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BuzzJack Music Forum _ 20th Century Retro _ Your favourite 70s songs

Posted by: The Snake Jan 12 2018, 09:43 PM

I don't know a big lot about the 70s compared to the decades after but these are probably my three favourite songs from the decade I have heard so far.



Excellent pop rock tune, I thought until I found out recently, that this was from later than 1974! ohmy.gif



This song is so very different, especially with the operatic vocal.



Definitely my favorite of all the electronic HI-NRG disco songs in the late 70s. Have liked this one for a long time.

What are your favourite 70s tracks?


Posted by: No Sleeep Jan 12 2018, 10:31 PM

My faves all debuted in the 80s-90s so I don't really know a lot about the 70s either

Cheryl Lynn - Got to Be Real
Emotions - Best of My Love
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Diana Ross - Do You Know Where You're Going To
Diana Ross - The Boss

I'm sure there's more but that's all I can think of right now

Posted by: DalekTurret32 Jan 13 2018, 02:02 AM

David Bowie - Life On Mars
David Bowie - Starman
David Bowie - Golden Years
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky
Pink Floyd - Money
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
The Stranglers - Peaches
The Stranglers - Nice 'n' Sleazy
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
The Stranglers - Get A Grip On Yourself
Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
Fleetwood Mac - Second Hand News
Joy Division - Disorder
Joy Division - Insight
Joy Division - No Love Lost
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love
Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays
Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
The Ruts - Babylon's Burning
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Blondie - Heart Of Glass
Blondie - Sunday Girl
XTC - Making Plans For Nigel
The Clash - White Riot
The Clash - White Man In Hammersmith Palais
The Clash - Death Or Glory
The Clash - London Calling
The Clash - Train In Vain
The Clash - The Card Cheat ("There's a solitary man crying HOLD ME!")
Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
Blondie - One Way Or Another
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
Gang Of Four - Damaged Goods
Gang Of Four - At Home He's A Tourist
Hot Chocolate - Every 1's A Winner
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
Skids - Into The Valley
KC And The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It)
Patti Smith - Gloria
Patti Smith - Free Money
Patti Smith Group - Frederick
Patti Smith Group - Dancing Barefoot
Patti Smith Group - Because The Night
The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
Baccara - Yes Sir I Can Boogie
Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
Lou Reed - Vicious
Boney M - Ma Baker
Boney M - Rasputin
Boney M - Gotta Go Home
Boney M - Daddy Cool
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr Blue Sky
Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman
Heart - Barracuda
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Donna Summer - Hot Stuff
Sister Sledge - He's The Greatest Dancer
Wire - Three Girl Rhumba
Wire - Outdoor Miner
The Police - Can't Stand Losing You
The Police - Roxanne
The Police - Walking On The Moon
The Police - Message In A Bottle
The Rolling Stones - Angie
ABBA - Mamma Mia
ABBA - Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
ABBA - Dancing Queen
The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
Emerson Lake And Palmer - Fanfare For The Common Man
Emerson Lake And Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Leonard Cohen - Lover Lover Lover
Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire
Motorhead - Overkill
Motorhead - Stay Clean
Motorhead - No Class
Motorhead - Louie Louie
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
M - Pop Muzik
M - M Factor (The B-side to Pop Muzik)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Electricity
The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
The Knack - My Sharona
Deep Purple - Fireball
Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Iggy Pop - The Passenger
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Chic - Le Freak
Chic - Good Times
Earth Wind & Fire - September
Barry White - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love
Barry White - You're The First, My Last, My Everything
Barry White - Never Gonna Give You Up
A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie
Village People - YMCA ("(Young man!) There's no need to be down, I said (Young man!) )
Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime
T. Rex - 20th Century Boy
T. Rex - The Groover
T. Rex - Midnight
T. Rex - Laser Love
T. Rex - I Love To Boogie
T. Rex - Telegram Sam
T. Rex - Children Of The Revolution
Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy
Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
ABBA - Waterloo
George McCrae - Rock Your Baby
Pilot - Magic
Pilot - January
10cc - Dreadlock Holiday
Elton John - Bennie And The Jets
Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Elton John - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Bee Gees - Tragedy
Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric
David Bowie - Heroes
The Doors - LA Woman
The Doors - Love Her Madly
The Doors - The Changeling
The Doors - Riders On The Storm
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Deep Purple - Strange Kind Of Woman
Bob Marley - One Love
The Beatles - Let It Be
The Flying Lizards - Money
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
Al Stewart - On The Border
Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
Tavares - More Than A Woman
Gerry Rafferty - Get It Right Next Time
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
The Specials - Gangsters
The Specials - Rudi, A Message To You
Buzzcocks - Times Up
Buzzcocks - Boredom

The list goes on

Posted by: Liаm Jan 13 2018, 01:09 PM

A fw off the top of my head:

ABBA- Dancing Queen
ABBA- Mamma Mia
ABBA - S.O.S.
Blondie - Sunday Girl
Carly Simon - You're So Vain
Cher - Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
Joni Mitchell - River
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now

If I had to only pick a top 3 I'd say it'd be Wuthering Heights first for sure, and then Bohemian Rhapsody and Rhiannon.

Posted by: Suedehead2 Jan 13 2018, 02:31 PM

QUOTE(The Snake @ Jan 12 2018, 09:43 PM) *
I don't know a big lot about the 70s compared to the decades after but these are probably my three favourite songs from the decade I have heard so far.




This song is so very different, especially with the operatic vocal.


What are your favourite 70s tracks?

