What I love most about Rick is how much he loves music.

@ironymatt

11 ай бұрын

For the greatest precision in air guitar virtuosity, there's none better

@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398

11 ай бұрын

@@ironymatt Air-Guitar Hero.....

@thomasluby1754

11 ай бұрын

Agee! 🙂🙂🙂

@adam872

11 ай бұрын

He's the fan in all of us, but with immense musical knowledge

@tavismaplesden

11 ай бұрын

I like his shirt

I've often felt that 1972/73 were incredible years: Eagles, Zeppelin, Yes, ELP, America, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Deep Purple, Allmans, Genesis, Stevie Wonder, Chicago, Jethro Tull, Steely Dan, David Bowie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Todd Rundgren, Wings, ... so many amazing albums in those two years!!!

@RicG.

11 ай бұрын

Agree - much better than Rick's list.

@matthies8431

11 ай бұрын

@@RicG. not much better. In my opinion they are equally good

@autk

11 ай бұрын

Certainly an emphasis on more progressive rock in that list, and more diverse for sure. Like that list, lots of my favorites!

@geol1936

11 ай бұрын

Debut records.........

@DigoMalaca

11 ай бұрын

The seventies were the pinnacle in terms of music production.

I finished high school in Australia in 1978 as a 17 year old. After my final Year 12 exam I was driving home from school for the last time, feeling strange and wondering where life would lead me. On that drive home feeling those emotions I was listening to the radio, when suddenly this newly released record started playing........ it was Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. That haunting sax and melody, searing lead guitar and Gerry's soothing vocals, perfectly melded with my mood, my feelings, my sense of wonder. It was perfect! To this day, whenever I here Baker Street, I'm suddenly 17 again driving home from school for the last time, out into the big, wide world.......

@MickH60

11 ай бұрын

I'm an Aussie too, 15 in 1978, Baker Street is still legendary.... What a song....

@YandTIII

11 ай бұрын

Gerry Rafferty’s city to city was a brilliant album!

@musicbro8225

11 ай бұрын

Such contrast between the sax hook and his vocals... Incredible song! Rick should do a 'what makes this song great'.

@jimgorycki4013

11 ай бұрын

What's even more amazing was that Gerry Rafferty was in a band called "Stealer's Wheel" and they came out with a classic called "stuck in the middle with you" in 1972

@Elitist20

11 ай бұрын

Same age as you, doing HSC the same year. Never forget Baker Street. And on the home front: The Angels and Cold Chisel!

I always tell kids today they have no idea how amazing it was to grow up listening to the music of the 70s. Seeing all the great albums come out chronologically, one band trying to outdo each other, and all the different genres! The music is timeless and will live on forever!

@FrancescaTmusic

11 ай бұрын

I love the music of that time!! I wish I was alive then! Thank goodness my mom and dad played it a lot when I was growing up!!

@davidlarsen-tj4tn

11 ай бұрын

I tell my son who is 26 now all the time he’ll never know how great it was going to a record store and getting one of your favorite bands albums/cassettes. Even taking hours going through the bins looking for new bands to listen to.

@FrancescaTmusic

11 ай бұрын

@@davidlarsen-tj4tn ahhhhh would love that!! I love doing that now to the old record stores!! Guess I’m an old soul!

@Woodstockneverhappened

11 ай бұрын

I’m 64 and had the privilege of having a brother five years older than me. He introduced me to the scene very early. He took me to my first show in 1972 Three Dog Night at a local high school first time. I also smoked weed. How many of y’all can member Height Ashbury summer of love 67 and how many great bands came out of there. I’ve been in the Height Ashbury area numerous times last time being roughly 3 years ago so sad the way it is now. No more “California Dreaming” for me. ✌️❤️ 🎸

@kree8iv

10 ай бұрын

So you're the one! They deeply resent us, you know. We keep telling them about how great being a teenager in the mid-to-late 70's was and they have deep FOMO. So much so, that they hate hearing it anymore. They've been finding the music by themselves, and many of them are looking for a simpler time within their own time. It's not fair to them. They have life so much rougher than we do in many respects.

The Cars debut album is brilliant from start to finish. Simply epic.

@regular_guy70s

11 ай бұрын

First time I heard it in 1989, I played it for a week straight.

@fishvondoom3063

11 ай бұрын

It's like a greatest hits album. And every Elliot Easton lead is not only brilliant, but perfectly appropriate for each song. Love it to this day.

@georgewilliams4258

11 ай бұрын

I had the first album a few months before it started to get airplay when they played it to death I can't stand the Cars to this day.

@stealthyBLK

11 ай бұрын

YES! I jumped up when it popped up on the screen! hahahaa!

@MultiSkyman1

11 ай бұрын

@@fishvondoom3063 Underrated player for sure.

Joe Jackson's debut just missed the cut, releasing in January of 79. One of my favorites.

@flynow5614

11 ай бұрын

Big JJ fan.Body and sole.

@islandtime1402

11 ай бұрын

Did Joe ever find out if she was really going out with him? 🤣 Honestly, I preferred the 1982 release of Night and Day by Joe Jackson.

@flynow5614

11 ай бұрын

@@islandtime1402 turns out she was his number two. Funny I bought night and day today. 1982 sealed, well it's not sealed anymore. Sounds great.

@marke2452

11 ай бұрын

@@TonyLovell Especially the bass.

As much as VH shocked us with “eruption”…I felt the same about the Boston records…I had never heard a guitar tone like that before in my life…and I was mesmerized 👍

@juanesara4870

11 ай бұрын

boston were SUPER ahead of their time, but nobody talks about it

@VengerDFW

11 ай бұрын

After Boston released their debut album, all the kids playing guitar tried to get that sound on their guitar... right until Van Halen out. And then that was that...

@tommyfender1968

11 ай бұрын

Trying to mimic Boston’s debut album, I saved all my money for a 12 string guitar

@aschule5684

11 ай бұрын

Tom Shultz's "ROCKMAN" GUITAR tone is hands down my favorite guitar tone. A friend bought a ROCKMAN and when I got to use it "I wanted one"

@salerio4876

11 ай бұрын

They say that Mutt Lange created Def Leppard's entire sound (career?) from the Tom Shultz "Rockman."

