Greatest Song of the 70s
Forget your traditional top ten songs of the '70s. I'm going to use this blog post tell you about my personal favorites from the 70s. Everyone has their own musical favorites, and usually there is a memory associated with each one. I'm not sure if one of my all-time favorites ever made of "The Top 100 Seventies Singles" but as You were not there to experience these songs for the first time on AM radio, your record a pink bag with handle (I had one), or 8-track boasted, you're in luck. Listen for the first time (or again) through my links and enjoy.
1. Year of the Cat - Al Stewart (1976)
One morning a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go walking through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Consider a crime
She comes from the sun in a silk dress running
As a watercolor in the rain
Do not bother asking for explanations
It will only tell you that they came
In The Year of the cat ....
I had the first few verses are here, because the lyrics of this song are genius. All you have to do is close your eyes and transported to Casablanca, or the city and the time of your choice. The music is truly magical, haunting. Close your eyes and climb aboard and see where this song takes you.
2. Strange Magic - ELO (1976)
In my opinion ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) is one of the greatest groups of all (my) time. It was a difficult decision for me to choose between speech Strange Magic or may not Get Out of My Head. Finally I went because Strange Magic my 8-year-old son heard me playing the song and asked casually if I knew this was one of Selena Gomez and the songs that he thought it was pretty good. I informed him that this number Selena Gomez was NOT. I'm not in my heart felt feelings about the true magic of this strange song, the text brings back the memories, or my allegiance to a band that my love of the classics combined with my love for rock 'n' roll.
3. Poetry Man - Phoebe Snow (1974)
Frankly, I can not get the right section to promote this song. I would be interested in hearing memories of the people teens who were at this time. I have vague that this song in the background and watching my aunt down the stairs and put her date in the foyer for senior prom. I was a little girl then, and this number is stamped such an impression on my life that night some time in early 1975, I still love today.
4. Good Girls Do not (But I Do) - The Knack (1979)
She's your adolescent dream,
Schoolboy stuff, a sticky sweet romance.
And she makes you want to scream,
I wish you could get in her pants ....
Hmmm ... That harmonica and honest lyrics straight from the mind a teen-age boy ... Maybe they do not withstand time, but this is a keeper in my book. Is there such a thing as going beyond "good girl"? Well, let me tell you if you do not knowledge there earlier in 1979. Roads through the male or not, this song is one of my all-time unforgettables. My parents had 8-track "The Knack - Get the Knack "And I can not remember how many times I hit the 2 to replay" Good Girls Do not. "
5. Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren (1974)
I just know that when I hear this song again, I am a little child. Back then it was just a popular song that I sleep may fall into the back of my parents' car, feel safe and protected and so ... immortal. Now when I hear it I really listen to the words and I can imagine what it would have been like to 25 (like my parents) are at that point in time. The simple yet complex words and meaning mesh with that childhood memory, the feeling that "here and now "is forever and solid and real estate.
6. Strawberry Letter 23 - Brothers Johnson (1977)
This is one of those songs I had completely forgotten until about a month ago when he played in '70 my cable music channel. All the sudden I was in the Third grade again. Jimmy Carter was president, I was proud of my bell-bottom jeans with the flowers my mother had embroidered on the back, I bought "Tiger Beat" regular photos by Lief Garrett and Shawn Cassidy see, and loved Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, The Waltons, and Little House on the Prairie. Saturday mornings were filled with Schoolhouse Rock, U.S. Bandstand, and Land of the Lost.
7. Mainstreet - Bob Seger (1977)
It is clear that if this list in any order of importance, this number should be number one. My young 20-something parents brought home this 8-track and my young, beautiful Sahm played on the 8-track back and forth, forever engraving his words in my brains, my whole being. This number is smoky, it's haunting, it's that kind of romance / obsession can not be replicated. It draws the mind of a film all my own I've played over and over.
I remember standing on the corner at midnight
Trying to get up my courage
There was a long beautiful dancer in a small downtown club
I loved to see her do her stuff
Through the long lonely nights she filled my sleep
Her body softly swaying to that smoky beat
Down on Main Street
In the pool halls, the hustlers and losers
I used 'em to look through the glass
Well I'd stand outside at closing time
Just to walk her to the past looking
Unlike all the other ladies, she looked so young and sweet
While she is away simply that empty street
Down on Main Street
8. Lady - Styx (1973)
With all of my favorites that I've recorded, I go to another place. I can not believe this song was released in 1973, because it was such an integral part of my childhood, and I count it as one of the all-time greats in the entire decade. The acoustic piano, the simple but stirring words (Lady of the morning, love shines in your eyes, sparkling, bright and beautiful, you're my lady ...). There are few songs that could woo the UNwooable ... but this is a likely candidate.
9. On the Radio - Donna Summer (1979)
Ha! Just as You thought I was sticking to the classic rock genre! Remember, this comes from a "child of the 70s". One of the most memorable "movie" songs from one of the greatest movie ever "Foxes" (1980). Okay, maybe by today's standards it's dorky and the chicks are not finely carved and polished by plastic surgeons, but I believe this movie and this song embodies all the teen angst of that time. That's the only way I know to squeeze all my experience with this issue in a paragraph. I think you just "had to be there."
10. I'm In You - Peter Frampton (1977)
I've saved the best 'til last. At one time this song was just a beautiful tune that rose to the favor of me, for it was the personification of that surreal days of my youth, like many of the others I have mentioned here. But later in my life, as I often have gone to youtube.com for comfort and memories, have I looked for this song and listened again. "I am in you, you are in me ... I am in you ... you are in me ...". Most people will never experience a love they can be equated with this number, or even a memory. You just have to "get". I think I'm one of the lucky ones.
Have a nice day.