Let’s keep raising money for Dems.
I just got tagged to do a Seven Awesome Songs From the 70s in Seven Days thing on Facebook. What would your choices be?
I feel that there are several categories that need to appear in such a list: (1) a song with a flute, (2) a Laurel Canyon-type singer-songwriter song, (3) a Philly soul song, (4) a punk or proto-punk song, (5) a deep soul or funk song. What else?
(I’m sticking to radio hits for my list, so nothing too too obscure.)
Ryan
Starman!
Jerry
There’s only one way to start that list: The Stooges, “1970”
Shana
Flute? Aqualung?
Elizabelle
Prom songs? “Knights in White Satin.”
Twas ubiquitous.
how42itous
Crime of the Century, Supertramp
Bill E Pilgrim
I think if you go with Sly Stone you can cover all five in one.
I’m sort of kidding. Living in Laurel Canyon would be covered, which is close but not what you prescribed exactly. Also not Philly I guess, but Sly was definitely proto lots of stuff, though not really punk.
Doug!
@Shana:
I was thinking Spill The Wine or It Never Rains in Southern California or something like that.
OzarkHillbilly
Something from Pink Floyd. Gotta have something from Pink Floyd.
trollhattan
@Elizabelle:
Technically a ’60s song.
The decade had such a span of music it can’t be summarized by seven songs, but a challenge is a challenge. I’d start with “Stairway to the Dark Side of God Save the Queen” And you’ll need a Ramones song–“Sheena is a Punk Rocker” would be a good choice.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Elizabelle: …and the slithy toad
raven
My friends sister is the Moody Blues flute player.
This is the Floyd cover band my brother manages.
Larryb
Too many to count: Blondie, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Actual mens’ fashion (I still mourn my swede/patent leather platform hush puppies). The only negative was disco.
narya
Bruuuuuuce! Preferably something from “Darkness.”
pacem appellant
I was in diapers in the 70s, but my uncle’s Pink Floyd cassettes formed my musical tastes even as my H.S. peers got into that Seattle sound. “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” seems apropos. For poppier fair, how about “Brandy” by the OHW Looking Glass? You can keep it classy with “Yesterday” by some band that was named after insects.
raven
I gave up on all this shit when they made us sit down at and Airplane show. Commander Cody, New Riders, the Dead and Asleep at the Wheel for this boy.
Rex
Cross-Eyed Mary has the superior flute, IMO, but Aqualung is the better known song. Cross-Eyed Mary got plenty of radio play though.
Nunca El Jefe
No Black Sabbath? For shame
Ddaann
“Aqualung” contains no flute whatsoever.
DCrefugee
@Shana:
Re: Aqualung: “eyeing little girls with bad intent”
A lyric for the times…
divF
Melting Pot – Booker T. and the M.G.’s.
ETA: Here is the link.
RK
A song with a flute? Why not a song with an oboe?
Trump in 2 weeks
raven
This is actually a very good book about this sun=bject
Night Moves: Pop Music in the Late ’70s Paperback – July 17, 2000
by Don Breithaupt (Author), Jeff Breithaupt (Author)
Hungry Joe
HELP SOLVE A MYSTERY!
I set a mouse trap for a very annoying mouse that had set up camp in our kitchen. Put the trap on a counter. This morning I found the trap sprung and the apparently untouched mouse doornail-dead on the kitchen table. There is about a three-foot gap between the counter and the table. So:
Did the trap just snap shut, causing the mouse to leap (three feet!) in terror, land on the table, and die of heart attack?
Did the trap just snap shut on its own (it happens) and the mouse died later, or maybe earlier, of natural causes?
Did the dog or the cat finally do some work around here, catch and kill the mouse (without any signs of conflict?), and for some reason deposit it up on the table?
Or … ?
mr_gravity
No love for Disco?
ETA: Sad
ET
Sweet Home Alabama, Freebird, Hotel California, I Will Survive
raven
@DCrefugee: Here’s an interview about Norda from the Moddy Blues complete with Ian Anderson talking about her.
patrick II
A little more kindling on the fire:
Howard Stern show, 2006 from Cafe:
Howard Stern: Donald, seriously, you know about sexual predators and things like that. I mean uh…
Robin Quivers: You are one.
