1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket

[Charm Bison]

Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner

I know there's going to be a song I really like in every cut, but this one definitely stings. "Werewolves of London" better be in the final bracket.

[AKKOLADE]

More cuts

Brass Construction Movin'
Brigitte Fontaine & Art Ensemble of Chicago Comme à La Radio
Brotherhood of Man Save Your Kisses For Me
Brownsville Station Smokin' in the Boys Room
Burning Que hace una chica como tú en un sitio como este
C.J. and Co. Devil's Gun
Cabaret Voltaire Nag Nag Nag
Ike and Tina Turner Nutbush City Limits
James Gang Walk Away
Janis Joplin Mercedes Benz
Paul and Linda McCartney Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
Paul and Linda McCartney Monkberry Moon Delight


The Turners & James Gang tracks are great.

[maddiehue]

Hopefully the only hip hop song to chart in the 1970s (Rapper's Delight) makes it in purely on that?

[rylltraka]

Brownsville Station Smokin' in the Boys Room

This bracket will sure be the death of us alll

[AKKOLADE]

You shall all know my misery.

[AKKOLADE]

Hopefully the only hip hop song to chart in the 1970s (Rapper's Delight) makes it in purely on that?

Probably, though I don't feel terribly safe saying anything yet given I still have about 2700 songs to go through.

[AKKOLADE]

Today's cuts. Bolded songs are recommendations to check out.

Commodores - Three Times a Lady
Commodores - Machine Gun
Commodores - Still
Commodores - Brick House
Dave Edmunds - Queen of Hearts
Hello - New York Groove
Henry Gross - Shannon
Herb Alpert - Rise
Holly and the Italians - Tell That Girl to Shut Up
Horace Andy - Skylarking
Horace Andy - Natty Dread a Weh She Want
Hot - Angel in Your Arms
Hot Butter - Popcorn
Hot Chocolate - Every 1's a Winner
Hotlegs - Neanderthal Man
Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine - Alligators 427
Hugh Roy - Wake the Town
Hugh Roy and John Holt - Wear You to the Ball
Ian Hunter - Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Ian Hunter - Cleveland Rocks
Il était une fois - J'ai encore rêvé d'elle
Israel Vibration - The Same Song
J.D. Souther - You're Only Lonely
Jackie Moore - This Time Baby
Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way

[Auks Ran Ova]

Hot Butter - Popcorn

rip

[AKKOLADE]

More cuts from yesterday. Because of who I cut down this time, let me remind you of the one song per artist. (Clearly, I'm concerned about Blue Oyster Cult here)

Blue Öyster Cult - Astronomy
Blue Öyster Cult - Godzilla
Blue Öyster Cult - Cities On Flame with Rock and Roll
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Wait for Me
Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Sara Smile
Dave Edmunds - Here Comes the Weekend
Dave Edmunds - I Knew the Bride
Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knocking
Frankie Valli - Grease
Frankie Valli - My Eyes Adored You
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - The Night
Joe Jackson - Fools in Love
Joe Jackson - Sunday Papers
Joe Jackson - It's Different for Girls
John Fogerty - Rockin' All Over the World
John Fogerty - Almost Saturday Night
Johnnie Taylor - Cheaper to Keep Her
Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady
Journey - Lovin, Touchin, Squeezin
Journey - Lights
KC and The Sunshine Band - (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty
Kiss - Beth
Nick Lowe - So It Goes
Nick Lowe - Heart of the City
Ronnie Dyson - (If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?
Rose Tattoo - Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw
Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Roy Ayers - Running Away
Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
Ry Cooder - Little Sister
Sammi Smith - Help Me Make It Through the Night
Sammy Johns - Chevy Van
Scorpions - The Sails of Charon
Scotty - Draw Your Breakes
Scritti Politti - Shank Bloc Bologna
The Alan Parsons Project - Don't Let It Show
The Alan Parsons Project - The Raven
The Andrea True Connection - More, More, More
The Angels [Australia] - Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?
The Babys - Every Time I Think of You
The Babys - Isn't It Time
The Beatles - The Long and Winding Road
The Beatles - I've Got a Feeling
The Beginning of the End - Funky Nassau
The Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
The Boomtown Rats - Looking After No. 1
The Boys - First Time
The Brecker Brothers - Some Skunk Funk
The Brothers Johnson - I'll Be Good to You
The Buoys - Timothy
The Byrds - Chestnut Mare
The Chakachas - Jungle Fever
The Congos - Fisherman
The Congos - Ark of the Covenant
The Crusaders - Street Life
The DeFranco Family - Heartbeat, It's a Lovebeat
The Dictators - (I Live For) Cars and Girls
The Diodes - Tired of Waking Up Tired
The Dramatics - In the Rain
The Fatback Band - King Tim III (Personality Jock)
The Feelies - Fa-cé-la
The Floaters - Float On
The Flying Lizards - Money
XTC - Life Begins at the Hop
XTC - Science Friction
XTC - Statue of Liberty
XTC - This Is Pop?

