Music: Who are your top ten Seventies musical artists?

[VMBM]

Golden Earring

Hey, Focus kick their asses!

(I don't know if there is a big Focus vs Golden Earring debate in the Netherlands though.)

 

[angusyoung]

Hey, Focus kick their asses!

(I don't know if there is a big Focus vs Golden Earring debate in the Netherlands though.)

No debate! Earring was the most popular band until they had to stop, but few if any come close to the brilliance of Jan Akkerman.

 

[93gilmour93]

Deep Purple
AC/DC
CCR
Judas Priest
ZZ Top
Stones
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Motörhead

My favourite 70s band is Black Sabbath

 

[tTheVeganWoofMate]

Boston
Ramones
Bruce and E street
Jim Croce
Fleetwood mac
ELO
The who
Led Zeppelin
Grateful Dead
Th Band

 

[MakeTheGoalsLarger]

ACDC
Sex Pistols
Pink Floyd
The Ramones
Sweet
Cheap Trick
The Who
ABBA
Queen
Styx

 

[les Habs]

Hmmm... This can be tough with some bands depending on how they straddled decades, but I'll have a go. In no particular order:

ABBA
The Who
The Clash
Creedence Clearwater Revival
David Bowie
Led Zeppelin
The Grateful Dead
Bob Marley
Bruce Springsteen
Neil Young

 

[H I S T O R I C]

Boston
Ramones
Bruce and E street
Jim Croce
Fleetwood mac
ELO
The who
Led Zeppelin
Grateful Dead
Th Band

3 pages deep to find these bad boys.

 

[Section337]

Based around bands who have one or more 70s album I semi-regularly listen to today.

Blondie (unquestionably my #1)
Queen
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Heart
Ramones
The Runaways
Black Sabbath (Paranoid)
David Bowie
Sweet (Desolation Boulevard)

 

[Old Gregg]

A lot of great lists here.

1. Queen
2. Everyone else

 

[VMBM]

A lot of great lists here.

1. Queen
2. Everyone else

1. Everyone else
2. Queen.

 

[Old Gregg]

1. Everyone else
2. Queen.

hahaha...we all have different tastes. I'm just a huge fan of Freddie. The guy knew how to put on a show and had one of the best voices ever

 

[Lshap]

hahaha...we all have different tastes. I'm just a huge fan of Freddie. The guy knew how to put on a show and had one of the best voices ever

Agreed. Freddie would be near the top of my favourite live-performance singers. As a purely audio experience, he gets downgraded to merely 'Great'.

 

[VMBM]

hahaha...we all have different tastes. I'm just a huge fan of Freddie. The guy knew how to put on a show and had one of the best voices ever

I'm not a Queen hater or anything. For example, "The Prophet's Song" (a Brian May composition but certainly a showcase for Freddie too) would probably be in my top 30 songs all-time. And I like their earlier albums. Still, to me Queen is a band that is easy to admire but impossible to love; many of their songs sound like pastiches and I just can't feel huge emotions when listening to them.

 

[I am not exposed]

I'm not a Queen hater or anything. For example, "The Prophet's Song" (a Brian May composition but certainly a showcase for Freddie too) would probably be in my top 30 songs all-time. And I like their earlier albums. Still, to me Queen is a band that is easy to admire but impossible to love; many of their songs sound like pastiches and I just can't feel huge emotions when listening to them.

Greatest Hits is plenty when it comes to Queen for me. And I'm from the UK and grew up on Queen! I knew about a dozen Queen songs before one Beatles song. That is how popular Queen were in the UK. Actually, I believe their 1st Greatest Hits album is the biggest selling album in the UK.

 

[Hippasus]

The Congos are another great 70s group, but I don't think they'd cut my top 10. Too individual song heavy.