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Which band best defined the 70's?

Davros said:
While many bands were better than they were, I feel few typify the decade as much as Kiss did.
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In terms of album sales? The BEE GEES soundtrack for Saturday Night live is one of the biggest selling albums of all time...they may not have invented disco, but they are more identified with it, good or bad, than anyone else with the exception Barry Manilow!! LOL--at the copa!

Rob
Scorpio
 
RobertScorpio said:
Davros said:
While many bands were better than they were, I feel few typify the decade as much as Kiss did.
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In terms of album sales? The BEE GEES soundtrack for Saturday Night live is one of the biggest selling albums of all time...they may not have invented disco, but they are more identified with it, good or bad, than anyone else with the exception Barry Manilow!! LOL--at the copa!

Rob
Scorpio
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If you're going down that route, than Dark Side of the Moon holds the record for the longest time spent on the chart for an impressive 741 weeks. :D
 
But wait! Player! Pablo Cruise! The Silver Convention! I mean COME ON, people!

Barry White! Lou Rawls! ANDREW GOLD ferchrissakes! :D
 
M'Sharak said:
^ Yep, that's the one.

exodus said:
JonathonWally said:
Boston and Chicago and of course, The Commodores. P Funk, Sly and the Family Stone. KC and the Sunshine Band.

70s rock is great, but you can't forget to bring the funk, the funk defined the 70s
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My man, you are the Blackest White dude I know.:lol:
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He omitted the Ohio Players, though, and you didn't catch it. :p
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Allot of people forget to mention them tho. Harold Mevin & The Blue Notes too.
 
An even harder task would be to choose an album. I'd go with Frampton comes Alive.

& yes STP, Soungarden & Pearl Jam were good.

No one mentioned Steve Miller Band yet. What up with that?

& getting back to Zep, Ramones did a version of Communication Breakdown, & Kiss have mentioned, ( Paul Stanley that is), they were the best live show he ever saw. Eddie Van Halen mentioned Jimi Pages guit technique on Heartbreaker as being an influence on his tapping. Again, few bands have influenced so many other musicians like they did.
 
voggmo said:
An even harder task would be to choose an album. I'd go with Frampton comes Alive.

& yes STP, Soungarden & Pearl Jam were good.

No one mentioned Steve Miller Band yet. What up with that?

& getting back to Zep, Ramones did a version of Communication Breakdown, & Kiss have mentioned, ( Paul Stanley that is), they were the best live show he ever saw. Eddie Van Halen mentioned Jimi Pages guit technique on Heartbreaker as being an influence on his tapping. Again, few bands have influenced so many other musicians like they did.
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The Beatles and Black Sabbath, are just as huge when it comes to influencing music.
 
Sabs yes for 80's & 90's, but not as much as Zep in 70's. & Beatles weren't a 70's band. Ringos drums were outdated for 70's rock. Nonetheless you are correct in staing their influence.
 
voggmo said:
Sabs yes for 80's & 90's, but not as much as Zep in 70's. & Beatles weren't a 70's band. Ringos drums were outdated for 70's rock. Nonetheless you are correct in staing their influence.
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I didn't say they were a 70s band, i was speaking to their influence.
 
Doobies another good add. Them the Dead & Eagles would cover mellow end, Sabbath, Purple & Zep the harder end.
 
Gotta give it to the Bee Gees...Saturday Night Fever and their many 70s hits define that decade.

However, all of the bands listed in previous posts are also great calls - it just goes to show how important it was as a decade in our music scene.
 
They did hit it big in 78 with Saturday Nite fever, but disco was VERY hated at that time, & they weren't a cultural phenomenon like Zep or the dead were. Didn't tour year in & year out like other 70's bands did that I'm aware of. & going to a concert was The cool thing to do back then.

No Fabulous Poodles fans out there, a mystery that is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFBYPB2nNqI&feature=related
 
I would agree that the 70s were too diverse to be defined by a single band.

Just two points:

What about funk? Surely the 70s were the funkiest decade of them all. Play that funky music, white boys!

And I can't believe I'm the first person in this thread to mention the Sex Pistols. I flick the V at all of you. Sid lives!
 
Camelopard said:
I would agree that the 70s were too diverse to be defined by a single band.
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I certainly agree.

Just two points:

What about funk? Surely the 70s were the funkiest decade of them all. Play that funky music, white boys!
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No question, though P-Funk and EWF have been mentioned.

And I can't believe I'm the first person in this thread to mention the Sex Pistols. I flick the V at all of you. Sid lives!
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Right. Though their self-destruction was pretty rapid, they were a game-changing band.

In a similar vein, music has had so many "shocking" acts over the years that we sometimes forget how revolutionary Alice Cooper was in the early '70s. A huge and far-reaching impact.

One of the most influential bands of the '70s, though, hasn't been mentioned: the Wailers/Bob Marley and the Wailers. Clapton's "I Shot the Sheriff," the Stones, the Clash, the Police, the two-tone and ska scenes, dance music... reggae influence has become so prevalent that it's sometimes hard to notice. But the Wailers were the ones who opened that door.

--Justin
 
Well, I don't give Clapton much credit for "I Shot The Sheriff" since he had zero to do with creating the song.

He made a big hit out of it but yeah, it was all Marley's. He even sort of did a similar delivery.
 
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