Charlie Watt's Passing: A Year Later

The Rolling Stones are still performing, despite long time sticksman Charlie Watts not being behind his iconic drums

It was first announced in August 2021 that Charlie Watts was not going to participate in the upcoming Rolling Stones tour. In a statement released by him: "For once my timing has been a little off. I am working hard to get fully fit but today I have accepted on the advice of the experts that this will take a while. After all the fans' suffering caused by COVID, I really do not want the many fans who have been holding tickets for this tour to be disappointed by another postponement or cancellation. I have therefore asked my great friend Steve Jordan to stand in for me."

Everyone assumed that Watts would return as soon as he recovered from what a spokesperson described as a "completely successful" procedure. Details were not released. It was 2004 when Watts had beaten throat cancer, which he chalked up to smoking heavily long ago. He had revealed any other health scares since then. It was on Aug. 24, 2021 that the news was out: Charlie Watts had passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, in a London hospital

A mass flood of condolences poured in. Ringo Starr wrote on Twitter "God bless Charlie Watts. We're going to miss you, man." Many who gave their sympathies also complimented him on his unique style of drumming. Robbie Robertson commented "Charlie's drumming is powerful and unique. His approach is entirely his own and helped shape the sound of rock 'n' roll." Guitarist Ronnie Wood was closest to Charlie. He recalled his last visit with him. "We watched horse racing on TV and shot the breeze. I could tell he was pretty tired and fed up with the whole deal. He said, 'I was really hoping to be out of here by now.' Then after that, there was a complication or two and I wasn't allowed back. No one was." The last show Watts played with the Stones was a year earlier on Aug. 30, 2019 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. It was one stop on the No Filter tour, which started in 2017 and was scheduled to end in 2020. The COVID pandemic put an end to all major touring

One of the first things on the minds of all Rolling Stones fans was whether the band would carry on with their rescheduled 2021 tour dates. It was to be confirmed they would, with Steve Jordan on drums. Prior to the tour starting back up, The Rolling Stones performed at a private event at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts. At the show, Mick Jagger said "We all miss Charlie so much. We miss him as a band, we miss him as friends, on and off the stage." About a day later, the band kicked off the tour in St. Louis, performing at The Dome at America's Center. It marked the first time in 59 years the band has toured without Charlie Watts, but his presence was still strong in the photos and videos shown on the big screen. It was a sort of nod of respect to the passing of a fellow band member and friend

Steve Jordan, who replaced Watts on drums, was no stranger to the band. He had extensive experience working with them. He'd played with them and Keith Richards' solo band, The X-Pensive Winos. Keith Richards mentioned he was hesitant to tour without Watts. But Charlie encouraged him. "Charlie said to me 'You can do it with Steve. He can take my seat anytime.' And he talked me into it." Despite the positive encouragement and long resume, about mid-tour Jordan admitted it was still a tough job to have. In October 2021, Jordan admitted "There are people that don't understand that I lost a friend. So they're happy for me, but they don't understand that I'd rather not have this be the case. But The Rolling Stones have really, really done everything in their power to make the transition smooth and sympathetic and empathetic. They've been cognizant of everyone's feelings. I personally appreciate that."

Days prior to Watts' death, a special 40th anniversary box set edition of Tattoo You from 1981 was released. The special reissue included nine songs that the band returned to the studio to finish up, blissfully unaware it was the last time they would work with Watts. In a September 2021 interview, Mick Jagger said "I did some stuff with him in the studio very recently, while we were doing the Tattoo You things. Charlie did some work on just a few fills and stuff like that. And then we started messing around, we did some other things." A year later, a documentary titled My Life As a Rolling Stone debuted on Epix. Each episode was about a different member of the band. Work on the series had just begun when Watts passed away. Like the tour, the remaining band members had to finish what they started

Executive producer Steve Condie told Ultimate Classic Rock in an interview. "In a strange way, it made [the band] think we should be doing this because we want to show their appreciation of him." The final part of the series was about Watts, featuring his fellow Stones members and other musicians, talking of old times and showing their appreciation of him and his talent. "They wanted a program that would be devoted to him, in which they themselves - Ronnie, Keith and Mick - could say what they felt about Charlie, but also an opportunity for a broader audience to understand this extraordinary guy. It was a difficult period for them, obviously. It threw things into a little bit of doubt, but in the end, I think we all came around to the feeling that, actually, you know what? We've got to do this."

