Without Prince in the universe, no doubt the 70s were the most underrated decade in all music, if not the best. There's also the brilliant vault music from P's 70s period, which has gone unnoticed. And you can't mention the 70s without also mentioning Todd Rundgren and Frank Zappa. Todd is a genius of melody and Zappa genius of rhythm. Prince happens to be genius of both.

So I think 200 years from now people will be saying Prince 80s vault material makes that the best decade in music history. Susan Rogers said of that time, 30% of everything he recorded was great and the public have only heard 20% of it. But who knows, it may turn out to be his 90s vault stuff is even better lol.

Sure but you can't go back.

jaawwnn said:

jaawwnn said:

I would have to agree too. The diversity was all over the place to fit every mood imaginable.

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The funk of The Barkays, Earth, Wind, and Fire, The Ohio Players, BT Express, Parliament/Funkadelic, Hot Chocolate, The Commodores, Rick James, Prince, The Jackson 5, then later The Jacksons, Con Funk Shun, Brick, Pleasure, Patice Rushen, The Brothers Johnson, Average White Band, Wild Cherry, Brass Construction, Sun, Slave, Raydio, The Sylvers, Tower Of Power, Pockets, and many more.

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The disco of Donna Summer, Foxy, Chic, KC and The Sunshine Band, Jimmy "Bo" Horne, A Taste Of Honey, Peaches and Herb, Sylvester, David Naughton, The Bee Gees, The Trammps, Vicki Sue Robinson, Dan Hartman, Thelma Houston, Cheryl Lynn, Evelyn "Champagne" King, The Emotions, Loleatta Holloway, Patrick Hernandez, Andy Gibb, Leif Garrett, etc.

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The slow jams of The Stylistics, Blue Magic, The Dramatics, Terry Huff and Special Delivery, Norman Conners, Heatwave, Switch, Delegation, The Miracles, Tavares, Lenny Williams, etc.

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Southern soul like Al Green, Millie Jackson, Denise LaSalle, The Soul Children, Betty Wright, etc.

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Pop/rock from every range from Kiss, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Nazareth, Queen, Manfred Mann, Nick Gilder, Rod Stewart, The Edgard Winter Group, The Cars, Supertramp, Boston, Chicago, Pablo Cruise, Kenny Loggins, Fleetwood Mac, Toto, 10 CC, Gary Wright, Ambrosia, Robert John, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Wings, Helen Reddy, Carly Simon, The Osmonds, The Partridge Family, etc.

rebelenterprise said:

I gotta give it up to 70s Chicago (the band) as well...and WAR, The Ohio Players, The Bar-Kays, Average White Band, etc. The Beatles were also still releasing good albums...SEPARATELY, of course. Haha. It's sometimes fun to put together your own 70s Beatles albums from the solo ones based on the year they were released. John has always been my favorite Beatle, the one whose style I was inspired by the most. My favorite LP of the 70s from him would be 1974's "Walls And Bridges". It had some funky things on it for sure. From Paul, it's a little tougher, but I dig 1979's Wings "Back To The Egg" probably the most...72's "Red Rose Speedway" & of course "Band On The Run" from '73 aren't too far behind. I dig alot of stuff from George as well. [Edited 1/8/21 12:35pm]

I just got into more of The Beatles recently and got a lot of stuff last year and then branched out into some of the solo stuff too. From John, my favorite would be "Walls And Bridges". From Paul, it would be "Band On The Run". I like "London Town" also. I was very surprised to see that the song "Girlfriend" was originally Paul's instead of Michael Jackson's.

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What did you think of the album (if you've heard it), that had John and Yoko nude on the cover? I always put the picture of an album cover in my computer with an album so when I was dowloading stuff, that is the first one I went to basically looking for a reason to put the picture in the computer. As I skimmed through each track, I was like.... "What in THE hell is this?????".... Absolutely horrible! I mean, horrible. I couldn't make heads or tails of it. It just sounded like a bunch of dying moaning or something to me. I don't think I heard any music at all, just either moaning or noises. I tell ya, they must have been on some good drugs if they thought they were making music with that one. I looked for even one track to download just so there would be something to attach the picture to and I couldn't even find one that made sense. Finally, I said the hell with that particular album and the picture too.

The 60's were the most seminal w/tremendous talent and innovation. The best Motown acts, Beatles,

Stones, Doors, Otis Redding James Brown, Little Richard, Sly, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jackson Browne, The Kinks, Led Zep, The Who, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Tower of Power, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Cream, Wilson Pickett, Elvis.

