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Just a small bit of trivia. The next to last song you shared, “Highway Star” by Deep Purple, is in large part responsible for much of the Asian metal and rock that has been shared lately. Many of those artists cite Deep Purple, and that song in particular, as a strong influence. In my opinion “All Hail Deep Purple”.
If we are just dumping music we are listening to, I've had my 1976 playlist on recently. I don't like it quite as much as I like the 1977 playlist, but I can hear quite a lot of what I like about 1977 in this year's music.
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10cc - I'm Mandy Fly Me
ABBA - Dancing Queen
ABBA - Fernando
ACDC - She's Got Balls
ACDC - TNT
Aerosmith - Dream On
America - Today's The Day
Bad Company - Young Blood
Barbi Benton - Staying Power
Barbra Streisand - Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)
Barry De Vorzon - Nadia's Theme (The Young and the Restless)
Barry Manilow - I Write the Songs
Barry White - Let the Music Play
Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow
Billy Joel - Prelude Angry Young Man
Blue ™yster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Roots, Rock, Reggae
Boston - Foreplay Long Time
Boston - More Than A Feeling
Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle
Boz Scaggs - Lowdown
Bread - Fly Away
Brick - Dazz
Bruce Springsteen - Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
C.W. McCall - Convoy
Camel - Air Born
Candi Station - Young Hearts Run Free
Carole King - Only Love Is Real
Carpenters - Can't Smile Without You
Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
Cliff Richard - Devil Woman
Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Sara Smile
David Bowie - Golden Years
David Dundas - Jeans On
David Ruffin - Walk Away From Love
Deodato - Peter Gunn
Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby
Donny & Marie Osmond - Deep Purple
Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
Dr. Hook - Only Sixteen
Earth, Wind & Fire - Getaway
Earth, Wind & Fire - Sing A Song
Ed Bruce - Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys
Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman
Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing
Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around and Fell In Love
England Dan and John Ford Coley - I'd Really Love To See You Tonight
Eric Carmen - All By Myself
Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
Fleetwood Mac - Say You Love Me
Foghat - Slow Ride
Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
Gary Wright - Love Is Alive
George Benson - This Masquerade
Glen Campbell - Country Boy (You Got Your Feet In L.A.)
Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy
Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody
Heart - Crazy on You
Henry Gross - Shannon
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
Jeff Beck - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Jefferson Starship - With Your Love
John Sebastian - Welcome Back
John Travolta - Let Her In
Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady
Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time
Johnny Wakelin - In Zaire
Journey - On A Saturday Nite
Judas Priest - The Ripper
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
KC & The Sunshine Band - Shake Your Booty
Keith Carradine - I'm Easy
KISS - Beth
Lalo Schifrin - Jaws
Larry Groce - Junk Food Junkie
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
Leon & Mary Russell - Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)
Loggins and Messina - My Lady, My Love
Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Double Trouble
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light
Manhattens - Let's Just Kiss And Say Goodbye
Maxine Nightengale - Right Back Where We Started From
Norman Connors - You Are My Starship
Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster
Olivia Newton-John - Come On Over
Orleans - Still The One
Parliament - Give Up the Funk
Patti Smith - Gloria
Paul Anka - Times Of Your Life
Paul Davis - Superstar
Paul McCartney & Wings - Silly Love Songs
Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do
Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way
#####cat - Mississippi
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
Rhythym Heritage - Theme From S.W.A.T
Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots - Disco Duck Part 1
Rod Stewart - Tonight's the Night
Rose Royce - Car Wash
Rufus - Sweet Thing
Rush - A Passage to Bangkok
Sailor - A Glass of Champagne
Santana - Let It Shine
Seals and Crofts - Get Closer
Sherbet - Howzat
Silver - Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang
Silver Convention - Fly Robin Fly
Silver Convention - Get Up and Boogie
Slade - Get On Up
Smokie - Living Next Door to Alice
Staple Singers - Let's Do It Again
Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right
Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
Status Quo - Rain
Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
Steve Miller Band - Take the Money and Run
Sweet - Action
Sweet - Fox On The Run
Tanya Tucker - You've Got Me To Hold On To
Tavares - Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel
The Alan Parsons Project - The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Andrea True Connection - More, More, More
The Bay City Rollers - Money Honey
The Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night
The Beach Boys - Rock and Roll Music
The Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing
The Brothers Johnson - I'll Be Good To You
The Captain & Tennille - Lonely Night (Angel Face)
The Captain & Tennille - Muskrat Love
The Commodores - Sweet Love
The Damned - New Rose
The Doobie Brothers - It Keeps You Runnin'
The Eagles - Take It To The Limit
The Four Seasons - December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)
The Isley Brothers - (At Your Best) You Are Love
The Miracles - Love Machine
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
The Muppets - Mahna Mahna
The O'Jays - I Love Music
The Rolling Stones - Hot Stuff
The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
The Spinners - The Rubberband Man
The Sylvers - Boogie Fever
The Tubes - Young And Rich
The Who - Squeeze Box
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town
Tom Robinson Band - 2-4-6-8 Motorway
Vicki Sue Robinson - Turn The Beat Around
Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band - A Fifth of Beethoven
War - Summer
Warren Zevon - Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
Waylon Jennings & Jessie Colter - Suspicious Minds
Waylon Jennings - My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
Wing and a Prayer Fife and Drum Corps - Baby Face
A decade-or-so ago I got turned on to "Matthew Perpetua's" Fluxblog... he was making annual "MP3 surveys" available, which I thought was a good way to get exposed to a wide variety of musics. His efforts were appreciated, but a few things about his choices always landed flat with me:
He definitely was going for that late-1990s hipster vibe... he would go out of his way to avoid any music that he thought didn't need (or deserve) attention,
He'd never include more than one song from a single band, no exceptions,
He'd go out of his way to put (arguably) inferior songs from artists he wanted to represent but didn't want to include their "hit".
He also "went back in time" to do this for years starting with 1980, but because of his age he wasn't quite true to even those tenets, even if he did find some real gems. Anyway, with his work as a place to start I ended up doing my own lists for years he hadn't covered (*1) and supplemented his choices with many of my own.
(*1) He did eventually go pre-1980, leveraging Spotify, but I think his efforts were somewhat anemic. This list is all me, made before he starting thinking about earlier eras... so I tried to include a lot of "popular" music, plus a lot of stuff that might have been heard if the dial on the radio was turned.
I want these clixed: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Shadow, The Green Hornet & Kato, Conan, Solomon Kane, The Phantom, King Kong, Universal Monsters, Black Orchid, Manhunter (Paul Kirk), Xemnu the Titan, unclixed Kirby Fourth World characters, and Lilith, Daughter Of Dracula.
This is one that really hits close to home. When I was first getting serious about playing guitar, I learned several of her songs early on. Although I mainly listened to harder music, most people can't learn Led Zeppelin or Jimi Hendrix right off the bat. Her songs were pretty, fun, and easier for a fledgling player to learn than were those others (except Stairway To Heaven ). She became one of my favorite performers and an inspiration.
This is one that really hits close to home. When I was first getting serious about playing guitar, I learned several of her songs early on. Although I mainly listened to harder music, most people can't learn Led Zeppelin or Jimi Hendrix right off the bat. Her songs were pretty, fun, and easier for a fledgling player to learn than were those others (except Stairway To Heaven ). She became one of my favorite performers and an inspiration.
I want these clixed: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Shadow, The Green Hornet & Kato, Conan, Solomon Kane, The Phantom, King Kong, Universal Monsters, Black Orchid, Manhunter (Paul Kirk), Xemnu the Titan, unclixed Kirby Fourth World characters, and Lilith, Daughter Of Dracula.
I want these clixed: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Shadow, The Green Hornet & Kato, Conan, Solomon Kane, The Phantom, King Kong, Universal Monsters, Black Orchid, Manhunter (Paul Kirk), Xemnu the Titan, unclixed Kirby Fourth World characters, and Lilith, Daughter Of Dracula.
Looking at Tidge's 1975 list above a couple of things struck me. I was really surprised that the band Camel attempted a hit single from their Moonmadness album. I love Camel but I always considered them more of an FM radio type of band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNJGkyCqtTU
Also, people like to ask about guilty pleasure songs and I guess as a rock lover this symplistic song would have been a guilty pleasure for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC_kCnm3GYQ
I want these clixed: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Shadow, The Green Hornet & Kato, Conan, Solomon Kane, The Phantom, King Kong, Universal Monsters, Black Orchid, Manhunter (Paul Kirk), Xemnu the Titan, unclixed Kirby Fourth World characters, and Lilith, Daughter Of Dracula.
I'm trying to think if I have any guilty pleasure songs, but I don't tend to have guilty pleasures in general. I don't tend to feel guilty over things that I enjoy, and I don't think anyone else should either. Unless the thing you enjoy actively harms someone else, but that's neither here nor there. I suppose my "guilty pleasures" would include good songs from terrible musicals.
