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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 8, 2019 17:39:17 GMT
Great idea and list - I won't add 20 because my brain doesn't work like that (what brain pacinoyes.........shut-up) but I'll add a few weirdo ones and these serve a an FYC for the album the songs are from too. The Costello song in particular is some kind of miracle - drawing on an idea that in love, it's a tug of war of two (eventual) fascists - and the lyrical puns are so lacerating and sharp it's almost unbelievable to think one guy could think of all this, pouring out of his brain like lava.
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Post by countjohn on Jan 8, 2019 22:26:22 GMT
I gave this some thought and it ended up having a very different composition than my album list/recs. Glam was a great singles genre but didn't really turn out great albums very often. Accordingly, I only had a couple glam albums on my albums list, but it dominates the top part of the song list here.
1. The Rain Song- Led Zeppelin 2. Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen 3. All the Young Dudes- Mott the Hoople 4. Tiny Dancer- Elton John 5. Teenage Dream- T. Rex 6. Perfect Day- Lou Reed 7. Life on Mars- Davis Bowie 8. Angel Fingers (A Teen Ballad)- Wizzard 9. Instant Karma- John Lennon 10. Accidents Will Happen- Elvis Costello 11.Moonlight Mile- The Rolling Stones 12.Bodies- The Sex Pistols 13.Pretty Vacant- The Sex Pistols 14.Allison- Elvis Costello 15.Paris 1919- John Cale 16.What is Life?- George Harrison 17.Superstition- Stevie Wonder 18.Damaged Goods- Gang of Four 19.New Rose- The Damned 20.Hong Kong Garden- Siouxsie and the Banshees
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 9, 2019 12:42:03 GMT
Here's one that is somewhat forgotten today but this single song influenced an astonishing amount of important bands - bands around at the same time and long after.
It starts off with 20 seconds of noodling feedback - when the song kicks in the singer sounds deranged, the lyrics and title are vaguely political (but not), the chorus is chanted and punchy but the music is off-kilter from what's actually being sung so its disorienting - all through the song there is a buzzing noise which would later be copied as a production technique even.
The Pixies, Gang of Four, Mission of Burma (and most post-Punk in general) - bands often thought to be without easy to discern influences - all take something of their eventual formulas from this single 3 minute song.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 9, 2019 23:03:02 GMT
I still play this like once a week - this is 40 years old. Classic......still.....and when this song kicks in, it's a total blast.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 10, 2019 2:02:00 GMT
pacinoyes I love the whole Life in the Foodchain album; I heard about it from you of course - so thanx Pac! What's the deal with Tonio K anyway? Idk anything about him outside of that album, which I feel like should be more well known, or is it known well enough in smaller circles? It has an overall very appealing sound, lyrically very witty with a dark edge to it too. You could even picture some songs like Funky Western Civilization playing regularly on the radio ( I mean that in a good way ! ).
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 10, 2019 2:17:47 GMT
Here's a definite fav, I gotta think of more....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2019 3:47:34 GMT
01. Layla - Derek and the Dominoes 02. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais - The Clash 03. Heart of Glass - Blondie 04. September - Earth, Wind and Fire 05. I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones 06. Marquee Moon - Television 07. Fame - David Bowie 08. We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters 09. TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) - MFSB 10. Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel 11. Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp 12. Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress - The Hollies 13. Train in Vain - The Clash 14. Strange Magic - E.L.O 15. The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies 16. Love Her Madly - The Doors 17. The Way We Were -Barbra Streisand 18. Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin 19. Born to Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez 20. Misty Mountain Hop/Thank You - Led Zeppelin
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 10, 2019 10:26:43 GMT
pacinoyes I love the whole Life in the Foodchain album; I heard about it from you of course - so thanx Pac! What's the deal with Tonio K anyway? Idk anything about him outside of that album, which I feel like should be more well known, or is it known well enough in smaller circles? It has an overall very appealing sound, lyrically very witty with a dark edge to it too. You could even picture some songs like Funky Western Civilization playing regularly on the radio ( I mean that in a good way ! ). I am very happy I could turn on anyone on to that great album .......... Tonio K is a bit of a strange one because he's sort of a music industry insider (pro songwriter, musician, hanger on) who was also outside the industry (Westerberg and Peter Case play guitar on one of his later post-Christian conversion albums - gotta admire a guy who gets that kind of attention!). So the Tonio K character was a very appealing New Wave character in the 70s on his first 2 releases (his 2nd record Amerika is a more ambitious almost Art Rock album) - but Life in the Foodchain is really the standout - a lost 70s classic now but anyone who likes Costello/Parker/Lowe (even the first 2 Joe Jackson albums) will love it and also loved it then. It actually sold rather well too but as time goes on its one of those records that was pushed out to the margins. While that album is playing its hard to find any fault with it at all...........and like I always say most Rock music isn't funny at all (rather its often humorless)..........but Foodchain is hysterically funny and likable and in a way that stings too.........and its a record that also only could have been made in the 70s, which makes it good for this thread too
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 10, 2019 10:35:11 GMT
Another side of the 70s - Gil Scott Heron's poetically searing, no bullshit slice of real life - this is Punk Rock too really, hits just as hard.
