What're the best five songs of America's worst decade (1970s)?

TonyaHarding wrote:

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

Tonya I do not know what prompted your comment but I certainly never did and I doubt Line Renaud did either.

BUT

If you are going to Karaoke it use the 1976 version released by Santo and Johnny.

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if you believe the '70s was the worst decade then I'm sure you'll agree that Disco Duck a two sided ditty crafted by Rick Dees& His Cast of Idiots

is the song of the decade going to Billboard Number On October 1976

survey says wrote:

Who killed the Kennedy's wrote:

Joy Division

Still album -Ceremony

Not from the 70's.

Saw them before it May of 79 in London .

It was recorded for Still album May of 80 .

Hence it is 1970s .

Rock the Nation – Montrose

Ziggy Stardust – Bowie

All the Way from Memphis – Mott the Hoople

White Riot – The Clash

Hot Rails to Hell – Blue Oyster Cult

Stairway to Heaven, obviously.

Hotel California, obviously.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Long and Winding Road.

Shadow Dancing.

More Than a Feeling.

Crap. Chicago, Pink Floyd, Bee Gees, and about 10 others are being overlooked.

There's too many.

I give up.

all things considered wrote:

Earache My Eye - Cheech and Chong

Wow, can't believe anyone else even knows this song. It was my favorite at one point during my teen years in the 70s ....

"The world's comin' to an end, I don't even care. As long as I can have a limo and my orange hair."

Sounds like someone we know now, LOL

Getting a few genres in here..

September, Earth Wind and Fire

Feels So Good, Chuck Mangione

Baker Street, Gerry Rafferty

Peg, Steely Dan

Wish You Were Here. Pink Floyd

'70s, not 70's.

Ending US Genocide of SE Asia wrote:

The 70's was America's Greatest Decade ever.

Genesis anyone?????

1. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye.

stateroftheoblivious wrote:

Stairway to Heaven, obviously.

Hotel California, obviously.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Long and Winding Road.

Shadow Dancing.

More Than a Feeling.

Crap. Chicago, Pink Floyd, Bee Gees, and about 10 others are being overlooked.

There's too many.

I give up.

Long and Winding Road and Bridge over Troubled Water are '60s.

70s punky funky wrote:

Need some Ramones on this list.

Dead Kennedys >>> Ramones

Have You Seen Her.

I thought I was the only person who held that song in great regard.

Possibly, the saddest song ever sung.

I force my wife to listen to me belt it out whenever it pops up on my music.

I'm curious, do people actually believe the 1970s were so bad?

Its only come to my attention in recent years that many people really do believe that. Its absurd, nonsense.

I get it that the 1970s is a fun decade to tease and ridicule. But the fact is, the economy of the 1970s did fine by today's standards. Yes, inflation ran high. But wage inflation largely kept up with it unlike the decades that came after.

Culturally I would argue that the 1970s was better the 1960s or the 1980s. Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead were at their best in the 1970s. Springsteen released his best albums. The Stones were doing their best live performances in 1978. Bowie was doing his thing. Punk Music was better than anything that came after. The best and most innovative movies in history came out in the 1970s.

Everything disco sucks.

ryan foreman wrote:

I'm curious, do people actually believe the 1970s were so bad?

Its only come to my attention in recent years that many people really do believe that. Its absurd, nonsense.

I get it that the 1970s is a fun decade to tease and ridicule. But the fact is, the economy of the 1970s did fine by today's standards. Yes, inflation ran high. But wage inflation largely kept up with it unlike the decades that came after.

Culturally I would argue that the 1970s was better the 1960s or the 1980s. Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead were at their best in the 1970s. Springsteen released his best albums. The Stones were doing their best live performances in 1978. Bowie was doing his thing. Punk Music was better than anything that came after. The best and most innovative movies in history came out in the 1970s.

1. Watergate destroys all faith in American institutions/government

2. Loss in Vietnam, Iranian hostage crisis and strengthening Soviets cause America's decline on world stage

3. Extremely expensive energy, stagflation causing domestic economic woes

4. War on Drugs, Prop 13; roots of the disastrous "conservative revolution" of 1980s

5. Disco

I agree, there are some positives from that decade people ignore. Income equality was at its high-point, great films and songs were released, politics were still largely civil, the media was reliable/objective, race-relations were fine, sex was plentiful (pre-aids), college was cheap, running was in its golden age.

But all in all, the 1970s was a decade-long hangover from the drunken excesses of Pax Americana. And, in my opinion, we would've recovered had we not tried to cure ourselves with the "cocaine" of 1980s tax cuts, deregulation, and democratization.

Phil is better than peter wrote:

Genesis anyone?????

Firth of Fifth.

For those who don't know the song- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91ZcQflBbNo

Not kilgore wrote:

Have You Seen Her.

I thought I was the only person who held that song in great regard.

Possibly, the saddest song ever sung.

I force my wife to listen to me belt it out whenever it pops up on my music.