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[nimrod]

OK all you baby boomers, its nostalgia time, lets post some favourite video's from the decade, who remembers Steeleye Span

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[nimrod]

Or Jethro Tull

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[Moogmodule]

I loved Steeleye.  Saw them a couple of times in Sydney in the early 80s. Good live. I like this one. Even if the subject matter is gruesome.

http://youtu.be/FhW1iZQvqlA

[Ovi]

I'm not a baby boomer, but I love Pink Floyd, The Who, Genesis, King Crimson, Ramones, The Clash, Talking Heads, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Stooges, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, David Bowie, Black Sabbath and Queen.

[Moogmodule]

Lots of great bands as Ovi lists. But from a nostalgia point of view, when I think of the 70s I'm more likely to recall those radio hits that came and went.mlike this one.

http://youtu.be/Kw8vw55GzhU

[stevie]

Man, I can remember hearing all this good music in 1971/2 just after I discovered the Beatles.

Was awesome hearing these new songs on the radio:

Maggie May
You're So Vain
American Pie

Wonderful memories as a kid then

[Hello Goodbye]

Well, the 70s started off just fine with...


http://youtu.be/KWbTZuEWjnc


http://youtu.be/Xoke1wUwEXY


and...


http://youtu.be/C53QAuOoSgc

[Hello Goodbye]

Or Jethro Tull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8&list=RDEsCyC1dZiN8#t=11

I liked them, Kev, especially Ian Anderson.

[Mr Mustard]

Yeah, absolutely love Jethro Tull, but nothing screams 70s to me louder than THIS:

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[Hello Goodbye]

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Screams is the word for that alright!  It gives me a headache.

The teenyboppers a few years younger than us who liked bubblegum music in the late 60s graduated to glam rock in the early 70s.  Go figure!

But the worst was yet to come in the second half of the 70s decade...disco.    

[KelMar]

Lots of great bands as Ovi lists. But from a nostalgia point of view, when I think of the 70s I'm more likely to recall those radio hits that came and went.

That sums up my feelings quite well Moog. The radio pretty much dictated my tastes through a lot of the 70's because I was just a young kid. By the end of the decade I got into buying albums and it was mostly the stuff I'd heard my brother play when he was still at home. The only exception was Carole King. The first album I ever bought was Carole King: Music, when I was 8.

[nimrod]

Great Badfinger vids Baz

and this was truly wondrous

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[Bobber]

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[Moogmodule]

This always evokes the 70s to me.

http://youtu.be/cqZc7ZQURMs

[Moogmodule]

Badfinger were such a good band. A change in the stars a bit and Pete Ham would be up there today with the best.  Can't find a good video of it but Name of the Game is a favourite.

[Moogmodule]

That sums up my feelings quite well Moog. The radio pretty much dictated my tastes through a lot of the 70's because I was just a young kid. By the end of the decade I got into buying albums and it was mostly the stuff I'd heard my brother play when he was still at home. The only exception was Carole King. The first album I ever bought was Carole King: Music, when I was 8.

You were a very cool 8 year old clearly . I didn't start buying albums til i was 13 or 14. And this was one of my first.

http://youtu.be/HQZBaJAngH8

[Moogmodule]

Great Badfinger vids Baz

and this was truly wondrous

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I loved that one. But didn't really listen to Yes til the 80s. So I don't get whisked back to the 70s in the same way as when I hear this.

http://youtu.be/YnQZ5AHUk2U

[nimrod]

This always evokes the 70s to me.

http://youtu.be/cqZc7ZQURMs

Brilliant song, superb lyrics

[Mr Mustard]

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Screams is the word for that alright!  It gives me a headache.

That's because you're old

In early 70s Britain (well, '71 - '73 for sure) every new Slade release was awaited with excitement by younger music fans like me. They weren't handsome foreign pin-ups like The Osmonds but they had a very British working class charm and provincial humour all their own (sound familiar?). A new Slade single was almost guaranteed to come straight into the charts at number one. Six chart toppers in all, a few number twos and several top ten hits - all from the pen of vocalist/rhythm guitarist Noddy Holder and multi talented bassist Jim Lea (again, that familiar pattern shows up!). With his girder-crunching, concrete-mixer vocals Noddy was one of the greatest frontmen of all time, and to experience the boot-stomping, scarf waving anthemic joy of a Slade concert (which I did twice) was fabulous and never to be forgotten. They were stupendous live and undoubtedly the biggest "singles" group in the UK until Scandinavia's Abba took over around 1975 with their own lovely, self-penned melodies.

Always felt a bit sorry for those slightly older kids who liked "serious" music...especially Americans, saddled (it seemed to me at the time) with introspective (frankly boring) singer-songwriter artists (James Taylor, Al Green, Neil Young, Bill Withers, Don McLean, Isaac Hayes etc etc) in the vacuum left by the dissolution of The Beatles. Now that I'm older I see it very differently of course, but when I was about twelve I really pitied those whom I felt were shortchanged out of the FUN which managed to keep on rolling over here in Blighty even after the fab four had left... thanks to outrageous good time party groups like Slade, Sweet and Wizzard. Even T.Rex, Roxy Music and Bowie (all slightly too hippy-fied and catering to older, studenty-types) made sure they adopted flamboyant costumes and put on a good show! The early 70s was all about glamour and excess...it was great escapism, especially to a backdrop of petrol rationing, strikes, terrorism and the three day week.

Here's Slade again with one of their finest tracks (scandalously it only got to number two!):

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[nimrod]

Little lead riff on Bass there I like that