Your favorites of these classic "hard rock" 70s songs

[KevShmev]

You can vote for up to 5.

I am going with:

Don't Fear the Reaper
Smokin'
Frankenstein
Tie Your Mother Down
Runnin' with the Devil

[Podaar]

Don't Fear The Reaper - because of that guitar solo section
Tie Your Mother Down - Great lyrics
Black Dog - Zep 
Hold Your Head Up - Nostalgia about my first stereo
Runnin' with the Devil - Great tune

[TheCountOfNYC]

Don’t Fear the Reaper, Aqualung, Fly by Night, Smokin’, and Black Dog.

[max_security]

I just voted for 3 .

The Real Me - John Entwistle was the Bassman of the 1970's.
Man on the Silver Mountain - I can sing this in car exactly like Dio ,   
Frankenstein - a bad ass hippie jam.

[Cool Chris]

Highway to Hell is in its own tier.

The Real Me is best when listened to in the context of the album. I almost like the 1979 slower version more. Almost.

Aqualung - Great song.

Running with the Devil is possibly the best debut album opener ever.

Aerosmith is garbage.

The rest are mediocre to good songs that I don't care enough about to have profound opinions on.

[TAC]

Highway To Hell
Man On The Silver Mountain
Aqualung
Frankenstein
Don't Fear The Reaper

[dparrott]

I haven't heard some of those. 

Funny thing about Aerosmith: I never heard of WTW until Run-DMC redid it.  Then I heard the original soon after and was like and my older brother said "That's the original song." 

VH and Zep for me. 

[TAC]

The Run DMC cover was instrumental to Aerosmith's comeback

[bl5150]

Rainbow
AC/DC
Purple
Sabbath
Van Halen

[TAC]

Other than Eddie's solo, I have zero interest in RWTD.

[jjrock88]

Rainbow
Rush
Purple
VH
Sabbath

[wolfking]

BOC
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Rush
Rainbow

[LudwigVan]

BOC
Tull
Zep
Purple
Sabbath

[The Walrus]

Don't Fear The Reaper
Man On The Silver Mountain
Fly By Night
Highway to Hell
Black Dog

[KevShmev]

These poll results usually have at least one surprise for me, and the lack of votes for Tie Your Mother Down is it in this one; I thought that was one of the favorites to get the most votes.

[TAC]

Why would you think that? Honestly, I barely ever heard it on the radio growing up, while I easily overheard every other song.

[The King in Crimson]

BOC
BS
LZ
Tull
Queen

Boston almost made it but Queen won out

[Architeuthis]

Rush
ACDC
Rainbow
Boston
Blue Oyster cult

[KevShmev]

Why would you think that? Honestly, I barely ever heard it on the radio growing up, while I easily overheard every other song.

KSHE-95 here in St. Louis used to play the living crap out of that song (and they probably still do). 

[TAC]

Where?







 


Seriously, I never heard it on the radio growing up.

[splent]

Had a harder time because many of these bands I like other songs by them WAY better than the songs listed.

Rush
Blue Oyster Cult
Zeppelin
Rainbow
Tull

[Stadler]

Huh.  Not to be that guy, but those are, with one or two exceptions (BoC), basically my favorite bands of all time, and yet...

AC/DC, Highway to Hell.  LITERALLY my least favorite song on the record, and perhaps my least favorite Bon Scott song.  I have pretty much every song ever officially released by AC/DC, and it's the only song that isn't on my iPod, I dislike it that much.  Even the two instrumentals from "Who Made Who" are on there. 

Boston, Smokin'.  Over More Than A Feeling, Peace of Mind, Long Time, and Don't Look Back???  I'm from Connecticut, so there was about a ten year period where every rock radio station had to, by statute, play one Boston song every hour, and "Smokin'" was almost never the song.   Rock And Roll Band even got more play. 

Rush:  Around here, Working Man, Temples, Closer To The Heart, Tom Sawyer (yes, I know it was '81), and Spirit of Radio got WAY more play than "Fly By Night".   To this day, I hear Working Man more than any Rush song other than Tom Sawyer. 

 

[Stadler]

Feel obligated to point out that my main man, Ritchie B. has TWO bands on the list.  Who-hooooo!

[Nekov]

BOC
Jetrho Tull
AC/DC
Deep Purple
Black Sabbath

[pg1067]

I chose

Man on the Silver Mountain - Not the best Dio era Rainbow song, but probably the most well known and a great song.
Aqualung - Such a classic.  I once did it at a karaoke bar.  I knew the song well but had never paid attention to the lyrics.  It was an interesting experience.
Fly by Night - Not the Rush song I'd have gone with, but great nonetheless.
The Real Me - John Entwistle absolutely destroys on this song!  Very underrated Who track.
Iron Man - Overplayed, but still a classic.

Only a couple songs I don't really care for (Hold Your Head Up and Frankenstein).  Some other songs by some of the other bands might have made this a more difficult choice.

[TAC]

So I get home from work and jump on DTF...First I read this and think..

AC/DC, Highway to Hell.  LITERALLY my least favorite song on the record, and perhaps my least favorite Bon Scott song.  I have pretty much every song ever officially released by AC/DC, and it's the only song that isn't on my iPod, I dislike it that much.  Even the two instrumentals from "Who Made Who" are on there.   

...

..only to read this in the next thread I check out..

   I actually like "Safety Dance" and have it on my iPod.

 

[bosk1]

I have no problem with either of those statements.

[TAC]

You mean this one?

...

..and this one?

[bl5150]

 

[Stadler]

I know TAC, I know.   It's something abuot that song.  And like I said, I'm an AC/DC nut.  I love them.  I even have the Australian versions of High Voltage and T.N.T.   For some reason that song makes me feel uncomfortable and I don't know why.   

The Safety Dance?  That's just stupid fun.   

[Orbert]

Boston - Smokin'
Argent - Hold Your Head Up
Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein

Because I'm a keyboard player.  'Nuff said.


Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain

Because this was my introduction to Ronnie James Dio, one of my all-time favorite rock voices.


Van Halen - Runnin' with the Devil

Personal reasons, but also a great song in its own right.

[ProfessorPeart]

Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain
Queen - Tie Your Mother Down
Boston - Smokin'
The Who - The Real Me

[Ninjabait]

Aqualung, Iron Man, Smoke on the Water, Tie Your Mother Down, and Fly by Night.

[MirrorMask]

Man on the Silver Mountain  and Tie your Mother Down

[DebraKadabra]

Man on the Silver Mountain (UGH.. great song!)
Aqualung (even though I much prefer Locomotive Breath)
Hold Your Head Up (still a fantastic 70s art rock song)
Frankenstein (still adore this one)
The Real Me (it's The WHO, though I prefer Love, Reign O'er Me)