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When I hear music like Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture or Pachelbel’s Canon, I am usually tempted to turn the stereo off. It’s not that they aren’t beautiful pieces of music, but for a serious classical music fan, it is about the equivalent of hearing “She Loves You” by the Beatles. In other words, I’ve heard them so many times that I can’t get anything new out of them.

Popular classical music certainly does have its place, however, especially when it comes to drawing in new listeners of classical music and, hopefully, instilling in them a love for the genre. The good thing about it is also the bad thing about it – you hear it all of the time.

Let’s start with a car commercial from a few years back where a bunch of guys ride by in a car, roll down the windows and start hurling water balloons at another guy. The commercial is in slow motion, and it is made to look like a Mafia hit. The guy that gets drilled drops his water balloon and slowly crumbles to the ground. It was very funny.

The song playing in the background is what I remember, because it was an aria from the opera Pagliacci, a great example of popular classical music that many people would recognize first as the music from that car commercial.

Another work of popular classical music that I saw recently on commercials for Subway restaurants is one that I have already mentioned, the 1812 Overture. In this commercial, it shows different people preparing to eat food from another fast food place, and their chairs break as they sit down, or their buttons snap and fly off, all while that overture is playing.

Popular classical music is used to promote many different products, and most people don’t even realize what the songs are. For instance, the music from the Helzberg Diamonds commercial is Palladio
by the Welsh composer Karl Jenkins.

Another example of popular classical music being used as a theme song in a commercial is George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue being used for United Airlines. It is funny, because this was one of the very first pieces of classical music that I ever heard, and it made me want to learn more about classical music.

With the fact that classical music is probably the least popular of all the major genres of music, I think it is important that the general public be exposed to popular classical music through such things as commercials. I have been around friends that will hear classical music in some advertisement and ask me what it is, and they really like it and want to listen to more. This could be the best way to expose the largest number of people to a very beautiful musical style.

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I know of a lot of great musicians who have never written an original song in their life. They can play their instrument well enough but when it comes to creating an original song melody or lyrics to go with it, they just freeze up and just plain can’t do it. Some of the greatest technically brilliant musicians of all time were never able to write good, popular songs. Rock music has their fair share of these types of artists but this inability to write a good original song sometimes baffles the mind. Some of the worst instrumentalists of all time have written original rock songs that have made millions of dollars so it is bewildering to think that the best have trouble creating original tunes.

Although the left side and right side of the brain theory has been debunked, it is still basically true that creative people do not always make the best technicians and vice versa. We all know of the people that can fix anything but can’t write or create anything original to save their life. Before everyone gets their knickers pinched let me just add that this is just a truism and not the truth. The truth is that there are always exceptions to every rule. I am sure that there are great scientists out there that paint very well by night or play a mean blues guitar.

I compare the great instrumentalists to these technicians and scientists. They get so caught up in the minutiae and detail in the world of music theory that they can’t step back and write an original song. Writing an original song that is any good has to come from a wellspring of emotion and a profound depth of feeling. Original tunes are not created using a formula. That being said, there are some guidelines for writing popular and rock tunes and that formula has worked brilliantly for many years and for many of the top selling artists of all time.

The formula has to do with the structure of an original song, especially for pop, funk, or rock music. The structure is simple and goes like this: 1) the introduction which is usually four to eight bars in length before the verse; 2) the first verse; 3) either the second verse, or: 4) the chorus, then; 5) a solo; 6) the bridge; 7) repeat a verse; repeat chorus once or as many times as you like, and finally; 9) the outro or the ending.

The chorus is also called “the hook” and may be repeated at the end while the recording fades. These are just general guidelines that songwriting experts over the years have established as being the most common to use. This does not teach you how to write a hit original song. You still need to use your imagination and have lots of feeling. Most of the time a hit original song comes from a person’s life experience or something painful that happened to them. Song hits from the past 50 years are full of dramatic and life-changing themes and lyrics.

There are structured classes where one can go and learn how to write songs, but no way can any of these classes guarantee that you will write a hit original song. The fact is that if you are writing with the expressed and intended purpose of writing a hit song, you will probably not succeed. True success comes from labors of love.

