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Herr Professor Doktor Doom

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Essential 70s rock?
« on: June 19, 2006, 04:47:00 pm »
What would you music experts say are the top 10 rock songs of the 70s?   And by rock, I mean songs that RAWK, not obscure room-clearing prog-rock.
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Re: Essential 70s rock?
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2006, 05:01:00 pm »
Sufragette City for sure.

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Re: Essential 70s rock?
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2006, 05:04:00 pm »
I agree there'd have to be some Bowie on the list...
 
 here are some of the ones I came up with without much thought:
 
 Fat Bottom Girls -- Queen
 Hot Blooded -- Foreigner
 More Than A Feeling -- Boston
 Dream On by Aerosmith
 Detroit Rock City -- KISS
 All Right Now -- Free
 Rock N Roll All Night by KISS
 Can't You Hear Me Knockin' by The Rolling Stones
 You Shook Me All Night Long -- AC/DC
 Sweet Emtotion -- Aerosmith
 Rebel, Rebel -- David Bowie
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Re: Essential 70s rock?
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2006, 05:10:00 pm »
"You Shook Me All Night Long" is from 1981.
 
 essential '70s rock (bands, no songs):
 
 black sabbath
 deep purple
 grand funk railroad
 thin lizzy
 UFO
 AC/DC
 sweet
 slade
 mott the hoople
 t rex
 david bowie
 alice cooper
 blue oyster cult
 mountain
 hawkwind
 the pink fairies
 dust
 sir lord baltimore
 leafhound
 cactus
 pentagram

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Re: Essential 70s rock?
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2006, 05:15:00 pm »
Thanks for pointing out my AC/DC error.
 
 I want songs, not bands!  Bands is too easy.
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« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2006, 05:18:00 pm »
black sabbath- ironman
 deep purple- smoke on the water
 aerosmith- dream on
 van halen- runnin with the devil
 kiss- rock and roll all nite
 led zeppelin- <insert song here>
 blue oyster cult- don't fear the reaper
 lynyrd skynyrd- free bird
 jethro tull- aqualung
 journey- wheel in the sky
 
 it was hard not including such luminaries as steely dan, boston, early genesis as well as punk. . but you wanted rawk. but man, i really wanted to add "25 Or 6 to 4"
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Re: Essential 70s rock?
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2006, 06:25:00 pm »
25 or 6 to 4 rawks... even though some would say it's not rawk...
 
 great list.  Although for Journey I think I'd chose "Feeling That Way/Anytime" over "Wheel in the Sky."
 
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« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2006, 06:41:00 pm »
If you want to avoid an all-classic-rock line-up, throw in a couple curve balls:
 
 Roxy Music - The Thrill of It All
 Stooges - Down on the Street
 NY Dolls - Personality Crisis
 Hawkwind - Orgone Accumulator
 Public Image - Death Disco
 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy
 Wire - I Am the Fly
 Clash - White Riot
 Sex Pistols - Holiday in the Sun
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« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2006, 07:06:00 pm »
http://www.inthe70s.com/generated/toptensongs63.shtml
 
 James Gang - Walk Away
 
 Santana - Black Magic Woman

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« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2006, 07:51:00 pm »
good stuff, my peeps.  Thank you.
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« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2006, 12:26:00 am »
some for consideration:
 
 CREEDENCE - "lookin' out my back door"
 black sabbath - "paranoid"
 john lennon - "oh yoko!"
 the who - "baba o'riley"
 big star - "don't lie to me"
 lou reed - "walk on the wild side"
 the allman brothers band - "jessica"
 bob dylan - "tangled up in blue"
 bruce springsteen - "thunder road"
 the band - "the weight"
 tom petty - "breakdown"
 the jam - "the modern world"
 peter gabriel - "solsbury hill"
 the ramones - "sheena is a punk rocker"
 talking heads - "psycho killer"
 buzzcocks - "ever fallen in love (with someone you shouldn't've?)" [love the multiple apostrophes!!]
 the cars - "just what i needed"
 devo - "(i can't get no) satisfaction"
 elvis costello - "radio, radio"
 the ramones - "i wanna be sedated"
 the clash - "lost in the supermarket"
 generation x - "ready steady go"
 joy division - "transmission"
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Re: Essential 70s rock?
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2006, 12:53:00 am »
Dreamboat Annie album (Crazy on You, Magic Man, etc.) by Heart and "Barracuda" from Little Queen.

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Re: Essential 70s rock?
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2006, 02:23:00 am »
...off the top of my head
 
 
 The Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
 Gary Glitter - Rock n Roll part 1 (or is it 2?)
 Mud - Tiger Feet
 Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
 Slade - Come On Feel The Noise
 Roxy Music - Do The Strand
 Bowie - Panic In Detroit

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Re: Essential 70s rock?
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2006, 06:17:00 am »
Roxy Music is great, but did they RAWK?
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Re: Essential 70s rock?
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2006, 08:18:00 am »
Quote
Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
  Roxy Music is great, but did they RAWK?
Fuck, yeah! Not so much their later, more Bryan Ferry controlled material but their first 5 or so albums definitely rocked.
 
 It's too hard for me to come up with a short list like that from that long ago off the top of my head since there was so much but my list would probably include something by some of the following musicians.
 
 Roxy Music
 Long John Baldry
 Sex Pistols
 Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
 Can - Mother Sky
 Hawkwind - (Something from Quark, Strangeness And Charm)
 X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage, Up Yours
 The Ramones
 Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
 Lou Reed
 Iggy Pop
 King Crimson - 21st Century Schizo Man
 
 To be honest, I would probably have to break my list in half to reflect early and late since there is so much music and I myself changed along with the music. There is a whole lot missing from the early 70s that I could include that should be represented (and can't remember right now) like...
 
 Early Fleetwood Mac (BEFORE crap-ass Buckingham & Nicks joined them)
 Something from the 1st or 2nd Alice Cooper ablum which was BEFORE that Love It to Death black and white cover album most of you are probably thinking of.
 The Groundhogs
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