Thoughts on this song? I listen and think I was born in the wrong era.

[Alaskan Rover]

Man, most music gets fucking stale or you realize only later that it was never good in the first place; most eras are populated mostly by crap; you look back and you can see how formulaic most of the shit on the radio was. Its rare that someone's that good, that you can just keep listening over and over. That said, I mean just looking at the charts, 72 has some survivors that might make the cut:

Arlo Guthrie: 'The City of New Orleans' ('cept he don know how to say New Orleans) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen: 'Hot Rod Lincoln' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R7l7nDuj1o

Mac Davis: 'Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me' (cheesy, I know) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UauHDIlhvTk

Neil Young: 'Heart of Gold' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO8kTRv4l3o

The Hollies: 'Long Cool Woman' - shit man, that song rocks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qKOv3VBJcc

Elton John: 'Rocket Man' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCf23ZTFaDM FUCKING ROCKET MAN (btw I saw Elton in Indianapolis in like 05 - absolutely killer show)

America: 'A Horse With No Name' (call em a Neil knock off if you want to, they never hid that they were inspired by him, nor offended by those taking those shots, and, a song that prolly stands up to time pretty well) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM

The Moody Blues: 'Knights in White Satin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8

Jim Croce: 'You Don't mess around with Jim' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4qUXcXuMSE

And, yeah, I admit Brandy still gets airtime.

Neil Diamond: 'Song Sung Blue' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ighSddnnaPE (might have to be a fan, lol)

Man...I absolutely LOVED America's "Horse with No Name" as a kid! I was really into horses as a kid...4H equestrian club and all, when we came back to the U.S. from living abroad.

I think Gordan Lightfoot had some good tunes from that era, as well. Marshall Tucker Band. Of course Jim Croce. Boston's Peace of Mind (which I have always liked more than the their more popular "More than a Feeling").

Some really crappy shit from the early seventies, as well...but that is true of every era.

[Alaskan Rover]

I'm no Southerner by ANY stretch of the imagination, but damned if I can't get into some Doobie Brothers "Mississippi Black Water".

[iceman]

This song hasn't made the thread and it's a classic, I love this tune, 1970:

[iceman]

More shakin (1976)

[iceman]

More shakin from 1976

[iceman]

Here's one that fits the topic:

[liv2ski]

^Would've killed to see this. I'm a millennial and ya I truly think born in the wrong era

http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/st...mily=editorial

(Link contains boobs)

Back in the 70's I was into trippin balls out. Besides the usual heavy dose of pink Floyd, Hawkwind and Amon Düül were big favorites for when the walls were evaporating.

[Hott Butt Mud]

Again, I find myself living in another era......

This song triggers so much!

And for the record, I'm in my 30's.....

[TBS]

^^^Croce was a great songwriter.

A couple that have recently come across my playlists
Malo - Suavacito

This song led me to War and the Latin rock scene
These guys still kick it


Next is Zap Pow from 1978

[iceman]

1976



Gil Scott Heron RIP

[TBS]

Or


The foundation of rap

or



Yup, RIP GSH. Sad end to a remarkable poet

[iceman]

GSH was unreal. He played the club in DC I worked at, and they shot a movie about it. I was just off the stage for this show and I helped move stuff and whatnot for the movie set, I got to say like 3 words to him but it was cool. It was a great club, The Wax Museum, hence the movie title "Black Wax". Production values were high in that place.



it's like 90 minutes long but check it sometime. It's not all concert footage, there's other some cool segments too. The section right after the first song was taped about 2 blocks from the club, it was a different city back then.

[Marshall Tucker]

Wow. It be like ALL 70s up in hear.

[old goat]

Man, most music gets fucking stale or you realize only later that it was never good in the first place; most eras are populated mostly by crap; you look back and you can see how formulaic most of the shit on the radio was. Its rare that someone's that good, that you can just keep listening over and over. That said, I mean just looking at the charts, 72 has some survivors that might make the cut:

Arlo Guthrie: 'The City of New Orleans' ('cept he don know how to say New Orleans) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen: 'Hot Rod Lincoln' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R7l7nDuj1o

Mac Davis: 'Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me' (cheesy, I know) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UauHDIlhvTk

Neil Young: 'Heart of Gold' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO8kTRv4l3o

The Hollies: 'Long Cool Woman' - shit man, that song rocks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qKOv3VBJcc

Elton John: 'Rocket Man' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCf23ZTFaDM FUCKING ROCKET MAN (btw I saw Elton in Indianapolis in like 05 - absolutely killer show)

America: 'A Horse With No Name' (call em a Neil knock off if you want to, they never hid that they were inspired by him, nor offended by those taking those shots, and, a song that prolly stands up to time pretty well) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM

The Moody Blues: 'Knights in White Satin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8

Jim Croce: 'You Don't mess around with Jim' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4qUXcXuMSE

And, yeah, I admit Brandy still gets airtime.

Neil Diamond: 'Song Sung Blue' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ighSddnnaPE (might have to be a fan, lol)

I wonder how Hot Rod Lincoln got in there. A rockabilly classic, unlike the other trite schmaltz in the list. I've heard Bill Kirchin play Hot Rod Lincoln live at least a half dozen times and it doesn't get old. I've been trying to get the riff down on my tele for years but no luck.

[ill-advised strategy]

1972

[ill-advised strategy]

Let’s not forget this 70s sound:

[ill-advised strategy]

[4matic]

[The Reverend Floater]

Again, I find myself living in another era......

This song triggers so much!

And for the record, I'm in my 30's.....

Fifth year of college (2000), me and my roommates briefly had a contest to see who could hook up with the most girls...the catch was that you had to put on Croce's Operator when you got back to the apartment AND you had to pour your date a glass of brandy from a shitty decanter we bought at a thrift shop. It definitely added a worthy obstacle to the challenge. I vaguely remember getting some very interesting reactions and occasionally accusatory looks. But the ones that dug it were keepers.

Long live Croce.

[swissiphic]

So tight. Bringin' it to the jam tonight.

[XXX-er]

GF told me the story of the shitty rental car breaking down in Baja , riding in the back of a truck into a town banging on a door of a hotel forever in the dead of night till someone opens it to finaly getting a room and it was the Hotel California

She was having complications from pregnancy, the mexican MD said she needed to rest so no moving for 3 days so she sat by the pool for 3 days and she remembers the mission bells

so without missing a beat I said " so you were just a prisoner of your own device ? "

[plugboots]

You folks that like music from this era should go see Ringo Starr and his All-Star band. We saw them last April, and it was like going back in time. In a good way.

[hawkgt]

FUCK YEAH!