Have A Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box CD6 Poll

this one truly has some bad TV theme songs but nothing could be worst than "Disco Duck." there are, however, some great songs on this disc. going with "December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" just over "Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk" and "Fooled Around And Fell In Love."

"Love Rollercoaster" just over "Dream Weaver"

Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future.

If dicso with strings is your thing this is your year: Fly Robin Fly, Right Back, Car Wash, Turn the Beat Around. Lots of goodness on this list but nothing that really stands out. Voting for Mr Glen Campbell.

Tossup between Glen Campbell and Maxine Nightingale for me. People wince when I say 1975 was a great year for pop and rock music.

A weaker CD again. Voted "Fly Like An Eagle" as a protest against the dominating genre.

One of the best sets of songs here, certainly the first half!

Was tempted to vote for ""Evil Woman" purely for the clavinet break, but went clap, clap, clap de clap clap clap dink.

The Rockford Files - Mike Post!!!!! Post's absolute best without question. I actually have this on my iPod.

BCR for inspiring The Ramones.

Couldn't resist voting Four Seasons, but at least this thread inspired me to find this splendid live version of 'Afternoon Delight': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaHYvkjH_QY

"Rhinestone Cowboy" ahead of "Car Wash"

Four Seasons just barely over Parliament (not their best cut by any means), with Starland Vocal Band trailing a ways behind.

Rhinestone Cowboy

Ugh. This disc seems like it would be better contemplated Platonicly, rather than listened to. I like plenty of these songs in other contexts, but seeing them all together just seems to make their lameness synergize. And man, '75 seems to kick '76's ass here.

I'm a sucker for saccharine AOR takes on casual sex - hence England Dan & John Ford Coley over Starland Vocal Band.

What's with all the lame-assed TV theme filler? Jeez. (Those weren't even really all hits, were they?)

Anyway, I'll take Glen Campbell over Bay City Rollers over Ohio Players over Bellamy Brothers over Rose Royce over Silver Convention over...lots of other stuff.

Honorable Mention: Firefall, whose song I didn't even realize I liked until this year.

Still probably the worst of these compilations yet.

Worst non-TV-theme: "Mahogany." Then "Disco Duck," I guess.

BCR for inspiring The Ramones.

And can anyone decipher this for me?

And oh yeah.

Song I most associate with the Bicentennial summer: "Afternoon Delight."

Parliament by a pretty comfortable margin

I'm kinda surprised Disco Duck was this early tbh (disco was already a parody of itself by '75?)

"Disco Duck" was actually released in 1976. i remember hearing that is was suppose to be included on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack but for whatever reason didn't get put onto the album, thank god.

I like plenty of these songs in other contexts, but seeing them all together just seems to make their lameness synergize.

OTFM

Maybe it's necessary to have heard some of these in daily rotation to appreciate how awful they are. Try to imagine hearing something from this CD every time you tune your radio to the one "good" station in town.

Parliament by a pretty comfortable margin

One would hope.

My vote:
Clap
Clap Clap...

-- Mark G, Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Was tempted to vote for ""Evil Woman" purely for the clavinet break, but went clap, clap, clap de clap clap clap dink.

-- Mark G, Wednesday, 30 July 2008

I'm beginning to sense a pattern...

Surprised at all the Starland Vocal Band love so far, thought everybody hated 'em. I've always liked "Afternoon Delight" for its eccentricities - an unvarying A-A-A-A rhyme scheme and a weird, gauzy production not unlike a disco-era Notorious Byrd Brothers outtake.

Anyways: Parliament, Maxine Nightingale and Steve Miller are all top contenders for my vote; but I'm gonna go with "Turn The Beat Around" just because it's the only one I'd like to hear right now, that I don't currently own a copy of. (But I can remedy that.)

(Those [TV themes] weren't even really all hits, were they?)

Actually, yes. I haven't unpacked my Billboard books yet but I'll look up their chart positions if you want to know.

Surprised at all the Starland Vocal Band love so far

I have no problem with the corny horny, I just have a problem with the diction of "workin' up a appetite."

mark g so otm. myonga otm re: afternoon delight. makin our dreams come true > happy days. rockford files > both. voted 'car wash' for reasons listed above.

You guys have no taste and no heart!!! The only hesitation possible is between Rick Dees and Andrea True... Disco Duck, you have my vote!!!

BCR for inspiring The Ramones.

And can anyone decipher this for me?

Is it the "Hey ho, let's go" bit from "Beat on the Brat"? There's definitely a Ramones song that rips it off.

Oh yeah, BCR = Bay City Rollers, duh. And the Rollers inspiring the Ramones makes perfect sense (and not necessarily just for one song, either. Kinda sad they're not getting more attention here.)

Looked up the TV themes myself; here's how high they got on the pop charts:

5. The Rockford Files - Mike Post #10
10. Happy Days - Pratt & McClain #5
11. Making Our Dreams Come True - Cyndi Grecco #25

Weird -- I doubt the latter two, especially, got much radio play. Could be wrong, though. But I'm guessing the big chart factor must've been 45 sales.

Maybe it's necessary to have heard some of these in daily rotation

I did; still love way more of them than I hate.

But if you want to know
How I really feel
Just get the cameras rolling
Get the action going
Baby you know my love for you is real
Take me where you want to
Then my heart you'll steal

i love you so much lets make a porno, great song~!

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interesting

Weren't the Ramones, or at least Dee Dee, convinced that "Blitzkrieg Bop" was their "Saturday Night"?

No votes for Silver Convention?

Why, Robin, Why?

Not heard of it