How on earth could we have gone from this type of truly creative, artistic music to where the radio is today?? Mind boggling!

@TheDivayenta

10 ай бұрын

My theory is it’s partly due to the loss of Music class in primary education. So many of us got a musical leg up by learning how to play an instrument.

@dannyspitzer1267

10 ай бұрын

Yeah It's severely messed up.

@minisurfbanana

7 ай бұрын

Theres still radio???

@briancooper1412

7 ай бұрын

You went from music people trying to run a business to business people trying to make music.

@midrangesupport

4 ай бұрын

"we are DEVO", that's how

That Cars debut album is practically perfect. From start to finish it sound so good then once it ends you have to play it through again.

@brianbee

11 ай бұрын

Cars debut album is like a Greatest Hits.

@chuckfarley567

11 ай бұрын

With headphones......

@seminolefantodd4736

11 ай бұрын

That album was a welcome salve to 17-year old angsty me. It was my introduction to "new wave" and remains in my top 10.

@PierreGarrabrant

11 ай бұрын

Candy O is one of the greatest second albums of all time

@holden2gether

11 ай бұрын

I played that album until everybody else was sick of hearing it, then I played it some more ;) Great album.

Your air guitar is iconic, but your air drumming is underrated, Rick.

@alagarswamyingersoll

11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@macleadg

11 ай бұрын

@@alagarswamyingersoll He really should do tutorials on air guitar & drumming.

@davidevens2954

11 ай бұрын

He loses a couple of points for using an air pick for a Mark Knopfler part though.

@theditto69

11 ай бұрын

@@macleadgat the same time?

@macleadg

11 ай бұрын

@@theditto69 Yes! lol

There was a ridiculous amount of great music in 78. To add, This Years Model, Parallel Lines, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Blue Valentine, Heaven Tonight, C'est Chic, Queens 'Jazz', The Pat Metheny Group, Kenny Wheeler's 'Dear Wan'….....what an abundance of greatness

@purplebondsaiyan2987

22 күн бұрын

All Great Albums As Well!!!

The first albums by Boston and The Cars were GREAT. Two of the very best.

This man is the living personification of "The joy of music"

It was a genuinely great year in a great time in music. Blondie's Parallel Lines, Springsteen's Darkness, Patti Smith's Easter, Elvis Costello's This Year's Model, and one of the best live albums ever Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus. Also Foreigner's second record, Double Vision. (Great call on Don't Look Back. Solid record that doesn't get enough love.)

@Elitist20

11 ай бұрын

Same age as Rick. From the ones he played I have Dire Straits, Kate Bush, Devo, Rolling Stones and Brian Eno (though I only got it a few years ago). From the ones you named I have Blondie, Patti Smith and Elvis Costello. What a year!

@gregd2838

11 ай бұрын

Also, Journey's Infinity album came out in 1978. Songs like "Feeling That Way" "Lights" and "Wheel In the Sky" were on that album. Good catch with Double Vision too.

@carlcushmanhybels8159

11 ай бұрын

Agree, Great year in a great time in music. Blondie's "Parallel Lines"... Yes. Very glad someone else here recognizes Little Feat's "Waiting For Columbus," agreeing "One of the best live albums ever."

@davechristian1525

11 ай бұрын

@@gregd2838 That's a GREAT one. That is when Journey became the version that most people know.

@jml-rj5re

11 ай бұрын

@@gregd2838 Classic albums

As much as I was a metalhead at the time, I've loved the first DEVO album since it was released. Amazing album front to back- funny, paranoid, spastic, bizarre, kick ass, melodic, and poignant all at the same time. And nothing has sounded like it before or since. I still listen to it regularly. Also just to add the Toto's debut was also 1978.

@MickH60

11 ай бұрын

I was driving down a hill close to my home when Devo's "Beautiful world" came on the radio, Also being a hard rock/ early metalhead, I was surprised just how good it sounded. I seem to remember exactly where I was when I heard memorable songs. It's kinda cool, a real trip down memory lane....

@akfreed6949

11 ай бұрын

I read in some Devo video that when they were in school they got beat up for wearing Devo t-shirts . What is worse is they got beat up by kids wearing Van Halen t-shirts . I don't think Eddie Van Halen would like that . He never had anything against music that wasn't his genre .

The Man with the Child in His Eyes gives me goosebumps, even after so many years. So glad you included Kate. 78 really was a great music year. So many amazing albums.

@genericusername1365

11 ай бұрын

She will be inducted this year (2023) into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She deserves it. My fave album by her is The Dreaming, but they're all good.

@tonydalton459

9 ай бұрын

I think she was only 13 when she wrote that. Astonishing.

@DavidEVogel

19 күн бұрын

I would also consider Kate Bush as "one in a million." Her imitators (Tori Amos) never equaled the output of Kate.

When I first saw Van Halen, as the support act to Black Sabbath, at the Birmingham Odeon in England in 1978 it changed my life. The excitement, sound, raw talent, American swagger… it was unbelievable. I still love Van Halen in my sixties. What a time to be alive. Thank you. 👍🇬🇧

@path6598

11 ай бұрын

saw that tour at the Hammersmith Odeon.

@richshelton7303

11 ай бұрын

I saw them open for Black Sabbath as well in Amarillo Tx!

@memorylane7068

11 ай бұрын

I first saw them opening up for Sabbath in '78 as well. The world was never the same.

Joe Jackson's debut single, "Is She Really Going Out With Him" was released in the fall of 1978. His debut album, Look Sharp followed a few months later in 1979.

@dianecaldwell5237

11 ай бұрын

Great memory! I love the music of Joe Jackson.

@67marlins

11 ай бұрын

​@Diane Caldwell Do you recall a gorgeous song by him called, 'Always something breaking us in two", from February 1983?

@aisle_of_view

11 ай бұрын

Instant Mash is great, both albums are stylistically similar and brilliant.

@aisle_of_view

11 ай бұрын

Look Sharp! I'm the Man

@erichobbs4042

11 ай бұрын

I discovered that album when I figured out that Anthrax had covered Got The Time.

Rick is still 16 all these years later and that’s awesome !

@skysailor22630

8 ай бұрын

Rick is a man with the child in his eyes.

