[Closed] Recommend me some 1970s music

Rainbow with their superb album "Rising"

Forty minutes of brilliance especially the last two epic tracks.

rose royce

Bowie? Alice Cooper?

A Farewell to Kings - Rush

bob marley

plenty to choose from but the jam would be a good place to start!

Get some funk. Some great tracks on this:
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I have a soft spot for supertramp [ not s fsn off prog rock]

Cream - Disraeli Gears (bit of a cheat as it's late 60's but a stormer of an album)
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure (glam art rock - don't be put of. A classic)
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets, Music for Airports, My Life in a Bus of Ghosts (moving from Roxy music to the creation of ambient music)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid (CLASSIC!)
Nick Drake - Pink Moon (one man and a guitar)
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book, Innervisions (when he was good)

^ Just got into Nick drake...it is very good.

Soul? Funk? Motown? Rock? Hippy? Blues? Reggae? What style of 70's music?

Thanks chaps and chapesses ... please keep them coming .... and a few questions?

So which of the David Bowie albums would people recommend starting with? Just had a quick look on Amazon and realize there are quite a few I recognize from my yoof!!!

Which of Farewell to the Kings and 2112 was considered the better album?

I recently bought Paranoid and was mightily impressed. I think I have a fair collection of BS at my Dad's

Never had Rainbow Rising, just Long Live Rock and Roll. I think when RJ Dio died, everyone was praising Rainbow Rising.

Any Deep Purple worth getting into? Where does one start with Led Zep?

Nick Drake

Early Springsteen

CharlieMungus - good point. I was probably thinking more the rock/hippy sort of stiff than the other genres you mention - but that said I wouldn't mind knowing what where the then seminal pieces of work from the other genres.

Perhaps a better question might be to ask people to list their top 5 albums first recorded/released during the 1970's (excluding the punk stuff!)

Deep Purple - Made in Japan and Machine Head.
John Martyn - Solid Air
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Lou Reed - Transformer

Television - Marquee Moon album is solid gold classic
Captain Beefheart
Zappa

Led Zep? Probably start with Houses of the Holy
Deep Purple, probably Machine head

Any Deep Purple worth getting into?

Also Argus from Wishbone Ash is another classic, twin lead guitars and unforgettable guitaring on Throw Down The Sword

Rainbow's Rising is definitely the best studio album, closely followed by their live effort Onstage, anything after Long Live Rock And Roll is inferior commercial pap

1970:
Miles - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
1971:
Can - Tago Mago
Marvin Gaye - Whats Goin On
Sly & The Family Stone - Theres a Riot Goin on.
1972:
Harvest - Neil Young
Can - Ege Bamyasi
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Lou Reed - Transformer
Tim Buckley - Greetings From LA
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
1973:
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music - Stranded
1974:
Curtis Mayfield - There is No Place Like America Today
Neil Young - On The Beach
1975:
Patti Smith - Horses
Neil Young - Tonights The Night
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
1976:
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
1977:
David Bowie - Heroes
Television - Marquee Moon
1978:
Tom Waits - Blue Valentines
1979:
Gang of Four - Entertainment.

To name but a few...

(edit: damn forgot Clear Spot by Captn Beefy!)
(edit: just for Charlie: 1972 Al Green - I'm Still in Love with You)

The Jam
only stuff on my ipod that I regularly listen to that's pre 90s

the soul in that list is pretty spot on, I'd have thrown some Al Green in too, and probably a bit of temptations, but pretty much spot on

So which of the David Bowie albums would people recommend starting with? Just had a quick look on Amazon and realize there are quite a few I recognize from my yoof!!!

Depending on your tastes, I would suggest that you don't start with The Man Who Sold The World, Low or Station to Station, listen before buying. All great albums.

Ziggy would be a good start, Young Americans or Heroes.

For some reason I missed Iggy and The Stooges and am getting into some of the back catalogue, wonderful stuff.

Charlie - it should really have had Chic and Sister Sledge too.

^^

NO!

Plenty of great Genesis and of course Pink Floyd to go with the Supertramp proggie stuff....

ELO

Hi.

I'd definitely recommend Nick Drake as not only one of the best from the '70s, but ever...

[url= http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5932-top-100-albums-of-the-1970s/ ]the list of 1970s albums on pitchfork is a good starting point[/url]

I think you can tell a lot about someones musical taste based on their Fleetwood Mac preference - Peter Green or Stevie Nicks "Rumours" era - I'm a Rumours man all the way

Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield).
Kind of Blue (Miles Davis).
It's Too Late To Stop Now (Van Morrison).
Irish Tour (Rory Gallagher).

oh hell how could I forget Horses. Brilliant brilliant album...

CG - er, Kind of Blue was the 50's. Classic album though... 😀

ian dury and the blockheads - new boots and panties

Thrust or Head hunters by Herbie Hancock

Steve Harley did some great stuff in the 70s

metalheart - oops, didn't look at the date. 😳

(Just rifled through my eclectic collection of which possibly the majority is from the 70's!)

