I'm watching an infomercial "Pop Goes The 70's"

[Archae]

We had some really shitty tunes back in the 70's too!

[Lochloosa]

1. This comes to mind...

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[Archae]

2. Oh ick!

How about this one?

[Lochloosa]

3. Toss up.

[Ken Burch]

11. That one was a complete butchering of a classic song by Jacques Brel

The original has a TOTALLY different feeling, much more like an ACTUAL dying person might feel...unlike Terry Jacks' version, where the guy sounds like he's stoked to be terminally ill.

[Lochloosa]

4. And we can't forget this classic.

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[Archae]

5. I actually like that song...

I didn't listen to it for years afterwards, it got played to DEATH!
Almost as bad as "Hotel California" and "Stairway to Heaven."

[KamaAina]

22. And Free Bird.

[RebelOne]

6. I loved that song. n/t

[Nedsdag]

29. It's on the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack

The soundtrack debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts.

[BlueJazz]

33. Escape is in my top 10 of the most ridiculous, cornball, irritating noise I've ever heard.

To actually make a Fun song about cheating on your spouse.

[orleans]

7. here's a few bad ones

I googled horrible songs of the 70s and found an extensive list--the ones I’m in agreement with are as follows:

Abba - knowing me, knowing you, dancing queen, take a chance on me, waterloo
Morris Albert - feelings
America - horse with no name
America - lonely people
America - I need you
Paul Anka - having my baby
Atlanta rhythm section - imaginary lover
Bad company - rock & roll fantasy
Bee gees - how deep is your love
Bellamy brothers - let your love flow
Chuck berry - my ding a ling
Blue swede - hooked on a feeling
Debby boone - you light up my life
Bread - make it with you
Glen Campbell - rhinestone cowboy
Captain & Tennille - do that to me one more time, muskrat love, shop around
Eric carmen - all by myself
Carpenters - sing, top of the worlc
Shaun Cassidy - da doo ron ron
Harry chapin - cat’s in the cradle
Cher - half breed
Chicago - baby what a big surprise
Chicago - If you leave me now
Eric Clapton - wonderful tonight
Joe cocker - you are so beautiful
Commodores - three times a lady
Daddy dewdrop - chick a boom (don’t ya jes love it)
Mac davis - baby don’t get hooked on me
Sammy davis - the candy man
Dawn - knock three times, tie a yellow ribbon
Bo Donaldson & the haywoods - billy don’t be a hero
Carl douglas - kung fu fighting
Dr. hook - only 16, sharing the night together, when you’re in love with a beautiful woman
Eagles - best of my love, lying eyes, new kid in town, take it to the limit

more at link:
http://www.furious.com/perfect/badsongs.html

[Archae]

8. Harry Chapin did NOT do any bad songs!

This list is BLASPHEMY!!!

[orleans]

9. come on...be honest...cat's cradle was not a great song n/t

[Archae]

10. If compared to Harry's other tunes, you're right.

But compared to "Diary" by Bread?

'Nuff said.

[orleans]

12. agree. n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

17. What's wrong with Cat's In The Cradle?

It's a song about a man who never has time for his son, then regrets it later in life.

[orleans]

19. yes, i get it. just too corny and saccharine, cliche and predictable

i wrote a lot of poetry back in that era--it was easy to fall into that "making a statement in a not so subtle way" trap

but there's no accounting for the majority's taste. cat's in the cradle made it to number 1 on the charts but his song "taxi" only reached number 24.

just as the song "seasons in the sun" by terry jacks hit number 1 and his former band, the poppy family, hit number 2 with "which way you goin' billy?"

morris albert's song, "feelings," hit number 6 and, according to a friend who played piano bars/lounges & private parties, it was the most requested song for awhile. it was as if people who viewed music as background or a pastime couldn't get enough of it while people involved in the creative end of the spectrum and held a passion for music couldn't stand it.

