# What is THE quintessential 70's song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2016, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263 "2016-03-08T06:36:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/81 "2016-03-09T04:04:06Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Jim Stafford [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyjlxIcu8AM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyjlxIcu8AM)šŸ†’ ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/82 "2016-03-09T04:12:57Z")
Wildfire Let Your Love Flow If You Could Read My Mind ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/83 "2016-03-09T04:16:09Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > And the king of them all: Seasons In The Sun. We have another winner! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/84 "2016-03-09T04:16:52Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > And the king of them all: Seasons In The Sun. Nope. ā€œEscape (The Pina Colada Song),ā€ every copy of which should be tracked down, smashed into pieces, and then shoveled into a raging blast furnace! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/85 "2016-03-09T04:17:15Z")
My nomination is ā€œNice to be With Youā€ by Gallery. First one that popped into my head when I saw the question. I also considered ā€œLove Will Keep Us Togetherā€ by the Captain and Tenille. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/86 "2016-03-09T04:44:54Z")
ā€œUncle Albert/Admiral Halseyā€ ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/87 "2016-03-09T04:45:45Z")
What would the 70s be without ā€œI am Womanā€ by Helen Reddy? So weā€™re going BAD in this thread I take it? ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/88 "2016-03-09T05:26:45Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > What would the 70s be without ā€œI am Womanā€ by Helen Reddy? > So weā€™re going BAD in this thread I take it? pssttā€¦see post 48 šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/89 "2016-03-09T06:32:44Z")
> [@rock\_party](#): > > Lovin You - Minnie Ripperton > [@terentii](#): > > ā€œEscape (The Pina Colada Song)ā€ Itā€™s an official tie. mic dropped. That weak-ass guitar lick played to death in Pina Coloda is enough to make someone have a non-stop brain aneurysm. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/90 "2016-03-09T06:54:03Z")
ā€œClap For the Wolfmanā€ by The Guess Who, to get the Fifties revival thing the Seventies had for a while. ā€œOur Houseā€ by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and ā€œKid Charlemagneā€ by Steely Dan, for all the people who used to paint the face before they joined the human race. ā€œThe Revolution Will Not Be Televisedā€ by Gil Scott-Heron, because it was, and a lot of people were frightened, and we got a whole lot of movies out of it. Eh. Nothing else comes to mind as quintessential. I mainly put ā€œOur Houseā€ in because I canā€™t listen to it without seeing that soft-focus warmly-lit brown style which is perhaps the most quintessentially Seventies thing of all. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/91 "2016-03-09T10:31:45Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > ā€œOur Houseā€ by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and ā€œKid Charlemagneā€ by Steely Dan, for all the people who used to paint the face before they joined the human race. CS&N did ā€œOur Houseā€?!?!? ā€¦in all honesty I had no idea. Actually 'Iā€™ve never had any idea who sang that :eek: ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/92 "2016-03-09T11:49:28Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > CS&N did ā€œOur Houseā€?!?!? > > ā€¦in all honesty I had no idea. Actually 'Iā€™ve never had any idea who sang that :eek: That was Madness ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/93 "2016-03-09T14:08:12Z")
> [@rock\_party](#): > > The seventies were rough and rag tag hard banging metal, mod and groovy hip, saccharine sweet and schmaltzy ā€¦so one song canā€™t define the decade > > Bohemian Rhapsody > Band on the Run > Lovin You Minnie Ripperton I canā€™t believe that I forgot ā€œBand on the Runā€! A great 1970s song! ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/94 "2016-03-09T14:14:59Z")
Sylviaā€™s Mother. ---
**Author:** ![Paegan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/258eb7/32.png) [@Paegan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paegan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/95 "2016-03-09T14:23:31Z")
Layla (Derek and the Dominos) Witchy Woman (Eagles) Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (Traffic) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/96 "2016-03-09T14:25:38Z")
Theme from Taxi Theme from Shaft ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/97 "2016-03-09T14:27:44Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > CS&N did ā€œOur Houseā€?!?!? > > ā€¦in all honesty I had no idea. Actually 'Iā€™ve never had any idea who sang that :eek: They did, ā€œ[Our house](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZtJWJe_K_w) is a very very very fine houseā€, two cats in the yard, etc. Madness did, ā€œ[Our house](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXA6CLTDekw), in the middle of our streetā€. was our castle and our keep, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/98 "2016-03-09T14:30:10Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Theme from Shaft Shut your mouth! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/99 "2016-03-09T16:03:06Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > ā€œBorn to Runā€ Yeppers. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263/100 "2016-03-09T16:40:36Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > ā€œBorn to Runā€ > [@RTFirefly](#): > > Yeppers. I have to disagree. While certainly a '70s song, as a New Jersey teenager in the _ **'80s** _ I wanted to get the hell out of that state. Nothing uniquely '70s about that sentiment. šŸ˜ƒ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-quintessential-70s-song/748263.md?page=6)