Best 70s songs

[Bren]

Give us your fave 70s song

Mine is FreeBird by Lynard Skynard

[hXc]

No doubt about it mate. This has to be not only the best song of the 70's, damn near the best song of the 2nd half of the 20th century!

Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd.

[Usarka]

It's uber cliche but it has to be stairway to heaven.

[Hitcher]

Dancing Queen.

Feel the beat from the tambourine.

[peasea]

It's uber cliche but it has to be stairway to heaven.

Nah, Kashmir by a long shot, far more balls.

[peasea]

Feliz Navidad?

[doc]

Give us your fave 70s song

Mine is FreeBird by Lynard Skynard

Anything from Joplin.

[peasea]

Give us your fave 70s song

Mine is FreeBird by Lynard Skynard

Everything in my collection would qualify I think. Although recorded and released in '68 the 70's were full of 'Born to be wild' and it still gets a good response.

[hXc]

Nah, Kashmir by a long shot, far more balls.

I would put Kashmir above Stairway on skill level, but Stairway above Kashmir on commercialism (which turns into record sales and people remembering the song).

Partly because (Technical musical details follow - these may be above the heads of some) Kasmir has no distinct beat due to overlapping time signatures. The drums are playing in 4/4, but the guitar is playing in 3/4. After 3 bars of drums, the guitar has done 4 bars, and is back in sync.

Yes it works, very effective. But in doing this, you cannot dance to it or effectively bop your head. Because even the most musically illiterate people can identify a beat in a song. And if you follow the drums, you get out with the guitar, and if you follow the guitar, you get out with the drums.

This, of course, mainly applies to those who aren't musically inclined, because if you're a guitarist, you tend to follow the guitar, and drummers follow the drums anyway. But in studying music at school, and playing many instruments, I have learnt to follow all instruments as one sound.

Anyway, enough technical details. Who else has some good suggestions?
Of course, nothing will compare with Shine On. A brilliant piece of work, written by none other than (a) musical genius(') in many aspects.

[Usarka]

Nah, Kashmir by a long shot, far more balls.

Fair call and i agree there are better zep songs but i interpreted the questions using the albertian rock/pop algerbraic formulatic ballsapping formula of rockness

Best song = g *(w/g)

goodness * (wellknowness / goodness)

Smoke on the Water comes out pretty high with that too, but we all know space trucking is much better.

Or just about any track by Rainbow. (edit: esp the Dio years)

[peasea]

I would put Kashmir above Stairway on skill level, but Stairway above Kashmir on commercialism (which turns into record sales and people remembering the song).

Partly because (Technical musical details follow - these may be above the heads of some) Kasmir has no distinct beat due to overlapping time signatures. The drums are playing in 4/4, but the guitar is playing in 3/4. After 3 bars of drums, the guitar has done 4 bars, and is back in sync.

Yes it works, very effective. But in doing this, you cannot dance to it or effectively bop your head. Because even the most musically illiterate people can identify a beat in a song. And if you follow the drums, you get out with the guitar, and if you follow the guitar, you get out with the drums.

This, of course, mainly applies to those who aren't musically inclined, because if you're a guitarist, you tend to follow the guitar, and drummers follow the drums anyway. But in studying music at school, and playing many instruments, I have learnt to follow all instruments as one sound.

Anyway, enough technical details. Who else has some good suggestions?
Of course, nothing will compare with Shine On. A brilliant piece of work, written by none other than (a) musical genius(') in many aspects.

If you cant head bang or bop to Kashmir you need a better drug dealer. I've been rocking to that since it was released, pot, acid, E or booze!

[Drum]

Paranoid

[Usarka]

Paranoid

who's paranoid?

[hXc]

If you cant head bang or bop to Kashmir you need a better drug dealer. I've been rocking to that since it was released, pot, acid, E or booze!

Well some may say that. but have a listen and you'll see. Don't know if you're musically talented at all. But you should be able to figure the beat. Zone out the guitars and other instruments, concentrating solely on the drums. Count in 4.

Then do the same, blocking out all but the guitar. Now try and count in 4 at the same speed. It does not fit. Because it's in 3.

Together, they fit together unfittedly™.

[bane]

Anything from Joplin.

...who died in Oct 1970. How much music did she put out in the 70's?



Albums, how about Aqualung by Jethro Tull, or Tea for the Tillerman by Yousef Islam (cough)