Execproducer Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Peaches & Herb http://youtu.be/8tJi8Y7nuCc Michael Jackson when he was good. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 If I am being honest, these are the 70s I remember... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH68-DxaKas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Execproducer Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 This is the 70's my older brother introduced me to: http://youtu.be/A_zicT_VxaQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Young folks don't realize that in the 70s, Leo Sayer was a bigger deal than Bowie/Lou Reed/Punk Rock/Neil Young all combined. Which is why most of us were excited about the 80s. Not that he didn't have songs were beautiful pop songs, 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Heatwave was also waaaay bigger than most things from the 70s you hear about now though in retrospect they were quite the poor man's Earth Wind and Fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Might as well get these out of the way. The Bee Gees dominated the 70s even when they weren't on the marquee... Anyone who says Grease wasn't part of their 70s childhood is a liar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-7Z6KIsWG4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 And I am not afraid to admit it. Journey's Infinity and REO Speedwagon ARE my childhood... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHtb-TWhYLc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Shit, I wasn't born until '81, and Grease was still a huge part of my childhood (and, uh, adulthood...) Anyway, since I didn't grow up in the 70's, I don't know what they "really" sounded like, but, to me, now, they sound like John Lennon combing pop music with primal scream therapy Or Paul McCartney and Wings being unfindable. Or Bob Dylan explaining a decade worth of relationships in a single song Or Led Zeppelin suddenly veering into folk rock Or Roy Harper jumping into the studio to help Pink Floyd give out the ultimate in rock cyncism 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 But, above all else, it sounds like Black Motherfucking Sabbath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpAi0Srfqtk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qx1vs2NJ6M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIyjSgbia58 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Fowler, being from Detroit, I give you... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cole Miner Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Didn't know too high was possible until this song Favorite guitar player Gary Moore performing with Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy 1976 Joy Division- She's Lost Control like in 79. I wish I could pull of Ian Curtis' moves First Earth WInd and Fire song that comes to mind is from their first album 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Look, I can't pick or or two Bob Seger songs. I just can't. My mom's all-time favorite singer/band. It's a huge part of what the 80's sound like to me to. But... I can post this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrykh37Y_rA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Execproducer Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 http://youtu.be/8vLlpJc9mW0 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cole Miner Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Elton John was great on Soul Train. David Bowie did it as well around the same time and the interview portion was incredibly awkward. Which wasn't unusual for David Bowie in that time frame. One more Bowie song. Life on Mars a song about the emptiness of living vicariously through entertainment http://youtu.be/oAo7YeRkJYo Al Green on Soul Train dressed as some kind of pimp/prostitute hybrid Favorite band from the 70s Steely Dan http://youtu.be/xF7G-5mFpQo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Execproducer Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Hard to talk about the 70's without mentioning Barry Manilow Also, The King http://youtu.be/bqMAiI0Vaog One of my favorites as a kid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 70s punk/power-pop is my favorite genre of music. GET PREPARED. The greatest song ever written? Quite possibly. The music in the song has such an ethereal quality and matches the lyrics perfectly. And those lyrics? They have so many possible meanings -- A crazy relationship that reminds the lead singer of how he jumps around from love-to-love and is in over his head? A man confronting his heroin addiction? Both? It's really hard to find Elvis Costello doing "Radio, Radio" on Saturday Night Live on YouTube, which is really perfect if you know the backstory. Elvis wanted to do this song, but Lorne Michaels wanted him to do something else. Elvis thought it was because of the song's criticisms of broadcasting. Lorne insists it was a formatting issue. Either way, Elvis Costello changing songs on the fly on national television is the most punk rock thing that has ever happened. Bram Tchaikovsky wrote a bunch of really great songs. This one is his best. This is one of the all-time best power-pop nerd songs. Such an awesome hook and bridge and a transcendent chorus. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Every rasslin' nerd should revere Giorgio Moroder because he wrote "The Chase" that became The Midnight Express theme song. I'm not a disco fan -- let alone Italian disco -- but this song rules and sounds at least a little bit like The Raspberries or along those lines. This was the theme for the late, great Best Show on WFMU for a while and it's such a bad-ass song from one of the coolest band of the 70s. RIP to the greatest band of the 70s. You guys changed my life. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 You can't just have one Ramones song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVhjBmcOP30 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 THE SEVENTIES. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Goat Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 Fuck yeah!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 The late, great Warren Zevon.... And of course... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbmS5Pq6e7A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 Greggulator, this is the greatest Elvis Costello song ever written. So much so, I almost named my daughter after this song. the wife laid the veto down. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Didn't know too high was possible until this song Favorite guitar player Gary Moore performing with Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy 1976 Joy Division- She's Lost Control like in 79. I wish I could pull of Ian Curtis' moves First Earth WInd and Fire song that comes to mind is from their first album Glad someone posted Sweet and Thin Lizzy since I can't be bothered to figure out how to embed videos. Throw on some Slade to go with the earlier Cheap Trick and I'll be set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 The youtube videos automatically embed. You just have to post the url. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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