Love Reign O’er Me is maybe the most intriguing rock song I’ve ever heard. I should have also thought about Chicago and Lynyrd Skynyrd too. Skynyrd for the southern rock genre and Chicago for that easy listening rock segment.
25 or 6 to 4 is the one song that ALWAYS gets me to stop the station switching.
Didn’t listen to the Beach Boys enough to know.
In junior high all the trombone players were big Chicago fans, because of 25 or 6 to 4. Nobody had ever heard anyone play 16th notes on a trombone before.
My kid sister was a 70’s rock girl. :-)
She was a HUGE Chicago fan. I remember going with her to one of their concerts (I think it was Madison Square Garden). They were excellent!
One of the 70’s bands I liked was Emerson Lake and Palmer. I went to one of their concerts (also at Madison Square Garden). They did “Pictures at an Exhibition”. I was blown away!
Skynyrd for the southern rock genre
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Over the Allman Brothers?
I’d have to disagree on that one.
Well Terry Kath was one of the most bad-ass guitarists that ever were, Chicago was never the same after he died.
“Love Reign O’er Me is maybe the most intriguing rock song I’ve ever heard.”
IMO, that song & the Quadrophenia album is one of the greatest musical works of that century. Last year I got to see The Who here in Jacksonville. Roger & Pete could still bring it. I waited 35+ years to finally see/hear them perform that amazing song.