have you got rhythm have you got soul
do you own a disco ball yeses aren’t
obligatory but they’ll help welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten decade
defining songs of the 1970s for this
list we looked at a combination of the
decades most commercially successful
songs as well as the most influential
records and the tracks that best reflect
the period
number ten anarchy in the UK Sex Pistols
don’t kick things off with Mohawks and
mayhem as the Sex Pistols remind us
exactly what their intentions were
anarchy in the UK was a pioneering Punk
track setting the tone for all the
anti-authoritarian music that has fallen
the release of its parent album was
delayed amid fears of controversy and
when the record did hit the shelves it
proved a catalyst for carnage society
was selling people short and the pistols
had had enough its anarchic maybe
cathartic and definitely and feminine
number nine another brick in the wall
part two Pink Floyd in the UK this was
the last number one of the decade and so
it’s creeps onto our list in style taken
from the similarly named album the wall
the record suggests the teachers are a
reason for reclusive behavior in
children and in adults
it’s a spooky look at the schoolroom
incredibly atmospheric and it has a hook
that will last for decades still to come
that the we don’t need no education
mantra is considered a grammatical
mistake just makes it all the more
awesome
number eight superstition
Stevie Wonder a black cat could cross
your path as you walk underneath a
ladder on Fridays of 13th and as long as
this song was on the radio you’d know
everything would be fun
doesn’t even contribute to how good this
record is there’s a rhythm that shimmies
through your body and a voice that
vibrates through your head
a song that was nearly released by Jeff
Beck it’s hard to believe it could have
been anyone else’s superstition is
Stevie Wonder at his funky finest
number seven dancing queen ABBA
for everyone’s favorite Swedish pop
group this has to be their signature
song
an unbelievable worldwide hit it topped
the charts in more than a dozen
countries and scored a top five spot
pretty much everywhere else
it’s simple lyrics positive message and
twinkling backing track had queens and
kings dancing everywhere
it’s euro pop and disco combined azshara
of music that stands on its own and one
that will forever be linked to ABBA
number six go your own way Fleetwood Mac
not as immediately successful as the
rest of our top ten go your own way
gained gradual success over a series of
reira leases and is now recognized as a
classic
written during a breakup between band
members it was a message from Lindsey
Buckingham to Stevie Nicks
in what must have been difficult
circumstances they got it together to
record an ultra personal song that would
speak to a generation
uncharacteristic rip-roaring guitar solo
is a motion in audio form
number five I Will Survive Gloria Gaynor
it’s so disco so snappy and it’s so so
good at number five Gloria Gaynor’s
alive and she’s making the most of it
though perhaps most easily applied to
romantic breakups it’s also an anthem
for anybody or any group of people that
finds themselves in a tough situation
it accompanies the underdog and it’s
fired up with attitude as a record it
survived and Venza
almost as popular today as it was back
then it captures the human spirit
perfectly
number four imagine John Lennon
often music goes beyond the microphone
and offers more than words and
instruments and John Lennon’s Imagine
this is one of the finest examples of
this it paints a picture for us of a
world in which there exists no divisions
no countries no religions just peace
an idea that he later confessed was
largely lifted from Yoko Ono’s art book
grapefruit it’s a message we can live
our lives by and a legacy that can truly
live on indefinitely
number three Bohemian Rhapsody Queen
okay hands up if you’ve ever tried to
sing this and hands up if you fail yep
that’s pretty much everyone Bohemian
Rhapsody is just one of those songs that
redefines what we previously thought
about music
in an era before MTV it’s video
accompaniment was part of the success
but the sheer ambition of the track is
what scored Queen their first American
top ten nine weeks atop the British
charts beating even we will rock you
onto our list it’s rock
it’s opera it’s life it’s brilliant
number two stairway to heaven Led
Zeppelin
Oh
and she’s fine
at over eight minutes long stairway to
heaven is an all-out epic record
lyrically it’s luxurious
it said that Robert Plant was reading
the Lord of the Rings while writing its
parent album and its influence is clear
the ambition is quite amazing and
atmospherically it’ll be forever hard to
beat
it harbors a spookiness that’s only
heightened by suggestions of satanic
messages within its makeup
and a beauty that no amount of devilry
could ever steal from it
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
number one stayin alive the BG’s at
number one it’s the epitome of what’s
known as the 70s signature sound disco
the Bee Gees wrote a few tracks for a
movie including stayin alive and in turn
became the faces of dancefloor fashions
Saturday Night Fever proved a huge
success thanks in no small part to this
high falsetto phenomenon the song put
the Gibb brothers atop worldwide charts
and got them a Grammy
it’s shown no signs of dying out and is
still go to disco it just demands to be
danced to
do you agree with our list
what’s your favorite 70 songs for more
trend-setting top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
