madhattter said:

To be fair to all, we need a top 7 list for funk, rock and punk otherwise we are leaving out toooooo myany artists that should be mentioned. The 70's was a great decade for live music and music in general.

Or to be fair, how about a top 21 of funk, punk and rock. It only makes sense.

I forgot Patti Smith also, who's a bridge of punk and rock anyways.

Timmy84 said:

madhattter said:

To be fair to all, we need a top 7 list for funk, rock and punk otherwise we are leaving out toooooo myany artists that should be mentioned. The 70's was a great decade for live music and music in general.

Or to be fair, how about a top 21 of funk, punk and rock. It only makes sense.

I forgot Patti Smith also, who's a bridge of punk and rock anyways.

I agree to that!

bobbyperu said:

No punk lovers here? It's not really my genre but someone should mention The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Blondie...

I put the Ramones in my top 7!

Evelyn "Champagne" King

Rolls Royce

Kool and the Gang

The Sylvers

Grace Jones

Fonda Rae (knew her)

Donna Summer

Stevie, Aretha, Michael Jackson (Jackson 5, Jacksons), Elton John & Parliament.

Oh oops it was supposed to be 7. Um Donna Summer and the Bee Gees.

Aerosmith

Kiss

Heart

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

T-Rex

Sex Pistols

Queen

I am not going to use the limits the OP wants

My personal favourites:

Rock

Big Star (the godfathers of power-pop)

Funk

Sly and the Family stone (or should I say: soul / funk / rock / psychedelica-crossover?)

George Clinton (= Parliament and Funkadelic)

Singer-songwriters

Nick Drake

Joni Mitchell

Richard Thompson

Electronical music

Kraftwerk (just recently i began to discover their music)

Horse category

Van Morrison (too eclectic to be put into one category: singer-songwriter, music mixing blues / soul / jazz / country and folk, the greatest soulsinger, a demanding bandleader, spiritual poet and grumpy old man in one).

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Tough call, but I'll be damned if this is not a fine lineup!!

Stevie Wonder

David Bowie

P-Funk

Steely Dan

Elton John

Joni Mitchell

Led Zeppelin

Adding more to my "list": Diana. Honestly, she had some bad-ass cuts in the '70s!

NDRU said:

Tough call, but I'll be damned if this is not a fine lineup!!

Stevie Wonder

David Bowie

P-Funk

Steely Dan

Elton John

Joni Mitchell

Led Zeppelin

How could I forget these three?

silverchild said:

NDRU said:

Tough call, but I'll be damned if this is not a fine lineup!!

Stevie Wonder

David Bowie

P-Funk

Steely Dan

Elton John

Joni Mitchell

Led Zeppelin

How could I forget these three?

Especially Joni and Elton.

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silverchild said:

NDRU said:

Tough call, but I'll be damned if this is not a fine lineup!!

Stevie Wonder

David Bowie

P-Funk

Steely Dan

Elton John

Joni Mitchell

Led Zeppelin

How could I forget these three?

oh, maybe because you had James Brown, EW&F, Sly, Marvin...

NDRU said:

silverchild said:

How could I forget these three?

oh, maybe because you had James Brown, EW&F, Sly, Marvin...

They were automatic picks. I know Marvin's and Sly's were for me.

^^^It's just a reminder of what a sad state the music biz is in right now.

The talent may be out there, but the superstars of today just cannot compete with those from the 70's

NDRU said:

^^^It's just a reminder of what a sad state the music biz is in right now.

The talent may be out there, but the superstars of today just cannot compete with those from the 70's

As hard as they may try to compare, they just can't. I mean there's great talent and stars today but not in the way it was back then.

Timmy84 said:

NDRU said:

oh, maybe because you had James Brown, EW&F, Sly, Marvin...

They were automatic picks. I know Marvin's and Sly's were for me.

I could have had them (James too) but I associate them more with the 60's even though I know they did some of their best stuff in the 70's

EW&F is a good pick, too, I could easily have put them on my list, but I am probably more familiar with their hits than their albums, so I went with someone I knew more completely.

