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Hi all. A few weeks ago my lady walked into the room singing tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree. Since then I have been thinking (uh oh). Any way, I concluded that I "know" many of the popular songs in the 70s but don't remember them. IE - if you asked me to name you five great songs from the 70s I would actually be able to name none (oh actually maybe the Bee Gees).

So I was wondering if you lovely lot could jar my memory for me and give me the names of the songs that were popular. I've got lots of Smokie, but would like to listen to the stuff that was being played when I was really young that I loved then but have forgot.

Try tuning in to Absolute Radio 70s through their website or the app, and you'll get lots of gems.

The 70s were generally garbage for music imo.

Abba.
Boney M.
Kate Bush

Just 70s, or specific genres? I mean, the 70s was big for motown, funk, disco, rock, early punk, ska, easy listening, and pop - there's an incredibly large amount of stuff to cherry pick from.

Cherry picking a few seminal albums:

Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Never Mind The Bollocks by The Sex Pistols
Who's Next by The Who
Ramones by The Ramones
A Night At The Opera by Queen
One Of These Nights by The Eagles

Christ there's an infinite amount to choose from.

I mean, I love love love so much from the 50s, 60s, 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s. There are some exceptions, but mainly it's dross.

Decade-ist.

You're dross. The 70s was a fucking great period in music. Not only for so much music in its own right, but for setting up the environment that produced the glorious 80s.

Just give me the 80s stuff where they'd actually got it to sound good then imo

High Voltage by AC/DC

Sadly, Maiden miss out by four months.

Ok fine, I'm going to listen to nothing but 70s music for the rest of the week to prove myself wrong.

I'd include Back in Black by AC/DC, actually. Sure it came out in 80, but was recorded in the 70s.

Thanks. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for just the good catchy songs of the 70s that I can't remember.

Kinda like you see an advert and it's got an old song from the 70s or 80s that you had completely forgotten about and forgotten how awesome it was.

Back in those days it was hard for me to listen to them over and over because I was aged between 0-6 during the 70s and only got into buying records in the 80s. So yeah, time moved on and I have just forgotten many of them and need a prod to remember.

My musical tastes tend to be broadly found in the late 60s to early 70s.

Therefore I be disagreeing with you. Although there was a lot of shite in the 70s (see: disco), that's the case for pretty much any decade.

Well yeah, the 90% of music is shit argument holds up in any decade. But I'm talking about the 10% that is considered to be great, I don't care for much of it.

Like I said I'm going to prove myself wrong this week.

Smokie are and always were one of my favourite bands. They're still quite popular in Europe.

IIRC Elton John started in the late 60s through the 70s too. I'm not a huge fan of his apart from Rocket Man and Yellow Brick Road.

Fuck off.

I loved disco music. I loved to dance when I was a kid and it was great music to move to.

A few years back I clearly remember loading D.I.S.C.O into my car's stereo MP3 thing and driving down the road chair dancing like an idiot.

Fantastic stuff !

There's some Disco with great, grooving bass lines. Some of it is fab. When I was in charge of music in the previous place I used to enjoy making Friday afternoons the disco session. I think the rest of the team enjoyed it.

The motherfucking Village People.

Especially I'm a cruiser and Sex over the phone.

Is the name of your autobiography

In the 1970s we had:

- joy
- fun
- seasons in the sun.

It was hard to die back then, however.

If you don't like Chic then you're wrong.

Related: The Sugarhill Gang just about sneak into the 70s.

Well I'll just leave this here...



...not that I agree with Mr Biafra though.

OMG





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

I'd completely forgotten about that song.

#notall70smusic

David Bowie
Stevie Wonder
Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
Fleetwood Mac
Elton John
The Clash
EL freaking O

Yeah, you're a bit late to the party. I was proved wrong months ago.

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See, Myp, even new people know you're wrong.

Well I do have a vinyl copy of Rumours…

That's just hearsay.

Also the first time someone's turned up and gone "That Cras, looks like he's a man who's correct about stuff"

It might be a perfect storm of all the above.

I saw Fleetwood Mac last year live at the IOW festival. Had an emotional meltdown whilst singing along to 'Landslide'. Pretty sure the teenage festival-goers around me thought I was a nutcase. I fear this information may hinder rather than help the legitimacy of said correctness.

Unrelatedly, dogs have started forming into packs and howling, and blood has begun to weep from the walls.

I can't remember, was Craster the idiot with the 'you're safer the closer to a grenade you are', the idiot with the 'attatch dynamos to an electric car's wheels and drive forever' or the idiot who couldn't get why a plane on a conveyor belt could still take off?

I know who the idiot who thought that if you were on top of a moving truck and jumped you'd immediately stop moving and fall off the truck. He still has stupid ideas about things. #IndependentScotland

Yup, the grenade was me.

Bought myself an Elkie Brooks CD last week. Been listening to it ever since, what a voice !

That was great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_B ... _the_1970s

All the number ones of the 1970's, bound to be some shit in there (That Grandma song for one) but might give you some ideas

Edit that's the US numbers ones so should be better!

Elkie Brooks ! forgot how awesome she was so I ordered her best hits and ripped to wavs.

Which got me thinking about Rod Stewart (she covers Gasoline Alley) so have now ordered two Rod Stewart CDs to rip

Rod Stewart?



Can't stand him.

I told you 70s music was bad. Also Slade.

70s music is a bit broader than those two rogerers of ears.

The more I think about it they're pretty much the same. Scottish, very coarse voices. Kinda like the male and female versions of the same thing.

I would probably not like Rod Stewart or Elkie Brooks if it weren't for my parents. Dad was a huge Stewart fan and I remember going through his records whilst he was still alive. We still have all of them like but they're at my brother's atm.

Mum used to listen to Pearl's a singer when she was ironing so again there's that affiliation there. It was kinda like me being so young I didn't really have a choice.

I doubt the memories would be so strong if it weren't for my dad dying and me being an aspie. Even though my dad died when I was seven I still have very strong memories of him and things I did with him. Like throwing stones into a plastic bucket on the beach to win a Adam and The Ants Tshirt with my name on

So yeah, it's more like by affiliation rather than my own choice.

So your name is Anthony.