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Are you getting these from your Time-Life Hits of the 70's collection?
 

These would not be MY favorite 25 by any stretch. These are from this thing, the internet.
 

Kim I remember ALL the songs from A Star is Born-singing them over and over. Did you have the soundtrack? Even though Evergreen was the big hit, I think "Everything" made a bigger impact, at least on me.

And I remember all the songs on this list.
 

Joe "Cherchez" was #91 in '77.
 

Ooohhhh....ya know it got worse long before it got better for me.

Telephone Line by ELO was a fave then, and I could stomach Rich Girl, by Hall and Oates. Nothing else on that list made my top anything in 1977 (or 1978) that would sound tactful.

Over time as I've matured into a finely honed and well-respected man, I've learned to appreciate Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder, and Got To Give It Up, Pt. 1 by Marvin Gaye.

Sorry Nell...Evergreen never did anything for me....

Remember when they burned disco records at Comisky Park before a White Sox game? They had to cancel the game cause the promotion got out of hand. I think most of these tunes were in that blaze.
 

Ya know....I was never one to follow the popular crowd either. I recall being thrilled when a band Chip and Dave Putt were in played a dance at school and they played a couple songs by DEVO and the TALKING HEADS.

Ooooo...and they didn't play Freebird....At least I can't recall that they did or did not.

And Chip...what was the name of that band? I think Don Wynne was also a member.
 

It's funny. I loved all the songs from A Star is Born at the time, and I DO remember that, Nell. but not now. And yet some of those other songs still evoke such strong feelings that are clearly linked to that time (meaning if I heard them for the first time now, I'm sure I'd feel differently.)

"I Just Want to Be Your Everything" to this day makes me feel wistful and sad and joyful all at once. Who knows what (or whom) was going on in my life at that time, but it was a powerful song for me that still has vestiges of feelings today. Very strange.

I also liked Telephone Line and the whole ELO thing. I didn't like any of the Leo Sayers!
 

I totally agree. At the time these songs meant so much, and now, they don't evoke the same feelings. We aren't adolescents anymore-Yay!
 

Actually...unfortunately....my point was that some of them are meaningless, but some of them actually DO evoke the same feelings. I wouldn't say we're still adolescents, but our adolescent selves are still a part of us. Well, mine is, anyway. But we knew that. :-)
 

I'm using this blog in my class this semester. One of the things we spend a lot of time discussing is the "meaning" attached to music through experience - which is a huge part of sound design. Being 20ish, they don't really (yet) understand the power of music to move you instantly to a distant time and place solely because of a personal association.

They think I'm an idiot when I tell them: "Even though this song evokes emotion X in you, there will be someone in the audience for whom this song will be the song playing when they lost their virginity, when their roommate OD'd on peppermint schnapps, the first time they took a road trip, or the song playing when their high school sweetheart broke off the relationship.

So, if you can think of one - how 'bout sharing a song that brings back some totally non-sequiter memory instantly with you, no matter what context in which you hear the song. (Revealing the memory is optional - I'm more interested in the songs - but I'm sure Ginger is more interested in the memories - especially dirty ones...).

I'll start: "How Soon Is Now?" by the Smiths.
 

But to answer Kim's request, I must have been asleep that year. I hardly know any of those songs. I'd have to go with "Dancing Queen" as a fave. ABBA are a guilty pleasure.

Ian - Eric - help me out:
"Torn between two horses,
walking over coals"

What's that from?
 

Gosh, I have tons! Many of them evoke strong emotions because of the people they remind me of. I do remember listening to your picinic music Joe and exclaiming "Wow! I LOVE this song!" many times to old songs I'd essentially forgotten-because of different memories.

One of my songs is Steely Dan's "Deacon Blues".
 

My "instant memory" song: ONE of the songs from this list I associate with a date I went on with SOMEONE on this blog.

Oops, I think you wanted the song, not the memory, I just gave the opposite.
 

a) the name of Chip & Dave's band (along with Jim Clark and some guy from Homer City)was reprise. What a stupid name. I really liked the band though.

b)Again, I dislike all the songs- even Sir Duke, although Stevie is way cool.

c)Most of us, I think, listened to what they used to call AOR more, didn't we? Also, I knew all the Beatles albums, a lot of the Stones, and some Who and Kinks from the 60's and early 70's. Plus, all those wings records which now seem like diet marshmellow fluff, but at the time seemed cool enough. I loved Zappa until I was about 16. I was never a huge fan, but people LOOVED Bruce Springsteen- and of course, the enormously popular Led Zepplin (I can't like them to this day because so many kids did back then- isn't that twisted?) Somewhere around 1977, I owned every single Elton John album and lsitened to them until...

