Good Music Topic

[-Blok-]

I have always heard people say that Rush is one of their favorite bands, but I honestly don't like them. I don't like his voice and I don't really like their style of music. I haven't really liked much of anything they have made, except maybe Tom Sawyer, and I'm not even a huge fan of that song.

Late 70s was kind of a transition, I think, into more hard rock bands that made up the 80s, like ACDC and Metallica. I like mainly music from the beginning of the Beatles to the mid-70s. Rush sounds too much like 80s music to me, which I don't really like. Same goes for other bands like ACDC. I'm not a hard rock guy, I am more of a progressive rock guy.

I added some Rush albums, anyways, for you guys.

EDIT:

Dude, Division Bell was released in the 90's.

Yeah, but it's still a good album, made by a band that was most popular in the 70s. The first time I listened to it, I didn't know that it was a album released in the 90s.

Also, the "(60s-70s rock)" doesn't mean that everything in this topic has to have been made in that time period. I'll take things well into the 80s as long as they are as good as and sound similar to things from the 60s and 70s. I put that because probably 95% of the stuff in this topic is made in that time period. When I say "60s-70s", I really mean that it sounds like it came out of that time period. It's really up to what I think.

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[Cybersix]

Rush sounds too much like 80s music to me, which I don't really like.

>Rush
>80s music

Sure maybe the music they made in the 80s, but the "classic" Rush sound is hard rock/ progressive rock.

[-Blok-]

Sure maybe the music they made in the 80s, but the "classic" Rush sound is hard rock/ progressive rock.

I still don't like some of their early stuff. It has a lot to do with the guy's voice. I'm not sure how I can like a voice like Jon Anderson's of Yes, but not like Rush's. They are both quite unique.

I don't know what it is, I just don't like Rush. =/

[IkeTheGeneric]

I'm quite scatterbrained right now, but Steely Dan, Kansas, Little River Band, Doobie Brothers, Queen, John Denver, Eagles, Bee Gees, Journey, Hall & Oates, Styx, Eric Clapton, America, Gerry Rafferty, Steppenwolf, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Journey, Blue Oyster Cult, The Marshall Tucker Band and The Who are all good artists and bands from that particular era and genre, if want to check them out.

They're pretty much my favorite :)

[Dusty12]

Rock, huh? That limits it a bit. I'm more partial to disco from around that time but I've got a few rock songs around here. First group that comes to mind is Styx.

Lady - Styx
Come Sail Away - Styx
Renegade -Styx

[Headshot]

Don't forget the Scorpions and pretty much all of Tom Petty's songs.

[kegeshan]

Just a bit of my personal favorites that fit the criteria:

Albums:

• Billy Joel - Cold Spring Harbor (1971) - Doesn't start picking up until the second song for me (At around 2:48).
• The Doors - The Doors (1967)
• The Doors - Morrison Hotel (1970)
• Queen - A Night At the Opera (1976) - If you want a song that's not Bohemian Rhapsody, I'd recommend The Prophet's Song (At 19:55).
• Rush - A Farewell To Kings (1977) - I know OP doesn't like them, but forget it.
• Rush - Hemispheres (1978) - It's recommended to listen to the above album before this one, or at least, the last track. Otherwise, half the album won't make sense.

Songs:

• Elton John - Funeral For a Friend (Love Lies Bleeding) (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 1973)
• Pink Floyd - Dogs (Animals, 1977)
• Pink Floyd - Echoes (Meddle, 1971)
• Pink Floyd - Fearless (Meddle, 1971)
• Pink Floyd - Shee (Animals, 1977)
• Supertramp - Breakfast In America (Title track, 1979)
• Supertramp - The Logical Song (Breakfast In America, 1979)

I still don't like some of their early stuff. It has a lot to do with the guy's voice. I'm not sure how I can like a voice like Jon Anderson's of Yes, but not like Rush's. They are both quite unique.

I'll just recommend a couple of songs that solve that problem:

• La Villa Strangiato (9:36) - This song is their first instrumental, which was on their most proggiest (is that even a word?) album, Hemispheres. I'd recommend this the most out of all the songs on this list.
• YYZ (4:30) - This is getting into the 80's, but this is their most famous instrumental, which was released on their most famous album, Moving Pictures. A famous live performance (here) had the audience singing along to it. An instrumental.
• Where's My Thing (Part IV "Gangster Of Boats" Trilogy) (3:50) - Going ahead to the 90's, this was released on their album Roll the Bones, which was released in the 90's. This was a very experimental album for them (the title track even featured a rap verse), so this song could go either way.
• Leave That Thing Alone (4:06) - This was released on their next album, Counterparts.
• R30 Overture (starts around 2:55) - This is an instrumental medley of songs from their first six albums (Finding My Way, Anthem, Bastille Day, A Passage To Bangkok, Cygnus X-1 Book One: The Voyage, and Cygnus X-1 Book Two: Hemispheres).
• The Main Monkey Business (6:02) - This was the first of three instrumentals on their (currently) second to last album, Snakes and Arrows, the other two being Hope (2:02) and Malignant Narcissism (2:17).

[e-maxx]

>70's rock
>not having the doors

[Jairo]

so why is good music exclusively between the 60s and 70s?

[Ravencroƒt]

Uh what the hell, where's Aerosmith you guys?

[Passta]

I prefer classical/baroque artists such as handel, haydn, scarletti, wagner, brahms, chopin, bach, beethoven, mozart, vivaldi, monteverdi, and tchaikovsky. :)
its great inspiration while building.

[Tonkka²]

Its sad that you have to specify "60's - 70's rock" to have a thread about good music these days.

[*FacePalm*]

id suggest changing the title to just '60s-70s rock' or something bc "Good Music" sounds really elitist

[SailorMan]

Just because if you don't like Rush doesn't mean you shouldn't put it in the OP, because they are very talented. Also, did you listen to my Boston Links yet?

[-Blok-]

so why is good music exclusively between the 60s and 70s?

Also, the "(60s-70s rock)" doesn't mean that everything in this topic has to have been made in that time period. I'll take things well into the 80s as long as they are as good as and sound similar to things from the 60s and 70s. I put that because probably 95% of the stuff in this topic is made in that time period. When I say "60s-70s", I really mean that it sounds like it came out of that time period. It's really up to what I think.

Also, the best music was made in that time period.