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Post by riley on Nov 14, 2006 8:58:42 GMT -5
Jesus. The first four Kiss albums are more interesting to listen to today
than the entire catalogues of Zep and Floyd. This has got to be a bad attempt at a joke or one of the stupidiest post in the history of RS.Com and Castaways put together !! My bad. There's a type-o in the original post. "Zep & Floyd" shoudl have read, "Frank Zappa". Sorry for the inconvenience. |
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Post by phil on Nov 14, 2006 9:00:16 GMT -5
Blah Blah Blah ...
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Post by tuneschick on Nov 14, 2006 9:05:52 GMT -5
Jesus. The first four Kiss albums are more interesting to listen to today
than the entire catalogues of Zep and Floyd. This has got to be a bad attempt at a joke or one of the stupidiest post in the history of RS.Com and Castaways put together !! My bad. There's a type-o in the original post. "Zep & Floyd" shoudl have read, "Frank Zappa". Sorry for the inconvenience. Bwahahaha. |
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Nov 14, 2006 11:01:39 GMT -5
Kraftwerk. Abba. Throbbing Gristle. Frank Zappa. Captain Beefheart.
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Post by Galactus on Nov 14, 2006 11:19:18 GMT -5
Kraftwerk. Abba. Throbbing Gristle. Frank Zappa. Captain Beefheart. One of these things is not like the other, one of these thing does not belong... |
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Nov 14, 2006 11:58:20 GMT -5
Oh AND Donna Summer.
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Post by Thorngrub on Nov 14, 2006 15:43:23 GMT -5
Jesus. The first four Kiss albums are more interesting to listen to today
than the entire catalogues of Zep and Floyd. This has got to be a bad attempt at a joke or one of the stupidiest post in the history of RS.Com and Castaways put together !! My bad. There's a type-o in the original post. "Zep & Floyd" shoudl have read, "Frank Zappa". Sorry for the inconvenience. lmao, oh that's rich |
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Post by Thorngrub on Nov 14, 2006 15:44:28 GMT -5
Zep may have owned the 70's; but Floyd stole it.
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Post by kmc on Nov 14, 2006 16:15:56 GMT -5
Zeppelin is better than Floyd, but the 70's belonged to neither.
The Allman Brothers Band is my favorite 70's band. Between 1970 and 1973 they released Idlewild South, Fillmore East, Eat a Peach, and Brothers and Sisters. Amazing consistency.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Nov 14, 2006 16:29:02 GMT -5
Lynard Synard?
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Post by Thorngrub on Nov 14, 2006 16:35:24 GMT -5
I'll eat a peach.
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Post by Galactus on Nov 14, 2006 16:44:25 GMT -5
I've trying to find a picture of all three fucking Van Zant brothers for half an hour now. Appearently they were never in the same room together and none of their fans can work goddam photoshop. Anyway it would've been funny but now I guess you'll have to settle for being reminded they're named Ronnie, Donnie & Johnnie...and Jimmy who fronts a Skynyrd tribute band. I bet Donnie's pissed they don't do some 38. Special songs too.
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Post by Thorngrub on Nov 14, 2006 17:06:50 GMT -5
Fuckin' Charlie Daniels owned the 70s & that's all there is to it.
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Post by Kensterberg on Nov 14, 2006 17:24:18 GMT -5
David Bowie.
Seriously. Even if you're a huge Zep or Floyd fan, Bowie's work in the decade was more vital, more artistically daring, and always much more cutting edge than either. Look at his output from '70 through '79:
Space Oddity
The Man Who Sold the World
Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Aladin Sane
Pin-Ups
Diamond Dogs
David Live
Young Americans
Station to Station
Low
"Heroes"
Stage
Lodger
The sheer quantity blows away any of the folks who could come close in terms of quality (by way of comparison, Springsteen -- who IMO also has a strong claim to this title -- released a grand total of four studio albums and zero live recordings during the same period). Not only that, but Bowie's work either reflected or originated virtually every significant trend of the period. Throughout the seventies, no one was more in tune with the pulse of pop culture, both mainstream and underground, than David Bowie. Bowie practically invented both the look and sound of glam, which dominated Britain in the early seventies and which was the genre which most closely presaged punk (imagine the New York Dolls, for example, without David's Ziggy era: Mick Jones cited Ronson as one of his guitar heroes, etc.). No one but Bowie could claim credibility with both dance clubs and post-punkers (indeed, Low and "Heroes" are practically ground zero for post-punk as later epitomized by Joy Division/New Order, Gang of Four, etc.).
Floyd and Zep were both dinosaurs by the middle of the decade, so far removed from both the daily lives of average musicians and the real currents of pop culture as to embalmed into their respective stances. Bowie, on the other hand, remained vibrant and connected throughout.
David Bowie fucking owned the seventies. And don't you forget it.
Ahhhhhhhhhh -- wham bam thank you ma'am!
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Post by phil on Nov 14, 2006 17:25:53 GMT -5
Case closed !!
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