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Man, are you a girl?

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What? You were 5 in the 70's. You were just like most 5 year olds in the 70's that were easily influenced by scum bands like the Ramones. Playing with yourself listening to Johnny is not something to be proud of Joe. :w00t:

 

 

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Off the top of my head:

 

Jethro Tull

Traffic

Allman Brothers

Led Zeppelin

Rush

ELO

ELP

AC/DC with Bon Scott

Taste of Honey

KC and the Sunshine Band

(well everything but the last two - but I still love the Ramones)

 

 

Jethro Tull? Rush? Traffic? ELO? ELP? yuckkk!

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What? You were 5 in the 70's. You were just like most 5 year olds in the 70's that were easily influenced by scum bands like the Ramones. Playing with yourself listening to Johnny is not something to be proud of Joe. :D

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Styx, Spiro Gyra, Cars, Three Dog Night, Jefferson Starship , Atlanta Rythym Section , Boston, Little River Band, Chicago, Little Feat , Van Morrison, Bob Seger, Charlie Danials, Alabama, Eagles, Deep Purple, Foghat, Kansas, Jim Croce, Jethro Tull, Molly Hatchet, Moody Blues, Pat Benatar, Steppenwolf, ZZ Top, Uriah Heep, just to name a few others that were better then the Ramones.

 

sh-- forgot .38 Special, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, BTO, Aerosmith. I am sure there are others.

 

 

Of course if you are into bad punk like Devo, etc... then I guess Ramones would be up your alley. Although the Ramones really were not that big until the early 80's.

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OK: Great band of the 70's in SOME (but not exact) order:

 

Steely Dan (still the best band actively recording)

 

Van Morrison (still the best artist actively recording)

 

Traffic

 

Little Feat

 

Santana

 

Zappa (one of the greatest composers of the century, IMO)

 

The Band

 

Allman Brothers

 

Now...for you fans of harder rock and/or Metal

 

Pink Floyd (they were great in the 70's)

 

Led Zepplin (first 4 albums are classic)

 

Blue Oyster Cult (early albums were spectacular...then they sucked)

 

Black Sabbath (see Blue Oyster Cult)

 

Captain Beyond (Best hard rock album ever recorded...2nd album was good, too)

 

Now, this may come as a shock to some but, in the 70's...

 

Elton John didn't suck yet. (Tumbleweed Connection is a classic of ANY time)

 

Bruce Springsteen hadn't become a tired commercial ROCK STAR yet (The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle is GREAT)

 

There are plenty more...but, these will do for now.

 

The SNOB has spoken! ;)

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OK: Great band of the 70's in SOME (but not exact) order:

 

Steely Dan (still the best band actively recording)

 

Van Morrison (still the best artist actively recording)

 

Traffic

 

Little Feat

 

Santana

 

Zappa (one of the greatest composers of the century, IMO)

 

The Band

 

Allman Brothers

 

Now...for you fans of harder rock and/or Metal

 

Pink Floyd (they were great in the 70's)

 

Led Zepplin (first 4 albums are classic)

 

Blue Oyster Cult (early albums were spectacular...then they sucked)

 

Black Sabbath (see Blue Oyster Cult)

 

Captain Beyond (Best hard rock album ever recorded...2nd album was good, too)

 

Now, this may come as a shock to some but, in the 70's...

 

Elton John didn't suck yet. (Tumbleweed Connection is a classic of ANY time)

 

Bruce Springsteen hadn't become a tired commercial ROCK STAR yet (The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle is GREAT)

 

There are plenty more...but, these will do for now.

 

The SNOB has spoken! ;)

 

 

You copied my POST!!

 

You're plagiarizing AGAIN!!!! :D

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Here's a few I think were better than the ramones. :D

Aerosmith Allman Brothers Band America

 

The Band

 

Black Sabbath

 

David Bowie

 

Alice Cooper Cream Deep Purple

 

The Doobie Brothers Eagles Electric Light Orchestra

 

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Fleetwood Mac

 

Foghat The J. Geils Band Genesis

 

Grand Funk The Guess Who

 

Jethro Tull

 

Led Zeppelin Little Feat

 

Lynyrd Skynyrd Marshall Tucker Band

 

The Steve Miller Band Mountain Mott The Hoople

 

