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Title: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: sonickteam2 on October 08, 2006, 06:32:00 am
ok , you may remember me asking for songs with "black" or "white" in the title, but i have since changed my mind on my Christmas compilation
 
   so i am going with the best songs from the 70s
 
   i may do a top 500 or 250 or 1000, but i am trying to get opinion on the top few.
 
    so what would everyone say is their top 10 , or 3, 5 , whatever you want.  i'd like some input!
   thanks people!
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: Random Citizen on October 08, 2006, 07:29:00 am
I'm 29, but I still listen to this stuff. Maybe I'm a reincarnation of a dead hippie.   :D
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: saco on October 08, 2006, 09:58:00 am
"Whats goin on"-Marvin
 
 "Shot down in Flames"-AC/DC
 
 "Tumbling Dice" -Stones
 
 "The Weight"-The Band
 
 "Lets Stay Together"-Green
 
 "Promised Land"-Springsteen
 
 "Blame it on Cain"-Costello
 
 "Tangled Up in Blue"-Dylan
 
 "Behind Closed Doors"-Charlie Rich
 
 "Career Opportunities"-The Clash
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: terry on October 08, 2006, 10:30:00 am
The ever-changing Top 10 list:
 
 1. "Over and Over"--MC5
 2. "Daisy Glaze"-- Big Star
 3. "Tusk"--Fleetwood Mac
 4. "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go"--Curtis Mayfield
 5. "Here You Come Again"--Dolly Parton
 6. "Hello It's Me"--Todd Rundgren
 7. "Radar Love"--Golden Earring
 8. "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"--Traffic
 9. "Beat on the Brat"--the Ramones (total agreement with Random Citizen PDX. It's actually my ringtone, I love that song so much.)
 10. "Every Picture Tells a Story"--Rod Stewart
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: Relaxer on October 08, 2006, 02:44:00 pm
Here's what comes to mind right now
 
 Stooges - TV Eye
 Roxy Music - Editions of You
 Kiss - Deuce
 Steely Dan - Barrytown
 David Bowie - Station to Station
 Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
 Judas Priest - Exciter
 ELO - Don't Bring Me Down
 New York Dolls - Jet Boy
 Supremes - Stoned Love
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: chancegardener on October 08, 2006, 11:12:00 pm
"Surrender" - Cheap Trick
 "Stay Free" - The Clash
 "Anarchy in the UK" - Sex Pistols
 "Do Ya" - ELO
 "Walk this Way" - Aerosmith
 "Baba O'Riley" - The Who
 "Instant Karma" - John Lennon
 "Love is the Drug" - Roxy Music
 "Life During Wartime" - Talking Heads
 "Precious" - Pretenders
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on October 08, 2006, 11:48:00 pm
Currently on my RAWK playlist (80s songs removed):
 
 "Hot Blooded" -- Foreigner
 "Lick it Up" -- Kiss
 "Running with the Devil" -- Van Halen
 "Surrender" -- Cheap Trick
 "Feeling That Way / Any Time" -- Journey
 "Walk Away" -- James Gang
 "All Right Now" -- Free
 "Fat Bottomed Girls" -- Queen
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: Mobius on October 08, 2006, 11:53:00 pm
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Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
  Currently on my RAWK playlist (80s songs removed):
 
 "Lick it Up" -- Kiss
 "Running with the Devil" -- Van Halen
 
(Lick it Up is 80's Vinnie Vincent Kiss)
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on October 09, 2006, 12:05:00 am
d'oh!
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: Mobius on October 09, 2006, 12:06:00 am
An unimpeachable list . . .
 
 Knock Three Times - Tony Orlando/Dawn
 Close to You - Carpenters
 Crocodile Rock - Elton John
 Love will keep us Together -  Cap'n and Tenielle
 Jive Talkin - Bee Gees
 Love to love you - Donna Summer
 Fernando - Abba
 Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart
 You Light Up My Life - Debbie Boone
 I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: on October 09, 2006, 09:34:00 am
The Cisco Kid, by WAR
 
 Stuck In The Middle With You, by Stealer's Wheel
 
 You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, by Bachman Turner Overdrive
 
 The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, by Gordon Lightfoot
 
 Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey), by Deodato
 
  Hooked On a Feeling, by Blue Swede
 
  Ballroom Blitz, The Sweet
 
  Mama Told Me Not Too Come, by Three Dog Night
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: terry on October 09, 2006, 09:39:00 am
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Originally posted by chancegardener:
  "Surrender" - Cheap Trick
 
I wanna add "Surrender" to my list.
 
 
Quote
"Walk Away" -- James Gang
This one too.
 
 While I'm thinking about it:
 
 "Cisco Kid"--War
 "Ain't That Nothing"--Television
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: on October 09, 2006, 09:40:00 am
Wildwood Weed, By Jim Stafford
 
  Frankenstein, by The Edgar Winter Group
 
 
 ...there, that's my ten.  no non-AM radio songs. i dare anyone to top it.
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: Sir HC on October 09, 2006, 10:54:00 am
Strawberry Letter 22
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: on October 09, 2006, 11:07:00 am
Television & The Ramones were never available on the regular airwaves in the 70s.
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: terry on October 09, 2006, 11:15:00 am
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
  Strawberry Letter 22
You mean Strawberry Letter 23? I was sooo going to add that! But I couldn't decide between the Brothers Johnson or the Shuggie Otis original. Both versions are equally good.
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: Sir HC on October 09, 2006, 11:44:00 am
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Originally posted by terry:
   
