Who are the Beatles of the 70s?

[Laurent Bigot]

in what way is this not great???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGIUpIVvxtY

Music's fine on that one but his way of singing is totally annoying.

[southern steve]

yeah maybe but the question you really should be asking yourselves is: Who is the Clarke Gable of the 2000s? John Travolta, or Bryn Terfel?
 
It's a toughie.



 

[TheHook]

RE: Sex Pistols - I think its quite clear the Ramones had more to do with what the Six Pistols were than ABBA. Not saying they didn't like ABBA, but where is their influence even felt within the Sex Pistols catalogue? Please don't link to a Sex Pistols member wearing an ABBA t-shirt OR Lydon exclaiming how ABBA was more punk than the Ramones (or whoever) in some 90s interview.

I didn't know the Pistols liked Abba (if there's an influence I must've heard the wrong Abba records) but they were playing live since late 75 so a few month before the Ramones first album.

The intro to Pretty Vacant is DIRECTLY inspired by Abba.  All you have to do is watch those shitty VH1 retrospectives to know that!

[Whet Bull]

My penis is the Beatles of the '90s.

[Laurent Bigot]

My penis is the Beatles of the '90s.

it produced thousands of children and got really dull in the last year?

[bradx]

in what way is this not great???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGIUpIVvxtY

Music's fine on that one but his way of singing is totally annoying.

fuck you if you dont like it.

[Whet Bull]

My penis is the Beatles of the '90s.

it produced thousands of children and got really dull in the last year?

Bigger than Jesus.  The girlies creamed their panties in anticipation and fainted at its overwhelming "charisma."  The girls cried.  The boys were jealous.  It issued unforgettable "records" and launched more "careers" than you can "imagine."  In the '00s it got hairier, settled down and made Double Fantasy and Ram with its very own Yoko Ono / Linda Eastman.  Har!  Puto.

[HIV Playground]

Nirvana might have influenced tons of shit bands, but I can't really think of another rock band that filled the gap between mainstream and underground music like them ever since. Some might mention Sonic Youth, another tremendously influential band that signed a contract with a major just before Nirvana, yet they never managed to reach their level of popularity or have been truly assimilated in popular culture to that extent. Anyway, great band, even though I don't happen to listen to them often anymore.
To the poster who said that only Lydon liked Abba in the Sex Pistols: not really, all of them occasinally used to frequent gay discos at the time, and Abba were most certainly a band popular in those places, as well as the UK charts.

[sad robot]

how can you say  Bay City Rollers or The Ramone are the Beatles of the 70s .!.
it doesn't make sense to this little duck ..
 IT GOTTA BE BADFINGER & BIG STAR
 

[Laurent Bigot]

how can you say  Bay City Rollers or The Ramone are the Beatles of the 70s .!.
it doesn't make sense to this little duck ..
 IT GOTTA BE BADFINGER & BIG STAR
 

Badfinger were mostly a so-so Beatles tribute band while Big Star, as great as they were, generated a cult, not a wave of bands. To be the Beatles of the ??s, you need to generate a revolution, not a cult.

[bazooka joe]

i've always considered the ramones to be the american beatles (they even shared a producer!), and run dmc the ramones of hip-hop (they were even bboth from queens!), and biz markie the bo diddely of hip-hop.

[Bananafish]

Guys it's the Flamin' Groovies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSzMz2JnWMw

[TMBDFD]

Guys it's the Flamin' Groovies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSzMz2JnWMw

Fail

[bradx]

fuck you./

flamin groovies is one of the only valid answers in this thread, though i would consider them to be more stones than beatles.

[frankie teardrop]

I like the Groovies, but it isn't the Groovies at all.