What are the best songs of the '70s ? I one of the best songs of the years 1970-1979 decade have identified the following passages I have numbered in no particular order except for the top positions. Of course those who want to point out other songs in the comments is welcome.
Top 100 Songs of the '70s List
1) Imagine - John Lennon
2) Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
3) Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
4) Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
5) Hotel California - Eagles
6) Year of the cat - Al Stewart
7) Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
8) Father & Son - Cat Stevens
9) Baker Street - Gerry Raffert
10) Your Song - Elton John
11) Aqualong - Jethro Tull
12) Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 - Pink Floyd
13) Bridge Over Troubled water - Simon & Garfunkel
14) Let the music play - Barry White
15) Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
16) Knockin 'on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
17) Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
18) No woman, no cry - Bob Marley
19) Fantasy - Earth, Wind & Fire
20) Staying alive - Bee Gees
21) Do not let me be misunderstood - Santa Esmeralda
22) Heart of Glass - Blondie
23) Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
24) Message in a Bottle - Police
25) Have you ever seen the rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
26) My Sharona - The Knacks
27) We Will Rock You - Queen
28) Wild World - Cat Stevens
29) Let It Be - Beatles
30) What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
31) Confortambly numb - Pink Floyd
32) Hey You - Pink Floyd
33) Love is in the air - John Paul Young
34) Crocodile Rock - Elton John
35) How deep is your love - Bee Gees
36) Dancing Queen - ABBA
37) Heroes - David Bowie
38 ) Just the way you are - Barry White
39) Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
40) Love's Theme - The Love Unlimited Orchestra
41) Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
42) Hurricane - Bob Dylan
43) Theme From Mahogany - Diana Ross
44) Funkytown - Lipps Inc.
45) In the summertime - Mungo Jerry
46) Disco Inferno - The Trampss
47) You Make Me Feel - Sylvester
48) Hold The Line - Toto
49) Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
50) Mandy - Barry Manilow
51) God Save the Queen - The Sex Pistols
52) Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine - James Brown
53) The Knife - Genesis
54) Do not Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
55) Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez
56) Rocket Man - Elton John
57) Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
58) Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols
59) Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack
60) Piano Man - Billy Joel
61) Layla - Derek and the Dominos
62) Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
63) Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley
64) Good Times - Chic
65) before Stage One - Al Stewart
66) In the cage - Genesis
67) Gimme, gimme, gimme - Abba
68) Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
69) Desperado - Eagles
70) You're so vain - Carly Simon
71) MacArthur Park - Donna Summer
72) Paranoid - Black Sabbath
73) Help Me - Joni Mitchell
74) Changes - David Bowie
75) I Love America - Patrick Juvet
76) Maggie May - Rod Stewart
77) Spacer - Sheila & B. Destination
78) You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
79) Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
80) Highway to Hell - AC / DC
81) I'm not in love -10 DC
82) Goodbye stranger - Supertramp
83) Let's Stay Together - Al Green
84) Rock Lobster - B-52'S
85) Papa Was a Rollin 'Stone - The Temptations
86) Ladies' Night - Kool and the Gang
87) Rappers' Delight - The Sugarhill Gang
88) Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
89) Will not Get Fooled Again - The Who
90) Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan
91) Moondance - Van Morrison
92) The logical song - Supertramp
93) Dream On - Aerosmith
94) Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? - Rod Stewart
95) Jean Michael Jarre - Oxygene 4
96) Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
97) The Hustle - Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony
98) Train in Vain - The Clash
99) Is not No Sunshine - Bill Withers
100 ) Can not give you anything (but my love) - The Stylistic