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Old 04-07-2012, 19:23   #1
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Good 60's, 70's or 80's bands?
In need of good music

Can anyone recommend me some good bands or singers from either of these three decades? (Just not the obvious ones e.g Beatles, Queen etc)
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Old 04-07-2012, 20:05   #2
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80s - OMD, they've been back touring/writing again for the past five years or so, new album next year. Always been underrated, check out their back catalogue. Enola Gay to be played during the Olympics opening ceremony.
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Old 06-07-2012, 12:13   #3
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Beach Boys.

Pet Sounds is perhaps the greatest album ever made, even the early surf music that made them famous stands the test of time, but Pet Sounds and beyond is a very different animal, beautiful, well produced music .
I thought at the time they were better than the Beatles, still do, better performers, better songwriters.

The drummer Dennis Wilson's solo album Pacific Ocean Blue is fantastic too.
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Old 06-07-2012, 12:56   #4
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Split Enz - wonderful New Zealand band from the 70's/early 80's. Brilliant versatile band, very underrated with hardly any success over here!

Talk Talk - fantastic British band who had a few hits here in the early to mid 80's but their later, less commercial (and sadly more ignored stuff) that's just as good and should be checked out too!
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Old 06-07-2012, 14:50   #5
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The Animals
The Kinks
Manfred Mann
The Clash
The Stranglers
AC/DC
Deep Purple
Tom Petty
Neil Young
10cc
Blue Oyster Cult
Rainbow
Gillan
Judas Priest
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Status Quo
Tygers of Pan-Tang
UFO
Kiss
Accept
Scorpions
Doro/Warlock
Lynyrd Syknyrd
Steeleye Span
Alice Cooper
Dire Straits
Gerry Rafferty
Kate Bush
Magnum
The Ramones
Sham 69
Slade
The Sweet
Mott the Hoople
Praying Mantis
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Old 06-07-2012, 15:04   #6
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For the 80's I would recommended the first 5 REM albums

Murmur
Reckoning
Fables of The Reconstruction
Lifes Rich Pageant
Document.

After they became global it is easy to forget just how much of an indie/alliterative band they were.

You can hear so much of the current crop of American alt bands in those 5 vastly influential albums.
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Old 06-07-2012, 17:54   #7
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These aren't very obscure but are great bands anyway

The Kinks (60's)
The Clash (70's)
The Cure (80's)
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Old 06-07-2012, 19:48   #8
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The Kinks
The Who
Joy Division/New Order
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Cure
The Smiths
The Doors
David Bowie
Iggy Pop
The Clash
Dead Kennedys
Happy Mondays
The Jam
The Velvet Underground
Pink Floyd
The Stone Roses
The Specials
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Old 06-07-2012, 19:58   #9
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The Beach Boys (second only to the Beatles IMO even then Pet Sounds is possibly better than any of there albums)
The Kinks
The Four Seasons
The Jam
Madness
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Old 06-07-2012, 21:26   #10
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Japan (1978-81)
Life In Tokyo
Alien
Quiet Life

If you like Roxy Music, Duran Duran, Bowie.
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Old 06-07-2012, 21:36   #11
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Siouxsie and the Banshees

Blondie

Fleetwood Mac

Some of the greatest female legends in those bands.
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Old 06-07-2012, 21:42   #12
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Siouxsie and the Banshees

Blondie

Fleetwood Mac

Some of the greatest female legends in those bands.
The all male sixties incarnation of Fleetwood Mac are worth checking out too. I personally prefer them to later Fleetwood Mac.
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Old 06-07-2012, 21:43   #13
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The all male sixties incarnation of Fleetwood Mac are worth checking out too. In fact I prefer them to later Fleetwood Mac.
The second just edge it for me. But yes, for sure they're worth exploring.
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Old 06-07-2012, 21:47   #14
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Beach Boys.

Pet Sounds is perhaps the greatest album ever made, even the early surf music that made them famous stands the test of time, but Pet Sounds and beyond is a very different animal, beautiful, well produced music .
I thought at the time they were better than the Beatles, still do, better performers, better songwriters.

The drummer Dennis Wilson's solo album Pacific Ocean Blue is fantastic too.
couldn't agree more even McCartney said Brian Wilson is a genius and this pushed them on further to write better songs (shame you didn't write one good song Paul but w.e.)

Wilson is a musical genius.
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Old 06-07-2012, 21:51   #15
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couldn't agree more even McCartney said Brian Wilson is a genius and this pushed them on further to write better songs (shame you didn't write one good song Paul but w.e.)

Wilson is a musical genius.
Paul McCartney didn't write a single good song, is that what you're saying?
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Old 06-07-2012, 21:58   #16
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Paul McCartney didn't write a single good song, is that what you're saying?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1WAD1_jztg

kwality
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Old 06-07-2012, 22:01   #17
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Agreed.
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Old 06-07-2012, 22:05   #18
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why is it that if someone dares to say the Beatles were no good you get treated like a leper?

no in my opinion and a hell of a lot of other people he didn't and the Beatles were over rated.
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Old 06-07-2012, 23:06   #19
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why is it that if someone dares to say the Beatles were no good you get treated like a leper?

no in my opinion and a hell of a lot of other people he didn't and the Beatles were over rated.
You didn't say The Beatles were over rated so no need to play the victim because nobody is treating you like a leper. You said Paul McCartney hasn't written a single good song, which seems a lot like a comment intended to get a reaction for the sake of it. You don't like The Beatles then fair enough, but to say out of all the songs he's ever written, there isn't one good one in the bunch? I can't take that seriously.
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Old 06-07-2012, 23:09   #20
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The Kinks
The Who
Joy Division/New Order
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Cure
The Smiths
The Doors
David Bowie
Iggy Pop
The Clash
Dead Kennedys
Happy Mondays
The Jam
The Velvet Underground
Pink Floyd
The Stone Roses
The Specials
THIS!
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Old 06-07-2012, 23:25   #21
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Some variation in styles:

The Kinks
David Bowie
Wings
The Who
XTC
The Smiths
Supertramp
Badfinger
Squeeze
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Pink Floyd
George Harrison
Cream
Free
Bad Company
The Small Faces
The Band
Creedence Clearwater Revival
10CC
Talking Heads
Crosby, Stills and Nash
The Zombies
Journey
The Mamas & The Papas
The Animals
Yes
Genesis
The Ramones
Roxy Music
Eurythmics
Peter Gabriel
The Hollies
Harry Nilsson
Randy Newman
Elvis Costello
The Moody Blues
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Old 07-07-2012, 01:39   #22
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The Kinks
The Who
Joy Division/New Order
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Cure
The Smiths
The Doors
David Bowie
Iggy Pop
The Clash
Dead Kennedys
Happy Mondays
The Jam
The Velvet Underground
Pink Floyd
The Stone Roses
The Specials
This is a good list
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Old 07-07-2012, 16:00   #23
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This is a good list
Thanks, I like a variety throughout the decades but I have to say the 90's probably edges it for me
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Old 07-07-2012, 16:11   #24
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The Housemartins from the late 80's were brilliant
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Old 07-07-2012, 18:00   #25
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The Drifters
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