Get your groove on!
Throughout our time on this show we have listened and ranked A LOT of music spanning from the 80’s, 90’s, 2000’s, and the 2010’s. So where do we go from here? Backwards of course! It’s time to end our pentalogy of ranking decades of music by boogying on down to the 70’s. The 70’s was a big turning point for contemporary music, elevating genres such as rock, reggae, funk, folk, and of course disco! The innovations from this decade set new standards for artistic freedom and creativity while being a powerful force for entertainment and social change. Suffice to say the 70’s was, in fact, cool beans. So hang loose with Tuong La and foxy friends Axandre Lemours, Colleen Wang, and Victoria Luloff as they stick it to the man one more time and bang out a dynamite Top 5 70’s Songs list!
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Ground Rules
- Music has to have been released in the 70’s (Duh!)
- Songs that were released in any other decade and popularized in the 70’s don’t count
- Music can be from any genre in the 70’s
- Covers of songs from a different decade are a bit dicey. We will possibly count it depending on how iconic the cover is.
- Some songs definitely came out in the 70’s but they aren’t “70’s-ass songs” which could affect them being on this list. (ie they feel like they belong in a different decade or were popularized far later). Therefore, songs that invoke the decade will get ‘points’ over others.
Playlist
Want to mellow out to some more outta sight 70’s jams? Well we made a far out 70’s playlist that include all our nominations and honourable mentions from this episode all for you to enjoy! Can you dig it?!
Group Top 5
5. Hotel California (Eagles)
4. Staying Alive (Bee Gees)
3. Dancing Queen (ABBA)
2. Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
1.I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)
Other songs in our Top 12
- Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
- September (Earth, Wind & Fire)
- Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
- Jolene (Dolly Parton)
- Piano Man (Billy Joel)
- Rapper’s Delight (The Sugarhill Gang)
- Layla (Derek & The Dominos)