"If you see some brother looking like a goner..........it's gonna be me"
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 10, 2019 13:55:57 GMT
The 70s had a lot of great female songs but this song from '79, is my favorite song ever by a female regardless of decade. On one hand it's straight Pop that you might think is simple but the way it is sung, detached, direct, matter of fact but crucially NOT unemotionally links it not just to 70s New Wave but also the romanticism of the 50s/60s.
She repeats the last line twice in a row, so you get it, you unromantic jaded monsters "No, I don't listen to their wasted lines...." - how sweet is that?
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Post by Joaquim on Jan 10, 2019 20:29:08 GMT
1. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin 2. Another Brick in the Wall Pt.2 - Pink Floyd 3. Layla - Derek and the Dominos 4. London Calling - The Clash 5. Riders on the Storm - The Doors 6. Highway to Hell - AC/DC 7. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen 8. Paranoid - Black Sabbath 9. Baba O'Riley - The Who 10. The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel 11. Life on Mars - David Bowie 12. Imagine - John Lennon 13. Runnin' With the Devil - Van Halen 14. Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac 15. Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols 16. Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones 17. Let It Be - The Beatles 18. I Wanna be Sedated - Ramones 19. Rocket Man - Elton John 20. Pump It Up - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 10, 2019 21:44:16 GMT
The Buzzcocks before Pete Shelley was the singer (Howard DeVoto on this debut) - if they never did anything besides the Spiral Scratch EP - none of which is represented on Singles Going Steady they'd still be a big deal. One of the defining songs of the first Punk Rock moment and somewhat overlooked now, because well bigger things were to come.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 11, 2019 14:28:27 GMT
Not yet mentioned, to some the best or most important band to emerge in the whole 70s decade - they of course defined something that would really break big in the 80s - songs that freak you the fnck out.
This is the peak of that for me in the 70s which had Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper too - and a lot of it isn't even the band here, it's the producer, the crucial Martin Hannett who defined this sound and revolutionized the role of producer - eerie silences and echoes, the instruments spaced apart and distinct, random and odd clicks and pops and breaking glass effects - creeeeeeeepy.
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Jan 11, 2019 16:22:09 GMT
In no particular order:
"Dead Souls", Joy Division "Boys don't Cry", The Cure "Rebel Rebel", David Bowie "Living for the City", Stevie Wonder "Born to Run", Bruce Springsteen "Let it Be", The Beatles "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough", Michael Jackson "Landslide", Fleetwood Mac "Wish You Were Here", Pink Floyd "What's Going On", Marvin Gaye "Rocket Man", Elton John "Stairway to Heaven", Led Zeppelin "Let's Stay Together", Al Green "Wuthering Heights", Kate Bush "Heart of Glass", Blondie "Lust for Life", Iggy Pop "Walk on the Wild Side", Lou Reed "Bohemian Rhapsody", Queen "London Calling", The Clash "I Wanna be Sedated", Ramones
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 11, 2019 22:26:34 GMT
Yet another side of the 70s ..........the story song, there were all kinds in all genres. This was one of the best - it's detail evoking The Kinks and in it's very best line, a pop Dylan "She looked just like her mother.........if there could be........... another" - and this great song has no chorus.
