Also ranks #7 on The Best Rock Bassists of All Time And Deeper People Who Got Fired From Huge Rock Bands 16 Bootsy Collins 417 votes Also ranks #5 on The Best P-Funk Bands/Artists Also ranks #6 on The Best Psychedelic Soul Bands/Artists Also ranks #7 on The Best Funk Bands/Artists...
Deep Purple was one of the greatest rock bands in the 1970s. Although they didn't last as long together as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, their music was and always will be memorable. Everyone knows Smoke on the Water's guitar riff, and, my god, Highway Star is one of the best ca...
From rock to soul and funk to country, we go across the globe to bring you some of the finest songs from the decade.Published on January 31, 2025 By uDiscover Team The best 70s songs? It’s an impossible task, surely. There was simply too much going on throughout the world to ...
We’ve done a separate story on some of the Godfather of Soul’shighly imaginative song titles. The full name of this one from 1971 is “Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got to Get What She Wants).” I remember that that same year my classmate Elaine got sent home from school ...
theGreatest Soul Albums of the 1970s. The results were a great selection of 50 essential albums for Soul Music lovers. You may or may not agree with the choices (no fighting please!), but it’s tough to go wrong with any of these. For soul music lovers, this is a binge-worthy ...
Also ranks #9 onThe Best Psychedelic Soul Bands/Artists 5 The Brothers Johnson 335 votes Consisting of siblings George and Louis Johnson, this dynamic duo rose to prominence in the late 1970s with their smooth brand of funk that incorporated elements of disco and R&B. Their tight musicianship...
“Who Knows,”“Power of Soul,” and “Message to Love” blister with the deep funk rock sound Hendrix was turning towards. And then there’s “Machine Gun.” Quite possibly the most wildly explosive and painfully vivid musical statement ever caught live on tape, Hendrix’s 12-minute ...
Dibango douses it in soul, funk, and jazz to the point that “Soul Makossa” is more funky proto-disco than it is makossa. But that reimagining is also what made the song such a phenomenon; it played to people’s ideas of what a cosmopolitan African continent sounded like, presented in...
Related:Our feature story on Edgar Winter’sThey Only Come Out at Night Bill Withers—Still Bill—What a glorious, resonant voice he had! After making his intro withJust As I Amthe previous year, the soul singer returned with what is arguably his masterpiece. With the back-to-back hit ...
Soul Asylum and other bands from the Twin Cities area, is from a 1998 show on the band’s home turf at the First Avenue in Minneapolis. It is sung by Gary Louris of the Jayhawks, who gives it a full-on ironic cheesy lounge singer treatment. Soul Asylum’s Dan Murphy’s guitar solo...