Metal Bands of the 70s

[Jumper K]

Most of the bands already mentioned are definitely hard rock, but the band that defines what Heavy Metal is is Priest. Even they started out as a Heavy Rock band.

[robertff]

Never really considered Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Zep and the like as Heavy Metal or just Metal ,to me they will always be heavy rock no matter what any magazine wants to define them as for their readership. Queen - metal, do me a favour.

The metal bands for me are the likes of Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax and their ilk - the ones I find unlistenable. Not to say that there's anything wrong with them, a good friend of mine is a huge metal fan probably got the largest collection of metal records and paraphernalia that one can imagine. He goes to all the metal festivals, buys the backstage passes, meets the bands and so on. Me I just don't like it but as we've often said 'horses for courses'.


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[Darkness_Fish]

NWOBHM produced the bands that redefined what heavy metal meant in the public consciousness. So you're basically looking at 1979 now being year zero for heavy metal, even though that was a second wave thing.

[The Modernist]

It was whatever patches people sowed on their denim jackets!

[Purgatory Brite]

Metal (no longer heavy) in the 21st century is a very different animal from the music produced in the late 60s and 70s. The current generation of metal fans dismiss bands such as Led Zep and Deep Purple as "blues rock".

Only Judas Priest, Black Sabbath and, maybe, Budgie can stand toe to toe with today's metal behemoths like Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeath and Slayer.

[pcqgod]

This is pretty metal for '71, French horn and all.

[C]

Some of these 70s hard rock bands, like Budgie, helped define the New Wave Metal the 80s




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[The Slider]

"Today on this program you will hear gospel, and rhythm and blues, and jazz. All those are just labels. We know that music is music… "

Jessie Jackson knew.

[BARON CORNY DOG]

It was whatever patches people sowed on their denim jackets!

Which one did YOU have!?

[The Modernist]

It was whatever patches people sowed on their denim jackets!

Which one did YOU have!?

NONE!
Did wear those tiny band badges though which was a very early 80s thing.

[trans-chigley express]

I always associate metal with whatever featured in Kerrang! Magazine and that didn't exist in the 70s.

[C]

The Commonwealth Games from Birmingham, England's TV coverage has been playing Black Sabbath's Paranoid to accompany headlines and clips.

Fair enough - a great Brummy band

But I find it irritating when the anchors' refer to it as 'metal'

Twerps

I have never referred to Sabbath as 'metal'- have you....?




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[robertff]

The Commonwealth Games from Birmingham, England's TV coverage has been playing Black Sabbath's Paranoid to accompany headlines and clips.

Fair enough - a great Brummy band

But I find it irritating when the anchors' refer to it as 'metal'

Twerps

I have never referred to Sabbath as 'metal'- have you....?


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Heavy rock C.


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[C]

The Commonwealth Games from Birmingham, England's TV coverage has been playing Black Sabbath's Paranoid to accompany headlines and clips.

Fair enough - a great Brummy band

But I find it irritating when the anchors' refer to it as 'metal'

Twerps

I have never referred to Sabbath as 'metal'- have you....?


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Heavy rock C.


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Correct Rob




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[Matt Wilson]

Black Sabbath is metal.

[LMG]

One of the first LPs I bought was this one, a TV advertised compilation helpfully called Heavy Metal.

It was released in 1974 and I acquired it for a couple of bucks in a chain store 'cutout' sale the following year.

This album has never steered me wrong, and helps the neophyte understand that Heavy Metal is, indeed and at its best, a very, very broad church.

In many ways, the buddhism of churches, if the analogy can be stretched so far.

From the cod-reggae hit single by Led Zeppelin, 'D'yer Maker', to the hard hitting rhythm 'n' blues metal of Van Morrison and Delaney and Bonnie, to Southern Goth Metal acts like the Allman Brothers, to the Metal Pixie himself Marc Bolan with his only US hit, and finally at the end of the alphabet to the fetid progrock moshpit riffing of Yes, it's all metal and it's all present and correct.

The album and its television media campaign illustrated nearly a half-century ago just how helpful it is to remember that although seminal Heavy Metal artists may stray from their HM roots, their initial grounding in Heavy Metal is where their hearts lie, and has been the core reason for their influence, if not their subsequent popularity.

Certainly this is most evident in the careers of Heavy Metal Icons Dr John, The Eagles, The J Geils Band, The Doors, Van Morrison, War, Delaney and Bonnie, and The Grateful Dead.

And Buffalo Springfield.

Oh, and Yes.



