Your Best Five Songs from the 70's

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

"When the bullet hits the bone ".. by Golden Earing is right there ..


oops! showing our age .....

Originally Posted by FlashDrive

I can think of two at the moment:

1. Radar Love ... by Golden Earring. .... Yay !!
2. Nut Bush City Limits .... by Ike and Tina Turner.

[Kevnool (Kev)]

This is the type of thread that Jen would post.

Cheers

[Erg]

Someone likes Prog Rock..awesome choices.

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

Well, off the top of my head and subject to revision:

And You And I - Yes
Starless - King Crimson
Supper's Ready - Genesis
Velvet Green - Jethro Tull

and my theme song

Born Ugly - Brand X

[Ausrock (Chris)]

Originally Posted by koputai

The 60's were dull.........

Sorry, but you either weren't out of nappies or were totally drug phooooked

But the 70's............whoa, Tull had so many great songs (and still do), Yes's version of Simon and Garfunkel's "America" was brilliant, the album version of "Autobahn" by Kraftwerk, Billy Thopre's "Most People I know" and/or "It's almost Summer" Deep Purple's album "Come Taste The Band".............there's just too much to list.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by Erg

Someone likes Prog Rock..awesome choices.

Thank you!! Now how about a non-prog selection

*****es Brew - Miles David
Spanish Phases For Strings & Bass - Stanley Clark
The Easy Blues - John Martyn
Jack Orion - Pentangle
Lovely on the Water - Steeleye Span
Old Man - Neil Young

Edit: Oh dear, Miles has run foul of the profanity police. Think of a female dog.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by Ausrock

]But the 70's............whoa, Tull had so many great songs (and still do), ....

Want Tull 24/7/365?? http://www.j-tull.com/news/tullradio.html

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Vote 1 for Radar Love
also

More than Feelin' by Boston (great drivin' song)
Paradise by the Dashboard Light by Meatloaf (Still in mourning over the grandfinal travesty)
Lowdown by Boz Scaggs (check out his version of "T Bone Shuffle" if you want to see what a great artist Boz is)
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen (everytime I hear it I think I'm 13 again)
Devil Gate Drive by Suzi Quattro (hey I was just entering puberty and she wore leather jumpsuits - need I say more)

[Ausrock (Chris)]

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

Thank you!! Now how about a non-prog selection

*****es Brew - Miles David
Spanish Phases For Strings & Bass - Stanley Clark
The Easy Blues - John Martyn
Jack Orion - Pentangle
Lovely on the Water - Steeleye Span
Old Man - Neil Young

Edit: Oh dear, Miles has run foul of the profanity police. Think of a female dog.

OMG.....someone else that knows of Steeleye Span. Maddy Prior is still performing last I heard.

[mishku]

Originally Posted by barx1963

Vote 1 for Radar Love
also

More than Feelin' by Boston (great drivin' song)
Paradise by the Dashboard Light by Meatloaf (Still in mourning over the grandfinal travesty)
Lowdown by Boz Scaggs (check out his version of "T Bone Shuffle" if you want to see what a great artist Boz is)
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen (everytime I hear it I think I'm 13 again)
Devil Gate Drive by Suzi Quattro (hey I was just entering puberty and she wore leather jumpsuits - need I say more)

+1 for Boston

.... and I forgot one of my all time favourite songs, Escape by Rupert Holmes

Ive managed to turn this thread into "claim to like EVERY 70s song you've ever heard"

[koputai (Jason)]

+1 for Boston.

Sky High by Jigsaw.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by Ausrock

OMG.....someone else that knows of Steeleye Span. Maddy Prior is still performing last I heard.

There's a few of us around, including other astronomers. I bought Hark the Village Wait on spec in '77 (so I was a late starter) and fell in love. I've got most Span albums but only 1 by Maddy (must remedy that!) In a similar vein, if you don't know Pentangle you should.

[AndyK (Andy)]

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

... In a similar vein, if you don't know Pentangle you should ...

... and probably Fairport Convention too ...

[taminga16 (Greg)]

Only five?

Warren Zevon. Hasten down the wind.
Supertramp. If everyone was listening.
Steely Dan. With a gun.
Bob Dylan. Simple twist of fate.
Richard Clapton. Wintertime in Amsterdam.

Greg.

[Ric]

How about some classic Aussie music

Skyhooks - Living in the seventies. You can pick any five songs from that album and they are all classics.

[IanT]

Anyone who likes 'Master of the Universe' by Hawkwind is ok.

How about
Anything from Blood on the Tracks by Dylan
Anything from Astral Weeks by Van the Man
Brick House - The Commodores
Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Browne
Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull
Cam Ye O'er Frae France - Steeleye Span

Don't forget that the worst music was also from the seventies.

Anything by Olivia Neutron Bomb, Dr Hook, David Gates or David Cassidy - and not forgetting 'The Candy Man' by Sammy Davis jnr. yuck.

Ian

[xstream (John)]

Here's a list of some of my favourites in no particular order.

Without You - Nilsson
Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Night & The Pips
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Roxanne - The Police
I Wanna be Sedated - The Ramones
Rock Lobster - B-52's
London Calling - The Clash
Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders
My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
Cocaine - Eric Clapton
One Toke Over the Line - Brewer & Shipley
No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
God Save the Queen - The Sex Pistols

[Suzy]

Oh look, what a surprise.. another music thread.

Originally Posted by koputai

Geez, this will take some time, the 70's was the absolute best decade for music.

The 60's were dull, the early 80's were pretty good, the late 80's waned. The 90's were the worst decade for music, very little worth mentioning. No music has been made since then, just product.

First cab off the rank:

Serenade - Steve Miller Band

Cheers,
Jason.

Everything Jason said! Except, I enjoy 60's music- you know, Diana Ross and all that.

This is a toughy- this is my fav. music decade and to this day, still my most played music.

Undercover Angel (Alan O'Day) my most fav. to this day.
Honey, Honey (Abba)
Slipping Away (Max Merrit & the Meteors)
Welcome Back (John Sebastian)
Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty)
Hooked on a Feeling (Grand Funk Railroad)
Sky High (Jigsaw)
Every Which Way but Loose (Eddie Rabbit)

Sorry, couldn't stop at 5, was hard enough squeezing everything into that list.

[TrevorW]

Five was a tough call here is some more

"living next door to alice"- Smokie
"Wild World" - Cat Stevens (Yusef Islam)
"Hold me Close"- David Essex
"Love is in the Air"- John Paul Young
"Lets Stick together"- Roxy Music (Bryan Ferry)
"Put out the light"- Joe Cocker

[kustard (Simon)]

Can't really pin point a list of songs but I do remember several albums that my brothers had and that we used to listen to which helped to shape my musical tastes:

1. Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
2. Pink Floyd - The Wall
3. Hot August Night - Neil Diamond
4. Led Zepplin IV - Led Zepplin
5. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
6. A Night at the Opera - Queen
7. Machine Head - Deep Purple
8. Van Halen - Van Halen
9. Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
10. Fragile - Yes

[UniPol]

* Ring My Bell - Anita Ward

* Sugar Baby Love - The Rubettes

* Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Middle of the Road

* Me and Mrs Jones - Billy Paul

* Drift Away - Dobie Gray