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Not that I need it reccomending really, rather just being reminded of it.

I was born in 74 and loved music from birth, so theres a million wonderful songs from then that I would like to hear again.

Sadly its been so long that I forget them all

I have started by digging out my Styx : Come sail away MP3 and Chicago's lovely if you leave me now.

More, more more more !!

Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London.

Grabbing now. I want some of those really lovey ones too. Like Chicago only different

Gosh I forgot how many stunning songs Chicago did really.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream, Join Hands. Phenomenal albums. Just so long as you can take the hard stuff.

Human League - Reproduction. Early synthpop with a darker tone than the Human League you may know.

Kraftwerk - Autobahn, Radioactivity, Trans-Europe Express, Man Machine. The early days of synthesiser music. Glorious.

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra, Stratosfear, Rubicon, Riccochet, Encore. Expansive synthesiser atmospheres.

Jean Michell Jarre - Oxygene, Equinoxe. More synth atmospheres but with a slightly more accessible edge.

Toyah - Sheep Farming in Barnet. A more disturbing Toyah than one you may know. Heavier and more solid tunes. Quite obscure and inaccessible.

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures. Bleak and stark. A depressing delight.

Oooo I liked Dear Prudence. Really miserable song !

As in Rob Zombie "I once saw a phillipino man cut out a cancer with a rusty butter knife" hard?

And A perfect circle Judith FUCK YOUR GOD hard?

anything by Chic.

Im talkin to ya ! HOT LEGS

Christ, this is going to be hard.. I think I'm going to have to put a fuckin sock in my mouth to stop me blurting out vocals.

So yes, I found the Rod Stewart.

my favourite live album.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_of_Ages_(album)

Other great albums.

Television-Marquee Moon
Devo-Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Wire-Pink Flag and Chairs Missing

I dont think 70's are that good until new wave shit came about and ended up amazing. 80s are alot better I'd say.

Slade?

Cue Chinny in 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1...

Malc

Led Zeppellin 3 and 4. 10cc How Dare You, Deceptive Bends, Original Soundtrack. David Bowie. Elton John. Supertramp. Creedence Clearwater Revival. The Bee Gees. Donna Summer. Abba. Terry Jacks. Simon & Garfunkel. Blue Oyster Cult. Lynyrd Skynyrd.
There loads of 70s bands worth checking out

I really like that song Abracadabra, who/when is that? Was that the something Miller Band or something?
I also really like that song...Maniac? She's a maniac, maniac on the floor...
At my old work we had a dart board in the mess room and I used to play even though I was rubbish. I really enjoyed it so I got a dart board for the house but had to take it down because Jen kept sticking darts in the walls and carpets and sometimes ceiling. I decided though that when we buy our own house, I will put the dartboard back up and practice until I am really good and then I will become a professional darts player. I used to watch the darts all the time and my cousin would come round for dinner and we'd have a drink and shout 180 and laugh at the entrance songs which matched peoples nicknames. So I decided that when I'm a professional female darts player I would be called Gill 'The Maniac' McIvor and I would walk out to that song.

I consider Siouxsie as hard stuff as it is often capable of making you feel things you never expected somehow. It is strong powerful music without always being noisy. The stuff I mentioned here is not really like Dear Prudence musically. IT's more minimal and bleak. Especially Join Hands. Rob Zombie is just noise if you ask me. Quite often fun noise but he's not really 'hard'.

The first album does have an element of humour though. Such as Carcass telling the story of someone who cut their arms and legs off in order to be a carcass in a butchers.

The Steve Miller Band

Awesome, yes that's the one. I love that song.

'She's a Maniac' - Hall & Oates.

Brilliant! Oh, I'm singing it in my head now. I like to dance about the house to that song but I don't have it anymore, I will have to search it on Spotify tonight and then dance around the living room.

Get out.

Cheap Trick
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
King Crimson
Mike Oldfield
Lou Reed
Iggy Pop & The Stooges
New York Dolls
The Clash
The Ramones
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Talking Heads
Kraftwerk
Gary Numan
Blondie
The Cure

That's just off the top of my head.

When was Marc Bolan? I think I like him as well. I used to have so much music and now I can barely remember what it all was never mind what specific stuff I liked.

A lot of the good stuff has been mentioned..

I 'specially like Creedence, Siouxie, The Fall, Kate Bush. OK, the last ones are more late 70s and didn't really get going (IMHO) until the 80s, which is where I suspect this thread is heading next...