@sethcaine3659

3 ай бұрын

reverse those numbers

I was in 7th grade in 1978. Man, I remember every single one of these songs when they came out 😁

Hemispheres is just a technical masterpiece - I never tire of listening to that album.

@analogkid4557

11 ай бұрын

I thought of this album too, lol!

@patbusnello9658

11 ай бұрын

I was holding my breath waiting for it and Rick never disappoints!🧠🤘

@MultiSkyman1

11 ай бұрын

@@analogkid4557 I was 17 in 1978, and the only thing that mattered to me was RUSH and the fact that I never had been on a date!

@owenedwardsguitar7094

11 ай бұрын

Hemispheres was my introduction to Rush as a 10 year old in 81. I will never forget that moment

@khrdina

11 ай бұрын

That album is *still* one of the best albums in my collection.

Being old sucks, but at least we still have all that great music!

@chrisw2546

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, but we still got to live 70s music when it happened. I won't trade that for ten years more of youth.

@treff9226

11 ай бұрын

I'd rather be old than cold. Cherish music from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and early 2000's. Sad that music went out of business after that.

@johnwick-ii6qq

11 ай бұрын

@@treff9226the internet changed everything forever, a lot of people want to be like other ppl and alot of originality and creativity vanished, plus cocaine was really prevalent around that time so that made music better

@treff9226

11 ай бұрын

@@johnwick-ii6qq The big debate - do drugs contribute to creativity in art? I'd say in certain instances they do, and you're damn right about the internet and the negative effects it's had on music and other arts. A lot of my time spent on the internet is used to criticize the internet! Lol!

The Kick Inside is a great album and seems to be a little forgotten even amongst the current Katemania. "Moving" is absolutely stunning.

@katesjanice

11 ай бұрын

I love The Sensual World too.

Cold Chisel released their first album in 1978, called “Cold Chisel”. An Australian band for those unaware that should have cracked it worldwide. My favourite band.

@thegreatstrogannofski3418

10 ай бұрын

Agree,but i think if you read jimmy barnes book, they were their own worst enemy with regards to breaking worldwide

Don’t forget that Journey released their Infinity album in 1978. It was huge.

@whamsie4022

11 ай бұрын

“Infinity” was their first album with Steve Perry. Perry had never recorded in a proper studio, so if you consider “Infinity” as Perry’s debut album, it belongs in this list.

@andym28

11 ай бұрын

Every time I hear names like journey Boston or kansas it just give me vibes if cheesy over produced mainstream us rock. Which is the best album that's not too cheesy or over produced.

You didn't mention City to City by Gerry Rafferty! That's my favorite 1978 record for sure. Every song is just so damn catchy. The lyrics are so intimate.

@Moveplaylift

11 ай бұрын

An absolute classic!

@geraldfriend256

11 ай бұрын

Brilliant stuff

@dwaynewladyka577

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Cheers! ✌️

@Phil_Reid

11 ай бұрын

Yeah man that was massive👌🏻

@Jashue

11 ай бұрын

More people should know about that album. It’s perfect.

1978 the height of disco, and these bands that would be the soundtrack to my life in the 80's releasing their first hits, Van Halen, The Police, The Cars, Dire Straits. WOW

This could easily be a two hour plus discussion. If there's a part two? Elvis Costello - This Year's Model. The Who - Who Are You. Styx - Pieces Of Eight. Foreigner - Double Vision. The Band - The Last Waltz. Kraftwork - The Man Machine. AC/DC - If You Want Blood... Just one of the many great live albums of 78... Speaking of... Cheap Trick - Live At Budokan. Journey - Infinity - Introduced us to this vocalist named Steve Perry. Toto - Introduces us to the musicians who played on a third of all the music we heard over the years and didn't know it. Grease Is The Word.... Best selling album of 1978, followed by: 2. Blondie - Parallel Lines. 3. Steve Miller - Greatest Hits. Disco was on the rise. Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing. Village People - Macho Man. Rod Stewart - Blondes Have More Fun was the 5th biggest selling album that year. Doobie Bros entered phase 2 introducing Michael McDonald. Queen gave us the over-the-top Fat Bottom Girls. The Buzzcocks released their debut. Genesis showed they were not just lofty proggers with the wonderful Follow You Follow Me. Anyone remember a little song called Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty?

@Prof_Jeff

11 ай бұрын

Great list you made! I frequently make "Year in Music" lists to discuss with my music-loving co-corkers.

Sadly ignored in these parts, but Thin Lizzy released Live and Dangerous in 1978, and that was the album that changed everything for me.

@CatAndBearone

11 ай бұрын

I ADORE Thin Lizzy. So good! Dancing in the Moonlight is one of my all time favourite songs.

@Ianmackable

11 ай бұрын

I was lucky enough to see them in '77, opening for Queen, with Gary Moore on co-lead guitar. They pretty much stole the show.

@delorangeade

11 ай бұрын

@@CatAndBearone One of their best, but they had so many great songs across a range of genres.

@delorangeade

11 ай бұрын

@@Ianmackable A legendary tour I think a lot of people would wish they had seen. Thin Lizzy was my first live show, but on their farewell tour with John Sykes. Still great.

@CatAndBearone

11 ай бұрын

@@delorangeade oh absolutely! I just love it for the line about going to the cinema and always getting chocolate stains on his pants 😂 It cracks me up every time. I was born mid 80s so wasn't lucky enough to see them, but have photos with the statue of Phil in Dublin.

You could pick any year in the 70's and come up with tons of great music.

How could you forget Kansas’ live double album “Two for the Show”? No overdubs or other technical “fixes.” The album is just as it came off the tape truck. Amazing!

@Woodstockneverhappened

10 ай бұрын

I couldn’t agree with you more I’ve seen Kansas eight times the original Kansas. They had such better songs. I think that dust in the wind, Journey to Mariabon, Song for America Icarus, born on wings of steel, Carry on

@nathanclark4674

4 ай бұрын

I have this album, and was completely blown away that this superb band was JUST AS GREAT live as in the studio! Really cemented the fact that they were impresarios and total pro's.

I'm surprised Rick didn't feature Infinity by Journey released in '78 or Toto's debut album. So many choices in a single year

@Samantha-vlly

10 ай бұрын

Agree Child’s Anthem was a great introductory song

@rosslarsen6144

8 ай бұрын

Wow yeah, Toto is a bit of a miss. Also Blondie's Parallel Lines.

