Classic '70's songs (the GENUINE classics)

[Reverend Joe]

I was waiting to see if Quiteus would finally get to a decent decade, but I'm tired of waiting.

Let's see how many true classic songs we can post now that there's a decent well to draw from. I'll get us started with a few of the most obvious:

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_jlde4lPTw)

Foghat - Slow Ride (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czk2p3HSnLg)

Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNcgKA0KEk4)

the Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care of Business (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Abk1wqHz4) (my personal favorite so far... you just gotta love a song that's all about being a lazy-ass bum. :jester:)

Free - All Right Now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B2clFsLA3w) (Technically speaking, I think this came out in '69 or so, but it's close enough, at least in spirit.)

Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TehFZ38kt6o)

Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGx7dW0ZPJY)

Kansas - Carry On my Wayward Son (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw6_VXPwm6U)

And, of course, by necessity:
Boston - More than a Feeling (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSR6ZzjDZ94)

Now post 'em!

[Strike For The South]

You're dead to me.

[Reverend Joe]

You're dead to me.

OH, NO, GOD, I FORGOT! I'M SO SORRY! ~:mecry:

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueGAdM0o6Cc)

And I found the One More from the Road version too (at least I think it is.) I'm so sorry, man.

[desert]

Bwahahahaha!

Ballad about Battle (http://www.wysotsky.com/1033.htm?149) - Vladimir Vysotsky

[Hosakawa Tito]

I dedicate this one to Strike. Charlie Daniels - Long Haired Country Boy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs4y5si8DGs)

And this one. Outlaws- Green Grass and High Tides (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82OM5tzcrk)

[TinCow]

Skynyrd - Free Bird (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mioGewkWVdo)
Doors- Riders on the Storm
Stones - Gimme Shelter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJMnES7WoT4)
CCR - Run Through the Jungle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNLu2gY2-uU)
Derek and the Dominos/Clapton - Layla

I could probably keep listing these for hours. Quite possibly the best musical decade ever.

[naut]

Tarkus - ELP

Superstar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccvt30wd5OA) - The Carpenters

Urban Guerrilla (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGjg2jhlTbs) - Hawkwind

Imagine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg) - John Lennon

Echoes - Pink Floyd

Baba O'Riley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g) - The Who

Edit:

[Reverend Joe]

Post them, don't list them! We got a lot of good ones here unlisted!

[naut]

Take A Walk On The Wild Side (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAE5G5OBzw&feature=related) - Lou Reed

Knocking on Heaven's Door (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-5JvACzGp8) - Bob Dylan

I always preferred the original version, since no one sings Dylan like Dylan.

Gimme Danger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9_hegaKOaY) - Iggy Pop & The Stooges

[Quietus]

Making an exception of multiple picks for the greatest ever :bow::

"Forever Loving Jah (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd1CQEtrQMY)" - Bob Marley & the Wailers. Technically '80, but really a 70s tune.

"Guiltiness" - Bob Marley & the Wailers. (Blocked in Youtube).

"Africa Unite (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnqGyzWPpp4)" - Bob Marley & the Wailers.

"Rebel Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJvRLlR5-HE)" - Bob Marley & the Wailers.

"Sun Is Shining (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfj6P94cLhI)" - Bob Marley & the Wailers. (Alternate version. The best version is blocked in Youtube).

And one from Tosh:

"I Am That I Am (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTnh-1CUadQ)" - Peter Tosh



I was waiting to see if Quiteus would finally get to a decent decade, but I'm tired of waiting.
I didn't want to clutter the frontroom.

[drone]

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcSC0B6lbFg) and Supernaut (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=395alwwhzJI).

[desert]

I don't understand how you could have left this one out, Quietus.

Three Little Birds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjtbhmQhsXg) - Bob Marley

[Zim]

Lots of good songs I haven't hear in a long time...

The local Classic Rock station where I live plays a lot of Nirvana. :inquisitive:

[Reverend Joe]

The local Classic Rock station where I live plays a lot of Nirvana. :inquisitive:

:wall:

[Spino]

Great thread Rev!

AC/DC - It's a Long Way to the Top if You Want to Rock and Roll (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiBMltWg2RQ&feature=related) - Feature the late, great Bon Scott as lead singer, arguably AC/DC's best singer and without a doubt one of the best lyricists of that era. This is also the best hard rock song (and perhaps the only one?) that sports bagpipes... and doesn't suck!

And... like most AC/DC song from the Scott era, it's a kickass song to drive to. :2thumbsup:

[Strategos Alexandros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYtdW5bD-7Q - Since You Been Gone, Rainbow

[Hooahguy]

Knocking on Heaven's Door (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-5JvACzGp8) - Bob Dylan

I always preferred the original version, since no one sings Dylan like Dylan.

meh. i prefer GnRs version.... :sweatdrop:

[Quietus]

"The Invasion (http://www.last.fm/music/Burning+Spear/_/Invasion)" - Burning Spear

"You're In My Heart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTFKPdWw1Gc)" - Rod Stewart

"How Deep Is Your Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVTtr7xJbdA)" - Bee Gees

"If You Leave Me Now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0TEa-Aa4sU)" - Chicago



I don't understand how you could have left this one out, Quietus.

