What's your favorite genre of 1970s music?

[NightTrain]

[HEyHEY]

1. It was too hard, I'm not voting

[jjmalonejr]

2. No kidding.

How to choose, how to choose?!?!?

[Insider]

8. stuck

soul-funk-disco...

we just danced and danced and danced to it ALL. :bounce:

[LWolf]

3. Other: no favorite.

I like some of all. Well, to be honest, we could leave the teen pop out. And I was a teen in the 70s. But some of all of the rest.

[hellbound-liberal]

4. I've got three CDs that I have been rotating in my truck lately

Led Zeppelin-"Presence", Deep Purple-"Burn" and Genesis-"Seconds Out". I suppose Deep Purple has always been my favorite but Blue Oyster Cult is a close second.

[Burma Jones]

5. Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Little Feat

Jam, Southern, Rock

[Bob3]

6. in your list of punk bands you forgot the Ramones - Shame shame.

N/T

[NightTrain]

7. Oops!

Thanks for the reminder. I'll take care of it now!

[Old and In the Way]

9. How about the West Coast Sounds?

I suppose that was late 60's, but it didn't exactly die on 12/31/69.

Hot Tuna/Jefferson Airplane
Grateful Dead
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Flying Burrito Brothers
The Byrds
Jimmi Hendrix
Otis Redding
Love
NRPS
Tower of Power
Delaney and Bonney
Janis Joplin and Big Brother
Chambers Broters
Taj Mahal
Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airman
It's a Beautiful Day
Elvin Bishop
Boz Skaggs
Jesse Winchester
John Hammond
Eagles
Santana
The Doors
Poco


I'm sure I'm forgetting some....

[NightTrain]

10. That's more or less Classic Rock.

I guess....

[Old and In the Way]

11. In a hundred years.....

it will be classical music.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

12. LOL! Then....or now!

Back then I liked stuff like ELP, and maybe Deep Purple, Bad Company, Spirit, Humble Pie, early Rod Stewart, early ZZ Top, Skynnrd, Zepplin, etc...and stuff from the 60s, like CSN, Hendrix, Neal Young, Alman Brothers, Traffic, Simon & Garfunkle. I was also starting to get into bluegrass and folk.


Now, I like the funk and soul stuff, and early disco. People like War, Gil Scott Heron, Aretha Franklin, Ohio Players, Chi-Lites, Intruders, and so forth. Stuff I missed or didnt pay too much attention too back then I like or appreciate more now.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

13. Heh..this is an interesting thread...

...made me think a bit about changing tastes in music.

[nini]

14. mix of soul & funk for me..

Earth Wind & Fire is still my all time favorite band.

[St. Jarvitude]

15. Prog rock!!

Pink Floyd and The Flaming Lips (albeit from a bit later era, but still keeping the genre going) are two of my favorite bands.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Fleetwood Mac

What genre is this? I'm not sure. But you could have been assured that this was how I would vote, LOL! Though I do like many other groups.:D

[Tom Kitten]

17. Other

as in almost all the above (except "teen rock" , bubblegum perhaps? although I do like the ABC era Jackson 5 but is that more soul?)
Where would the "singer-songwriters" like James Taylor, Carole King, Carly Simon, Jackson Browne fit in?
Fleetwood Mac would be classic rock, along with Elton John...
David Bowie I'd take out of prog rock and put in a new category "glitter (or glam) rock " along with Roxy Music, Alice Cooper, the New York Dolls, Iggy and Lou Reed perhaps, the Sweet, early Todd Rundgren...
Lynyrd Skynryd is definitely classic, but also Southern Rock, along with Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker Band, Wet Willie (for awhile a distinct sound but perhaps too small a genre to merit its own category)
I also liked Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash, Savoy Brown, Trapeze (Medusa is a classic!) UFO, the Alan Parsons Project, Al Stewart, Montrose, just too many bands and genres to mention!
sorry for the nit-picking, just typing out loud...:yourock:

[drdtroit]

18. I voted soul

with a name like mine you know it's got to about be the Queen of Soul, Little Stevie, Marvin, Tops you got it.

But I also dig funky Godfather James Brown, Kool & Gang, EWF, The Parliment and ELP, Yes etc.

As a professional musician I did a lot of sessions in the 70's with Aretha, The Temptations, Four Tops, Parliment Funkadelics, Brides of Funkenstein, Harold Melvin, Johnny Taylor, Martha Reeves, etc. :smoke:

[NightTrain]

21. You worked with all those great artists?!

Ooo! How 'bout some details?

[last_texas_dem]

19. I voted for Prog Rock

My favorites tend to be progressive rock, psychedelic rock (mostly by sixties bands whose output bled over into the seventies), "power pop", soft rock (I proudly admit to liking Bread, the Association, etc.), and your general Top 40 stuff. The seventies are my favorite decade of music, I like some of the "critics' favorites" but love a whole lot of the "crap" as well, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

[GalleryGod]

20. Although Excoriated by the Cognoscenti for Years! Disco Still Lives!

Some of the best "Dance/club" songs of the past 30 years.
IMHO:smoke:

[NightTrain]

22. Can't argue with that.

I like a lot of disco tunes myself!

[bigwillq]

23. Disco then soul

Yes DISCO....I'm a flamer at heart!!:silly:

[scarlet_owl]

24. It's a tie between funk and soul.

[Deja Q]

25. Soul and disco

Nice poll! :thumbsup:

[69KV]

26. Do I gotta pick?

Except for the
"teen oriented pop" :puke:,

it was all good.

I have every one of those genres (except the one mentioned), in my CD collection.