70s was rock artistry at its peak. Amazing.

@jeffreyquinn3820

11 ай бұрын

Most of what's been good ever since really wasn't rock 'n' roll. Heck, most of what was good in the seventies really wasn't, either. It was more of a marketing label than anything that was actually being produced.

@BoltRM

11 ай бұрын

Rock.

@drifterman319

11 ай бұрын

That Boston Don't' Look Back album I wore out. A Man I'll Never Be, so majestically magnificent. Incredible rock ballad.

1978 an incredible year for Rock. You forgot to mention Toto's debut album, one the greatest band ever.

@giorgiomarconi4646

11 ай бұрын

My favorite band… since always

@donnafields2271

11 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing! I know “Hold the Line” came out that year. ❤ Toto ❤️

@marshalbaek5580

11 ай бұрын

@@donnafields2271Hold The Line I still believe was their best song ever.

@danquinnell3502

11 ай бұрын

Fortunately got to see them this year. Did not disappoint. Liked them much more that Journeys current lineup hat they opened for.

@kcash6359

11 ай бұрын

Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street"

I was born after 2000, and I've always wished that I could live in the 1970s. It always looked to me like an incredible time to be living in

@Randy-ul5hy

11 ай бұрын

I was there..born in 1961 and it was just a blast!

@MickH60

11 ай бұрын

@@Randy-ul5hy 63 model here, I loved it.... I could have spent my whole life in the 70's...

@Thestargazer56

11 ай бұрын

Yes the 70s were great for me. I started high school , found JESUS, discovered girls , played sports, still the best music IMHO, finished high school, (played Alice Cooper's "School's Out in my 8-Track in the parking lot while doing burnouts in my 71 Challenger R/T, after graduation- they couldn't take back my diploma after all) started college, quit college, got married , had two fantastic sons, most of my friends were still close (and alive). Nowadays things have slowed down a bit.

@LeRoySL-nk4hp

10 ай бұрын

The 1970's were the best!!

I love the fact that Rick is about all types of music. Who else juxtaposes Eno’s Ambient 1 with the Stones, Earth Wind and Fire and Devo? Love it. Don’t forget Grease. And yes, 1978 was a fantastic music year. Best ever.

And Rumours won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1978, beating out Hotel California and Aja! What a year for music indeed!

@ShaunHensley

11 ай бұрын

We thought new great music would be released like the rising of the sun. From the 70s all the way through the 90s

@TLMuse

11 ай бұрын

Just to be clear (and to explain Rick's omission of these), the official release dates for Rumours and Aja are in 1977, and for Hotel California in 1976. But man are you right-"what a year for music indeed!"

@johnholmes912

11 ай бұрын

Rumours was a pile of dross

@trysometruth

11 ай бұрын

@@johnholmes912 Oh yeah??? Well... John Holms was a pornographic film actor.

@phillipschultz7869

11 ай бұрын

Of course he can't play Beagles because they block like a #@!#%. I think Slowwood do also.

How could you forget Toto's debut? I graduated in '78, so much great stuff!

@petergambino2129

11 ай бұрын

toto the nickleback of the 70's yuck

@JustinPanariello

11 ай бұрын

Huge miss. Toto are stellar musicians. Nickelback my arse lol

@DanEBoyd

11 ай бұрын

@@petergambino2129 MUCH rather listen to Toto, and I don't want to hear a single note of nickleback. But that is still an interesting comparison not without merit - the two bands compare in more of a commercial sense, than musically, to me though. I wasn't big on Toto in their heyday, but I sure didn't dislike them. Steve Lukather has received and earned more accolades as a guitar player, than did nickleback's guitar player - and I blindly say that confidently, without looking it up or knowing what I'm talking about. I have no idea - maybe he is a modern guitar god too.

@arturomorales1142

11 ай бұрын

And Cheap Trick

@ChadH2023

11 ай бұрын

​@@petergambino2129 the dumbest thing I'll read this week.

Darkness on the Edge of Town was released this year. One of the great rock albums ever.

Cheap Trick's Heaven Tonight 1978. I was 15 and they soon became my favorite band and still are.

Oh man, the genius of that Cars album, especially Let the Good Times Roll and Just What I Needed. Fuses all the best elements of pop, rock'n'roll and new wave into a single heavy sound.

If I'm correct, Toto debuted their excellent first album in 1978.

@raymondhartmeijer9300

11 ай бұрын

Yes! October 1978

There was no decade that produced as genre-diverse and flat out fantastic music as the 1970s in my opinion. I graduated HS in 1978 and feel so lucky to have experienced that decade first hand. I remember the early 70s listening to AM radio where all of the "Top 40" was being played because FM radio hadn't really taken hold yet. We had great TV shows like The Midnight Special, Soul Train, American Bandstand and all of the "variety shows" where you could see music groups performing. It was truly a wonderful decade to be a teenager!!! Keep rockin'

I'm surprised you forgot Gerry Raffertys City To City album that included Baker Street and Right Down The Line. Timeless classics.

1991. The list of great albums was great. I was born on 79’ I know I’m biased by the 90’s. But was a great year IMHO, even in South America, there was a lot happening that year

@Henrique_Henriques

11 ай бұрын

I agree

@gregkrupski6054

11 ай бұрын

I think that 91 goes to grunge not Rock.

@qbsrd

11 ай бұрын

​@@gregkrupski6054 The Black Album, Use Your Illusion, Loveless and the Teenage FanClub album weren't Grunge

@autk

11 ай бұрын

​@@gregkrupski6054agree, it was really anti rock and a deliberate 3 chord departure from the technique of glam bands guitar virtuosos to basic almost punk level

@TimPoitevin

11 ай бұрын

​@@gregkrupski6054Grunge is far closer to rock than Billy Joel , or the Rolling Stones, or The Cars, or Devo. Truth is, grunge is far more guitar-based, riff-laden, loud music (aka "rock") than a lot of what came out in 1978.

I turned 28 in 1978. After a few years not playing in live bands I started up again. What a year! As a guitarist I’d have to say that Van Halen was the true game changer band of the era.