For the remaining band members, this tour and adjusting to life without their good friend and drummer doesn't happen overnight. Keith Richards told CBS in March 2022 "[It] is strange to turn suddenly and, you know, after all these years, you expect that face there!" Despite the fact Jordan has kept the drumming up to par, Watts is considered irreplaceable. In a 2021 interview, Jagger stated "It seems like only yesterday that I was in the studio with Charlie, joshing around. It's just so weird and then very sad. And I mean, it's such a long time that you work with someone like that, and you get to know someone so well and their quirks and their idiosyncrasies and they know yours. And there's a language in communication with musicians, obviously, or anything else...That's very rare. I miss that so much."

On the first anniversary of his passing, Mick Jagger posted a clip of photos and videos set to the 1974 Rolling Stones song "'Til the Last Goodbye" on his Twitter feed. In the clip, Jagger said "He had a great sense of humor. Outside the band we used to hang out quite a lot and have interesting times going. We liked sports, we'd go to football, we'd go to cricket games. We would have other interests apart from just music." Ronnie Wood also posted a series of photos, mentioning Watts' late wife Shirley, their daughter Seraphina and granddaughter. "Charlie, missing you every single day. Shirley, Seraphina and Charlotte, we hold you close in our hearts."

Watts had a reputation as "The Quiet One" in the band, compared to his rowdier bandmates. He was more content to stay in the hotel room or even visit local jazz clubs than engage in post-show parties like some rock musicians would. In a 2012 interview with Classic Rock, Watts stated "I'm very private. I'm not really that interested in talking about me." Watts was interested in music first. Everything else that came with it, be it fame, money, legacy, was sometimes a burden. He was also highly respected among other drummers. His style of playing was heavily influenced by jazz, but was simple and powerful. He was powerful without being aggressive. Complex without showing off. Judging from the level of tributes pouring in, he was definitely respected among his fellow drummers. The impact he had on music won't soon be forgotten. In the 1966 film Charlie is My Darling, he stated "Maybe it's an inferiority complex I've got. Or maybe I am great after all."

Who front man Roger Daltrey disses The Rolling Stones as a "mediocre pub band"

First it was Paul McCartney of The Beatles calling The Rolling Stones a "blues cover band". Now it's the other big band of the 1960s, The Who, specifically front man Roger Daltrey, who's getting in on it, this time calling The Rolling Stones a "mediocre pub band"

In a recent interview, Roger Daltrey had described The Rolling Stones as being a "mediocre pub band". His comments closely mirror those of Paul McCartney, who had dismissed the band as being nothing more than a "blues cover band". In an interview with the Coda Collection, Daltrey gave his opinion. He said "Mick Jagger, you've got to take your hat off to him. He's the number one rock 'n' roll performer. But, as a band, if you were outside a pub and you heard that music coming out of a pub some night, you'd think "Well, that's a mediocre pub band!""

In the interview, Daltrey also commented on how he envied Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant. He described Plant's experience fronting Led Zeppelin as being vastly different than Daltrey's experience fronting The Who. "I managed to get the short straw of all the singers in all the bands. No solos! Who songs are all lyrics. Robert Plant - Percy, as we call him - he's a very good friend of mine, and we do joke about it. He said you could go off and read a book when [Jimmy] Page started up a guitar solo or [John] Bonham started on a drum solo. And I suddenly thought "I wonder what it would have been like being in a band like that!"

Daltrey also describes himself as a "hater of the internet". He goes on to further explain. "I never thought any good would come of it, and I still don't think anything good's come of it. I think if we're not careful it's probably the end of our civilization."

Mick Jagger Responds to Paul McCartney's Claim of Rolling Stones being a "blues cover band"

It was only natural for The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to be "rivals" back during the 1960s. Both bands came from similar backgrounds and did similar types of music. But it couldn't be farther from the truth. Often times, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards would often seek the advice and wisdom from Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Both bands even had it worked out to where, if say, The Beatles had a song ready to go and The Rolling Stones were still working on one, one band would say "Ours is ready, so we'll go ahead and set it out and you take your time to finish" or vice versa. Now it seems that the rivalry is becoming real.

On a recent article Paul McCartney had been in, he'd made a comment about The Rolling Stones. It was only a matter of time before Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger would be asked for his opinion.

According to McCartney, in an article with The New York Times, "I'm not sure I should say it, but they're a blues cover band, that's sort of what the Stones are. I think our net was cast a bit wider than theirs."

Jagger predated this type of questioning during a concert recently in Los Angeles. "There are so many celebrities here tonight. Megan Fox is here, she's lovely. Leonardo DiCaprio, Lady Gaga, Kirk Douglas - misread that one. And Paul McCartney is here; he's going to help; he's going to join us in a blues cover later on."

