Great 70s Rock???

[Frau_Blucher]

Was there any? Of course there was. What were some of your great favs? I don't mean regurgitate a meaningless list. I want who and why. (demanding aren't I?!)

I just noticed this year's the 30th Anniversary of Springsteens Born to Run. I'm not an enormous Springsteen fan, but if you like guitar pop rock of any sort, I can't see how you can't think of this as a signature album and song. It's got the hooks, driving beats, build-ups, climaxes, and more rock and roll romance than Sid, Nancy, Kurt and Courtney combined! I won't even try to out-do Bruce's own recent recollection of it:

"It was a record of enormous longing, and those emotions and desires never leave you. You're dead when that leaves you. The song transcends your age and continues to speak to that part of you that is both exhilarated and frightened about what tomorrow brings. It will always do that - that's how it was built."

Phew!!! [:p]

[2Nu]

FYI: My all time favorite Springsteen track is the oft neglected but (IMO) kickass 'Ramrod'. A spirited 'go fast' song with driving percussion, vocals, keyboard riffs, and that big man Clarence Clemmons sax.
Don't believe me?, <a href="http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=241124PPWK4W90EBI84UXA5NIV" target="blank">give it a listen</a> [;)]

Sorry, but the all too familiar marque names of classic & prog rock come to mind here (hey that's what FM AOR radio was during my musical pubescence!)

:: cringes then shrugs ::

Well then I'll stick to the ones that influenced me the most during that time and still resonate with me to this day.

(love 'em or hate'em) here they are.. with the tracks or as the era evoked- ENTIRE Albums (don't see that much, if at all, anymore [V])

ACDC- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, TNT (Raw & Raunchy)

Aerosmith- Dream On, Walk This Way, Sweet Emotion (Haunting melodies and raucous riffs)

Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You (Great lead in and build up to this great in your face lyrical put you down)

Bob Seger- Night Moves, Main Street (Another pair of wistful and lyrically telling songs)

Boston- The Whole Debut Album (These boys from MIT were really onto something.. what a sonic epiphany- the sound!, the ambiance!, the kick ass exaltation of it all!)

Dan Fogelberg- Phoenix Album (The title track is an all time fave- haunting instrumental lead in of Tullamore Dew to the musical tour de force of the title track)

Eagles- One Of These Nights, Hotel California Album (Classic melodic and lyrical masterpieces featuring country infused acoustic and electric guitar rock)

Elton John- (Too many to list from this musical Genius)

ELO - Fire On High, Sweet Talkin Woman, Mr Blue Sky (masterful and sweeping over the top rockorchestral arrangements)

ELP- From The Beginning, Father Christmas (beautiful acoustic guitar and spacey early synths blended on the former and a timeless cautionary antiwar and holiday message blended into latter)

Eric Clapton- Let It Rain, Slowhand Album (fabulous guitar work on my alltime fave 'The Core')

Fleetwood Mac- Self Titled Album, Rumours (beautiful, dreamy, angry, wistfull, melancholy - a kalaidoscope of emotions though Clinton killed 'Don't Stop' for me)

Heart- Magic Man, Crazy On You (a pair of songs tailor made for raging adolescent hormones)

Led Zep- Houses of The Holy (Fave Zep riff), Cashmir, Ramble On, Black Country Woman (ooh, too damn sexy!)

Paul McCartney & Wings- Uncle Albert-Admiral Halsey, Another Day, My Love, Jet (For some reason these songs all came out in the summer and thus harken back to my days in summer camp toting around my trusty AM/FM 'Solid State' transistor radio listening to NY's 99X)

Peter Frampton- (((LIVE))) Do You Feel Like We Do, Show Me The Way (The first time the ambiance of a live performance was truly captured in an analog recording and surpassed the sonic impact of the original studio versions of the songs, ABSOLUTELY AMAZING)

((((Pink Floyd)))) - Albums Baby.. Albums... DSoTM, Wish You Were Here, Animals, (much of) The Wall (SHEER UNALDULTERATED BRILLIANCE!!)

