Monday, March 28, 2016

Top 200 1970s Songs Part II

The 1970s had it all-goofy clothes for disco, the birth of hard rock, heavy metal and punk, the success of disco, the whole nine yards. So here to celebrate the decade when people wore platform shoes to the local discotheque, danced to Saturday Night Fever, here are the Top 200 1970s Songs.

Here is part II

AC/DC
-Let There Be Rock
-1977

The Cars
-Let's Go
-1979

The Eagles
-Life in the Fast Lane
-1976

Joe Walsh
-Life's Been Good
-1978

Neil Young
-Like a Hurricane
-1977

Paul McCartney
-Live and Let Die
-1973

Electric Light Orchestra
-Livin' Thing
-1976

Jethro Tull
-Locomotive Breath
-1971

The Kinks
-Lola
-1970
-Man, I hate this song!

The Clash
-London Calling
-1979

Stephen Stills
-Love the One You're With
-1970

Journey
-Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
-1979

War
-Low Rider
-1975
-This song is best known for its use in the Cheech and Chong movies, but it's essentially an homage to the Latin tradition of hydraulically pumped cars

Rod Stewart
-Maggie May
-1971

Paul McCartney and Wings
-Maybe I'm Amazed
-1977

Janis Joplin
-Me and Bobby McGee
-1971

Paul Simon
-Me and Julio Down by the School Yard
-1972
-There's a hysterically funny cover of this song by a band called Me First and the Gimme Gimme's. They do speedy punk versions of songs and this is one song they cover

The Police
-Message in a Bottle
-1979

The Rolling Stones
-Miss You
-1978
-This song appeared on their 1978 album Some Girls. It's hard to mistake this song, with it's four-on-the-floor discotheque rhythm. It puts you in mind of Saturday Night Fever

Mountain
-Mississippi Queen
-1970

Pink Floyd
-Money
-1973
-Jeez, I hate this song

Boston
-More than a Feeling
-1976

The Cars
-My Best Friend's Girl
-1978

George Harrison
-My Sweet Lord
-1970
-This song caused a little trouble when it was discovered it had similarities in rhythm to the song "He's So Fine" by the Chiffons

Neil Young
-The Needle and the Damage Done
-1972

Bob Seger
-Night Moves
-1976

Alice Cooper
-No More Mr. Nice Guy
-1973

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
-Ohio
-1970
-This is about the shooting at Kent State University in Ohio in 1970

The Eagles
-One of these Nights
-1975

The Faces
-Ooh La La
-1973

Led Zeppelin
-Over the Hills and Far Away
-1973

Meat Loaf
-Paradise by the Dashboard Light
-1977

Black Sabbath
-Paranoid
-1970
-Loooooooooooove this!! This is the song that got me in to Sabbath!

Billy Joel
-Piano Man
-1973
-Love it!

Neil Young
-Powderfinger
-1979

Bruce Springsteen
-Prove It All Night
-1978

Golden Earring
-Radar Love
-1973

Elvis Costello
-Radio Radio
-1978

The Allman Brothers Band
-Ramblin' Man
-1973

Steely Dan
-Reelin' in the Years
-1972

Tom Petty
-Refugee
-1979

The Grateful Dead
-Ripple
-1970

Kiss
-Rock and Roll All Nite
-1975
-This is one of their best known songs. It has been covered multiple times by multiple musicians and can be heard at any sporting event playing on the loudspeakers, in addition to "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne or "Cat Scratch Fever" by Ted Nugent

Montrose
-Rock Candy
-1973
-Montrose is one of the early bands where future Van Halen vocalist Sammy Hagar would find fame

Steve Miller Band
-Rock 'N Me
-1976

Elton John
-Rocket Man
-1972
-This song is similar to David Bowie's "Space Oddity". It captures the public's fascination with space travel

Joe Walsh
-Rocky Mountain Way
-1973
-This song came about after Joe Walsh split from his previous band The James Gang and moved to Colorado