do you own a disco ball yeses aren’t
obligatory but they’ll help welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten decade
defining songs of the 1970s for this
list we looked at a combination of the
decades most commercially successful
songs as well as the most influential
records and the tracks that best reflect
the period
number ten anarchy in the UK Sex Pistols
don’t kick things off with Mohawks and
mayhem as the Sex Pistols remind us
exactly what their intentions were
anarchy in the UK was a pioneering Punk
track setting the tone for all the
anti-authoritarian music that has fallen
the release of its parent album was
delayed amid fears of controversy and
when the record did hit the shelves it
proved a catalyst for carnage society
was selling people short and the pistols
had had enough its anarchic maybe
cathartic and definitely and feminine
number nine another brick in the wall
part two Pink Floyd in the UK this was
the last number one of the decade and so
it’s creeps onto our list in style taken
from the similarly named album the wall
the record suggests the teachers are a
reason for reclusive behavior in
children and in adults
it’s a spooky look at the schoolroom
incredibly atmospheric and it has a hook
that will last for decades still to come
that the we don’t need no education
mantra is considered a grammatical
mistake just makes it all the more
awesome
number eight superstition
Stevie Wonder a black cat could cross
your path as you walk underneath a
ladder on Fridays of 13th and as long as
this song was on the radio you’d know
everything would be fun
doesn’t even contribute to how good this
record is there’s a rhythm that shimmies
through your body and a voice that
vibrates through your head
a song that was nearly released by Jeff
Beck it’s hard to believe it could have
been anyone else’s superstition is
Stevie Wonder at his funky finest
number seven dancing queen ABBA
for everyone’s favorite Swedish pop
group this has to be their signature
song
an unbelievable worldwide hit it topped
the charts in more than a dozen
countries and scored a top five spot
pretty much everywhere else
it’s simple lyrics positive message and
twinkling backing track had queens and
kings dancing everywhere
it’s euro pop and disco combined azshara
of music that stands on its own and one
that will forever be linked to ABBA
number six go your own way Fleetwood Mac
not as immediately successful as the
rest of our top ten go your own way
gained gradual success over a series of
reira leases and is now recognized as a
classic
written during a breakup between band
members it was a message from Lindsey
Buckingham to Stevie Nicks
in what must have been difficult
circumstances they got it together to
record an ultra personal song that would
speak to a generation
uncharacteristic rip-roaring guitar solo
is a motion in audio form
number five I Will Survive Gloria Gaynor
it’s so disco so snappy and it’s so so
good at number five Gloria Gaynor’s
alive and she’s making the most of it
though perhaps most easily applied to
romantic breakups it’s also an anthem
for anybody or any group of people that
finds themselves in a tough situation
it accompanies the underdog and it’s
fired up with attitude as a record it
survived and Venza
almost as popular today as it was back
then it captures the human spirit
perfectly
number four imagine John Lennon
often music goes beyond the microphone
and offers more than words and
instruments and John Lennon’s Imagine
this is one of the finest examples of
this it paints a picture for us of a
world in which there exists no divisions
no countries no religions just peace
an idea that he later confessed was
largely lifted from Yoko Ono’s art book
grapefruit it’s a message we can live
our lives by and a legacy that can truly
live on indefinitely
number three Bohemian Rhapsody Queen
okay hands up if you’ve ever tried to
sing this and hands up if you fail yep
that’s pretty much everyone Bohemian
Rhapsody is just one of those songs that
redefines what we previously thought
about music
in an era before MTV it’s video
accompaniment was part of the success
but the sheer ambition of the track is
what scored Queen their first American
top ten nine weeks atop the British
charts beating even we will rock you
onto our list it’s rock
it’s opera it’s life it’s brilliant
number two stairway to heaven Led
Zeppelin
Oh
and she’s fine
at over eight minutes long stairway to
heaven is an all-out epic record
lyrically it’s luxurious
it said that Robert Plant was reading
the Lord of the Rings while writing its
parent album and its influence is clear
the ambition is quite amazing and
atmospherically it’ll be forever hard to
beat
it harbors a spookiness that’s only
heightened by suggestions of satanic
messages within its makeup
and a beauty that no amount of devilry
could ever steal from it
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
number one stayin alive the BG’s at
number one it’s the epitome of what’s
known as the 70s signature sound disco
the Bee Gees wrote a few tracks for a
movie including stayin alive and in turn
became the faces of dancefloor fashions
Saturday Night Fever proved a huge
success thanks in no small part to this
high falsetto phenomenon the song put
the Gibb brothers atop worldwide charts
and got them a Grammy
it’s shown no signs of dying out and is
still go to disco it just demands to be
danced to
do you agree with our list
what’s your favorite 70 songs for more
trend-setting top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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