Another poll as suggested from the 80's list. This time, we look at 70's songs. A little change up on this one from the last list. Many GN'ers were not around that decade or in the very least, were in diapers. As with the 80's, rules.
#1: If old enough, you must remember liking the song in question while it was popular. If not old enough, just tell us what music you like now that came from the 70's.
#2: More than one genre on your list. Common, you know you played your Minnie Ripperton Single after your friends left. It gave you a break from Led Zep 4 and Peter Frampton Comes Alive. :lol:
#3: Somewhere around 5-10 songs. More if you like. Whatever. This is supposed to be fun.
The 70's was quite an interesting decade, and the musical options kept right up. We had what's now coined as "AM GOLD" and Disco to go along with the wide variety of music already in place in the Rock and Country scenes. Most of us had their bedrooms wired so that we could get "good" radio stations. The variety shows of the 70's along with Saturday Night Live, American Band Stand and gobs of other shows kept those without good radio coverage up to date....sort of.
This is kind of difficult for me. I spent the decade in the foothills of Vermont and New Hampshire for the entire decade. For the most part, we had AM radio stations with their sister stations on FM. Those FM stations didn't rock us, so to speak. Exposure to good 70's rock came really late in the decade and early in the 80's. Therefore, my favorite 70's music isn't really on this list as I discovered things way late. This is just what I liked back in the 70's.
OK, without further delay and in no order.
American Pie - Don McLean. (AM Gold) This one very well might be the first song I ever liked. I had just gotten ear surgeries and was able to hear and listen to music for the first time.
Band On The Run - Paul McCartney
Afternoon Delight - Starlight Vocal Band
Convoy - C.W. McCall (or whatever his real name was)
Beth - Kiss. Despite our sheltered lives, we ALL had Kiss albums.
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Musta Got Lost - J Geils Band (live version from Blow Your Face Out)
Mandy - Barry Manilow. It was over 10 years of marraige before my wife and I both confessed to owning his live double album.
More More More - Andrea True Connection I almost made having a disco song on your list a rule. I'll set an example for us all.
Well, we moved to Upstate New York in '81, where they not only had real rock stations, but 3 to choose from. It was not until then did I get to hear Dark Side Of The Moon, a ton of early Stones stuff, the Who, Hendrix, Led Zep, etc. Hard to imagine that Sympathy For The Devil or You Can't Always Get What You Want were a decade old before I heard them.
Well, have fun with this.
Roy
"I wonder if a composer ever intentionally composed a piece that was physically impossible to play and stuck it away to be found years later after his death, knowing it would forever drive perfectionist musicians crazy." - George Carlin
Great and very funny threads Roy! Thank you very much! :D
My list:
Derek & The Dominos - Layla
Dire Straits - Sultans of swing
Eagles - Hotel California
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Santana - Europa
Boney M - Rasputin :shock:
Police - Roxanne
Supertramp - Fool's Overture
Stevie Wonder - You are the sunshine of my life
Kool & The Gang - Ladies Night
(When the 70s were starting I was 5 years old, so I heard some songs after that period.)
"Get Back", Beatles
"Let It Be", Beatles
"Across the Universe", Beatles
"Band on the Run", McCartney
"Jet", McCartney
"Imagine", Lennon
"Mind Games", Lennon
"#9 Dream," Lennon
"My Sweet Lord", Harrison
"What Is Life", Harrison
"Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)", Harrison
"It Don't Come Easy", Ringo
"Photograph", Ringo
"Layla", Derek and the Dominos
"Let It Rain", Clapton
"Me and Julio", Paul Simon
"Mother and Child Renunion", Paul Simon
"Kodachrome", Paul Simon
"Let It Grow", Clapton
"Have You Ever Loved a Woman", Clapton
Early 70s weren't too bad at all, were they?
Well we all shine on--like the moon and the stars and the sun.
-- John Lennon
Just thought of one I really liked, The Coconut Song by Harry Nilsson.
Agree with a whole bunch of those above, though I'll never confess to liking Barry Manilow, even if waterboarded.
Bought Don McLean's "American Pie" LP, but the thing on it I most liked was Dreidel.
My all time favorite album in the '70s (it was really a '60s album, I think) was Frank Zappa's "Hot Rats," and my favorite track on it was Willie The Pimp.
Wasn't it The Amazing Rhythm Aces who did Third Rate Romance, Low Rent Rendezvous? That was really well done, though I professed to dislike it at the time. Same with Golden Earring's Radar Love.
Hey, I loved Freddie Fender's Wasted Days and Wasted Nights and (I'll Be There) Before The Next Teardrop Falls.
