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Post by Epworth Hatter on Apr 1, 2024 13:28:17 GMT
Onto our third installment, 1970-1974 and it doesn't get any easier.
Again, a few to get us started...
American Pie - Don McLean (1970)
Get It On - T. Rex (1971)
Perfect Day - Lou Reed (1972)
Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips (1973)
No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley and the Wailers (1974)
OK, so I'm a Rebel Rebel for missing out so many classics, but let's not get Paranoid, Let's Stay Together - we don't want everyone Kung Fu Fighting.
Over to you and remember, you can list as many songs as you like from all 5 years - just don't forget to say your favourite.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 2, 2024 12:25:28 GMT
Here are my five - with release dates, in some cases, different from the years in which the songs became hits...
1970
Diana Ross: I'm Still Waiting
Released as an album track in 1970, but became a first solo UK number one for La Ross the following year, after Tony Blackburn played it on Radio 1 and persuaded the record company powers-that-be to release it as a single. Sophisticated soul number, with a huge dollop of unrequited love to tug at the heartstrings.
1971
Nick Drake: Northern Sky
A man whose sensual chamber folk tracks were only discovered by many some years after his untimely passing, aged 26, in 1974. This one, from second album Bryter Layter, has been described as the greatest English love song of modern times, and it's hard to argue with that.
1971/1973
David Bowie: Life On Mars?
Difficult to look past Bowie in this era - or, in terms of his songs, the glam ballad that initially appeared two years previously on Hunky Dory before gaining a single release in 1973. Delightfully surreal lyrics - albeit, as it turned out, nothing to do with the Red Planet.
1972
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons: The Night
Bass/beat-heavy stomper that tore it up on the Northern Soul circuit, but was criminally under-marketed by its label - until a re-release in 1975 earned it some chart kudos. Soft Cell eventually covered it in 2002, having chosen instead to record Tainted Love as a single 21 years earlier.
1973
Roxy Music: A Song For Europe
Mournful, Paris-focused ballad about lost love from the band's first post-Eno album, Stranded. There's a piano intro, a whistling outro, a sax solo and a bit of spoken French. Utterly epic.
Close-run thing, as ever, for my fave - but will go for the 'God-awful small affair' that was Life On Mars?.
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Post by archie on Apr 2, 2024 17:48:15 GMT
1970
Marmalade - Reflections Of My Life
Badfinger - Come And Get It
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer. Classic.
Free - All Right Now
Deep Purple - Child In Time. Terrific live at the Free Trade Hall.
1971
Carole King - It's Too Late
Doors - Riders On The Storm
Beach Boys - Surf's Up. Written in the same creative bubble as Good Vibrations.
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Joni Mitchell - River
Who - Baba O'Riley
1972
Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice
Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
Don McLean - American Pie
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Argent - Hold Your Head Up
1973
Carly Simon - You're So Vain
Wings - Band On The Run
Steely Dan - Do It Again
Eagles - Desperado. Another classic.
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
1974
Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were
Very difficult choice and will give myself a few extra days to decide between
The Boxer
Surf's Up
Desperado
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Apr 3, 2024 9:42:39 GMT
Wll try to hard with this one (as I am still away) as this is perhaps my favourite era.
1970
Elton John - Your Song
Shocking Blue - Venus
Hollies - He Aint Heavy
Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime
ELP - Knife Edge
1971
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
Led Zep - Stairway to Heaven
Creedence CR - Have You Ever Seen The Rain
James Taylor - You've Got a Friend
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
1972
Don Maclean - American Pie
Melanie - Brand New Key
Neil Young - Heart of Gold
Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
Derek and the Dominies - Layla
1973
Stevie Wonder- Superstition
Steelers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
1974
Wings - Band on the Run
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
Abba - Waterloo
Elton John - Goodbye to Yellow Brick Road
Golden Earring - Radar Love
JIm Croche - Have to Say I love you in a Song
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
How do you pick one out of that lot. The years of Sixth Form and College.