[Belgium]

The Angels [Australia] - Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?

No way!

User was reminded not to swear in the high school section. -mgmt

[Auks Ran Ova]

Man, I'm excited to see which Rupert Holmes song will be making it.

[AKKOLADE]

More cuts.

Barbra Streisand - Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born) -
Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond - You Don't Bring Me Flowers -
Billy Preston - Will It Go Round In Circles - *
Billy Preston - You Are So Beautiful - *
Billy Preston and Syreeta - With You I'm Born Again -
Cher - Half-Breed -
Cher - Dark Lady - *
Eugenio Finardi - Extraterrestre -
Exile - Kiss You All Over - *
Five Man Electrical Band - Signs -
Gerry Rafferty - Right Down the Line - *
John Williams / The London Symphony Orchestra - Star Wars (Main Title) -
Kate Bush - Them Heavy People -
Kate Bush - Wow - *
Kate Bush - Moving -
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights - *
KC and The Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man -
KC and The Sunshine Band - Please Don't Go -
KC and The Sunshine Band - Keep It Comin' Love -
KC and The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight - *
Kris Kristofferson - Help Me Make It Through the Night -
Kris Kristofferson - Me & Bobby McGee - *
Neil Diamond - Song Sung Blue -
Neil Diamond - I Am... I Said -
Nick Lowe - I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass - *
Nino Rota - Love Theme from The Godfather -
Squeeze - Take Me I'm Yours - *
Squeeze - Cool For Cats -
Stephen Stills - Change Partners - *
Steve Goodman - City of New Orleans - *
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Sebastian -
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) -
Stevie Wright - Evie -
Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device - *
Subway Sect - Ambition -
Sui Generis - Canción para mi muerte - *
Swell Maps - Read About Seymor -
Syd Barrett - Feel -
Sylvester - Dance (Disco Heat) - *
Tom T. Hall - The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - *
Trinity - Three Piece Suit -

[AKKOLADE]

You should listen to pretty much all of these. Except for solo Jagger & Tie a Yellow Ribbon.

Bonnie Raitt Angel from Montgomery
Bonnie Raitt Love Has No Pride
Chicago Make Me Smile
Chicago Saturday in the Park
Chicago If You Leave Me Now
Dawn feat. Tony Orlando Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree
Derek and The Dominos Bell Bottom Blues
Eddie Money Baby Hold On
Glen Campbell Southern Nights
Grand Funk Railroad We're an American Band
Johnny Cash What Is Truth?
Johnny Nash Stir It Up
Kansas Dust in the Wind
Madness The Prince
Mick Jagger Memo from Turner
Nina Simone Baltimore
Nina Simone Mr. Bojangles
Pretenders Kid
Pretenders Stop Your Sobbing
Robert Palmer Every Kinda People
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Shirley Bassey Diamonds Are Forever
Vicki Lawrence The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
XTC Making Plans for Nigel
The Whispers And The Beat Goes On
The Fleshtones American Beat
Elton John Philadelphia Freedom
Elton John Take Me to the Pilot

[nycaqb1999]

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights - *

this is the darkest timeline

[kitakule]

let me remind you of the one song per artist.

How does this work with artists that spun-off from notable groups for a solo career (ex. Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, Eddie Kendricks and the Temptations)? In their cases, are they permitted one song with their group and one solo song?

[AKKOLADE]

Even more cuts.

