Your favourite bands/musicians from the 70's
 

Who are they???

Mine are (as a few of you might already know) Todd Rundgren!! and Joni Mitchell, The grateful dead, the beatles etc etc etc

it doesn't have to be bands that formed in the 70's just bands that were around in the 70's.

Big Star
Modern Lovers
Patti Smith
Television
Can
New York Dolls
Rolling Stones (early 70s version)

oooh television i forgot about them!, Marquee moon is a great album! and although im not really a big rolling stones fan and own none of their albums (i will get around to it) i do love the songs Moonlight mile and gimmie shelter

I think you'd really like the Mick Taylor period albums, then. Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile. All awesome. And the live one from their 1969 tour is good, too--Get Yer Ya Yas Out.

I just picked up Television's The Blow Up, a live recording from 1978. It's amazing. Bootleg sound quality, but an amazing performance.

i only have Marquee moon, my dad bought it for me years ago along with albums by The Velvet Underground, the Sex Pistols, Joni Mitchell, Todd Rundgren and the Grateful Dead. he called it music education, its probably the nicest thing he's ever done for me.

What a great dad!

I have the Something/Anything LP, by they way, and I think it's pretty good. I never get all the way through it, though. I like about 3/4 of it a lot, and the remainder not so much.

And you know what? All this record talk has got me a-hankering for a visit to the old record store down the block. Damn, I wish that place wasn't so close by.

i love the song "I went to the mirror" from something/anything so much, i have listened to that about a million times in a row before. My dad saw him live!, i am so jealous!

Yeah, that's good. Even though it's been played to death, I love Hello, It's Me.

listening to that right now!!!

Awesome.

Somebody once told me to listen carefully to that album through headphones and I'd hear where Todd made all his splices. I've listened, and I have no clue. It all sounds seamless to me.

there's a song on the record called "sounds of the studio" and on it he encourages listeners to look out for all the editing on the album etc etc.
I just listen for the music though. on side B of Anything now. i love my record player.

Television
Stooges
New York Dolls

What the fuck? I cant remember anything now... Oh damnit. I need to start listening to punk again

led zeppelin
television
lou reed
patti smith
yes
king crimson
genesis
pink floyd
can
the rolling stones
bowie
new york dolls
voidoids
blondie
ramones
talking heads
sex pistols
james chance & the contortions
mars
teenage jesus & the jerks
siouxie & the banshees
etc

Oh, that's right. Anyway, I've never noticed anything.

I have a near mint copy of that on LP. I bought it years and years ago when CDs were just coming out, and used record stores were full of great stuff like this from people dumping their records to get CDs. Somebody dumped off a great copy. I think it's a first pressing. It was cheap, too. But in perfect condition.

Now I'm jones-ing to go home and play it.

I can't honestly say I have any favourite '70s bands. I mean, I like a numer of first and second wave punk bands, but not enough to call them favourites. Led Zep, Sabbath, Floyd and Deep Purple were great up to a point and then became utter cack. And a glance at my CD rack tells me that I own no other '70s music, for which I expect I will be roundly chastised.

Why did he bother posting, I hear you ask yourselves. Because it was there, I reply.

Yeah, James Chance, Mars! Great stuff.

i got my copy in bleaker street records on a trip to NYC, the records are mint but the cover is a little worn, i got it for $3.99 though!!! i also have 'Faithful' on LP got that for $2.99!
i have ALL his albums on CD too.

Tim Buckley
Nick Drake
David Bowie
Neil Young
Television
Joy Division
Serge Gainsbourg
John Martyn
Françoise Hardy
Van Morrison
Can
Neu!
Leonard Cohen
The Stooges
Roxy Music
Led Zeppelin
Tom Waits
Marvin Gaye
Laura Nyro

what are CAN like???

^
Kraftwerk and Pink Floyd combined

Joy Division
the Stooges
Mars
Can
Gang of Four

joy division
the fall
focus
captain beefheart
can
wire
the stooges
king crimson
kiss

Yeah, that's a good description, I think.

WHAT!?

They are ace. Remedy your non hearing of them forthwith! Ege Bamyasi and Tago Mago are their best I think.

Sun Ra
Mars
DNA
Glenn Branca (Theoretical Girls too)
James Chance and the Contortions

Basically this, I just forgot everything and my brain stopped.

Hmmm. Not really though.

NOT like Kraftwerk mixed with Pink Floyd.

Fantastic all the same.

Buy everything chronologically until you get to Soon Over Balabuma.

Black Sabbath
Rolling Stones

the carpenters

Pink Floyd
Patti Smith
Funkadelic
Kraftwerk
The Saints
Tangerine Dream
Black Sabbath
Parliament
Aerosmith

Kind of hard to list just a few from that decade!

Pere Ubu
Rocket from the Tombs
Suicide
Throbbing Gristle
Chrome
The Residents
The Pop Group
Wire
NEU!
Kraftwerk
The Fall
Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
Contortions
Destroy All Monsters
The Last Poets
This Heat
Tubeway Army (Gary Numan's first band)
The Germs
The Screamers
Cr@ss
Brian Eno
Cluster
Roxy Music
Patti Smith Group
Sun Ra
Art Ensemble of Chicago
John Coltrane
Alice Coltrane
Miles Davis (On the Corner especially!)
Herbie Hancock (Especially Headhunters)
Charles Mingus
Fela Kuti
Sabbath
King Crimson (most particularly Red)
Hawkwind
Motorhead
Can
Faust
Sex Pistols
Public Image Limited
Clash
Damned
Buzzcocks
Magazine
Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Lou Reed (most especially Berlin and Metal Machine Music)
Steve Reich
Goblin
Richard Hell & the Voidoids
Television
Talking Heads
Blondie
Ramones
Modern Lovers
Heartbreakers
NY Dolls
Big Star
T. Rex
David Bowie
Stooges
Iggy Pop
Dead Boys
Carpenters
Joy Division
Gang of Four
John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band
Nick Drake
Comus
Leonard Cohen
Lee Hazelwood
Tim Buckley
John Fahey
Neil Young (especially On the Beach)
Frank Zappa
Gil Scott Heron
Curtis Mayfield
James Brown
Parliament/Funkadelic
Stevie Wonder
Sly & the Family Stone
Isaac Hayes
Al Green
Alice Cooper
AC/DC (The '70s is all their truly good albums)
Runaways
Dictators
KISS
Cheap Trick
CCR
Tom Waits (especially Nighthawks at the Diner)

Cool list Dead-Air, however I think John Coltrane was already dead in the 70s;)

Oh yeah, he died the year I was born. However, many of his most daring albums didn't see the light of day until the '70s.

yeah, probably not.

Hard to describe.

I'd say there's a primal and trance-like side to their music.