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Music experts (and everyone is an expert on this subject) have come to agree on certain iconic classic rock albums as falling into a category above and beyond all others. Certainly there are classic rock songs and classic rock bands that are great, but entire classic rock albums that were truly great can be listed without too much discussion.

One of the greatest, if not the greatest of the classic rock albums was the White Album by the greatest rock band of all time (at least in the studio), the Beatles. This album by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison has come to be considered the greatest album ever recorded by many music critics and by music lovers all around the world. Some would argue that Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club was one of the greatest classic rock albums (and it is) but there are many reasons why the White Album is better.

For those of you not familiar with the White Album, it was revolutionary not just in concept but in appearance. Back in the days of vinyl records this LP (long playing) record came packaged in a plain white cover which you opened up to a double spread and it was plain white inside as well as on the back. The words “the Beatles” were actually embossed on the cover in small letters printed diagonally but no ink. There was a huge poster included in the artwork which you could pull out and unfold. It had lyrics to all of the songs on one side and an artistic collage full of artwork, photos, and drawings of the band on the other side. This was truly a work of art and that was not all, you also got four color portrait photos, one for each of the boys in the band. Most kids back then hung those up in their bedrooms along with the poster. If you can find a copy of the album intact with the original glossy pictures and poster it is definitely worth a lot of money on ebay.

The White Album itself was a double album and still considered one of the greatest classic rock albums of all time. Starting off with the unforgettable “Back in the U.S.S.R.” it was immediately controversial. Remember that those were the days of the cold war and in the late sixties people were starting to protest the Vietnam War and many hippies and peaceniks wanted to normalize relations with Russia.

Many of the songs had psychedelic overtones and John Lennon and George Harrison had much to do with that. Songs like “Dear Prudence”, “Glass Onion”, “Helter Skelter”, and “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide (Except for Me and My Monkey)” were revolutionary in their uses of electric guitar and drumming. These hard rocking songs were side by side with some softer unforgettable songs by Paul such as “Mother Nature’s Son”, “Blackbird”, and “I Will”. Paul could rock out as well and did so on songs like “Obladi Oblada” and could be whimsical with a song like “Rocky Raccoon”.

All in all this was one of the greatest classic rock albums of all time bar none and you will be hard pressed to find much disagreement out there. If you are one of the few who have not had the privilege to listen to this recording please run out right now and pick up a copy (also of course available on itunes).

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Perhaps you know someone who collects antique phonographs or maybe you’re a collector yourself. If so, read and share what this person has to say about antique phonographs and collectible music records.

Who knows, if you’re not a collector of antique phonographs, you might want to become one soon.

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There were modern pop groups too like Pet Shop Boys and their huge 80s music hit East and Boys and West and Girls or the digital Depeche Mode with Strange Love, Policy of Truth, Personal Jesus and Route 66. Other cult bands with truly great musicians sprang up like The Cure and their hit Just Like Heaven.

Who can forget Simple Minds and Don’t You Forget About Me? There were plenty of great groups making 80s music hits that just don’t get the credit they deserve.

So you can see that with just these few examples, there were many unsung 80s music hits that never received the credit they deserved.

The 80s were also the time of Michael Jackson, Prince, and Madonna, three giants of the industry who continued to churn out hit after hit for many years. Prince Purple Rain was just the right blend of rock and soul and the big hit from the album was Let’s Go Crazy. 1980 Music passion is still alive!

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My cousins and I love to sit around and talk about the glory days of heavy metal, when bands like Metallica, Guns n’ Roses and Megadeth reigned supreme. The other day we got into a discussion about heavy metal albums, and the challenge was posed for each of us to name the best album of all time, and we each had to defend our answer.

I started things off with “And Justice for All” by Metallica. In terms of the shear number of great songs and most memorable lyrics, that ranks among the best heavy metal albums of all time, if not the absolute best. It was an album of pure metal, and the one that made me fall in love with that style of music.

My cousin Greg said that of all the heavy metal albums he ever heard, Guns N’ Roses album “Appetite for Destruction” was the greatest, because he felt that Guns N’ Roses, more than any other metal band, brought heavy metal into the mainstream. He also argued that it had a number of hits on it, as well.

