Bridge over troubled water is cutting it super close. It actually was recorded in 1969 and released in jan 1970 -- I've always considered that song, along with everything else by Simon and Garfunkel, to be '60s.
Bridge over troubled water is cutting it super close. It actually was recorded in 1969 and released in jan 1970 -- I've always considered that song, along with everything else by Simon and Garfunkel, to be '60s.
Anything by the Carpenters
CHiPs Theme Song
Anything by ELO
Wonderwoman Theme Song
Anything by The BEE GEE's
Bell bottoms or bust baby!
I'll add American Pie to the list of memorable 1970s songs.
Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang, 1979.
that 70's song wrote:
Anything by the Carpenters
CHiPs Theme Song
Anything by ELO
Wonderwoman Theme Song
Anything by The BEE GEE's
Bell bottoms or bust baby!
What? Nothing by The Monkees, such as Daydream Believer.
Also, The Brady Bunch theme song. That Alice, the housekeeper, va-va-vavoom!
The Brady Bunch theme was under consideration as were others. Wish I still had some San Francisco riding gear pants and long enough hair to part down the middle with a foot long comb...and be as fast now as I was as a hs xc freshman in '78.....
.not on any list
When limiting to one song per artist...
1. Baba O'Riley -the Who
2. Transmission - Joy Division
3. Lost in the Supermarket - The Clash
4. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
5. Tryouts for the Human Race - Sparks
My opinion: 80s>90s>70s
random 5 from '70-72
Tears of a Clown Smokey- great comments about the song & era watch it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t52YcxbVpOQ
I'll Take You There Staples Singers
Who'll Stop The Rain Creedence
Have You Seen Her Chi-Lites
If You Don't Know Me By Now Harold Melvin& Blue Notes
easy weeks wrote:
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - CSNY
"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" would make my own list of favorites, but it was released on CS&N's debut album in 1969, and their legendary performance of the song at Woodstock that year places it firmly in the '60s in my eyes. Still, a great song.
My own personal favorite of the '70s is probably "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers, but it may be too short and spare to put on the top of a list like this. So I've chosen five that have more of an epic feel:
Bohemian Rapsody -- Queen
American Pie -- Don McLean
Born to Run -- Bruce Springsteen
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone -- The Temptations
Layla -- Derek and the Dominos
Jocko Homo Devo (the "Are we not men? We are Devo" song)
Paranoid Black Sabbath
Karn Evil No. 9 Emerson Lake and Palmer
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Message in a Bottle - The Police
Rock Lobster - The B-52's
Brick House - Commodores
Fame - David Bowie
Pump It Up - Elvis Costello
wineturtle wrote:
random 5 from '70-72
Tears of a Clown Smokey- great comments about the song & era watch it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t52YcxbVpOQI'll Take You There Staples Singers
Who'll Stop The Rain Creedence
Have You Seen Her Chi-Lites
If You Don't Know Me By Now Harold Melvin& Blue Notes
Who hasn't brought down the house with a drunken rendition of Feelings (Morris Albert) at karaoke night at the local gin mill?
Drop the mic and stumble off the stage after that one
they weren't American, but Led Zeppelin released all but I and II (both in 1969) and Coda in the 1970s, which by itself makes it a great music decade.
For the Americans, you have among others Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers.
Ronstadt charted with these in the 1970s
Faithless Love
Someone To Lay Down Beside Me
From Doris Troy
Just One Look
From Roy Orbison
Blue Bayou
From Fontella Bass
Rescue Me
Tell us why you assert that the '70s was the "worst decade". (Fashion? Politics? Economy? Entertainment? Women's movement? Weather patterns?) Thank you.
wineturtle wrote:
random 5 from '70-72
Tears of a Clown Smokey
Although "Tears of a Clown" was released on the album "Make It Happen" in 1967, its release as a single in 1970 was what really made it a hit. When I was a kid living in Greece, I would listen to Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" on the Armed Forces Radio Network each week just to hear "Tears of a Clown." I loved that song, and still do.
Avocado's Number wrote:
Bohemian Rapsody -- Queen
"Rhapsody."
People who can't keep their decades straight have ruined this thread.
Need some Ramones on this list.
Blitzkrieg Bop
Heat of Glass- Blondie
London Calling (even if it was used on an episode of 'Friends')-The Clash
Go your own way- Fleetwood Mac (might be the perfect pop song)
Teenage Kicks- The Undertones
Superstition-Steve Wonder (for the baseline alone)
Let's get it on- Marvin Gaye