Best 70s songs

**Mystery** · 6th September 2007, 20:16

LED ZEPPELIN - Stairway To Heaven
DEEP PURPLE - Smoke On The Water
URIAH HEEP - Easy Livin'
PINK FLOYD - Money
Queen - Anything Queen
BREAD - Make It With You (anything Bread

)
CHICAGO - If You Leave Me Now
Anything Elton (I know, I know)
SEALS & CROFT - Summer Breeze
SIMON & GARFUNKEL - Bridge Over Troubled Water
STEVENS, CAT - Wild World, Morning has Broken
WRIGHT, GARY - Dream Weaver
SUPERTRAMP - The Logical Song
MEAT LOAF - Bat Out Of Hell (anything meatloaf

)
ROLLING STONES - Angie

The all time favourite, for sentimental reasons
COMMODORES - Three Times A Lady (would love it played at my funeral)

**hXc** · 6th September 2007, 20:18

I still vote Shine On.
Having that played at my funeral too. 13 minutes of absolute bliss.

**smudge** · 6th September 2007, 20:26

HxC Crazy Diamond may be true but that other stuff is all too boring, technical excellence means nothing if it doesn't want to make you jump up and down. Try the Stranglers for a real groovy 70's experience perhaps for something a little more far out Another Girl Another Planet by the Only Ones (maybe early 80's I cant remember back so well now...) not the same league as Pink but still it wasn't too stodgy in its day.... and there was sooo much stodgy stuff around back then.

**ynot slow** · 6th September 2007, 20:31

MEATLOAF-Paradise by the dashboard light,and the whole album

EAGLES-Hotel California

BOWIE-Space Oddity

CLAPTON-Wonderfull tonight(mushy yes but being there live brilliant),Layla

SUZIE QUATRO-Devil gate drive

**MisterD** · 6th September 2007, 20:44

Shee-it how can you distill down the 70's to one song? It was probably the most diversley creative decade ever....you've got the end of the Beatles, the Heavy Rock of the likes of Sabbath and Zeppelin, prog rock (yes, Floyd, Rush), and the beginnings of punk and New Wave.

Can't be done...oh, all right, Oliver's Army.

**hXc** · 6th September 2007, 20:56

Originally Posted by smudge

HxC Crazy Diamond may be true but that other stuff is all too boring, technical excellence means nothing if it doesn't want to make you jump up and down.

Ahhh, but are we picking these songs on technicality or the ability to make the audience jump, or commercialism. I was just giving some information on the song Kashmir, which I believe is a wicked wicked song. But still, nothing compares to Shine On man. Nobody can ever match Pink Floyd's writing capabilities, or their capabilities to capture the audience. Not only as physically, but emotionally and spiritually as well (Not even bringing drugs into this, considering I love this song immensely, and can feel every emotion played, yet have never done drugs).

This song truly makes me want to live in that time. To be one of the first people to hear this song would have been a great great pleasure. I envy those who lived through these guys.

And cheesy but...RIP Syd. Without you, their greatest work would not exist.

**Solarwind** · 6th September 2007, 21:02

You want me to pick just one?

I narrowed it down to 7

ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - I wouldn't want to be like you
AMON DÜÜL II - Deutsch Nepal
DAVID BOWIE - Station to Station
EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER - Tarkus
HAWKWIND - Magnu
KING CRIMSON - Starless
YES - Siberian Khatru

If I had to choose my favourite, I'd pick the Alan Parsons song. Decide for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pen4dMAv7zY

**BarBender** · 6th September 2007, 21:12

London Calling - The Clash

**Bren** · 6th September 2007, 21:14

Originally Posted by BarBender

London Calling - The Clash

On the London theme....Last train to London ELO

**Hitcher** · 6th September 2007, 21:20

You know we made a vow not to leave one another never.

**Winston001** · 6th September 2007, 21:31

Stairway to Heaven (Zep)
Kashmir (Zep)
Whole Lotta Love (Zep)
Paranoid (Sabbath)
Gypsy (Uriah Heep)
Locomotive Breath (Tull)
Born to Be Wild (Steppenwolf)
Roundabout (Yes)
Dream On (Aerosmith)

MD · 6th September 2007, 21:58

Originally Posted by MisterD

Shee-it how can you distill down the 70's to one song? It was probably the most diversley creative decade ever....you've got the end of the Beatles, the Heavy Rock of the likes of Sabbath and Zeppelin, prog rock (yes, Floyd, Rush), and the beginnings of punk and New Wave.

Can't be done...oh, all right, Oliver's Army.

Well said. It was THE DECADE of the century for diverse music. The 60s might have started the pop/rock sound but the 70s perfected it.
Some good new sounds came out at the end of the decade like the new wave/punk stuff; Kate Bush, The Jam, The Members, Altered Images (OK I had a crush on Clare Grogin sp?),
And then there was disco.. No one's mentioned disco...Disco..disco..disco .is that still a swear word? I know I had to undergo hours of electro-shock treatment to erase the horrid tunes from memory.
Personally I was and still am a big fan of Alice Cooper. Overlooked as a good song writer. Supertramp and early Genesis worked for me too. If only Pink Floyd, Tull or Deep Purple had dabbled at disco? Did I say disco..Oh shit, pass the heavy duty extension cord.