Al Stewart On the Border
Al Stewart Soho (Needless to Say)
Al Stewart Time Passages
Alice Cooper Black Juju
Alice Cooper Ballad of Dwight Frye
Alice Cooper Welcome to My Nightmare
Alice Cooper Halo of Flies
Alice Cooper Only Women Bleed
Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper Under My Wheels
Alice Cooper Elected!
Alice Cooper Eighteen [I'm Eighteen]
Alice Cooper No More Mr. Nice Guy
Au bonheur des dames Oh! Les filles
Augustus Pablo King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown
Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead
Beau Dommage La Complainte du Phoque En Alaska
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy)
Black Uhuru Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods Billy Don't Be a Hero
Bob James Nautilus
Bobby Caldwell What You Won't Do for Love
Candido Jingo
Cartola O Mundo É um Moinho
Charles Aznavour Comme ils disent
Charlie Haden Song for Ché
Charlie Rich I Feel Like Going Home
Charlie Rich The Most Beautiful Girl
Cheap Trick Gonna Raise Hell
Cheap Trick He's a Whore
Cheap Trick I Want You to Want Me
Cheap Trick Dream Police
Chelsea Right to Work
Chris Norman & Suzi Quatro Stumblin' In
Chris Spedding Motor Bikin'
Clarence Carter Patches
Claude François Alexandrie Alexandra
Claude Nougaro Tu verras
Claudio Baglioni Sabato Pomeriggio
Colin Blunstone Say You Don't Mind
Crime Hot Wire My Heart
Crowbar Oh What a Feeling
Culture Two Sevens Clash
Dire Straits Lady Writer
Dire Straits Down to the Waterline
Dolly Parton I Will Always Love You
Dolly Parton Coat of Many Colors
Dolly Parton Here You Come Again
Dolly Parton Muleskinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)
Eric Clapton Motherless Children
Eric Clapton Blues Power
Eric Clapton Let It Grow
Eric Clapton Let It Rain
Eric Clapton Cocaine
Eric Clapton Lay Down Sally
Eric Clapton I Shot the Sheriff
Eric Clapton After Midnight
Frank Zappa Bobby Brown (Goes Down)
Frank Zappa Cosmik Debris
Frank Zappa Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
Frank Zappa/The Mothers Montana
Heart Magic Man
Heart Crazy On You
Janis Joplin Half Moon
Janis Joplin A Woman Left Lonely
Janis Joplin Move Over
Janis Joplin Cry Baby
Jimi Hendrix Machine Gun
Jimi Hendrix Dolly Dagger
Madness My Girl
Madness Night Boat to Cairo
Madness One Step Beyond
Peter Tosh Legalize It
Prince Soft and Wet
Prince I Feel For You
Ringo Starr I'm the Greatest
Ringo Starr Back Off Boogaloo
Smokey Robinson Quiet Storm
Smokey Robinson Baby That's Backatcha
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles I Don't Blame You At All
Styx Babe
Styx Renegade
The J. Geils Band Looking for a Love
The J. Geils Band Whammer Jammer
The J. Geils Band Give It to Me
The J. Geils Band (Ain't Nothin' But a) House Party
The Slits Instant Hit
The Slits Typical Girls
The Slits I Heard It Through the Grapevine
The Slits Shoplifting
Tuxedomoon No Tears
Tyrone Davis Turn Back the Hands of Time
Umberto Tozzi Gloria
Veneno Los Delincuentes
Village People San Francisco (You’ve Got Me)
Village People In the Navy
Village People Macho Man
Vox Dei Presente (El momento en que estás)
Warren Zevon Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Warren Zevon Werewolves of London
Warren Zevon Excitable Boy
Wayne Shorter feat. Milton Nascimento Ponta de Areia
Weather Report Birdland
William Bell Tryin' to Love Two

[AKKOLADE]

let me remind you of the one song per artist.

How does this work with artists that spun-off from notable groups for a solo career (ex. Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, Eddie Kendricks and the Temptations)? In their cases, are they permitted one song with their group and one solo song?

Good question. I usually separate them out, so they can have one entry under both. Exceptions are applied arbitrarily; the best example to me is that there's no real difference between solo Paul McCartney and Wings.

[Belgium]

Claude François Alexandrie Alexandra

I disagree with this opinion.