(laughter)
Donald Trump: [smiling, nodding] it’s true.
raven
@ET: Fuck the Eagles
germy
Conquistador
Procol Harum
1972
It got a ton of airplay when I was in high school and then it disappeared.
raven
@Hungry Joe: chasing down a hoodo there
hueyplong
Funny, I can’t remember the flute parts in Aqualung. They must be there, based on all the responses.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Heh, most of my ‘preferreds’ wouldn’t even be recognized by most
JPL
@Hungry Joe: When the trap shut, the trap moved enough to propel the mouse in the air. It then landed on it’s head and died.
I have no idea. Are you sure that you don’t have two mice?
john fremont
Some AM radio country i.e. Donna Fargo, Tom T Hall, Crystal Gayle, Ronnie Millsap etc.
Some 70’s horn band stuff Chicago, Ides of March “She’s My Vehicle”, Crusaders “Street Life”etc.
germy
Anything by 1970s Harry Nilsson
RK
It committed suicide after seeing your kitchen decor?
realbtl
@Hungry Joe: HRC making sure the Vince Foster death-ray still worked?
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
So this happened. This is fucking terrifying. I fear we aren’t going to make it through without people needlessly dying. Here’s what I had to say on Facebook about it:
A “protest”? These guys aren’t “protesting” anything. This is intimidation, not protest. What these guys are saying is: “Here we are. We could shoot you. We aren’t going to–this not time, at least. And if the election goes the way we want it to, maybe we won’t ever have to shoot you. But we can find you any old time we want. And if things don’t turn out the way we hope they will, well, how much do you really think your right to vote is worth? Is it worth your lives? ’Cause it might turn out that that’s what it’ll cost. Now, you just think about that, why don’t you?”
That’s what these shitbags are saying. It’s as clear as day. It’s obscene. It’s un-American. It’s–and I know this word gets thrown around a lot–fascist. This is what Donald Trump has brought out into the open. I know some of my friends are voting for Trump. And I don’t think this is what you are like, and I don’t think you want to see this. But this campaign is really stoking people like these assclowns to ever more unhinged fury. If Clinton wins, and it looks like she’s going to, these people are going to lose their shit. That scares me. I wish to heaven above Trump or Pence or somebody would tamp this shit down, but I think Trump is beyond that now. This is dangerous, ugly, scary shit we’re dealing with. I don’t know how we’re going to get through this election without seeing people killed, but I pray we make it somehow.
Marmot
Early electronic dance! Empire State Human by the Human League.
redshirt
@Hungry Joe: I suspect the Russians.
germy
@Marmot: 1970s Kraftwerk were pointing the way as well…
Matt McIrvin
Samantha actually was putting together a 70s-songs playlist a while back, and my contributions were “Don’t Worry About The Government” by Talking Heads, “Train In Vain” by The Clash, and Devo’s cover of “Satisfaction.”
hueyplong
You want radio friendly, so I’ll try these five:
1. Locomotive Breath – Jethro Tull
2. Heart of Gold – Neil Young
3. Wake Up, Everybody – Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
4. Starman – David Bowie
5. Jungle Boogie or Hollywood Swinging – Kool & the Gang
mike in dc
So, 2 more Trump accusers today. WaPo has a woman whose story is literally that Trump grabbed her p***y at a nightclub in the 90s. Gloria Allred is holding a press conference on behalf of the other woman at 3:30 this afternoon. I don’t think there’s enough time before the election to hit Cosby level(60+), but we might get halfway there. Ultimately Trump may have done this stuff hundreds of times, like Jimmy Savile in the UK(albeit slightly less awful than a child molester like Savile).
DanR2
Most of the best flute stuff was in the 60s.
“Bungle in the Jungle” Jethro Tull 1974
“Duncan” by Paul Simon has some flute — 1972
pacem appellant
@Hungry Joe: Is there any trauma to the carcass? Mouse traps leave a mark. If so, then I suspect one of your pets took the carcass from the trap to the table. Probably the cat. She probably thinks she’s helping you learn how to hunt. Gotta practice on the dead mouse before you’re ready to move up to live prey.
NR
New Monmouth poll of Indiana: Trump +4.
Too much to hope for that they could lose Pence’s home state?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
This person describes himself as a “correspondent’ for Time magazine, so I guess a straight reporter, not a pundit or even an analysts.
Iowa Old Lady
@Hungry Joe: There is no such thing as mouse. There is only mice.
germy
Temptations
Ball of Confusion
“Vote for me and I’ll set you free!”
laura
@Jerry: I’m with you on this one!