I'm trying to think if I have any guilty pleasure songs, but I don't tend to have guilty pleasures in general. I don't tend to feel guilty over things that I enjoy, and I don't think anyone else should either. Unless the thing you enjoy actively harms someone else, but that's neither here nor there. I suppose my "guilty pleasures" would include good songs from terrible musicals.
Guilty Pleasures sometimes means that you enjoy something your friends might rib you for. Years ago i would buy CDs from a store called the Disconnection back in the good old days before streaming ruined music for all of us. I asked the owner to order the Frida Lyngstad solo album because I had seen her big hit on MTV and I'd liked it. I already had it on vinyl but I wanted a CD too. She mocked me for it but ordered it anyway. She was an old hippy and was strictly rock and roll and she hated Phil Collins who produced the record. So that's where the guilty comes from but in my case the guilt comes from the extremely cheesy Fly Robin Fly which is hardly a masterpiece in any sense of the word but is associated by me with some fond memories which are too inappropriate for me to divulge to you.
I want these clixed: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Shadow, The Green Hornet & Kato, Conan, Solomon Kane, The Phantom, King Kong, Universal Monsters, Black Orchid, Manhunter (Paul Kirk), Xemnu the Titan, unclixed Kirby Fourth World characters, and Lilith, Daughter Of Dracula.
Fly Robin Fly is, I think, one of those tracks that needs some sort of emotional connection to enjoy. As much as I like it, I put the "single version" on my playlist, as I feel there simply isn't enough there for the LP version. It strikes me as a potential soundtrack song for two people to speak over during a dance scene, as there are better contemporary beats to actually dance to IMO.
In contrast, for Love to Love You Baby I have the LP version, because I felt that was more groundbreaking, even if I think in hindsight it is quite similar to Fly Robin Fly.
Re: Guilty Pleasures. For me, those are the songs I keep on my curated lists for quasi-historical reasons, but often skip over when they come up on shuffle. I'm not punishing myself for keeping them, but I might be punishing others if I put them on public play.
Fly Robin Fly is, I think, one of those tracks that needs some sort of emotional connection to enjoy. As much as I like it, I put the "single version" on my playlist, as I feel there simply isn't enough there for the LP version. It strikes me as a potential soundtrack song for two people to speak over during a dance scene, as there are better contemporary beats to actually dance to IMO.
In contrast, for Love to Love You Baby I have the LP version, because I felt that was more groundbreaking, even if I think in hindsight it is quite similar to Fly Robin Fly.
Re: Guilty Pleasures. For me, those are the songs I keep on my curated lists for quasi-historical reasons, but often skip over when they come up on shuffle. I'm not punishing myself for keeping them, but I might be punishing others if I put them on public play.
So what's on your 77 playlist?
I want these clixed: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Shadow, The Green Hornet & Kato, Conan, Solomon Kane, The Phantom, King Kong, Universal Monsters, Black Orchid, Manhunter (Paul Kirk), Xemnu the Titan, unclixed Kirby Fourth World characters, and Lilith, Daughter Of Dracula.
1977 is one of those years in which (for me) it was impossible to pick just one song from some artists, so there are several multiple appearances.
This list channels a lot of different vibes: There is still some hippie-era blending into soft rock, some disco, some easy listening, some punk, some harder stuff... I love a LOT of what came later, but this was the year I think had the most honest and earnest variety within popular music. There were later years that come close to this amount of variety, but I think 1977 takes it.
