Iconic Rock pre 1980

[chrismpw]

I'm sure many if you will be disappointed to discover that this thread is not about geology. Maybe it would be gneiss to have one one day.

I'm after your help in me compiling a playlist of classic, iconic rock tracks. Jog my memory please. (Nothing after the horrendous 1980 year plethora of synthetic-only crap thanks.). Young people keep out - you have no taste.

So far I have:

Stairway to heaven (LZ)
Freebird (LS)
Simple man (LS)
Barbara O'Reilly (TW)
Behind blue eyes (TW)
Pinball wizard (TW)
Ziggy Stardust (DB)
Starman (DB)

 

[Prevenger17]

Hotel California (TE)
Court of the Crimson King (KC)
Touch Me (TD)
Paranoid (BS)
Focus (HP)
Killer Queen (Q)
Immigrant Song (LZ)

 

[bluejohn66]

Please extend the year to 1981 so we can include Bucks Fizz

 

[trueblue84]

Locomotive breath - Jethro Tull
SWLABR - Cream
Time - Pink Floyd
Symptom of the universe - Black Sabbath
Whiskey in the jar - Thin Lizzy

 

[chrismpw]

Hotel California (TE)
Court of the Crimson King (KC)
Touch Me (TD)
Paranoid (BS)
Focus (HP)
Killer Queen (Q)
Immigrant Song (LZ)

Now this is what I was hoping for. I realise I've never listened to King Crimson before - so off I go on that journey.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Led Zep are overrated song stealers and all round nasty pieces of work.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Foreplay/Long Time (Boston)
More Than a Feeling (Boston)
Children of the Grave (Black Sabbath)
Man on the Silver Mountain (Rainbow)
Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple)
25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
All Along the Watchtower (Hendrix cover of Dylan)

 

[Blue 1]

Hotel California (TE)
Court of the Crimson King (KC)
Touch Me (TD)
Paranoid (BS)
Focus (HP)
Killer Queen (Q)
Immigrant Song (LZ)

21st Century Schizoid Man (KC) is the one.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Warpigs - Black Sabbath
Harvest Moon - Neil Young (not really rock but sniff it Chris)
Child in Time - Deep Purple (even if it is totally ridiculous)
Easy livin - Uriah heep (very funny drinking song)

 

[chrismpw]

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Warpigs - Black Sabbath
Harvest Moon - Neil Young (not really rock but sniff it Chris)
Child in Time - Deep Purple (even if it is totally ridiculous)
Easy livin - Uriah heep (very funny drinking song)

Good shouts - especially 'child in time' ... but Neil Young, great though he is, belongs elsewhere.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Pulled up what the local classic rock station is playing for more ideas.

Slow Ride (Foghat)
Don't Fear the Reaper (BOC)
Burnin' for You (BOC)
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)
Bad to the Bone (Thorgood)
It's a Long Way to the Top (AC/DC)
Let There be Rock (AC/DC)
Barracuda (Heart)
Magic Man (Heart)
Hold on Loosely (.38 Special)
And the Cradle Will Rock (Van Halen)
Reeling in the Years (Steely Dan)
Carry on Wayward Son (Kansas)
Dust in the Wind (Kansas)
Roll With the Changes (REO)
Golden Country (REO)
La Grange (ZZ Top)
Tush (ZZ Top)
Roundabout (Yes)
Rockin' Down the Highway (Doobie Bros.)
China Grove (Doobie Bros.)
Frankenstein (Edgar Winter)
Free Ride (Edgar Winter)
Bang a Gong (T. Rex)
Turn the Page (Seger)
Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith)
Working Man (Rush)
Radar Love (Golden Earring)
Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf)
Cocaine (Clapton)
Wheel in the Sky (Journey)

Should get you pointed in productive directions.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Now this is what I was hoping for. I realise I've never listened to King Crimson before - so off I go on that journey.

Robert Fripp and Greg Lake Chris. How could you not.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Pulled up what the local classic rock station is playing for more ideas.

Slow Ride (Foghat)
Don't Fear the Reaper (BOC)
Burnin' for You (BOC)
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)
Bad to the Bone (Thorgood)
It's a Long Way to the Top (AC/DC)
Let There be Rock (AC/DC)
Barracuda (Heart)
Magic Man (Heart)
Hold on Loosely (.38 Special)
And the Cradle Will Rock (Van Halen)
Reeling in the Years (Steely Dan)
Carry on Wayward Son (Kansas)
Dust in the Wind (Kansas)
Roll With the Changes (REO)
Golden Country (REO)
La Grange (ZZ Top)
Tush (ZZ Top)
Roundabout (Yes)
Rockin' Down the Highway (Doobie Bros.)
China Grove (Doobie Bros.)
Frankenstein (Edgar Winter)
Free Ride (Edgar Winter)
Bang a Gong (T. Rex)
Turn the Page (Seger)
Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith)
Working Man (Rush)
Radar Love (Golden Earring)
Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf)
Cocaine (Clapton)
Wheel in the Sky (Journey)

Should get you pointed in productive directions.

I think you missed one mate.

 

[Blue 1]

 

[Kurt.]

Bit of Credence wouldn’t go amiss