Have a Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box CD3 Poll

sorry, it should read CD3 mainly covers songs from 1972 and 1973.

"That Lady (Pt. 1)" - the Isley Brothers

Yeah, tough choice, but the Isleys.

Stealers Wheel in a walk

^this

"alone again" over "you're so vain" for me, curtis, isleys, stealer's wheel coming up behind

frankenstein! would have gone steelers wheel except for this ridiculous thing.

The Isleys will win this in a trice.

Well, I voted them too.

Big drop in quality in general here.

"Alone Again (Naturally)," naturally.

Gary Glitter

"Alone Again (Naturally)," naturally.

But yeah, fuck that newsie-lookin' ass motherfucker for fuckin' with The Biz (and, by precedent, every other sample-happy rapper).

This is easily "Alone Again Naturally". A downright fantastic song - up there with the best of McCartney and Wilson.

Dude get off Ricky Wilson's dick.

Gilbert's song is great, but I'd go for Dr. Hook if ILM would let me vote. (For some reason, it keeps telling me "login failed" on polls these days.) Would also take Brownsville Station and Curtis and Carly over "Alone Again"; "Brandy" and "Stuck In The Middle With You" and the Isleys and Billy Paul and Kool & the Gang and Edgar and Gary would be close.

(Okay, after I posted that post, it did finally let me vote. For "Cover Of The Rolling Stone," possibly the funniest song in human history, and a great karaoke number to boot. Weird.)

After relistening to "Cover of the Rolling Stone," I forgot how awesome the "ROCK AND ROLLL!!!!" part is. After a shout like that, you expect this crazy Hendrixy jamming guitar solo, but it turns out to be complete garbage nonsense as if the guy doesn't even know how to play the guitar. And the "Awww man. That's beautiful." makes it even funnier.

I thought "Sylvia's Daughter" was funnier.

No way is it funnier than this video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0-XzGOZHYdA

even funnier is the "get my picture on the COVER OF THE RADIO TIMES!!" version.

hell, that'll be a poll next!

I've never heard that song... well not quite true, I've heard the R. Stevie Moore version!! About half the songs on this album were not hits in the UK.

Man I was this close to voting for "Brandy" for some reason.

"Frankenstein" woulda been my first choice, but for the fact that the single-version edit (presumably the one included here) is inferior to the full LP track. (And inferior to my OWN personal under-four-minutes edit I assembled for my own amusement.) So the Isleys take it.

I don't know if I've ever even heard "Me and Mrs. Jones" before. Whereas many of the rest are permanently embedded in my memory banks, due to their inclusion on K-Tel's 22 Explosive Hits, fifth-birthday present, my very first album (or close enough.)

If you don't know you've heard "Me and Mrs Jones", then you probably haven't.

It's fairly unforgettable.

True. Maybe it was a bigger hit in the UK than US?

Man I was this close to voting for "Brandy" for some reason.

Probably because it's the best song on this disc!

"me and mrs. jones" was pretty huge in the us, my guess is it gets more airplay now than any of the other r&b tracks up there but it's probably very possible to be unfamiliar w/ it if you're young enough.

It was a number one single. In fact, it bumped "I Am Woman" by Helen Reddy out of the top spot.

After all these years, I still have deep, irrational hatred for "Precious and Few," "Brandy", "Dancing in the Moonlight," "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast," "The Morning After," and especially "Tie A Yellow Ribbon." But my horror is assuaged by "Alone Again (Naturally)," "You're So Vain," "Me and Mrs. Jones," "Freddy's Dead," "That Lady (Pt. 1)," "I'm Gonna You Love You Just a Little More Baby," "Jungle Boogie," "Stuck in the Middle with You," and "Frankenstein."

I couldn't choose between the Isley Brothers, Curtis Mayfield, and Billy Paul, so I voted for Carly's best song.

"Freddie's Dead (Theme from Superfly)"

Like 'em all, but I guess I have to vote for "Brandy." Don't think I ever heard this one: El Chicano (1973): "Tell Her She's Lovely".

"Now it's all designed to blow our minds
"But our minds won't really be blown
Like the blow that'll get you when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone
Wanna see my picture on the cover
Rolling Stone
Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Rolling Stone
Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Rolling Stone"

That's a Shel Silverstein composition, right? My favorite part is the way they guy pronounces embroideries with three syllables-"embroidries" -and uses it as a verb.

Hmmm... I always thought he was saying "embroiders" (which is a verb) but pronouncing it wrong. (Either way, yeah, it's hilarious.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Tough to choose, but I went with "Frankenstein."

Extended Moog freakouts in a heavy-metal instrumental getting regular rotation on Detroit radio in the '70s and '80s? This blew my tender adolescent (and post-adolescent) mind. What a major WTF...

Sammy Davis, Jr. with The Mike Curb Congregation (1972): "The Candy Man"

Anyone else hear a similarity in this to Steely Dan's Reelin' in the Years? Both released in 1972 also.

Alone Again and Tie a Yellow Ribbon got something going too.

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53 votes, great job as always ILM!

"me and mrs. jones" was pretty huge in the us, my guess is it gets more airplay now than any of the other r&b tracks up there but it's probably very possible to be unfamiliar w/ it if you're young enough.

Well, I'm old enough to remember many of those songs when they were still on the charts! But many R&B hits of that era would appear to have gotten much less airplay here than in the USA, passed over in favour of middling Canadian performers, CanCon be praised. But "Mrs. Jones" WAS a big hit here, too; so...<shrugs>

Extended Moog freakouts

ARP 2600, actually :)

12. Billy Paul (1972): "Me and Mrs. Jones" 0
6. Sammy Davis, Jr. with The Mike Curb Congregation (1972): "The Candy Man" 0

;_; ;_;

ARP 2600, actually :)

Oops. Thanks for the correction, MVB.