The decades-long rivalry, thought to have never even occurred, had arisen in 2020 during an interview with Howard Stern that Paul McCartney was doing. "Their stuff's rooted in blues. When they're writing stuff, it has to do with the blues. Whereas we had a little more influences. There's a lot of differences. I love The Stones, but I'm with you. The Beatles were better."

Jagger kindly described McCartney as a "sweetheart". He responded by mentioning "There's obviously no competition! The big difference...sort of slightly seriously, is that The Rolling Stones have been a big concert band in other decades and other eras when The Beatles never even did an arena tour [like] Madison Square Garden with a decent sound system. They broke up before that business started, the touring business for real.

Ronnie Wood recalls last hospital visit with Charlie Watts

Ronnie Wood, guitarist for The Rolling Stones, was always seemingly, the one closest to Charlie. Not only because their birthdays were within a day of each other, but for additional reasons. One of them being that Charlie championed for Ronnie to get the same amount of pay as the other members of The Stones after he'd been with them for a while, no longer a new member of the band. After Charlie passed, Ronnie reflected on spending time with Charlie prior to his death.

Ronnie said he was the final member of The Rolling Stones to speak with the band's drummer, who was hospitalized in London. It was the same room Ronnie had been in while he fought cancer in 2020. Ronnie jokingly said "We call it the Rolling Stones suite" in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.

In the same interview, he added "We watched horse racing on TV and just shot the breeze. I could tell he was pretty tired and fed up with the whole deal. He said 'I was really hoping to be out of here by now', then after that there was a complication or two and I wasn't allowed back. No one was."

Mick Jagger talked about having Steve Jordan on drums and the healing effect of the Stones continuing their No Filter tour.

In an interview with Apple 1 Music host Zane Lowe, Jagger revealed "Some people said 'Oh, Charlie died, and you should not have done the tour - and stopped'. And other people would think 'The thing about the Rolling Stones throughout their career has been their resilience in the face of adversity'. And we've had our ups and downs, mostly ups, to be honest -but we've had adversity. And this was probably one of the most difficult ones."

Meanwhile, in a Vanity Fair interview, Steve Jordan had his say on the matter. "There are people that don't understand that I lost a friend. So they're happy for me, but they don't understand that I'd rather not have this be the case. But the Rolling Stones have really, really, done everything in their power to make the transition smooth and sympathetic and empathetic. They've been cognizant of everyone's feelings. I personally appreciate that."

Charlie Watts, drummer for The Rolling Stones, has passed away at the age of 80

We all either love The Rolling Stones' music or know someone who does. And surely, when those people or that person who is a big fan of The Stones, as they're known for short, hears something good or bad about them, they are happy or sad. In this case, a lot of Stones fans are mourning the loss of their long time drummer, Charles Robert Watts, aka Charlie Watts. He was considered to be the most shy, reticent member of The Rolling Stones. He was never wild and crazy like some of the others.

Following the death of the famed drummer at the age of 80 from an undisclosed medical condition, footage from the band's summer tour began going viral, as almost a salute to him and a tribute to him. His last concert with the band was on Aug. 30, 2019. It was at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. This was one of the stops of their No Filters tour, which began in 2017. It was scheduled to finish in 2020, but had to be postponed due to the coronavirus

This last show featured all the things you would expect from a great show by The Rolling Stones. Songs such as "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Sympathy for the Devil", "Honky Tonk Women", "Paint It Black" got major airplay, singer Mick Jagger singing and strutting around the stage, dual guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood rocking hard, looking like their 20 years old instead of 70s and Charlie Watts keeping the rhythm steady with his jazz-influenced style.

Earlier this month, Charlie Watts announced he would be sitting out of the 2021 No Filters tour leg after undergoing surgery for an undisclosed medical condition. His temporary replacement would be Steve Jordan, who played drums on all three of Keith Richards' solo albums

In a statement, he was in a happy mood, joking around. "For once my timing has been a little off. I am working hard to get fully fit but I have today accepted on the advice of the experts that this will take a while. After all the fans' suffering caused by COVID, I really do not want the many fans who have been holding tickets for this tour to be disappointed by another postponement or cancellation."

Despite being the drummer in one of the biggest household names of arena rock, Watts was honest about his dislike for touring. In an interview from 2018, Watts had this to say. "I love playing the drums, and I love playing with Mick and Keith and Ronnie, I don't know about the rest of it. It wouldn't bother me if The Rolling Stones said, 'That's it - enough'".

Last summer, in an interview, Mick Jagger had mentioned that the band were working on a new album, but it's unknown how much was done. He told the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show that the new album to be "sounds pretty good to me", while also warning fans "don't hold your breath!"

