<p>The only “grunge” band that I think is truly extraordinary is Sonic Youth.</p>
<p>I’ve heard of them but I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard them. I just looked them up on amazon.com but they don’t have any samples, only downloadable songs. What are they like?</p>
<p>The Who, David Bowie, the Stones, Jethro Tull, Todd Rundgren, Lou Reed, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Steely Dan, are all on my iPod…oh Its a Beautiful Day, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Van Morrison, Santana, and…Phish on the iPod, too! Kids like Led Zeplin, Traffic, Pink Floyd and the Doors…but I never really cared for those too much…Doors more now than in the 70s. We forcefeed the kids Crosby, Still, Nash and sometimes Young and the Beatles and the Allman Brothers along with classical and jazz (I love) so they don’t turn out to be musical cretins. They play their music for my H and I and some of it I like and is also on my iPod. I never “did” disco and still dislike that entire genre but I have photo albums with H in polyester…he “did disco”.</p>
<p>I never cared for disco back then, but am happy to sing along when I hear it on the radio now-- like early (pre-crazy) Michael Jackson, or better yet, Donna Summer, Earth Wind & Fire or the Brothers Johnson (who could listen to “Stomp” and still hate disco?). No polyester, though!</p>
<p>I liked some of those big bands with the big sound. Tower of Power’s “Live and in Living Color” album was another I played incessantly until my brother realized it was gone…</p>
<p>And ellemenope-- you’re right-- there were some good songs on that Sat. Night Fever soundtrack. I just could never get used to those high Bee-Gees voices!
A singer named Feist has a nice remake of their “Inside and Out” that I like a lot.</p>
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<p>And for good reason. Compared to the British invasion/Motown/Hippie music golden age that preceded it and the New Wave stuff that followed it, disco was pretty lame.</p>
<p>Wow, what different memories of the 70’s. Well, I never got into the progressive rock during that period - to me it was just instrumentals - and I got REALLY SICK of Disco (would it ever end?), so I developed a taste for country.</p>
<p>My kid will hear a good disco song and ask me why I hated it so. I tell her it’s because she only hears the very best. We had to listen to the good, the bad and the UGLY.</p>
<p>The endless amounts of Rap/Hip Hop we get reminds me of endless disco… At least today there is other music on the radio and one can avoid it.</p>
<p>Prog was much more than instrumentals. You missed some awesome music!</p>
<p>It’s not too late…you can still rediscover some of the best music of that period…</p>
<p>I went to see Phil Lesh (bassist for the Grateful Dead) a few weeks ago. I saw the Grateful Dead nearly 30 times (before Jerry died in 1995). </p>
<p>the music is still alive and well and when the entire crowd shrieks with recognition when the first 3 notes of a song are played and you’re up and dancing for 3 hours, you can be assure that the music has really never stopped.</p>
<p>Phil is 67 and loving playing music. This is from last sumer when Joan Osborne was singing. She is not on this years tour (which is in NYC for 10 nights right now)
[YouTube</a> - Phil Lesh and Friends - “Help on the Way”](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSyuUq0fgIA]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSyuUq0fgIA)</p>
<p>I finally got to see CSNY last summer. Amazing. I love that music, always will.</p>
<p>I went to see Neil Young a week or so ago.</p>
<p>My H is a big CSN fan- but I never really was- I liked more bluesy music-
Neil added a great deal to CS&N IMO</p>
<p>I like Neil and he still has a great voice- or should I say compared to what he sounded like 20 years ago, it still is strong and expressive :)</p>
<p>[Peggy sounds good too](<a href=“Neil Young News: Chrome Dreams II Reviews”>http://www.thrasherswheat.org/2007/10/chrome-dreams-ii-reviews.html</a>)</p>
<p>I remember a local double movie bill back in the late 70’s</p>
<p>The Kids are Alright and Rust never Sleeps.</p>
<p>I saw them several times.</p>
<p>Just got to see Roger Waters this past summer. I don’t think Dark side of the Moon will ever be out of date.</p>
<p>Never got to see the Who.</p>
<p>I saw Fleetwood Mac just before they broke up. It was pretty clear they were at odds. Everyone wanted to be a soloist and would disappear for each others solos. Too bad - Rumors really is a great album.</p>
<p>My husband liked Yes in the 70s, but I never did. </p>
<p>I liked the Kinks. :)</p>
<p>I learned to like country in 1978-79 when I spent a year on the road - half of it south of the Mason-Dixon line. It was a good time for country music. Take this job and shove it, Blue Skies, Two more bottles of wine, The gambler, Tulsa Time, Every which way but loose, Devil went down to Georgia, Family tradition, Save the last dance for me, It’s a cheating situation…</p>
<p>I saw Lynyrd Skynrd several times before the plane crash- even have the album cover with the flames before it was pulled.
H liked Marshall Tucker and Charlie Daniels- but they were edging a little too hard into country for me.( and it brought up bad memories of having to listen to my brother blasting the Allman Bros anytime of day or night)
I liked Johnny and Edgar Winter though- especially Johnny but he is more Texas blues than country.</p>
<p>Of new bands I really like Kings of Leon out of Tenn. ( their father was a traveling preacher)
[They</a> don’t play cover songs usually but they do play 70s rock.](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-9MUgQOoGQ]They”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-9MUgQOoGQ)</p>
<p>Don’t forget the probably more late 60’s folk rock- Peter, Paul and Mary, Blowin’ In the Wind… I never remember artists or titles, but do get images of myself at some desk or other staring out the window when some obscure song comes on the radio. I preferred the quieter, less harsh music of the day.</p>
<p>Dark Side of the Moon is the greatest album masterpiece ever recorded. Nothing will ever match it.</p>
<p>Stairway to Heave is the greatest song masterpiece ever recorded. Nothing will ever match it.</p>
<p>Pure perfection.</p>
<p>stairway to heaven?
love led zep though
[but it pales beside my love for PJ](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqJJMiMzkks”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqJJMiMzkks</a>)
:D</p>
<p>[you</a> might like these guys](<a href=“http://www.aussiefloyd.com/]you”>http://www.aussiefloyd.com/)</p>
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<p>Saw them three times. The first time I saw them Keith Moon was still alive. My all-time favorite band.</p>
<p>Saw them once, post-KM, unfortunately.</p>
<p>My favorite 60’s British rock band is the Kinks. Saw them twice, luckily both times Ray Davies seemed sober enough to put a show on.</p>
<p>Whenever Baba O’Riley comes on I turn it up and tell my daughter how cool it is that her name appears in one of the all-time great rock songs…
she’s always unimpressed.</p>
<p>“I saw Lynyrd Skynrd several times before the plane crash- even have the album cover with the flames before it was pulled.”</p>
<p>I’m confused, my sons just went to Gator Growl on Friday and Lynyrd Skynrd was the featured band. </p>
<p>I didn’t go to many concerts in the 70’s, but I did see the Grateful Dead and the Police back in the day. Our family goes to every Aerosmith concert we can get to, since H gets backstage passes.</p>