Then it was my cousin Michael’s turn, and I should begin by saying that he is considerably older than the rest of us, and he said he felt the best album was “Master of Reality” by Black Sabbath. He quite aptly pointed out that even though the first two heavy metal albums named were great, this was the one that got everything started.

It was my cousin Kevin’s turn next, and he selected “Reign in Blood” by Slayer as the best of all the albums because it really brought speed metal to the forefront, and his mind, nobody was as hard as Slayer.

The conversation was becoming more and more interesting, because everyone was making pretty good points and we were all getting in the mood to listen to some great music, which we would do when it was all over.

My cousin Alan took his turn next, and he is just a few years younger than Michael. He chose Motorhead’s “No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith” as the greatest among the heavy metal albums we had already chosen, because he said that as a whole, Motorhead produced the most quality albums of any to the bands we had mentioned, and this was probably the best of all.

Nobody even mentioned my favorite metal band of all time, which is Pantera, but it didn’t even really matter. Pantera had a number of great heavy metal albums, but we all had a bunch of other CDs we were all set to listen to, and we had a great time playing them that day when we were finished talking.

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I was in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area a few months ago visiting some relatives when we got onto the topic of music. My aunts and uncles and cousins all like rock – classic rock in particular – as well as jazz, blues and more.

Having been raised in Texas, I brought up country music as being one of my favorite types, and as you can probably imagine, I took some razzing about it. I heard the typical “hillbilly” and “backwoods” remarks and a few of my cousins even broke out into their own parody of a country song, which was quite amusing, but one of my cousins actually defended me, saying that she was a fan of classic country music.

Finally, I had an ally, so I quickly turned around to ask her who were some of her favorite country singers, and it was then that I realized that classic country music can be difficult to define.

She mentioned singers like Johnny Cash, George Jones and Willie Nelson, and in my opinion, those are definitely examples of classic country music singers. I guess that was strictly a matter of conjecture, however, because when I got back to Texas and relayed the story to my father, he said, “that’s great, but those guys aren’t classic country musicians.”

I was kind of taken aback, because I have always fancied myself to be pretty knowledgeable about country music and music in general, so I asked him who he thought were examples of classic country musicians.

He named guys like Roy Acuff and Chet Atkins. Those were the guys that were pretty big when he was growing up, and while he certainly likes artists like Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, he did not consider what they did to be classic country music.

Then there are people that argue that classic country music does not have so much to do with what time period the artists came from, but the style of music they play. A case in point for that would be Randy Travis.

Randy Travis’ heyday was in the 1980′s, but his singing style was definitely more of a throwback to the older days of country music. George Jones once said that he thought about returning to Nashville after he heard Randy Travis because he felt Travis was bringing country music back to what it was supposed to be.

When we talk about classic country music, it can be hard to define, so I have found that the best thing to do when I hear somebody use those words is just ask them what they mean exactly by classic country music. As you can probably guess, I get all kinds of answers.

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While the beginnings of classical music date back many, many centuries to the Italian Renaissance period, what most people consider to be classical music today was really started in the late 1600s in the form of a musical style called Baroque music.

Such great composers as Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and Henry Purcell were Baroque music composers that left an indelible mark on the world of classical music.

Bach wrote the famous Brandenburg Concertos and Air on the G String, among many, many others, which are still played on classical music stations today, more than 300 years later.

Vivaldi wrote the Four Seasons, of which the Spring movement is one of the most recognizable pieces of Baroque music – and classical music, for that matter – ever written.

Purcell, the famous English composer, wrote Dido and Aeneas, which may rank as the greatest opera ever to come out of the Baroque period of classical music.

Baroque music is characterized by a unity of mood throughout an entire work, less frequent shifts in dynamics than its successors in the Classical or Romantic eras, and a devotion to sacred music, evident in Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, or Handel’s Messiah.

Another interesting tidbit about Baroque music is that the piano had not been invented yet, so the music composed during that period was done so on the harpsichord. One of the questions I am most often asked is why one never sees a piano concerto from the Baroque period of classical music, and I always have to tell them that the period pre-dated the piano.

Baroque music really kind of got things started for classical music as most people know it, and served as the foundation on which later composers, such as Mozart and Beethoven, would create their music.

As a matter of fact, it was Beethoven that once referred to Handel as the greatest composer that ever lived.