Ronnie Wood has a cancer scare

If you don't know the name Ronnie Wood, no matter. He's a guitar player, formerly of The Faces but now The Rolling Stones. He's recently had a major cancer scare.

Back in May, it was discovered that a cancerous lesion was found on the lung of former Faces but current Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. He had the piece of his lung with the cancer in it removed for safety. He was lucky that the cancer was detected early and that no chemotherapy treatments were required. He still worried that if it wasn't discovered, he might not survive.

"There was a week when everything hung in the balance and it could have been curtains – time to say goodbye,” he told Event. “You never know what is going to happen"

It was discovered during a mandatory physical in preparation for next month's European tour. He says what followed that discovery "a week of tests. They needed to know if it had set up encampments and spread to my lymph nodes. If that had happened it would have been all over for me. … I was prepared for bad news but I also had faith it would be OK. Apart from the doctors, we didn’t tell anyone because we didn’t want to put anyone else though the hell we were going through. But I made up my mind that if it had spread I wasn’t going to go through chemo, I wasn’t going to use that bayonet in my body"

He said that one particular reason for not wanting to go through chemo was "I wasn’t going to lose my hair. This hair wasn’t going anywhere."

He says that even he is not shocked that it was discovered. The last time he had a chest X-ray was in 2002 in rehab and years of smoking cigarettes, which he had quit a year before the birth of his twin daughters.

"I had this thought at the back of my mind after I gave up smoking a year ago. How can I have got through 50 years of chain-smoking – and all the rest of my bad habits – without something going on in there?" He credits his wife, Sally Humphries, for helping him through

Later on, he said "Did I think I’d ever make it to see this? Hell no! Someone up there must like me. And luckily someone down here likes me too."

Day 28 - Favorite title

Hahahahaha, this won't be shocking, lol

Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath

-Tony Iommi

Because of this book, I learned about other Sabbath albums. Just bought Born Again!

18 and Life on Skid Row

-Sebastian Bach

Face the Music: A Life Exposed

-Paul Stanley

Run to the Hills: Iron Maiden, the Authorized Biography

-Mick Wall

According to the Rolling Stones

-The Rolling Stones

Hippies

-Peter Jedick

White Rabbit

-David Daniel

Memoirs of a Geisha

-Arthur Golden

Fifty Shades of Grey

-E.L. James

Dancing with Myself

-Billy Idol

Judas Priest: Heavy Metal Painkillers

-Martin Popoff

Robert Plant: A Life

-Paul Rees

Glen Hughes: The Autobiography from Deep Purple to Black Country Communion

-Glenn Hughes, Joel McIver

Day 14-A non-fictional book

I have a multitude of books about music, lol

Run to the Hills: Iron Maiden, the Authorized Biography

-Mick Wall

Bruce Dickinson: Flashing Metal with Maiden and Flying Solo

-Joe Shooman

According to the Rolling Stones

-The Rolling Stones

Jagger: Rebel, Rambler, Rockstar, Rogue

-Mark Spitz

Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath

-Tony Iommi

It's So Easy and Other Lies

-Duff McKagan

Tommyland

-Tommy Lee

Judas Priest: Heavy Metal Painkillers

-Martin Popoff

Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose

-Martin Popoff

Face the Music: A Life Exposed

-Paul Stanley

Robert Plant: A Life

-Paul Rees

Broken Music: A Memoir

-Sting

Glenn Hughes: The Autobiography from Deep Purple to Black Country Communion

-Glenn Hughes/Joel McIver

Jet Li: A Biography

-James Robert Parrish

Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Vol. I

-Eddie Trunk

-I like this book because it covers mostly bands I listen to. There are a few bands mentioned in here, mostly thrash metal bands like Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, Pantera, UFO, Rainbow that I don't listen to, but the other bands I love listening to!!

On this day in rock music history

Let's see what the rock music history book holds for us today...

5/6/1965

-In their Florida hotel room, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones work out the rhythm and opening guitar melody of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", taking advantage of the fact that Keith had bought a fuzz box earlier that day

5/6/1966

-The Beatles worked at Abbey Road Studios putting some extra work on their track "I'm Only Sleeping"

5/6/2001

-Former Spice Girls singer Geri Halliwell scored her fourth #1 UK hit with her cover of the song "It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls

Born on this day

Bob Seger, born in 1945

-Best known for songs like "Night Moves", "Turn the Page", "Shakedown", "Fire Down Below"

Top 200 1970s Songs Part II

The 1970s had it all-goofy clothes for disco, the birth of hard rock, heavy metal and punk, the success of disco, the whole nine yards. So here to celebrate the decade when people wore platform shoes to the local discotheque, danced to Saturday Night Fever, here are the Top 200 1970s Songs.

