Top 10 Decade Defining Songs: 1970s
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2014
- Have you got rhythm? Have you got soul? Do you own a disco ball?? Yeses aren't obligatory, but they'll help! Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 decade defining songs of the 1970s. Special thanks to our users Alex Guzman, richardbain, MrRock4Evr, Oliver Swen, Charlotte Kevin Rudd, milkman0973, Jack Morris, Awesome One, Jaime Enrique Gutierrez Pérez, ynot0404, kitlivsey and gamerguy for submitting the idea on our Suggest Page at WatchMojo.com/suggest!
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We will rock you should be here
I saw "The Wall" on PBS as a child. Those masks creeped me out. "I Will Survive" also was played a LOT at high school dances in the 90's. My high school anyways. John Lennon was right. It's the differences we see in each other that divide us. If they weren't there, there would be peace. Freddie Mercury had a beautiful voice. "Stairway to Heaven" is the song that everyone gets wrong. My mom's brother dedicated it to his mom at her funeral. smh She was NOT a materialistic woman. Pathetic man. I love Led Zeppelin but it's not their best song. "Four Sticks" on the same album is SO much better. I don't think the majority of people liked disco in the 70's. They had record burning/smashing events. Either way, this might be the first music list on here where I like every song. I love rock and disco.
To ignore why these songs came out misses the point of the events, protest, drugs, rejection, new ideas.
Joy to the World? #1 for how many weeks???
People forgot this is TOP 10, not Top 20 or Top 100. If your song is not on the list, make your own damn list.
it was always placed in my mind that 70s is more likely best era of rock n roll, electric guitars and all. But this list says 70s is about disco ._. am i getting it wrong
Bohemian rhapsody 1
My top 7 favorite songs of the 1970s
7. Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Credence Clearwater Revival
6. Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. Piano Man - Billy Joel
4. Dancing Queen - ABBA
3. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
2. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
1. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
"Behind Blue Eyes"?
Disco baby, disco defines the 70's- Stayin' Alive, Stayin' Alive !!!
WTF is " Midnight Fever ' ?
I was there and it didn't. Name 5 disco "songs" then name 5 rock songs. The second is a lot easier isn't it. If it hadn't been for "Midnight Fever" disco would have died much sooner than it. It was as saccharine as it could be.
Another brick in the wall is such a dumb ass, simplistic black and white comprehension of things.. or lack of it!. Horrible song.
1. I know this video was made in 2014 but Bohemian Rhapsody has become very, very overrated.
2. I also know not every band can make it to the list, but....no Rainbow? Man On The Silver Mountain or Stargazer? And yeah, Sweet and Deep Purple. Seriously?
This list is all kinds of messed up...
Mötley was way better than the Sex Pistols.....
I guess your right,I spent a lot of time chanting disco sucks. But when we went out we popped in a 8-track by Led Zeppelin!
Freebird is my favorite 70s song
No Electric Light Orchestra
Some of the honorable mentions deserve the 9 and 10 spot more than the ones they chose. No one thinks of The Wall as defining the 70’s.
My sweet Lord???
4 words.
Bat. Out. Of. Hell
i'm confused as to why "my sweet lord" isn't on this list
it was the biggest selling single of 1971 and was the first no.1 of an ex-beatle
Ooga Booga I don’t consider that song to be decade defining but it was my very first favorite song when I was 5 or 6
At least there's pink floyd there
should have been Comfortably Numb though
No Kraftwerk that started off the era of synthesizer based music that is still around? No Earth Wind & Fire? No Michael Jackson? No Kiss? No... well the list can go on for days... but that’s the fun thing about lists. Have any top ten list ever matched anyone’s taste completely?
Love lists. They annoy me. And I love that they do. That means I care.
The 1970’s can fill up a top 100 list with really good music without the short-lived disco ahem music(?).
The 70s. I went from 8 to 18 during that decade and it was NOT until the latter part that disco became big. Most teens I knew listened to Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, ELO, The Eagles, to name just a few popular rock bands.
Allman Bros
Disco is a part of the 70's I would like to forget.Talking Heads,Blondie,The Clash etc were my type of bands.
STAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYING ALIVEEEEEEEEEEE …… WTF!
..and no Elvis Costello??or Clash,..Tears for Fears??
Bob Furman tears for fears didn’t have a hit till the 80’s.
Number one is not disco crap. Spare me that plane sucks.
3 bohemian rhapsody my butt hurt
An impossible task but the list isn’t bad. Except for I WILL SURVIVE which could easily have been replaced by something by the Stones, The Who, and the biggest star of the 70s, Sir Elton John.
