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The 100 Greatest Songs of 1977 #1. Come Sail Away (5 Viewers)
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Zegras11
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" I object, Your Honor! These songs are a travesty! It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham! I call a mistrial Your Honor! "
timschochet
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74. The Ramones “Rockaway Beach” (from Rocket to Russia)
I saw the Ramones live at some point in the mid 80s, at Fenders Ballroom in Long Beach, a very small venue known for punk rock concerts. The Dickies opened for them which began my love affair with that local band.
Anyhow, I am pretty sure that they played “Rockaway Beach” along with most of their other hits. At least I think so. The reason for my uncertainty is that Joey would begin every song by shouting “1234!”, and then the band would play extremely fast (about twice as fast as their recordings) and very very loud- so loud that I couldn’t hear any lyrics or even any melody for that matter. It was just a wall of sound that seemed to energize the mosh pit in front of the stage (which I was careful to stay out of as it seemed like a very violent place to be. I hung back with my friends and smoked some weed.)
But it was a great concert.
I saw the Ramones live at some point in the mid 80s, at Fenders Ballroom in Long Beach, a very small venue known for punk rock concerts. The Dickies opened for them which began my love affair with that local band.
Anyhow, I am pretty sure that they played “Rockaway Beach” along with most of their other hits. At least I think so. The reason for my uncertainty is that Joey would begin every song by shouting “1234!”, and then the band would play extremely fast (about twice as fast as their recordings) and very very loud- so loud that I couldn’t hear any lyrics or even any melody for that matter. It was just a wall of sound that seemed to energize the mosh pit in front of the stage (which I was careful to stay out of as it seemed like a very violent place to be. I hung back with my friends and smoked some weed.)
But it was a great concert.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
I like how a punk song not charting anywhere except getting to number 66 here in America (woah, stand back!!) is considered a hit. 
I just listened to it to reacquaint myself with it. What a boring song.
I just listened to it to reacquaint myself with it. What a boring song.
timschochet
Footballguy
Because you are a prog rock, Rush fan, I always enjoy reading your disdain of new wave and punk in these threads, because it takes me back to a decade long debate between my late brother (who loved Rush, Kansas, Styx, and all the rest) and his best friend who adored punk and new wave and got me into it. Man did they love to argue about this.I like how a punk song not charting anywhere except getting to number 66 here in America (woah, stand back!!) is considered a hit.
I just listened to it to reacquaint myself with it. What a boring song.
I think I was kind of a weird hybrid because I honestly liked all of it, both back then and now. And, in recent years, I’ve even come to greatly appreciate a lot of popular music that I pretty much detested at the time, like disco and funk. I’ve tried to make these lists reflective of this.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
LOL at people who judge music by chart position. I guess that makes Debbie Boone #1.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Point of order: yes, I am a prog rock fan, but I am a fan of a lot of styles of music, including new wave, so any disdain I have for new wave likely stems from bands like XTC and Talking Heads being a bit too punk early on and getting much better once they started moving away from their punt roots.Because you are a prog rock, Rush fan, I always enjoy reading your disdain of new wave and punk in these threads, because it takes me back to a decade long debate between my late brother (who loved Rush, Kansas, Styx, and all the rest) and his best friend who adored punk and new wave and got me into it. Man did they love to argue about this.I like how a punk song not charting anywhere except getting to number 66 here in America (woah, stand back!!) is considered a hit.
I just listened to it to reacquaint myself with it. What a boring song.
I think I was kind of a weird hybrid because I honestly liked all of it, both back then and now. And, in recent years, I’ve even come to greatly appreciate a lot of popular music that I pretty much detested at the time, like disco and funk. I’ve tried to make these lists reflective of this.
Sidebar: as I get older, I have less and less interest for exploring "new" prog rock (meaning new to me), and I rarely revisit the classic prog artists anymore, as there just isn't enough time for me to get to everything I want. Long story short is that to characterize me as a prog rock fan might be correct, but I am not just a prog rock fan. Quite the contrary. And I find many prog rock fans frustrating as far too many tend to dismiss and/or look down on music that isn't prog. Variety is the spice of life, and good music comes in many shapes and sizes.
My beef with the early punk from the 70s is that it just sounds like angry, tuneless noise. Many dig it now, and that's cool, but as much music as I have come around to that I didn't have an affinity for in my younger days, 70s punk is still a big miss for me, by and large.