Three Little Birds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjtbhmQhsXg) - Bob Marley

Because, Marley had so many great songs. I don't know any bad Marley tune, really.

[King Henry V]

The finest moment in musical history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAh_A7N3_mc

[The_Mark]

You know, Danny (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaU-Z-jUQXM), Ilkka Lipsanen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkka_Lipsanen) was a big hit in Finland in the 70's. He held the official title of counsellor of music in Finland in 2002.

:shame:

[KukriKhan]

Steve Miller 'The Joker' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIHP9o6X6D8)

Yeah, the 70's: when you could still go to a concert without having to take out a 2nd mortgage.

The Police: "Roxanne" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3kG-7I_Y6k) Great minimalist rock.

WAR: "Cisco Kid" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jVKqStDdsA&feature=related)

[Reverend Joe]

WAR: "Cisco Kid" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jVKqStDdsA&feature=related)

Aw, hell, I completely forgot about War! :wall: There's so many good bands, I can't remember them all...

Few more for you:

Hawkwind - You Shouldn't Do That (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdmB7qQjjvg) (part 2... :laugh4: ) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew-ZkECBeX8)

Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home live '71 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyF5J7au1jE) (Dude, Mark, please put a shirt on...)

Would anyone kill me if I posted a little Bad Company? (It's Rock Steady, one of their two good songs...) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggLpXgJJitI)

And just to prove that white people aren't the only ones with cheesy music... The Commodores - Brick House (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBx6mAWYPU)

[Togakure]

Aerosmith: Walk this Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lodlrFJVRYo); Train Kept a Rollin' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpEQeLfg5pQ); Sweet Emotion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yGCHPmfqT0); Dream On
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDtnKm9ZMfo&feature=related)
Led Zeppelin: Black Dog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfEZRST4KW8); Kashmir (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv-Ltk3dKOc); Going to California (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljYkQiIrFtU)

Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8CNj9qBI); Tie Your Mother Down (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0uiY-jDkzs); Killer Queen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMz-wi50ACU)

Pink Floyd: Breathe/On the Run (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ku-ma1dVI8); Great Gig In The Sky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAydj4OJnwQ)

Deep Purple: Smoke on the Water (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4LYo5dP6AI); Highway Star (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhVh7F4kmTg&feature=related)

Ronnie Montrose: Bad Motor Scooter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNfgBeevrVY) (not one decent vid of "Rock Candy" on Youtube, can't believe it)

The Babys: Head First (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zk5ZHowcCU)

Nazareth: Love Hurts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2BjJbKQkgc); Hair of the Dog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEG0-3xlAkg)

Bad Company: Bad Company (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jay0ryeFA4o); Feel Like Makin' Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxmx1Lee8yo); Can't Get Enough (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4sKdiWlLR8)

Pat Travers: Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFjiXfvkUIo) (no decent vid of "Snortin' Whiskey," sadly)

AC/DC: Girls Got Rhythm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGR_wiTll14&feature=related); Touch Too Much (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tjcU1Pqo-w)

Gary Wright: Dream Weaver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_wOvKSBQ1g); Love is Alive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCc7XJRDD74)

Jeff Beck: Blue Wind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv_ELS14VxU); Cause We've Ended as Lovers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cI-kyOVtvQ)

Peter Frampton: Show Me The Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13CfZTuywNs); Baby I Love Your Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-8E9FRVxEo) The first one set my life's course for the next 15 years, much to the chagrin of my parents.

Chicago: 25 or 6 to 4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soLIZ4W0rZw); Saturday in the Park (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTFD1C4tVIg)

Bee Gees: Stayin Alive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHWeuQyFouo); You Should Be Dancin' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6ccjD_hfSk&feature=related) :clown:

Terry Jacks: Seasons in the Sun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_Fdly3rX8) :clown: :clown:

Stanley Clarke: Hot Fun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcuC7KBlV9w&feature=related)

Heart: Barracuda (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpkitLUbeEg); Magic Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYjgh-znxB4)

Edgar Winter Group: Frankenstein (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spb4_ym5GdA)

Rick Derringer: Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wTXv9KPWeg)

Steely Dan: Peg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEhRnBSGPjA); Black Cow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS9Ll02CNjU&feature=related); Deacon Blues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inz9Sa_CVFs&feature=related)

Elvin Bishop: Fooled Around and Fell In Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edtl5W4XNLk&feature=related)

[Whacker]

Magic Bus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHge4ElsC14) - The Who

[Reverend Joe]

Damn, Masamune.

Edit: You know it's that righteous stuff! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvGpX2A-WAQ)

[Tristuskhan]

La Semaine Sanglante:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djuLvrGSFiI

Classic '70's revolutionary song. 1870's. I feel so sorry for those who do not understand french.

[Reverend Joe]

Classic '70's revolutionary song. 1870's.

:stare: Very funny.