But would also add fortunate son and living for the city.
NotMax
One could overflow the list with just Nilsson and Warren Zevon.
RK
A paranoid schizophrenic looks calm and reasoned compared to Trump.
Rex
There isn’t any flute in Aqualung. I was confusing it with the instrumental stomp in the middle of Locomotive Breath (another decent nominee for song of the times.).
NotMax
@germy
“I’m the operator of your pocket calculator.”
Chyron HR
@NR:
Probably–after all, Clinton is going to lose worse than McGovern and Mondale put together.
WereBear
@raven: Thanks, on my list!
It was an incredibly diverse time, musically, and people with differing tastes could live in a different audio world from each other.
germy
@NotMax:
Truer words were never spoken.
Jewish Steel
I remember 70’s hits radio being primarily:
An ELO song
A Paul McCartney song
The Year of the Cat
petesh
Seven Days by R. Wood? [not really] OK, I’m going with the AM Radio ON
Bohemian Rhapsody, Band on the Run, B-B-Benny and the Jets, Love to Love You Baby (extended mix) Walk on the Wild Side, Don’t Fear the Reaper, Pretty Vacant
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Spaceship Orion
Just for you
redshirt
@Iowa Old Lady: Heh. Tell it. I had a single mouse slip inside my house under a storm door. I saw her, she saw me, and ran out. Then she tried again the next night, and the night after. So I got some traps. For 15 days straight, I caught a mouse on my front porch. 4 died, 11 relocated far away. And then I went 5 days with no more mice and I thought the war was over. Alas! Two more the past two days.
Lots of mice!
raven
Amazing Rhythm Aces The End Is Not In Sight Live
psycholinguist
You better have a Dog Damn Tom Petty song on there.
RSA
I’d include a song from The Cars, either their first album or Candy-O. I wasn’t a huge fan when I was in high school, but I think they were very influential on pop music, and it’s still listenable without sounding too dated today.
raven
Why Can’t I Be Satisfied? by: The Amazing Rhythm Aces
Cacti
Ben Carson asks Morning Joe to cut the mic of uppity Katty Kay for disagreeing with him.
Fox’s Richard Grenell suggests that MSNBC’s Katy Tur slept her way to her position.
The Trumpkins are really letting their inner caveman out in the final few weeks. Keep it up fellas! :-)
dedc79
For flute – Skating Away – Jethro Tull
For soul – Inspiration Information – Shuggie Otis
For punk – See No Evil – Television (or Marquee Moon)
burnspbesq
Seven awesome somgs from the Seventies?
“Kid Charlemagne”
“American Tune”
“Watching the Detectives”
“Texas 1947”
“I’m So Bored with the U.S.A.”
“Mississippi You’re on My Mind”
“Don’t Hang Up Those Dancin’ Shoes”
schrodinger's cat
Mama, I just killed a man..
Anoniminous
@Jewish Steel:
I remember 70s radio being primarily disco. Which is why I stopped listening.
Hal
I just read a friend of a friend post on Facebook that’s currently at 55 likes and counting about why this person is still voting for Trump. He was asked by someone so of course he had to reply to the world. In summary; emails, benghazi, “men dressed as women trying to use the same bathroom as my granddaughter” perplexingly the Clinton Foundation taking donations from foreign countries that kill gays and benghazi. Oh, and Trump said a bad word 11 years ago, big deal. This person is teaching his granddaughter to just ignore sexist language and be tough, and I’m guessing he thinks she will be fine. So when some entitled asshole thinks it’s ok to sexually assault a woman, the granddaughter can thank grandpa for being in love with a racist, bigoted, nitwit.
Pogonip
@DanR2: Flute? You want flute with your S & G? “El Condor Pasa.”
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
Any tech gurus know how to set Google to be the default search engine on Internet Explorer 11? I’ve tried the advice on several different pages and run into dead ends every time. This is a work computer and I have a feeling it’s due to something being blocked over which I have no control.
1. Microsoft page says to go to an add-on page where I can install Google Search (did that), then click on “Set as Default Search Engine” (no such button).
2. Google.com had a “click here to install Google as your default”. I went there. First thing it said was “Click on OPEN below” with a big arrow. The big arrow points to… a blank space. No “OPEN” button.
3. Another Google page is telling me to Click on Tools->Internet Options->General->Search. There is no “Search” panel on the General tab.