HellToupee
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Charts are for chumpsI like how a punk song not charting anywhere except getting to number 66 here in America (woah, stand back!!) is considered a hit.
I just listened to it to reacquaint myself with it. What a boring song.
timschochet
Footballguy
That’s cool GR. I didn’t mean to characterize you incorrectly. All I really was trying to point out was that I miss that old debate (classic rock vs New Wave) and some of your comments brought me back to it.
I guess it was mostly a debate among American white suburban teenagers, mostly guys. I don’t know if anybody else really cared about it, lol
I guess it was mostly a debate among American white suburban teenagers, mostly guys. I don’t know if anybody else really cared about it, lol
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Yeah, music fans were so segregated back then. Metal fans only liked metal. New wave fans only liked new wave. etc. I like to think we have mostly moved past that, but in many ways, we have not.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
The Ramones sound angry to you?
timschochet
Footballguy
73. Styx “Grand Illusion” (from Grand Illusion)
The phrase “Grand Illusion” comes from a famous French antiwar film from 1937, La Grande Illusion, which is itself based on a 1906 British novel, The Great Illuaion. Jean Renoir, the film’s director, thought the word “grand” rolled off the tongue better than “great”. In case you’re wondering what any of this has to do with this Dennis De Young composition, it doesn’t. I’m just displaying useless knowledge.
Anyhow, this was never released as a single, but of course it became a standard on classic rock radio over the years. Because, among other things, it’s catchy. DeYoung knew how to write a hook.
The phrase “Grand Illusion” comes from a famous French antiwar film from 1937, La Grande Illusion, which is itself based on a 1906 British novel, The Great Illuaion. Jean Renoir, the film’s director, thought the word “grand” rolled off the tongue better than “great”. In case you’re wondering what any of this has to do with this Dennis De Young composition, it doesn’t. I’m just displaying useless knowledge.
Anyhow, this was never released as a single, but of course it became a standard on classic rock radio over the years. Because, among other things, it’s catchy. DeYoung knew how to write a hook.
zamboni
Footballguy
Quality tune and album - I assume we’ll be seeing them again later on.
FairWarning
Footballguy
I agree with the take on early punk, and it runs similar to my views on early alt like Television. I didn’t know anyone who listened to early punk until years later. Many of these bands were more influential than good. A lot of it was the lack of marketing and exposure. I don’t recall listening to a Ramones song other than Blitzkrieg Bop until the mid 80’s.Point of order: yes, I am a prog rock fan, but I am a fan of a lot of styles of music, including new wave, so any disdain I have for new wave likely stems from bands like XTC and Talking Heads being a bit too punk early on and getting much better once they started moving away from their punt roots.Because you are a prog rock, Rush fan, I always enjoy reading your disdain of new wave and punk in these threads, because it takes me back to a decade long debate between my late brother (who loved Rush, Kansas, Styx, and all the rest) and his best friend who adored punk and new wave and got me into it. Man did they love to argue about this.I like how a punk song not charting anywhere except getting to number 66 here in America (woah, stand back!!) is considered a hit.
I just listened to it to reacquaint myself with it. What a boring song.
I think I was kind of a weird hybrid because I honestly liked all of it, both back then and now. And, in recent years, I’ve even come to greatly appreciate a lot of popular music that I pretty much detested at the time, like disco and funk. I’ve tried to make these lists reflective of this.
Sidebar: as I get older, I have less and less interest for exploring "new" prog rock (meaning new to me), and I rarely revisit the classic prog artists anymore, as there just isn't enough time for me to get to everything I want. Long story short is that to characterize me as a prog rock fan might be correct, but I am not just a prog rock fan. Quite the contrary. And I find many prog rock fans frustrating as far too many tend to dismiss and/or look down on music that isn't prog. Variety is the spice of life, and good music comes in many shapes and sizes.
My beef with the early punk from the 70s is that it just sounds like angry, tuneless noise. Many dig it now, and that's cool, but as much music as I have come around to that I didn't have an affinity for in my younger days, 70s punk is still a big miss for me, by and large.
FairWarning
Footballguy
I think in that era, yes. Today they would be opening for Green Day.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I don’t hear any anger in their music at all.