Second My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Van Morrison Veedon Fleece
Stones: Exile on Main Street, Sticky Fingers

Big Star

Supertramp's [i]Crime Of The Century[/i] not prog at all.
Early Genesis, especially [i]Selling England By The Pound[/i], superb English storytelling [i]a la[/i] The Kinks
Zeppelin, probably Zep III, a very folky album, then [i]Houses Of The Holy[/i], then IV
Fairport Convention and Sandy Denny
Nils Lofgren
Talking Heads
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Groundhogs
Gentle Giant
Soft Machine
Curved Air

Big Star

Darkness on the Edge of Town: Springsteen
Horses & Easter: Patti Smith
Ziggy, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs etc
Blood on the Tracks, Desire: Dylan
Van Morrison of course
Another vote for Marquee Moon
Down By The Jetty & Stupidity: Dr Feelgood - essential
Early Elvis Costello

Yes: Close to the edge

Pink Floyd:

Ah yes, Big Star, brilliant and very influential band
Tangerine Dream [i]Phaedra[/i] and [i]Ricochet[i]
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Joe Walsh
Roy Harper

Steely Dan - that is 70s music

I was listening to Deadmau5 [i]4+4=12[/i] while reading this, but it's prompted me to put on [i]Wish You Were Here[/i] now. Haven't played it for a while, thanks for the nudge.

Neu! First two albums both classics and decades ahead of the game.
Roxy Musics 1st three albums, in no order of merit. The recent digital re-masters still sound like the gleaming future.

Lynard Skynard and Credance Clear Water revival are the two best you should check out...

[i]I was listening to Deadmau5 4+4=12 while reading this, but it's prompted me to put on Wish You Were Here now. Haven't played it for a while, thanks for the nudge.[/i]

I have been listening to WYWH myself alot over the last couple of weeks, alongside DSOTM and Meddle. Not sure about Meddle it is growing on me but taking time.

If you like Funk and Jimi Hendrix type stuff, then early seventies Funkadelic is good. Their best album is 'Funkadelic' and 'Free your mind and your ass will follow" is also pretty good. 'maggot Brain' as suggested above is ok, but my fave is def the 'funkadelic' album.

Don't forget Hawkwind:

Loads of brilliant suggestions on this thread, you can't go wrong really. 🙂

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Big Star +1

You said no Punk, but This is one avenue from where early UK punk came, The Modern Lovers (best known for 'Road Runner').

Kraftwerk
Steel Pulse
Sparks
T. Rex

Although I was into Punk at the time, I now appreciate 70s black disco/pop music, stuff that I hated at the time. Donna Summer, Chic and the bloke that sang 'Born to be alive' amd many others

How about some Joni Mitchell from 1975, [i]The Hissing Of Summer Lawns[/i], one of Joni's finest albums, with a jazz influence coming from the likes of Jaco Pastorious, which takes me to Weather Report, and also Stanley Clark both of whom are really worth checking out.
Then there's early Tom Waits, the Doobie Brothers, Steve Winwood, Rick Springfield, Ry Cooder, Lindisfarne, America, Heart...

Jackson sisters - I believe in miracles

Slade

Early AC/DC; Dirty Deeds is an excellent album.

Can't beat some Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson from 1971.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/cult-classics-histoire-de-melody-nelson-serge-gainsbourg-1971-801399.html

Magazine: "Real Life".

Hey C_G, glad you liked Miles from the '50s. How are you getting on with "Bitches Brew"?

Sensational Alex Harvey Band- Next, Tomorrow belongs to me.
Tubeway Army- Replicas
genesis -Duke
Judie Tzuke- Iam the phoenix (possibly 80's)
Abba -Arrival
SplitEnz.

Van Der Graaf Generator - Possibly Quiet Zone/Pleasure Dome which is a little lighter than others. Led Zep - start at the beginning and work your way through. Jethro Tull - Living In The Past is a nice start, Aqualung being my fave. Bandolier by Budgie, plus Never Turn Your Back On A Friend & If I Were Britannia I'd Wave The Rules. Rush - Rush/Fly By Night/Caress of Steel. I feel these are over looked in favour of 2112 & Farewell To Kings but there are some excellent songs on the first three. Working Man/Finding My Way/In the Mood on Rush, Anthem/Best I Can/In The End on Fly By Night.

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac is the ONLY way to go. The Green Manelishi With The Two Pronged Crown,Rattle Snake Shake,Man Of The World, Dragon Fly. oooohhh

I envy you in a way. I'd love to be setting out on a voyage of discovery of this music.

Scorpions - Lonesome Crow is excellent for a giggle at very early German metal in broken English. Their first album with Michael Schenker on lead.
"Ze son ist drying out meine brain!"

metalheart's list is almost perfect. Some absolute classics in there.
I'd add, from '71 Marsha Hunt - Woman Child
I mean, how can you go wrong:
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If you're looking for Bowie stuff, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Alladin Sane.
T. Rex - The Slider & Electric Warrior