does music from the 70s have any worth?

[Jeltz]

@Dissident: How about adding Rainbow? Never heard?

The 90's had countless one-hit wonders (those kinds that sold a lot, but I didn't listen to) and looks like the same is going to apply to this decade too. Face it people, rock, hard rock & metal were really born during the 70's.

[statusperfect]

One name: DAVID BOWIE

[mactbone]

The only decade that was utter trash for music was the '80s. Name one '80s band that people still like.

I think the difference between the '70s and now is that you could find good stuff on the airwaves in the '70s - more good stuff was relatively mainstream while today to get the really good stuff you have to dig. Right now I don't think I have a single group in my playlist that gets airtime on any radio station I can get (not saying much since we a country, a top-40, and an "alternative/hard-rock" station). Anybody else wonder why more stuff doesn't get airtime? I understand that major publishers push their crap on radio stations, but some good stuff should get on there occassionally due to the odds game.

[Dis]

80's band that people still like

Metallica (although they probably suck now ), but people still like them.

Again see my earlier post about decades. Every decade had good music. The 70's was the prime time for heavy metal. But the 80's had many good heavy metal bands. At least until hair metal took oever . That's a sad point in history. And I liked a lot of that European pop from the 80's . Yes I know, embarrassing.

[DanS]

I still like much from the 80s. Maybe it's just nostalgia for my growing-up years. Even Michael Jackson was good back then...

There's an all-80s stream (128k) on Shoutcast that is really cool.

[Sikander]

The 70s sucked for a lot of reasons, but music thankfully wasn't one of them. The 70s was a crossroads for various musical styles. Waning were hippy rock groups, folk, vocal pop, jazz (of many styles). Nonetheless there were still bands touring that played these styles if you were into them. Waxing were glam rock, hard rock, heavy metal, punk, funk, electronic, and new wave. The sheer number of bands and styles meant that it was a golden age for the consumer, and one that was coming to a harsh end in the early 80s, when a lot of bands, labels etc. folded. We were left with musical marketing not in vogue since Elvis, where "stars" like Madonna, Prince and Michael Jackson parlayed their slim musical talents and much more considerable marketing talents into juggernauts that dominated the radio and sparked a counter revolution of indie labels and a lot of fun weird bands (Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers etc.).

[molly bloom]

The Seventies were my formative musical decade- a decade that in retrospect, made musical experimentation seem possible, when groups such as Cabaret Voltaire could cite Motown and Isaac Hayes as influences, although producing electronic soundscapes that sounded nothing like 'Baby Love', or 'I Stand Accused'.

Seventies albums that have lasted/will last:

David Bowie: Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust (although not my favourite album of his) Station to Station and Low

Roxy Music: Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure and Stranded

Can: Soon Over Babaluma and Ege Bamyasi

Curtis Mayfield: Superfly, There's No Place Like America Today

Isaac Hayes: Shaft and Black Moses

Magazine: Real Life

Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Scream

John Cale: Vintage Violence

Lou Reed: Transformer

Terry Callier: Fire On Ice

T. Rex: Electric Warrior

Blondie: Parallel Lines

Television: Marquee Moon

Patti Smith: Horses, Easter

Talking Heads: Fear of Music, More Songs About Buildings and Food

Clifton Chenier: Bayou Blues

Roberta Flack: Killing Me Softly

Laura Nyro: Gonna Take A Miracle

Aretha Franklin: Young, Gifted and Black, Spirit in the Dark

Isley Brothers: Harvest for the World

War: The World is a Ghetto

Nick Drake: Bryter Layter, Pink Moon

Fairport Convention: Babbacombe Lee

Sandy Denny: Sandy

Brian Eno: Another Green World, Music For Films and Discreet Music

Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic and Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

Harold Budd: The Pavilion of Dreams

Philip Glass: Music in 12 (Parts 1 and 2)

Marvin Gaye: What's Going On? Let's Get It On and Here, My Dear

Bryan Ferry: The Bride Stripped Bare

Gil Scott Heron: From South Africa to South Carolina and Winter in America

Neil Young: Harvest

Emmylou Harris/Gram Parsons: Grievous Angel

Nico: Chelsea Girl, Desertshore

Kraftwerk: Autobahn, Trans Europe Express

Cabaret Voltaire: Mix Up

and many, many more

[Heresson]

And being a wannabee altenativo I am now stuck with crap from Genesis, Yes and all those other bands that made 25 minute songs just to show how technically perfect they were. Not to mention all that jazz-rock ****.

I protest.
there was only one genesis song lasting some 23 minutes, and it was a suite.
genesis never claimed they are technically perfect.
Au contraire, some of them claimed that they aren't musicians at all, just composers.
there are songs that are a bit too long and boring - like "Duke's travels' - but there are few of them.