FairWarning
Footballguy
How about more raw, unpolished compared to the rest of the music from that era?
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Sure but that doesn’t = anger.
timschochet
Footballguy
72. Bob Marley “One Love/People Get Ready” (from Exodus)
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“One Love” was originally recorded in the mid 1960s, but Marley re-recorded it, with the classic Impressions’ song intertwined, for the Exodus album, and it was this version which was included on his greatest hits Legend compilation album which made Marley a superstar. Over the years it’s become perhaps his best known tune.
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“One Love” was originally recorded in the mid 1960s, but Marley re-recorded it, with the classic Impressions’ song intertwined, for the Exodus album, and it was this version which was included on his greatest hits Legend compilation album which made Marley a superstar. Over the years it’s become perhaps his best known tune.
zamboni
Footballguy
Hard not to think of this commercial whenever I hear the tune. Nice work by the advertising firm.72. Bob Marley “One Love/People Get Ready” (from Exodus)
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“One Love” was originally recorded in the mid 1960s, but Marley re-recorded it, with the classic Impressions’ song intertwined, for the Exodus album, and it was this version which was included on his greatest hits Legend compilation album which made Marley a superstar. Over the years it’s become perhaps his best known tune.
FairWarning
Footballguy
Thought this would be much higher. It’s a stacked year but this is one of the songs that makes it stacked.72. Bob Marley “One Love/People Get Ready” (from Exodus)
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“One Love” was originally recorded in the mid 1960s, but Marley re-recorded it, with the classic Impressions’ song intertwined, for the Exodus album, and it was this version which was included on his greatest hits Legend compilation album which made Marley a superstar. Over the years it’s become perhaps his best known tune.
timschochet
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71. Lynyrd Skynyrd “What’s Your Name” (from Street Survivors)
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No pretensions here, just down and dirty rock and roll. Which this band was pretty good at.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - What's Your Name
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No pretensions here, just down and dirty rock and roll. Which this band was pretty good at.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Big Styx fan, so I love seeing The Grand Illusion here. Great song from a classic record.
Bob Marley has been on "artists I need to check out more" list for years. I don't know this one.
I like some Skynyrd (Tuesday's Gone is a MONSTER song), but What's Your Name has always been just okay to me.
Bob Marley has been on "artists I need to check out more" list for years. I don't know this one.
I like some Skynyrd (Tuesday's Gone is a MONSTER song), but What's Your Name has always been just okay to me.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Are you saying you DIDN'T go to a college where Bob Marley's Legend compilation album, which includes One Love, was played at every party?
rockaction
Footballguy
The guy can't even dig the genius of punk rock, and punk rock is for the hardly educated. You think Ghost Rider is at all educated?
FairWarning
Footballguy
It wasn’t at mine, lol. Neither was Jimmy Buffet or Steve Miller’s GH.Are you saying you DIDN'T go to a college where Bob Marley's Legend compilation album, which includes One Love, was played at every party?
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
It’s been in a ton of commercials as well.Are you saying you DIDN'T go to a college where Bob Marley's Legend compilation album, which includes One Love, was played at every party?
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
He did start the Taylor Swift thread.
rockaction
Footballguy
Don't you swiftboat me, W. I'm a veteran of the Taylor Swift wars.
zamboni
Footballguy
I'm ruling out the University of Kingston or Montego Bay State as GR's alma mater.Are you saying you DIDN'T go to a college where Bob Marley's Legend compilation album, which includes One Love, was played at every party?
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
The Smiths?It wasn’t at mine, lol. Neither was Jimmy Buffet or Steve Miller’s GH.Are you saying you DIDN'T go to a college where Bob Marley's Legend compilation album, which includes One Love, was played at every party?
FairWarning
Footballguy
Lord no, but my roommate was a huge fan of Morressey/The Smiths. I got exposed to them pretty fast.The Smiths?It wasn’t at mine, lol. Neither was Jimmy Buffet or Steve Miller’s GH.Are you saying you DIDN'T go to a college where Bob Marley's Legend compilation album, which includes One Love, was played at every party?
