Best Song (any genre) from 1970 to 1979 (1 Viewer)

[Leroy Hoard]

The Only Living Boy in New York
 

Most underrated S & G song.

 

[Jaysus]

Alice's Restaurant

 

[AAABatteries]

Most underrated S & G song.

To be fair, I would have gone with The Boxer if it were eligible.  But I wanted one of their songs.

 

[The General]

Pink Floyd - Time (2011 Remastered)

This was what I came to post. 

Perfect song.

 

[The General]

Two of the most overrated bands ever 

(now I run away)

Oh hell no you didn’t.

 

[rustycolts]

Whipping post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUvxRjYqjEQ

 

[Ilov80s]

Oh hell no you didn’t.

Blues set-up, high pitched male voice sings about elves, guitar solo. rinse, wash, repeat. 

They are tremendously wonderful bands, people have just gone a bit overboard on the love and praise IMO. 

 

[El Floppo]

seriously - what does this mean?

Oh...cousin director etc? 

Or is my brain playing tricks again.

 

[rockaction]

Listening now:

Mercy Mercy Me: Marvin Gaye. Favorite song of all time for me.

 

[Ned]

Little Willy

aka - @Ned's theme song

Why are you always thinking about my ####?

 

[El Floppo]

Stooges...I wanna be your dog, or lust for life

Motorhead...ace of spades

I think these are 70s.

 

[Mister CIA]

I was actually thinking of a different song off that album which just shows how good it is. 

My Wife

 

[cheeseypoof]

ZZ Top - Tush

 

[Ilov80s]

Best: What's Goin' On

Greatest: Roundabout

Listening now:

Mercy, Mercy Me: Marvin Gaye. Favorite song of all time for me.

2 of my favorite posters with genuine POV going Marvin says SOMETHING

or 

I raise you Let's Get It On. You can have your songs about picket lines and fish full of mercury, I'll take my baby, my sugar. 

or 

Roundabout is 70s for migraine headache. 

 

[Mister CIA]

if only somebody here had a personal connection to that... it would really tie everything together, like the dude's rug.

seriously - what does this mean?

I'm buzzed, but I think it's a Big Lebowski reference, and something about taking a wikkid pissah on a rug.

 

[Mister CIA]

I've narrowed it down to two:

I Can Help

Midnight at the Oasis

 

[wikkidpissah]

Oh...cousin director etc? 

Or is my brain playing tricks again.

Cuz had no connection to Sondheim at all til he made his Into the Woods into a flick 5 yrs ago. I saw Sweeney Todd on a date in the 70s and was as gobsmacked as i've ever been. to this day, i hear any song from it and i cant get it out of my head for days. such concept, continuity, arrangements....

 

[Mister CIA]

Seventy-three men sailed up from the San Francisco Bay

 

[Chaz McNulty]

Trooper

The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCVbyY2ZTjA

 

[El Floppo]

Cuz had no connection to Sondheim at all til he made his Into the Woods into a flick 5 yrs ago. I saw Sweeney Todd on a date in the 70s and was as gobsmacked as i've ever been. to this day, i hear any song from it and i cant get it out of my head for days. such concept, continuity, arrangements....

My brain plays tricks...I play tricks back. [\peewee]

Sorry for the confusion.

 

[Mister CIA]

Trooper

The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCVbyY2ZTjA

A better Bob Dylan would have penned these lyrics.

 

[Mister CIA]

Funny/Sad

These guys sound like they should be playing behind a plexiglass wall at your local mega-church.

 

[Ilov80s]

Whipping post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUvxRjYqjEQ

Raise you one Into the Mystic

 

[tommyboy]

Old Man, Neil young

 

[tommyboy]

Luchenbach Texas, Waylon Jennings 

 

[PIK95]

This was what I came to post. (Time)

Perfect song.

I was with my son on top of the green monster one night.  Sox protested a call.  So as the umps were standing there.waiting they PA started blasting Time.  After the 2 minutes or so opening part of Time, they flipped the PA mid song to I Want You Back and the place went bananas.  Everyone was dancing.  I'll never forget that moment.  And the PA sounded so good!

