Band or singer that best represents the music of the 70s

[Kirby101]

If that is the metric, it's up for debate.

You could make an argument that Progressive Rock ran neck and neck when it came to not lifting from the sixties and having almost no presence during the eighties.

Prog Rock definitely started in the 60s. Pink Floyd, Yes, King Crimson, Moody Blues...all started in the 60s. And to say Prog Rock had no influence or presence in the 80s and beyond is just lunacy.

[Nine Crocodile]

Disco is still the most 70s of all those music styles represented here. It had the least influences from the 60s and least continued into the 80s.

Disco never went away. It lost popularity, but was a massive influence on house and other dance music genres.

[PaulBullion]

Disco never went away. It lost popularity, but was a massive influence on house and other dance music genres.

Yes, but that is a bit like saying Bluegrasss never went away, or the Blues. There's a separate category at the Grammys, and a separate Billboard chart like "Hot Dance Tracks" or something, but it is gone from the mainstream, gone from the radio and from music television and firmly associated with the 70s.

Meanwhile, have we mentioned these guys?

[Surf]

Meanwhile, have we mentioned these guys?

Couple times, mostly in passing, too many pages in for my liking though.
I'll see your Boogie and raise you one for your efforts here. Way back when I used to believe this song was an EW&F. :shame bell:
In defense of my own youthful ignorance I came up in elementary school with the J.T. Kool and the Gang.

[Scott Taylor]

Great Yacht Rock song. I don't know why the Yacht Rock genre gets so much flack, most of it is great music for just chilling out and relaxing.

However because of Samuel L Jackson I always hear "I'm Not Talking about the Linen" now.

Yacht Rock, lol! Never heard that before. Does Captain and Tennille fit in that basket? Sam wasn't wrong, it still fits with the song anyhow.

[seismic-2]

As I asserted previously in this thread, I think of the 1960s as when pop gave way to rock, and I think of the 1970s as when rock gave way to pop again. So...

[seismic-2]

According to Wikipedia, the best-selling album in each year of the 1970s was:
1970: Bridge over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel)
1971: Jesus Christ Superstar (cast album)
1972: Harvest (Neil Young)
1973: The World is a Ghetto (War)
1974: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)
1975: Greatest Hits (Elton John)
1976: Frampton Comes Alive (Peter Frampton)
1977: Rumours (Fleetwood Mac)
1978: Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack album by the BeeGees)
1979: 52nd Street (Billy Joel)

[Iron Maiden]

Yes, but that is a bit like saying Bluegrasss never went away, or the Blues. There's a separate category at the Grammys, and a separate Billboard chart like "Hot Dance Tracks" or something, but it is gone from the mainstream, gone from the radio and from music television and firmly associated with the 70s.

Meanwhile, have we mentioned these guys?

Yup....a couple of pages back...Can't post two videos in the same post but I used After the Love Has Gone

Yeah, but Under Pressure has "legs" as they say. It's always getting airplay .

But we've gone four pages in and there has been no mention of Earth Wind and Fire so let's rectify that now

[Billy Batson]

Nick Drake.
Now there was an artist.

[dancj]

Have you heard the Tears for Fears cover it? It uses some of Bowies vocal in it but is mostly TfF and is better for it I think.

Just listened to it. It's perfectly fine, but it's one of those covers that is so close to the original that there's barely any point in it existing.

[numberthirty]

Another band that was active before and after, but feels really "Seventies" when I think of it...

The musicians who make up the "Syndication"-era group on The Lawrence Welk Show.

[Scott Taylor]

So according to Billboard, You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone was the hottest hit of the 1970s. I mean, they aren't wrong, that song was everywhere all the time.

Which is kind of hilarious now. The song crashed and burned really hard during the Disco era and I just saw that the song was No. 4 on Rolling Stone's list of worst songs of the 1970s.

I got sick of the song at the time, as everyone did, but it was played quite a bit.

[Iron Maiden]

wow....completely forgot about that one. I remember thinking it was a sweet, romantic ballad when I first heard it. But yeah, you got sick of it pretty quickly

[PaulBullion]

wow....completely forgot about that one. I remember thinking it was a sweet, romantic ballad when I first heard it. But yeah, you got sick of it pretty quickly

When Whitney Houston covered it, I knew she had the worst advisers ever. They really thought it could be another "I Will Always Love You" for her.

[SquirrelMan]

ELO is very 70s to me.



Formed in Birmingham in 1970 and disbanded in 1986.