[rylltraka]

Even more cuts.
Alice Cooper Halo of Flies

Well, there goes that dark horse. But people should still listen to it, especially the prog people who I know are lurking around here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGOD1-NtxH8

[merv1618]

Heart Crazy On You

Brutal.

[Wartortullian]

Weather Report Birdland

Noooooo!

Thanks for the recommendation, Mik. Halo of Flies is excellent.

[Charm Bison]

Styx Renegade

What

Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead

WHAT

Warren Zevon Werewolves of London

WHAT

[kitakule]

Claude François Alexandrie Alexandra

I disagree with this opinion.

I'm with you on this

[AKKOLADE]

Hey, I could use some help. There's a million songs by David Bowie & The Rolling Stones on this list. If anyone would like to make an argument that any of these songs are the best by those artists - because, again, I'm choosing just one song - it'd help me save some time.

First, the Stones, for whom I'm probably going to pick Beast of Burden:

100 Years Ago
All Down the Line
Before They Make Me Run
Bitch
Coming Down Again
Dead Flowers
Far Away Eyes
Fool to Cry
Hot Stuff
I Got the Blues
I Just Want to See His Face
Let It Loose
Little Queenie
Loving Cup
Memory Motel
Moonlight Mile
Rip This Joint
Shattered
Shine a Light
Sister Morphine
Some Girls
Star Star
Sway
Sweet Black Angel
Sweet Virginia
Time Waits for No One
Torn and Frayed
Ventilator Blues
Winter

And now, Bowie, who will probably be represented by "Changes" or "Heroes" or "Young Americans" or one of like 20 other songs because this is going to be one of the hardest cutdowns I'll ever have to do:

A New Career in a New Town
Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
All the Young Dudes
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Andy Warhol
Art Decade
Be My Wife
Beauty and the Beast
Boys Keep Swinging
Breaking Glass
Can You Hear Me
D.J.
Diamond Dogs
Drive-In Saturday
Fantastic Voyage
Hang on to Yourself
Joe the Lion
John, I'm Only Dancing
Kooks
Look Back in Anger
Panic in Detroit
Queen Bitch
Quicksand
Stay
Sweet Thing
The Bewlay Brothers
The Width of a Circle
Time
TVC15
Warszawa
We Are the Dead
Wild Is the Wind
Word on a Wing

Thanks!

[Charm Bison]

I think All the Young Dudes should be counted separately from Bowie. Other than that, I agree with you.

[AKKOLADE]

That song is definitely Mott the Hoople’s.

[ryanrosenberg]

I was chatting with Fred about picking songs for the bracket, and he mentioned that sometimes a great album doesn't have any standout singles for the bracket. In the Stones' case, I think that's true of Exile on Main Street; the strength of the album lies in its consistency and its evocation of a very specific mood, neither of which can be conveyed all that well by one song.

So: my pick for best Stones song of the Seventies is Dead Flowers. It's Mick and Keith doing what they do best -- country and blues tinged throughout with sadness, sweetness, and humor.

Honorable mention goes to "Sister Morphine", "Sway", "Shine A Light", and "Lovin' Cup".

[rylltraka]

And now, Bowie, who will probably be represented by "Changes" or "Heroes" or "Young Americans" or one of like 20 other songs because this is going to be one of the hardest cutdowns I'll ever have to do:

Dear Fred,

I, like you, cannot easily pick between Bowie (practically his entire mainstream creative output was in the '70s), but I can offer you a truncated version of the list, even tho' it pains me to do so:

Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
Beauty and the Beast
Look Back in Anger
Panic in Detroit

For things not on this list, I have to assume that "Starman" and "Ziggy Stardust" are on the survivors list, and both are brilliant pop songs - if the choice isn't either of them, I would drop "Changes", "Heroes", and "Young Americans" in favor of "Golden Years", or, as a personal favorite, "Station to Station": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAj2iX9xqCo

[Stained Diviner]

(practically his entire mainstream creative output was in the '70s)

false

[AKKOLADE]

The 70s were probably the high water mark for Bowie, but he continued to put out strong work until literally days before his death.

[Stained Diviner]

The song "Space Oddity" was first released in 1969, and the album Let's Dance was released in 1983, just after he and Queen released "Under Pressure" in 1982. Let's Dance was his most popular album.

