1970's Top Ten
 

I'm curious about the songs people consider the top ten non-Fleetwood Mac of the 1970's. You know, the kind of song that you hear and say to yourself "Now that's an awesome song." Here's my list to get you started (in no particular order):

"You're So Vain" by Carly Simon
"Horse with No Name" by America
"Heart of Gold" by Neil Young
"Superstition" by Stevie Wonder
"Dream On" by Aerosmith
"Hotel California" by The Eagles
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult
"Summer Nights" by Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta
"Band on the Run" by Paul McCartney & Wings
"Photograph" by Ringo Starr

Have Fun,
John

The best decade ever for music. Its hard to keep it to just 10.
In no particular order.

1. Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
2. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
3. Turn The Page - Bob Seger
4. Layla - Derek & The Dominoes
5. Baba O'Riley - The Who
6. Do You Feel Like We Do - Peter Frampton
7. Desperado - The Eagles
8. Light My Fire - The Doors
9. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
10.Walk This Way - Aerosmith

Soooooooo many more, not to mention a lot from my favorite band. :)

Good God! How could I have forgotten that one?!?

John

No particular order here:

Layla-Derek And The Dominoes
Honorable mention: Bell Bottom Blues, Keep On Growing
Album: Layla And Assorted Other Love Songs

Bad Company-Can't Get Enough
Honorable mention from same album: Rock Steady, Ready For Love, Movin' On
Album: Bad Company

Heart-Magic Man
Honorable mention-Crazy On You, Dreamboat Annie, Sing Child
Album: Dreamboat Annie

Elton John-Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Honorable mention: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Bennie And The Jets, Candle In The Wind, Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
Album: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Patti Smith-Because The Night
Honorable mention: Till Victory, Space Monkey, Ghost Dance
Album: Easter

Van Halen-Runnin' With the Devil
Honorable mention: Ain't Talkin' Bout Love, Jamie's Cryin, Ice Cream Man, Feel Your Love Tonight
Album: Van Halen

Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody
Honorable mention: You're My Best Friend
Album: A Night At The Opera

Rolling Stones-Bitch
Honorable mention: Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, Can't You Hear Me Knockin', I Got The Blues, Sister Morphine
Album: Sticky Fingers

Led Zeppelin-Over The Hills And Far Away
Honorable mention-The Song Remains The Same, Dancing Days, D'yer Mak'er, The Ocean, The Rain Song
Album: Houses Of The Holy

Blondie-One Way Or Another
Honorable mention: Hanging On the Telephone, Pretty Baby, Sunday Girl, Heart Of Glass
Album: Parallel Lines

Released in 1967. :)

OK, I'll take your word for it. It seems like a 70s song to me. So let me plug in "Breakfast In America" by Supertramp to complete my Top 10. I checked that one and it was released in '79. Just barely a 70s song. :)

Supertramp was great. I particularly love the Logic Song

John

I don't know John, but I'm sure we're "forgetting" a lot of greats from the 70s. I think you should have made it a top 20 or something. :) :wavey:

Great lyrics:

The Logical Song

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily,
joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
clinical, intellectual, cynical.
There are times when all the world's asleep,
the questions run too deep
for such a simple man.
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
but please tell me who I am.
Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical,
liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're
acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable!
At night, when all the world's asleep,
the questions run so deep
for such a simple man.
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
but please tell me who I am.

Well, I won't employ the electric shocker penalty button if you go long on list :laugh:

John

:laugh:

Maybe it's best to keep it to a top 10. Be more interesting to see what some others come up with. :)

Well, I dragged out my old Supertramp best of collection and I'm listening to it now. I'd forgotten how wonderful their music is. Another band that I love is Steely Dan. I'd like to add "The Logical Song" and "Do It Again" to my list as honorable mentions. Most of SD's music is great, but "Do It Again" is the pinnacle.

John

I was just thinking about Do It Again last night and how it must have been one of the most played songs of all time in the 70's along with FM's songs.

Heart

no one mentioned Tom Petty songs
I also get really happy when the Cars come on
And Bob Seiger
AMber

It is a great song! One of my favorites, in fact, I have so many favorite songs from that time that I don't think I can narrow it down to a couple... :shrug:

Ooooh, those are some good picks there. I'd add Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty and just about anything Steely Dan released (the Can't Buy a Thrill & Aja albums in particular).

Baker Street was played a lot on the radio. That song reminds me of the beach. Gary Wright's Love Is Alive was another one and of course, Dream Weaver.

:nod: Definite "honorable mention" goes out to them. "Reelin' In The Years", "Black Friday", "Aja", "FM", "Hey Nineteen", Rikki Don't Lose That Number", and it goes on and on.

And nobody's even mentioned PINK FLOYD yet. Does anyone remember them? :laugh:

Don't forget Deacon Blues and Peg. :)

Dark Side Of The Moon -Time and Breathe In The Air
Definite trip music if there ever was any.

