# Best songs of the seventies: nomination thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2013, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982 "2013-01-22T05:16:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/1 "2013-01-22T05:16:31Z")
As suggested by this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=679790). Post your nominations here and then we’ll have another thread to vote. The nominees from the other thread: Alison - Elvis Costello Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan Annie’s Song - John Denver Baba O’Riley - The Who Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty Band on the Run - Wings Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones Cool for Cats - Squeeze Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd Couldn’t Get It Right - Climax Blues Band Cruel to be Kind - Nick Lowe Deacon Blues - Steely Dan Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd Gloria - Patti Smith Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John Hanging on the Telephone - Blondie Heart of Glass - Blondie Here Comes the Weekend - Dave Edmunds Hotel California - Eagles I Do the Rock - Tim Curry I Want to Be Sedated - Ramones I Wish - Stevie Wonder Imagine - John Lennon Last Dance - Donna Summer Layla - Derek and the Dominos (Eric Clapton) Less Than Zero - Elvis Costello Life During Wartime - Talking Heads Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys - Traffic Marquee Moon - Television Melissa - Allman Brothers Band Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters - Elton John More Than a Feeling - Boston Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) - Tom Waits Piano Man - Billy Joel Rosalita - Bruce Springsteen Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin Station to Station - David Bowie Strawberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson Sunday Papers - Joe Jackson Suffragette City - David Bowie Surrender - Cheap Trick Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan Thirteen - Big Star Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen Transmission - Joy Division 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago Venus - Television Vincent - Don McLean Won’t Get Fooled Again - Who Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush Year of the Cat - Al Stewart You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone Disqualified: Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan - released in 1969 Eli’s Coming - Three Dog Night - released in 1969 The Look of Love - Dusty Springfield - released in 1967 You Won’t Go to Heaven - Is this supposed to be “You’ll Never Get to Heaven” by Dionne Warwick or “You Will Not Go to Heaven (Champaign, Illinois)” by Bob Dylan or something else? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/2 "2013-01-22T05:29:23Z")
American Pie-Don McLean ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/3 "2013-01-22T05:51:19Z")
Street Hassle - Lou Reed Personality Crisis - NY Dolls Shine A Light - The Stones Search and Destroy - The Stooges In My Hour of Darkness - Gram Parsons Rock Me On The Water - Jackson Browne “Heroes” - David Bowie Cortez The Killer - Neil Young Oh Child - The Five Stairsteps Just My Imagination - The Temptations Idiot Wind - Dylan Melissa - Allmans ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/4 "2013-01-22T05:59:08Z")
American Pie. I don’t see how you can get Vincent and leave out American Pie. To each his own I suppose. Layla, Stairway, Blinded By The Light, Only the Good Die Young. Really too many to choose. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/5 "2013-01-22T06:01:34Z")
A few thoughts to add to the list: Eye in the Sky - Alan Parsons Project Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting - Elton John Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder Barracuda - Heart Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees Lido Shuffle - Boz Skaggs Beth - Kiss Dust in the Wind - Kansas Suite Madame Blue - Styx Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/6 "2013-01-22T06:10:34Z")
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper by BOC. Yeah, the one with cowbell. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/7 "2013-01-22T06:23:33Z")
Some others in no particular order: Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye All Down the Line - The Rolling Stones Can’t You Hear Me Knocking? - The Rolling Stones Superstition - Stevie Wonder Ain’t Wasting Time No More - Allman Brothers Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols Badlands - Bruce Springsteen Working Class Hero - John Lennon Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/8 "2013-01-22T06:24:23Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Eye in the Sky - Alan Parsons Project Early 80s, wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/9 "2013-01-22T06:29:45Z")
What—no fusion jazz? No Stanley Clarke, no Al Di Meola or Jean-Luc Ponty? What about Zappa? Todd Rundgren? Side four of Seconds Out? I’ll plunk down both of my two cents on [School Days](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgWMiDMt0Bk). ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/10 "2013-01-22T06:52:20Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The Look of Love - Dusty Springfield - released in 1967 > > You Won’t Go to Heaven - Is this supposed to be “You’ll Never Get to Heaven” by Dionne Warwick or “You Will Not Go to Heaven (Champaign, Illinois)” by Bob Dylan or something else? For both songs, I was thinking of Bacharach. So, how do we narrow down the choices? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/11 "2013-01-22T06:58:59Z")
American Woman - The Guess Who Let it Be - the Beatles Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers Live and Let Die - Wings ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/12 "2013-01-22T07:01:58Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > For both songs, I was thinking of Bacharach. > > So, how do we narrow down the choices? For _The Look of Love_, I think [Sergio Mendez](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBykcgRe9ps), but that’s pre-1970 as well. Love the harmonies. I’ll second your question. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/13 "2013-01-22T07:05:49Z")
forgot to add: [Batuka](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbAO15rc8o)- Santana Best song ever. It even has cow bells. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/14 "2013-01-22T08:11:37Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > What—no fusion jazz? No Stanley Clarke, no Al Di Meola or Jean-Luc Ponty? What about Zappa? Todd Rundgren? Side four of Seconds Out? I’ll plunk down both of my two cents on [School Days](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgWMiDMt0Bk). You do realize you’re posting in the thread for nominating songs, right? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/15 "2013-01-22T08:13:08Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > So, how do we narrow down the choices? I’ll probably do a series of playoffs rather than a poll. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/16 "2013-01-22T10:31:30Z")
Aqualung - Jethro Tull Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Brain Damage - Pink Floyd Follow You Follow Me - Genesis Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull Lonesome Crow - The Scorpions Master of the Universe - Hawkwind Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra Scenes from an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel Song for America - Kansas War Pigs - Black Sabbath ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/17 "2013-01-22T10:57:46Z")
Kashmir by Led Zeppelin. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/18 "2013-01-22T11:10:08Z")
Nobody’s suggested _Abba_ yet? Let’s choose… _Take A Chance On Me_ ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/19 "2013-01-22T11:51:32Z")
Betcha By Golly Wow-- Stylistics You Make Me Feel Brand New-- Stylistics Sara Smile – Hall and Oates If You Don’t Know Me By Now-- Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes Have You Seen Her?-- Chi Lites Saturday In The Park-- Chicago 25 or 6 To 4-- Chicago Just My Imagination-- The Temptations Family Affair-- Sly and the Family Stone ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982/20 "2013-01-22T13:22:53Z")
Elton John, “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-of-the-seventies-nomination-thread/647982.md?page=2)