1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket

[kitakule]

Billy Joel Piano Man

So wait, is Billy Joel being cut completely? This is his signature song, if he's to be included then it would be weird to not use this one.

[Wartortullian]

Billy Joel Piano Man

So wait, is Billy Joel being cut completely? This is his signature song, if he's to be included then it would be weird to not use this one.

The Billy Joel pick is presumably Only the Good Die Young. While perhaps not quite as strong as Piano Man, it's still excellent.

Also, as an ex-Catholic, I fully endorse this song.

[merv1618]

Billy Joel Piano Man

So wait, is Billy Joel being cut completely? This is his signature song, if he's to be included then it would be weird to not use this one.

The Billy Joel pick is presumably Only the Good Die Young. While perhaps not quite as strong as Piano Man, it's still excellent.

Also, as an ex-Catholic, I fully endorse this song.

Only the Good is notably better than Piano Man, but I wouldn't put either in a top 100 of the seventies compilation.

[AKKOLADE]

These cuts put me under 350 to listen to.

Badfinger - Without You
Badfinger - No Matter What
Badfinger - Baby Blue
Big Youth - Ace Ninety Skank / S90 Skank
Big Youth - Screaming target
Bob Marley and The Wailers - War
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Lively Up Yourself
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Concrete Jungle
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Duppy Conqueror
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Kaya
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Natural Mystic
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Small Axe
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Soul Rebel
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Roots, Rock, Reggae
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Guava Jelly
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Punky Reggae Party
Bob Marley and The Wailers - 400 Years
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Trench Town Rock
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Waiting in Vain
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Is This Love
Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love?
Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
Buzzcocks - Boredom
Buzzcocks - Breakdown
Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays
Buzzcocks - Harmony In My Head
Buzzcocks - Promises
Buzzcocks - You Say You Don’t Love Me
Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go
Curtis Mayfield - We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue
Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman
Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Donna Summer - Dim All the Lights
Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand - No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
Eddy Mitchell - La dernière séance
Eddy Mitchell - Sur la route de Memphis
Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight
Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 - Expensive Shit
Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
Francesco De Gregori - Generale
Francesco De Gregori - Buonanotte fiorellini
Humble Pie - Hot 'n' Nasty
Humble Pie - I Don't Need No Doctor
Keith Jarrett - In Front
Meat Loaf - Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
Meat Loaf - You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
Michel Jonasz - Les vacances au bord de la mer
Michel Jonasz - J’veux pas qu’tu t’en ailles
Michel Jonasz - Super Nana
Renaud - Hexagone
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music - Editions of You
Roxy Music - Street Life
Roxy Music - Beauty Queen
Roxy Music - All I Want Is You
Roxy Music - Dance Away
Roxy Music - Re-make / Re-model
Roxy Music - Mother of Pearl
Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Roxy Music - Do the Strand
Roxy Music - A Song for Europe
Rush - Working Man
Rush - Xanadu
Rush - 2112
Rush - Fly by Night
Shuggie Otis - Information Ispiration
Shuggie Otis - Aht Uh Mi Hed
Steve Miller Band - Take the Money and Run
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
The Jam - Strange Town
The Jam - English Rose
The Jam - All Around the World
The Jam - The Butterfly Collector
The Jam - David Watts
The Temptations - Law of the Land
The Temptations - Masterpiece
The Temptations - War
The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
The Temptations - Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)
Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
War - Why Can't We Be Friends?
War - Slippin' into Darkness
War - Low Rider
Waylon Jennings - Dreaming My Dreams with You
Waylon Jennings - Amanda
Waylon Jennings - Good Hearted Woman
Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
Willie Nelson - Moonlight in Vermont
Willie Nelson - Stardust
Willie Nelson - Whiskey River
Willie Nelson - Me and Paul
Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain

[jonpin]

Billy Joel Piano Man

So wait, is Billy Joel being cut completely? This is his signature song, if he's to be included then it would be weird to not use this one.

The Billy Joel pick is presumably Only the Good Die Young. While perhaps not quite as strong as Piano Man, it's still excellent.

Also, as an ex-Catholic, I fully endorse this song.