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Queen Taylor rules over all of us. Accept it now and you will be a better man for it.
zamboni
Footballguy
I'm more of a Brian May guy.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
He’s in love with his car.
timschochet
Footballguy
70. Billy Joel “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” (from The Stranger)
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Prior to 1977, Billy Joel was a barely known artist despite “Piano Man” and a few other well regarded songs; his label was about to dump him. Then came The Stranger and he became one of the giants of the music industry. It’s an extraordinary album with one classic tune after another. This particular song, with its sharp melody, tremendous pop hook, and relatable lyrics struck a huge chord with the listening public at the time.
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Prior to 1977, Billy Joel was a barely known artist despite “Piano Man” and a few other well regarded songs; his label was about to dump him. Then came The Stranger and he became one of the giants of the music industry. It’s an extraordinary album with one classic tune after another. This particular song, with its sharp melody, tremendous pop hook, and relatable lyrics struck a huge chord with the listening public at the time.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Big fan of Billy Joel. So many good songs.
krista4
Footballguy
The Smiths?It wasn’t at mine, lol. Neither was Jimmy Buffet or Steve Miller’s GH.Are you saying you DIDN'T go to a college where Bob Marley's Legend compilation album, which includes One Love, was played at every party?
This will never get old for me.
zamboni
Footballguy
Lots of people need a house out in Hackensack. I just needed an apartment there many moons ago.70. Billy Joel “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” (from The Stranger)
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Prior to 1977, Billy Joel was a barely known artist despite “Piano Man” and a few other well regarded songs; his label was about to dump him. Then came The Stranger and he became one of the giants of the music industry. It’s an extraordinary album with one classic tune after another. This particular song, with its sharp melody, tremendous pop hook, and relatable lyrics struck a huge chord with the listening public at the time.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
I just know if I have a broken back, polishing a Cadillac's fenders isn't on my to do list.
timschochet
Footballguy
69. Foreigner “Cold As Ice” (from Foreigner)
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Right from their debut album, these guys knew how to produce a hit: Mick Jones knew what to write and Lou Gramm knew how to sing it to get radio play. I doubt too many people would list “Cold As Ice” as one of their all time favorite songs, but it also wouldn’t surprise me if it’s still played 50 years from now.
Foreigner - Cold As Ice (Official Music Video)
You're watching the official music video for Foreigner - "Cold As Ice" from the album 'Foreigner' (1977). "Cold As Ice" has been featured in Rock Band 3, Str...
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Right from their debut album, these guys knew how to produce a hit: Mick Jones knew what to write and Lou Gramm knew how to sing it to get radio play. I doubt too many people would list “Cold As Ice” as one of their all time favorite songs, but it also wouldn’t surprise me if it’s still played 50 years from now.
timschochet
Footballguy
68. Elvis Costello “Watching the Detectives” (from My Aim Is True)
So many beginnings in 1977. Elvis Costello’s first album was amazing. And this song began new wave’s love affair with reggae. Also, the lyrics are brilliant, like most of this artist’s early work. He was simply, IMO, the most outstanding songwriter of his era.
So many beginnings in 1977. Elvis Costello’s first album was amazing. And this song began new wave’s love affair with reggae. Also, the lyrics are brilliant, like most of this artist’s early work. He was simply, IMO, the most outstanding songwriter of his era.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Foreigner is one of those bands that has quite a few good songs, most of which I heard so many times back in the day on the radio that I have little to no interest in ever hearing them again, Cold As Ice is on that list. Good song, but I don't need to hear it ever again.
timschochet
Footballguy
That’s just it; you’ve hit on it. It’s a really good song and I’m absolutely certain it deserves its ranking, as will another Foreigner song coming up a little later. But none of their songs are ones you would ever choose for a desert island.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
I know some hated the rockers going monster ballad in the late 70s/early 80s, but Waiting for a Girl Like You is the one song of theirs I still actively listen to, partly because it is on my massive 80s playlist, and partly for that awesome synth work by Thomas Dolby.
rockaction
Footballguy
I think the Clash want a word with you on that one.
Anyway, it's simply an awesome song by someone who I came to appreciate much later in my musical ventures into the world. Just fantastic.
timschochet
Footballguy
You’re correct that Elvis Costello was influenced by the Clash’s use of reggae. But the Clash wasn’t New Wave (at least not then.)
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Are you really going to try to debate about who qualifies as New Wave?
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
A few years ago Lou Gramm was playing a summer outdoor festival a few blocks from my house. As I was sitting on my front porch I could hear him singing this song.
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