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    Re: The most '70s song

    Chicago - If You Leave Me Now

    A Taste of Honey – Boogie Oogie Oogie

    10cc – I’m Not in Love

    Chic – Le Freak

    Gladys Knight & The Pips – Midnight Train to Georgia

    My favorite, David Bowie -Starman

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    Re: The most '70s song

    Is Take on Me the most 80s song?

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    Re: The most '70s song

    Quote Originally Posted by Larry Schuler View Post
    Is Take on Me the most 80s song?
    That or Relax

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    Re: The most '70s song

    Quote Originally Posted by Roy Tucker View Post
    Chicago - If You Leave Me Now

    A Taste of Honey – Boogie Oogie Oogie

    10cc – I’m Not in Love

    Chic – Le Freak

    Gladys Knight & The Pips – Midnight Train to Georgia

    My favorite, David Bowie -Starman

    I’m not in love is peak 70s

    Bennie and the Jets is ranking too

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    Re: The most '70s song

    Quote Originally Posted by Falls City Beer View Post
    “Philadelphia Freedom.” That song has it all: schmaltz, proto-disco string sections, singer songwriter cred, a nod to the bicentennial, women’s liberation. It’s unvarnished 70’s.
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    Re: The most '70s song

    Quote Originally Posted by Larry Schuler View Post
    Is Take on Me the most 80s song?
    That's another thread (though, maybe).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy Tucker View Post
    10cc – I’m Not in Love
    That song is supersaturated with the '70s.
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    Re: The most '70s song

    All wrong answers. 70’s music = Disco

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    Re: The most '70s song

    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Cloninger View Post
    Fly like Superman —— Kinks
    If I had to pick a Kinks song for consideration (and I adore them, so I totally want to pick one), I think I'd go with Jukebox Music. When it hits the bridge section, it's like a wailing, unspoken despair that suddenly bursts out. Ray Davies is trying to talk us off the ledge and suddenly the song goes "screw it, I'm jumping!"

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    Re: The most '70s song

    Quote Originally Posted by 757690 View Post
    All wrong answers. 70’s music = Disco

    I'll buy the disco argument, but that particular song lacks critical nuance. As a kid during that decade it always struck me that adults were really broken. So I'd go with Donna Summers' "Last Dance" for a disco entry. It's late and none of us can bear the horror of being alone with ourselves.

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    Re: The most '70s song

    Quote Originally Posted by M2 View Post
    I'll buy the disco argument, but that particular song lacks critical nuance. As a kid during that decade it always struck me that adults were really broken. So I'd go with Donna Summers' "Last Dance" for a disco entry. It's late and none of us can bear the horror of being alone with ourselves.

    Your video displays the artwork for the 1995 release of I feel love, which is her best, and most iconic song ( and was therefore released and charted three different times).

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    Re: The most '70s song

    Quote Originally Posted by Betterread View Post
    Your video displays the artwork for the 1995 release of I feel love, which is her best, and most iconic song ( and was therefore released and charted three different times).
    I agree "I Feel Love"" is her best song. It's transcendent, but almost by definition that disqualifies it from being a pure synthesis of the '70s. Time and place can't hold that song. I'm pretty sure we haven't caught up to it yet.
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    Re: The most '70s song

    Quote Originally Posted by Larry Schuler View Post
    I wasn’t here for the 70s and apparently this was released right under the wire in 79 but this what I imagine is the most 70s song of all-time.

    I'm curious what others' takes on this one are, but my general reaction is I found the '70s decidedly not whimsical. Like, the mime couple Shields and Yarnell were oddly popular at the time, but you secretly knew they were shooting smack and having group sex with Mummenschanz.
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    Re: The most '70s song

    Abba - Dancing Queen. Or, maybe, Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight.

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    Re: The most '70s song

    Quote Originally Posted by Larry Schuler View Post
    Is Take on Me the most 80s song?

    Eighties —- Killing Joke

    David Bowie Ashes to Ashes is to me the template for all 80s new wave new romantics music

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    Re: The most '70s song

    Quote Originally Posted by M2 View Post
    If I had to pick a Kinks song for consideration (and I adore them, so I totally want to pick one), I think I'd go with Jukebox Music. When it hits the bridge section, it's like a wailing, unspoken despair that suddenly bursts out. Ray Davies is trying to talk us off the ledge and suddenly the song goes "screw it, I'm jumping!"


    It was a choice between FLS and Catch me now I’m falling. With the line I’m calling all citizens from all over the world this is Captain America calling. A call out to other countries in the mid to late 70s that hey we’ve covered for you wether you liked it or not. We need help now. Or else we’re going to get Reagan elected!

    I always used to say I love that Captain America song. Always a big fan of the Kinks especially Tired of waiting for You. Dedicated follower of Fashion. Celluloid Heroes. They get lost in the talk about influential bands.

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