I really started to listen to Talking Heads, Devo, Patti Smith, Cars, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson and that lot starting Christmas 1977, when I got Talking Heads 77 for Christmas. Now, those are the songs I know backwards and forwards.
 

Joe- I don't know what the "torn between two horses" is from. It has a bit of the Mike Schneider feel to it.

I cannot, however, ever hear Taking Care of Business without without wanting to shout "In the mines!"

"Feels So O"
 

Jethro still doesn't make the cut, eh?

I wonder how many people lost their virginity with LZ in the background? Recall the scene from Fast Times At Ridegemont High re: LZ4? For an academic feminist deconstruction:
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/09/06/155912.php
 

I had an older, cooler brother who was always dragging us into his room to listen to LZ and Zappa and the stuff that normal 16 year old girls don't listen to. My son is on a Zappa kick right now.

My big love outside of the top 40-type music in the 70's was Queen.
 

Ian - re. TCOB: me too. I also have the tendancy, when hearing or seeing TOMMY to sing under my breath : "I'm Bruce! I'm Bruce! And Bruce tastes like Sydney!"

Nick Hoffman is on some of those recordings, if you don't recall (and I'm sure you do...)

"Hi, I'm Tommy Joe Tucker from Clymer..."
 

Joe- and here's one. I heard a toto song for the first time in years and years and instantly thought "hold your horses, give short people a chance"
 

I dubbed all that stuff off of r2r about 10 years ago so I listened to everything. From 1979 to 1985 there is about 30 hours of crap. I should probablly dump it to DVD-Rom before the digital tapes flake. Or maybe not - it might be better not to have that physical record around.

I guess I should put in my will that the material (FMNB, CP, SS) goes to you and Chip OR it gets incinerated instantly upon my death.

One of these days we'll get together and listen again. But when we're really old and hopped up on blood pressure medicine and anti-inflamitory meds for the arthritis.

How's next summer sound?
 

I love it when you guys talk dirty. Do some stuff about male-female jacks.
 

Kim: top 25 by what criteria? sales, time on charts, critical acclaim, Norm the internet nerd?
 

Norm, for all I know. But I think it's sales.
 

We're so way off track now, this is going to be a non-sequitur. I try to make lots of great memories for my kids; we all do, right? Every year for the past several, on the last day of school, I BLAST Alice Cooper's "School's Out" not only for my kids' but for the whole neighborhood. They LOVE it, and they expect it. That song will evoke special memories for them forever.

Another of my special songs is the BeeGees "How Deep Is Your Love". (from the 1978 list) Tease me all you want, I don't care, I won't apologize, this is special for ME. And I was a marshmallow-y, white bread 17 year old girl at the time.
 

Okay- I'll join Nell in trying to get this thing back on track-

I loved radio. I really loved it. When I lived in L.A., and stayed home because I was sick, I got to listen to a blue transistor radio with a white ear plug. On, or around my 11th birthday I got an AM/FM radio for my birthday. The first song that came on was "Brandy"- I think it was a song about a` seaport prostitute- but of course I didn't get that at the time. Anyway, anytime I hear that song- I am immediately placed there.

Joe- The Smith's- everytime I hear that song, I think of Dave Surtasky. It's true. I don't know why.

And in a completely different vein/vane/vain - =I think I know all of the lyrics to "Kansas City" (Rogers & Hammerstein not Little Richard) and I can only think of Jeff Magee EVERY time I hear it.
 

Somewhere a while back there was a post or comment on Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young"-seminal for many of us-but another song from that album, "Just the Way You Are" always reminds me of Gene when I hear it. I remember him singing that song at play practice-actually in 501 to be specific.
 

I've always felt that music is an index point for personal experiences. 13 years selling CDs, LPs, and cassettes confirmed this as many people related incidents tied specifically to a song. I have many as well, but a few really take me right back to the moment.

Peter Gabriel - Intruder
Brian Eno - King's Lead Hat
the Clash - All Lost in the Supermarket
the dB's - Talking in your Sleep
Talking Heads - This Must be the Place
Midnight Oil - Sometimes
Ben Folds 5 - Jackson Cannery
Chris Smither - Tulane

There are many more, but that seems to make a nice set of tunes.
 

WHOA FOLKS!!

501 is for quiet talking, NOT singing Billy Joel songs!
 

He was singing softly, to me. And he could get away with it! (Who was ever quiet in 501 anyway?)