Here is part II

AC/DC
-Let There Be Rock
-1977

The Cars
-Let's Go
-1979

The Eagles
-Life in the Fast Lane
-1976

Joe Walsh
-Life's Been Good
-1978

Neil Young
-Like a Hurricane
-1977

Paul McCartney
-Live and Let Die
-1973

Electric Light Orchestra
-Livin' Thing
-1976

Jethro Tull
-Locomotive Breath
-1971

The Kinks
-Lola
-1970
-Man, I hate this song!

The Clash
-London Calling
-1979

Stephen Stills
-Love the One You're With
-1970

Journey
-Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
-1979

War
-Low Rider
-1975
-This song is best known for its use in the Cheech and Chong movies, but it's essentially an homage to the Latin tradition of hydraulically pumped cars

Rod Stewart
-Maggie May
-1971

Paul McCartney and Wings
-Maybe I'm Amazed
-1977

Janis Joplin
-Me and Bobby McGee
-1971

Paul Simon
-Me and Julio Down by the School Yard
-1972
-There's a hysterically funny cover of this song by a band called Me First and the Gimme Gimme's. They do speedy punk versions of songs and this is one song they cover

The Police
-Message in a Bottle
-1979

The Rolling Stones
-Miss You
-1978
-This song appeared on their 1978 album Some Girls. It's hard to mistake this song, with it's four-on-the-floor discotheque rhythm. It puts you in mind of Saturday Night Fever

Mountain
-Mississippi Queen
-1970

Pink Floyd
-Money
-1973
-Jeez, I hate this song

Boston
-More than a Feeling
-1976

The Cars
-My Best Friend's Girl
-1978

George Harrison
-My Sweet Lord
-1970
-This song caused a little trouble when it was discovered it had similarities in rhythm to the song "He's So Fine" by the Chiffons

Neil Young
-The Needle and the Damage Done
-1972

Bob Seger
-Night Moves
-1976

Alice Cooper
-No More Mr. Nice Guy
-1973

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
-Ohio
-1970
-This is about the shooting at Kent State University in Ohio in 1970

The Eagles
-One of these Nights
-1975

The Faces
-Ooh La La
-1973

Led Zeppelin
-Over the Hills and Far Away
-1973

Meat Loaf
-Paradise by the Dashboard Light
-1977

Black Sabbath
-Paranoid
-1970
-Loooooooooooove this!! This is the song that got me in to Sabbath!

Billy Joel
-Piano Man
-1973
-Love it!

Neil Young
-Powderfinger
-1979

Bruce Springsteen
-Prove It All Night
-1978

Golden Earring
-Radar Love
-1973

Elvis Costello
-Radio Radio
-1978

The Allman Brothers Band
-Ramblin' Man
-1973

Steely Dan
-Reelin' in the Years
-1972

Tom Petty
-Refugee
-1979

The Grateful Dead
-Ripple
-1970

Kiss
-Rock and Roll All Nite
-1975
-This is one of their best known songs. It has been covered multiple times by multiple musicians and can be heard at any sporting event playing on the loudspeakers, in addition to "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne or "Cat Scratch Fever" by Ted Nugent

Montrose
-Rock Candy
-1973
-Montrose is one of the early bands where future Van Halen vocalist Sammy Hagar would find fame

Steve Miller Band
-Rock 'N Me
-1976

Elton John
-Rocket Man
-1972
-This song is similar to David Bowie's "Space Oddity". It captures the public's fascination with space travel

Joe Walsh
-Rocky Mountain Way
-1973
-This song came about after Joe Walsh split from his previous band The James Gang and moved to Colorado

Bruce Springsteen
-Rosalita
-1973

Yes
-Roundabout
-1972

The Police
-Roxanne
-1978
-This song can be heard on almost any jukebox in any bar anywhere

Van Halen
-Runnin' with the Devil
-1978

Jackson Browne
-Running on Empty
-1977

Billy Joel
-Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
-1977

Alice Cooper
-School's Out
-1972

The Stooges
-Search and Destroy
-1973

Hall and Oates
-She's Gone
-1973

Pink Floyd
-Shine on Your Crazy Diamond
-1975

Foghat
-Slow Ride
-1975

Deep Purple
-Smoke on the Water
-1972
-This is, perhaps, their best known song. If you listen to the lyrics, it tells the story of how they were in Montreaux, Switzerland and how some idiot shot off a flare pistol at the Montreaux Hotel during a Frank Zappa concert
-Not to mention, most music stores will not allow you to play the opening riff to this song or "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. The staff hears these two iconic riffs, the person playing them will be thrown out, odds are!