And Charlie Daniel's Long Haired Country Boy and Uneasy Rider.
Willie Nelson's Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain.
Bloodrock's "Bloodrock II" album, the one with the radio song DOA on it was good, my favorite cut being the last track Fancy Space Odyssey.
I really loved that Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-sponsored 2-album collection of old time country music, "Will The Circle Be Unbroken?"
And another obscure favorite of mine was a Norman Blake song, Southern Railroad Blues.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
Oh man, I could list 100s. Here's a few over different genres:
Roundabout Yes
Rubberband Man The Spinners
Editions of You Roxy Music
Boogie On Reggae Woman Stevie Wonder
Tightrope Leon Russell
Shining Star Earth, Wind and Fire
Dixie Chicken Little Feat
Best of My Love The Emotions (Disco funk. Hope that qualifies, Roy) :)
Don
Way too much in this decade. Getting started:
'Hot August Night' - Neil Diamond's Live Album ... all of it
Montana, Camarillo Brillo, Joes Garage, Dancin' Fool, and so many that cannot be printed here - Zappa
Funk 49 - James Gang
Turn to Stone - Joe Walsh
Excitable Boy, Werewolves of London, Carmelita, Mohammad's Radio and Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon
Highway Star, Space Truckin' and SOTW - Deep Purple
American Band - GFRR
25 or 5 to 4, Colour My World - Chicago
Operator, Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
Rock 'n' Roll Hootchie Koo, Free Ride , Jumpin' Jack Flash - Johnny Winter/Rick Derringer
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter
Toys in the Attic, Sweet Emotion, 10-inch Record - Aerosmith
Message to You Rudy, Gangsters - The Specials
Communication Breakdown, Whole Lotta Love, Battle of Evermore - LZ
Albums 'Wired' and 'Blow by Blow' - Jeff Beck
Take it Easy and so many - Eagles
-=tension & release=-
Oh man, you gotta be joking, Roy! Even a cut-down list would run into the HUNDREDS.......it was easy enough to pick a few from the 80's, but the 70's? IMPOSSIBLE!
I'll go with my fave 5 albums of the 70's....
Status Quo - Piledriver
Stones - Exiles on Main Street
Mott The Hoople - Mott
John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band (the one with no info on the cover!)
Nazareth - Razamanaz
T Rex - Electric Warrior
The Who - Who's Next
Springsteen - BornTo Run
Roxy Music - Street Life
Eagles - Hotel California
Elton John - Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player
Deep Purple - Fireball
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Led Zeppelin - LZ4
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Boston - Boston (their 1st Album)
Bad Company - Bad Company
Derek & The Dominos - Layla
The Faces - A Nod's As Good As A Wink
OK, OK, there's more than five there.....I'll shut up now....
But not until I've asked; was I the only teenager in the 70's (13 in 1970) who didn't own (and never has owned) at least one of:
Dark Side Of The Moon
Bat Out Of Hell
Rumours
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
Well, I didn't own any of those. I had friends who did.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
rparker, good thread. It really got me reminiscing. I was aged 10 - 19 in the 70s. I guess this was my musical 'development' period. I remember listening to ALL of these during the 70s. It was really tough picking only 10... and I just couldn't do it. I still remember the effect these songs had one me... where I was when I heard these songs for the first time ... who I was with... what I was doing... the good times with friends... and some remind of some not so good times. Lots of memories here.
Band On The Run - Wings
Funk #49 - The James Gang
Echoes - Pink Floyd
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
American Girl - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Psycho Killer - The Talking Heads
Pretty Vacant - The Sex Pistols
Radio, Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Dreams I'll Never See - Molly Hatchet
My Best Friend's Girl - The Cars
Roxanne - The Police
Rock Lobster - The B52's
Death or Glory - The Clash
Train, Train - Blackfoot
"Get Back", Beatles
"Let It Be", Beatles
"Across the Universe", Beatles
"Band on the Run", McCartney
"Jet", McCartney
"Imagine", Lennon
"Mind Games", Lennon
"#9 Dream," Lennon
"My Sweet Lord", Harrison
"What Is Life", Harrison
"Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)", Harrison
"It Don't Come Easy", Ringo
"Photograph", Ringo
"Layla", Derek and the Dominos
"Let It Rain", Clapton
"Me and Julio", Paul Simon
"Mother and Child Renunion", Paul Simon
"Kodachrome", Paul Simon
"Let It Grow", Clapton
"Have You Ever Loved a Woman", Clapton
Early 70s weren't too bad at all, were they?