Oh! Please just shut up! I want to listen without your "goofy" interpretation !
Bowie and T Rex should in the top 10
One of the most amazing decades for music can't be reduced to 10 songs, but was still fun to listen to them again.
Rappers delight was essentially the birth of the rap genre and I’m surprised it wasn’t at least in the honourable mentions
TJ Wash flipside stayin alive was ‘77
Jude Sneddon it wasn’t released till September of 1979, so kind of late to the table to be a sound that defined a decade.
The Eagles are honorable mention? You're cracked!
My school singing the brick in the wall kids parts will always make me very proud (chuckle)
Any 1970s list like this that does not include Chicago is a joke. I can give you at least 5 reasons - 25 Or 6 To 4, Saturday In The Park, The Ballet For A Girl in Buchannon (Which spawned Make Me Smile and Colour My World), (I've Been) Searching So Long and Feelin' Stronger Every Day. And this does not include their chart-topper If You Leave Me Now. I loved that song at the time, but not so much now. I see the Ballet as a sequence of songs of which the two hits were part of - one big sequence instead of two separate songs within that sequence.
Saturday Night LIVE? LOL. Also, while I get why you chose Rebel Rebel for Bowie because it represented 70's glam rock, it happens to be one of my least favorite Bowie tunes. Personally, I would've used Heroes because it has more lyrical significance and musically marked a major transition point into what became new wave.
after imagine when i heared roger taylor smashing the symbols i got so hyped when i was ready for freddie to come in with MAMA!
We don't need no education is a double negative which means we do need AN education but not the education in the 50s
If we're talking decade defining Hotel California should be nr 1 since it was the story of all the people moving the CA for the music during the 70s which defines the decade
No Solsbury Hill?
Funny , they are saying that the disco tunes defined the era, they did, but by the end of the decade, many countries were into something else and they were BURNING disco records
piano man by billy joel should have at least honourable mention
A top ten is never enough for the seventies. The greatest decade for music.
Beck, Bogart and Appice DID do the Superstition song ... and quite well!
What about Meat Loaf???
While I completely expected bee gees to make it onto the list, what I did not expect was it to be #1 on the list
The list isn't about BEST but decade defining and honestly when you mention the 70s to most people they'll probably think of disco and Staying Alive first above all else. Bohemian Rhapsody is the best song but it's not a song you'd mentally place in one particular decade.
God these lists get worse...
Half this list shouldn’t be on a list of the top songs of a decade, and the omissions are painful.
Where’s Marvin Gaye (What’s Goin On)? How about anything from early heavy metal (say, War Pigs by Black Sabbath, as it also scores points as a protest song)? More Than a Feeling (Boston)? 25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago)? Hotel California? The wrong Pink Floyd song (Comfortably Numb, Time, Money, Wish You Were Here?) Hell, Bruce (Born to Run) deserves to be on this list before the Sex Pistols and I hate Bruce. Billy Joel? Van Halen? Iron Maiden? Paul McCartney (musically, Band on the Run is a terrific song) or George Harrison (not My Sweet Lord though as it was a ripoff of He’s So Fine)? Eric Clapton (Layla)? Rush? Van Morrison (Moondance?) Carole King (I Feel the Earth Move, Natural Woman). The Who (off Who’s Next alone you have Won’t Get Fooled Again, Baba O’Riley, and Behind Blue Eyes.)
I realize not all of these can make the list, and I’m sure I’m still missing other worthy choices, but c’mon all of these are better than that mediocre Fleetwood Mac song (there are at least 4 songs on Rumours that could’ve gone over it also), any of the disco songs (just cause a genre was popular doesn’t mean it was good) or the Sex Pistols (I mean, if you’ve got to choose a punk song you have so many better choices).
chloemchll I agree with you, but in regard to Disco, regardless of whether it was good or not, it definitely was a defining part of 70’s music.
2:00 #9 Brick on the Wall song.......Sorry, teachers, this is not true!!!!
PLEASE , RE DO THIS VIDEO.... AND RE - ADJUST THE No. ! !!!!
No let it be????
What about Aerosmith, Dream On or Sweet Emotion. Can’t stand that disco crap. Hotel California, Fly Like an Eagle, Smoke on the Water. Some great tunes people forget about. You don’t hear people crankin disco. When you think of the 70’s, you think of songs like Sweet Home Alabama, Midnight Rider or Fly By Night. It’s called Classic Rock. Disco Sucks
Nitro Speed disco may suck to you, but it definitely defined the 70’s every bit as much as classic rock.
