Iconic Rock pre 1980

[Rita_Poon]

page 8. my my....

 

[Littlesue]

 

[Littlesue]

 

[The binman chronicles]

Agreed.

I see him like Nike ... Great early on, horrendous the richer he got.

I think this applies to most musicians and I don't think it's how rich they are, just the ideas dry up especially if they've been really successful and you judge new work against when they were fresh on the scene.

Imho Bowie at least moved with the times and was willing to experiment with different genres instead of just doing the same old but if you grew up on glam/punk/harder rock 70's music you probably are not going to appreciate his drum and bass album in the 90's - which was decent enough for a 50 year old.

 

[Tramps_mate]

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)

I wouldn't personally count Bowie as iconic rock, as good as he was.

 

[chrismpw]

I think this applies to most musicians and I don't think it's how rich they are, just the ideas dry up especially if they've been really successful and you judge new work against when they were fresh on the scene.

Imho Bowie at least moved with the times and was willing to experiment with different genres instead of just doing the same old but if you grew up on glam/punk/harder rock 70's music you probably are not going to appreciate his drum and bass album in the 90's - which was decent enough for a 50 year old.

Can't disagree that it's most musicians. I put it down to the greed of the talentless middlemen in record companies that force the creative process just to get the next album out of them.

 

[chrismpw]

I wouldn't personally count Bowie as iconic rock, as good as he was.

Not on the whole perhaps. But a bit of Ziggy creeps into the genre.

 

[anjelikaferrett]

 

[TrailerTrash]

In t e early 70's, queen played several BBC sessions, and this was the sort of thing they played.

It was fooking magnificent....

 

[PhilM]

 

[jazzy]

Silver machine -Hawkwind
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Stuck in the middle - Stealers Wheel
Ballroom Blitz -Sweet
Goodbye to Jane - Slade
Boys are back in town - Thin Lizzy.

Sorry for the poor entry but I was never really into a rock. A visit to a Judas Priest gig put me off it for life lol

 

[jazzy]

Now you're talking

 

[blue61]

Always liked this album. A far cry from Doo Wah Diddy.

 

[degsy]

I could just stick their whole playlist on there really!

Or a good 90% of it

 

[degsy]

Early proto-rap