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NurseJackie

(42,862 posts) Wed Oct 16, 2019, 05:55 PM Oct 2019

Top 10 Decade Defining Songs: 1970s

Have you got rhythm? Have you got soul? Do you own a disco ball?? Yeses aren't obligatory, but they'll help! Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 decade defining songs of the 1970s. Special thanks to our users Alex Guzman, richardbain, MrRock4Evr, Oliver Swen, Charlotte Kevin Rudd, milkman0973, Jack Morris, Awesome One, Jaime Enrique Gutierrez Pérez, ynot0404, kitlivsey and gamerguy for submitting the idea on our Suggest Page at WatchMojo.com/suggest!

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Top 10 Decade Defining Songs: 1970s (Original Post) NurseJackie Oct 2019 OP

Ohio- Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young IADEMO2004 Oct 2019 #1

And what an effect on music that had KatyMan Oct 2019 #4

Am I the only one who finds Anarchy in the UK BigmanPigman Oct 2019 #2

No shenmue Oct 2019 #6

i kinda feel like a BeeGees Song should fit on that list JDC Oct 2019 #3

Staying Alive (1977) No. 1, at 13:12 min. mark. appalachiablue Oct 2019 #5

Pretty good, but Elton has to be in teh top 10 ... and no Rolling Stones at ALL? mr_lebowski Oct 2019 #7

IADEMO2004

(5,566 posts)

1. Ohio- Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Reply to NurseJackie (Original post)

Wed Oct 16, 2019, 06:00 PM

Oct 2019

KatyMan

(4,211 posts)

4. And what an effect on music that had

Reply to IADEMO2004 (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 16, 2019, 08:15 PM

Oct 2019

Chrissie Hynde and the members of Devo were there that day as students. Totally changed the trajectory of their lives.

BigmanPigman

(51,643 posts)

2. Am I the only one who finds Anarchy in the UK

Reply to NurseJackie (Original post)

Wed Oct 16, 2019, 06:48 PM

Oct 2019

a song that is really easy and fun to sing along with?

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

6. No

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 17, 2019, 08:45 AM

Oct 2019

JDC

(10,135 posts)

3. i kinda feel like a BeeGees Song should fit on that list

Reply to NurseJackie (Original post)

Wed Oct 16, 2019, 07:37 PM

Oct 2019

appalachiablue

(41,182 posts)

5. Staying Alive (1977) No. 1, at 13:12 min. mark.

Reply to JDC (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 17, 2019, 12:06 AM

Oct 2019

When it came out I got the album & played it often & loud. Little brother teased me but I knew it was a massive hit at first.

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

7. Pretty good, but Elton has to be in teh top 10 ... and no Rolling Stones at ALL?

Reply to NurseJackie (Original post)

Fri Oct 18, 2019, 02:38 AM

Oct 2019

That's a big fail.

Fact is, 10 is just not enough for the 70's, man. No way ...

Glaringly missing:
Rolling Stones ... pick one from Sympathy, Can't Always Get, Miss You ... for example.
Yes - Roundabout or Rush - 2112 ... cannot let Prog go entirely w/o mention.
Jackson 5, Jacksons, or early MJ ... something from them would be in order.
Hall and Oates ... they RULED the radio in the friggin 70's.
Billy Joel ... likewise.
Some choice from the soft rock canon ... some hit from Seals & Crofts or Loggins & Messina or Pablo Cruise or America or Leo Sayer or ...
Kiss ... begrudgingly, they were freaking HUGE.
GRATEFUL DEAD, hello? People think of them as '60's but almost every song you know is from the 70's, I'd bet ya.
JIM FRIGGIN CROCE?
CAT STEVENS?
CSN(Y)?
CAROLE KING?

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