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Post by cherry68 on Jan 11, 2019 23:03:04 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 12, 2019 12:11:04 GMT
What were the 70s but a decade of genres - glam, Prog, Disco, Metal, Punk, Funk, Post-Punk, New Wave, Singer-Singwriters etc. That lead to the birth of the genre put-down song. This one of the first and one of the wittiest by a band known for wit, mocking not just the genre but more importantly - the genre's audience specifically......people still borrow this move today to remove themselves from musical scenes (see Arctic Monkey's Fake Takes Of San Francisco for one).
They got 2.50 to go and see The Clash....
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 13, 2019 12:11:19 GMT
The flipside of our best covers thread is the obscure original that was quickly covered:
In the 60s people covered mostly famous songs or some standard set of repeatedly established songs (blues songs or folk songs often etc) but in the 70s what became way more common was what should you cover now? The MC5, Stooges, Dolls, Velvets all got covered in the 70s because people now deemed them cool to cover and more importantly far more obscure bands than them got covered quickly too - Blondie famously covered this less than 2 years since the original, and it helped both bands - although by the time the Nerves got their relative fame it was post their breakup.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 13, 2019 15:23:25 GMT
Another side to 70s music is the song that is taken to mean something else. Phil Lynott wrote this song that is about Ireland many years ago, but that somehow speaks to the troubles there now and was taken that way - Lynott, a Black Irish outsider is writing a song here about being an outsider - it works on a lot of levels - the guitar playing speaks even more than the words.
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Post by stephen on Jan 13, 2019 19:08:38 GMT
I’ll limit it to one song per musician—otherwise, The Boss would take at least half the slots himself and Bob and Warren the other half.
1. “Jungleland” ~ Bruce Springsteen (greatest song of all time) 2. “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” ~ Warren Zevon 3. “Shelter from the Storm” ~ Bob Dylan 4. “Take Me Home, Country Roads” ~ John Denver 5. “American Tune” ~ Paul Simon 6. “Who Knows Where the Time Goes?” ~ Fairport Convention 7. “We’ve Only Just Begun” ~ The Carpenters 8. “Somebody to Love” ~ Queen 9. “Layla” ~ Derek and the Dominos 10. “My My Hey Hey” ~ Neil Young 11. “The Man Who Sold the World” ~ David Bowie 12. “Riders on the Storm” ~ The Doors 13. “Tiny Dancer” ~ Elton John 14. “I Will Always Love You” ~ Dolly Parton 15. “Landslide” ~ Fleetwood Mac 16. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” ~ Gordon Lightfoot 17. “On the Border” ~ Al Stewart 18. “Seasons in the Sun” ~ Terry Jacks 19. “Here’s to You” ~ Joan Baez 20. “American Pie” ~ Don McLean
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 14, 2019 14:45:03 GMT
Not a huge fan of 70s Who (love their 60 stuff though and I do still like the 70s albums) but they did something here that was impressive - best non-album song of the decade and there were lots of contenders for this crown too. This great 1970 track cheekily references 60s touchstones (Dylan, Beatles, Leary) and had one of their very best punk rock lines too - "look at my face, ain't this a smile"
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 15, 2019 15:00:58 GMT
Another trend - writing about the past (the 60s or 50s specifically), this is one of the best:
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 15, 2019 20:14:08 GMT
Beloved 70s song - beloved by PTA of course too. Seriously - play this at a party and watch how many people will say "I love this song!"
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 16, 2019 13:54:36 GMT
If The Who made arguably the best non album single of the 70s then the Only Ones made some of the best B-sides. This one, a scathing and humorous assessment of his domestic situation. Here he is referring to his wife's love for him as "morbid hysteria".........still married btw. Separate the artist from the Art, right?
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Post by themoviesinner on Jan 16, 2019 17:30:32 GMT
Random order:
"Year Of The Cat" by Al Stewart "Overkill" by Motorhead "Layla" by Derek And The Dominos "Stargazer" by Rainbow "Child In Time" by Deep Purple "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin "Child Of The Universe" by Barclay James Harvest "Lunar Sea" by Camel "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan "Cygnus X-1 Book II Hemispheres" by Rush "Emerald" by Thin Lizzy "Cecilia" by Simon & Garfunkel "The Ripper" by Judas Priest "Echoes" by Pink Floyd "In Trance" by Scorpions "Circle Of Hands" by Uriah Heep "Starless" by King Crimson "Children Of The Grave" by Black Sabbath "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen "Dust In The Wind" by Kansas
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