Favorite Songs of the 70s

[+ quoththeraven]

In honor of a slight disagreement between two of our esteemed members from a couple of weeks ago (http://m4m-forum.org/threads/mens-fashions-for-the.106605/, posts #7 and 9), here are some of my fave songs from the 70s. I have a hard time choosing between the 60s, particularly the second half of the decade, and the 70s for favorite musical decade, which puts me on BaronArtz's side in this dispute. Some of these songs were ones that came to mind when we had a similar thread on the 80s awhile ago but which were a little too early.

 

Emerson Lake & Palmer, "Great Gate of Kiev" from Pictures at an Exhibition (1971) (okay, so I like prog rock; so sue me. Also, could they be any cuter?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to_8kZCQalQ

David Bowie, "Cracked Actor" from Aladdin Sane (1973) (my first semester freshman year college roommate played this song and the album it's from at top volume before I'd even gotten out of bed; that delayed my listening to anything by Bowie for years. Also, sorry, escorts; the lyrics to this song aren't too kind to sex workers.)

The Rolling Stones, "Angie" from Goat's Head Soup (1973)

David Bowie, "Rebel Rebel" from Diamond Dogs (1974)

Renaissance, "The Vultures Fly High" from Scheherazade and Other Stories (1975) (more prog/art rock)

[+ quoththeraven]

You didn't think I was finished, did you?

 

Gentle Giant, "On Reflection" from Free Hand (1975) (more prog rock to the point of being very, very close to a madrigal)

Labelle, "Lady Marmalade" from Nightbirds (1975) (played at every dorm party I ever went to)

David Bowie, "Heroes" from the live album Stage (1978) (my favorite Bowie song)

The Cars, "Just What I Needed" from The Cars (1978) (one of the greatest debut albums ever; so I wasn't big on punk, but I was big on New Wave)

[bigvalboy]

Well you got me at "Lady Marmalade"...... (and no, I'm not finished, but I'll need a minute)

[AdamSmith]

I'm converted!

 

As I speculated in that previous thread, I must have hung with the wrong people who were choosing what rock was played around us then. (My own attention was to classical music.)

[bigvalboy]

So many great songs, rock, soul, classical....and this

 

[+ quoththeraven]

So many great songs, rock, soul, classical....and this

 

 

I saw Lightfoot in concert. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was one of the highlights.

 

I won't mention the two Bowie concerts I saw. One of the greatest concert artists ever.

 

As I speculated in that previous thread, I must have hung with the wrong people who were choosing what rock was played around us then. (My own attention was to classical music.)

 

What kind of hacks were you hanging with?!! Also, at least three of the above selections was heavily influenced by classical music ("Great Gate of Kiev," "The Vultures Fly High," and "On Reflection"). And what is so wrong with Carly Simon's music? (I agree with you about Wings.)

[+ stevenkesslar]

This is a no brainer.

 

"Love Will Keep Us Together." Captain and Tennille.

 

It's not just that the song is trash. It's that President Ford, at the behest of his daughter, invited them to perform at the White House during a state visit by Queen Elizabeth. C & T performed "Muskrat Love," and good old Jerry learned it is un-Queenlike to perform a song about muskrats fucking in front of royalty.

 

It is a wonderful metaphor. If we had gotten this gay discrimination thing out of the way back in the 70's we could have brought so much joy and grace and dignity and good taste to Queens and everyone across the world so much earlier.

 

Besides, it is always natural and important for Americans to try to insult Europeans. Some things are truly timeless.

[+ WilliamM]

I attented many rock concerts in the 1970s: Bob Dylan & The Band, Jethro Tull, Chicago, Janis Joplin, James Taylor & Carole King, Jackson Browne, Jefferson Airplane, Bob Dylan and his own band, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Neil Young, Joan Baez, many Bruce Springsteen concerts: outdoors; very small venues; arenas, The Talking Heads, Patti Smith. Also many jazz and pop concerts.

 

I have to go by albums, not songs: Smith's "Horses," Springsteen's "Born to Run" and Dylan's "Desire."

[geoffk]

it's hard to pick 70s songs as the best, there are so many that i listened to on WPLJ New York with Jim Kerr. Two that stand out are Stairway to Heaven, of course , and Radar Love, the best driving song ever. It's fun to listen to 70s on 7 on SiriusXM.

[+ quoththeraven]

it's hard to pick 70s songs as the best, there are so many that i listened to on WPLJ New York with Jim Kerr. Two that stand out are Stairway to Heaven, of course , and Radar Love, the best driving song ever. It's fun to listen to 70s on 7 on SiriusXM.

 

I thought about posting "Stairway to Heaven." It was the theme for my senior prom even though at that point the song was several years old.

 

Speaking of classics, "Free Bird," anyone? Bowie performed a few measures of it at one of the concerts of his I attended when some wiseacre asked for it mid-concert. Or "Smoke on the Water"?

[+ quoththeraven]

Gotta post the other song that was played at every dorm party ever: Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" from the album Talking Book (1972).

One of the most interesting things to me is how in those pre-internet and YouTube days songs lingered and were popular for years. By the time I entered college, "Superstition" was several years old already, yet it was played ALL THE TIME.

[bigvalboy]

Very 70's...yes, but I always liked the lyrics.

 

[+ oldNbusted]

A three minute mashup from 1979...

 

[samhexum]

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[+ Cash4Trash]

Ecstacy, Passion and Pain's "Good Things Don't Last Forever".

[+ E.T.Bass]

Dad loved this one.