1970s in Songs Bracket • Page 2

Very well put. There's some kind of weird alchemical magic going on with that recording that doesn't sound quite like anything else. I've never been able to put my finger on what it is that makes it so special.

 

It's also one of Richie Cannata's finest moments with that harmonized clarinet (I think?) bit in the outro. Just something in those melodies that hits a place basically no other song can for me.

 

1 Bill Withers - "Grandma's Hands"
2 The Rolling Stones - "Sway"
3 Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven"
4 Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
5 Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
6 Joni Mitchell - "A Case of You"
7 Bruce Springsteen - "Jungleland"
8 The Clash - "Train In Vain"
9 Elton John - "Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding"
10 Joy Division - "Interzone"

HMs:
Al Green - "Love and Happiness"
The Beatles - "Let It Be"
Black Sabbath - "Into the Void"
Blue Öyster Cult - "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"
The Cars - "Just What I Needed"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Long As I Can See the Light"
Fleetwood Mac - "The Chain"
George Harrison - "What Is Life"
Janis Joplin - "Move Over"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Simple Man"
Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On"
Queen - "Tie Your Mother Down"
Sex Pistols - "Anarchy in the U.K."
Talking Heads - "Life During Wartime"
Thin Lizzy - "Warrior"
Tom Waits - "New Coat of Paint"

 

HELL yes

 

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2. Deep Purple - Highway Star
3. Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
4. Motorhead - Overkill
5. Black Sabbath - Snowblind
6. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
7. Rainbow - Kill The King
8. Boulder Damn - Dead Meat
9. Soft Machine - Moon in June
10. The Clash - London Calling

 

1. Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
2. Killer Queen - Queen
3. The Only Living Boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
4. Sailing - Christopher Cross
5. Place to Be - Nick Drake
6. War Pigs - Black Sabbath
7. Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac
8. Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
9. Tiny Dancer - Elton John
10. Disorder - Joy Division

 

1. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
2. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
3. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
4. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
5. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - The Love I Lost
6. Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
7. The Spinners - Honest I Do
8. Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away
9. Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
10. Donna Summer - I Feel Love

Blondie - Dreaming
Talking Heads - Love -> Building on Fire
Marvin Gaye - What's Goin On
The Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll
David Bowie - Life on Mars
Rod Steward - Maggie May
Marvin Gaye - Got to Give It Up
The Eagles - Take It Easy
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody
Brian Eno - The Big Ship
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - Don't Leave Me This Way
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Bob Seger - Night Moves
Freda Payne - Band of Gold
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
The O'Jays - Love Train
The Five Stairsteps - OOH Child

What a decade. Not even scratching the surface

 

I was looking ahead to the 80’s last night and it’s ridiculous lol. I think every decade is going to feel insane when you have to pick 10 songs.

 

I'm trying not to be too precious about it. 2000s are going to be brutal for me, though.

 

One reason why the one song per artist guideline is the only way I could make a list

 

David Byrne, Michael Stipe and Robert Smith alone

 

I'm rigidly sticking to that top 250 songs list I posted here and just picking the correct decade ones as they were ranked.

 

Haha, I’m doing a bit of that as well.

 

This was really fun. Didn't know too many 60s tracks but grew up listening to 70s music.


1. Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
2. Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia
3. Tom Petty - Here Comes My Girl
4. Paul Simon - Slip Slidin' Away
5. The Eagles - Hotel California
6. Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
7. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
8. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
9. Wings - Band On The Run
10. The Who - Baba O'Riley

 

01. The O’Jays - Brandy
02. Michael Jackson - Rock With You*
03. Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
04. Wilson Pickett - Cole, Cook & Redding
05. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
06. Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
07. The Who - Baba O’Riley
08. Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight**
09. KISS - Detroit Rock City
10. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl

*I also had 'Blame It On The Boogie' by The Jacksons on my list, but I took it off after adding 'Rock With You'. Although they are technically different artists, 'Blame It On The Boogie' feels too much like a Michael Jackson song for it to not break - in spirit - my one song per artist rule.

**I was gonna go with Funky 4 + 1's 'Rapping And Rocking The House' instead because I am a Hip Hop snob, but then decided that I can't deny that Rapper's Delight is just a way catchier song. It's still great whenever you hear it on the radio. Check out 'Rapping And Rocking The House' though. It has the first recorded verse by a female rapper, if I remember it right.

 

1. Elton John - Your Song
2. ABBA - Dancing Queen
3. Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
4. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
5. Elton John - Rocketman
6. Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
7. Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
8. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
9. John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - You're The One That I Want
10. Dolly Parton - Jolene

This is brutal.

 

Oh man, I love the O'Jays but had never heard "Brandy" before. What a song!

 

By my count the most songs listed for an artist:

6 - Led Zeppelin, Elton John
5 - David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Bruce Springsteen, Black Sabbath
4 - Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel
3 - Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, The Rolling Stones
2- Blondie, The Clash, Nick Drake, Billy Joel, Joy Division, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, The Who, Neil Young, Warren Zevon

 

It’s amazing. Fun fact: Brandy is a dog that died.

 

I did catch that about 2/3 of the way through the song that it was not about a girl and loved it even more.

That and "Shannon" have to be the best of that narrow subgenre.

 

It does make it even better. I lost a lot of pets in the last few years though so I find it hard to listen to the song at the moment.

 

That sucks, man. Sorry. I don't know what I'd do without my dog. Maybe write a song of exquisite sadness.

 

1. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
2. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
3. Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
4. Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me
5. Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up
6. Teddy Pendergrass - Come Go With Me
7. Stevie Wonder - All In Love Is Fair
8. The Beatles - Let It Be
9. Michael Jackson - Ben
10. Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen

 

Teddy Pendergrass is so good

 

Doc on Showtime was pretty great.