@Johnrack

11 ай бұрын

And BTW, I’ll still playing live and recording music, at 71. I retired at 60 and play blues and jazz now. It’s easier on my ears!

Man we were blessed with great music in the 70's!

I was born in 1978. The solo of Mark Knoplfer in Sultans of Swing is just PERFECTION

Best era of music ever. No auto tune no junk just pure voices and pure music!!! And it has stood the test of time!!!

@jackdonkey22

11 ай бұрын

You also didn't need to look fancy for videos yet

@bunsw2070

11 ай бұрын

There just wasn't as much good stuff overall. Plus radio was really bad. I'm pretty certain I'm emotionally scared from all the crap I heard in the 80s. Little girls must have been phoning the stations and swamping the suggestion in box or something. Huey Lewis and the News and that type of thing. Ugh. Women started wearing the pants and controlling the music. I'm 59 but if I lived my life over again I'd never have listened to radio after 1980. Today I never do but I have a phone loaded up when on the go and almost everything ever recorded at home, so it's easy to say that now. I guess I wanted to keep up with what was new. By the late 80s they had classic rock radio that played the same stuff over and over until you hated even that. Then alternative rock came and it was a blessing for a while. Now the artists and industry have married Satan or something. It's so bad. Testicles are shrinking throughout the west, maybe, probably.

@bunsw2070

11 ай бұрын

Remember the hair spray epidemic of the late 80s? Steel Panther, yeah!

1978 and I was 18! What a great time for rock! WORJ in Orlando played whole albums every Saturday night and we couldn't wait! Also the drinking age was 18 then too!

i was born April 28, 1978,...and i still Rock these tunes in my fender audio equipped truck.

There will never be a decade for music like we had in the 70’s.

@unprofound

11 ай бұрын

Covers a ton of ground from 60's blues-inspired rock to the 80's new wave/pop. Punk mixed in there. The diversity of the decade is beyond compare.

@DianeLake-sw3ym

11 ай бұрын

Without the disco

@flynow5614

11 ай бұрын

Just wait for Justin Bieber new record to get released.

@scottslotterbeck3796

11 ай бұрын

From 1965 to 1985. Led Zeppelin debut album was 1968 or '69, that was so groundbreaking. Cream was pre 1970, Gorden Lightfoot and Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield. Hell, Woodstock was '69.

@scottslotterbeck3796

11 ай бұрын

​@@DianeLake-sw3ymSome disco was OK. BeeGees, Donna Summer.

The whole period from 78 through 82 in ridiculously stacked with great music. Hard to pick a winner, but this isn't a bad shout.

@jonathancrews2866

11 ай бұрын

The Soft Machine, Alan Parsons, U.K., Allan Holdsworth, Steely Dan, Al Green. Man.

@jeffreyquinn3820

11 ай бұрын

The trouble with commercial radio of the time was that it played all the lackluster imitations and not the originals.

@bryanwilliams3665

11 ай бұрын

Everyones list ( yours and mine included) is as correct as anyone else's. And certainly music critics/reviewers opinions are no more valid than yours or mine. Who is ANYONE to tell anyone else what THAT person is hearing.

@jonathancrews2866

11 ай бұрын

@@bryanwilliams3665 Yes, that is of course true. Who is telling who? We are simply sharing. For me, watching Rick list all of these great musicians and records causes us to think of a similar list. It's about education, and making connections.

@bryanwilliams3665

11 ай бұрын

@@jonathancrews2866 Yes, that's fair enough. I was probably highlighting people get confused here with the terminology "The Best" vs "Their Favourite".

My senior year of high school began in the fall of 1978. All of these records resonate heavily with me. Hemispheres for the progressive win, "I Wanna Be Sedated" and AC/DC for the straight ahead power rock, "The Kick Inside" to give this guy insight into the female mind. There is so much more, and the recording technology had advanced to amaze me that a needle in a groove could sound so good. The artwork on album covers, lyrics on some, double albums to clean the stems & seeds. Lucky we were to come of age in the explosion of musical creativity that happened then.

8:15 "A Man I'll Never Be" is my favorite Boston song, and one of the most melancholy lyrics on depression for such a beautiful, upbeat song.

Well, this is a walk down memory lane, grinning for the duration of the whole video, made me grateful to have lived through it all...thank you😊

@photobearcmh

11 ай бұрын

Rick has a way of connecting you back to when you first heard those songs. Many of his videos have brought me to tears.

@davidwollpert5276

11 ай бұрын

Exactly! The 70s were such a great decade for music! It was the best drug around, euphoria and transcendence being its only side effects.

Doesn't matter how many times I listen to it, Boston's harmonies ==goosebumps!

@13magic74

11 ай бұрын

you men Brad Delp's harmonies with himself!

Once again, a list that should have included Styx. "Renegade" from _Pieces of Eight_ was massive. I'm curious why you don't talk more about them.

Rick just keeps on giving us golden treasures. I was 10 years old in 1970, home alone watching tv, film comes on, its Gene krupa. Blown away, out comes the knitting needles and tin pots, later got some drums. 78 was a great year to be in my first band covering some of the amazing songs of the day.

The debuts from Cars, Police and Dire Straits were all huge. Great albums, each sounded different from anything we’d heard before.

@johnjperricone7856

11 ай бұрын

Van Halen, too. Never heard anything like EVH before, probably still haven't. I guess hearing Sweet Child 'o Mine and Slash for the first time was powerful, Tom Morello for the first time too; but EVH was in a completely different category. I guess I forgot that Dire Straits was also '78, but the guitar part in Sultans still resonates. I've seen Knopfler talk about it, how he recorded it finger-picking style, no pick, and how he never plays it the same on stage.

@thewaygokid3135

11 ай бұрын

All those and VH sounded like totally cool new rock ideas. Then DEVO showed up. It was so weird I had to listen.

@eamonhannon1103

11 ай бұрын

I was in a bed sit in London belting out Dire Straits every night . Then people in the house started asking me who were the band I was playing .

I think The Cars and Van Halen are *the* bookends for all the amazing debuts ’78 bestowed on music lovers.

I spent 1978 working in the record department of department store in London. So all this and more was fresh and new. A great year.