I hate Bing. I hate it almost as much as that stupid paper clip, which fortunately is no longer part of my life experience. I would love to live in a Microsoft-free world.
NotMax
@germy
Come to think of it, would give Steely Dan a more than honorable mention as well.
Shell
Cavemen were more respectful.
Pogonip
@Hungry Joe: You can probably eliminate option 3.
My guess is you killed mouse #2 (or #200) and his buddy or buddies is or are still out there.
TriassicSands
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
It may be legal, but it’s not “fine.”
There is nothing fine about using guns to intimidate people and let’s face it, intimidation is often, if not usually, the point of open carry gun nuts, much more so that theoretical protection.
If Clinton wins, I hope her choices for the SCOTUS will return sanity to the gun debate and remove the personal right to carry firearms. Sadly, I suspect the Scalia-led fascist SCOTUS majority has made it all but impossible, in the short run, to interpret the 2nd Amendment in a sane and rational way. To do so would require gun owners to voluntarily turn in at least some of their guns or law enforcement officials to confiscate them. I’d expect that to lead to significant bloodshed.
WaterGirl
@raven: Why all the Eagles hate? This isn’t the first hate the eagles comment at BJ this week.
germy
Knock Knock Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door….
“Mama, take this badge offa meee… I cain’t use it anymooooore”
Pogonip
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Aw, cheer up. He’s just trying to throw you into a tizzy. He won’t actually bother you. Liberal-frightening is a popular, if mean, sport in many Deplorable areas. Get some black folks together and go join the CCW protest. That guy will be so startled he’ll go home and take his sidearm with him.
Shana
@raven: “Don Henley Must Die” by Mojo Nixon.
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
@WaterGirl: digya ever see “The Big Lebowski” and how The Dude gets thrown outta a cab for criticizing “the fucking eagles”?
RK
As to the dead mouse, I’m going to say Colonel Mustard with a wrench in the kitchen.
Mike J
Large overlap with punk/proto punk, but I’d add a power pop category. September Gurls, Good Girls Don’t, Shake Some Action, Bad Reputation (The dB’s song), Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve), Hangin’ on the Telephone (either Nerves or Blondie), Starry Eyes..
Pogonip
The 70’s playlist should include the classic “Where’s Walter?” By the Dastardly Squirrels.
germy
@Mike J: Power pop… The Raspberries started out strong with “Go All The Way” but then collapsed under the weight of their own cheesiness.
Achard
Parliament-Funkadelic needs a track in the list somewhere, but I can’t choose just one.
WaterGirl
@Ceci n’est pas mon nym: How about uninstalling Bing? Then you won’t need to set a default, there will only be one.
P.S. Sharing your BING HATE. I just uninstalled it on all my clients computers where the employees didn’t know what they were doing and clicked on something that installed bing. Gone forever, just like that!
raven
@WaterGirl: Because they suck and their fucking manager, Irvin Azzoff, wo used to own Blytham Lighting Company on Green Street is a total scumbag. Joe Walsh is cool. Rad “Star Making Machinery” abut the Coammander, you’ll see a real band!
“The record business may have changed a bit since the 1970s when this book was written, but not so much that this book isn’t still a must-read for anyone dreaming of or on their way to being involved in any aspect of the major label record business. And it’s a great, fun and very informative read for anyone interested in how the major label record business really works.
This book is fact filled, but wrapped in drama, humor and poignancy as we see how real, talented musicians deal with the ups and downs of the business side of rock stardom. It is also a good view of pop culture in the 1970s.
The author takes us inside the music business, up close, giving us a blow-by-blow, true-life account of a year in the life of the band Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, a mid-tier rock band poised on the brink of greatness. It’s a story of drama, comedy, pathos and heartbreak as we see the band members work their way through (and be worked by) the “star-making machinery” of the record business.
We are taken into the recording studio numerous times and see what a major label recording session is like and how it feels to be a musician involved in it all. We go into meetings with record company executives. We see the jealousies, the in-fighting, the record executive double-dealing, the hopes and dreams and disappointments of the rock business.
This book is a joy to read. It is entertaining, informative and real. Don’t sign a record contract without reading it!”
DanR2
@Pogonip: I forgot about that one!
Pogonip
@RK: You win!
raven
@Shana: Yes!
Mai.naem.mobile
For the flute song – Justin Hayward – Forever Autumn and the Laurel Canyon song – a Fleetwood Mac song – Never Forget??? or Don’t Stop Thinking.