I remember when I first heard this song back in the day. More than 40 years on, they're still making great music.

Posted by: gavindeejay Jan 13 2018, 04:28 PM

Bee Gees - Staying Alive
Bee Gees - Night Fever
The Police - Message In A Bottle
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love with Someone...
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
Supertramp - Give A Little Bit
George Benson - Give me the Night
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
ELO - Don't Bring Me Down
ELO - All Over The World
ELO - Evil Woman
ELO - Livin Thing
Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry
Bob Marley - One Love
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
Abba - Gimme Gimme Gimme
The Beatles - Let It Be

Posted by: The Snake Jan 13 2018, 09:30 PM

QUOTE(No Sleeep @ Jan 12 2018, 10:31 PM) *
My faves all debuted in the 80s-90s so I don't really know a lot about the 70s either


That's why I did the 70s in this thread as if it was for the 80s or 90s or 00s I would have a huge number of songs I would like and would struggle to decide my absolute favourites. Will maybe start a similar 80s themed thread soon though on here.

Oh forgot about this one from the 70s, from 1970 ohmy.gif, thought it was from later in the 70s.


Posted by: fiesta Jan 14 2018, 12:57 PM

too many to list but some of my fave acts from the decade are Queen, ELO, Supertramp, Police. Elton John

Posted by: Popchartfreak Jan 14 2018, 01:01 PM

QUOTE(The Snake @ Jan 12 2018, 09:43 PM) *
I don't know a big lot about the 70s compared to the decades after but these are probably my three favourite songs from the decade I have heard so far.



Excellent pop rock tune, I thought until I found out recently, that this was from later than 1974! ohmy.gif



This song is so very different, especially with the operatic vocal.



Definitely my favorite of all the electronic HI-NRG disco songs in the late 70s. Have liked this one for a long time.

What are your favourite 70s tracks?


2 number ones in my chart and a number 3, I approve of your choices! (and most of the suggestions elsewhere) laugh.gif

Posted by: dandy* Jan 14 2018, 03:21 PM

My favourites are heavily influenced by the music my parents listened to...


















You could pretty much include most of Bowie and Blondie's 70s material...


Posted by: Mousy Jan 29 2018, 01:33 PM

In no order, and with no categories, so it's a mess just listed as I think of them, but trying to stick to one per artist:

Lou Reed - Wild Child
Diana Ross & the Supremes - This is Why I Believe in You
Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers - One Track Mind
Ramones - Ramona
Japan - Wish You Were Black
The Stooges - Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
Bob Marley - Natural Mystic
Black Sabbath - The Writ
The Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden
Leonard Cohen - Love Calls You by Your Name
Mick Ronson - Music is Lethal
Throbbing Gristle - Hit by a Rock
Television - Elevation
Syd Barrett - Golden Hair
Joy Division - I Remember Nothing
David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers
Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes
Roxy Music - The Thrill of It All
Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don't Talk
Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash
The Sweet - Jeanie
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - New Pleasure
The Carpenters - I Kept On Loving You
KISS - Christine Sixteen
The Beach Boys - Let Us Go On This Way
The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
Motorhead - All the Aces

I could go on, but I have many. The '70s is one of my favourite eras.

Posted by: The Hissmobile Mar 11 2018, 05:30 PM

Just remembered these two great 70s rock anthems.

(1975)

(1979)

Posted by: Doctor Blind Mar 11 2018, 06:44 PM

A song I've not seen mentioned in here so far, it was recently used in an advert but I know of it from Adam Curtis' documentary Hypernormalisation and through it being played a lot on 6Music. Suicide's "Dream Baby Dream". Magnificent!


Posted by: Crazy Chris Mar 11 2018, 07:27 PM

Midnight At The Oasis - Maria Muldaur
Torn Between Two Lovers - Mary MacGregor
Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette
Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks
Werewolves Of London - Warren Zevon
The Snake - Al Wilson
A Rose Has To Die - Dooleys
Mississippi - Pussycat
Fernando - Abba
Angel Fingers - Wizzard
Summerlove Sensation - Bay City Rollers
Some Girls - Racey
Emotions - Samantha Sang
What I've Got In Mind - Billie Jo Spears
Get Up And Boogie - Silver Convention.
Free - Deniece Williams
Mouldy Old Dough - Lieutenant Pigeon
Jolene - Dolly Parton
Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton

Posted by: The Hissmobile Mar 11 2018, 07:49 PM

This one hasn't been mentioned yet! Great tune!



This one too, I know the start is a bit cheesy laugh.gif, but the rest is a great song I think, both production and vocal are brill, its my fave of his.


Posted by: Dancing Queef Apr 3 2018, 01:41 PM

I recently discovered this #4 hit from 1973. The guitar is lovely in it!




Posted by: Suedehead2 Apr 3 2018, 04:36 PM

QUOTE(Dancing Queef @ Apr 3 2018, 02:41 PM) *
I recently discovered this #4 hit from 1973. The guitar is lovely in it!


The Dutch band also did this wonderfully bonkers song.


Posted by: Jester Apr 3 2018, 07:43 PM

It’s The Carpenters - We’ve Only Just Begun for me biggrin.gif

Posted by: The Snake 🐍 Apr 13 2018, 06:14 PM

I do really like this cheesefest that was #1 in 1976, it is very nostalgic as my local cafe I went to a lot used seemed to always have this on its playlist when I was younger. laugh.gif The highlights for me are the Ooh-hoo's and the horn bits.


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