What are your favourite songs from the 70s? 😎 🎸 🪩

[Littledidsheknow]

Making a new 70s playlist for Spotify, but lacking inspiration. If I Google best songs from the 70s I just get lots of good big hits, which are not always, y’know, good music.

So far I have some Bowie, Led Zeppelin, The Jam, The Police, Cat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac, The Jacksons, Siouxsie, The Clash and others.
looking for good songs of all genres, forgotten gems… even cheesy pop if it’s good.

What are your 70s favourites? 🙂

Yes they were!
I heard the very little played Carpet Crawlers on the radio about 10 years ago and went looking at early Genesis stuff with Peter Gabriel.

One of my husband's favourites, so it's quite often played here!

I really like Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel, after he left Genesis.

@Giggorata Many of my favourites there. First mention I've seen of King Crimson. I may have worn out Islands. I only found out recently that Robert Fripp is married to Toyah. We are the same age.
Manfred Mann, Blinded by the Light - listened to that while waiting for DH to pick me up for our first date.

It's true about listening to whole albums. In that way you had to listen to the less popular tracks which sometimes ended up as the best. There wasn't an option to do otherwise until tapes came in.

Gosh, that mention of albums has reminded me I should have mentioned my favourite album of all time, Blood on the Tracks (Bob Dylan). Every track is a masterpiece but my favourite is probably Tangled up in Blue, closely followed by A Simple Twist of Fate.

Joni M
Billy Joel
Carpenters

Thats my favourite 70s album!! 🙌
Have added a couple of tracks from it to The Ultimate 70s playlist.

My favourite tracks are ‘Idiot Wind’ and ‘If You See Her Say Hello’ 😊

My husband would probably go for Idiot Wind!

You have married a man of taste, @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

Oh yes. We'll skate quickly over his fondness for very early Pink Floyd.

Arnold Layne, the knicker nicker? Great stuff!

More Interstellar Overdrive and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. Ah well, nobody's perfect.

The jam
Secret affair
The purple hearts
The chords
79 mod revival stuff.

Whiskey in the jar - Thin Lizzy

On my radio - selector

Gangsters - specials

It’s Too Late Carol King
You're So Vain Carly Simon
Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me The Tams
Uptown Top Ranking Althea and Donna
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy Rod Stewart
Harvest For The World Isley Brothers
Any of The Stylistics

Now, if Littledidsheknow had asked for favourites from the sixties, they would. both have been in mine!
(and Arnold Layne )

Overkill - Motorhead
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Revolution Dub - Lee Perry and the Upsetters
Sheena is a punk rocker - Ramones
Gloria - Patti Smith
The killing of Georgie - Rod Stewart

Such a brilliant album

Much as I love the 70s, the music of the 60s is absolutely fantastic. I expect you like early Fleetwood Mac as well - Green Manalishi? A number I have had inflicted on me enjoyed many a time and oft.

Linda Ronstadt: Albums: Simple Dreams, Living in the USA
Jackson Browne: Albums: The Pretender, Running on Empty

Harry Nilsson: Album - Nilsson Schmilsson

Billy Joel - Just the Way You Are

Carpenters - Top of the World

Dean Friedman - Rocking Chair (It's Gonna Be Alright)

Stargazer - rainbow or most rainbow from that era
no more heros- stranglers
will you - hazel o’connor (it was 1980 though)

Wish you were here - whole album - floyd