Acclaimed Music Top 35 Songs from 1974 poll

we are back after a Thanksgiving break.

now i'm starting to show my age as i don't know a bunch of these song.

This list: holy eff. 70s still probably my favorite decade for pop music.

It's weird to think Autobahn was released this early. I probably heard it for the first time a few years later, at the earliest. Maybe not until 80/81.

It's one of these, for me:

7 559 Labelle - Lady Marmalade
8 665 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby
9 743 Joni Mitchell - Help Me
13 1021 Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
16 1076 Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin'
17 1104 Linda Ronstadt - You're No Good
25 1724 The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again
27 1737 Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye
28 1768 Eric Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff
33 2003 Elton John - The Bitch Is Back

but I very much like a bunch of the others.

Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Patti Smith - Piss Factory
The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)
Gram Parsons - Return of the Grievous Angel
Queen - Killer Queen

I'm good with any of these. Finally voted Kraftwerk.

Man. Didn't 1974 have a reputation for a while for being a crap year musically? I can think of three instances of it being specifically snarked upon (Lester Bangs, The Simpsons, Gilmore Girls).

wow, plenty of cool stuff here! didn't know No Woman No Cry was this big even before the live version. the whole album (Natty Dread) is great of course.

narrowing it down to

6 514 Al Green - Take Me to the River
8 665 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby
9 743 Joni Mitchell - Help Me
10 761 Robert Wyatt - Sea Song
11 853 Joni Mitchell - Free Man in Paris
19 1297 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
26 1727 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - The Bottle
27 1737 Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye

crazy confession: I might prefer the Bread original to Boothe's version

SPARKS

the year before i arrived in america. a bunch of these are unfamiliar to me, but:

Bob Marley and The Wailers - No Woman No Cry
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Big Star - September Gurls
Al Green - Take Me to the River
Labelle - Lady Marmalade
ABBA - Waterloo
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
James Brown - The Payback
Queen - Killer Queen
Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

^ corny fuc

plus lol @ moonache new jersey

Rikki Don't Lose that Number

Man. Didn't 1974 have a reputation for a while for being a crap year musically? I can think of three instances of it being specifically snarked upon (Lester Bangs, The Simpsons, Gilmore Girls).

Don't forget the Stray Cats in "Rock This Town": "He was a real square cat, he looked to 1974..."

Trying to decide between Kraftwerk and Sparks.

voted the three degrees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqfXlIq6RE

1. "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," 2. "September Gurls," 3. "Rebel Rebel," 4. "Late for the Sky" (can't really defend that one--partly high school, partly Taxi Driver)

27 1737 Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye

Classic misheard lyric: my Methodist clergyman father once asked me: "Are they saying 'I never can say the Bible'?"

(Might not have been the Gloria Gaynor version though.)

Rikki

The 1974 recording of "No Woman No Cry" is surprisingly weak.

https://play.spotify.com/user/frazze/playlist/5SBYivmnebOMsu7o8BGR1T

not really feeling this year. might have to go with Steely Dan. love the Dan but not sure if "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" is in their Top 10.

Big Star over Kraftwerk, James Brown and Robert Wyatt

Never Can Say Goodbye is a gorgeous gorgeous song, though I prefer the Jacksons version.

A lot of artists I love here with songs that are nowhere near my favorites of theirs. (Big Star, Bowie, Stones, Green, Dylan)

My short list would be McCrae, Gloria Gaynor, Stevie, the Thompsons, Wyatt, Joni. Probably a coin flip between McCrae and Stevie.

GOD DAMN SPOTIFY WEB PLAYER

Also, the "Rock Your Baby" on the Spotify playlist is a rerecording, not the original version.

Stevie (political song for Michael Jackson to sing) narrowly over Labelle.

September Gurls vs Waterloo impossible. Abstain.

i'm not saying it was a bad year, every year for music has been great to spectacular. what i was trying to say is that there are less stone cold classics in this year compared to other years in the 70s.

I was torn until I saw Rikki.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Help Me VS Never Can Say Goodbye

Rikki is going to win this but Rock Your Baby should. Those two way ahead.

I liked 1974. Beginnings of disco, stoner rock is dying...Abba's first singles. Good riddance to bad rubbish (cf: shit Stones song).

Definitely a mellower year in a decade that favored "massive" hits. Was going to vote for Joni Mitchell then I realized that Lady Marmalade is on there.

Big Star

stoner rock is dying

N*E*R*D

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I'm sorry, but fucking Big Star. Ugh.

they're really pretty ok

plus eat me