I’m sorry but we will rock u and bohemian rhapsody should be number 1
8:58 that transition is so smooth 😍
Personally, I feel that there was *so* *much* *more* to 70s music than disco, and that while notable, it was a far cry from being what "defined" the decade musically.
Also, David Bowie wasn't that big. But how is there no Black Sabbath or Kiss on this list.
The Sex Pistols? No one listened to them.
i was 14 in 72, this list is BS.
Sorry WatchMojo, below is the definitive list of the top 10 songs of the 70s:
1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Don't Stop Me Now
3. We are the Champions
4. Somebody to Love
5. We Will Rock You
6. Killer Queen
7. You're My Best Friend
8. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
9. Seven Seas of Rhye
10. March of the Black Queen
'nuff said. Honorable mention to: Keep Yourself Alive, Love of My Life, Now I'm Here
I prefer Queen
How about a show about the top ten skilled actors you probably never heard of with a list of credits.
How do you figure that "Go Your Own Way" was not an immediate hit? Myself and practically everybody else on the planet owned a copy of "Rumours" back in 77!
Hello Black Sabbath anywhere? They should be up the top of this list with Queen and Led Zeppelin, but they aren't even mentioned I this whole video! Also what the actual fuck are the bees gees doing on here, this video was a total shit show
In what world is Staying Alive more influential than Stairway To Heaven?
Glad queen isn't up at number 1
I thought "Waterloo" was ABBA's signature song, but I don't completely disagree with WatchMojo on "Dancing Queen".
10. brick house
09. one way or another
08. life on mars
07. come and get your love
06. getting right back to ware we started from
05. i will survive
04. hooked on a fealing
03. staying alive
02. bohimeon rhapsody
01. spirit in the sky
my top 10 songs of the 70,s
In my opinion The chain was better than Go on your own way.
Stair way to heaven should be #1
1: Stairway To Heaven
2: Bohemian Rhapsody
3: Free Bird
(Personally I'd switch 2 and 3 but 3 wasn't as successful as 2)
4: Paranoid
5: Comfortably Numb
6: Hotel California
7: Piano Man
8: Stayin' Alive
9-10: Idfk man
Jerks bohemian rhapsody is the best
I love the strength and pure passion that comes from Freddie’s voice and I’m glad that it is in front of Imagine because it has so much more power and heart put into it and pure vocals
Really? You guys think that Staying Alive is better than Stairway to Heaven? I can give you some many reasons why Stairway to Heaven is better than Staying Alive.
Stairway to Heaven at number 2? This list could only have been made by someone who was not around at the time.
No Smoke on the water or Hotel California
No band on the run or let it be? This list sucks
Hotel California is an Honorable Mention? WTF!?
Some of the best ones were in the honorable mentions lol
Using the live version of “Stairway” was a huge, but HUGE mistake! These guys found studio perfection, but live, it sounds so thin.
I wanted "Heroes" up there as #1...
Where is Blondie's Rapture?
WHY is Bohemian Rhapsody NOT number 1??!!!?!??
Good Lord. How can you not have "Born to Run" at least somewhere in the top 10?
bohemian rhapsody should have been #1
No Temptations? Papa Was a Rolling Stone
The 70s was the best decade to be born in 😎
Wow Watchmojo, not including Born To Run, Layla, Heroes, London Calling fuck yall
If you realize every video where Queen is on the list they either say the same 2 things and videos
Not very honorable putting Freebird as just an honorable mention. But "dancing queen" as Top 10 is just STUPID
Sweet child o’ mine????
TJ4 wrong decade by several years
80s
How TF is Another Brick In The Wall At #9! It should easily at least be in the top 5. Smh
Great video, all these songs are incredibly well known, and the order of songs is very debatable but you chose well!
No Baba O'Riley, or Hotel California, or Stairway to heaven. What a shame these people don't know about music
The 70s were the best decade of music. You ruined putting a disco song. Disco, is more for the 80s.And, you forgot,Band on the Run, All Things Must Pass, Layla, Wild Horses , etc
Lu Blanco disco disappeared in the 80’s, it was much more solid in the 70’s
SANTANA - CAT STEVENS - THE WINGS - ROD STEWART - STYX - KANSAS !!!!!
GENESIS - FLEETWOOD MAC - SUPERTRAMP - CHICAGO !!!!!
It's hard to just pick 10...there were so many great songs.