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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