Ted Nugent The Outlaws Robert Palmer Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

 

Pink Floyd Queen Lou Reed

 

Rolling Stones

 

Santana Bob Seger and the Silver Bullit Band

 

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

 

Steely Dan Supertramp

 

10CC Ten Years After George Thorogood

 

Triumph Traffic Uriah-Heep

 

Van Halen Rick Wakeman Edgar Winter

 

Wishbone Ash

 

Yes Neil Young ZZ Top

 

 

Holy CRAP, I did copy your post. ;)

 

honest, didn't read it. If I HAD, I would have bitched about you putting Steely Dan next to the totally annoying Supertramp (although Supertramp was better than the Ramones).

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David Bowie

 

 

I love the Ramones, but the bulk of their stuff came out in the 80's. You nailed it with Bowie! I would put his string of albums from the 1970's, up against a decade of work that anyone else in pop music has done, in any decade, save the Beatles, Stones, and maybe the Clash.

 

Bowie was very prolific in the 1970's, averaging an album a year....not like todays' "rock gods" who put out one good album, and then follow it up two or three years later with some crap, another turd two or three years later, a live album, and a greatest hits...Bowie put out one great record after another (starting with "Space Oddity" in 1969 and ending with "Scarry Monsters" in 1980) because he had ideas, and things to say. He wasn't mailing it in to fulfill a contractual obligation like has become the norm....

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I love the Ramones, but the bulk of their stuff came out in the 80's. You nailed it with Bowie! I would put his string of albums from the 1970's, up against a decade of work that anyone else in pop music has done, in any decade, save the Beatles, Stones, and maybe the Clash.

 

Bowie was very prolific in the 1970's, averaging an album a year....not like todays' "rock gods" who put out one good album, and then follow it up two or three years later with some crap, another turd two or three years later, a live album, and a greatest hits...Bowie put out one great record after another (starting with "Space Oddity" in 1969 and ending with "Scarry Monsters" in 1980) because he had ideas, and things to say. He wasn't mailing it in to fulfill a contractual obligation like has become the norm....

 

But Bowie isn't a band. I would have included him.

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I love the Ramones, but the bulk of their stuff came out in the 80's. You nailed it with Bowie! I would put his string of albums from the 1970's, up against a decade of work that anyone else in pop music has done, in any decade, save the Beatles, Stones, and maybe the Clash.

 

Bowie was very prolific in the 1970's, averaging an album a year....not like todays' "rock gods" who put out one good album, and then follow it up two or three years later with some crap, another turd two or three years later, a live album, and a greatest hits...Bowie put out one great record after another (starting with "Space Oddity" in 1969 and ending with "Scarry Monsters" in 1980) because he had ideas, and things to say. He wasn't mailing it in to fulfill a contractual obligation like has become the norm....

 

 

Excuse my recall. Ziggy Stardust. Major Tom

 

I will add, that I thought he started to put out for the money in the 80's.

 

Nice post Buf ;)

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Holy CRAP, I did copy your post. ;)

 

honest, didn't read it. If I HAD, I would have bitched about you putting Steely Dan next to the totally annoying Supertramp (although Supertramp was better than the Ramones).

 

 

Plager!! Freakin Plager!!!

 

I think the Ramones were the Abba of their day, ya think?

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X...I need your services again. :D

 

What a freakin' week. ;)

 

Where are you man?

I'm dying at this thing.... just a sec....

 

 

N37 N37

 

 

listen, I gotta do this thing for Madame Foreperson, she's a cougar but....

 

 

B9 B9

 

 

she wears that halter top pretty well don't she...

 

 

O-69 O-69

 

 

I'll talk to you in my office tomorrow, I think I got a winner.

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Where are you man?

I'm dying at this thing.... just a sec....

N37 N37

listen, I gotta do this thing for Madame Foreperson, she's a cougar but....

B9 B9

she wears that halter top pretty well don't she...

O-69 O-69

I'll talk to you in my office tomorrow, I think I got a winner.

 

 

Another night in the TSW slammer.

 

Ugh ;)

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I'm not sure there is.

We are in complete agreement on this subject, Joseph. You could make the case that the Ramones were/are the greatest Rock and Roll band of all time. They were equally as proficient in cranking out pop masterpieces as the Beatles, and did it for a far longer period of time.

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