Rod Stewart- Maggie May, Every Picture Tells a Story, You Wear It Well (lyrically and musically evocative)

Steely Dan- Do It Again, Rikki Don't Lose That Number, Aja Album (Top notch studio production values rendered sonically FLAWLESS musical renderings of these timeless tracks)

Steve Miller Band- The Joker, Fly Like An Eagle Album, Jungle Love

Supertramp- Give a Little Bit, Breakfast In America Album

The Moody Blues- Just a Singer In A Rock & Roll Band, My Seesaw

The Rolling Stones- (too many to list)

Three Dog Night- Joy To The World, Shambala, Mama Told Me Not To Come

Yes- Roundabout

Pretty typical for the genre, but still my faves.[;)]

<IMG SRC="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v395/richp62/Icons%20Avatars/inot.gif">

[oneno]

My tastes leaned more towards "art rock" FM from canada (featuring Nash the Slash and synergy on their last release "city of fear", Fingerprintz, City Boy, April Wine (another canadian band eh), Steve Hackett,Peter Gabriel (both formerly of genesis), Babe Ruth, Ambrosia, Mahogany Rush, Cheap Trick, Blue Oyster Cult (heaven 17 just did a cover of don't fear the reaper), King Crimson (all incarnations are great though), New England (later members formed Alcatraz a early hair metal band, 10cc/Lol Creme Kevin Godley, Montrose, UFO, Max Webster (Kim Mitchell).

chuck

[Borneojimy]

Some 70s faves:
Mott The Hoople
T Rex
Cheap Trick
AC/DC (Bon Scott version)
Deep Purple
Stooges
MC5
Thin Lizzy
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult
Kinks

[i_like_lectric_motors]

Thanks Blir! I'm cranking this now and enjoying it immensely. Bruce's description of it is perfect.

My fave Boss songs are Thunder Road, Born To Run and Rosalita(Come Out Tonight).

Other 70's classic rock bands I love:

FOGHAT!!!!!!!![8D]

Peter Frampton (Esp. Show Me The Way - and I love Dinosaur Jr.'s cover of it too).

Aerosmith (up to and including Draw The Line).

Sabbath. Of course.

Rush. I never could figure out why it was mainly the knuckle-dragging burnouts that were mostly into Rush. They seem to be operating at too high a level for those types to understand.

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by i_like_lectric_motors[/i]
<br>FOGHAT!!!!!!!![8D]
[/quote]
I do remember being blue, stone blue...and rock and roll DID indeed help me through. [:I]



PS. You're all being graded on the first paragraph of my post, heheh. [}:)]

[firefall]

I love all the pre-punk glam rock movement,this wave that created the strong community of first punks both musical and stylistical.
Slade-The loudest rockers of early glam wave with their first albums to be essential to both metalheads and punks.Fowley's favourite band,also.
10cc-Took the innocence of crooners from 50s,put some art rock and strange falsetos,shared their passion for catcy eccentric pop and created a monster with''I'm not in love''.So simple.
Sparks-All their first five albums are must for everyone loves quirky new wave.Don't forget their videos,too.
New York Dolls-They didn't play proto-punk as it said,they only took the street rock n' roll of Stones and sang the decadence of Big Apple with sexy sleaziness and provocation.Boogie rock at its best with punk harshness.

What about also early electronic experimentalists like-White Noise,Perrey and Kingsley,Aorta,Synergy(great Canadian band),Lothar and the Hand people,Silver Apples(the best),Deep.
Simply some of the things i like from this terrific decade,not forgetting also Disco-Soul and Funk,art-progresive(King Crimson,Gravy train,Secondhand,Roxy Music,Robert Fripp),Bubblegum pop(David cassidy,Josie and the Pussycats,Jaggerz,Hello People ,Kenny,Slik).And singer-songwriters likePhil Ochs,Todd Rundgren(for all his great productions too),Jonie Mitchell,Emmit Rhodes.

[Ape Module]

Kudos to you for mentioning Silver Apples! Way ahead of their time (I actually think their first 2 albums came out in '68 and '69 but I'm not sure.

Along the same lines, and also hailing from Canada, were Simply Saucer. Great band.

Other unknowns from the 70s include Debris, Electric Ells and Rocket from the Tombs (pre- Pere Ubu and Dead Boys.)

Can't forget Chrome, DEVO and Suicide who did their best work in the 70s.

I also dig Stooges, Sabbath (first 4-5 albums) and Alice Cooper (when they were a band and not just a psuedonym for Vincent Furnier.)

Aerosmith rocked a bit in the 70s too. "Rocks" and "Toys in the Attic" are pretty good albums even if they tread in retarded buttrock territory some.

