1970-1979

[GirlinContempt]

What a great time for music.
Post your picks.

3 for starts:
Tubeway Army
Joy Division
Wire

[MissMillie]

1. Electric Light Orchestra

Moody Blues
Yes

[GirlinContempt]

2. I was just thinking of ELO the other day

but I don't remember why

[MissMillie]

12. my very first concert

I think in '78.

I think Jeff Lynne is a major talent, not just as a musician, but as a producer.

[datasuspect]

3. three

david bowie
brian eno (and his predecessors and cohorts)
king crimson

[GirlinContempt]

7. mmmm Bowie

:)

[salin]

90. I didn't "get" the glam thing ...

but in the eighties... he made me swoon... "Let's Dance...." that introduced me to the earlier stuff - oh what I had missed?!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. Okay:

Television
Miles Davis (electric period)
Allman Brothers Band
The Clash

Lots more I'm sure I'm forgetting...

[GirlinContempt]

5. I could have posted pages

but I wanted to leave stuff for others :D
Television = amazing choice.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. I've listened to Marquee Moon at least 25 times in the past month.

Amazing album. :thumbsup:

[tigereye]

45. oops, I forgot Television

Marquee Moon still sounds good 25 plus years after we first bought the album.

Saw Verlaine at our summer festival here last year doing solo stuff. Amazing player.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

50. I just bought it a couple of months ago.

Glad to know the hype was definitely real.

[tigereye]

56. it's still considered one of the great albums of the period

it still sounds great after all this time!

[wildhorses]

6. let us just start with the heavy hitters

pink floyd
elp
led zeppelin
stones
nitty gritty dirt band

i could go on...

[GirlinContempt]

11. I could never really get in to Pink Floyd

Dunno why. Weird, huh?

[wildhorses]

27. well, to each his own but, they were significant of that time period

it helped to have teen angst at that time frame also...

[GirlinContempt]

35. I don't think they were BAD

I just couldn't really get in to it :)

[wildhorses]

38. yeah, i have some bands that are like that. i can appreciate

them as professional musicians...just not my thing. i have to be in the mood for floyd. i can not take a steady diet of any one genre.

for some reason i thought floyd was 'before' your time anyway:shrug:

[pdx_prog]

47. The NGDB was a heavy hitter?....:)

Enjoyable yes, but heavy hitters?

Santa Rosa Freeway....

[wildhorses]

53. shh

i slid it past her:hide:

and yeah i don't think they get the respect they deserve:patriot:

will the circle be unbroken could go in my top ten albums:shrug:

kind of an inside joke, i did a poll in the lounge one day and included them as one of the top ten rock bands...it was hoot:P

i would give you the link but, advanced search is turned off due to high volumex(

[salin]

91. Amy - whatcha gonna do?

nitty gritty dirt band gave me and my frosh pals at college our "anthem" before going out to parties. Not for what it said - but just how much it was to sing along.

[tk2kewl]

8. talking heads, blondie, the police, the ramones

[GirlinContempt]

13. Gotta love the talking heads

Great choices :)

[geardaddy]

123. That list makes me think of some others

Iggy Pop
New York Dolls
Patty Smith

[commander bunnypants]

10. ..

The Dead
The Who
The Clash


CB

[GirlinContempt]

16. Whenever someone says The Who

I have to double check to assure myself there is no 'Guess' in there

[Bassic]

14. Let's see

Sabbath (undoubtedly my first pick from the period), Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rush, Deep Purple, and a lot of others.

[GirlinContempt]

17. Opposite spectrum from me

:P

Killing Joke
Penetration
Mission of Burma
Bauhaus
Gang of Four

[Bassic]

19. I forgot Bowie

He's always kicked ass :D

[GirlinContempt]

21. Public Image Ltd?

[Bassic]

24. I've only heard them once or twice,

but I liked it.

[GirlinContempt]

26. Wow you need a hookup

Throbbing Gristle?

[Bassic]

29. Never heard them.

I agree that I need to know more. I like just about any music, so sometimes I get sidetracked :D

[GirlinContempt]

34. What?!

We'll fix that!`

[Bassic]

55. Please do

:)

[GirlinContempt]

59. Well, hit me when you're home

[Bassic]

61. I will, though it might take a few days.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't so frggin' busy all the time :)

[GirlinContempt]

65. S'cool

I just got an email about my extreme bandwidth usage anyway, so I should probably lay low for a while :P

[Bassic]

66. lol

:rofl:

Your ISP is getting nervous? :D

[GirlinContempt]

68. I'm a bad apple I tells ya

[Bassic]

69. Oh now I don't know about that

:D

[GirlinContempt]

72. Oh really now?

[Bassic]

73. Yes, really.

:evilgrin: :hide:

[GirlinContempt]

76. Superman, huh?

[Bassic]

77. In some ways, yes

But I think we should leave it at that :P

[GirlinContempt]

