1970s Soft Rock Playlist (2 Viewers)

[wikkidpissah]

Grand Funk Railroad - Closer To Home (I'm Your Captain) 1970

Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home 1969 

Earth, Wind & Fire - After the Love Is Gone 1979

the first house my family ever bought was on a slope to Salem Harbor. it took on a lot of water during runoff season. i wanted to move down to our semi-finished basement to have more freedom to take my dope & listen to devil music & make sex practice, but me Da wouldnt let me til the basement stopped flooding. our solution was to install drainage around the house, so i dug a ditch around the entire foundation that spring. i put my stereo speakers out the window and listened to those first two, plus Traffic's John Barleycorn throughout my Big Dig. i'd always put Closer To Home on when i needed extra oomph

 

[zamboni]

Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home 1969 

Why on earth would you wear a bag for that tune? 

 

[hockeymedic]

Stanford Townsend Band - Smoke From A Distant Fire 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWVuCCWqzQ

 

[Gr00vus]

Georgy Porgy - Toto

If it sounds like Boz Scaggs, that's because Toto was basically his studio band for Silk Degrees. The Cheryl Lynn vocals in this are fantastic.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Take a Chance on Me - ABBA

I was wondering when ABBA would be mentioned

Fernando

Thank You for the Music

I Have a Dream

Plenty more to add...

 

[Brony]

Georgy Porgy - Toto

If it sounds like Boz Scaggs, that's because Toto was basically his studio band for Silk Degrees. The Cheryl Lynn vocals in this are fantastic.

Toto, Silk Degrees, Cheryl Lynn - yep, that's the 70s'

Although Georgy Porgy sounds like it could be the 60's. 

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

 ... & make sex practice, but me Da wouldnt let me til the basement stopped flooding.

Flooding?

Too much sex practice, imo.

 

[Rattle and Hum]

Why on earth would you wear a bag for that tune? 

1969- outside the thread topic that some moran set.

 

[zamboni]

1969- outside the thread topic that some moran set.

Ah - I wouldn’t call it soft rock anyway, but then again I’m not into establishing clear boundaries.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Lovely Day - Bill Withers

 

[Bracie Smathers]

Everything's Alright

 

[Ghost Rider]

I was wondering when ABBA would be mentioned

Fernando

Thank You for the Music

I Have a Dream

Plenty more to add...

I think of ABBA as more pop or disco than soft rock, but they definitely have some good stuff. 

Knowing Me, Knowing You is one of the catchiest pop songs ever.

And the title track from Arrival is just amazing.  How many bands can say they have a vocally amazing song that has no lyrics??

 

[Nipsey]

Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp

 

[DocHolliday]

Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Horse with No Name - America

sorry if these are repeats.   

 

[Wingnut]

Boz Scaggs - Lowdown: https://youtu.be/I-hKBmTAADo

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Raspberries:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ9UdfBKv1U

 

[Bracie Smathers]

Al Green - Sha La La

 

[Rattle and Hum]

John Paul Young - Love Is In The Air (1978) A toe tapper.

 

[Doug B]

"Fool, If You Think It's Over", Chris Rea

 

[Pip's Invitation]

This sort of stuff is well represented on three of the playlists we've created from the Genrepalooza 4 draft.

Yacht Rock: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1xAemrK8S3qJsuiOwUH6rk

The Bridge: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QMRZHKfBFJx6Mz2h2jywJ

70s on 7: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0pX6JREySI0AQpEqUNOe5H

 

[Doug B]

70s soft rock was never my thing but over the last 10 years I’ve really come to appreciate it.

Sentimental Lady - Bob Welch

"Sentimental Lady", Fleetwood Mac. Songwriter Welch was in the band then, and was on guitar for this track. Danny Kirwin was on vox.

 

[Pipes]

 

[Doug B]

"Dirty Work", Steely Dan

 

[leftcoastguy7]

one song I have been enjoying recently and that I don't remember hearing before has been a part of two TV commercials as of late. One with Allstate and one with a jeweler. Such a great song.

Bill Withers - Lovely Day

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Her cover is better than Neil Young's original (in which she sang backup vocals).

Actually, she did not. She sang on most of the Comes a Time album, but not that track. 

 

[urbanhack]

been listening to this genre while falling asleep lately.

 

[urbanhack]

https://open.spotify.com/album/3maATOvBkqV11GEWykf3Cv?si=vZmLesgzRAS64dGOVn1Emw

 

[urbanhack]

Bread’s greatest hits is tough to be beat.

 

[wikkidpissah]

i'd like to make it with you

 

[Rattle and Hum]

i'd like to make it with you

Thanks, GB, but can we stick to the topic at hand?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Bread’s greatest hits is tough to be beat.

I went to school with a guy who pronounced it Breed.  Maybe he was just foreshadowing the group Creed.

 

[zamboni]

Bread’s greatest hits is tough to be beat.

As if.