Your favorite 70s Music?

[Varian P]

What are the best, most nostalgia-inspiring songs, albums, and bands from the seventies?

A few of my top picks (even if I discovered them well after the seventies were over):

David Bowie

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon

Joy Division

And in the earnest category:

Simon and Garfunkle

Carly Simon

But there are tons of other songs I recognize every time I hear them--I just can't remember what they're called, or who performed them.

What are your lingering favorites?

 

[BoomerP]

The rolling stones, paint it black

 

[rgraham666]

Off the top of my head.

Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks

Anything by Bob Marley

 

[Luminary]

Your favorite 70's music

Bread
America
Earth Wind and Fire
Rufus

 

[sr71plt]

Simon and Garfunkle, certainly. And, for me, Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 (the numbers right?) and also Charlie Byrd (jazz guitarist; studied with Segovia)--and I had a recording of Israeli symphony music ("Raisins and Almonds" mainly) that I wore out that decade. And I'm almost afraid to say it, but Ian and Silvia and Sonny and Cher (both mainly because I sang in a backup group for both of those when they played the Cellar Door in Washington, D.C., and had to frequently practice to keep the timing right on what they usually sang there.) And I took Peter, Paul, and Mary on with me into the 70s (and 80s and 90s).

 

[jomar]

Geez, don't get me revved up, I love music. I agree with Rob - Marley rules, and E Street's great.

Nostalgia:

Al Kooper - Act Like Nothing's Wrong

David Bowie - Pin Ups (a bonus: high with gf, the cover came up on the tv and the lips started singing: Ahhhhhhh!)

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Marshall Tucker Band - Searchin' for a Rainbow (and others)

Alice Cooper - Killer (and others)

Head East - Flat as a Pancake

Deep Purple - Machine Head

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Fleetwood Mac - Mystery to Me


I'll be reminiscing and smiling all night now, Varian.

 

[SpicyPepper]

Stevie Nicks.. but after she left fleetwood mac so that's more like the 80's..

 

[Varian P]

The rolling stones, paint it black

Yeah, I don't love much by the Stones, but Paint it Black is fabulous.

 

[Varian P]

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True

Have you ever heard this one by Elvis Costello?

God's Comic

Mighty witty, I think.

And kind of sexy to slow dance to, the dark lyrics notwithstanding.

 

[Varian P]

Bread
America
Earth Wind and Fire
Rufus

A Horse With No Name

Precisely one of those elusive classics I can never think up on my own, but which always brings up all kinds of nostalgia.

 

[R. Richard]

I collect 50s and 60s music. However, I do remember a few 70s artists.

Jim Croce
Billy Joel
Al Stewart
Boz Skaggs
Eagles
Gordon Lightfoot
Johnny Rivers

 

[jomar]

...Cellar Door in Washington, D.C.

Cool. I've been there a good many times back in the day. Great club.

 

[TE999]

Balladeers like:

Jim Croce: Time in a Bottle, Operator.

Harry Chapin: Taxi, Cat's in the Cradle.

Arlo Guthrie: City of New Orleans.

Don McLean: American Pie.

Janis Ian: At Seventeen.

Phoebe Snow: Poetry Man.

Joan Baez: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.

 

[Varian P]

I collect 50s and 60s music. However, I do remember a few 70s artists.

Jim Croce
Billy Joel
Al Stewart
Boz Skaggs
Eagles
Gordon Lightfoot
Johnny Rivers

Yay, another one!

Hotel California

 

[fille]

Al Green
Sly and the Family Stone
Van Morrison
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones

 

[Varian P]

Simon and Garfunkle, certainly. And, for me, Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 (the numbers right?) and also Charlie Byrd (jazz guitarist; studied with Segovia)--and I had a recording of Israeli symphony music ("Raisins and Almonds" mainly) that I wore out that decade. And I'm almost afraid to say it, but Ian and Silvia and Sonny and Cher (both mainly because I sang in a backup group for both of those when they played the Cellar Door in Washington, D.C., and had to frequently practice to keep the timing right on what they usually sang there.) And I took Peter, Paul, and Mary on with me into the 70s (and 80s and 90s).

Are there any really cool experiences you haven't had?

 

[fille]

Have you ever heard this one by Elvis Costello?

God's Comic

Mighty witty, I think.

And kind of sexy to slow dance to, the dark lyrics notwithstanding.

Elvis Costello is a genius. He runs the gamut from rock to country to classical, all with the same amazing talent.

If you like God's Comic, try Tramp the Dirt Down.

 

[Varian P]

Geez, don't get me revved up, I love music. I agree with Rob - Marley rules, and E Street's great.

Nostalgia:

Al Kooper - Act Like Nothing's Wrong

David Bowie - Pin Ups (a bonus: high with gf, the cover came up on the tv and the lips started singing: Ahhhhhhh!)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RWSTFE6WL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

I'll be reminiscing and smiling all night now, Varian.

Gotta love Bowie. He's one of the few rockers whose wacky incarnations still hold up today (sadly not so for so, so, so many others). As does the music.

 

[fille]

Gotta love Bowie. He's one of the few rockers whose wacky incarnations still hold up today (sadly not so for so, so, so many others). As does the music.

Oh God, Bowie! Ziggy Stardust was amazing.

And Elton John before he went all soft and started singing crap with Kiki Dee or whatever the hell her name was.

 

[Varian P]

Stevie Nicks.. but after she left fleetwood mac so that's more like the 80's..

Going back to Fleetwood Mac... I may have to go back over to the "Things that Make Me Cry" thread and add Landslide.

 

[Varian P]

Al Green
Sly and the Family Stone
Van Morrison
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones

Oh! Ohohoh!

Kashmir

Much like the Stones, by and large Led Zeppelin doesn't usually do it for me, but Kashmir is one of my all-time favorite songs. It's just...epic.

I'm ashamed to say that I'll have to go dig up some Sly and the Family Stone and some Van Morrison to remind myself...

 

[Misty_Morning]

Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue

Carol King - Tapestry

Boston - Boston and their 2nd album Don't Look Back

ZZ Top - Tejas, Fandango and Deguello

Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (aka White Fever Black album), Rumors and Tusk

Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street, Mars Hotel and Tarrapin Station

and many others...........

 

[glynndah]

Ah. The seventies. I remember them quite well. I saw Head East in a local club. It was a cheap night's entertainment. No cover and quarter beers and quarter hot dogs. And since I knew the bartender... I drank free all night.

 

[Varian P]

Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue

Carol King - Tapestry

Boston - Boston and their 2nd album Don't Look Back

ZZ Top - Tejas, Fandango and Deguello

Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (aka White Fever Black album), Rumors and Tusk

Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street, Mars Hotel and Tarrapin Station

and many others...........

Another fun bit of reminiscence--I Feel the Earth Move

I love ELO's It's a Living Thing, too.

 

[fille]

I'm ashamed to say that I'll have to go dig up some Sly and the Family Stone and some Van Morrison to remind myself...

It will be well worth your time. If all you hear of Van Morrison is Queen of the Slipstream and Wonderful Remark, you will die happy.