# Worst band of the Seventies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 5, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021 "2012-05-05T21:04:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/1 "2012-05-05T21:04:54Z")
A thread in which we decide once and for all, which is the worst band of the Seventies ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/2 "2012-05-05T21:13:31Z")
About half of the bands listed I know fairly well, and while none of them are or have been favourites of mine, none is “worst of the seventies”, so I cannot play along. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/3 "2012-05-05T21:17:00Z")
Of the choices listed, I don’t own anything by Rush or Jethro Tull, so they’ll have to share my vote. I wouldn’t consider either of them the worst band of the 70s, though. ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/4 "2012-05-05T21:17:22Z")
I like them all too. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/5 "2012-05-05T21:24:19Z")
I voted for ELP, but there are lots of bands that could have been on the list (e.g.: Styx). Also, you didn’t even get into Bo Donaldson And the Heywoods territory, to say nothing of the likes of Starland Vocal Band, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/6 "2012-05-05T21:29:39Z")
Having survived the simultaneous afflictions of adolescence and the 1970’s, I protest the omission in this poll of the tyranny known as Led Zeppelin. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/7 "2012-05-05T21:31:38Z")
None of the above. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/8 "2012-05-05T21:36:30Z")
Bay City Rollers. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/9 "2012-05-05T21:37:38Z")
I picked Rush because I never got into them. I listen now and they aren’t so bad. I suspect the OP didn’t live through the Hell that was '70s radio or he wouldn’t have picked so many bands that weren’t The Poppy Family, Hotlegs (though they did evolve into 10cc, a very good band, and the [story of their hit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_Man_(song)) is kinda funny and makes the song likable in an ironic way), Ocean, or The Mike Curb Congregation, and that’s off the top of my head and I don’t think it gets me past 1971. It was an awful, awful decade. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/10 "2012-05-05T21:45:51Z")
Someone hates Prog Rock, this poll is a joke. I’ll second **Bay City Rollers**. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/11 "2012-05-05T21:48:50Z")
No mention of KISS? For shame!!! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/12 "2012-05-05T21:51:03Z")
None of the above. If forced to choose from the list, then 10cc. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/13 "2012-05-05T21:51:32Z")
I like most 70s output that I’ve heard from all bands on this list, plus Led Zeppelin, but not including Rolling Stones. That said, they had so many songs that some of them were bound to be good. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/14 "2012-05-05T22:07:49Z")
Captain and Tennille Jackson 5 The Osmonds ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/15 "2012-05-05T22:11:56Z")
All are good, but Rush is the least distinguished of the list. ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/16 "2012-05-05T22:14:10Z")
Kiss… for sure. with Grand Funk Railroad coming in second… ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/17 "2012-05-05T22:22:28Z")
None of the bands listed come within a million miles of “the worst band of the seventies.” Of the ones listed, Yes is probably my least favorite, but still much better than many many others. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/18 "2012-05-05T22:32:15Z")
This poll is defective. Those are all great bands, and several of them are among the very best not just of the '70s, but of the entire history of rock. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/19 "2012-05-05T23:03:21Z")
😕 What kind of poll is this??? None of them are ‘bad’, I suppose. I wouldn’t turn the station on the radio if any of the songs came on. Except 10CC. I hate 10CC. Not fond of Genesis because I don’t like Phil Collins. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021/20 "2012-05-05T23:06:23Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > What kind of poll is this??? This is “The Worst Poll of the SDMB.” Mods, would you please amend the title of the thread accordingly? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-band-of-the-seventies/621021.md?page=2)