The 10 best songs from the 70’s

"Where was your helping?
Where was your bow?"

_Can beard papa recite the lyrics to caroselambra by heart?_


Only, "Take of the fruit, but guard the seed"...

Risking Deflatormouse flagging me again but was thinking on starting either a 00s or 60s thread a few weeks from now but I’m on a shortlist of 100+ songs for each decade and I don’t think I can do it. I guess this is the last one.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

I started working on a 00s one as soon as I was finished with the 90s. It's a fun mental exercise and I would gladly take part.

stretchin "70s" here just a little bit but 10 i've been thinking about:

Soul sister - Allen toussaint
wish I had not said that - jj cale
Althea - Grateful Dead
summer - war
You got the love - Rufus & Chaka Khan
Malibu people - John Phillips
The slider - T. rex
I’m a ram - al green
Trouble - Robert Palmer
Sleeping. - the band

Nice list

thanks! might could sub in the Rumor for Sleeping

"I'm a Ram" is so good

not necessarily my favorites, but tbh these lists need more butt rock

10cc, i'm not in love
boz scaggs, lido shuffle
foghat, slow ride
led zeppelin, when the levee breaks
pere ubu, final solution
rolling stones, sway
roxy music, do the strand
television, see no evil
thin lizzy, jailbreak
van halen, ain't talkin' 'bout love

Sweet Mother - Prince Nico Mbarga
Every 1's A Winner - Hot Chocolate
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Landscape for Future Earth - Keith Jarrett
(I Got) A Good 'Un - John Lee Hooker
Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Gold - John Stewart feat. Stevie Nicks
Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs
I Want Your Love - Chic
25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago

I was sure "Gold" also featured Lindsey Buckingham (who contributed to the album it was on) - that guitar solo sure sounds like him - but no that's Stewart himself playing. Turns out, they both played each other's records when learning to play guitar.

Making a list that is full of songs on classic rock radio is a waste of everyone’s time

okay then contribute more than a list of aerosmith

If you ask me a few weeks from now I may well have completely different picks...

Shuggie Otis - "Strawberry Letter 23"
Poco - "A Good Feelin' to Know"
Fleetwood Mac - "Landslide"
Staple Singers - "If You're Ready"
Nick Drake - "Northern Sky"
Ambrosia - "Time Waits For No One"
Judee Sill - "Jesus Was a Cross Maker"
Buzzcocks - "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)"
Andy Gibb - "Love is Thicker Than Water"
John Martyn - "Go Down Easy"

Currently playing The Upsetters “Super Ape” album and I’m regretting not placing “three in one” on my list.

Also something from Sun Ra’s sleeping beauty. ‘Springtime Again’ or ‘Door of the Cosmos’… this is such a good decade.

1970 Alan Moorhouse - expo in tokyo
1971 Santana - jungle strut
1972 Holland-Dozier-Holland - why can't we be lovers
1973 Coloured Balls (Lobby Loyde) – g.o.d.
1973 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - sebastian
1974 Erkin Koray - cemalim
1976 Omega - house of cards part I, time robber, house of cards part II
1976 Mongo Santamaria - sofrito
1978 The Bar-Kays – holy ghost
1978 Promises - baby it's you
1978 The Undertones - teenage kicks
1979 Saxon - motorcycle man

Cool list!