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
  Strawberry Letter 22
You mean Strawberry Letter 23? I was sooo going to add that! But I couldn't decide between the Brothers Johnson or the Shuggie Otis original. Both versions are equally good. [/b]
Yes, always get it wrong as when I sing it, they first say Strawberry Letter 22 (from me to  you)...
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: terry on October 09, 2006, 12:12:00 pm
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
   
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Originally posted by terry:
   
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
  Strawberry Letter 22
You mean Strawberry Letter 23? I was sooo going to add that! But I couldn't decide between the Brothers Johnson or the Shuggie Otis original. Both versions are equally good. [/b]
Yes, always get it wrong as when I sing it, they first say Strawberry Letter 22 (from me to  you)... [/b]
Yeah, I never understood that. I think Shuggie just wanted to mess with our minds...
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: diedslippy on October 09, 2006, 09:03:00 pm
"Roadrunner" - Modern Lovers
 "Lust for Life" - Iggy Pop
 "Another Girl, Another Planet" - Only Ones
 "I'll Be There" - Jackson 5
 "Alison" - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
 "The Pretender" - Jackson Browne
 "Teenage Kicks" - Undertones
 "What Do I Get?" - Buzzcocks
 "I Wish" - Stevie Wonder
 "Slow Ride" - Foghat
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: Stony on October 09, 2006, 09:50:00 pm
Sinner-Judas Priest
 Eruption-Van Halen
 Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen
 Train kept a rolling-Aerosmith
 Hall of the Mountain Grill-Hawkwind
 Physical Graffiti-Led Zeppelin
 Money-Pink Floyd
 Baba O'Reily-Who
 Boys are back in town-Thin Lizzy
 Brain salad sugery-ELP
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: Stony on October 09, 2006, 09:52:00 pm
I think we all agree that the 70s had some "super" fine music.....
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: Bombay Chutney on October 10, 2006, 11:06:00 am
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
 Baba O'Riley - The Who
 Detroit Rock City - KISS
 Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
 Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed
 Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk) - Parliament
 Do You Feel Like We Do? - Peter Frampton
 Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin
 We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions - Queen
 Simple Twist Of Fate - Bob Dylan
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on October 10, 2006, 11:37:00 am
Creedence - "Lookin' Out My Back Door"
 Simon & Garfunkel - "The Boxer"
 Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"
 Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On"
 John Lennon - "Oh Yoko!"
 T. Rex - "Hot Love"
 Allman Bros. - "Blue Sky"
 Big Star - "Don't Lie to Me"
 Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
 Al Green - "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)"
 Rolling Stones - "Tumbling Dice"
 Gram Parsons - "Return of the Greivous Angel"
 Bob Marley - "Iron Lion Zion"
 David Bowie - "Rebel Rebel"
 Shuggie Otis - "Strawberry Letter 23"
 The Boss - "Thunder Road"
 Iggy Pop - "Lust for Life"
 The Jam - "The Modern World"
 Peter Gabriel - "Solsbury Hill"
 Talking Heads - "Psycho Killer"
 Buzzcocks - "Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?)
 Devo - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
 The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"
 20/20 - "Giving It All"
 The Cure - "Boys Don't Cry"
 Joy Division - "Transmission"
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: Jaguar on October 10, 2006, 11:44:00 am
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Originally posted by Surly Bonds:
  Television & The Ramones were never available on the regular airwaves in the 70s.
Oh, yes they were! You just weren't listening to the right stations.
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on October 10, 2006, 11:48:00 am
how did i leave cheap trick's "surrender" off of there?!  who does the bitching punk-pop cover of that song?
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: sweetcell on October 10, 2006, 12:08:00 pm
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Originally posted by Maf54:
  how did i leave cheap trick's "surrender" off of there?!  who does the bitching punk-pop cover of that song?
seems just about everyone has: MxPx, the manges, Psychotic Youth, simple plan, Less Than Jake...
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: on October 27, 2006, 10:25:00 am
Love's Theme, by Love Unlimited Orchestra
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: terry on October 27, 2006, 10:50:00 am
Thanks for the reminder--I've been meaning to add a few more songs to my Top 10 List, which is now way over 10 songs:
 
 Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
 Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress - The Hollies
 American Woman - The Guess Who
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: J'Mal on October 27, 2006, 11:28:00 am
1.  Styx -- Renegade
 2.  AC/DC -- Back in Black
 3.  Abba -- Dancing Queen
 4.  Boston -- More Than A Feeling
 5.  Billy Joel -- My Life
 6.  Dire Straits -- Down to the Waterline
 7.  Pink Floyd -- Fearless
 8.  Gary Numan -- Are Friends Electric?
 9.  OMD -- Electricity
 10. Blondie -- Heart of Glass
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: mrpee on October 27, 2006, 11:33:00 am
Quite recently I completed a comprehensive survey of adult humans ---partially using The Google --- and my results, which will be published in an Important Academic Research Paper by An Important American Collegiate Institution, concluded, that, without a doubt,  "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry is the greatest song ever recorded. And, my associates tell me, it was released during the 1970's.
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: twangirl on October 27, 2006, 02:27:00 pm
David Essex â?¢ Rock On
 Raspberries â?¢ Go All the Way
 Ozark Mountain Daredevils â?¢Â If You Wanna Get to Heaven
Title: Re: top ten songs from the 70's
Post by: twangirl on October 27, 2006, 02:29:00 pm
Norman Greenbaum � Spirit in the Sky