The black guy that sings "God Bless America" and the same with the Royals gal that sung that as well last night. It gave me goosebumps.
Best song in the world to me.
Pop songs, Rap songs, Grunge songs, Metal songs, Rave songs, Classical songs, nothing is better than representing me and my country than that.
It pains me greatly to agree with Vol, but Hotel California along with Stairway to Heaven would be the best 2 songs of the 1970s. As for my favorites, I'll have to give that some more thought. Here's one that I think everyone should hear, partly because it's a really good song, but these young ladies are amazing!!!
Agree with Zito. It's really hard to narrow.
The Beatles - Let it Be
Springsteen - Born to Run
Eric Clapton - Layla
Simon & Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
Allman Brothers - Sweet Melissa
Bob Dylan - Tomorrow is a Long Time
Kings of Leon - Talihina Sky
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Radiohead - Letdown
Drive-By Truckers - The Opening Act
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Manchester Orchestra - Leaky Breaks
The Black Keys - The Lengths
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Many others...
Dalyn (10-28-2015)
As someone who really loves Stairway, I find it hard to say it's the best Zeppelin song, much less best song of the 70s. Of course best is matter of opinion in the end.Originally Posted by Oklahomahawk
To me the "best" songs of the 70s (at least pertaining to the rock genre) need to span a number of bands.
Without digging too much some other songs that IMO in the mind of most would be close to them.
Go your own Way - Fleetwood Mac
London Calling - The Clash
Born to Run - The Boss
Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
Band on the Run - Wings
Imagine - John Lennon
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
A number of songs by Pink Floyd
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
And that's staying in the Rock genre, without going to pop, disco, etc.
I think sadly the 70s were the last great decade for rock. Don't get me wrong, lots of great rock happened after that. But the 70s seemed to be for th emost part the end of bands who had the freedom of the Beatles. This is where I'm excited for the internet because it allows people more access to music than ever before so you dont' have to be a slave to a label anymore.
Stockholm, more densely populated than NYC - sturg
Milk - Kings of Leon is my favorite. The rest of my top 20 is filled with other KOL songs with others by Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age and Local Natives thrown in. Someone mentioned Talihina Sky by KOL and it's on my list but the acoustic version, not the clunky piano version.
Speaking of Led Zeppelin (or shall I say Blind Willie Johnson) via the 77s:
Dalyn (10-28-2015)
Impossible to really pick one, but I'll go with this right now -
Acoustic version is the one I was referring to. Milk as well. Pretty much anything off their first two albums. Also Molly's Hangover which is slower version of Molly's Chambers.
I have to add this song and, more importantly this particular version to my favorites. I could listen to this all day long and not get tired of it.
BedellBrave (11-08-2015)
My favorite is Nirvanna's acoustic cover of Lake of Fire.
Other favorites:
Dierks Bentley- Riser
Alan Jackson- Drive
Broken Bells- The High Road
Deep Purple- Smoke on the Water
Eric Clapton- (all of them)
Jack White- (Most of his work)
"Yes, I did think Aldrich was good UNTIL I SAW HIM PLAY. "- thethe
Stockholm, more densely populated than NYC - sturg
I've met more than one Japanese guitarist who say this is their favorite rock song. Evidently it was a yuge hit in Japan during the 70s. I post it as an example of 'no accounting for taste'.
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