Mike J
@germy: I almost threw that in. Bigger hit than the dB’s but I like Bad Reputation better.
WaterGirl
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: Nope, never saw that movie. Would that explain why there is all the eagles hate, or does it just explain that the hate can be dangerous?
Hal
@redshirt: It must be mouse season. I came home from the oral surgeon yesterday and was sitting on my couch when a mouse ran across the living room and into the kitchen. Saw him twice more that night stealing food from the dogs bowl. I set a trap in the basement stairwell and as of this morning, more likely sometime last night, mickey is no longer with us.
I’ve never seen any signs of mice in this house at all, so I’m hoping he got in from outside. 8 outside/stray cats in this neighborhood, one of which caught and killed a squirrel when it was barely out of kitten stage and there’s mice?
Hungry Joe
@raven: Love the Aces. And thanks for the link to “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine” the other day. It inspired me to play the whole “Electric Music for the Mind and Body” album for the first time in a few years. For my money, Country Joe & the Fish were THE best psychedelic rock band. The Fish Chant and “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag” were novelty bits, and the Fish got tagged as fun-loving goofballs — but man, they put out some gorgeous, spacey, hard-driving stuff. And Joe’s voice can be mesmerizing.
“Star Making Machinery” is a classic. Cody & the boys were another underrated band, in part (like the Fish) because they had a novelty hit — “Hot Rod Lincoln” — that didn’t really reflect their true sound and what they could do. I interviewed George Frayne (the Commander) one time. Very sharp guy.
Shana
@Rex: I stand corrected. I was thinking “Locomotive Breath” but typed “Aqualung.”
Shell
“Smokin’ In The Boys Room”
geg6
Fuck the flute shit. I came up in the 70s (born 1958) and if anything with a flute came on, we either turned it off or relentlessly mocked it. No one I knew or know considered flute some sort of marker of 70s music. A song featuring a moog would be much more apropos. And before you even go there, no, Jethro Tull was as much of a joke then as he is now.
I don’t know what a Laurel Canyon songwriter is, but I think that maybe Jackson Browne might be what you’re hinting at here: Redneck Friend (1973)
As for Philly soul, The Stylistics’ Betcha By Golly Wow (1972)
For funk, Parliament’s Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) (1975)
And my favorite category (and thus my most difficult choice), Down in the Tube Station at Midnight (1978) by The Jam. I didn’t want to go with anything obvious and I like this one because it is a slam at the skinheads and rightwing punks.
raven
@Hungry Joe: Oh yea, Barry Melton was awesome on axe! Joe played at the 10 Anniversary of the Wall and it was quite a site seeing him on top of the Wall with the 1st Cavalry Band!
Country Joe & The Fish – Rock Coast Blues
raven
@Hungry Joe: George played at this little joint outside of Athens some time back. He actively solicited herb from the crowd during his break. We shot the shit with him and he said he’s moved to Saratoga to get away from the California cigarette laws!
One of the Airmen is a prominent physicist, right?
Pogonip
@Hal: Yes, the mice come in when it gets cold.
Shana
@Mike J: Holy crap! Those are ALL among my most favorite songs from the era. Are you from the Chicago area, or go to U of I in the late 70s/early 80s? The dBs BTW are among the very best of that era’s alternative pop.
Oh, just remembered, Marshall Crenshaw!
raven
Country Joe & The Fish – Here We Are Again – Full Album
totally underrated.
sukabi
@JPL: mouse 1 murdered mouse 2, sprung the trap and hauled mouse 2 onto the table to present you with a puzzle.
raven
@Shana: I lived in Urbana from 69 to 84. My ex was one of the Record Service folks.
trollhattan
@raven:
Did you know Barry Melton went on to be a prominent California public defender? Quite the guy.
RK
And threw up in your mouth a little?
WereBear
@raven: That is a great one.
JJ
Parliament. Up for the Downstroke
raven
@trollhattan: Yep
raven
@trollhattan: He smokes Donavans Reef, Chicago boy if I remember.
sukabi
@germy: which leads to All Along the Watchtower… but that’s a bit too early time wise.
Shana
@raven: Ah, Record Service, I remember it well. Used to go from Larry Grossberg’s History of Rock and Roll class directly there to get some of the stuff he talked about. Hands down the best class I ever took there.