[Yoyoma1910]

Orphans (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SkWYpzbEbk&feature=related)

Ghost Rider (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WqOMPakGCg&feature=related)

Shivers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toFF3OvBR94)

[Quietus]

"Boys Don't Cry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8CDERzun4k)" - The Cure

"The Model (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=847Y_hGzvIU)" - Kraftwerk

"After the Love Has Gone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVciWmBnMQo)" - Earth, Wind & Fire

"Live And Let Die (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK2hKzZss5Y)" - Paul McCartney and Wings

:skull:

[Reverend Joe]

Sorry to hijack your whole thing Quietus.

Also, that reminds me... Wings - Band on the Run (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7D65IomNYY)

(Anyone who criticizes Guitar Hero should remember the songs it introduces the newer audiences to.)

[Pannonian]

The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRE79bxfMtY)
Paul McCartney - Live and Let Die (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RZKHQnReig&feature=related)

[naut]

Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home live '71 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyF5J7au1jE) (Dude, Mark, please put a shirt on...)
:2thumbsup: :yes: ~:cheers:

Speaking of funk...

I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJk9ZLjsl3U) - Funkadelic

What Is Soul (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaoBIavVMnY) - Funkadelic (some orange haze, orange haze, it ain't purple no more... *pot induced cough* :wink2:)

I Just Want to Celebrate (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZsppOw2Mxk) - Rare Earth

(I'd link stuff like Maggot Brain and Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow, but I think you get the point. :laugh4:)

[I of the Storm]

Bruce Springsteen - Candy's room (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ZTIwAlerI) (1978)

Idem - Born to run (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rGFfO5fUvE) (1975)

Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx11oNHPDrA) (1974)

Peter Gabriel - Here comes the flood (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQYlKg7_isw) (1977)

Does this still qualify as 70's? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnaSRhMB_qo)

Enjoy!

[Lokar]

:candle: :candle: :candle: :candle:

Dr Hook - Cover of the Rolling Stone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-XzGOZHYdA&feature=related)

The Eagles - Lyin' Eyes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1DcAzVMCc&feature=related)

Tom Petty - American Girl (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyStwRYLzlI&feature=related)

Merle Haggard - If We Make it Through December (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbaxCG6mjMc&feature=related)

Did someone say funk? :egypt:


Ohio Players - Funky Worm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEscJWErZ0I)

KC and the Sunshine Band - Rock your Baby (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGTtu3mLacE) (awesome horn section :horn: )

Kool and the Gang - Summer Madness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bfzWj5a_Y4)

[Strike For The South]

One for the Good Reverend

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW3L8qon7hg)

[Reverend Joe]

One for the Good Reverend

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW3L8qon7hg)

that's from '69... :hide:

But yeah, thanks, one of my favorite songs ever.

[Craterus]

Blitzkrieg Bop (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEvktMyMkQo)/Sheena (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGgfHZ02I2k) - The Ramones
God Save The Queen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBo0LLlKu5Q) - Sex Pistols
Janie Jones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBt3_TuhuEw) - The Clash (though almost everything that the Clash did in the '70s was a masterpiece)

[Lemur]

Ah, the Golden Age of Funk ...

September (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iknEJf9cPeY), Earth Wind and Fire

Superstition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9AyX963E8), Stevie Wonder

We Want the Funk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cNDSPutas8), Parliament of Funk

For the Love of Money (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROZMlfELtII), The O'Jays

Respect Yourself (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD0jQH9OdwQ), The Staples Singers

Freddie's Dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9nwcpGZE6A), Curtis Mayfield

Ladies Night (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1oU9_hy3mA), Kool & the Gang

Thank You (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUGEADhFiso), Sly & the Family Stone

Got to Give it Up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeLjT4nrUTQ), Marvin Gaye

[Quietus]

"You Make Me Feel Brand New (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdCqOMmZ04s)" - The Stylistics

"Hot Pants (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1U-EBVuLt0)" - James Brown

"Lovely Day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4dPF_tEddE)" - Bill Withers

"Mary Jane (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhreCLlcq3Q)" - Rick James


Sorry to hijack your whole thing Quietus.

Nah. The original 'Classic 00s Songs' was a thinly dressed recommend-new-music-to-Quietus thread. I simply settled on 'Classic' as the filter.

[Lemur]

And of course, the song DevDave and I sing to each other every time we meet up in a seedy motel ...

If Loving You is Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Right (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UNyeCn8DiY), Luther Ingram

[Reverend Joe]

Curtis Mayfield - Superfly. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrHezTLex2s)

~:pimp:

[naut]

Almost forgot!

Thick as a Brick (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-vXEJrU9i0) - Jethro Tull

Edit:

Move On Up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ATgzjjUyA) - Curtis Mayfield

Inca Roads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36HG72P-RBI) - Frank Zappa

The Boss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf9kr02JSt4) - James Brown

Shaft (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAa5rP64YbQ&feature=related) - Isaac Hayes

Search and Destroy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYALsp-sIg) - Iggy Pop and the Stooges