Music ??? I doubt it

[ericcoleman]

1976 Greatest Hits

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Go to http://www.popculturemadness.com/music and find the year you turned 18, or the year you graduated high school. Bold the songs you liked and strike through the ones you loathed at the time.

The ones that aren't marked/struck through are either those songs which you don't have an opinion on or are ones you don't particularly remember.

1. Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
2. December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Four Seasons
3. Shake Your Booty - KC and The Sunshine Band
4. Afternoon Delight - the Starland Vocal Band
5. You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls
6. Get Up Offa That Thing - James Brown - I don't remember this at all ... but I probably would have liked it.
7. Rock and Roll All Night (Live) - Kiss
8. Summer - War The smoothest of the smooth, I'm still a big War fan
9. Take The Money and Run - Steve Miller Band Don't get me started, but Steve was the worst of the worst, even worse than Boston ... and that's saying something.
10. Turn The Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson
11. Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) - Diana Ross
12. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Creedence Clearwater Revival Huh, musta been in a movie or something, this came out years before
13. You Should Be Dancin' - Bee Gees
14. Boogie Fever - The Sylvers
15. Rock N Me - Steve Miller Band
16. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel - Tavares
17. You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
18. If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
19. The Rubberband Man - the Spinners I loved the Spinners ... sure they were cheesy showmen, but they were brilliant cheese.
20. Baby I Love Your Way - Peter Frampton
21. Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer
22. Love Machine - The Miracles
23. Breezin' - George Benson
24. You're My Best Friend - Queen
25. Dream On - Aerosmith
26. Tonight's The Night - Rod Stewart
27. Sing A Song - Earth, Wind and Fire
28. More Than A Feeling - Boston
29. Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton Someone please show me a way to never hear this song ever again ...
30. Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players I seemed to have liked a lot of funk ...
31. I'd Really Love To See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
32. Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk) - Parliament ditto
33. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
34. (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
35. Fernando - Abba
36. Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
37. Love Is The Drug - Roxy Music Ok, mediocre Roxy is better than none
38. Golden Years - David Bowie
39. Mamma Mia - Abba
40. Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
41. Wake Up Everybody - Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes
42. Love Hurts - Nazareth
43. Sara Smile - Hall and Oates
44. Magic Man - Heart
45. Let Her In - John Travolta
46. Fly Away - John Denver
47. Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon see Roxy Music comment
48. Disco Duck - Rick Dees
49. One Piece At A Time - Johnny Cash - I don't remember this one at all ... wonder if it was any good ???
50. Strange Magic - ELO
51. Kid Charlemagne - Steely Dan
52. Love Hangover - Diana Ross
53. Hurricane - Bob Dylan
54. Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
55. Hold back The Night - The Trammps
56. A Fifth Of Beethoven - Walter Murphy
57. Can't Hide Love - Earth, Wind and Fire
58. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out - Bruce Springsteen
59. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon Ok, but bad Paul is still bad
60. Takin It To The Streets - Doobie Brothers
61. It's Over - Boz Scaggs
62. This Masquerade - George Benson
63. Madamoiselle - Styx Talk about 4 pieces of garbage in a row ... soulless crap each and every one
64. Slow Ride - Foghat
65. Fool For The City - Foghat Ok, fiercely stoopid, but who cares, they were fun
66. Beth - Kiss ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
67. The Fez - Steely Dan - I tended to like the Dan ... but I don't remember this one at all
68. More, More, More - Andrea True Connection Less please
69. Hot Stuff - The Rolling Stones
70. Shower The People - James Taylor More of a golden shower
71. Don't Touch Me There - the Tubes
72. The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzie
73. Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull Ok, several goodies in a row, right near the end, but this song came out in 71, why is it on the list now?
74. Times of Your Life - Paul Anka It's FRIGGIN PAUL ANKA ... come really ...
75. TVC15 - David Bowie - I know I have the album this is on, but I don't remember the song at all

Comments

[hardly-angelic.livejournal.com]

Re: Steve Miller, The Spinners and Roxy Music - spot on.

TVC15 (#75)was on the Station to Station album - a futuristic treatise that likely resulted from DB cogitating far too much on the meaning of Kraftwerk, while filming The Man Who Fell To Earth. The tune itself is charming. Bouncy. Even rollicking.

I loved the first two Tubes albums (#71), and loathed everything after those.

Gotta disagree on the George Benson cover of Leon Russell (#62)though.

[ericcoleman]

I would recommend Remote Control, which I think is the best Tubes LP (even better than the first one, which is admittedly brilliant, I need to own it on CD)

I knew that TVC15 was on one of those records, I tended to not like them much ...

And you can disagree with George Benson all you want, he still puts me to sleep

8. Summer - War The smoothest of the smooth, I'm still a big War fan

[noise626.livejournal.com]

the very first concert I ever went to was War. My father is a HUGE fan, and that show (along with the memory of Lee Oskar's HUGE afro and blistering harmonica solo) made me want to become a musician :D

Hell, Slippin' Into Darkness still gives me the chills to this day!

pax
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Re: 8. Summer - War The smoothest of the smooth, I'm still a big War fan

[ericcoleman]

I saw them with a fair number of the original members about 6-8 years ago. They can still tear an audience to shreds. Beware though of the band calling itself War now ... it is only Lonnie Jordan and some hired guns (and the website reflects how it is really the producer who owns the name). The real core of the band can be found here

[erik]

One Piece At A Time is the song about building a car out of random parts while working at the Ford plant.

Too lazy to look it up...

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I Heard It Through the Grapevine was an earlier hit by someone else. CCR did it on one album, but, iirc, it didn't become a hit until their Greatest Hits collection.

Ah, Afternoon Delight. A bouncy pop song about consensual sex with the lights on. What's not to like?

Aside from me liking ABBA significantly more than you and a few other minor tweaks of taste, the only one on this list that I seriously disagree with is A Fifth of Beethoven. I don't think it's great, but it's one of the few disco songs I'll turn up the radio for. I'd put it on a mix CD for kids (about tween).

Re: Too lazy to look it up...

[ericcoleman]

Creedence split up in 1972 ... their cover of the song was on their 1970 LP Cosmo's Factory

Marvin Gaye had the biggest hit with it.

There are things I like about ABBA, but their music is not included on that list.,