79. Pffft

:hide:

[Bassic]

80. I find your lack of faith disturbing

:rofl:

[GirlinContempt]

81. Never underestimate the power of the....

:P

[Bassic]

84. I have a bad feeling about this.

Oh wait, maybe I don't

I'm confused :D

[GirlinContempt]

85. Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder

[Bassic]

86. Who's scruffy looking?

:D

The fuzz ball has laughed it up, btw :rofl:

[GirlinContempt]

87. This bounty hunter is my kind of scum!

:D

[Bassic]

88. I am fearless and inventive

:D

[GirlinContempt]

92. Why, you slimy, double-crossing, no-good swindler!

[Bassic]

95. Dammit I'm running out of quotes

you win :D

[GirlinContempt]

96. I'm a weiner!

:P

[Bassic]

98. Well now,

I wouldn't know about _that_ :D

[GirlinContempt]

99. What DO you know?

;)

[Bassic]

100. A great many things.

As I said, fearless and inventive :P

[GirlinContempt]

101. Can you fearlessly invent

a way for me to stay home and play video games all day?

[Bassic]

102. Call in sick

:D

[GirlinContempt]

103. Don't fail me again, Admiral

[Bassic]

104. What's wrong with calling in sick?

Everyone needs a mental health day once in a while :D

[GirlinContempt]

106. What I really want to do is work in my garden

And win the lottery.

[Bassic]

107. I don't want to work.

I just want to bang on thesse drums all day. (or play on this bass, to be more truthful)

[GirlinContempt]

108. Wait wait wait....

You're a bass player?

[Bassic]

111. Yes I am.

hence the screen name :D

[GirlinContempt]

112. Yeah, well, I'm 99.98% idiot

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5933292

[Bassic]

114. The rythm section rocks

:D

[GirlinContempt]

115. I'm in love with David Weddell

[Bassic]

117. What's not to love?

about a bass player? :P

[GirlinContempt]

119. Excluding lemmy?

[Bassic]

120. Lemmy? nt

[GirlinContempt]

121. LEMMY!

[tigereye]

48. all my former bandmates were obsessed with Throbbng Gristle

wow, that takes me back.

[GirlinContempt]

51. That's cause they were amazing

[tigereye]

57. well, at the time they were preoccupied with a variety of interesting

questions. I seem to remember the number 23 being one of their concerns, oddly. Long before it was made into a film....

:rofl:

Since I was the straight arrow of the bunch, I had different concerns....

[geardaddy]

124. Yes!!!

Throbbing Gristle! I forgot about them.

Teenage Jesus and the Jerks?

[Wapsie B]

15. ABBA

'nuf said.

[GirlinContempt]

23. Ok

[Strawman]

18. Lou Reed, Devo, Zappa

[commander bunnypants]

20. I saw Lou Reed at the 930 club in DC

what a show


bout 1997

CB

[Strawman]

30. I saw him on the Ecstasy tour, I think that was later on

Maybe in 2000? 1997 was probably the tour for "Set the Twilight Reeling?" The Detroit show at The Fox Theater for "Ecstasy" was great.

Wish he would put out something new. I didn't really dig "The Raven" all that much. Saw him interviewed on that Matt Pifield show on HDNET recently. Doesn't sound like anything new is in the works. I know he performed "Berlin" in NYC recently. I'd love to see that.

[GirlinContempt]

22. Devo rules

[Strawman]

28. Yep. "Q: Are We Not Men?..." is one of my favorite albums of all time

[rockymountaindem]

25. Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, London Calling n/t

[Perky]

109. Absolutely

[Perky]

110. Absolutely

[Strawman]

31. Stevie Wonder did some fantastic stuff during this period also

Music of My Mind
Innervisions
Talking Book
Songs in the Key of Life

I love those records.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

40. Absolutely.

[Joe Fields]

82. Yeah. The song, "Living for the city," was a masterpiece, and it

demonstrates to all the young rappers and hip-hop artists just how you can "keep it real," without being vulgar or denigrating.

[unpossibles]

32. yes! I love so much of the music and find it funny that a lot of so-called 80's bands

are in reality 70's bands, but I digress. My picks are many, but here's a few in no particular order (and I am stealing some of yours...)

The Clash
Joe Jackson Band
Elvis Costello
Talking Heads
The Police
The Specials
The Damned
The Buzzcocks
Roxy Music
Joy Division
David Bowie
Queen
Tubeway Army
The Ramones
Tom Waits
The Dead Boys
The Birthday Party (Nick Cave)
Bauhaus
Siouxsie & The Banshees
The Cure
The Jam
Devo


ok, I'll stop.

[Arugula Latte]

74. Great list!

Love those bands...:thumbsup:

[MAGICBULLET]

33. I love rock and roll

but we gotta give love to the funk !