[Art_from_Ark]

35. Granted, the '70s were the Decade of Schlock

The Carpenters, Captain and Tennille, Donny and Marie, et al. So I agree with most of your list. I really liked a lot of the British Invasion stuff from the '60s, but quickly started losing interest in contemporary music after the Mersey Beat started to fade away. But Cat's in the Cradle was one of the few songs of the '70s that really resonated with me.

[CBGLuthier]

15. I still would take every one and I do mean every one of those songs over anything on

the charts today.

Most of those are actually good songs but people like to shit on things they themselves do not like.

and anyone who does not like Harry Chapin can go do something nasty to themselves.

[orleans]

16. i loved harry chapin. i did not love cat's cradle. i don't have to love blindly to love. n/t

[sharp_stick]

18. GET OFF MY LAWN!

I remember Granddad saying the same thing to me way back when.

[KamaAina]

20. So you're not in agreement with anything after the E's?

And please, no way is Chicago on such a list. I know there are Eagles haters out there, and not just in Dallas. And you'd better be glad southlandshari doesn't come around here anymore, or she'd have your butt in a sling for putting the Commodores on there! Of the other Alabama act on there, Captain and Tennille (at least she is), "Shop Around" can live.

[orleans]

21. the list was just getting too long and extensive for me to continue

not every chicago song was great
not every eagles song was great
& three times a lady sucked (imo) ( i liked "sail on"--does that count?)

but life after the commodores was good--
running with the night was pretty good (although the video is stupid)

[SwankyXomb]

23. I can't hate "Top of the World"

It might not be the best song, but it's linked to some very good memories.

[Nedsdag]

31. Shonen Knife's version is better

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[Rhiannon12866]

25. Yikes! Some good choices there!

[Nedsdag]

30. I can listen to ABBA all day

Some of the songs on this list are my personal guilty pleasure songs from the 1970s.

Not the Chuck Berry song though.

[orleans]

32. that's so funny! i never met anyone who such a thing about abba songs! n/t

[MrScorpio]

37. America? AMERICA???

No way.

[Tom Kitten]

13. Is that the one hosted by England Dan and John Ford Crowley?

Or is that a different one "Soft Rock Classics"? Well I guess it makes no nevermind...I've thought of taping one of these classics and maybe going out and scoring some angel dust so I can site and gaze in slack jawed amazement, not comprehending what I am watching... "Precious and Few" by Climax! "Key Largo" by Bertie Higgins? Christopher Cross! Dino Vanelli! Barry Manilow! My brain is melting! I worked at a Pizza Hut out of high school back in the day and the jukebox was full of nothing but these kind of songs!
People wanting to rock out would always play "Summer Breeze" by Seals and Croft...Hey! At least that song had an electric guitar in it!

[orleans]

27. summer breeze was a good song--very cool & mellow

a totally kick-back-get-a-little-high-and-enjoy-the-summer,-life,-youth

ah youth!!!

[BlueJazz]

34. Yes it is/was and a fun song to play ! Nice Chords

[Tom_Foolery]

14. Yeah, they were crap; but they were fun to listen to...

They hold some fond memories for a lot of people. I bet if you search for any of them on YouTube, you'll find that many of them have been viewed hundreds of thousands or millions of times. The surprising thing is, there are many young people who really enjoy listening to these oldies. If the radio stations back then didn't have these songs to fill their music logs, we would have heard the same songs over and over again a lot sooner than we did.

[WinkyDink]

24. But then there's Elton John and "Your Song" (1970) to redeem the decade.

[orleans]

26. that is a great song n/t

[lame54]

28. because they can't get the rights to the real songs

[pinboy3niner]

36. I remember driving around in my convertible roadster with my quad 8-track cranked up

CCR's 'Up Around the Bend' was great on the road, and Quincy Jones' 'Soul Saga (Song of the Buffalo Soldier)' was great for the way it was engineered for the sound to travel around all 4 speakers. Good times!