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The 100 Greatest Songs Of 1978 #1. Werewolves of London (1 Viewer)
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FairWarning
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Nails on a chalkboard.timschochet said:
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63. Blondie “Sunday Girl” (from Parallel Lines)
https://youtu.be/u5SmLgGnKJ4
So good. A timeless little pop masterpiece. Deborah looks coked out on the video, but what's new about that?
https://youtu.be/u5SmLgGnKJ4
So good. A timeless little pop masterpiece. Deborah looks coked out on the video, but what's new about that?
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62. Commodores “Three Times A Lady” (from Natural High)
https://youtu.be/3qTPVS1uiQ0
One of Lionel’s most famous ballads, though nowhere near my favorite by him. I think it’s a little sappy honestly. Still there’s no questioning the excellent and professional songwriting and performance here.
https://youtu.be/3qTPVS1uiQ0
One of Lionel’s most famous ballads, though nowhere near my favorite by him. I think it’s a little sappy honestly. Still there’s no questioning the excellent and professional songwriting and performance here.
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BassNBrew
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Looks like you put your suspension time to good use!
What did they get you for this time?
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timschochet said:
This is why I don't pay attention to many music critics. I wouldn't put this song in my top 30 Springsteen songs.
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61. Donna Summer “MacArthur Park” (from Live and More)
https://youtu.be/lV1oafB3grM
Jimmy Webb’s song had originally been a hit for actor Richard Harris in 1969, but Giorgio Moroder decided it would be the perfect disco song for Donna Summer in 1978, and it was, showcasing her incomparable vocal abilities. One of the all time disco dance classics.
https://youtu.be/lV1oafB3grM
Jimmy Webb’s song had originally been a hit for actor Richard Harris in 1969, but Giorgio Moroder decided it would be the perfect disco song for Donna Summer in 1978, and it was, showcasing her incomparable vocal abilities. One of the all time disco dance classics.
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60. Elvis Costello & The Attractions “Radio Radio” (released as a single)
Elvis Costello’s angry screed against rock radio’s limitations got him banned from SNL when he chose to play it instead of the planned for “Less Than Zero”. The song was later added to the American release of This Years Model, but it doesn’t appear on the original version.
It’s a great tune, certainly very different sounding than what was being played on the radio back then, so it didn’t get much airplay- which was the entire complaint.
Elvis Costello’s angry screed against rock radio’s limitations got him banned from SNL when he chose to play it instead of the planned for “Less Than Zero”. The song was later added to the American release of This Years Model, but it doesn’t appear on the original version.
It’s a great tune, certainly very different sounding than what was being played on the radio back then, so it didn’t get much airplay- which was the entire complaint.
Uruk-Hai
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Richie made Hallmark Greeting Card writers look like Lou Reed.
But he knew how to write songs that people will always want to hear, and he had a knack for pop hooks. His records are still played at weddings and dentist offices nationwide.
This one isn't my favorite of his, either, but it was a titanic hit from the moment it was released. I was at a Commodores concert when they toured behind this album and, when Richie (in a white tux, playing a white piano) came up through the stage to play this song, the estrogen release in the Capitol Centre could probably have been seen from Mars.
It was also the beginning of the end of Richie with the Commodores.
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59. Jefferson Starship “Count on Me” (from Earth)
https://youtu.be/AOMuK7YYxeg
For years whenever I heard this tune I was always sure it was Fleetwood Max I was listening to. It’s sounds so much like a classic Lindsay Buckingham hit, especially the chorus.
I always liked Jefferson Starship, as it turns out, better than their other earlier and later personas. I love that song “Miracles” as well.
https://youtu.be/AOMuK7YYxeg
For years whenever I heard this tune I was always sure it was Fleetwood Max I was listening to. It’s sounds so much like a classic Lindsay Buckingham hit, especially the chorus.
I always liked Jefferson Starship, as it turns out, better than their other earlier and later personas. I love that song “Miracles” as well.
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I’ve never been a fan of the Jefferson Airplane/Starship or just plain stupid Starship but I really like this song. Recently I’ve become a fan of Marty Balin’s vocals . Before I only associated Balin with getting a beating at Altamont
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Uruk-Hai
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Me, too. In the mid-to-late 70s, they'd put out one great Balin song a year. The full albums were so generic that you wouldn't even know (or care) who the band was. But the Marty Balin singles were really good.
The original Airplane was horrible, other than Jorma & Jack (who made better music when they split and formed Hot Tuna). JA may be the worst live "classic" band I've ever witnessed. Go listen to their Woodstock set. It's horrible. The singers sound like a bagful of crows was dumped into a wood chipper, and they couldn't keep time with a metronome implanted into their brains.
The less said about Starship, the better.
