Originally Posted by
throttleweenie
Tower of Power. No contest. They called it in the '60's with "What is Hip?" And again in the '70's with "Only So Much Oil in the Ground".
Nice call with TOP (I grew up a couple of blocks from Oakland in the 70s). Unfortunately, their heyday was in the 70s (when "What is Hip" was released), proving James point about the 90s. I still say the 80s (IMO, the nadir of music over the last half century) were way worse than the 90s... but I liked the grunge evolution (AIC, Soundgarden, etc.).