BEST SONGS OF THE SEVENTIES

  • New Age Reto Hippie
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    eddstarr88 wrote:
    It's eddstarr's storytime again.

    I've always treated music as a universal, humankind's greatest gift. By the time I was in junior high school my musical exposure was about to expand greatly. There's no two ways about it, desegregation's most immediate impact on me was music. My school friends loved to talk music and I became aware that I still had a lot to learn.

    Now I can post images and video on RJ and act like it's no big deal.

    But this is a big deal for me. What are the odds that a Navy kid growing up in Norfolk, VA listening to "The YES Album" of 1971, in glorious FM Stereo, would survive to tell his new online friends what a revelation YES was for me?

    It was as if a door to another dimension had opened up and I was hearing in a new way! I'll never forget my dad walking in on me as I was listening to "The YES Album" and he asked me, "why are you listening to that white boy music?". I can still see him glaring at me like I had transformed into a stranger in his house.

    But I'm not like my dad, I couldn't be like him. All I've seen and experienced in the last 50 years has made me so far away from my parents, it's like I have become a stranger to their world and way of thinking.

    I'm the kind of man that can still listen to YES and be awed that they rocked my world so long ago, and YES is still with us today!

    From the 1971 album, this is the studio cut of their 2-part song.

    Part 1 is called "Your Move" with lots of references to a game of chess.
    Part 2 is called "All Good People" where YES repeats the same phrase over and over, concluding with one of the most unique endings I've ever heard for a song - progressive fade out with cord drops on each refrain!

    Got my imagination 40 years ago!


    YES - "I've Seen All Good People" - 1971:


    http://youtu.be/uJM7TdshUbw



    Such a classic song :)
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  • thecrow174
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    		 B.B. King - The Thrill is Gone

    It was written by Rick Darnell and Roy Hawkins in 1951, but it was popularized by B.B. King in 1970. :P
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  • eddstarr88
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    thecrow174 wrote:
    The Knack - My Sharona


    Now this really brings back some cool memories! :D
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  • New Age Reto Hippie
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    		 I just bought Selling England By The Pound today, and listening to it I grew attached to this lovely song; More Fool Me by Genesis, lead vocals by Phil Collins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ph94k1iHFk
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    Carly Simon - You're So Vain
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6UAYGxiRwU
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  • One Louder
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    		 You're so Vain features Mick Jagger on backup vocals.

    The Rolling Stones' Some Girls album is about to reissued along with a newly discovered 1978 concert film shot in Fort Worth. Here's Beast of Burden off Some Girls live from Forth Worth '78;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5dp48jHPjw

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    New_Age_Reto_Hippie wrote:
    I just bought Selling England By The Pound today, and listening to it I grew attached to this lovely song; More Fool Me by Genesis, lead vocals by Phil Collins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ph94k1iHFk


    Selling England by the Pound also features some of Genesis' best longer length tracks;

    Firth of Fifth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5engyVXe0

    Dancing with the Moonlit Knight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Spl1cOf-o&feature=related

    The Cinema Show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqZUVP_rtzs

    and here's a live version of the second half of Cinema Show from 1976 after Peter Gabriel left with Bill Bruford on additional drums; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU2bOYiBX28
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  • thecrow174
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    		 Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line
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    The Isley Brothers - That Lady

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1DDgNCLD84


    One_Louder wrote:
    YHere's Beast of Burden off Some Girls live from Forth Worth '78;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5dp48jHPjw


    Awesome! :D

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  • thecrow174
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    		 Dire Straits- Sultans of Swing
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  • eddstarr88
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    Here we go again! GN has beatten me to the magnificent Isley Brothers.


    Well I'm gonna counter with a man who's talent is right up there with Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield. And here is his signature song written and produced faster than Tavis Smiley could believe when he interviewed this man on his show just a couple of years ago.

    This one's for the history books everyone,


    Bobby Womack - "Across 110th Street" - 1972:


    http://youtu.be/I9wqUruBXe8

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  • thecrow174
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    		 Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
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  • eddstarr88
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    thecrow174 wrote:


    Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall





    Oh Yeah - Pink Floyd rocks the world with this one!

    The impact this album had when it was first released might be hard to believe today. But here is the scene that must have taken place in dorm rooms all over the country at that time, "dude . . . I heard this on the radio and I just bought the album. You've got to here this!!!"

    So good, even the reworked movie version rocks.
    Yet another song for the history books everyone:

    http://youtu.be/YR5ApYxkU-U

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  • thabz
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    		 Easy - The Commodores
    Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air?
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  • diamondgirl360
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    		 Money,us and them,set the controls for the heart of the sun by pink floyd
    Hold The Line by Toto
    more than a feeling - boston
    stayin alive, night fever,more than a woman- BeeGees
    the joker by the steve miller band

    LUCY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • New Age Reto Hippie
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    		 Kraftwerk- The Man Machine

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQe9eK_4U0U
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  • thecrow174
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    		 Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
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  • One Louder
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    		set the controls for the heart of the sun by pink floyd That's actually from 1968.

    Talking of Pink Floyd, there's a 70's album of theirs that's great but doesn't get much attention and that's 1972's Obscured by Clouds. It was the soundtrack to a French film called La Vallee that was rush recorded in half a month but it's an excellent album that you can elements of both 1971's Meddle and 1973's Dark Side of the Moon in.

    Free Four off Obscured by Clouds was one of the first Pink Floyd songs to get major airplay on North American FM radio. I really like how this song marries dark and bleak lyrics to a bright, catchy melody, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0gEa20Wsqg. I call it a Trojan Horse song.
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  • thabz
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    		 Any song by ABBA :lol:
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  • thecrow174
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    		 Suicide is Painless from the show M*A*S*H.

    It was recorded in 1969, but released in 1970, so I hope it counts as a 70s song.
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