Championship round: Acclaimed Music best of the best - ILM's number one Songs picks from the 1970's polls

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see for what came before, not going to redo as it takes too much time: Championship round: Acclaimed Music best of the best - ILM's number one Songs picks from the 1970's polls

Poll Results

Option	Votes
1977(tie) Donna Summer - I Feel Love 8	12
1971 Sly and the Family Stone - Family Affair 10	9
1979 Joy Division - Transmission 8	8
1970 Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up 11	6
1972 Stevie Wonder - Superstition 11	5
1975(tie) Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner 6	5
1977(tie) Television - Marquee Moon 8	4
1975(tie) Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run 6	4
1973 Iggy and The Stooges - Search and Destroy 8	4
1974 Big Star - September Gurls 11	2
1975(tie) 10cc - I'm Not in Love 6	2
1978(tie) Blondie - Heart of Glass 7	1
1976 Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way 9	1
1978(tie) The B-52's - Rock Lobster 7	1

― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 January 2014 02:37 (twelve years ago)

this is it

― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 January 2014 02:37 (twelve years ago)

Donna Summer -- I Feel Love

undeniable.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 30 January 2014 02:38 (twelve years ago)

other thread will be lock, this will be the real thread with the correct 1979 Joy Division song.

― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 January 2014 03:05 (twelve years ago)

voting curtis but it's possible i'm being subconsciously influenced by his respectable ubiquity in the closed thread

― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Thursday, 30 January 2014 04:23 (twelve years ago)

i feel love vs marquee moon for me

― nathey, Thursday, 30 January 2014 10:00 (twelve years ago)

ho hum

well i'm voting for one of the women singers, yet again. it's between "Heart of Glass," "I Feel Love" or "Go Your Own Way."

― Bee OK, Saturday, 1 February 2014 02:24 (twelve years ago)

"Rock Lobster"

― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 1 February 2014 02:25 (twelve years ago)

well the backing vocals at least in that last one.

― Bee OK, Saturday, 1 February 2014 02:25 (twelve years ago)

Sly obvs

― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 February 2014 07:04 (twelve years ago)

Superstition

Roadrunner
Family Affair
Transmission

― g simmel, Saturday, 1 February 2014 12:50 (twelve years ago)

Ig.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 1 February 2014 14:02 (twelve years ago)

this is actually the real poll now, mods never did lock that thread for me.

― Bee OK, Monday, 3 February 2014 04:19 (twelve years ago)

I Feel Love is the most important and influential record here, but I might throw a vote Curtis' way.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 3 February 2014 13:34 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 00:01 (twelve years ago)

my self imposed break starts now, sort have started already.

"Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio"

― Bee OK, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 16:38 (twelve years ago)

Family Affair just ahead of Move On Up.

― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 16:56 (twelve years ago)

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

― System, Thursday, 6 February 2014 00:01 (twelve years ago)

Combined with the other results:

Donna Summer - I Feel Love 12
Sly and the Family Stone - Family Affair 10
Stevie Wonder - Superstition 9
Joy Division - Transmission 9
Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up 7
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner 7
Television - Marquee Moon 7
Big Star - September Gurls 6
Blondie - Heart of Glass 4
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run 4
Iggy and The Stooges - Search and Destroy 4
10cc - I'm Not in Love 3
The B-52's - Rock Lobster 2
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way 1

― Bee OK, Thursday, 6 February 2014 06:09 (twelve years ago)

man I like "Transmission" just fine but it's probably the worst* song on this list

*well, I haven't heard the 10cc song

― charitable remainder unitrust (crüt), Thursday, 6 February 2014 06:15 (twelve years ago)

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