000)

[smirkymonkey]

53. So did I, but I was just a kid during that era, so I don't think that's so bad.

[hifiguy]

69. It was worse for metal bands, IIRC.

Shit, they were practically wheeling the ludeheads and wineskin-full-of-sloe-gin drunks out in iron lungs at Sabbath and Uriah Heep shows back in the day.

[WinkyDink]

28. Two wrong.

FINAL SCORE: 93%

Pretty good! You are either a child of the '70s or you listen to the classic rock radio station a lot.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

30. 79%. If it weren't for actually living through the 70's I might remember them better.

FINAL SCORE: 79%
Pretty good! You are either a child of the '70s or you listen to the classic rock radio station a lot.

[shenmue]

31. 96% - only missed one.

[mackerel]

35. me too!

[trof]

33. I know my score without taking the quiz. zip zed zero nil nada

geezer

[LynneSin]

37. Geezer and proud

that's because I'm turning 50 next year but still passing for late 30s

[laundry_queen]

39. 79%

Only alive for the latter half of the decade so there were a few iffy ones for me. I recognize the music better than I recognize the photos of the bands.

[LiberalElite]

40. I must've paid more attention than I realized -

FINAL SCORE: 65%
Pretty good! You are either a child of the '70s or you listen to the classic rock radio station a lot.

I don't get that - "listen to the ...radio" That wouldn't help me know what they look like.

[Tom Kitten]

42. 100 %

Only Supertramp gave me pause but I figured it wasn't any of the other bands...never saw them live, never knew what they looked like!

And I guessed Lynyrd Skynyrd because I knew they had a lot of members (hey 3 guitarists!) Did you know one of them, Ed King, was in the Strawberry Alarm Clock before Skynyrd?

[LynneSin]

44. At one point it was a requirement that all musicians play in Skynyrd At some point

Hence why today Skynyrd is booking shows at local Farm Shows and Gun Rallies but the last time Led Zeppelin did a concert like 20 million people submitted requests to buy tickets. Helps when people actually know all the names of people in your band.

[hifiguy]

70. Not only that, he co-wrote "Incense and Peppermints"

the definitive version of which is

from the 1980s. I wonder whatever happened to Brix Smith. She was the essence of cool, though Chrissie Hynde was right there with her, and had a neat voice.

[Solly Mack]

45. This was a fun quiz. I got 100%. My SO also got 100%.

He's in his mid-40's and I'm in my early 50's. He plays bass and the acoustic and was in a band in his younger days.

I added a link to this thread in the photo contest thread. I enjoyed the quiz.

[Kaleva]

46. 93%. Missed Steve Miller Band & Yes

[logosoco]

47. Wow! that was funny! I got 100%

some of that was lucky guessing.

Now I see where my talents lay. This and remembering long ago commercial jingles. I wish I could put that stuff on a resume!

[treestar]

48. 86%

I knew Skynyrd but was weak on Black Sabbath or Emerson Lake and Palmer. One pic was small and I thought the guy in the middle was Steven Tyler and got it wrong.

[LynneSin]

52. Tyler has had so much bad plastic surgery....

I have no clue what he once looked like when he was young. I've heard people give shit about how much Robert Plant has aged but I'd rather see a wrinkled natural looking face that a stretched out unnatural one.

[treestar]

56. Agree, IMO plastic surgery makes people look old in a

weird way, and it's better to look old in a natural way.

[LynneSin]

57. Paul McCartneyhas that weird look too

you have to wonder if they realize us common folks know it's fake and it is bad.

[lovemydog]

51. 100% baby.

I rock.

[Miles Archer]

54. I'll bet you guessed Whitesnake correctly

[LynneSin]

55. Oh I bet you are itching for a spanking

[tinymontgomery]

58. 93%

Missed Joy Division and Queen. Can't believe I missed Queen.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

59. 100

I'm a bit surprised because I'm more a fan of listening to the music, rather than following the bands and their personalities/images etc.

[ms liberty]

60. 100%. I still rock! n/t

[Mendocino]

61. 100%

The only one I didn't know by the photo alone was Joy Division and the multiple guess option made it easy to pick them. But having hundreds of LP's from 60/70's or going to countless concerts in the 70's didn't hurt either.

[underpants]

62. Missed the 1st one -Doobie. Hard to see sitting the pool

I actually got a couple waiting for the image to load - process of elimination - hasnt seen Skynyrd or ACDC yet.

Joy Division I had no idea but since they had been an option so many times I figured it was them.

[progressoid]

64. Steve Miller was kind of a tough one.

I would have missed it if hadn't said something!

100%

[hifiguy]

66. 29/29

100%

Not bad for an increasingly old fart.

[trackfan]

74. 86% 25-29

I forget which ones I missed.