Bowie fans tend to like his 70s stuff best, which is fine, but he was very mainstream and somewhat creative during the 80s. That's also when he and Jagger did a horrible but popular cover of "Dancing in the Street".

[AKKOLADE]

That's also when he and Jagger did a horrible but popular cover of "Dancing in the Street".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkhIjG0DKc

[merv1618]

(practically his entire mainstream creative output was in the '70s)

false

[AKKOLADE]

Even more cuts.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive Takin' Care of Business
Daniel Guichard Mon vieux
Danny O'Keefe Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
Dave Holland Four Winds
Dave Mason Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave
David Bowie All the Young Dudes
David Soul Don't Give Up on Us
Debby Boone You Light Up My Life
Delroy Wilson Better Must Come
Delta 5 Mind Your Own Business
Dennis Brown Money In My Pocket
Dennis Coffey and The Detroit Guitar Band Scorpio
Dillinger Cocaine in My Brain
Dion Born to Be with You
Don Cherry Brown Rice
Donald Byrd Think Twice
Donnie & Joe Emerson Baby
Donny Osmond Puppy Love
Dorothy Moore Misty Blue
Double Exposure Ten Percent
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band Whispering/Cherchez la Femme/Se Si Bon
Dr. Hook Sylvia's Mother
Dwight Twilley Band I'm On Fire
Edoardo Bennato Il gatto e la volpe
Edward Bear Last Song
Eric Bogle And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Fairport Convention Sloth
Flash and the Pan Walking in the Rain
Four Tops Still Water (Love)
Franco Battiato L'era del cinghiale bianco
Gavin Bryars Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Geraldo Pino and The Heart Beats Heavy, Heavy, Heavy
Gianna Nannini America
Gilbert Bécaud La solitude ça n’existe pas
Gilbert O'Sullivan Alone Again (Naturally)
Gilberto Gil Expresso 2222
Gino Soccio Dancer
Gino Vannelli I Just Wanna Stop
Giorgio Gaber La libertà
Godley & Creme An Englishman in New York
GQ Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)
Grace Jones La Vie en rose
Graham Central Station The Jam
Gwen McCrae Rockin' Chair
Hank Williams, Jr. Family Tradition
Harmonium Pour un instant
Hawkwind Silver Machine
Héctor Lavoe El Cantante
Jacno Rectangle
Jaco Pastorius Donna Lee
Jacob Miller Tenement Yard
James Chance & The Contortions Contort Yourself
Janet Kay Silly Games
Janis Ian At Seventeen
Jean Ferrat Aimer à perdre la raison
Jerry Jeff Walker Up Against the Wall You Redneck Mother
Jimmy Cliff You Can Get It If You Really Want
John Denver Rocky Mountain High
John Denver Annie's Song
John Lennon & Yoko Ono Woman Is the N*gger of the World
Johnny Paycheck She’s All I Got
Kate and Anna McGarrigle Complainte pour Ste. Catherine
Kate and Anna McGarrigle Heart Like a Wheel
Leon Russell A Song for You
Tavares Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel
Ted Nugent Yank Me, Crank Me
Ted Nugent Cat Scratch Fever
The Cure Jumping Someone Else's Train
The Cure 10.15 Saturday Night
The Cure Killing an Arab
The Osmonds One Bad Apple (Don't Spoil the Whole Bunch)
The Walker Brothers No Regrets
The Walker Brothers The Electrician
Third World 96 Degrees in the Shade
Throbbing Gristle Hot on the Heels of Love
Throbbing Gristle United
Traffic John Barleycorn
Traffic Glad
Uriah Heep July Morning

[rylltraka]

(practically his entire mainstream creative output was in the '70s)

false

This is a small matter, but since I feel mildly impugned, I want to submit some explanatory words here. Don't take it the wrong way - I'm a big Bowie fan and own most of these albums. Here's my breakdown of the David Bowie discography:

David Bowie - 1967 (debut - no acclaim)

The albums people listen to
Space Oddity - 1969 (breakthrough)
The Man Who Sold the World - 1970
Hunky Dory - 1971
Ziggy Stardust - 1972
Aladdin Sane - 1973
Pin Ups - 1973
Diamond Dogs - 1974
Young Americans - 1975
Station to Station - 1976
The Berlin Trilogy
Low - 1977
Heroes - 1977
Lodger - 1979
Bowie's commercial early-80s second wind
Scary Monsters - 1980
Let's Dance - 1983