I'll go with Tubular Bells as it was just so far left at the time
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Post by hermannsays on Apr 3, 2024 10:51:46 GMT
1970 - Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
1970 - Elton John - Your Song
1970 - James Taylor - Fire and Rain
1971 - Bowie - Life on Mars
1971 - Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
1971 - Joni Mitchell - A Case of You / River
1971 - Marvin Gaye - What's Going On / Mercy Mercy Me
1971 - Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
1972 - Don McLean - Vincent
1972 - Stevie Wonder - Superstition
1974 - Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry
Another period with so many wonderful songs, outstanding lyrics and so many recordings also sound absolutely fantastic to this day.
I'll probably conclude differently each day I think about it but let's go with Bridge Over Troubled Water for my pick.
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Post by dudleyhatter on Apr 4, 2024 21:51:29 GMT
Straight to the final five (okay 6) this week!
1970 Bread - Make it with you. It is such a charming and soothing song. Makes me smile and relax every time I hear it.
1971 James Taylor you’ve got a friend in me. Loved this song before Toy Story but even more so since!
1971 second entry for my birth song And also a classic T-Rex - Hot Love
1972
Alice Cooper and schools out (for summer!) Obviously popular in schools!
1973
Wings. Live and let die. Just love the dynamism in this song
1974 Sylvia Y viva España no more words needed!
Not sure which of these, or if one of someone else’s, is my favourite!
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Post by gazz on Apr 4, 2024 22:17:03 GMT
1971 James Taylor you’ve got a friend in me. Loved this song before Toy Story but even more so since! I'm sure they're two completely different songs, you know, Duds. The Toy Story song was written for the movie by a guy called Randy Newman, but the James Taylor one - I'm sure - was written by Carole King. |
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 5, 2024 0:06:12 GMT
Correct, Gazz. The James Taylor track was You've Got a Friend.
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Post by gazz on Apr 5, 2024 0:17:29 GMT
Cheers, Maccy.
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Post by dudleyhatter on Apr 5, 2024 5:39:24 GMT
This is why I don’t post in the music thread 😂
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 5, 2024 8:35:48 GMT
Nonsense, Duds. That very-first-page post of A Finger of Fudge is Just Enough... has got to count for something!  |
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Post by dudleyhatter on Apr 5, 2024 14:45:55 GMT
I think that’s my only post and so sums up my musical knowledge…
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Apr 5, 2024 20:26:18 GMT
Yet more amazing songs in this era.
Here's my long list. Quite a few already mentioned, and some favourites...
1970
Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine - James Brown
Lola - The Kinks
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
American Pie - Don McLean
Baba O'Riley - The Who
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkle
All Right Now - Free
1971
Get It On - T. Rex
Imagine - John Lennon
David Bowie - Changes
David Bowie - Life on Mars
Let's Stay Toether - Al Green
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Just My Imagination - The Temptations
Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone
1972
Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed
Perfect Day - Lou Reed
Starman - David Bowie
Rocket Man - Elton John
Stuck in the Middle - Steelers Wheel
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
Lean on Me - Bill Withers
You are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
1973
Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
Tubular Bells Part 1 - Mike Oldfield
Watermelon Man - Herbie Hancock
Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Killing me Softly - Roberta Flack
When Will I See You Again - The Three Degrees
1974
Autobahn - Kraftwerk
Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Waterloo - Abba
Air that I Breathe - The Hollies
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
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Post by gazz on Apr 6, 2024 9:13:44 GMT
Have to be brief here, I'm stuck in the middle of an horrendous nightshift stint and I really need rest.
1970 - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown
A belting song, but I'm mostly including this here because it spawned an amazing cover by The Beat, which is one of my favourite ever 2-Tone releases.
1971 - The Pioneers - Let Your Yeah Be Yeah
I was only 2 or 3 when this came out, so I won't remember it, but it's just classic Ska/Rocksteady. What can I say, this stuff is what makes me tick!
1972 - Elvis - American Trilogy
Nuff said.
1973 - Sweet - Blockbuster
Yeah, ok, there's a massive similarity between this and the legendary 'Jean Genie ' by Bowie which, ordinarily, I'd choose - but I actually remember hearing 'Blockbuster' that year, so I'm including that.
1974 - Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run
Come on, it's not only an absolute classic, it's also got one of the best intros of all time, so there's no way I'm not picking this one!
Favourite? Band On The Run, obviously.
And there you have it, folks!
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Apr 6, 2024 11:19:14 GMT
Some belters so far - keep them coming.
I'll post the list of favourites tomorrow morning for the vote.
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