Best/essential bands from the 60s/70s
 

Name them.

Also, even if someone already posted a band, post them in your list anyway, just so I can see how many repeats there are and whatnot.

The Beatles
Black Sabbath
Jimi Hendrix
Eric Clapton
Sly & The Family Stone
Blondie

Way too tired to remember anything else

the beatles
black sabbath
jimi hendrix
led zeppelin
fleetwood mac
joy division
pink floyd
the hollies
the kinks
the who
thin lizzy

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
Jimi Hendrix
The Velvet Underground
The Doors
David Bowie
Aerosmith
The Rolling Stones
Can
Bob Dylan
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
The Kinks
Deep Purple
Neil Young (Cortez the killerrrrrrrrrr)
King Crimson
Elton John
Cream
Jeff Beck
Jefferson Airplane
The Who

That should cover it for the most part

Aerosmith
The Band
Beach Boys
Beatles
Bee Gees (mostly corny, but made a couple of good songs i.e. "I Started A Joke")
Bob Dylan
The Byrds
The Clash
Cream
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Crosby Stills & Nash
The Doors
The Eagles
Elton John
Eric Clapton
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
John Lennon (his solo stuff post-Beatles)
Joni Mitchell
The Kinks
Led Zeppelin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Marvin Gaye
Parliament/Funkadelic
Pink Floyd
Queen
Ramones
Rolling Stones
Santana
Sex Pistols
Simon & Garfunkel
Velvet Underground
The Who

Alphabetized for your convenience. :D

Some of these are individual artists and whatnot

Captain Beefheart
Frank Zappa
Pere Ubu
Albert Ayler
The Velvet Underground
Wire
Bruce Springsteen
Charles Mingus
Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane
Funkadelic

:y:

:cool:

Add Joe Crocker and James Taylor to these lists

Definitely.

Other stuff I enjoy from that time:

The Animals
The Hollies
Fleetwood Mac
Bob Seger
AC/DC
KISS
Journey
David Bowie
The Temptations
Supremes
Smokey Robinson
Lennon, Harrison, McCartney (already got the Beatles but I like their solo stuff too)
Stevie Wonder
Rush
Tom Petty
Boston
Deep Purple
Bruce Springsteen
ELO

The Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Doors
The Eagles
Elton John
Eric Clapton
Jimi Henrdix
Joe Cocker
Joe Walsh
John Lennon
Led Zeppelin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Pink Floyd
Queen
The Rolling Stones
Sly & The Family Stone
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
The Who

Just the necessities, can't go wrong with any of them.

The Clash
The Sex Pistols
The Ramones
The Who
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendriz
Eric Clapton

Cocker

CCR :love:

Cream
Hendrix
Zeppelin
The Who
The Beatles
The Doors
The Animals
The Yardbirds
Frank Zappa
Janis Joplin
Pink Floyd
Queen
Black Sabbath
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Bob Dylan
Cat Stevens
Steve Miller Band
The Beach Boys
Deep Purple
KISS
ZZ Top
Three Dog Night
Yes
Jethro Tull
Grand Funk Railroad


And so on.

The Beatles.
CCR
The Beatles.
Jimmy Hendrix
The Beatles.
Black Sabbath
The Beatles.

Floyd, CCR, Allman

ummm Alice Cooper

In all seriousness, I would say CCR is the one you need the most, the other big ones you probably already have.

CCR gold :y:

The Beach Boys
Black Sabbath
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
The Doors