His admittedly-weak mid-80s stuff
Tonight - 1984 (last single, "Blue Jean", to be on the greatest hits album Changesbowie)
Never Let Me Down - 1987

Later-career stuff; sometimes critically acclaimed, not commercially relevant
Black Tie White Noise - 1993
Outside - 1995
The Buddha of Suburbia - 1995
Earthling - 1997 ("I'm Afraid of Americans", his last pre-posthumous charting single)
Hours - 1999
Heathen - 2002
Reality - 2003
Outside - 2004
The Next Day - 2013
Blackstar - 2017

I feel like my statement, that his mainstream output is mostly '70s, still stands.

[ryanrosenberg]

John Denver Rocky Mountain High

Thank goodness

[Wartortullian]

John Denver Rocky Mountain High

Thank goodness

Agreed. I hate the song, but I also don't want to betray my state.

[Noble Rot]

Hopefully I'm not too late to the party

My pick for Bowie's song is Heroes
My pick for the Rolling Stones' song is All Down the Line or Tumbling Dice

Another artist who had an amazing seventies output is Stevie Wonder. This is Superstition's game to lose, but I think all of the following are also deserving candidates (especially Living for the City, which is better than Superstition IMO.)
Living for The City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc0XEw4m-3w
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgT9QJ2htMc
Higher Ground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wZ3ZG_Wams
Sir Duke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6fPN5aQVDI
As https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWhMyOs0pCQ

As a final note, I know it's super long, but Whipping Post from At Fillmore East should also be considered.

[Ethnic history of the Vilnius region]

Hopefully I'm not too late to the party

My pick for Bowie's song is Heroes
My pick for the Rolling Stones' song is All Down the Line or Tumbling Dice

Another artist who had an amazing seventies output is Stevie Wonder. This is Superstition's game to lose, but I think all of the following are also deserving candidates (especially Living for the City, which is better than Superstition IMO.)
Living for The City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc0XEw4m-3w
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgT9QJ2htMc
Higher Ground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wZ3ZG_Wams
Sir Duke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6fPN5aQVDI
As https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWhMyOs0pCQ

As a final note, I know it's super long, but Whipping Post from At Fillmore East should also be considered.

I'm not sure which Bowie or Rolling Stones, but those are solid choices. Stevie Wonder is incredibly hard to determine. Absolutely agree on Whipping Post.

[AKKOLADE]

Even more cuts:

