What's the "Seventies-est" song?

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I was gonna say “I want you back” by the Jackson 5, but Google says it was '69. Somehow it screams 70s to me.

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Bang a Gong - T Rex

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So, there are an awful lot of memorable songs mentioned here, both great and terrible, but I am surprised that there have been 240+ posts about songs of the 70’s and no mention yet of Bat out of Hell.

Came out in '77
Hugely popular then
Rarely heard now
Tragic ballad
One-niight stand + true love
Motorcycles

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Slow Ride by Foghat

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Written by Stevie Wonder for Chaka Khan…

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If that is the 70’est song, Meat Loaf’s 1980 movie, “Roadie”, may be the 70’est movie..

  • loads of 70’s character actors
  • several cameos by 70’s musicians/bands
  • loads of the kind of silly humor that was so prevalent in 70’s movies/tv shows
  • starring Meat Loaf, whose music, as you pointed out, was very 70’s
  • co-starring Kakie Hunter as the aspiring “world’s greatest” groupie for Alice Cooper
  • cocaine is referenced in a humorous manner, with the world’s worst narc detectives

It’s the 70’s put to film.

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Excellent example. That song is deeply and abidingly '70s.

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The album Bat Out of Hell is completely sui generis.

So i dont see how it could be indicative of an entire decade. In fact when they brought Todd Rundgren on board, he thought they were kidding and that the whole thing was insane. But, he then said “Sign me up!!”

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My favorite year of the 1970s was 1977. Two great songs I recall hearing a lot of was “Hotel California” and “Mainstreet.” The latter was especially used in radio ads for a bar I would frequent called Main Street Saloon. (Yes, it was on Main Street.)

“Hotel California” was a big hit in Thailand. Literally for decades, it was difficult not to hear it played at least once in any bar you happened to be in on any given day. Finally died out maybe about 2005 or '10.

I still think “YMCA” is the most '70s song though.

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Sherman, set the WABAC machine to 1972.

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Kind of a Seventies-ish obituary page today.

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Sad. Boy, am I starting to feel old.

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Yeah, Johnny Nash and Eddie Van Halen, RIP.

I always think of Van Halen as 80s, but I forgot that their first album with Eruption and Runnin’ with the Devil was '78!

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Elton John and Kiki Dee’s “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” is the most seventiest song and music video if you ask me

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Good one.

Spirit In The Sky