Margot said:

JayCrawford said:

jaawwnn said:

jjhunsecker said:

JayCrawford said:

I will talk about the 60s soon don't worry

I would argue that some of those listed- Led Zeppelin, The Who, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, and yes, The Rolling Stones- were producing their BEST work in the 1970s

I prefer Let It Bleed, Beggar's Banquet, Aftermath (late 60's), There were a couple of great albums in the early 70's (71 & 72), Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St.

Van Morrison dropped his most lauded album, Astral Weeks, in 1968. He has continued to evolve but I think Astral Weeks was a high point.

Eric Clapton jammed with Jimi Hendrix in the late 60's. He was also part of Cream 1966-1968 which has always been a highly-repected trio. IMO, he became more commercial in the 70's..."I Shot the Sherriff???" etc.

Led Zep's best albums are primarily in late 60's, 2 are in early 70's.

Perhaps I will amend my opinion. I feel the best music was primarily mid-late 60's with some in very early 70's.

Highly talented artists like Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young continually evolve and are interesting, though Joni and Van got a little too jazz-oriented for my taste.

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jjhunsecker said:

SantanaMaitreya said:

jjhunsecker said:

But the records, and videos, are still available

I have some DVDs of performances from “The Midnight Special “.... for those too young to remember, that was a show that NBC used to air on Friday nights after the Tonight Show. It featured totally LIVE performances from the hit makers of the era, an amazing assortment, from hard and soft rock to funk to R&B and Country. It’s a great chance to see these performers in their prime, usually when the songs were recent hits. I was just watching George Benson and Carlos Santana playing “Breezin” in 1977...

ABC had a show called “In Concert”. I wish they would put that out on DVD

Yeah and the great thing is that you can watch all of that without wearing the clothes they wore back then! The 70s were a good time for music, but a horrible time for fashion!

Margot said:

jjhunsecker said:

Margot said:

I prefer Let It Bleed, Beggar's Banquet, Aftermath (late 60's), There were a couple of great albums in the early 70's (71 & 72), Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St.

Van Morrison dropped his most lauded album, Astral Weeks, in 1968. He has continued to evolve but I think Astral Weeks was a high point.

Eric Clapton jammed with Jimi Hendrix in the late 60's. He was also part of Cream 1966-1968 which has always been a highly-repected trio. IMO, he became more commercial in the 70's..."I Shot the Sherriff???" etc.

Led Zep's best albums are primarily in late 60's, 2 are in early 70's.

Perhaps I will amend my opinion. I feel the best music was primarily mid-late 60's with some in very early 70's.

Highly talented artists like Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young continually evolve and are interesting, though Joni and Van got a little too jazz-oriented for my taste.

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See, I consider “Exile on Main Street “ to not only be the Stones best album, but perhaps the greatest album ever. “Sticky Fingers “ a close runner up. “Some Girls “ showed that they could adapt to trends like punk and disco. I love “LZ 1” and “LZ2”, but Zeppelin’s greatest album was “Physical Graffiti “ from 1975, followed by “IV”... I even love “Presence “ , a much underrated album. Eric Clapton was brilliant with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and with Cream , but his ultimate album will always be “Layla”

Don't agree with Layla, it's good but drifted away from his bluesier stuff.I know he was in the midst

of a passionate attraction to 'someone's wife".

Do you know who "Layla" was??

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Nah, the 80's, but the 70's are probably #2.

Margot said:

lezama said:

JayCrawford said:

RODSERLING said:

JayCrawford said:

I will talk about the 60s soon don't worry

You never knew that decade, you never knew the Beatles, so you don't know what the thrill of real music is, to discover on the radio the new single of the Beatles, to attend the Woodstock Festival... . The thing is, you never knew music at its prime.

Have to agree.

You seem to be stuck in your younger days. There is no best decade.

I don't like anything from the 60's but some songs from the 70's.

But thats my opion.

I think the 90's were the best decade, because of all the things that were going on in dance music, but there is a lot of going on these days too.

Maybe you should get spotify and learn a little more about artists nowadays instead of repeating the same thing over and over again.

SantanaMaitreya said:

How can someone not like anything from the 1960s?

SantanaMaitreya said:

How can someone not like anything from the 1960s?

let me think....taste? how can somebody not like chicken?

How bout dem 80s.