10cc The Wall Street Shuffle
10cc I'm Mandy Fly Me
10cc Rubber Bullets
10cc Good Morning Judge
10cc Dreadlock Holiday
10cc The Things We Do for Love
ABBA Eagle
ABBA Voulez-Vous
ABBA Money, Money, Money
ABBA The Name of the Game
ABBA Does Your Mother Know?
ABBA Fernando
ABBA Mamma Mia
ABBA Knowing Me, Knowing You
ABBA Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
ABBA S.O.S.
ABBA Waterloo
ABBA Take a Chance on Me
Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn After the Fire Is Gone
Dionne Warwicke and Spinners Then Came You
Dr. Feelgood Back in the Night
Dr. Feelgood Sneakin' Suspicion
Dr. Feelgood Milk and Alcohol
Dr. Feelgood Roxette
Dr. Feelgood She Does It Right
Dr. John Junko Partner
Dr. John Such a Night
Jeff Wayne The Eve of the War
Jerry Garcia Sugaree
Jilted John Jilted John
Jimmie Dale & The Flatlanders Dallas
Jimmy "Bo" Horne Dance Across The Floor
Jo Jo Gunne Run, Run, Run
Joe Gibbs African Dub
Joe Tex I Gotcha
John Kongos He's Gonna Step on You Again
John Lennon I Found Out
John Miles Music
John Paul Young Love Is in the Air
John Stewart Gold
Johnny "Guitar" Watson Superman Lover
Johnny Bristol Hang On in There Baby
Johnny Clarke None Shall Escape the Judgement
Johnny Rodriguez Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico
Johnny Thunders You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
Joseito Fernandez Guajira Guantanamera
Jr. Walker & The All Stars Way Back Home
Junior Murvin Police and Thieves
Karen Young Hot Shot
Ken Boothe Everything I Own
Kevin Coyne Eastbourne Ladies
Kirsty MacColl They Don't Know
Klaatu Calling Occupants (Of Interplanetary Craft)
Kool & The Gang Hollywood Swinging
Kool & The Gang Spirit of the Boogie
Kool & The Gang Summer Madness
Kool & The Gang Ladies Night
La Revolución De Emiliano Zapata Nasty Sex
Labi Siffre I Got the...
Lamont Dozier Going Back to My Roots
Larry Wallis Police Car
Latimore Let's Straighten It Out
Lee Dorsey Yes We Can
León Gieco Sólo le pido a dios
Leon Haywood I Want'a Do Something Freaky to You
Lester Bangs Let It Blurt
Lew Lewis Boogie on the Street
Linda Jones Your Precious Love
Lindisfarne Lady Eleanor
Lio Le Banana Split
Little Joe y la familia Las Nubes
Little River Band Help Is On Its Way
Liza Minnelli Cabaret
Lluís Llach L'estaca
Lonnie Liston Smith Expansions
Loretta Lynn The Pill
Loretta Lynn One's on the Way
Los Jaivas Todos juntos
Los Tigres del Norte Contrabando y traición
Loudon Wainwright III Be Careful, There's a Baby in the House
Loudon Wainwright III Dead Skunk
Loudon Wainwright III The Swimming Song
Loudon Wainwright III School Days
Loudon Wainwright III Rufus Is a Tit Man
Loudon Wainwright III Motel Blues
Lyn Collins Think (About It)
Lynyrd Skynyrd You Got That Right
Lynyrd Skynyrd I Know a Little
Lynyrd Skynyrd The Ballad of Curtis Loew
Lynyrd Skynyrd Tuesday's Gone
Lynyrd Skynyrd What's Your Name
Lynyrd Skynyrd Saturday Night Special
Lynyrd Skynyrd Gimme Three Steps
Lynyrd Skynyrd Simple Man
Maceo and The Macks Cross the Track (We Better Go Back)
Machine There But for the Grace of God Go I
Mahmoud Ahmed Mela Mela/Erè Mèla Mèla
Major Harris Love Won't Let Me Wait
Malo Suavecito
Manal Jugo de tomate
Marie & Les Garcons Re-Bop
Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)
Martin Circus Disco Circus
Max Berlin Elle et Moi
Mekons Where Were You?
Mel and Tim Starting All Over Again
Mental as Anything The Nips Are Getting Bigger
Métal Urbain Panik
Michael Chapman Postcards Of Scarborough
Michel Sardou La Maladie d'amour
Michigan & Smiley Nice Up the Dance
Mickey Newbury An American Trilogy
Mink DeVille Spanish Stroll
Misfits Night of the Living Dead
Misty in Roots Man Kind
Paul and Linda McCartney Too Many People
Paul and Linda McCartney Another Day
Paul McCartney and Wings Listen to What the Man Said
Spinners Working My Way Back to You - Forgive Me, Girl
Spinners Mighty Love, Part 1
Spinners One of a Kind (Love Affair)
Spinners The Rubberband Man
Spinners It's a Shame
Spinners Could It Be I'm Falling in Love
Stevie Wonder I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)
Stevie Wonder Send One Your Love
Stevie Wonder Pastime Paradise
Stevie Wonder Joy Inside My Tears
Stevie Wonder Heaven Help Us All
Stevie Wonder If You Really Love Me
Stevie Wonder Boogie On Reggae Woman
Stevie Wonder Isn't She Lovely
Stevie Wonder As
Stevie Wonder Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours
Stevie Wonder I Wish
Stevie Wonder You Haven't Done Nothin'
Stevie Wonder Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing
Stevie Wonder You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Stevie Wonder Higher Ground
Stevie Wonder Living for the City
Stevie Wonder Sir Duke
The Guess Who Share the Land
The Guess Who No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
The Rolling Stones Sister Morphine
The Rolling Stones Sway
The Rolling Stones Loving Cup
The Rolling Stones Dead Flowers
The Rolling Stones Shine a Light
The Rolling Stones 100 Years Ago
The Rolling Stones All Down the Line
The Rolling Stones Before They Make Me Run
The Rolling Stones Bitch
The Rolling Stones Coming Down Again
The Rolling Stones Far Away Eyes
The Rolling Stones Fool to Cry
The Rolling Stones Hot Stuff
The Rolling Stones I Got the Blues
The Rolling Stones I Just Want to See His Face
The Rolling Stones Let It Loose
The Rolling Stones Little Queenie
The Rolling Stones Memory Motel
The Rolling Stones Moonlight Mile
The Rolling Stones Rip This Joint
The Rolling Stones Shattered
The Rolling Stones Some Girls
The Rolling Stones Star Star
The Rolling Stones Sweet Black Angel
The Rolling Stones Sweet Virginia
The Rolling Stones Time Waits for No One
The Rolling Stones Torn and Frayed
The Rolling Stones Ventilator Blues
The Rolling Stones Winter
Todd Rundgren A Dream Goes On Forever
Todd Rundgren Couldn't I Just Tell You
Todd Rundgren Dust in the Wind
Todd Rundgren International Feel
Todd Rundgren Can We Still Be Friends
Todd Rundgren Hello It's Me
Van Halen Jamie's Cryin'
Van Halen Eruption
Van Halen Dance the Night Away
Van Halen Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Van Halen You Really Got Me
Wings Mull of Kintyre