:laugh:

I know, but there are so many. I'm actually going through my Steely Dan catalog now, listening to a few tracks. It's great! "Babylon Sisters" is playing now! :)

Don't get me started, I'll be up all night! :lol:

Another Steely Dan one that I can't pass by when I have their music playing is "Haitian Divorce." I love the wah-wah guitar, the reggae beat and those wonderfly funny lyrics!

John

Oh God! I haven't thought of that song in years. That's a great one as well.

Top 10 Best of the 70's in album form:

Heart: Bebe LeStrange- (the definitive Heart album imo). Also, Little Queen and Dog and Butterfly.

Led Zep: Physical Graffiti, Presence (mainly for Achilles Last Stand), and Houses of the Holy

Neil Young: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (with Crazy Horse), After the Goldrush, Harvest, and Decade

AC/DC: Jailbreak '74, If You Want Blood You Got It, Let There Be Rock

The Who: Who's Next?

Linda Ronstadt: Simple Dreams, Heart Like a Wheel, and Prisoner in Disguise

Patti Smith: Easter, Horses

The Rolling Stones: Exile on Mainstreet, Sticky Fingers

Cheap Trick: Live at Budokan

Joni Mitchell: Blue, For The Roses, Ladies of the Canyon, Court and Spark, Hejira

In no particular order:

1. Bob Dylan- Isis
2. Blondie- Rip Her To Shreds
3. Bette Midler- Delta Dawn
4. Linda Ronstadt- Blue Bayou
5. Heart- Crazy On You
6. Tom Petty- Luna
7. Jefferson Airplane- Lather
8. Carly Simon- You're So Vain
9. David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
10. David Bowie- Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family

And I must add Bowie's "1984," that songs is fantastic. AND - Blondie's "Hanging On the Telephone."

You Forgot Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Nobody's Fault But Mine, and Immigrant Song. :D :D :wavey:

How could I forget Bowie? Ziggy's the definitive 70's Bowie album for sure.

:nod:

I've been listening to the new 30th anniversary remaster of Diamond Dogs lately and Chant of the Ever Circling is now one of my all-time favorite songs. It's sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo weird, even by Bowie standards. :laugh:

my list
 

"Superstition" by Stevie Wonder
"Hotel California" by The Eagles
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Logical Song - Supertramp
Please Mr Please - Olivia
You light up my life - Debbie Boone
Evergreen - Barbra
Nobody does it better - Carly Simon

Green Grass and High Tides- The Outlaws
Bad Company- Bad Company
Lay It On The Line and
Refugee- Tom Petty
Rock Steady- Bad Company
I'm Eighteen- Alice Cooper
Crazy on You- Heart
Fight the Good Fight- Triumph.
Breakdown- Tom Petty
Free Bird- Lynyrd Skynard

I didn't know anyone else knew this song. I absolutely fell in love with it in high school. (I had way before fallen in love with Somebody to Love and White Rabbit - and all of Surrealistic Pillow)

Yes! A great jumproping song by the way :p

If nobody has mentioned
Staying Alive
then you've been remiss!

I think we need a revision from you my friend. "Running Down a Dream" is an 80's song and you listed "Fight the Good Fight Twice."

As for the rest, we sure have a lot of Zep fans. It's surprising how varied people's tastes are. I wonder if there is some thread of commonality that runs through your choices? If mine has one, it's probably the use of harmony vocals that suggests a Beach Boys influence.

John

I had to idea about runnign Down a Drain. And Fight the Good Fight was listed twice not becuase It's my favorite of the bunch, but because I'm an idiot. But it's good cause that freed up some room for one more song. I added Free Bird.

I also wanna say:
Sweet Home Alabama
Devil Went Down to Georgia (yeah! :D )
Ring of Fire
AMber

Disdainful Sign
 

Geez, how could YOU forget David? I thought he meant something to you! :laugh: I'll be back for my two cents.... and you know Bowie will be at the top of the list.

This is just an "of the moment - off the top of my head" list.... there are far too many great songs from the 70's (the best decade music ever had) to list. Besides, I'm intentionally leaving FM off the list cuz this is in "Chit Chat" :lol:


1) Blue - Joni Mitchell
2) Just the Wine - Heart
3) Company - Rickie Lee Jones
4) Pretty Maids in a Row - Eagles
5) All is Fair in Love - Stevie Wonder
6) Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight - James Taylor
7) Kings and Queens - Aerosmith
8) Patiently - Journey
9) Ten Years Gone - Led Zep
10) For the Roses - Joni Mitchell
11) The Last Time I Saw Richard - Joni Mitchell

Nice picks. :thumbsup:

My list, in no particular order...

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic
Lawyers, Guns and Money - Warren Zevon
Pretty Maids All in a Row/In the City - The Eagles
Have You Ever Seen the Rain - CCR
Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin
Accidents Never Happen/11:59/Fan Mail - Blondie
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
The Wild One, Forever/Hometown Blues/Refugee - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Dream On - Aerosmith
Straight On - Heart

There are many more that I forgot, but it's the best I could do at almost 1:30 AM. :lol:

-Kate

that must suck to have the first song on your first album be your pinnacle

i know for sure that BIGLY and IS are both in the 60's i dont know the other one but i'm not a big LZ fan either but i know some stuff.