Here’s an interesting youtube link:
This guy has gone, year by year, to find the “Best of the Rest.” The above is for 1971. Look in his related videos for other years.
ETA @Skald: Can’t skeer me!
(@rest, whispering: You don’t think we’re on double-secret probation, do you?!)
Not unless there is a little-known codicil in the Straight Dope constitution which gives Skald the Rhymer unlimited power to preserve order in time of forum emergency. 
Thanks for the link, but I’m not sure I want to watch Chuck’s intervention. As I understand it he’s clean now, and has been clean for a decade or so. That’s some good news at least.
Negative, I’m talking about Chuckie—Chuck’s son.
My bad. Still don’t want to watch anyone’s intervention. Sounds like reality TV of the worst kind.
Warren Zevon was a hoot. Mad as all get out, but catchy. Anything from Excitable Boy gets the juices up and running.
Werewolves
Lawyers Guns and Money
Roland the Thompson Gunner
And then there’s Bruce.
Thunder Road.
Since the 70s were very nostalgic about the 30s, could you please bring those back too?
It’ll be especially apropos now that the economy is coming apart like a cardboard suitcase.