I love those early solo Beatles songs, Tim - but no Helen Wheels? Instant Karma? Back Off Boogaloo? Junior's Farm? Power To The People? Working Class Hero? Imagine? Jealous Guy? Beware Of Darkness? Bangladesh?
I suppose the hardest part was what to omit!
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
Hi Vic,
You're absolutely right. I wanted to list entire albums! (And I really should have listed "Instant Karma". What's wrong with me? Just didn't want my Lennon and Beatles addiction to be too evident!) I was truly trying to limit myself. Vic Lewis, you are a musician of superb musical taste!
Tim
Well we all shine on--like the moon and the stars and the sun.
-- John Lennon
hee hee. Yeah, this is an awfully tough one. I just did the ink test. First few that came to mind.
Vic, I was a teen in that decade, but I never had those albums during that decade. I got them in the 80's. We did have sort of a localized version of that going on though. What little hard rock we got turned on to, everyone had Aerosmith's Get Your Wings and Rocks, Kiss (anything) and Frampton Comes Alive seemed to be in everyone's album collection. I never did get the Frampton one, but I had the others.
I agree with everyone about albums. I think there were hundreds of gems in the form of songs that never got much attention on the popular front, but made for great albums. A topic for another time.....
OK, so I'm going to add to my list. Remember, these are the ones I remembered liking the best, not what I like the best from that decade right now. Here goes.
Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Night Fever - Bee Gees
The Logical Song - Super Tramp
Horse With No Name - America
Rikki Don't Lose That Number - Steely Dan
Heart Of Gold - Neil Young (figures, his only real pop hit, right?)
MacArthur Park - Donna Summer
Cat's In The Cradle - Harry Chapin
A few Jim Croce songs
I guess that's enuff fo now.
Roy
"I wonder if a composer ever intentionally composed a piece that was physically impossible to play and stuck it away to be found years later after his death, knowing it would forever drive perfectionist musicians crazy." - George Carlin
I remember walking about 6 miles to buy Dark side of the Moon the day it hit the stores, and I listened to that..more times than I could possibly remember.
At the time one of my all time favs, but I haven't listened to it in years.
"It's all about stickin it to the man!"
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll!
I'll keep it to one song per band
Steppenwolf "Shackles and Chains"
Bloodrock "Breach of Lease"
Grand Funk "I'm Your Captain"
Uriah Heep "The Magician's Birthday"
King Crimson "One More Red Nightmare"
Spirit "Would You Believe"
Blue Oyster Cult "Flaming Telepaths"
Curtis Mayfield "Billy Jack"
Funkadelics "Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock"
Led Zeppelin "Achilles Last Stand"
Brian Eno "Back In Judy's Jungle"
Marvin Gaye "Mercy Me"
Doobie Brothers "Listen To The Music"
Elton John "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"
Pink Floyd "Time"
Jethro Tull "Inside"
Ramones "Rockaway Beach"
Deep Purple "Flight of the Rat"
Emerson, Lake and Palmer "The Endless Enigma"
Genesis "I Know What I Like (In Your Wadrobe)"
Humble Pie "Stone Cold Feaver"
The Rolling Stones "Rip This Joint"
Black Sabbath "Hard Road"
David Bowie "TVC15"
Three Dog Night "Night In The City"
The Carpenters "Rainy Days and Mondays"
Paul McCartney "Smile Away"
John Lennon "Gimme Some Truth"
George Harrison "Isn't It A Pity"
Ringo Starr "I'm The Greatest"
T. Rex "Ballrooms of Mars"
Robin Trower "Daydream"
Kiss "Great Expectations"
Mott The Hoople "The Journey"
Mountain "Theme For An Imaginary Western"
Yes "The Gates Of Delerium"
Frank Zappa "The Torture Never Stops"
Iron Butterfly "Slower Than Guns"
Argent "True Love"
Climax Blues Band "Sense of Direction"
Foghat "Take Me To The River"
Queen "In The Lap Of The Gods...revisited"
Aerosmith "Last Child"
Rush "Xanadu"
Alex Harvey "The Tale Of The Giant Stone Eater"
Van Der Graff Generator "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers"
Alice Cooper "Halo Of Flies"
Allman Brothers Band "Mountain Jam"
the seventies were great!
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70's wow there's way to much here too for me rather than songs I'll just list some of my favs
Bowie was probably number one
Aerosmith
Humbel Pie
Queen
Lou Reed - Sweet Jane from his Rock n Roll Animal record is still one of my alltime favs. I absolutely love the lead guitars on that song
Elton John
Eagles
Bad Company
Grand Funk
BOC
Edgar Winter
Foghat
James Gang
and millions others I can't remember right now
"It's all about stickin it to the man!"
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll!
