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The ‘70’s……the most patently shit-filled…….
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Curmudgeon Rocker
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Let Em In
Silly Love Songs
No No No Song
Blow Away
Year of the Cat
Hotel California
American Pie
Seasons in the Sun
You Make Me Feel Brand New
You Make Me Feel Like Dancin
You Should Be Dancin
Dance With Me
Moonlight Feels Right (except for the surprisingly trippy xylophone solo)
Let Your Love Flow
Sometimes When We Touch
All By Myself
Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
Undercover Angel
Torn Between Two Lovers
Feels So Good (thanks, Chuck)
Hot Child in the City
Da Do Run Run
New Kid in Town
Nobody Does it Better
What’s Yer Name
Ring My Bell
She’s Fresh
Baby Hold On
You Don’t Bring Me Flowers
Reminiscing

The Pinnacle of Hideousness: Pablo Cruise, ELO, ELP, Rupert Holmes, Prism - Tue, 26 Dec 2006 9:16pm Edited: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 9:19pm
DTjackson
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I thought everyone liked Hotel California. It's a classic but you are entitled. Fun lists. - Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:28pm
Adrien
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Tell me.....what do you think is good song? - Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:09pm
Curmudgeon Rocker
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O.k. then, as far as....well, "half-decent" 70's radio songs are concerned, let's see......

Mississippi Queen
Outa Space (Billy Preston instrumental)
Boogie On Reggae Woman
Take Me to the River
Show Biz Kids
Out on the Tiles
Shattered
Hocus Pocus
Miles From Nowhere
From the Beginning
We're Only Making Plans For Nigel
Masquerade
Freewill
Watching the Detectives
Radar Love

and don't tell me to mention the bands - you SHOULD know - Fri, 19 Jan 2007 1:20am Edited: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 1:38am
Bryan
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Pshh, you just aren't enough of an intellect to understand ELP. - Fri, 19 Jan 2007 2:19am
kenteleven
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You know, Dougie, I consider the bass line from "Silly Love Songs" to be one of Paul's finest, surely worth the price of admission alone. And could it be that "half-decent song" "From the Beginning" was recorded by none other than that "pinnacle of hideousness" ELP? Ahh, what do I know? I actually like about 75% of the songs on your first list. - Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:04am
Curmudgeon Rocker
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Oh yeah I'm definitely aware that's an Emerson Lake Embalmer song - I figured I'd cut them SOME slack. (I can have a nice, charitable side too, you know). "Silly Love Songs" I find sappy and pedestrian.

/AWESOME posting of that album cover - for years now I've fantasized about doing a Peruke album called "Love Bitch", with our heads crudely cut and pasted over theirs. - Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:16am Edited: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:17am
kenteleven
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Silly love songs is definitely sappy, but, of course, it was written in response to a John Lennon comment that Paul seemed content to write only "Silly Love Songs". Paul then asks "What's wrong with that?". I guess all those songs John wrote about Yoko don't count (have you heard #9 Dream? Talk about sappy). Anyway, Silly Love Songs at least has a good back story. - Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:58am
Bryan
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Hahaha, I actually kind of like ELP but it's impossible to deny how completely absurd everything about them is. Love Beach is actually the only studio album of theirs I have yet to hear... I saw it on vinyl for $2 once and decided it wouldn't be worth the humilitation of taking THAT up to the clerk at the store (not to mention the humiliation of having THAT in my record collection). - Fri, 19 Jan 2007 1:54pm
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Cool - I never knew the story behind "S.L.S.". Gives the song a bit more credibility, for sure. Yeah - Lennon could be a dreary putz too - I should have put on the (yucky) list "Happy Christmas (War is Over)".
Bryan - see if you can locate "Tocatta" from ELP's "Brain Salad Surgery" album from anywhere on the net, smoke some pot, and listen. Play it loud. There is a hidden, almost-impossible-to-detect powerviolence feel in there. - Fri, 19 Jan 2007 2:13pm
Steve
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Well, a list of crap radio from the 70's could be long indeed. I'd prefer to remember a few gems.

Some 70’s radio was actually pretty cool. You got a lot of schmaltz back then but some really interesting stuff received “Top 40” airplay. Here are some epic masterpieces that actually did really well on top 40 radio back then….

Do You Feel Like I Do-Live (7 minutes!) (Peter Frampton, 1976)
Bohemian Rhapsody (6 minutes!) (Queen, 1975)
Paradise by the Dashboard Lights (8.30!) (Meatloaf, 1977)
Kashmir (8:29!) (Led Zeppelin 1975)

And a bunch of other great tunes…

Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed, 1971)
Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones, 1971)
Fame (David Bowie, 1975)
Money (Pink Floyd, 1973)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John, 1973)
Who are You (The Who, 1978)
Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh, 1973)
School's Out (Alice Cooper, 1972)
Roundabout (Yes, 1971)

Could be a lot longer but I gotta get on with my day. Feel free to add... - Sat, 20 Jan 2007 1:59pm
Steve
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Hey Curmudgeon...how old are you? I'm assuming you musta lived through the 70's (like me)-it's the only way you could know all those bad songs. The thing is of course, I listened to so much of it back then too (it was everywhere)and I have so many memories associated with each and every one of those songs. How messed up is that for the sound track to one's life?

In the spirit of the original post , I'll add a couple more bad ones....

Have You Never Been Mellow (Olivia Newton John)
Rhinestone Cowboy (Glen Campbell)
Copacabana (Barry Manilow)
With a Little Luck (Paul McCartney and Wings yet again)
Cold as Ice (Foreigner)
The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car (Trooper)
Muskrat Love (Captain and Tenille)
Babe (Styx)

ok, that's enough. These songs would trigger a violent reaction when they came on the radio back then and I'm starting to feel twitchy just thinking about them again - Sat, 20 Jan 2007 3:34pm
Curmudgeon Rocker
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Good lists.
Yeah - with all that shit being pumped into us as we were growing up, no wonder it's the soundtrack to our childhood. The crap embedded itself into our psyches just as deeply as the more tolerable tuneage did.
In 1980 I was 16, and the worst was yet to come, though...... - Sat, 20 Jan 2007 5:36pm Edited: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 5:37pm
sealion
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Oh muskrat love! Now there is the is one sick synth solo. - Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:26pm
sealion
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The worst IS yet to come. They will pipe it all into the long term care ward and we'll nod thinking we must be in heaven! Scared yet? - Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:29pm Edited: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:30pm
DTjackson
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So basically 95% of what they play on JACK FM - Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:18am
Curmudgeon Rocker
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Is "Muskrat Love" the one with the sound of muskrats fucking? I think the end of "Jungle Love" also features the same thing. If there's any other songs with the word "Love" in the title and has the sounds of muskrats gettin all squiggly loud with each other, please let me know. - Fri, 26 Jan 2007 1:33pm Edited: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 1:47pm
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