I'm doing a project on the 70's. [need ideas]
 

Im doing a project on the 70's in my rock and roll history class and I need an artist or group from the 70's to do it on. I don't want anything that was too mainstream, but I want something good.

ideas thus far:
VU
Can
Throbbing Gristle

Screamingskull's favourite -

Little River Band!

or -


Yeah, for me it would be Joni or Todd.

groovy album cover, ha ha ha

'70s

a few:

Foghat (ROCK 'n' ROLL)
James Gang (also The Eagles, I suppose---Joe Walsh is a gifted player)
Marvin Gaye (started late '60s, best period in '70s)
John Lennon (solo) with Plastic Ono Band
Al Green (started late '60s, best period in '70s)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse (Buffalo Springfield, CSN&Y started late '60s, w/ Crazy Horse in '70s)
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Parliament/Funkadelic
The Cars (started late, known as '80s, most likely, better than who you listened to today)
Devo (started mid, known as '80s)
Sparks
Frank Zappa
Deep Purple (started late '60s, best period in '70s)
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band (started late '60s)
Kool & the Gang
The Carpenters
Ramones (started mid)
Led Zeppelin (started late '60s, known as '70s band)
Pink Floyd (started late '60s)
Talking Heads (started late, known as '80s)
Bruce Springsteen & the E. Street Band (best period is '70s, known as an American icon, but also '80s primarily)
Sex Pistols (along w/ Bruce Springsteen, they are the disco killers!)
New York Dolls
Harry Nilsson
Iggy Pop solo
Lou Reed solo
Alice Cooper
ZZ Top (started late, known as '80s)
Van Halen (started mid, known as '80s mainly)
Patti Smith Group
King Crimson
Brian Eno & Robert Fripp
The Kinks (started '60s)
AC/DC w/ Bon Scott
The Doors (started '60s)
Grateful Dead (started mid-'60s)
Queen
Stevie Wonder (started early '60s, best period in '70s)
Fleetwood Mac


Personally, I would probably pick David Bowie (started '60s)/Matt Ronson's band, aka Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars...

Are you just looking for a band that existed at some point in the '70s, or one that existed throughout the '70s?

You're lucky, Nurse With Wound JUST ABOUT started in the '70s.

Also mention The Contortions please.

i second yes, do it on yes!!!! the 70's were their prime.

crimson?
sabbath?
mahavishnu orchestra?
gong?
big star?
germs?
voidoids?
amon düül i and/or ii?
plastic ono band?
flower traveling band?
van der graaf generator?
hawkwind?
t rex?
faust?
the dolls?
the residents?
burning spear?
lee "scratch" perry?
king tubby?
augustus pablo?
magical power mako?
fushitsusha?
popol vuh?
wire?
public image limited?
swell maps?
the raincoats?
univers zero?
smegma?

watcha want?

Patti Smith.

yeah - teenage jesus & the jerks '76-'79

voidoids, like talking heads, would be more '80s i guess (so would some of those I listed quickly earlier today)
although i guess blank gen came out in '77 just like th '77

thunders solo from dolls would be '80s mostly although So aLone was '78 and heartbreakers are definitely all '70s, baby
I've been meaning to do a T-friendly d/l thread with my live Hell & Thunders rarities

i've made a couple of '70s comps, but actually just started one the other day of live only..."classic rock live"...i've only got a few songs picked-out so far

Patti Smith

In the '70s, it was
Patti Smith Group.

fishmonkey, TheDom, don't be dissin' the Lenny thatta way with your egregious omission.

she'd probably be bussin' dishes with Suzanne Vega right now w/o his guitar and friends.

Radio Ethiopa is best.

just existed at somepoint during the 70's.
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone.
We do one of these each decade.
Next Ill do:
Sonic youth-80's
unwound-90's
?-2000's

I forgot one, quite surprised that I did, John Fahey.

You could cover the "Rock In Opposition" scene with bands like Henry Cow, Slapp Happy, Matching Mole and the like. Most of these bands drew up their own manifestos and a lot of them had strong Communist leanings. Also, a lot of interesting music came out of these groups, which tended to be prolific and spawn many offshoots.

Edgar Winter. 'Frankenstein' is worthy of it's own anything.

New York Dolls!

good lord, narduar the human serviette jokes about gentle giant & yes (the only reasonable explanation) and we still have to suffer with them here?

Look, you laser-light-show aficionados haha,

Roundabout is okay, I suppose...Owner of a Lonely Heart, the '80s mtv rock hit, is their best song! Even Styx or Aerosmith or Rush or Kiss or Judas Priest owns fucking Yes.
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television

is vastly overrated

if forced to choose, I'd honeslty rather listen to Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend album w/ R. Lloyd than Marquee Moon...(by then, Richard could play a guitar well!)
well, maybe not///don't make me listen to either actually

put on a record by anyone from that scene ...
Talking Heads
Ramones
Patti Smith Group
Blondie (I hear Toilet & Bowels gagging...what's he gagging on?)
these bands are tough to beat live or otherwise\

I love
Devo
Sparks
The Cars

damn, who's better out of these? now, that a fuckin' toughie...Kraftwerk certainly isn't as good as any of them.

note it.

television isnt overrated now the cars on the other hand....

By what indie-creedo?

I've heard every bit of Television....the albums, the live, how much The Cars have you actually heard?

Even lesser songs by The Cars are better than the best Television. Listen to the albums & drop the pose; The Cars are no ordinary popular rock band.

I made a comment earlier disparaging Yes.
Television are even worse. At least Yes can play uptempo; they're adept at it, and by the opposite token, they also employ a layered soundscape at will...just the wrong notes at the wrong time and just-plain-cheesy counter-melody. Damn, Television are a severely limited band to lose out to Yes.

the velvets are 60s you dork!

Can

Henry Cow are pretty good.

Alex Chilton

How about some Cleveland punk: Rocket from the Tombs, Electric Eels, Pere Ubu maybe even Dead Boys.

or

Hawkwind
Wire
Suicide
Motorhead
Sabbath
Neu!
Fela Kuti (was he 70's?)

Nick Drake

DEFINITELY do Rock In Opposition.
DEFINITELY.

AND the Residents.

like totally dude...like, they're rad:rolleyes: & people think you're cool if you drop their name...hell, you can hide your ignorance by just dropping some names is what I've found...


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yeah, i didn't feel like correcting the sheriff's vu quasi-misnomer yesterday