<p>The Cars
Heart</p>
<p>A few good things mentioned here (Bruce and the advent of punk, alternative) but overall the seventies make me cringe, summed up by Heart’s Magic Man,</p>
<p>the worst. song. ever. </p>
<p>It epitomizes freshman year at the school I hated, hallmate played it incessantly. Oh, wait a minute, that year also makes me think of Free Bird, and that awful song whose name was something like “and your eyes have the mist of the smoke of a diss-tant fire” which we parodied endlessly.</p>
<p>If you’re doing eighties–Bruce, REM, U2 would be naturals, I think.</p>
<p>Anyone remember that rap essentially hit national consciousness in the early 80s? You have Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa, then people like Kurtis Blow, KRS-One, Run-DMC, the Fat Boys, LL Cool J, and on to Public Enemy and N.W.A. towards the end of the decade. And in the middle, the advent of the Beastie Boys, too, with that quintessential '80s anthem “Fight For Your Right To Party”. Teachers loooove that!</p>
<p>I can actually sing Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight. My favorite verse is the one about Superman and Lois Lane.</p>
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<p>Hey, I liked Heart, particularly “Crazy on You”. Maybe because it was sophomore year at a college I loved and I was also in love at the time. And my roommate tended to play The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac. </p>
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<p>Now on this I agree with you!</p>
<p>'70s music was horrid.</p>
<p>Almost forgot Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon watching a live of performance on pbs now.</p>
<p>Also, The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed or Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Yes: Roundabout, I’ve Seen All Good People
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Lucky Man, Welcome Back My Friends
Cat Stevens: Peace Train, Moon Shadow, Oh Very Young
Patti Smith: Because the Night (Actually a Bruce Springsteen song)
Gil Scott Heron: The Bottle, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Whitey on the Moon</p>
<p>Death Before Disco</p>
<p>Shakedown Street Disco Dead</p>
<p>"Anyone remember that rap essentially hit national consciousness in the early 80s? You have Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa, then people like Kurtis Blow, KRS-One, Run-DMC, the Fat Boys, LL Cool J, and on to Public Enemy and N.W.A. towards the end of the decade. "</p>
<p>I was thinking that but it was not even close to “crossing over” back then. We were knee deep in it where I grew up in Queens ( okay, I had one foot out of the door by then). I did my Child Psychiatry Fellowship presentation about Public Enemy!</p>
<p>I love music threads.</p>
<p>A couple more 70’s staples</p>
<p>Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
Robin Trower: Bridge of Sighs</p>
<p>Shrinkrap: You’re wrong about rap not crossing over back then. “Rapper’s Delight” and “The Message” clearly crossed over to some substantial extent, and Run-DMC had its version of “Walk This Way”, recorded with Arrowsmith, that was a bona fide Top-40 hit. The Beasties – white, with metal samples – were the embodiment of hip-hop crossover.</p>
<p>By the end of the decade, you had DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince doing very mainstream-oriented hip-hop, and Vanilla Ice had already recorded “Ice, Ice Baby” (although it didn’t go national until 1990).</p>
<p>“You’re wrong about rap not crossing over back then.”</p>
<p>Hmmm! Your right! So, OP! How about sharing a few lines from “Rappers Delight” with your teacher? </p>
<p>My kids actually know this one!</p>
<p>[Sugarhill</a> Gang - Rapper’s Delight Lyrics - Rapper’s Delight - Lyrics On Demand](<a href=“http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/rappersdelightlyrics.html]Sugarhill”>Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight Lyrics)</p>
<p>PS I love Heart and I love Bohemian Rhapsody…“Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance always calls it to mind for me.</p>
<p>For the OP: almost every selection mentioned above was deeply hated and despised by many, many people even when it first came out. You will not ingratiate yourself with your teacher if you namedrop stuff she couldn’t stand. Think about the music that’s out now. Will you be impressed 20 years from now if somebody assumes that you liked [Britney/L’il Wayne/Hannah Montana/Taylor Swift/Death Cab for Cutie/whatever you hate]?</p>
<p>How can you put Death Cab in the same group as Hannah Montana?
;)</p>
<p>Think Foreigner - you just can’t go wrong with songs like “Hot Blooded”, “Cold as Ice” and especially “Feels like the First time” - they are timeless. I still know them all by heart.</p>
<p>late 70’s early 80’s - also Billy Joel - The Stranger - gosh who didn’t have that album memorized.<br>
“Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” - every high school had a Brenda & Eddie.
A classic make out song - “Only the good die young”</p>
<p>Forget disco - the 70’s were way more than disco.</p>
<p>ok- I’ll admit I still have the Eagles on my ipod.
Also Tom Waits- although he is bigger now than he was then. (" Way down in the hole", used in opening credits for The Wire, is his)
I love this description
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<p>I don’t want to stray too far from the Op’s topic- songs popular in the 70’s but…</p>
<p>yes, JHS i remember that. Rap certainly did not cross over in the 70’s. I remember “the Breaks” too, but that didn’t hit mainstream. I know Blondie’s Rapture was first rap song to make top 10(Jan ‘81), as the first to really hit mainstream. Though Rappers’ Delight came a yr earlier, it was big in clubs, but at the time was mostly a “club hit” and was actually only initially released on 12". Beginning my dj career in '82, I remember a funny thing. '82 and soon after, disco had essentially died and was often made fun of. When I’d play Queen’s “another one bites the dust” so many people would like it and often put a fist in the air and shout “rock and roll!” It always cracked me up because they didn’t know while the words may have been “rock”, the music was from Chic’s “good times”, how disco was that!</p>
<p>“A classic make out song - “Only the good die young””</p>
<p>??? That must have been quick!</p>
<p>Good catch can’t have the eighties without Foreigner 4 (1984)
If you need leverage:
“Twisting by the Pool” Dire Straits (1983)
“One Particular Harbour” Jimmy Buffet (1983)
“Be Good to Me” off Private Dancer Tina Turner (1984)
“Missing You” John Waite (1984)</p>