As a former Catholic myself, I concur, but I have noted that Billy Joel has said "It's not anti-Catholic, it's pro-lust."

[Belgium]

Renaud - Hexagone
Rush - Working Man
Rush - 2112
Rush - Fly by Night

pls

[Cheynem]

This bracket only does 80s Joel!

[merv1618]

Just a last second plug for Janis Ian's At Seventeen

[AKKOLADE]

Well past due are these cuts:

Barry White Let the Music Play
Barry White It's Ecstasy When You're Lying Next to Me
Barry White I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Babe
Barry White Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up
Barry White You're the First, the Last, My Everything
Bob Marley and The Wailers Three Little Birds
Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus
Bob Marley and The Wailers One Love/People Get Ready
Bob Marley and The Wailers Jamming
Burning Spear Social Living
Burning Spear Slavery Days
Chic Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)
Chic I Want Your Love
Chic My Feet Keep Dancing
Chic At Last I Am Free
Chic Everybody Dance
Chic My Forbidden Lover
Chic Le Freak
Crosby & Nash To the Last Whale / Wind on the Water
Crosby, Stills & Nash Our House
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Almost Cut My Hair
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 4 + 20
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Find the Cost of Freedom
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Teach Your Children
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Helpless
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Woodstock
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Carry On
David Crosby Laughing
Deep Purple Lazy
Deep Purple Fireball
Deep Purple When a Blind Man Cries
Deep Purple Stormbringer
Deep Purple Child in Time
Deep Purple Black Night
Deep Purple Speed King
Deep Purple Woman from Tokyo
Deep Purple Burn
Deep Purple Space Truckin'
Deep Purple Strange Kind of Woman
Deep Purple Highway Star
Francesco De Gregori Rimmel
Genesis Can-Utility and the Coastliners
Genesis Watcher of the Skies
Genesis The Knife
Genesis Follow You Follow Me
Genesis The Musical Box
Genesis Firth of Fifth
Genesis The Cinema Show
Gram Parsons Return of the Grievous Angel
J.J. Cale Call Me the Breeze
J.J. Cale Crazy Mama
Jackson Browne Here Come Those Tears Again
Jackson Browne These Days
Jackson Browne Take It Easy
Jackson Browne Song For Adam
Jackson Browne My Opening Farewell
Jackson Browne Fountain of Sorrow
Jackson Browne The Load Out
Jackson Browne Before the Deluge
Jackson Browne The Pretender
Jackson Browne Running On Empty
Jackson Browne Late for the Sky
Jacques Higelin Pars
Jacques Higelin+A146 Champagne
Jean-Michel Caradec Ma petite fille de rêve
Kiss Detroit Rock City
Kiss Rock and Roll All Nite
Miles Davis Pharaoh's Dance
Neil Young Tonight's the Night
Neil Young Heart of Gold
Neil Young with Crazy Horse Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
Patti Smith Break It Up
Patti Smith Hey Joe (Version)
Patti Smith Kimberly
Patti Smith Easter
Patti Smith Group Because the Night
Patti Smith Group Dancing Barefoot
Patti Smith Group Rock'n'Roll N*gger
Patti Smith Group Frederick
Pere Ubu 30 Seconds over Tokyo
Pere Ubu Caligari's Mirror
Pere Ubu The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu Final Solution
Pere Ubu Non-Alignment Pact
Peter Frampton I'm in You
Peter Frampton Do You Feel Like We Do
Peter Frampton Baby I Love Your Way
Pink Floyd Time
Pink Floyd Have a Cigar
Pink Floyd Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2
Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd Money
Roxy Music Pyjamarama
Roxy Music The Thrill of It All
Roxy Music Virginia Plain
The Jam In the City
The Jam The Modern World
The Jam The Eton Rifles
The Stills-Young Band Long May You Run
The Wailers Get Up, Stand Up

[Auks Ran Ova]

The Jam The Eton Rifles

Okay, now this whole exercise is illegitimate.

[AKKOLADE]

The Jam The Eton Rifles

Okay, now this whole exercise is illegitimate.

"Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" is also a very good song. Those were the two I narrowed it down to.

[ryanrosenberg]

The Jam The Eton Rifles

Okay, now this whole exercise is illegitimate.

"Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" is also a very good song. Those were the two I narrowed it down to.

Yeah, "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" is fantastic.

[The Time Keeper]

I haven't paid attention to anything here for a while, but the fact that there's a 1970s music something and it isn't heavily dominated by Steely Dan makes me think no one participating knows anything about anything.

[AKKOLADE]

Only one song per artist is one of the rules for this.

[The Time Keeper]

You're typing words but these eyes ain't readin' son!

[The Time Keeper]

okay well them I'm submitting Kid Charlemagne as Steely Dan's entry. or maybe Deacon Blues. Who knows. Almost all of their songs are gold, Fred!

[AKKOLADE]

Well, I've finally cut down that original massive song of 5000+ or whatever it was to a little over 500 songs, with just one entry per artist.

I should note that I'm cutting out jazz songs for now. That's mainly concerning Miles Davis & Chick Corea; I either already advanced the rest or cut them. I feel like jazz is just a weird mix with what I'm trying to accomplish.

Here's the final list of cuts from this initial list.

Alain Chamfort Palais royal
Alain Chamfort Géant
Alain Souchon Allo Maman Bobo
Alain Souchon Bidon
Allen Toussaint From a Whisper to a Scream
Allen Toussaint Southern Nights
Allen Toussaint Night People
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Hard Workin' Man
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Big Eyed Beans from Venus
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Tropical Hot Dog Night
Dick Annegarn Coutances
Dick Annegarn Mireille
Donna Summer I Feel Love
Donna Summer Hot Stuff
Donna Summer Bad Girls
Donna Summer On the Radio
Donna Summer Last Dance
Donna Summer MacArthur Park
Donna Summer Try Me, I Know We Can Make It
Francesco Guccini Eskimo
Francesco Guccini Canzone delle osterie di fuori porta
Francesco Guccini L'avvelenata
Funkadelic Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
Funkadelic Let's Take It to the Stage
Funkadelic Can You Get to That
Funkadelic Cosmic Slop
Funkadelic Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
Funkadelic (Not Just) Knee Deep
Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove
Gary Glitter I Love You Love Me Love
Gary Glitter I'm the Leader of the Gang
Gary Glitter Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah)
Genesis Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
Genesis Carpet Crawlers
Genesis Supper's Ready
Genesis I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
Genesis Counting Out Time
George Harrison Crackerbox Palace
George Harrison Bangla-Desh
George Harrison Blow Away
George Harrison What Is Life
George Harrison Awaiting on You All
George Harrison Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
George Harrison All Things Must Pass
George Harrison Isn't It a Pity
Gérard Manset Royaume de Siam
Gérard Manset Il voyage en solitaire
Giorgio Moroder Chase
Giorgio Moroder (Theme From) Midnight Express
Giorgio Moroder From Here to Eternity
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Wake Up Everybody
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes The Love I Lost
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Bad Luck
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Don't Leave Me This Way
John Martyn Solid Air
John Martyn Just Now
John Martyn Bless the Weather
John Martyn May You Never
John Martyn Small Hours
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Ice Cream Man
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Egyptian Reggae
King Crimson Red
King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part I)
King Crimson Cat Food
King Crimson The Night Watch
King Sunny Adé Sunny ti de
Kraftwerk Spiegelsaal/The Hall of Mirrors
Kraftwerk Tanzmusik
Kraftwerk Neonlicht/Neon Lights
Kraftwerk Radioaktivität / Radioactivity
Kraftwerk Europa Endlos/Europe Endless
Kraftwerk Trans Europa Express/Trans-Europe Express
Kraftwerk Das Modell/The Model
Kraftwerk Die Roboter/The Robots
Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares Kalimankou denkou
Le Pamplemousse Le Spank
Lili Drop Sur ma mob
Lou Reed The Bells
Lou Reed The Kids
Lou Reed Sad Song
Lou Reed Street Hassle
Lou Reed New York Telephone Conversation
Lou Reed Caroline Says II
Lou Reed Wild Child
Lou Reed Vicious
Lou Reed Caroline Says I
Lou Reed Berlin
Lou Reed Coney Island Baby
Lou Reed Sweet Jane (Live)
Lou Reed Perfect Day
Lou Reed Satellite of Love
Lucio Battisti Emozioni
Lucio Battisti I giardini di marzo
Lucio Battisti Il mio canto libero
Lucio Dalla Com'e profondo il mare
Manfred Mann's Earth Band Father of Day, Father of Night
Manfred Mann's Earth Band Davy's on the Road Again
Manfred Mann's Earth Band Spirits in the Night
Marianne Faithfull Broken English
Marianne Faithfull Why'd Ya Do It?
Matching Mole O Caroline
Michel Polnareff Lettre à France
Mike Oldfield Guilty
Mike Oldfield Ommadawn (Part One)
New York Dolls Trash
New York Dolls Looking for a Kiss
New York Dolls Chatterbox
Nina Hagen Band African Reggae
Parliament Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)
Parliament Up for the Down Stroke
Parliament P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)
Patti Smith Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer (de)
Patti Smith Piss Factory
Patti Smith Free Money
Patti Smith Pissing in a River
Peter Gabriel Here Comes the Flood
Pierre Perret Le Zizi (ou l'éducation sexuelle à l'école)
Pierre Perret Lily
Pink Floyd Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Ramses Shaffy Ik Drink
Robert Wyatt Sea Song
Robert Wyatt I'm a Believer
Robert Wyatt Alife
Robin Lane & The Chartbusters Why Do You Tell Lies
Rose Royce I Wanna Get Next to You
Rose Royce Love Don't Live Here Anymore
Rose Royce I'm Going Down
Roy Harper When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease
Roy Harper Me and My Woman
Roy Harper The Same Old Rock
Sheila B. Devotion Spacer
Slade Get Down and Get With It
Slade Merry Xmas Everybody
Slade Far Far Away
Slade How Does It Feel?
Slade Coz I Luv You
Slade Gudbuy T'Jane
Slade Mama Weer All Crazee Now
Suicide Frankie Teardrop
Suicide Ghost Rider
Suicide Cheree
Suicide Rocket U.S.A.
The Doors L.A. Woman
The Doors Roadhouse Blues
The Doors Love Her Madly
The Doors Waiting for the Sun
The Doors Peace Frog
The Incredible String Band Dear Old Battlefield
The Isley Brothers Footsteps in the Dark
The Isley Brothers (At Your Best) You Are Love
The Isley Brothers The Highways of My Life
The Isley Brothers Harvest for the World
The Isley Brothers Summer Breeze
The Isley Brothers Fight the Power (Part I)
The Jackson Sisters I Believe in Miracles
The Modern Lovers Pablo Picasso
The Modern Lovers She Cracked
The Modern Lovers Girlfriend
The Move Do Ya
The Mutants So American
The Pop Group She Is Beyond Good and Evil
The Pop Group 3'38
The Pop Group We Are All Prostitutes
Véronique Sanson Bahia
Véronique Sanson Besoin de personne
Véronique Sanson Amoureuse
X-Ray Spex Identity
X-Ray Spex I'm a Cliché
X-Ray Spex Germ Free Adolescents
X-Ray Spex The Day the World Turned Day-Glo
Yves Simon Au pays des merveilles de Juliet
Yves Simon Diabolo menthe
Yves Simon J'ai rêvé New-York

[ryanrosenberg]

NASAT is over the people demand a bracket

[AKKOLADE]

I haven’t touched this since before NASAT. I am going to try to get something done soon. I will definitely get back to posting every single cut so Naveed has something to do with his spare time.

[merv1618]

I will definitely get back to posting every single cut

nah

[rylltraka]

No pressure, but I'm still holding out hope this gets finished at some future moment.

[AKKOLADE]

It’s on the periphery of my to do list. Won’t overlap with the 2010s tournament, since some people got bothered by the last one and the prospect of an immediate follow up.

[AKKOLADE]

I'm going to try to finish prepping this over the next few days.

[AKKOLADE]

I've seeded 130 songs for this. We'll have a bracket of 192, with 64 top seeds getting a bye and their second round opponents determined by a first round of 128 songs.

[AKKOLADE]

This monstrosity is finished. I’ll post the bracket and open voting soon.