In I979 I was in a band with a Female singer and there was a ton of new music to play.... We did songs by Blondie, the Cars , Cheap Trick, The Clash , Joe Jackson , Billy Joel , the Ramones , B52's, Elvis Costello ... , also Stones , The Kinks , Joe Walsh , Nazareth , Clapton , Bob Seger. It was a great time for music

Thank you for giving Devo some love, totally under appreciated as to how they influenced music. Another influencer, Kraftwerk released Man Machine in 1978. Two other notables are Funkadelic’s One Nation Under a Groove and BOC’s Some Enchanted Evening

@yellowjackboots2624

11 ай бұрын

Right on, my man. Didn't think he'd mention Devo. Space Junk is such a great song, the whole album is great.

You know, Toto's first album also came out in 1978. Lots of good songs in it. (E: Whoops! Lots, not lot's! 🤭)

@joeb6245

11 ай бұрын

BRAVO!! Toto is sadly underrated by the masses

@CaptainSpyware

11 ай бұрын

I'm a little surprised Rick didn't include "Toto" into the the video, and the record was a game changer. He knows them very well after all.

@MrIsaknb

11 ай бұрын

I was also surprised he didn’t mention Toto…

@1matiasariel

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely

@davidwollpert5276

11 ай бұрын

@@CaptainSpyware just slipped his mind…too many great albums that year.

An honorable mention for “This year’s model” by Elvis Costello & The Attractions. This record is amazing and highly underrated.

@douglashoyt5634

10 ай бұрын

Listening to this now and I realize that my life heretofore has been incomplete.

@skeldter

10 ай бұрын

@@douglashoyt5634 I feel you, bro. My exact feeling when I discovered it.

A Man I'll Never Be is SO UNDERRATED! Man that is one of the best ballads ever!

The sound of those records in 1978 was just phenomenal... love 70s production... so warm...

@vanhalenbr

11 ай бұрын

True.... Rick Beato could do a video only on this, late 70s, early 80s production sound is so warm, tech makes things easier, but you miss something more natural...

@ericcire7709

11 ай бұрын

What is the difference? Audio engineers? Facilities? Budget? You would think today’s equipment would be as good or better with advances…

@leonardticsay8046

11 ай бұрын

@@ericcire7709digital interfaces, quantization, auto tune and other modern conveniences make contemporary music sound too sterile.

@t3hgir

11 ай бұрын

if you listen to a nice analog recording right after a modern "punchy" recording it almost always sounds "quieter" but there is so much more warmth and actual punch to the dynamics, provided you have a good source+sound system.

@benjaminperez7328

11 ай бұрын

@@ericcire7709 Cocaine. High Grade George Jung-style COCAINE.

Melt by Peter Gabriel is such a good album that Rick moved it back in time 2 years to include it in this video.

@davidryan7386

11 ай бұрын

PG 2 from 78 sucked so.....lol

@ianharkin2691

11 ай бұрын

When that came up I thought huh, wasn't that 1980? 🤔

@davidevens2954

11 ай бұрын

@@davidryan7386 I like PG2 personally, but it's probably the weakest of the four self-titled albums.

I was 11 in 1978. I remember and love all this music still till this day. We really did have the best music and its so hard to compare any other decade....the 60's yes, the 50's.....but we really had it spectacular. Thank you for allowing me to air guitar along with you to these great tunes. Very cool show.

Totally agree! I graduated high school in 1978. So many great albums and concerts!

It also happened in 1991: Nirvana Nevermind, RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Pearl Jam Ten, Smashing Pumpkins Gish, U2 Actung Baby, Soundgarden Badmotorfinger, REM Out of Time, Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion I & II, Temple of the Dog, and the Metallica Black Album. 🤘🏻

@colokor

11 ай бұрын

Great point! I feel I was able to enjoy both times of rock and roll excellence…and shortly after came Nirvana and STP!

@MaquiladoraIII

11 ай бұрын

Also, 1977 weren't too shoddy either. Rumours, The Clash Eponymous, Marquee Moon, Heroes & Low, Trans-Europe Express, Lust for Life, The Idiot, Pink Flag, The Stranger... What a couple of years to be a music fan!

@juanesara4870

11 ай бұрын

also Van Halen F.U.C.K was released in 1991

@lesbolstad

11 ай бұрын

Not even in the same ballpark. 78' was Major Leagues and 91' was Class A ball

@fatShowPony

11 ай бұрын

​@@juanesara4870and a return to form for Ozzy with No More Tears

Shocking that you left off Journey's Infinity, the debut of Steve Perry with the band. The album that gave us Wheel in the Sky, Lights, Feeling that Way/Anytime and what could possibly be the longest held sung note in Rock in Winds of March.

@christophertaylor9100

11 ай бұрын

I guess technically it wasn't Journey's debut so it doesn't count like the others

It was almost a decade earlier, but arguably the greatest debut album of all time is Led Zeppelin I. Their introduction to the world with Good Times Bad Times is iconic.

I was five years old in 1978. The Cars was the first album I fell in love with. I'd come home from a bad day of being bullied at school, and put The Cars on. It really cheered me up. It spoke to me of good times and the endless possibilities of music.

1978: The year when music was produced by people with tape machines capturing other people playing real instruments all together in a room. The sound of those records is phenomenal while today's people try to simulate sounds with computers and yet are mostly failing to achieve that level of musicality. Awesome compilation, thank you Rick!

@RupertReynolds1962

11 ай бұрын

There's a theory that art is a process that often works best when the artists are struggling against limitations--impending deafness, old and worn tape decks, planes flying overhead getting onto the recording, you name it. I think sometimes it can be true. And by making equipment better, maybe sometimes we've let artistry take a back seat?

@maxbeigh

11 ай бұрын

It's the industry and market more than the tools. In the 70s (and before and after) the instruments and vocals were isolated or even recorded one at a time, the best guitar solo or vocal or snippet from many recordings could be used, a musician could accompany themself, and tape loops and drum machines were used. Often, a session musician with superior skills to an actual band member would substitute for the recording and some particularly brilliant and/or egotistical musicians would record every part themselves and then only use the band for touring. I think the mediocrity of popular music today has more to do to the age of the music listener. As baby boomers matured, they remained the core music customer because there were so many of them. Bands in the 70s and 80s were catering the sophisticated late teens and twenty somethings, not the teenyboppers who dominate the market in the 00s and 10s. There is also massive splintering of the market due to radio being less relevant. Amazing music is still being made, but little of it charts.