Peter Gabriel
-Solsbury Hill
-1977

Queen
-Somebody to Love
-1976

Led Zeppelin
-Stairway to Heaven
-This has to be their BEST KNOWN song ever!! Robert Plant's powerful voice takes a quiet turn on this song and shows a somewhat soft, emotional side to the legendary voice of this song!

The Faces
-Stay with Me
-1971

Ted Nugent
-Stranglehold
-1975

Stealers Wheel
-Stuck in the Middle with You
-1972

David Bowie
-Suffragette City
-1972
-This song is what started my love of his music. This was the first David Bowie song I heard and after that, I became a fan!!

Dire Straits
-Sultans of Swing
-1978
-This is the song that got me into Dire Straits, along with "Money for Nothing"

Cheap Trick
-Surrender
-1978

Aerosmith
-Sweet Emotion
-1975
-This song was an angry jab at guitar player Joe Perry's then wife, Elyssa Jerret

Lynyrd Skynyrd
-Sweet Home Alabama
-1974
-This has to be their best known song

The Velvet Underground
-Sweet Jane
-1970

AC/DC
-T.N.T.
-1976

Steve Miller Band
-Take the Money and Run
-1976

Bachman, Turner, Overdrive
-Takin' Care of Business
-1973

Bob Dylan
-Tangled Up in the Blue
-1975

Bruce Springsteen
-Thunder Road
-1975

Elton John
-Tiny Dancer
-1971

The Clash
-Train in Vain
-1979

The Rolling Stones
-Tumbling Dice
-1972
-This is one of their more frequently radio-played songs

Bob Seger
-Turn the Page
-1973
-This is one of my favorites. Also, check out Metallica's cover of it. Pretty good!!

ZZ Top
-Tush
-1975

Lou Reed
-Walk on the Wild Side
-1972

Aerosmith
-Walk This Way
-1975
-Another well known song

Genesis
-Watcher of the Skies
-1972

Queen
-We Will Rock You
-1977

Grand Funk Railroad
-We're an American Band
-1973

Warren Zevon
-Werewolves of London
-1978

The Doobie Brothers
-What a Fool Believes
-1978
-To this day, my stepdad jokingly thinks this should be a wedding song, lol!!

George Harrison
-What is Life
-1970

Journey
-Wheel in the Sky
-1978

The Allman Brothers Band
-Whipping Post
-1971

The Who
-Who Are You
-1978
-Used as the intro theme to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Creedence Clearwater Revival
-Who'll Stop the Rain?
-1970

The Rolling Stones
-Wild Horses
-1971

Van Morrison
-Wild Night
-1971

Pink Floyd
-Wish You Were Here
-1975

The Who
-Won't Get Fooled Again
-1971
-Used as the opening intro to CSI: Miami

Bachman-Turner Overdrive
-You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
-1974

Rod Stewart
-You Wear It Well
-1972

David Bowie
-Ziggy Stardust
-1972

Top 200 1970s Songs Part I

The 1970s had it all-goofy clothes for disco, the birth of hard rock, heavy metal and punk, the success of disco, the whole nine yards. So here to celebrate the decade when people wore platform shoes to the local discotheque, danced to Saturday Night Fever, here are the Top 200 1970s Songs.

Rush
-2112
-1976
-Considered the most ambitious thing Rush ever did

Van Halen
Ain't Talking 'Bout Love
-1978
-This shows Eddie Van Halen experimenting with electric sitar

Free
-All Right Now
-1970
-Guitarist Paul Kossoff and singer Paul Rodgers knock this song out of the park. But sadly Paul Kossoff would be found dead from a drug overdose three years later

Mott the Hoople
-All the Young Dudes
-1972
-David Bowie wrote and produced this song. To this day, this song has been covered multiple times by multiple artists, such as Bruce Dickinson, Ozzy Osbourne, etc
-Personally I gotta go with Bruce Dickinson's heavy metal take on the David Bowie original!! Bruce gives it a heavy metal touch and it is awesome!!!

Tom Petty
-American Girl
-1977

The Guess Who
-American Woman
-1970
-This is their best known song

Sex Pistols
Anarchy in the UK
-1976
-This is their introductory song to the explosive power of British punk

Pink Floyd
-Another Brick in the Wall
-1979
-By far, out of all their albums, this is my favorite. This track has been covered by multiple musicians.