I went back to C-U several years ago for a Vertebrats reunion concert and Campus Town has sure changed. It used to be so vibrant and now it’s just crappy chain restaurants and empty storefronts. Where do the students go?
Shana
@RK: Hell no, Marshall Crenshaw is fabulous!
bemused
Minnesota is having a yuuge mice invasion, so large a problem the Star Trib reported on it. After a few weeks and over 30 mice caught in traps in the garage, we think the worst is over.
OzarkHillbilly
@mike in dc:
I wouldn’t be so sure. He’s already on record lusting after a 10 yr old girl.
raven
@Shana: Yea, I lived in an upstairs apartment above In Stiches, The Leather Shop and Moy’s Laundry. I was up there 10 years ago for the 40th reunion of the Red Lion and they had the 50th last week. I was a House of Chin Regular, if you got here earliest you could put the chairs down for George and get a “Dead Beat Special” bowl of rice and gravy! I’ve been gone since 84 but I keep in touch, there is a Record Service Face book page.
trollhattan
@Mike J:
A Flamin’ Groovies song!–not many know them (a little ahead of their time). Power pop has to include something from the Stiff Records crew–“So it Goes” “Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll” and…hard to narrow down a Costello choice so I’ll toss in the first cut of the first album, “Welcome to the Working Week.”
Hungry Joe
@raven: Trollhattan is right: Fish guitarist Barry Melton became the head of the Public Defender’s office for Yolo County (Sacramento); I think he passed the California bar without ever attending law school — just read law books and took the test. From Commander Cody, rhythm guitarist John Tichy became the chair of the Civil Engineering department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The physicist-guitarist was Queen’s Brian May, who got a Ph.D. in Astrophysics and worked on one of the Mars landers.
raven
@Hungry Joe: I saw em in Bloomington, Il the night Oakland won the series. They wouldn’t play until the game was over but, when the A’s won, what a fucking jam!
raven
Damn, Crystal Blues.
raven
@Hungry Joe: Wiki say no Chicago!
WaterGirl
@raven: Some of their music was background to a a few years of my life, so I have a soft spot for it. I had no idea about the scumbag manager.
raven
@WaterGirl: His place was in the right next to the DeLuxe.
negative 1
Question for all. Need a new AT&T compatible smartphone, which is the best from a labor standpoint? I realize that cobalt mining is very bad but they all use the parts, however Foxconn sticks out for its horrific labor conditions, so no Apple. Any good ones, or what would be the best of the bad bunch?
PST
I love Tull, but Traffic deserves consideration for the flute slot too, maybe Low Spark of High Heeled Boys. You might consider Thick as a Brick — not a bad description of Donald Trump — which in the intro features some cheerful flute melody and the lyric, “your sperm’s in the gutter, you love’s in the sink.”
raven
@Shana: Me and my dog at the Union, summer 70.
piratedan
@germy: actually, no…
but I would agree “Go All The Way” has an awesome 70’s do the 60’s sound to it
For your Country Rock – I would suggest either the Eagles – “Take it Easy” or Firefall’s – “You Are The Woman”
For the Disco nod – Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff” or Anita Ward’s – “Ring My Bell”
for the Prog rockers – ELO’s – Can’t Get It Out of my head” or Alan Parson Project’s – “Eye In the Sky”
on the country side – John Denver’s – “Take Me Home Country Roads” or perhaps Jerry Reed’s “Westbound and Down” (gives you your cinematic nod to Smoky and the Bandit)
for straight rock and roll – I would concur with “Don’t Fear The Reaper” or if you need to keep it AM Radio relevant – “Fox on The Run” by The Sweet
for FM Album stuff – Pink Floyd’s “Run Like Hell” or Led Zeppelin’s – Black Dog
for Pop – It would suggest Frampton’s – Do You Feel Like I Do or Elton John’s – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road…
on the R&B side – Stevie Wonders – Living for the city or perhaps Earth Wind and Fire’s – September
and you still have artists like Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Barry Manilow, Bruce Springsteen to think about too
raven
@WaterGirl: Irving Azoff was a punk when he attended U of I, too
raven
@piratedan: Fuck the Eagles. . .and LBJ!
piratedan
@Shana: I agree, he’s bleeping awesome :-)
Iowa Old Lady
I misread this as AT&T combustible. I think Samsung makes those.