@maxbeigh

11 ай бұрын

Dire Straights were known to record tiny bits of guitar solos and string them together and were scorned for their perfectionism. But they sounded amazing on record or live, so they could really play it.

@bunsw2070

11 ай бұрын

I think you're correct. It's just really hard work to find the good stuff. The stuff on the charts is beyond horrific. No wonder there are record numbers of drug overdoses and suicides today.

@RupertReynolds1962

11 ай бұрын

Oh yes, there's some REALLY good stuff out there. And I find some if it on YT to be fair--everything from classical guitar to Joe Public playing boogie-woogie on the upright piano in a London railway station! Seems to me that the big music publishers don't have a soul, so they don't notice when they knock it out of the music. My usual rant is What I Am, by Edie Brickell. V good album, too. When it was covered with Emma Bunton, all the notes were there spot-on (from memory), but it just felt a but too robotic. It made more money in the cover version :-(

It was indeed a special time when it was about the importance of the music and the message. These singer/songwriters were visionaries. And the producers were special people who heard these bands and recognized the talent through the music. It was a special time that I doubt we’ll ever see again. And we are blessed to have lived through it.

So glad I came of age in the late 70s/early 80s. The amount of fabulous music. And I have to say, at the time, we kind of took it for granted. Because we were surround by so much greatness. Yes you left you a bunch, but you were spoiled for choice!

‘The Man With The Child In His Eyes’ has to be one of the most timelessly beautiful songs ever written. Still as stunning now as it was on it’s release.

@silgen

11 ай бұрын

And it's amazing Kate was only 13 when she wrote it, and 16 when she recorded it (co-produced by David Gilmour).

@imranqqq7307

11 ай бұрын

No, it's more stunning. We were spoiled back then. Now it's water for us in this musical desert.

@elecmuso

11 ай бұрын

Yep. Wuthering heights was (and I suppose still is) my all-time favourite song of this my all-time favourite year. Then I rediscovered this song when I said goodbye to my father. There is no direct connection but it brings me to tears almost every time I hear it.

@cletusbeauregard1972

11 ай бұрын

Her whole discography is staggeringly great.

@amanuensis9873

11 ай бұрын

@@imranqqq7307unbelievable how many talented musicians there were at the same time. Kate Bush is a treasure. It’s hard to fathom how much talent converged at once, compared to the drought today…

That Dire Straits record was solid from start to finish, no wasted tracks at all.

@villehytonen7279

11 ай бұрын

It really is. Great album.

@GunnarMunktroja

11 ай бұрын

Soundtrack of my youth

@michaelraiger623

11 ай бұрын

From that first chord on Down to the Waterline you know you’re listening to something completely new and completely amazing.

@PierreGarrabrant

11 ай бұрын

Dire Straights was a good palette cleanser to VH 1 so different but both groundbreaking. 1978 was the year where the most LPs were sold

@imoffthehillma8013

11 ай бұрын

Damn right mate - I regularly listen to that whole album. Never gets old.

Wow. That took me back. The Cars and Boston "Don't Look Back" slam me into very vivid memories. Kate Bush, I didn't discover until a decade later and had to hear all of her music, then. Growing up, music channels were limited. It was either friends who had the album or whatever made its way on to late night FM radio programs that featured new music, but listened to at low volumes under the covers because I was supposed to be sleeping and had school the next day. Also important to me at that time: Journey - Infinity (Wheel In The Sky, Feeling That Way/Anytime, and Lights); Styx - Pieces of Eight (Renegade, Blue Collar Man); Foreigner - Double Vision (Hot Blooded, Double Vision); and Joe Walsh's But Seriously, Folks... which had "Life's Been Good" --- amazing year of rock.

We are having our high school reunion 1978 45 years ago! Cheers from the Finger Lakes!

Not a debut album, but Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon was also released in 1978 - probably his best work and definitely his most successful album.

@66bighorns

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! Warren never gets recognized.

@stevenprichard1925

11 ай бұрын

@@66bighorns I know! The fact that he isn’t in the Rock n’ Roll HOF already (and wasn’t even nominated until this year) is a crime

@seankane9279

11 ай бұрын

An absolutely fantastic album

I was in my first band in 1978 and can remember hearing Van Halen's Eruption. No one I knew had any idea what was going on. What a great player Eddie was!

@RupertReynolds1962

11 ай бұрын

I'm still trying to work it out! (I don't play guitar enough to say much more). I mean he's playing arpeggios, and I thought at first maybe he's just using one string and using the frets very cleanly. But the arpeggios cover about an octave, so I don't get it... Whatever he did, he was the first I heard doing it :-) And is it just me, or does Van Halen give a nod to classical composition style in that fantastic solo?

We are the same age and those high school memories came flooding back. What a great time to be alive.

You're between me and my younger sister. 78/79 was my senior year. My dad worked half a block from the high school and we would walk up there at 3pm and get his 1975 Ford Elite he had fitted out with dual-exhaust Cherry Bombs and a Jensen sound system and go home. Maybe. Maybe we would drive around for a while. As long as we were back by 5pm to pick him up we were cool. We used to go to the Shake Shoppe, get some ice cream, hit the 4 miles of 4-lane highway in our county both ways so we could go faster, crank up the radio and just be in heaven. Footnote for those wondering: my dad was born in 1937, my mom in 1934, but we grew up with rock n roll and went to every cool concert you can imagine because they wanted to go and we got to tag along. My favorite memories are my 6'4" father coming home in September 1978 (concert in October) literally jumping up and down waving 4 pieces of paper in the air and screaming, "I got tickets to AEROSMITH!!!!" and my 4'11" mom at a KISS concert in January 1978 getting picked up by my dad and a big biker dude in a chair made of their clasped hands so she could see Gene Simmons breathe fire. I had the best teenaged years ever!!

1978... I can really only add a few more. Heart releases what is probably their most complete album - Dog & Butterfly. Blondie - Parallel Lines with "Hanging on the Telephone", "One Way Or Another", "Fade Away and Radiate", and of course "Heart of Glass". Foreigner - Double Vision. Growing up, it seamed that '76 was a stand-out year that I remember most at the ripe old age of 11, but there certainly was great music all during that time for quite a few years.

