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! :o

 

 

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?

 

 

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

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

Edited March 12, 20187 yr by DalekTurret32

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.

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.

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

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 :o, thought it was from later in the 70s.

 

Edited January 13, 20187 yr by The Snake

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

Edited January 14, 20187 yr by fiesta

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! :o

 

 

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) :lol:

 

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...

 

 

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.

Just remembered these two great 70s rock anthems.

 

(1975)

 

(1979)

Edited March 11, 20187 yr by The Hissmobile

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!

 

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

Edited March 11, 20187 yr by Crazy Chris

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

 

 

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

 

Edited March 11, 20187 yr by The Hissmobile

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

 

 

 

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

 

The Dutch band also did this wonderfully bonkers song.

 

It’s The Carpenters - We’ve Only Just Begun for me :D

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. :lol: The highlights for me are the Ooh-hoo's and the horn bits.