Re: Classic '70's songs (the GENUINE classics)
Re: Classic '70's songs (the GENUINE classics)
Originally Posted by Reverend Joe
Speaking of funk...
I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing - Funkadelic
What Is Soul - Funkadelic (some orange haze, orange haze, it ain't purple no more... *pot induced cough*)
I Just Want to Celebrate - 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.)
Last edited by naut; 02-25-2009 at 05:37.
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And hold that everything depends upon having the “right” religion.
But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra
Freedom necessarily involves risk. - Alan Watts
Re: Classic '70's songs (the GENUINE classics)
Bruce Springsteen - Candy's room (1978)
Idem - Born to run (1975)
Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel (1974)
Peter Gabriel - Here comes the flood (1977)
Does this still qualify as 70's?
Enjoy!
Re: Classic '70's songs (the GENUINE classics)
Re: Classic '70's songs (the GENUINE classics)
One for the Good Reverend
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Re: Classic '70's songs (the GENUINE classics)
that's from '69...
But yeah, thanks, one of my favorite songs ever.
Re: Classic '70's songs (the GENUINE classics)
Blitzkrieg Bop/Sheena - The Ramones
God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols
Janie Jones - The Clash (though almost everything that the Clash did in the '70s was a masterpiece)
Re: Classic '70's songs (the GENUINE classics)
Ah, the Golden Age of Funk ...
September, Earth Wind and Fire
Superstition, Stevie Wonder
We Want the Funk, Parliament of Funk
For the Love of Money, The O'Jays
Respect Yourself, The Staples Singers
Freddie's Dead, Curtis Mayfield
Ladies Night, Kool & the Gang
Thank You, Sly & the Family Stone
Got to Give it Up, Marvin Gaye
Re: Classic '70's songs (the GENUINE classics)
"You Make Me Feel Brand New" - The Stylistics
"Hot Pants" - James Brown
"Lovely Day" - Bill Withers
"Mary Jane" - Rick James
Nah. The original 'Classic 00s Songs' was a thinly dressed recommend-new-music-to-Quietus thread. I simply settled on 'Classic' as the filter.
Bob Marley | Burning Spear | Robots In Disguise | Esperanza Spalding
Sue Denim (Robots In Disguise) | Sue Denim (2)
"Can you explain why blue looks blue?" - Francis Crick
Re: Classic '70's songs (the GENUINE classics)
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, Luther Ingram
Re: Classic '70's songs (the GENUINE classics)
Re: Classic '70's songs (the GENUINE classics)
Almost forgot!
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
Edit:
Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield
Inca Roads - Frank Zappa
The Boss - James Brown
Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Search and Destroy - Iggy Pop and the Stooges
Last edited by naut; 03-02-2009 at 03:33.
BD:TW
Some piously affirm: "The truth is such and such. I know! I see!"
And hold that everything depends upon having the “right” religion.
But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra
Freedom necessarily involves risk. - Alan Watts
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