Tracklist
A1. MC5 - Kick Out the Jams (2:37)
A2. Black Sabbath - Iron Man (5:55)
A3. Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen (3:00)
A4. Jimi Hendrix - Freedom (3:26)
A5. James Gang - Must Be Love (3:48)
A6. Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water (7:07)
B1. T. Rex - Bang a Gong (Get It On) (4:27)
B2. The J. Geils Band - Give It to Me (6:27)
B3. Dr. John - Right Place Wrong Time (2:55)
B4. Led Zeppelin - D'yer Maker (4:22)
B5. Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird (9:00)
B6. Faces - Cindy Incidentally (2:35)
C1. The Doors - Touch Me (3:15)
C2. The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man (4:48)
C3. Delaney & Bonnie - Only You & I Know (4:10)
C4. Van Morrison - Domino (3:06)
C5. Eagles - Outlaw Man (3:25)
C6. Yes - Starship Trooper (9:25)
D1. Golden Earring - Radar Love (6:22)
D2. Grateful Dead - Johnny B. Goode (3:41)
D3. Foghat - What a Shame (3:48)
D4. Uriah Heep - Stealin' (4:49)
D5. WAR - Lonely Feelin' (4:32)
D6. Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride (3:45)

Hope this helps.

[C]

The Commonwealth Games from Birmingham, England's TV coverage has been playing Black Sabbath's Paranoid to accompany headlines and clips.

Fair enough - a great Brummy band

But I find it irritating when the anchors' refer to it as 'metal'

Twerps

I have never referred to Sabbath as 'metal'- have you....?


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Heavy rock C.


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Or hard rock




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[robertff]

One of the first LPs I bought was this one, a TV advertised compilation helpfully called Heavy Metal.

It was released in 1974 and I acquired it for a couple of bucks in a chain store 'cutout' sale the following year.

This album has never steered me wrong, and helps the neophyte understand that Heavy Metal is, indeed and at its best, a very, very broad church.

In many ways, the buddhism of churches, if the analogy can be stretched so far.

From the cod-reggae hit single from Led Zeppelin, 'D'yer Maker', to the hard hitting rhythm 'n' blues metal of Van Morrison and Delaney and Bonnie, to Southern Goth Metal acts like the Allman Brothers, to the Metal Pixie himself Marc Bolan with his only US hit, and finally at the end of the alphabet to the fetid progrock moshpit riffing of Yes, it's all metal and it's all present and correct.

The album and its television media campaign illustrated nearly a half-century ago just how helpful it is to remember that although seminal Heavy Metal artists may stray from their HM roots, their initial grounding in Heavy Metal is where their hearts lie, and has been the core reason for their influence, if not their subsequent popularity.

Certainly this is most evident in the careers of Heavy Metal Icons Dr John, The Eagles, The J Geils Band, The Doors, Van Morrison, War, Delaney and Bonnie, and The Grateful Dead.

And Buffalo Springfield.

Oh, and Yes.



Tracklist
A1. MC5 - Kick Out the Jams (2:37)
A2. Black Sabbath - Iron Man (5:55)
A3. Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen (3:00)
A4. Jimi Hendrix - Freedom (3:26)
A5. James Gang - Must Be Love (3:48)
A6. Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water (7:07)
B1. T. Rex - Bang a Gong (Get It On) (4:27)
B2. The J. Geils Band - Give It to Me (6:27)
B3. Dr. John - Right Place Wrong Time (2:55)
B4. Led Zeppelin - D'yer Maker (4:22)
B5. Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird (9:00)
B6. Faces - Cindy Incidentally (2:35)
C1. The Doors - Touch Me (3:15)
C2. The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man (4:48)
C3. Delaney & Bonnie - Only You & I Know (4:10)
C4. Van Morrison - Domino (3:06)
C5. Eagles - Outlaw Man (3:25)
C6. Yes - Starship Trooper (9:25)
D1. Golden Earring - Radar Love (6:22)
D2. Grateful Dead - Johnny B. Goode (3:41)
D3. Foghat - What a Shame (3:48)
D4. Uriah Heep - Stealin' (4:49)
D5. WAR - Lonely Feelin' (4:32)
D6. Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride (3:45)

Hope this helps.

Faces, Doors, Van Morrison, Eagles, Yes, Delaney and Bonnie, Buffalo Springfield and a number of other on that tracklisting could never ever be described as Heavy Metal, only by some advertising person trying to seduce people into buying an album such as this under the nomenclature Heavy Metal. Mind you, the album has a very worthy track list and I can see why you bought it but heavy metal - no.


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[C]

Most of the bands already mentioned are definitely hard rock, but the band that defines what Heavy Metal is is Priest. Even they started out as a Heavy Rock band.

Spot on




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[LMG]

Mind you, the album has a very worthy track list and I can see why you bought it but heavy metal - no.


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And that's what's so great about the broad church of Heavy Metal - not only can we debate about who the best guitar player is - Jimmy Page or Ritchie Blackmore, or the all time best twin guitar line up of Judas Priest or Iron Maiden or The Allman Brothers or The Grateful Dead, we can also debate what the term itself means and how wide (my view) or narrow (your view) we want to apply it.

Best Heavy Metal frontman? I know many will immediately go for Jon Anderson or Ian Anderson, or Van Morrison/Jim Morrison. All worthy selections But I say they should consider whether being The King of Pop should automatically disqualify an artist from consideration as the Best Heavy Metal frontman.

If not, then it is clearly Michael Jackson.