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[Mashimaro]

good song.. I 'obtained' a copy of Rolling Stone magazine's top 500 songs of all time.. some great stuff in there, stones, beach boys, neil young, johnny cash, buddy holly, etc. etc. Definitely worth a download.. I mean purchase

[SPINOZA]

God god, I'd no idea there were so many daft old buggers in our midst!

Anyway, the 70s was probably the best decade overall. Pink Floyd, Led Zepp, Deep Purple, Kiss and Van Halen ruled mainstream rock, Bowie too, and then you've got Punk and Kraftwerk in the late 70s. It's sufficient to forgive Greese, which is the ultimate abomination....where the theme of the story appears to be that a sweet, innocent, good girl must dress and behave like a sl*t to be accepted.

[Bondrock]

Nazareth, Kiss, Cheap Trick, Jethro Tull... just a few of the big-name live concerts i attended in the 70's...

i saw/and or met most of the Canadian bands from that era... but the 80's is pretty much a blank... (long, long story of a former guitar player)

Canadian groups: April Wine, Loverboy, The Stampeders, One Horse Blue, Mark Jordan, Tommy Banks, George Blondheim, Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, Ian Tyson, Neil Young, Valdy, Cindy Church, Pat Benatar, Murray Mclaughlin(spelling?) Burton Cummings, Henry Small... and a bunch of others who are just faces...

now i'm just a burned out name droppin' expat

[stevemcgarrett]

The best work of Neil Young, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and much of Dylan was all in the much maligned '70's. Plus the aforementioned bands of other posters on this thread.

The '80s ended as it began with The Cars. Crap after that followed by mostly crap in the '90's.

And what did the '70's have: great back beat AND great song lyrics.

Sure, there was disco, most of which was crap, but I guarantee you if you had seen Donna Summers in heat in concert you'd even think twice about that.

And, yes (don't sneer), even much early Neil Diamond was great. Try the live album Hot August Night if you doubt me. He had sensational concerts.

One of my fondest memories: an encore live version of "China Grove" by The Doobie Brothers.

Real, raw talent (admittedly some got their start in the '60's). Heck, even Cat Stevens wasn't singing about Mohammed back then.

[happygirl]

Wow, what a great thread. Reading the titles of all my old favs had a fast forward soundtrack running in my head. Just a few seconds of each one... guess I'm going to have to "secure" some of those songs again. Hadn't thought of "China Grove" in a long time

[SuperFly]

Useless trivia....

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Anyone?

[ChopChaeJoe]

[jajdude]

Yeah it is interesting how music from your teenage years stay with you, well, forever I suppose. I still like some stuff from high school, around 1985 or so.

[SuperFly]

[Dancing Bear]

best outdoor concert I ever went to (it was summer of 77)
"ELO" they were madmen!!!!

I still have a soft spot for "Pink Floyd."

I like a lot of the comtemporary stuff as well (it's just a little overwhelmimg how much good music is out there...)

I run the gamut...Mates of State, Big Head Todd, Incubus
Right now I am listening to Remy Shand.

I drove a sh*t brown Gremlin (ugly!!!!) good for crusing down
county black tops and tossing beer cans out the window.

[SuperFly]

[stevemcgarrett]

Superfly:

That's some rare footage of Neil Diamond there. Good enough song from his very early years but he looks numb with anguish while singing it. You can tell he still hasn't developed a stage persona yet. That wouldn't come about for another couple years.

Couple bits of trivia: Diamond is Jewish, not Italian, as some of his fans believe. He grew up in Brookyln, the setting for his 1976 hit album It's A Beautiful Noise.

The Mamas and Papas hit song "Monday, Monday" was written by Neil Diamond.

What's your favorite of his? Mine is still "Sweet Caroline," although "Play Me" is a close second.

Saw him in concert twice but wouldn't see him again after he went to pop for me. He was good friends with Robby Robertson of The Band, but looked out-of-place at their farewell concert in San Francisco.

Speaking of The Band, man that Levon Helm (the drummer) was one cool cat. He's a shriveled old man now but still cool. My favorite is "The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down," where he has a solo part.

[SuperFly]

[stevemcgarrett]

Superfly:

I goofed on that hit song. It wasn't "Monday, Monday" and the Mamas & Papas but The Monkees and "I'm A Believer." Ironically, it was the No. 1 hit song of 1967 for them while Diamond, who wrote it, had to await another song for that claim.

Incidentally, "Solitary Man" was his first hit, although it never broke the top 50 nationally, if you can imagine but did so, again, with another artist. John Denver experienced the same with "Leaving On a Jet Plane" as did Barry Manilow.

Oh, and I plumb forgot my all-time favorite Neil Diamond song, which is rather obscure, called "And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind" which was deemed good only to one singer of the day--a little known man named Elvis Presley.

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