LeonS
One of my highlights of the 70s: Frank Zappa.
sherparick
Gee, I think because they have been so relentlessly overplayed the last 40 years, almost all the great songs of the seventies are hated as much at they are love. Also, this is the decade where Rock split into variouis genre and one loved it or hated (or later when with a group of people you wanted to be cool with all stated they hated “Stairway to Heaven,” you would join and be stuck with the position for life). I tended to like Folk and Country Rock, so my songs will lean in that direction.
1. Tangled up in Blue – Dylan 1973
2. City of New Orleans – Steve Goodman 1972 (cover by Arlo Guthrie and Willie Nelson
3. One More Chance – Fairport Convention and Sandy Denny (Because of Sandy Denny’s voice)
4. Hotel California – Eagles
5. Year of the Cat – Al Stewart
6. Whole Lotta Love – Led Zepplein
7. Respectable – The Rolling Stones
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Rex
Not one mention of Elton John? He dominated the 70s pop charts. Crocodile Rock, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Levon, Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting, Honky Cat, Daniel, Tiny Dancer, Candle in the Wind, Rocket Man, Bennie and the Jets, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Philadelphia Freedom, The Bitch is Back….the guy was a hit machine from 1970-75.
Taking ELO for the prog spot over other stalwarts of the era like Yes, King Crimson and Rush just seems wrong…but ELO probably got more radio play. Rush’s 2112 Overture into Temples of Syrinx was a watershed moment for taking prog toward the mainstream. Pink Floyd offers a good prog/rock crossover option, especially if the track selected is off of Animals.
trollhattan
@sherparick:
“Black Dog” is a safer choice than “Stairway” and has the advantage of being released in the ’70s. Just sayin’ ;-P
Anybody mention “Suffragette City” yet? “Psycho Killer”? (Or Talking Heads song of your choice.)
James E Powell
Isley Brothers
Bad Company
Aerosmith
Alice Cooper
Uriah Heep
Flute song – House on the Hill by Audience, a late night FM number
raven
@Rex: Tumbleweed was his best by far, especially when the CD has madman on it!
Rex
For Zeppelin, I’d have to lobby for something a little later in their repertoire like Song Remains the Same or Kashmir…something that shows their growth as musicians through the 1970s. Another prog/rock crossover would be something off of Presence like Nobody’s Fault But Mine or Achilles’ Last Stand.
Kurt Heine
Here are a few nuggets, albeit somewhat obscure (and yet most were minor hits): Oh Happy Man!, Alan Price;
Hollywood, Elliott Murphy; Wild In The Streets, Garland Jeffreys; Tame The Lion, Emitt Rhodes; 4 In The Morning,
Jesse Colin Young.
Enjoy your weekend everyone!
Rex
@raven: It pains me to admit that Elton John is a gaping hole in my music collection. I’ve decided to remedy that with a visit to Amazon just now (only $6 to $7 for most of his CDs!). Thanks for the recommendation.
Uncle Ebeneezer
Hey BJ’ers! Tomorrow I’m headed back to visit New England for the first time in years (I grew up in Topsfield, MA.) Anyways, one day we plan to get downtown Boston (taking the train down) to walk around. Anyone have any suggestions for a good walking route to see some sights without having to pay a guide?
We don’t really care much about historical locations per se, but my wife adores charming streets and architecture etc. and has never been to Boston. Most of our trip will be up in North Shore and NH/VT for foliage drives, so this is the one day that will be more dedicated to city/sight-seeing. Let me know…I know there are several Bay State-ers here.
Cheers– Uncle Eb/John
raven
@Rex: Come Down in Time and Where to Now St Peter are awesome. And then there is the Cowboy songs!
raven
@Uncle Ebeneezer: You should repost this on a more recent thread,
The Golux
Flute songs:
40,000 Headmen (Traffic)
Nothing Is Easy (Tull); almost anything is better than Aqualung
Punk(ish):
Watching the Detectives (Elvis Costello). The bass part kills me every time.
WaterGirl
@raven: Deluxe! I haven’t thought about that place for a long time. I loved their fish sandwiches, and I don’t even like fish. Hard to believe I ate them with the raw onion, though. I hate raw onions, what was I thinking?
sloan
Hope I’m not too late for this thread but here are a couple of radio friendly 70s tunes I can listen to forever:
Tower of Power: So Very Hard To Go
Warren Zevon: Desperadoes Under The Eaves
Good luck with your list!
Jewish Steel
@Anoniminous: Oh, yeah. And after Saturday Night Fever, forget it. All Bee Gees all the time.