@seanoneil277

11 ай бұрын

Agree for sure about Blondie. As to Heart, Dog & Butterfly may be more complete in song type, but I lost interest in them at that album and thereafter. I sort of liked it when they were a Canadian Led Zeppelin with two good women singers, driving and stomping their way through songs. I was in HS then and all my music loving friends agreed about Dog & Butterfly, it was inevitable after Barracuda, Crazy on You, Magic Man from the first 2 albums, those songs were great and even non-music-geek people loved them.

@tomasom4497

11 ай бұрын

I first saw groups live like Cheap Trick, UFO, Pat Travers Band, Van Halen, Blue Oyster Cult, DEVO and the B-52s all in that year. Remember The Knack with My Sharona? The following year.

@robertgreen6433

11 ай бұрын

@@seanoneil277 Except they weren't a Canadian band. Heart formed in Seatle Washington

@MrXyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

11 ай бұрын

Yes, I thought Blondie too. I see that it wasn't their first record release in 78 but Parallel Lines was definitely their Breakout album.

@seanoneil277

11 ай бұрын

@@robertgreen6433 No Canadians? Roger Fisher from USA?

The seventies in general was an amazing decade for great music. I am so glad I was a teenager during that period.

One thing stands out to me is these records aren't over compressed like todays records, you can actually listen to the album without ear fatigue. I can barely listen to 3 songs on a lot of new recordings.

@LeRoySL-nk4hp

10 ай бұрын

I completely agree! Everything is mastered so loud that it contains digital distortion, thus the ear fatigue.

Same here, 56! All this stuff was still going strong in the early 80's when I was in high school. Keep on air guitaring Rick! I had to sing along with the last Boston tune. Just great memorable tunes!

How can we omit Prince’s debut that year! Produced, Arranged, Composed and Performed By!

@kennet7837

11 ай бұрын

Probably wasn't included because of copyright.

@mikeymutual5489

11 ай бұрын

@@kennet7837 And it wasn't very good.

@cwize

11 ай бұрын

I'd say it's loved and recognized "retroactively" - didn't do a whole lot when it came out. Almost top 20 on the soul chart but 163 on the Hot 100 album chart.

@AppleOno

11 ай бұрын

Rick probably stuck to records he was aware of at the time, but yes, Prince too debuted in 1978. An amazing year for music!

The 70s were a music explosion extraordinaire. I feel lucky to have experienced it first hand. I'm still experiencing it!

@reXdownhamOG

11 ай бұрын

We knew how great it was while it was happening, but didn’t realize how much it would improve with age!

@lilycat1694

11 ай бұрын

Great comment & I agree.

@christophertaylor9100

11 ай бұрын

It was a weird mix of amazing and horrific. Side by side you had muskrat love and Moby Dick, you had Roundabout and Tony Orlando and Dawn

@RockandRollWoman

11 ай бұрын

@reXdownham I had no idea how classic my music would become. Don't know about you, but I didn't have the equivalent of Dad Rock. I did have good FM radio, skip transmission for distant AM stations at night, and friends whose older siblings could afford to buy Zep, Yes, ELP, Pink Floyd, Steve Miller, Warren Zevon, Grand Funk, BS&T, Motown out my ears ... I have to stop now because the potential list is soo long and I have stuff to get done! Lucky us with so many excellent choices that have stood the test of time. 🎶🎶🎶😁🎶🎶🎶

@rogerwilcojr

11 ай бұрын

Not a lot of distractions and a lot longer attention spans.

1971!! What's Goin' On, Hunky Dory, All Things Must Pass, Led Zep IV, Sticky Fingers, Who's Next, Tapestry, American Pie, Imagine.. the list goes on. And it's my Birthday. Excellent vintage!

I love and respect the breadth of Rick's musical taste.

It’s rare to see a shout-out to Hemispheres… still my favorite Rush album after all these years. We Rochestarians love our Rush.

@gr8whyte66

11 ай бұрын

And so do our Torontonians! 😉

I was born in 1989, but I've noticed that 80 - 90% of the music I listen to was recorded somwhere between 1968 and 1980. I like a lot of newer and older stuff too, but the 70s kids got to experience the greatest music ever recorded IMO. Thankfully, I still can too. That is the beautiful thing about recordings. Cool video Rick!

@Jabbawock1972

11 ай бұрын

My Son was born 2000 but he also love the music, that we hear...late 70´s and 80´s Rock...today the music industry is so fast....you can get on top fast and fall down the ladder even faster....beside that imho todays even the bands are grouped around the singer...in old days mostly all band members were stars...and not just replacable faces behind their instruments...today no one who wants to sell records would do a 1 min intro in a song....everything have to be fast on the point...

EVH is one act that will never be forgotten ❤

Liked for the air guitar.. As a guitarist born in '69, Rick and I could have totally been best friends, he's SO on target. What a trip down memory lane of all my favs!!

The Scream by Siouxsie and the Banshees is another debut album worth mentioning, and Parallel Lines by Blondie is also a classic album from that year.

@tommcdonald1873

11 ай бұрын

Great call out, I listened to Hanging on the Telephone one of the great covers from that album. Scream was the birth effectively of both post punk and gothic rock and Siouxsie is still out there performing.

@brizzieleif5258

11 ай бұрын

Magazine's debut album Real Life was released in 1978.

Oh yes, 1978! Such a rich year of music. There was Warren Zevon, Molly Hatchet’s debut album and can’t forget Cheap Trick Live at Budokan. JUST missing, recorded in October 78 and released on January 2, 1979 my favorite live LP, UFO Strangers in the Night.

@johnwingett2611

11 ай бұрын

Strangers is the best live album. Period.

@aisle_of_view

11 ай бұрын

Love Strangers, Schenker's a guitar god. Also love Zevon's When Johnny Strikes Up the Band.

@dougrobinson8602

11 ай бұрын

Molly Hatchet, The Outlaws, and some of the other Southern Rock "guitar armies" will always be a guilty pleasure of mine. When a DJ cued up 'Green Grass and High Tides" or "Dreams I'll Never See", you knew for sure he was taking a potty break.