pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

"Night Comes In" by Richard & Linda might make my 70's top ten. if i had one.

(and would have been an ace choice for hepcat spotify pitchfork list.)

good write up of "girl, you need a change of mind" brad!

Speaking of Ace, "How Long" wasn't on the list either!!

Besides the token nod to Big Star and "Surrender" no power-pop at all

No one agrees on what the term means, but I'd certainly count "Hanging on the Telephone," "Teenage Kicks," "Boys Don't Cry," and the Buzzcocks. Maybe even "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker." (But not the Cars, even though many would.)

Undertones are borderline, but no way would I include The Cure or Buzzcocks.

Cars absolutely.

I've learned from past experience that arguing about what is and isn't power pop is a bridge to nowhere.

Probably true, but a good guidepost is whether or not it would sound right on a Yellow Pills compilation.

no Devo
no Hawkwind
no AC/CD

(xpost) For what it's worth, I'd never include the Cure in general, just that one song--probably "In Between Days," too.

good write up of "girl, you need a change of mind" brad!

― Heez, Monday, August 22, 2016 7:51 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you! it was a lot of fun to write about

no steve miller

then fucking Television (the greatest critical gaslighting job ever) shows up in the top 10.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, August 22, 2016 5:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Orly? Please gaslight me about how I don't really love an album I've listened to a million times because I've been brainwashed by rock critics

personally I think it was the groove that brainwashed me, maybe the guitar sound too

Sad another victim of society

i was personally gaslit by critics telling me that television is any good

nah jk i just don't like that album at all, generally most 70s proto punk punk and post-punk is not my thing at all with a few exceptions i guess

i think i'd like television more if they didn't have tom verlaine on vocals, his voice is terrible imo

171 The Walker Brothers: “The Electrician”

Surprised (almost said shocked, thought better of it) at its low placing, but if this list was assembled in 2005 or 2011 -- that is, on the heels of The Drift or Bish Bosch -- it woulda made the top 20 easily.

i think i'd like television more if they didn't have tom verlaine on vocals, his voice is terrible imo

― marcos, Tuesday, August 23, 2016 8:31 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah i love them but his vox aren't the greatest

Well, lucky for everyone Marquee Moon the song has long instrumental stretches. And those are the awesome parts.

huh no shit

Ber buh beh dum, ber buhdeh bum bum.
PROVE IT

i do love some of his vox especially in venus when ritchie hell wants to dress up like cops thinks about what we could do

TIZZZZZ A FACT!

This case is closed.

BROADWAY it's SO MEDIEVAL

good list! seems way less controversial than the 1980s list from last year. maybe if our generation were teens in the 1970s we'd have more to argue about.

I guess my main complaint would be that it seems like most of the soul picks are determined by the popularity of the recent rap songs that sampled them. No Smokey for
Instance when he owned the 70s

yea i'd swap out a ton of the boring CBGB shit and put in more soul, jazz, and reggae in general

i mean like any list of 200 songs can't convey a whole decade you could easily do 200 songs of any one genre of the 70s and have plenty left out

on consideration it's less interesting and leftfield than the list of the 250 or so billboard #1 songs of the 1970s. honey cone's "want ads", for instance, is more leftfield and surprising than anything on their list.

it doesn't really matter. lots of good stuff on there. people might check some of it out. or not. it doesn't really matter. - emil cioran

seems way less controversial than the 1980s list from last year. maybe if our generation were teens in the 1970s we'd have more to argue about.

It's weird. I was born in 74, does that make me an 80s baby or not? I don't know, but I think I was way more into finding stuff on their 80s list that I wasn't familiar with because I always want to hear MORE MORE MORE 80s music. Because so much 70s music is embedded in my core, I found myself irritated both by things that were chosen AND things that were left out of the 70s list.

But yet, even though my personal 80s list would've looked different, I was happy to read through theirs.

My personal 70s list would also have looked different, but instead I was grumpy yesterday that this one came out the way it did.

No Sylvester
No Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band

where art thou dan fogelberg

nazerath
poco
swamp dogg
glen campbell
au pairs

Obviously ZZ Top is on the list. I don't even need to check---WHHHHHAATTTTTT!!?

So it's ok to post notable omissions now?

Emitt Rhodes "Somebody Made For Me"
King Crimson "One More Red Nightmare"
Jefferson Starship "Miracles"
Carole King "It's Too Late"

i thought we were just naming acts from the 70s

jesse winchester
kc & the sunshine band
999

tony orlando and dawn- knock three times

seems like most of the soul picks are determined by the popularity of the recent rap songs that sampled them.

ha yea this seems very weird

melanie - brand new key

/seems like most of the soul picks are determined by the popularity of the recent rap songs that sampled them. /

ha yea this seems very weird
--marcos

I love that one of them is Will Smith's "Miami"

was surprised that the Isaac Hayes pick wasn't "Walk on By" for that very reason

that's bc it came out in 1969

i was also upset that "tears of a clown" was disqualified bc even though it was a hit in 1970 it was an album track in 1967

Two lists, for balance:

Things I really liked seeing that weren’t necessarily automatic:

Germs: “Lexicon Devil”
Siouxsie and the Banshees: “Hong Kong Garden”
Karen Dalton: “Something on Your Mind”
Donnie & Joe Emerson: “Baby”
Black Flag: “Nervous Breakdown”
Five Stairsteps: “O-o-h Child”
Kool & the Gang: “Summer Madness”
Neil Young: “After the Gold Rush”

(I realize Neil Young himself is automatic, but there’s a core of songs I would have considered inevitable, and “After the Gold Rush” isn’t one of them.)

Some things I would liked to have seen, ditto--one song per year:

Jethro Tull: “The Witch’s Promise”
Undisputed Truth: “Smiling Faces Sometimes”
Hot Tuna: “Sea Child”
Slade: “Merry X'mas Everybody”
Grand Funk: “Bad Time”
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel: “Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)”
Maxine Nightingale: “Right Back Where We Started From”
KC & the Sunshine Band: “Keep It Comin’ Love”
Walter Egan: “Magnet and Steel”
Shoes: “Too Late”

I said Rod Stewart was absent--missed the Faces song, although that's a bit of a stretch. Anyway, I'll change the most egregious omission to CCR.

the Five Stairsteps is in there cos of Guardians of the Galaxy of course

Maxine Nightingale: “Right Back Where We Started From”

This is quite possibly the most annoying song ever recorded.