# Best #1 single of the year retrospective: 1975

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-1975/699780>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 28, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-1975/699780 "2014-09-28T15:50:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-1975/699780/101 "2014-10-04T18:39:50Z")

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> [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](#):
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> Now that’s an easy one: **David Bowie** - _Fame_.
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> Was it his first #1 hit single in the US then?

Yes his first of two, the second would be “Let’s Dance” eight years later in 1983.

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**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-1975/699780/102 "2014-10-24T16:17:14Z")

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I chose Pick Up The Pieces, but almost picked Lady Marmelade. Happy to see Black Water get props, though! This is the year I graduated high school.

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**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-1975/699780/103 "2015-02-01T00:41:09Z")

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This was the year I was too poor to drive for pleasure, so I was spared prolonged confinement with only an AM radio for sound ('65 Bug). Hidden blessing.

Nothing here rises to even the _concept_ of “liking” - a choice of being submerged in sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid is not really a choice…

Thankfully, I had invested in reel-to-reel…

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**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-1975/699780/104 "2015-02-05T04:02:07Z")

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> [@Pai325](#):
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> All of these decisions are too hard for me. I will be happy when we get another year or two into this where I won’t like so many songs…

For all that is sacred, please let this be irony.

'Cause, if it’s for real - well, I’m not going to live to see the outcome of a world dominated by tastes like this… :eek:

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