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<p>What about The Who, Yes, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Elton John, Marvin Gaye, Chicago, and many more. Lots of good stuff in the 70’s.</p>
<p>The seventies were a great period for country music, but rock music perhaps less so. Willie Nelson (Red Headed Stranger), The whole outlaw country movement produced some great songs.</p>
<p>The Who properly belong, I think, to the 60s. Marvin Gaye, too. the rest of them I outgrew by the time I reached my 20s, except for a few good songs by Deep Purple, and early Elton. Just my opinion, of course.</p>
<p>Who’s Next was released in 1971, their definitive album, IMO</p>
<p>[The</a> Who - Who’s Next](<a href=“http://www.thewho.info/WhosNext.htm]The”>The Who - Who's Next - Page 1)</p>
<p>Ah - my era!!
And ColMom - another fan here of Stop Making Sense and the big jacket!
Also love Nothing But Flowers, Life During Wartime… most of them, actually. I always loved the music, but used to think that David Byrne was a little too pretentiously arty for my taste. He now has the soft glow of nostalgia on him, though… just heard him on NPR recently, and he seemed just as creative and excited about music as ever.</p>
<p>“It’s excruciating–Muskrat Love; Gypsies Tramp and Thieves, Torn Between Two Lovers, Afternoon Delight…the list goes on and on, but last night might’ve topped them all: “Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast.” ugh.”</p>
<p>Excruciating IS the word! I agree - 1970’s (AM!) radio was indeed the pits, and I don’t think any amount of time will ever change my opinion. Have never heard that last song, garland, but can only imagine… </p>
<p>Guess the music went along with the fashions of the time-- Huck-a-Poo shirts, (short) gym shorts, tube socks and tube tops…</p>
<p>Leo Sayer - sorry, I had to mention the most cringe worthy sound of the 70’s</p>
<p>OTOH, have we brought up the Bee Gees??? Okay admit it, you owned Saturday Night Fever (I was 17 when that came out). That and the soundtrack from Jesus Christ Superstar made my parents insane!</p>
<p>I am jealous of the people 10 years older than me (47) because they got to live the 60’s music in real time. </p>
<p>I think that’s why I love the Grateful Dead so much, they have been making music for 45+ years and really never stopped touring even if it was individually after Jerry died.</p>
<p>Agreed - Leo Sayer definitely deserves a place of honor.
Apologies if there are any big fans out there…</p>
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<p>Umm . . . Quadrophenia and Who Are You and the hits “Baba O’Riley” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again” are all from the 70’s. The Who spanned the entire 70’s and went on to have hits into the 80’s. </p>
<p>Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” and “Mercy Mercy Me” are from the 70’s.</p>
<p>All these were playing on my AM radio. Just saying.</p>
<p>When I was in my young teens, my listening tastes were songs of the Civil War, Patsy Cline and some other stuff we had on old records.</p>
<p>My introduction to AM radio arrived with my visiting cousin, who arrived in short shorts, toting a copy of “The Happy Hooker” (I was too shocked even to take a peek). She LOVED “Afternoon Delight” and managed to find it somewhere on the dial about every 5-10 minutes. Except for maybe “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” (Elton John and Kiki Dee) it’s the main thing that pops into my head when someone mentions AM radio. Now AM is what I turn to when I’m sitting in traffic on the Cross Bronx or Belt, wishing I’d taken the other route…</p>
<p>And I should note that what was most disconcerting about the whole cousin thing was that she was even younger than me - probably only 13 or 14 at the time.</p>
<p>Up til then the raciest thing I’d ever seen was the cover of my sister’s copy of Santana’s “Abraxas.”</p>
<p>colmom–it’s definitely a matter of interpretation–you can look at decades as strictly numbers going from 00 to 09, or as particular eras. Who’s Next and Quadrophenia were released in 71 and 73. bit belonged to the era of the 60s,which, I submit, reached from about 63 to 73. Those albums came out of the 60s era. As opposed to, say, the Stones’ “Miss You” which was bad disco music, and definitely a 70s sound. JMO.</p>
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<p>The Who? They were part of the original British Invasion. They came over back in 1965, about the same time as the Rolling Stones. And the Stones were still going strong in the 70s too, but no one regards them as a 70s band. In fact most of these acts first hit it big in the 60s musical era, 63-73, as garland says above.</p>
<p>An odd case in all this is the Bee Gees. They were both a 60s band AND a 70s band. They had 60s-type hits in the 60s and then staged a big comeback in the 70s as a Disco band. They were not, like The Who, a 60s band that simply kept going into the 70s. They were a 60s band that completely remade themselves into a total 70s band.</p>
<p>Tod Rundgren wrote some of the catchiest 70s songs ever, although the lyrics are kind of excruciating:</p>
<p>Leroy, boy, is that you?
I thought your post-hangin’ days were through,
Sunk-in eyes and full of sighs,
Tell no lies, you get wise,
I tell you now we’re gonna pull you through,
There’s only one thing left that we can do.</p>
<p>We gotta get you a woman,
It’s like nothin’ else to make you feel sure you’re alive.
We gotta get you a woman,
We better get walkin’, we’re wastin’ time talkin’ now.</p>
<p>And this is not even including the memorable line: “they may be stupid but they sure are fun”.</p>
<p>I don’t want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day.</p>
<p>Opie - that was one of my HS friend’s favorite songs for a while!</p>
<p>There actually was some great songwriting going on in the LATE 70’s–
Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Talking Heads…</p>
<p>In fact, the late 70’s/early 80’s had some of my all-time favorite music-- few people would say the best, but for me, definitely some of the most enjoyable-- The Police, The Clash, The Pretenders, Joe Jackson, fluffier stuff like Blondie and Squeeze, and yes, even Michael Jackson (my roomate had Off The Wall) before he got really weird. The Brothers Johnson’s Stomp won hands down in our dorm for best dance, song, though!</p>
<p>Gadad:</p>
<p>I got it about 10 years ago probably because I’m older. I made sure my wife knew it.</p>
<p>I don’t want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day.</p>
<p>[thanks</a> for reminding me what I was going to do this weekend.](<a href=“http://www.swps.org%5Dthanks”>http://www.swps.org)</p>
<p>BTW, Elton John and Billy Joel will be visiting Madison in early May. Have had the tickets for months. Still trying to figure out if I want to go see The Thermals when they come here next week.</p>
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<p>I wonder if The Who think of themselves as a 60’s-only band. *Quadrophenia<a href=“which%20was%20designed%20to%20be%20played%20through%204%20speakers%20set%20up%20in%20the%20corners%20of%20a%20room”>/i</a> ushered in the concept of surround sound which didn’t really take until recently. They were cutting edge, not die hards. In my mind, their sound continued to evolve throughout the 70’s which kept them from sounding stale. </p>
<p>To define the 70’s sound as pop and disco is to overlook the explosion of synthesizer and technical explorations that were taking place during that decade. We think nothing about the computer-generated/controlled/engineered music we hear today, but groups like The Who; Emerson, Lake, and Palmer; Yes; Pink Floyd ,etc. were the pioneers of the electronic rock industry (setting aside mic’d instruments of the 60’s). </p>
<p>Many of us who were teenagers in the 70’s turned off the pop and disco songs, but hung on to every note of the above-named bands. Also present in the 70’s were The Eagles and The Allman Brothers (which formed in 1969, but belongs squarely in the 70’s). While having a softer sound than The Who or Yes, these two bands can’t be classified as pop or disco bands. </p>
<p>Just saying.</p>