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58. Genesis “Follow You, Follow Me” (from …And Then There Were Three…)
https://youtu.be/h9zj11gf9Qk
I’m not the biggest Genesis historian out there, but it seems to me that this little catchy love song is about the time that the band moved from progressive rock to top ten material, so I’m guessing long time Genesis fans don’t like it. But as a casual fan I think it’s great. One of those tunes that, to this day if I hear it I’m turning it up and singing along.
https://youtu.be/h9zj11gf9Qk
I’m not the biggest Genesis historian out there, but it seems to me that this little catchy love song is about the time that the band moved from progressive rock to top ten material, so I’m guessing long time Genesis fans don’t like it. But as a casual fan I think it’s great. One of those tunes that, to this day if I hear it I’m turning it up and singing along.
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Well based on the album title, you can see it’s the first record when the band transitioned to just Collins, Banks and Rutherford - so yes it was after that they went more poppy.
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This was their first successful step in the pop direction. There was a blatant attempt on their previous album (Your Own Special Way from Wind and Wuthering) but it was awful.
And Then There Were Three is overshadowed by Duke and Abacab in the Genesis narrative, but it has some great album tracks such as Down and Out, In the Motherlode and Scenes from a Nights Dream.
Uruk-Hai
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I'm with you - I like the Collins-led Genesis much more than when Gabriel (who is the height pretentious [taxed at the gate by Sting & David Byrne] and falls into a great song every decade or so) led the band.
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Hot take: Tony Banks was actually the leader of Genesis during the Gabriel years — and in the early Collins years.
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Oddly enough I like the Collins led Genesis better than the Gabriel era but I also like solo Gabriel better than Genesis.
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57. The Pointer Sisters “Fire” (from Energy)
https://youtu.be/K9S5EZgIJck
The Pointer Sisters had been around for years, mostly singing 40s era material via the Andrew Sisters, when they decided to cover a Bruce Springsteen song. This changed their career, and a string of hits followed. I love a lot of Pointer Sisters songs but I think this is my favorite.
https://youtu.be/K9S5EZgIJck
The Pointer Sisters had been around for years, mostly singing 40s era material via the Andrew Sisters, when they decided to cover a Bruce Springsteen song. This changed their career, and a string of hits followed. I love a lot of Pointer Sisters songs but I think this is my favorite.
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56. REO Speedwagon “Time for Me to Fly” (from You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish)
https://youtu.be/54OtWleMQeQ
I’m just going to come out and say that this is Kevin Cronin’s best ever composition. Not that I’m the biggest fan in the world but this tune is a really well-crafted ballad and I’ll still listen to it after all these years.
https://youtu.be/54OtWleMQeQ
I’m just going to come out and say that this is Kevin Cronin’s best ever composition. Not that I’m the biggest fan in the world but this tune is a really well-crafted ballad and I’ll still listen to it after all these years.
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i have heard that it is believed throughout the north-central states of the USA that, every time an REO song plays on the radio, somewhere a girl's panties lose their elastic and fall to her ankles
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55. Poco “Crazy Love” (from Legend)
https://youtu.be/vjzscuZa5UY
By 1978, Poco had pretty much lost all of the legendary names (Furay, Messina, Schmidt, etc.) that had made them famous, even though they never once had any hits. But some of the original guys like Rusty Young (the dobro player) were still around, and apparently Rusty had picked up enough chops from the legends to come up with this song, which ironically turned out to be Poco’s only chart hit ever.
It’s a beautiful ballad, with exquisite harmonies.
https://youtu.be/vjzscuZa5UY
By 1978, Poco had pretty much lost all of the legendary names (Furay, Messina, Schmidt, etc.) that had made them famous, even though they never once had any hits. But some of the original guys like Rusty Young (the dobro player) were still around, and apparently Rusty had picked up enough chops from the legends to come up with this song, which ironically turned out to be Poco’s only chart hit ever.
It’s a beautiful ballad, with exquisite harmonies.
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Great song - one of the very best selected so far IMO.
For a long time, I could have sworn that Timothy B. Schmit was singing here too.
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Schmit had already jumped ship to the Eagles by this point.
Legend wasn’t even supposed to be a Poco album. After Schmit left, Young and Paul Cotton decided to do a side project while figuring out what to do with Poco. They recorded the songs that became Legend as the Cotton-Young Band. Drummer George Grantham decided to take some time off, so they used a rhythm section consisting of a couple of British guys. When they submitted the C-Y Band to the label, the powers that be decided they wanted it released under the Poco name. So this non-Poco project was suddenly the next Poco album, and Grantham was out of a job.
ETA: The same thing happened with Jethro Tull in 1980. “A” was supposed to be an Ian Anderson solo album and sounds very different from their work up to that point. But it was released as a Tull album, and all members who didn’t play on it (everyone except Anderson and Martin Barre) were ditched.