Jethro Tull
-Aqualung
-1971

The Who
-Baba O'Riley
-1971
-The opening keyboard is what sets this song off as one of the ultimate '70s era songs. Not to mention, if you're familiar with CSI:NY, you'll know this song is the opening song to the show

Eddie Money
-Baby Hold On
-1978
-One of his better known songs next to "Two Tickets to Paradise"

Bruce Springsteen
-Backstreets
-1975
-This particular musician gave a lot of artists back in the 1970s a run for their money in terms of getting on to a label. Most labels wanted musicians like Springsteen instead of musicians like Aerosmith or Kiss

The Sweet
-Ballroom Blitz
-1973
-The song was inspired by an incident in Scotland where the crowd started throwing bottles at the band, a literal "ballroom blitz"

Paul McCartney and Wings
-Band on the Run
-1974
-Perhaps his best known non-Beatles song

T. Rex
-Bang a Gong (Get It On)
-1971
-This is perhaps their best known song. Known for jazzy saxophone and buzzsaw guitar, this is one of the ultimate 1970s glam rock songs

Heart
-Barracuda
-1977
-This song comes with a bit of a dark side. It was suspected that Ann and Nancy Wilson, both the founding members of Heart, were romantically involved. And to take out their frustration, along comes "Barracuda"

Rolling Stones
-Beast of Burden
-1978
-This song makes a reference to Keith Richards' drug use of the 1970s. Not to mention, you'll probably never listen to it the same way after hearing it played in the film Fifty Shades of Grey

Elton John
-Bennie and the Jets
-1974
-This is from one of Elton John's most successful albums, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Ram Jam
-Black Betty
-1977
-This is probably the ONLY song this band is known for

Kiss
-Black Diamond
-1974
-Composed by Paul Stanley and sung by Peter Criss, this legendary Kiss song is beloved by fans of all ages.

Led Zeppelin
-Black Dog
-1971

Santana
-Black Magic Woman
-1970
-This song is highly reminiscent of old Fleetwood Mac

Manfred Mann
-Blinded by the Light
-1977
-This was originally written by Bruce Springsteen for his debut album

The Ramones
-Blitzkrieg Pop
-1976
-This song ushered in New York-era punk

Queen
-Bohemian Rhapsody
-1975
-Six minutes long is a lot to ask for some songs. But this is one of Queen's most legendary songs. It became even more well known when it was used in the film Wayne's World. To this day, when the song gets to one certain part, people start banging their heads like in the film

Bruce Springsteen
-Born to Run
-1975
-Not one of his best songs, but a lot of people like it, so be it

Thin Lizzy
-The Boys are Back in Town
-1976
-This is their best known song

Pink Floyd
-Brain Damage
-1973
-A reference to previous member Syd Barrett's mental state

The Pretenders
-Brass in Pocket
-1979

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
-Breakdown
-1976
-One of my favorites by him

Simon and Garfunkel
-Bridge over Troubled Water
-1970

Rolling Stones
-Brown Sugar
-1971
-If you listen to the lyrics, you almost start suspecting that the song is about a slave owner forcing an interracial relationship with a slave. Not to mention Mick Jagger wrote this while filming Ned Kelly in Australia

Bad Company
-Can't Get Enough
-1974

Van Morrison
-Caravan
-1970

Kansas
-Carry On Wayward Son
-1976

Ted Nugent
-Cat Scratch Fever
-1977
-The Motor City Madman takes a song and makes it sound suggestive. To this day, this is one of his most heavily requested songs at his concerts

David Bowie
-Changes
-1972
-This is the song that sort of introduced him to the world

ZZ Top
-Cheap Sunglasses
-1979
-This band is known for taking all types of music and infusing it into their own to make a truly unique sound

The Doobie Brothers
-China Grove
-1973

Eric Clapton
-Cocaine
-1977
-This first appeared on his 1977 album Slowhand

Styx
-Come Sail Away
-1977

Pink Floyd
-Comfortably Numb
-1979

Neil Young
-Cortez the Killer
-1975

Heart
-Crazy on You
-1976

Van Halen
-Dance the Night Away
-1979

Steely Dan
-Deacon Blues
-1977

Steely Dan
-Do It Again
-1972
-I honestly thought Carlos Santana did this song, idk why!