Baroque music was not simply limited to sacred music, either, as Bach wrote some of the greatest fugues, and Handel was renowned the world over for his ability to write great oratorios.

My uncle, who is also a great classical music lover, counts Bach and Handel as his two favorite composers of all time. They are not just his favorite composers of Baroque music, but his favorite ever, so I asked him about that. He told me that it is just hard to top the music that both men produced.

Baroque music was paramount to the development of classical music and was really the first era in the history of classical music in which multiple composers from several countries contributed a large body of work. It is one of my favorite eras of music, and once a person becomes familiar with classical music, Baroque is unmistakable in its form.

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Those who say that rock music is dead and have not changed the station on their AM radio since the 1980s should get a hearing test and join the modern world. News flash: we are now lodged permanently in the 21st century and you need to start listening to some of the greatest rock music ever produced. This list of rock bands in the alternative genre will help shed some light to the musically unenlightened.

Green Day is one of the world’s top alternative rock bands and they truly belong on anyone’s list of rock bands that have helped to change music. Green Day, based in Northern California, with frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, took the largely cult musical style of punk and infused it with enough pop elements like catchy riffs and melodies to propel it firmly into the mainstream. Green Day is still one of the world’s top selling bands and regularly play in packed arenas. Starting with songs like “Basketcase”, “Welcome to Paradise”, and “When I Come Around”, these young rockers then moved on to huge international success with “American Idiot”, “Holiday”, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, and “21 Guns”, just to name a few.

No list of rock bands would be complete without U2, whose searing mix of introspective lyrics and soaring melodies have catapulted them to the top as arguably the world’s greatest rock band. Lead singer and activist Bono has one of the best voices ever in rock music and their songs have blazed their way to number one many, many times over the years. Songs like “Pride (in the Name of Love)”, “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”, “New Year’s Day”, “One”, “With or Without You”, “Mysterious Ways”, “Vertigo”, and “It’s a Beautiful Day”, among many others remain classics in the alt genre.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers join our Top Five list of rock bands with their phenomenal and growing body of work. These L.A. based rockers embody the California lifestyle with their blend of rap, rock, and pop sensibilities. Landmark albums like “Mother’s Milk”, “Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik”, “Californication”, and “Stadium Arcadium” have transported them to the top of the charts over and over again. With Anthony Keidis singing lead, Flea on super bass, and John Frusciante (who has recently quit again) and his fantastic guitar work, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are poised to remain on top of the list of rock bands around the world.

One of the newer groups to come out in the past few years to hit mega success status is Kings of Leon. This southern based band is the collaboration of the four Followill brothers and their searing brand of southern country fried hillbilly alt rock. With the release of their latest album “Only by the Night” and the worldwide hits from the album “Someone Like You” and “Sex on Fire”, the Kings of Leon have rocketed into the super star category of the alt rock world.

Other bands like Deathcab for Cutie, the Killers, Kaiser Chief, the Bravery, and Interpol also deserve special mention in the top list of rock bands working in the alt genre today.

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Information will be presented here on semi acoustic bass guitars. This information can be used in a number of ways, such as a reference to help you in your search for a good semi acoustic bass guitar. The goal however, is simply to provide some useful information pertaining to semi acoustic bass guitars.
Semi acoustic bass guitars are basically bass guitars with a semi hollow body. This allows them to be played both unplugged, and plugged into an amplifier. They are great for those musicians who wish to play bass guitar, even when electricity or an amplifier aren’t available. The benefits of a semi acoustic bass guitar also extend to letting a musician practice playing bass, without disturbing others. Anyone who plays bass guitar knows how loud bass can be, and how far it can travel. Bass can be heard and felt through many walls. For this reason alone, having a semi acoustic bass guitar can be a very good thing indeed. Semi acoustic bass guitars can be found in a wide variety of types and styles. They could be vintage or of modern design. They can have many different sounds and tones.
Semi acoustic bass guitars can be found in many places, including online retailers and local music shops in your area. You are sure to find a much larger selection when browsing online. There are thousands upon thousands of online retailers available to choose from. It’s always a good idea to have a good starting standpoint when looking for any kind of guitar. Depending on whether you’re a continuing musician or a starter, you’ll probably be looking for different types of semi acoustic bass guitars. A rule of thumb for entry level guitarist’s, is to not invest too much money on your first instrument. This way if you find you aren’t really into guitars after all, you haven’t put too much money into it. As for a continuing musician, you can pretty much have your variable pick of the litter. You will already know what you want from a guitar, and likely will already know exactly what to get.
Whether you’re in the market for a vintage, a classic, or a modern designed guitar, make sure to only pick the guitar best suited for you. Semi acoustic bass guitars can be found in a myriad of designs and styles, much like any other type of guitar. Looking online for guitars can be a fun process, and sometimes time consuming. But as long as you have a pretty good idea of what you’re looking for it should not be too hard to find the semi acoustic bass guitar for you. Once you find the guitar you want, and can afford, it will end as a rewarding experience. If you love guitars, and prefer the sounds of bass, then you will love the semi acoustic bass guitar you will get from your search. Whether it’s a hobby to you, or you approach it professionally, you’re still a musician and hopefully you find the right guitar, at the right time.