Bruce Springsteen
-Rosalita
-1973

Yes
-Roundabout
-1972

The Police
-Roxanne
-1978
-This song can be heard on almost any jukebox in any bar anywhere

Van Halen
-Runnin' with the Devil
-1978

Jackson Browne
-Running on Empty
-1977

Billy Joel
-Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
-1977

Alice Cooper
-School's Out
-1972

The Stooges
-Search and Destroy
-1973

Hall and Oates
-She's Gone
-1973

Pink Floyd
-Shine on Your Crazy Diamond
-1975

Foghat
-Slow Ride
-1975

Deep Purple
-Smoke on the Water
-1972
-This is, perhaps, their best known song. If you listen to the lyrics, it tells the story of how they were in Montreaux, Switzerland and how some idiot shot off a flare pistol at the Montreaux Hotel during a Frank Zappa concert
-Not to mention, most music stores will not allow you to play the opening riff to this song or "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. The staff hears these two iconic riffs, the person playing them will be thrown out, odds are!

Peter Gabriel
-Solsbury Hill
-1977

Queen
-Somebody to Love
-1976

Led Zeppelin
-Stairway to Heaven
-This has to be their BEST KNOWN song ever!! Robert Plant's powerful voice takes a quiet turn on this song and shows a somewhat soft, emotional side to the legendary voice of this song!

The Faces
-Stay with Me
-1971

Ted Nugent
-Stranglehold
-1975

Stealers Wheel
-Stuck in the Middle with You
-1972

David Bowie
-Suffragette City
-1972
-This song is what started my love of his music. This was the first David Bowie song I heard and after that, I became a fan!!

Dire Straits
-Sultans of Swing
-1978
-This is the song that got me into Dire Straits, along with "Money for Nothing"

Cheap Trick
-Surrender
-1978

Aerosmith
-Sweet Emotion
-1975
-This song was an angry jab at guitar player Joe Perry's then wife, Elyssa Jerret

Lynyrd Skynyrd
-Sweet Home Alabama
-1974
-This has to be their best known song

The Velvet Underground
-Sweet Jane
-1970

AC/DC
-T.N.T.
-1976

Steve Miller Band
-Take the Money and Run
-1976

Bachman, Turner, Overdrive
-Takin' Care of Business
-1973

Bob Dylan
-Tangled Up in the Blue
-1975

Bruce Springsteen
-Thunder Road
-1975

Elton John
-Tiny Dancer
-1971

The Clash
-Train in Vain
-1979

The Rolling Stones
-Tumbling Dice
-1972
-This is one of their more frequently radio-played songs

Bob Seger
-Turn the Page
-1973
-This is one of my favorites. Also, check out Metallica's cover of it. Pretty good!!

ZZ Top
-Tush
-1975

Lou Reed
-Walk on the Wild Side
-1972

Aerosmith
-Walk This Way
-1975
-Another well known song

Genesis
-Watcher of the Skies
-1972

Queen
-We Will Rock You
-1977

Grand Funk Railroad
-We're an American Band
-1973

Warren Zevon
-Werewolves of London
-1978

The Doobie Brothers
-What a Fool Believes
-1978
-To this day, my stepdad jokingly thinks this should be a wedding song, lol!!

George Harrison
-What is Life
-1970

Journey
-Wheel in the Sky
-1978

The Allman Brothers Band
-Whipping Post
-1971

The Who
-Who Are You
-1978
-Used as the intro theme to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Creedence Clearwater Revival
-Who'll Stop the Rain?
-1970

The Rolling Stones
-Wild Horses
-1971

Van Morrison
-Wild Night
-1971

Pink Floyd
-Wish You Were Here
-1975

The Who
-Won't Get Fooled Again
-1971
-Used as the opening intro to CSI: Miami

Bachman-Turner Overdrive
-You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
-1974

Rod Stewart
-You Wear It Well
-1972

David Bowie
-Ziggy Stardust
-1972

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