Peter Frampton
-Do You Feel Like We Do
-1976

Jackson Browne
-Doctor My Eyes
-1972

Van Morrison
-Domino
-1970
-This is Van Morrison's interesting tribute to Fats Domino

Electric Light Orchestra
-Don't Bring Me Down
-1979

Tom Petty
-Don't Do Me Like That
-1979

Blue Oyster Cult
-Don't Fear the Reaper
-1976
-This is probably their best known song

Foreigner
-Double Vision
-1978
-Despite suspicions that this song was about drugs, it was actually about Lou Gramm and Mick Jones going to see the New York Rangers hockey game and seeing their goalie complain of double vision after sustaining a concussion

Aerosmith
-Dream On
-1973
-This is the song that wrote the book on power ballads

Fleetwood Mac
-Dreams
-1977

Van Halen
-Eruption
-1978
-Most people love hearing Eddie shred on this song. I think it's nothing more than just Eddie Van Halen egotistically showing off

Electric Light Orchestra
-Evil Woman
-1975

Bad Company
-Feel Like Making Love
-1975
-It seems as though during the 1970s "love" was on the minds of all members of Bad Company

Rush
-Fly by Night
-1975
-This was inspired by drummer Neil Peart's first airplane ride away from home

Boston
-Foreplay/Long Time
-1976

The Edgar Winter Group
-Free Ride
-1973

Lynyrd Skynyrd
-Free Bird
-1974

Elton John
-Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
-1973

James Gang
-Funk #49
-1970

Lynyrd Skynyrd
-Gimme Three Steps
-1973

Supertramp
-Give a Little Bit
-1977

Fleetwood Mac
-Go Your Own Way
-1977

The Cars
-Let the Good Times Roll
-1978

Supertramp
-Goodbye Stranger
-1979

Nazareth
-Hair of the Dog
-1975

The Rolling Stones
-Happy
-1972
-Keith Richards, who sings this track, is the only original member of the Stones to appear on this song

Blondie
-Heart of Glass
-1978

Neil Young
-Heart of Gold
-1972

Pat Benatar
-Heartbreaker
-1979

Todd Rundgren
-Hello It's Me
-1972

Joni Mitchell
-Help Me
-1974

AC/DC
-Highway to Hell
-1979
-Singer Bon Scott died right after this album was made. So he was unable to do the band's next album, Back in Black, which was sung entirely by new singer Brian Johnson

Bob Seger
-Hollywood Nights
-1978

The Eagles
-Hotel California
-1976

Cheap Trick
-I Want You to Want Me
-1977

Yes
-I've Seen All Good People
-1971

John Lennon
-Imagine
-1971
Even to this day, after being covered by dozens of musicians, this song still stands the test of time as the ultimate song of peace

John Lennon
-Instant Karma
-1970

Black Sabbath
-Iron Man
-1971
-Even to this day, this song remains one of their most heavily requested songs at concerts and on radios, not to mention it's also heavily used in films

Thin Lizzy
-Jailbreak
-1976

Steve Miller Band
-The Joker
-1973

Harry Nilsson
-Jump Into the Fire
-1971

The Cars
-Just What I Needed
-1978

Led Zeppelin
-Kashmir
-1975
-Known for their long, droning songs with equally long drum or guitar solos, this song has influenced almost every type of music under the sun

Queen
-Killer Queen
-1974

Bob Dylan
-Knocking on Heaven's Door
-1973

The Doors
L.A. Woman
-1971

ZZ Top
-La Grange
-1973

Genesis
-The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
-1974

Fleetwood Mac
-Landslide
-1975

Warren Zevon
-Lawyers Guns and Money
-1978

Derek and the Dominoes
-Layla
-1970
-An ode to his crush on Patti Boyd, who was married to then Beatles member George Harrison

The Beatles
-Let It Be
-1970
-This is one of their more popular tracks because of it's church hymn-like rhythm, this song could conceivably be a church song

Someecards

For those unfamiliar with what this is, Someecards are a series of online cards mostly seen on Facebook or the internet. They can pertain to just about anything, from music to pop culture to more adult rated stuff. I'm doing a post on some of the ones I find funny and ones about music. Some of them are so true. But there will be a few on here that are not of the Someecard series that I just find hysterical

So true to all the Sabbath haters out there!



This is me and my sister in May!

This one I like!!

So true!

I would so do this...

 

Yes, definitely!!!!

 



Sexiest accent EVER!! And British guys just seem like such perfect gentleman. That I like :D

Ooooh. this would be good. Not so much having a boyfriend with a Brit accent, how about just a friend who's a guy with a cute British accent? I can settle for that :D

Really sad when this seems to be just a little too true...

 



I see a lot of girls do this. They'll wear a shirt and not even know the band on it or not even like the band; they wear it because it looked cool. Example 1: in 10th grade, a girl I knew had come to school wearing an inappropriate shirt and had to change, and somehow came back to class wearing a black Led Zeppelin shirt advertising their 1976 Tour of America. People asked her if she liked Led Zeppelin and she said she didn't even know who they were, until one of my classmates told her that they were a British hard rock band from the late 1960s

 

I just had to include this. Too awesome!!!!