I also have a fondness for ELO, Fleetwood Mac and early Elton John ballads, mostly for nosalgia's sake.

Can't stand Bruce Springsteen.

[Mathman]

I still listen to anything by Bowie from Hunky Dory to "Heroes". He was so different from one to the next. The second side of Ziggy is still a favorite for how it put all the glam rock pieces together

Rundgren's A Wizard/A True Star is all over the map - but there is something for everyone

The Shoes Black Vinyl Shoes is a great pop record.

[Dave]

Yes Virgina, there was an LIR before new wave. They played…

So here is my admittedly weak effort. Please don’t make fun of me.

Sweet - Why? Because I liked “Little Willy” back then and I like it now! The Glam bands were doing punk/new wave before there was punk/new wave (why didn’t someone tell them?). How can you not like “Ballroom Blitz”, “Fox on the Run” and “Little Willy”? Kudos to T-Rex, Slade and all those platform-wearing, silver-sequined bands.

Three Dog Night - Why? Because Jeremiah *was* a bullfrog. I grew up on this stuff.

Redbone - Why? How can you not like a native American in full regalia playing an electric guitar? Come and Get You Love.

Bee Gees - Why? Because Virgina, the Bee Gee existed before Saturday Night Fever. They did songs like “Lonely Days”, “I Started a Joke”, and “Nights on Broadway”. Have you ever seen Jimmy Fallon do Barry Gibb on SNL? What a hoot!

Supertramp - Why? Guilt pleasure, that’s all.

Parliament Funkadelic - Why? See Glam band comment above.

Paul McCartney & Wings - Why? They had some great songs like “Jet”, “Coming Up”, and “With a Little Luck”.

Stampeders - Why? “Sweet City Woman”.
Ok, I wasn’t so into music back then, but I’m sure the music was just as good in the 70’s as it was in any other decade.

[Bitter Almonds]

Roxy Music and David Bowie! At least someone recalled Steely Dan... could never figure out how two Jewish boys from art school could pin down that Malo and War sound so perfectly. I totally dig them even if they don't have the "street cred" that goes with the sound[8]

[firefall]

Sweet were punks,before even someone mentions Damned's ''New rose'' in 1976.Great band with a sense of experimentalism in their albums,both with Chinn-Chapman and without them.Brownsville Station also played a very sleazy boogie rock-even one of their songs was called''School punks''-and made some terrific covers.i have both Simply Saucer and Debris and every time being surprised of how ahead of their time were.The same with Chrome.

[Borneojimy]

I don't know how I could've forgotten to list Alice Cooper! Their stuff up to & including "Muscle Of Love" is some of my favorite ever! I also loved Sweet, Slade, any of that early glam stuff. I didn't include any of the 70s new wave/punk stuff on my list, because I thought it was kind of taken for granted, besides that, they are just too many to even attempt to list. The era from 76 - 83 is my personal favorite.

[Ape Module]

[quote][i]Originally posted by firefall[/i]
<br>Sweet were punks,before even someone mentions Damned's ''New rose'' in 1976.Great band with a sense of experimentalism in their albums,both with Chinn-Chapman and without them.Brownsville Station also played a very sleazy boogie rock-even one of their songs was called''School punks''-and made some terrific covers.i have both Simply Saucer and Debris and every time being surprised of how ahead of their time were.The same with Chrome.


[/quote]

Yeah, some of the earlier Helios Creed solo stuff is pretty ace too.

Note on the Debris: I went to the same college where all those guys were from before some migrated to LA and got involved with a bunch of bands and clubs out there (one of them played in the Screamers later on.) Chuck Ivey still lives there (Chickasha, OK.)

Weird town. The photo on the "Static Disposal" cover was taken in the same dorms where I lived for years.

[Frau_Blucher]

ELO's Strange Magic just came on to remind me I gotta mention them. I think prog stuff like ELO helped drive me toward new wave. But they were definatley a whole different beast than anything else before or since. Like a couple others mentioned, they had rich, layered arraignments with lush harmonies, mega synths/pads and violins...sprinkled components of arena rock, new wave, electronica, and classical all over the place. I'm a sucker for their dreamiest, lushest tracks, stuff like Can't Get It Out of My Head, Strange Magic, Mission (A New World Record) and even It's Over, a great reminder of those teenie summer camp or vacation romances. The foldout artwork on the double-LP Out of the Blue is still epic!