Five Great Classic Rock Songs From The 70s!

As far as music goes... Well there is a lot of great music out there that has spanned really the last 100 years! But as far as Rock 'N Roll is concerned, well... The 50s had some great Rock 'N Roll with people like, 'Elvis Presley' and the 60s had greats like, 'The Beatles', and so I thought it was about time that I started highlighting some of the great music from some of these eras, and so I thought I would start with Classic Rock, and more directly with the 1970s!

So I hope you enjoy: Five Great Classic Rock Songs From The 70's!

At number 5: AC/DC with, 'T.N.T.' from their 1976 album of the same name:

At number 4: Aerosmith with, 'Sweet Emotion' from their 1975 album, 'Toys In The Attic':

And next up at number 3: The Who with, 'The Punk And The Godfather', from their 1973 album, 'Quadrophenia':

And at number 2: Alice Cooper with, 'School's Out' from his 1972 album of the same name:

And last but certainly not least, at number 1: Led Zeppelin with, 'Kashmir' from their 1975 album, 'Physical Graffiti':

There are a lot more great songs from this era, but I thought that I would highlight these because these songs really are some truly classic rock songs!

Five Kick Ass Final Girls Of The 1970s

So far so good, in this series I have outlined the women of horror, that have kicked some major big bad evil killer butt from the 1980s to the 2000's and since it has been a while i thought that it might be kind of fun to do the 1970s!

Now the truth is, is over the decades there have been a ton of amazingly talented women that have taken on some of horror movies worse villains, and so it was hard to cull it down to 5, but here is what I believe them to be:

At number 5: Kyle Richards (Eaten Alive).

Kyle Richards as seen in, 'Halloween' (1978). 

Kyle Richards... Now you might not think it... I mean last I heard, Kyle Richards has mostly been doing reality tv these days, but when she was a kid, she did a lot of horror movies, and in each one... (At least the ones that I have seen,) she has last to the end of each one of them... And thus I think she definitely deserves a place!

For more information on Kyle Richards, please check out these scene from: Eaten Alive (1977):

At number 4: Linda Bliar (The Exorcist).

Linda Blair in, 'The Exorcist' (1973)!

Now let's be honest here, The Exorcist is one of the most famous horror movies of all time, and with Linda Blair having starred in the first two, she definitely deserves her place in this listing of 5 kick ass final girls of the 1970s!

For more information on her work, please check out these trailers for: The Exorcist (1973) & Exorcist 2: The Heretic (1977):

With number 3 we have: Marilyn Burns (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre).

Marilyn Burns as, 'Sally Hardesty' in one of the most famous scenes in horror movie history in, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'!

Marilyn Burns... Now I am sad to say that this amazing talent, who really did a majorly awesome job of being a final girl in the 7os, as well as having maintained a role in horror movies ever since, has past away earlier this year, but if you haven't seen her work, you should, she totally rocks in just about everything she did!

For more information on Marilyn Burns, please check out this trailer for: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974):

Next up on the block, at number 2: Sigourney Weaver (Ghostbusters).

Sigourney Weaver in, 'Alien' (1979)!

Sigourney Weaver, her role in the Alien movie series has been truly prolific, and after having been in 2 prolific Science Fiction series (the Alien movie series, and the Ghostbuster movie series,) she is definitely one that is worth mentioning for her role in helping bring the Alien movie series to the world in 1979!

For more information on Sigourney Weaver, please enjoy this trailer for: Alien (1979):

And finally, at number 1: Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween).

Jamie Lee Curtis as: 'Laurie Strode' in, 'Halloween' (1978)! 

For Jamie Lee Curtis, I am mentioning her here, because besides the fact that she helped create a series that to the day is still beloved by fans all over the world, her work in the horror movie world in both the 70s and 80s was truly remarkable!

For more information on Jamie Lee Curtis, please enjoy this trailer for: Halloween (1978):

The truth is, is there are a ton more, but I would personally say that these girls truly kicked some bad boy butt (or some monster butt)!

Soylent Green (1973) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_557" align="alignright" width="307"] Official Score = 3 1/2 Devils[/caption]

When I was younger there was a show on TV called, ‘Millennium’. This show really kicked ass, I mean it had some amazing star power to it, including, Lance Henriksen (The Terminator), Terry O’Quinn (Stepfather), Meghan Gallagher (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Bill Smitrovich (Independence Day)… Just to name a few!

Now this show initially had to do with a group of ex-law-enforcement officials that investigated some of the worst of the worst when it came to crimes! And later on when Frank’s access to the, ‘Millennium Group’ was raised (The Millennium Group was the name of the organization that the lead character in the show was a part of...) Anyway, when his access in the group was raised, he was given a special voice print pass code that was a some sort of, ‘Movie reference’.

One of the co-stars (and people who Frank (The lead character in the show) worked with in the show) had the password ‘Open The Pod Bay Doors Please, Hal’, and Frank’s was, ‘Soylent Green is people’… Now I had found this particular reference to be rather amusing, if anything because I had heard it before but had never actually seen the movie that this reference was made from!

Of course that was till a few years ago when my friend and ABM CEO, Matt Dowling, had actually told me about this movie (at the time I was starting to delve real heavily in to 70s movies), and I thought it sounded like fun and picked it up to watch!

And boy what a movie this was! I mean besides the fact that it starred Film Legends like Charlton Heston (Planet Of The Apes), Edward G. Robinson (this movie would prove to be his final role), and not to mention Chuck Conners (Summer Camp Nightmares), Brock Peters (Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home), and Joseph Cotten (Baron Blood), to name a few… The story, both in how it was written and also in how impactful it was on the screen would blow your mind and really make you think!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="479"] Detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) and his old friend, Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) are on the case and will stop at nothing to find out what is wrong with, 'Soylent Green'![/caption]

The reason that I mention this you see, is that this movie tells the story of a dying Earth, a planet where the pitfalls of what mankind has been doing to the planet on an environmental level has become to much!

Now during this time there has become a major class divide in that those that are even comparatively moderately wealthy live in swanky and cool apartments where they can sometimes eat a piece of meat or eat a piece of a vegetable…

On the poor side though, there is a Detective by the name of Thorn (Heston) who, while taking care of the old man (Robinson) comes across a conspiracy that ends up having planet wide implications when he investigates the murder of a rich man!

You see this rich man happens to be working for the, ‘Soylent Corporation’ a company that is feeding the world using food that is supposedly coming from the ocean’s floor!

If it is, is the statement, ‘Soylent Green is people’ just the rantings of one of the mad men that is caught up in the conspiracy, or is Soylent Green really people…

If you want to known, you’ll have to check it out… And trust me when I say that you won’t be disappointed if you do!

http://youtu.be/SVpN312hYgU