NDRU said:

Timmy84 said:

They were automatic picks. I know Marvin's and Sly's were for me.

I could have had them (James too) but I associate them more with the 60's even though I know they did some of their best stuff in the 70's

EW&F is a good pick, too, I could easily have put them on my list, but I am probably more familiar with their hits than their albums, so I went with someone I knew more completely.

I associate them as '60s too but they were just as great in the '70s if not greater IMHO (even James, as great as his '60s records are, I think his '70s records are, for the most part, underrated).

Timmy84 said:

NDRU said:

I could have had them (James too) but I associate them more with the 60's even though I know they did some of their best stuff in the 70's

EW&F is a good pick, too, I could easily have put them on my list, but I am probably more familiar with their hits than their albums, so I went with someone I knew more completely.

I associate them as '60s too but they were just as great in the '70s if not greater IMHO (even James, as great as his '60s records are, I think his '70s records are, for the most part, underrated).

that's true, but c'mon I had to have SOME way of eliminating these guys!

NDRU said:

Timmy84 said:

I associate them as '60s too but they were just as great in the '70s if not greater IMHO (even James, as great as his '60s records are, I think his '70s records are, for the most part, underrated).

that's true, but c'mon I had to have SOME way of eliminating these guys!

In no particular order

BEE GEES

Gladys Knight & The Pips

Marvin Gaye

Rod Stewart

Led Zepplin

Donna Summer

Rufus N Chaka Khan

Johnnie Taylor

The O'Jays

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

The Brothers Johnson

KC & The Sunshine Band

Rolling Stones

Queen

The Isley Brothers

Parliament Funkadelic

Barry White

Bob Marley

The Chi-Lites

The Stylistics

KISS

Elvis Presley

HotGritz said:

In no particular order

Bob Marley

ooh, forgot him!

No offense but I think we went from

Top 7 70's artists'

to

Top 12 70's artist

to

Top 20 artist for the 60's and 70's.

If we keep going in this direction this thread is going to turn into top 25 artist for the last 50 years of the 20th century by page 7.

Kinda sorta in order and wanted to at least make it an even number...This list could go on and on...

Earth Wind & Fire

Stevie Wonder

The Bee Gees

Fleetwood Mac

The Emotions

The Eagles

The Isley Brothers

Marvin Gaye

Parliament-Funkadelic

Heatwave

Deadflow3r said:

No offense but I think we went from

Top 7 70's artists'

to

Top 12 70's artist

to

Top 20 artist for the 60's and 70's.

If we keep going in this direction this thread is going to turn into top 25 artist for the last 50 years of the 20th century by page 7.

You should've KNOWN no one was gonna just pick SEVEN! It's the SEVENTIES!

OH SHIT I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT

A

B

B

A

HotGritz said:

OH SHIT I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT

A

B

B

A

See what I mean? "Only pick 7", it's IMPOSSIBLE.

Timmy84 said:

Deadflow3r said:

No offense but I think we went from

Top 7 70's artists'

to

Top 12 70's artist

to

Top 20 artist for the 60's and 70's.

If we keep going in this direction this thread is going to turn into top 25 artist for the last 50 years of the 20th century by page 7.

You should've KNOWN no one was gonna just pick SEVEN! It's the SEVENTIES!

Yes and Abba too, they were most definitely 70's.

Actually I am fortunate that I was born in 1961 and the 70's made up my entire teen years. The music was wonderful and very diverse. I think that is one thing that becomes very clear as different people bring up their favorites. Incredible diversity and talent in each category. No wonder one artist could not walk away with 5 Grammy's each awards show.

I own just about every album that came out in the 70's.

Where do you keep all this? I had a lot on tape or casette and that just got trashed. I had stuff like the "Moody Blues" and "Yes" and "Jethro Tull" ; not the best but decent stuff none the less.

jackson35 said:

I own just about every album that came out in the 70's.