 

[Phil Elliott]

Smoke on the Water -Deep Purple

Can’t You See -Marshall Tucker

Walk on the Wild Side -Lou Reed

Benny And The Jets - Elton John

Black Magic Woman & Samba Pa Ti - Santana

Double Trouble - Stevie Ray Vaughn

Dooo Youuuu Feeeel Like We Do!!! - Frampton

There’s lots of “best” songs.

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Tough to pick one, but of my top 10 I've not seen mentioned yet, Television - Marquee Moon is my favorite.

 

[rockaction]

Tough to pick one, but of my top 10 I've not seen mentioned yet, Television - Marquee Moon is my favorite.

Just heard it on my Spotify feed after Elvis Costello and was coming in to post. Coincidence, eh?

 

[simsarge]

We've been here done this. I would think any song worth mentioning would be here

 

[Andy Dufresne]

If it's not WGFA, then its Sister Golden Hair by America.

 

[landrys hat]

Summer Breeze by The Isley Brothers

 

[zamboni]

Can’t say it’s the best - too hard to single out just one - but I would put Surf’s Up up with just about anything from the decade - and anything from The Beach Boys.

Yes, recording began in the mid-‘60s around the Pet Sounds era, but it was finalized and released in 1971.

 

[zamboni]

Bridge Over Troubled Water

This is a legitimate contender IMO. 

 

[eoMMan]

Pina Colada song

 

[Brony]

Two of my favorite easy listening tunes from the 70s - 

If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot 

Vincent - Don McLean 

 

[Mr. Mojo]

Elton John - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

Badfinger - Day After Day

C S N & Y - Country Girl

 

[Binky The Doormat]

related to the 70s ...I just punched my refrigerated in my frustration of watching college basketball tonight. 

I know the NBA has decided to throw out the rules for the sake of WWF-style dunks but WTF.  

The rules say 1 step and a half.  

I'm watching these guy take 3 steps and a hop.  

#### you. 

 

[wikkidpissah]

related to the 70s ...I just punched my refrigerated in my frustration of watching college basketball tonight. 

I know the NBA has decided to throw out the rules for the sake of WWF-style dunks but WTF.  

The rules say 1 step and a half.  

I'm watching these guy take 3 steps and a hop.  

#### you. 

The 70s had a song for that

 

[brun]

Awesome time for music. So many really good songs. So sad that now I can't get Convoy out of my head. 10-4!

 

[Snoopy]

Awesome time for music. So many really good songs. So sad that now I can't get Convoy out of my head. 10-4!

OK, Rubber Duck/

 

[Ghost Rider]

Hard to narrow it down to just one, but these should all be in the conversation (IMO):

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Time - Pink Floyd
2112 - Rush
Foreplay/Long Time - Boston
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
 

 

[Jefferson the Caregiver]

Can't You Hear Me Knocking - Rolling Stones

 

[rockaction]

Can't You Hear Me Knocking - Rolling Stones

Awesome. That riff just got stuck in my head immediately. 

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Awesome. That riff just got stuck in my head immediately. 

Richard, King of Riffs.

 

[wikkidpissah]

Awesome time for music. So many really good songs. So sad that now I can't get Convoy out of my head. 10-4!

Convoy was the beginning of New Wave

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Convoy was the beginning of New Wave

10-4 Rubber Duck. 

'Cause we got a great big convoy
Rockin through the night
Yeah we got a great big convoy
Ain't she a beautiful sight?

 

[wikkidpissah]

10-4 Rubber Duck. 

'Cause we got a great big convoy
Rockin through the night
Yeah we got a great big convoy
Ain't she a beautiful sight?

my CB handle was Rest Area Roger

 

[HellToupee]

heroes by Bowie jumps to mind. 

But will be lots and lots of others I'll agree with shortly

my all time favorite song. There are 4 or 5 others I could consider but to me Heroes does it

 

[leftcoastguy7]

Foreplay/Long Time - Boston

Good song but I came here to say MORE THAN A FEELING

I never fail to crank that song when it comes on.