And those one-off hits that everyone has heard, like Maniac and Dear Prudence, hope some more of those get mentioned so I can collect 'em on iTunes

Early 70s was his heyday, so he fits.

Don't forget Queen.

Meh, there's only about 2 good Queen records.

This might be a really daft question but when were The Eagles? I love them as well. Hell Freezes Over was a great album, it had all the hits.

Eagles are 60s man!*

Dick Dale, Beachboys etc are better though.


*edit: Oh, apparently they are 70s after all.

Let's you and me have a word out the back. Here, put this sack over your head.

ABBA

This isn't about albums though I agree there were more than two good Queen records - this is more about great tracks and Queen had loads of them.

More 70s stuff that's really good.

Dire Straits first album is very very good
Fleetwood Mac were very good as well, start with Rumours obviously.
Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon
Rush 2112

And I've already mentioned ABBA Zardoz!

Can't believe I forgot to mention Gary Numan. Replicas isn't that great though. Pleasure principle is awesome and that's 1979. Replicas is only half good.

He's touring at the moment isn't he. I think my brother mentioned he was going to see him. The thing is there were a metric fuckton of awesome bands around and releasing stuff in the 70s and this thread could run and run as I remember stuff - some of which I don't have so I will be tracking shit down I used to own or heard as a kid and never bought and will be rectifying.

Sorry

I'll also add The Stranglers. Their best albums were all in the 70's

Good call.

Already got loads of Kraftwerk 'cos I was a bit of a B Boy as a kid and was big into electro. See also the Gary Numan bit

Not a big fan of the clash. I have some of Jule's early stuff with Squeeze (up the junction being my fave).

Noone seems to have mentioned The Undertones I have an album of theirs. I love My perfect cousin. Awesome song Reminds me of going to running meetings and eating mars bars and drinking hot ribena The Cure is a given, fave track is Boys don't cry. Not really into Joan Jett.. Love the Ramones, got loads of their stuff, Blitzkreg bop being on my top ten of all time. Pink Floyd Zeppelin and Oldfield I can take or leave.. Not a huge fan of the NY dolls but I did see them live in 2005. They were very good

Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens and David Bowie are all you need. Bin the rest.

The only Cat Stevens that I know, is the one that Ronan Keating covered. Before I heard the original version I hated the song, but after hearing his it really opened my ears to it!

Malc

Tea for the Tillerman is an amazing album.

My dad was a big fan of Cat. I have a few LPs here. Catch bull at four? Not sure, I'd have to get them out.

cant believe he wrote this at only 18.

Pink Floyd are utter shit.

I tend to agree but they've got some corkers as well.

I have nothing further to add about them.

They have some fantastic songs.

Its mainly disco, reggae and old synth stuff for me. Some highlights.

The Police, Walking on the Moon.
Cerrone Supernature.
Donna Summer I feel love (in fact any Moroder will do)
Augustus Pablo Java and especially East of The River Nile
Lee 'Scratch' Perry Roast Fish and Cornbread and Police and Thieves with Junior Murvin.
Kraftwerk Ralf and Florian if only for the proto techno of Kristallo.
Harry Thumann Underwater.
Cabaret Voltaire Do the Mussolini / Nag Nag Nag
Also any Stevie Wonder (Life of plants) and Herbie Hancock (Nobu is excellent)

Quite 70's Floyd is splendid, anyone who doesn't think so is wrong in the head. I can understand someone taking against The Wall (it is particularly whingey) but Animals, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here are brilliant.

Other bands not mentioned so far:

Blood Sweat and Tears
Earth Wind and Fire
70's Hawkwind (of course...Warrior at the Edge of Time and Hall of the Mountain Grill are probably the best)
ELO (Why has no one mentioned them yet?)
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune (probably their best album)
70's Black Sabbath
70's Moody Blues
Bonzo Dog Doodah Band
etc etc etc...

Please refer to my earlier post.

He's touring the Pleasure Principle album right now. I don't really see that as an awfully good live album but it should be interesting. I'd forgotten but now I'm going to check for tickets.. Sheffield Academy I think.. Eep! IT's this friday. Damn that's a clash. Oh well I guess I'll miss it. Might go to Leeds next week instead.

While I have a soft spot for the old Scissor Sisters (Graham Garden's son is the keyboard player don't ya know) I could happily murder the lot of their gay faces for covering that song.

It's the best thing they've done and by far the most entertaining thing that resulted from Pink Floyd falling out of a batch of vaginas.

Liar!