Parliament-Funkadelic

Rick James

Kool & the Gang

Earth, Wind & Fire

The Meters

Zapp

War

Sly & the Family Stone

[guitar man]

36. The Meters!!

yesss, The Meters rule :applause:

They were so fab, on their own and also as the studio band on Robert Palmer's "Sneakin Sally" album. Class act all the way :thumbsup:

[speedoo]

37. from "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die"

scroll down for the 70's....

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/1001albums.htm

(It's a useful list, and I plan to acquire the book. Has it's limitations and if course it omits some essental albums for me, as I am sure it does for many.)

[enigmatic]

39. 3

Rocket From The Tombs/Pere Ubu

Television

15-60-75

http://www.ubuprojex.net/hearpen/jbell.html

[GirlinContempt]

52. Fab choices

:D

[meegbear]

41. Pink Floyd, Village People, Alice Cooper

[Ishoutandscream2]

42. The Rolling Stones...yes, the Stones

Their greatest album came out in 72 - Exile on Main Street. The 72 tour was also argueably their very best.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

44. With Stevie Wonder

as the opening act! Saw them in San Diego.....still reverberates with me, lo these many years later! :)

[Ishoutandscream2]

49. You lucky devil

The band never sounded better than that tour. I've watched the movie "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones" concert film over and over again. Wish I could have been in attendance in 72, but alas I was only 11.

[tigereye]

43. The Clash, The Ramones, Patti Smith

that's a start, anyway.

[Richardo]

46. Little Feat, Dan Hicks, Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen

[Throd]

54. Kraftwerk

[Maestro]

93. I second that!

Music before its time!

[mainegreen]

97. Yup.

[Wetzelbill]

58. The Marshall Tucker Band, Foghat, Steve Miller, CCR...

wow too many.

[HuskerDU]

60. 1970-1979

New York Dolls- Greatest RnR band of all-time IMO.
Heartbreakers (Johnny Thunders not Tom Petty)- 2nd Greatest RnR band of all-time IMO.
Saints- great punk rock.

[NoPasaran]

62. The era of Outlaw Country

Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings ascended to the status of gods, with Jerry Jeff Walker, Jessi Colter, David Allen Coe and others bathed in their glory.

[MrSlayer]

63. Sticky Fingers, Physical Grafitti, Dark Side.

Three perfect albums from the 70's.

AC/DC, Rush, Fleetwood Mac.

Three great bands from the 70's.

[RebelOne]

64. Blood, Sweat and Tears was one of my favorite groups in the '70s.

[Burma Jones]

67. Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead and the Ramones

all helped keep my ears away from the BeeGees.....

[Left Is Write]

70. Cheap Trick!

[regularguy]

71. Joni Mitchell, particularly "Hejira" and "Court and Spark" NT

[ghostsofgiants]

75. The Clash, Joy Division, Gang of Four, Black Flag

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

78. Peter Gabriel's Genesis. Yeah, it had Phil Collins on the drums, but it was another band entirely.

Hell, its goodness even spilled into the first couple of albuns of the Phil Collins Genesis:

[Joe Fields]

83. Derek and the Dominos, ELP, Allman Brothers, Jethro Tull, for starters...

The list is long, only I would shorten the period from. 1979 and roll it back to about 1976. After that, music became way too commercialized and formulaic. (with the exception of a very few punk bands)

[Wetzelbill]

118. Yeah!

[KingDaevid]

89. Here's a pile not mentioned (and probably forgotten, if y'all ever heard of most of 'em)

Jim Croce
Michel Pagliaro et Les Rockers (Montreal outfit, some English, most French)
Fanny
Judee Sill
Gladstone ("A Piece of Paper")
Charlie Daniels before he became a blithering idiot ("Uneasy Rider," "Long Haired Country Boy")
Slade
Suzi Quatro
The Beatles (remember, "Got to get you into my life" was a Top 10 hit in '76)
Dean Friedman ("Ariel," "Lydia," "Lucky Stars")
Nick Lowe
The Runaways
Sammy Johns (did some nice country pop sides in addition to "Chevy Van")
Badfinger ("Baby Blue," "Day After Day," "No Matter What")
Bonnie Raitt ("Too Long at the Fair")
Michael Nesmith & The First National Band
Jerry Reed
Tanya Tucker
Gil Scott-Heron
Rachel Sweet
Jerry Jeff Walker

[Maestro]

94. Rush, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Judas Priest, Rolling Stones,

The Who, The Doors (early part of the 70s), early Van Halen, ELO, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, The Police, Talking Heads, Queen, Supertramp, ZZ Top.

[zappa_parappa]

105. No 70s Elton John?

Back when he actually kicked some ass. Many great albums from him in the 70s

[peekaloo]

113. The first three Elvis Costello albums!

you betcha.

[bertha katzenengel]

116. Daniel - Elton John

my god.

[geardaddy]

122. Devo, Sex Pistols, Bob Marley