[Belgium]

Lio Le Banana Split

This is less annoyance at it being cut, and more general surprise at it being on the list in the first place.

[Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone]

Even more cuts:

Jeff Wayne The Eve of the War

THE CHANCES OF ANYTHING COMING FROM MARS ARE A MILLION TO ONE. BUT STILL THEY COOOOOOOOOOOME

(please tell me something from War of the Worlds makes it through. If you've never listened to this album, please go and do so)

[merv1618]

Rufus Is a Tit Man

what's the point now

[bretthogan43]

Even more cuts:

ABBA Eagle
ABBA Voulez-Vous
ABBA Money, Money, Money
ABBA The Name of the Game
ABBA Does Your Mother Know?
ABBA Fernando
ABBA Mamma Mia
ABBA Knowing Me, Knowing You
ABBA Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
ABBA S.O.S.
ABBA Waterloo
ABBA Take a Chance on Me

So let's just cut out the group the pretty much defined the '70s, that's cool

[ryanrosenberg]

Even more cuts:

ABBA Eagle
ABBA Voulez-Vous
ABBA Money, Money, Money
ABBA The Name of the Game
ABBA Does Your Mother Know?
ABBA Fernando
ABBA Mamma Mia
ABBA Knowing Me, Knowing You
ABBA Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
ABBA S.O.S.
ABBA Waterloo
ABBA Take a Chance on Me

So let's just cut out the group the pretty much defined the '70s, that's cool

Presumably these songs are being cut because they are not "Dancing Queen"

[kitakule]

Even more cuts:

ABBA Eagle
ABBA Voulez-Vous
ABBA Money, Money, Money
ABBA The Name of the Game
ABBA Does Your Mother Know?
ABBA Fernando
ABBA Mamma Mia
ABBA Knowing Me, Knowing You
ABBA Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
ABBA S.O.S.
ABBA Waterloo
ABBA Take a Chance on Me

So let's just cut out the group the pretty much defined the '70s, that's cool

Presumably these songs are being cut because they are not "Dancing Queen"

Same goes for the Stevie Wonder songs and "Superstition." I get that we want to prevent a few artists clogging up the bracket, but some definitive 70's hits are getting chopped because of this one song per artist rule. Maybe we can consider expanding the bracket and shortening voting time to compensate for the increased amount of entries?

[AKKOLADE]

Trust me, there is more than enough songs without doubling up on artists.

[AKKOLADE]

To hopefully prevent people from freaking out that I'm cutting some of the biggest artists of the decade, would you like me to keep my shortlist posted somewhere in this thread?

[Cheynem]

Seems like this exercise could have best been done the same way the NCAA does things--give autobids to 40 or so "must-have artists" and then assess the one-hit wonders.

[Stained Diviner]

You should not prevent people from freaking out.