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Back in the 1960s and 1970s, New York city emerged as the unquestioned capital of salsa music and Latin dancing. The great bands of that era gave us some of the most memorable salsa songs of all time and they are still heard and played to this very day. Some of the greatest music ever recorded came out of Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan and featured the greatest musicians of our generation.

One of the greatest all time salsa song writers of that fantastic age was Willie Colon. Willie Colon was a trombone player and he really invented modern day salsa as we know and love it today. Collaborating with arguably the greatest salsa singer of the day, Hector LaVoe, Colon was one of the first artists to record on the Fania record label which was started by entrepreneur and Latin music lover Jerry Masucci. Masucci and Colon single handedly started a musical revolution with albums such as “Crime Pays” and “Lo Mato”. These landmark albums featured such memorable salsa songs as “Senora Lola”, “Che Che Cole” and “Aguanile”. The feature film “El Cantante” which was released in 2007 was the life story of Hector LaVoe and starred salsa singer Marc Antony as the drug addicted LaVoe and Jennifer Lopez as his wife. The movie was a huge hit internationally and brought a lot of attention to the genre.

Most movie goers know Ruben Blades as the great Hollywood character actor but few know that he was also one of the greatest salsa song writers and singers of all time. Ruben made his debut singing lead for conga player and band leader Ray Barretto and later graduated to become the front man for Willie Colon after Hector LaVoe went solo. Panamanian Ruben Blades wrote some of the great salsa songs ever written including “Juan Pachanga”, “Pedro Navaja”, and “Pablo Pueblo”. He also actually wrote the salsa song “El Cantante” for Hector LaVoe. Blades was also featured in the Fania All-Stars which included all the greatest salsa musicians of the day and which performed all over the world to gigantic stadium crowds.

Some of the other great salsa song writers and salsa musicians of the era were Larry Harlow (“La Cartera”), Roberto Roena (“Cui Cui”), Ismael Rivera, Kako, Celia Cruz, Eddie Palmieri, Cachao, Ismael Miranda, Cheo Feliciano, and many others. Some of the great bands of the day were Tipica ’73, Roberto Roena and the Apollo Sound, Tipica Novel, Charanga ’76 and Saoco led by the great Henry Fiol.

Salsa music was performed at many venues around New York including the Village Gate in Soho and the Cheetah. Madison Square Garden was the site of several filmed and sold out shows by the Fania All Stars. Great artists such as Willie Colon and Eddie Palmieri took their shows on the road to places such as the Fillmore West and the Hilton ballroom in San Francisco. Many of these bands played outdoors at the annual summer festival at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley.

Salsa songs were never as good or as popular as during that time in history with the exception of Cuban music from the 80s and 90s. Salsa dancers all over the world dance to these swinging salsa songs to this day. Long live Latin music!

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90s alternative rock offered some of the finest rock songs ever recorded by some of the greatest bands in history. The 80s saw the invention of melodic Modern Rock and a host of one hit wonder bands and pop groups but it was 90s alternative rock that took the genre to a whole new level. When exactly did modern rock become alternative rock? No one really knows but it lies somewhere between REM and U2 and their phenomenal rise to the top of the charts and their ability to crossover into other genres and radio play.