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Speaking of which, the 1978 Tull album Heavy Horses isn’t their strongest but has some excellent tunes on it.
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54. Warren Zevon “Tenderness On the Block” (from Excitable Boy)
https://youtu.be/KPyotCPHZu0
One of Zevon’s best ever compositions, “Tenderness On the Block” has been covered by numerous artists over the years. To my mind, no version sounds quite as good as this, the original.
https://youtu.be/KPyotCPHZu0
One of Zevon’s best ever compositions, “Tenderness On the Block” has been covered by numerous artists over the years. To my mind, no version sounds quite as good as this, the original.
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53. Funkadelic “One Nation Under A Groove” (from One Nation Under A Groove)
https://youtu.be/3WOZwwRH6XU
So good. The only question people who know this may ask is, why isn’t it even higher?
While this was George Clinton’s best effort since 1971, (and perhaps his best ever?) it’s still a little too obscure compared to the hits that dominate this list. But I will accept criticism for letting the hits dominate.
https://youtu.be/3WOZwwRH6XU
So good. The only question people who know this may ask is, why isn’t it even higher?
While this was George Clinton’s best effort since 1971, (and perhaps his best ever?) it’s still a little too obscure compared to the hits that dominate this list. But I will accept criticism for letting the hits dominate.
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Weird admission. I have never liked Parliament or Funkadelic. The obvious criticism of that admission is one I'll let slide and I'll admit the music wasn't made for me, but there's lots of music that wasn't made for me that I really do feel and get. Clinton and Bootsy and crew? I just don't feel it, man.
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I have never gotten funk. Pop/funk in the eighties with keytars and ####? Yes, I get that. Ready For The World and what have you? Bring it on. But I do not get that funk in its seventies sense. Even hated when Dre sampled it so heavily on The Chronic, an album that signaled the death knell of my beloved Native Tongue acts and their jazzy and lovely samples. I was. Just. not. feeling. it.
wikkidpissah
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definition of institutional racism: five Warren Zevon songs ranked ahead of Funkadelic
jwb
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One of my top 50 favorite songs of all time - I believe top 20 in fact.
Yea, great song. The whole album is fantastic. Tim is right in that it is obscure when you're talking the big hits, though. Parliament/Funkadelic are lots of fun.
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I still think your definition of "too obscure" is wack -- you are not writing for a bunch of Midwest housewives -- but I'm glad this song made the list at all.
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P-Funk is one of my favorite bands and '70s funk is one of my favorite forms of music, so I'm shuked by all this. But we all like what we like and there's no "right" answer for any of this.
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You are not alone in loving it. So many people whose musical tastes I respect (and that really only means that they're passionate and have given it some thought, as opposed to being non-musical or loving only background music) love '70s funk and Parliament-Funkadelic. I've always tried. It just falls...flat for me, and I can't figure it out. It's why I say I just don't get it or "don't feel it." You're right about their being no "right" answer for this. It's like me and Wilco. I still just don't get it, and don't think I ever will.
I'm just putting irons in the fire for discussion, anyway. It's not a hatred of the music, because the characters behind the music are very likable and are performative all-stars. The only thing I ever disliked about it was how, as I mentioned, Dre drove the Native Tongue sound into obsolescence, replacing it with a form that I didn't get. That might stick in my craw a bit.
But yeah, that's cool. To each their own in this respect, I guess.
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Holy smoke. I'm squinting at that. Good thing I didn't have to show my work. I gotta level with you. I don't think I knew that rule. Or it crept from the subconscious.I'm just here to send
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Don't show her the cannery, OH. Keep it between you and the fish.
LOL.
Thanks, k4, for the expression of gratitude. I only hope "That I may be worthy of that look..."
I'll just smile and nod now.
LOL.
Thanks, k4, for the expression of gratitude. I only hope "That I may be worthy of that look..."
I'll just smile and nod now.
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HOW DARE YOU TWO DISRESPECT GEORGE CLINTON BY CHANGING THE TOPIC TO GRAMMAR
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That’s hot. Being somewhat of a grammar freak, I mean that sincerely.
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52. Bruce Springsteen “Badlands” (from Darkness On the Edge of Town)
https://youtu.be/7T_6Ua6fd5s
More Bruce goodness. I’m discovering that I respect this album a lot more than I thought I did. All the songs that I have selected from it (with yet one more to come) are Springsteen classics, impossible to ignore or for me to leave out.
https://youtu.be/7T_6Ua6fd5s
More Bruce goodness. I’m discovering that I respect this album a lot more than I thought I did. All the songs that I have selected from it (with yet one more to come) are Springsteen classics, impossible to ignore or for me to leave out.
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