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10cc - The Things We Do For Love
38 Special - Long Time Gone
ACDC - Dog Eat Dog
America - Now She's Gone
Ashford & Simpson - Send It
Barclay James Harvest - Hymn
Barry Manilow - Looks Like We Made It
Barry White - It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me
Bill Conti - Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky)
Billy Joel - Only The Good Die Young
Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Jamming
Boney M - Ma Baker
Bootsy Collins - The Pinocchio Theory
Bread - Lost Without Your Love
Bryan Ferry - Tokyo Joe
Buzzcocks - Boredom
Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better
Carol King - Hard Rock Cafe
Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
Cheap Trick - Oh Candy
Cheap Trick - Southern Girls
Chic - Everybody Dance
Cliff Richard - My Kinda Life
Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Just A Song Before I Go
Dan Fogelberg - Love Gone By
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Rich Girl
Dave Edmunds - I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock & Roll)
David Bowie - Heroes
David Bowie - Sound And Vision
Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life
Diana Ross - Gettin Ready For Love
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Dr. Feelgood - Sneakin' Suspicion
Earth, Wind & Fire - Fantasy
Eddie Money - Two Tickets to Paradise
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
Electric Light Orchestra - Wild West Hero
Elvis Costello - Alison
Elvis Costello - Mystery Dance
Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives
Elvis Presley - She Thinks I Still Care
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Fanfare For The Common Man
Eric Carmen - She Did It
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Fabio Frizzi - Sette Note In Nero
Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Foreigner - Cold As Ice
Frankie Miller - Be Good to Yourself
Generation X - Wild Youth
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Giorgio Moroder - Too Hot To Handle
Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness and Charm
Heart - Barracuda
Heatwave - Boogie Nights
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
Iggy Pop - Sixteen
Iggy Pop - The Passenger
Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
James Taylor - Your Smiling Face
Jermaine Jackson - You Need To Be Loved
Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood
Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville
Joe Ely - Gambler's Bride
John Williams - Theme From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Johnny Cash - Lady
Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
KC & The Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man
Kenny Rogers - Daytime Friends
Kenny Rogers - Lucille
KISS - Love Gun
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Kursaal Flyers - Television Generation
Leif Garrett - Surfin' USA
Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars - Milk Cow Boogie
Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou
Little Feat - Rocket In My Pocket
Little River Band - Help Is On Its Way
Lynyrd Skynyrd - What's Your Name
Mary MacGregor - Torn Between Two Lovers
Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Meco - Star Wars Theme Cantina Band
Moxy - Are You Ready
Natalie Cole - Our Love
Neil Young - Like A Hurricane
Ohio Players - O-H-I-O
Pablo Cruise - Whatcha Gonna Do
Parliament - Flash Light
Peter Frampton - I'm In You
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Peter McCann - Do You Wanna Make Love
Pink Floyd - Pigs on the Wing
Poco - Indian Summer
Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count
Prism - Spaceship Superstar
Queen-We Will Rock You We are the Champions
Quiet Riot - Glad All Over
Radio Birdman - Do The Pop
Ram Jam - Black Betty
Ramones - Carbona Not Glue
Ramones - Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
Randy Newman - Short People
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
Rita Coolidge - (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher
Rod Stewart - Hot Legs
Rufus feat. Chaka Khan - At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up)
Rush - A Farewell To Kings
Rush - Closer To The Heart
Sandy Denny - No More Sad Refrains
Santana - She's Not There
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The U.K.
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
Sex Pistols - No Fun
Slade - Gypsy Roadhog
Slave - Slide
Smokie - It's Your Life
Squeeze - Take Me I'm Yours
Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
Steely Dan - Peg
Steve Miller Band - Jungle Love
Steve Miller Band - Swingtown
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
Stillwater - Mind Bender
Styx - Come Sail Away
Suicide - Ghost Rider
Supertramp - Give a Little Bit
T. Rex - I Love To Boogie
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Tavares - Whodunit
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Television - Marquee Moon
Television - See No Evil
The Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You
The Babys - Isn't It Time
The Bay City Rollers - You Made Me Believe in Magic
The Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
The Boomtown Rats - Lookin' After No. 1
The Captain & Tennille - Can't Stop Dancin'
The Carpenters - Sweet, Sweet Smile
The Commodores - Brick House
The Damned - Neat Neat Neat
The Dixie Dregs - Refried Funky Chicken
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Grateful Dead - Samson & Delilah
The Gregg Allman Band - Cryin' Shame
The Jacksons - Different Kind Of Lady
The Jam - In The City
The Jam - The Modern World
The Kinks - Sleepwalker
The Motors - Dancing The Night Away
The O'Jays - Travelin' at the Speed of Thought
The Real Kids - All Kindsa Girls
The Runaways - Queens of Noise
The Runaways - School Days
The Saints - This Perfect Day
The Shadows - Cricket Bat Boogie
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
The Tubes - This Town
The Vibrators - Baby Baby Pure Mania
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
Throbbing Gristle - Maggot Death
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Breakdown
Trooper - We're Here For A Good Time (Not A Long Time)
Ultravox - Life At Rainbow's End (For All The Tax Exiles On Main Street)
Ultravox - ROckWrok
Uriah Heep - Free Me
Village People - San Francisco (You've Got Me)
Walter Murphy - Rhapsody In Blue
Waylon Jennings - Luckenbach Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)
Willie Nelson - Mom and Dad's Waltz
Wire - Three Girl Rhumba
Yes - Going for the One