Green Day burst onto the music scene in 1994 with their hit album “Dookie” that featured such monster 90s alternative rock hits as “Basketcase” and “Welcome to Paradise”. Green Day continues to wow audiences around the world to this day and their last album “21st Century Breakdown” was a huge success, both critically and financially.

U2 of course continues churning out huge hits and in the 90s they had their biggest and some would say best album ever with 1991’s “Achtung Baby” which featured one of the greatest rock ballads of all time “One” as well as “The Sweetest Thing” and “Mysterious Ways.”

The Red Hot Chili Peppers were one of the huge breakout bands of 90s alternative rock and their smash hit album “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” went on to sell over 7 million copies in the U.S. alone. The big hit off the album was “Give it Away” and the video helped to secure their place in the total rock scene. They released “Californication” in 1998 and this became another in a long line of commercial successes for the Los Angeles based band.

In 1991 a Seattle grunge group named Nirvana burst onto the scene with the release of their album “Nevermind”. The band enjoyed a huge international hit with the song “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and continued to enjoy success until the suicide of lead singer Curt Cobain. Drummer Dave Grohl went on to multi-platinum success as the lead singer and leader of The Foo Fighters.

Another huge 90s alternative rock music band was Pearl Jam and they also hailed from the Seattle grunge scene. Their debut album in 1991, “Ten” was an instant smash hit around the world. Songs like “Jeremy” and “I’m Still Alive” still get lots of airplay to this day and are considered rock icons. The band went on to record more albums in the 90s such as “Vs”, “Vitalogy”, “Yield”, and “No Code”, all of which were huge hits. Pearl Jam has proven time after time to be one of the most enduring and loved bands ever to hit the stage.

Other great bands of 90s alternative rock fame were R.E.M. with their big hit “Losing My Religion” and Oasis with “Wonderwall”. Radiohead gave us the self-loathing “Creep” while Guns ‘N Roses rocked on with “November Rain”. Who can forget Soundgarden, another Seattle based grunge band with their alt hit “Black Hole Sun” or the Goo Goo Dolls with their hit song “Slide”. Some bands were one hit wonders like Blind Melon with “Rain” or Crash Test Dummies with “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm”. Soul Asylum burst onto the scene with “Runaway Train” in 1993 while Collective Soul churned out hit after hit starting with “Shine”.

Whatever else may be said, 90s alternative rock will remain one of the most creative times in the history of rock.

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As a man born in the 1970s, I didn’t have much experience with 70s music hits when they first came out, because I was just a baby or small child. I have always looked back on the music of the 70s with fondness, however, because there were great rock n’ roll songs, but it was also the era of disco music and the era that saw the birth of heavy metal.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I am not a huge fan of disco music, but I do think that it has an interesting sound, and I am a huge fan of heavy metal. It is generally acknowledged that such bands as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple were the originators of this particular brand of music, and that it was started in the 1970′s.

In terms of actual 70s music hits from the heavy metal genre of music, the first one that comes to mind for me is Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.” With the intense guitar riffs and Ozzy Osbourne belting out those lyrics, how could you not fall in love?

Oddly enough, the first song that comes to mind when I think about 70s music hits is not from heavy metal or disco. It was a from a one-hit wonder group called Player, and the song was “Baby Come Back.”

The reason that this is always the first song that comes to mind when I think about hits from the decade of the 1970s is because I was once sent a link to a web site that told you what song was number one on the Billboard charts on the day you were born.

“Baby Come Back” was that song for me, and I believe that it was the only song the group Player ever had that reached number one on the Billboard charts, interestingly enough.

Disco is usually the most recognized music of the 70s, and most people that I have met either really liked it or really hated it. One thing is for certain, though, while it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between certain styles of music, nobody would ever confuse a disco song with anything else.

The 1970s is also the decade associated with the emergence of Outlaw Country, with such performers as Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, David Allan Coe and Billy Joe Shaver. One of my favorite albums from this era was Willie Nelson’s “Red Headed Stranger” in 1975. It had two 70s music hits, including “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.”

I guess what I love the most about the decade’s music was that it typically made you feel pretty good. Lyrics were usually meaningful, and the music itself was empowering, and it was not just the 70s music hits that made you feel that way; it was most of the music from that decade.

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