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UFO, Nazareth?
Best Forgotten Bands of the 70's.
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recgord27
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Best forgotten bands/albums of the 70's include
Uriah Heep, especially the early David Byron albums
Golden Earring - Contraband, Switch, Wall of Dolls, Together, Eight Miles High
Pink Floyd - Meddle, Ummagumma
Lighthouse - One Fine Morning, Live, Sunny Days - Brilliant jazzy pop/rock Canadian band, much better than blood sweat & tears or chicago
Circus - In the Arena (South African band)
Camel - Snow Goose
Yes - Tormato (in my opinion, much better than the sum of reviews)
Rodriguez - Cold Fact (recently rediscovered by the world because of the film)
Eric Anderson (who should have been great)
Harry Chapin (great storytelling songs)
Chris de Burgh - Spanish Train and other stories, Far beyond these castle walls
Budgie - most of their early albums
Audience - The House on the hill; Friends, Friends, Friend; Lunch
Babe Ruth - Babe Ruth, First Base
Jeff Beck - Truth (maybe not forgotten, but unavailable for a long time now)
Black sabbath - Technical Ecstacy, Sabotage, Never say die (and all the well known ones)
Jeff Buckley - Grace (may have been from the early 80's, but still a great forgotten album)
Colloseum - great jazz rock band with excellent albums, especially Colluseum Live
Free - all their albums featuring some excellent hard rock
Genesis - the Peter Gabriel abums (which I consider to be the real Genesis), except for the first one
Heart - Little Queen as well as the other 70's albums, before the 80's cheese
Roy Harper - Stormcock (another classic robbed by bad marketing at the time. This album should have been HUGE)
Ken Hensley - Proud words on a dusty shelf, Eager to Please
Supertramp - All the Roger Hodgson/Rick Davies albums
Judas Priests's early albums, pre- British Steel. Great albums like Unleashed in the east, Killer, Sin after sin
Little Feat
Ten Years After
Moody Blues
Shawn Phillips - Second Contribution, Transcendence
Xit - Plight of the red man, Silent Warrior
Uriah Heep, especially the early David Byron albums
Golden Earring - Contraband, Switch, Wall of Dolls, Together, Eight Miles High
Pink Floyd - Meddle, Ummagumma
Lighthouse - One Fine Morning, Live, Sunny Days - Brilliant jazzy pop/rock Canadian band, much better than blood sweat & tears or chicago
Circus - In the Arena (South African band)
Camel - Snow Goose
Yes - Tormato (in my opinion, much better than the sum of reviews)
Rodriguez - Cold Fact (recently rediscovered by the world because of the film)
Eric Anderson (who should have been great)
Harry Chapin (great storytelling songs)
Chris de Burgh - Spanish Train and other stories, Far beyond these castle walls
Budgie - most of their early albums
Audience - The House on the hill; Friends, Friends, Friend; Lunch
Babe Ruth - Babe Ruth, First Base
Jeff Beck - Truth (maybe not forgotten, but unavailable for a long time now)
Black sabbath - Technical Ecstacy, Sabotage, Never say die (and all the well known ones)
Jeff Buckley - Grace (may have been from the early 80's, but still a great forgotten album)
Colloseum - great jazz rock band with excellent albums, especially Colluseum Live
Free - all their albums featuring some excellent hard rock
Genesis - the Peter Gabriel abums (which I consider to be the real Genesis), except for the first one
Heart - Little Queen as well as the other 70's albums, before the 80's cheese
Roy Harper - Stormcock (another classic robbed by bad marketing at the time. This album should have been HUGE)
Ken Hensley - Proud words on a dusty shelf, Eager to Please
Supertramp - All the Roger Hodgson/Rick Davies albums
Judas Priests's early albums, pre- British Steel. Great albums like Unleashed in the east, Killer, Sin after sin
Little Feat
Ten Years After
Moody Blues
Shawn Phillips - Second Contribution, Transcendence
Xit - Plight of the red man, Silent Warrior
Johnny-Too-Good
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The flaw in that post is that many, no, virtually all, of those bands, have NOT been forgotten.
Slaytallica
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The 60s really has a lot of hidden gems... between like 65-69 there are so many rare / unknown Psychedelic Hard Rock albums... It is really its own little special genre in itself.
Gun was a Trio formed by two brothers who released two albums, Gun (1968) and Gun Sight (1970)...
After Gun they formed another Trio with Ginger Baker (of Cream fame) called The Baker Gurvitz Army and released 3 more albums during the 70s...
The Baker Gurvitz Army (1974)
Elysian Encounter (1975)
Hearts of Fire (1976)
Other notable 70s bands I guess:
Pentagram
The Baker Gurvitz Army
Elf
High Tide
Lucifer's Friend
Poco
UFO
The Strawbs
Gun was a Trio formed by two brothers who released two albums, Gun (1968) and Gun Sight (1970)...
After Gun they formed another Trio with Ginger Baker (of Cream fame) called The Baker Gurvitz Army and released 3 more albums during the 70s...
The Baker Gurvitz Army (1974)
Elysian Encounter (1975)
Hearts of Fire (1976)
Other notable 70s bands I guess:
Pentagram
The Baker Gurvitz Army
Elf
High Tide
Lucifer's Friend
Poco
UFO
The Strawbs
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recgord27
Walking down a dusty road
Let me qualify the forgotten part.
In South Africa, where I live, NONE of the bands listed are played on any of the "classic rock" radio or tv programs.
It is also becoming increasingly difficult to buy the albums, even at "specialist" dealers. Maybe it's different for you in Europe, UK, etc
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Assuming these count...
Can
Amon Duul II
Gentle giant
Van der Graaf Generator
Throbbing Gristle
The Residents
Magma
Brian Eno?
Can
Amon Duul II
Gentle giant
Van der Graaf Generator
Throbbing Gristle
The Residents
Magma
Brian Eno?
That's early 90's, and certainly not forgottten where I live (Belgium).
Also, if you live in South-Africa, you shouldn't list Rodriguez as a forgotten artist. It's the only country were "Cold fact" was even a hit! I remember that when I was there (2003-2004), it was considered just as big a classic as, say, "Hotel California" or "Blood on the tracks".
When I first saw the title of this thread I misinterpreted it and thought w were supposed to list bands that were "best forgotten". Looking at some of the answers I'm not the only one.
Anyway, I nominate
- Gentle Giant
- Caravan.
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Black Dahlia
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Has Be-Bop Deluxe been mentioned, yet?
recgord27
Walking down a dusty road
You're absolutely right. Looking at my list of "forgotten" 70's bands I was a bit enthusiastic with the inclusion of many of the bands. If I had to revise my post it would read as -
Best forgotten artists of the 70's include
Lighthouse
Circus (South African band)
Eric Anderson
Audience
Colloseum
Shawn Phillips
Xit
Frumpy
Roy Buchanan
