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Top 10 Bands of the 70's Who Reinvented Music

anytune said:
A few more who deserve mention:
Kiss
Chicago
Jackson 5
Alice Cooper
Three Dog Night
Guess Who (Canadian)
and the biggest solo artist of the decade, Elton John (British)
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Kiss did not do anything revolutionary. Whatever Kiss did, Alice Cooper did earlier.
 
How about Steely Dan and the Grateful Dead.
Two very distinctive sounds.
And I agree with KrsiM, replace the Eagles with Bob Dylan. An Amercan classic.
 
I like some of those bands in the OP but they're all evolutionary, not revolutionary. They took existing forms of music for the most part and made them palatable to the largest number of people, and by doing so sold a bunch of records and made a lot of money. Most of the bands who reinvented music were the more obscure bands that these bands were influenced by, or the bands who formed as a reaction against their monolithic nature.

Just my opinion.
 
JohnVF said:
I like some of those bands in the OP but they're all evolutionary, not revolutionary. They took existing forms of music for the most part and made them palatable to the largest number of people, and by doing so sold a bunch of records and made a lot of money. Most of the bands who reinvented music were the more obscure bands that these bands were influenced by, or the bands who formed as a reaction against their monolithic nature.

Just my opinion.
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very well put :thmbsp:
 
+ Peter Frampton

The live Frampton Comes Alive Album in 1976 was BIG!

Remember his "talk box" guitar effect on "Show Me the Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do".
 
spideyjack said:
very well put :thmbsp:
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Indeed.

And I'd offer Gang of Four as one of the pioneering post-punk bands (but they wouldn't have had their sound if Beefheart hadn't come before them)

Also, The Mekons for releasing what is considered by many to be the first Alt-Country records (Fear and Whiskey)- But the Mekons couldn't have done what they did without Gang of Four, whose instruments they borrowed back in their home town of Leeds

But there we are again, these are British bands although they did change "America's music"

And another nod the The Modern Lovers. Pioneers of geek-rock.--six years before Talking Heads--ten years before the Violent Femmes.
 
+ Boston

Remember the UFO album cover?

Tom's "Rockman" amp (info on Wiki) was one of the key factors to Boston's distinctiveness.
 
Huh.. what a funny title... Here's why...

Most people DESPISE the true music of the 70's.. bands like Abba, and the new sound of Disco.

Now if you were to talk about reinventing the sound, then Disco, and somewhat Motown would be the re-invention during the 70's, however, Motown was coming up a lot earlier than the 70's...

Granted, there were some great rock bands in the 70's that were changing the style, but Rock was here, and it wasn't changing all that much...

The popular music does seem to change from decade to decade though...

Folk and Rock in the 60's, Disco in the 70's, New Wave in the 80's Grunge in the 90's and Hip Hop and Autotuned "Pop" today...

Music is constantly changing, and I don't believe that any single band can change the sound, but they can influence others along the way.

Travel around the country and see local bands, or local battle of the band events. You'll find it pretty amazing how many of the bands sound the same in one area, but nothing like the bands in another area..

What changes the sound of music isn't so much a band, but rather the label that gets them on the radio...
 
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hifi_nut said:
10 bands who reinvented America's music?

Led Zepplin, Bob Marley, The Clash and Pink Floyd are hardly American.
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He didn't claim they were American Bands just that they changed the sound/music that America listened to and for that matter ,the Music :thmbsp:the World listened to!...:)
 
All Bands that made it to a level where People heard them constantly on the Air-Waves and became part of the Culture of any Country have changed the Music Patterns in one way or another,some more than others but they all had a part in it!....:)
 
You have to remember too, a lot of bands didn't get to play what they wanted. They had to create music that their labels wanted... They wanted a sound that sold, and a lot of times they made bands re-write songs, add things, subtract things...

So I have a hard time saying any particular band changed any particular thing, unless they got very little air play and were popular on their own without the support of "The Industry"
 
I skimmed this post and was surprised to see that no one mentioned the Ramones. Was never a huge fan, but they deserve their due.
 
similost said:
You have to remember too, a lot of bands didn't get to play what they wanted. They had to create music that their labels wanted... They wanted a sound that sold, and a lot of times they made bands re-write songs, add things, subtract things...

So I have a hard time saying any particular band changed any particular thing, unless they got very little air play and were popular on their own without the support of "The Industry"
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In the country genre there was a movement called "Outlaw Country" that stood for artists doing things there way. Toby Keith financed his own album when record labels would not back him. So there are artists that have created their own sound that is not backed by the executives. I would imagine these artists are responsible for influencing and perhaps reinventing music. Most executive record types prefer the cookie cutter artist. A proven formula which provides nothing different but guaranteed profits.
I can't imagine a band like Pink Floyd, with all the creativity they had, being told what to do by the record companies. But then I don't know that much.
 
I noticed that a few posting replies to my original subject wanted to include Bob Dylan. Well, to me Dylan represents more than a redirection in American music. He revolutionized world music by saying what needed to be said, in a manner that the all people could relate to. He is to music what Robert Frost is to prose. He is music's poet laureate of the 20th century. There is no artist who has had a bigger impact on American music than has Robert Allen Zimmerman.
 
Big Star, Badfinger, and the Raspberries—three of the early pioneers of what became known as power pop. A lot of bands followed in their wake. Big Star gets the most credit, but Badfinger was doing the style even a few years ahead of them.
 
"The live Frampton Comes Alive Album in 1976 was BIG! Remember his "talk box" guitar effect on "Show Me the Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do".

"Actually, Joe Walsh did it first with Rocky Mountain Way in 1973."


Scott McKenzie used a talk box on "San Francisco" in 1967.
 
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