in the 70s - Top Ten Songs of the Seventies

Top Ten Songs of the Seventies

What are your top ten favorite songs from the 70s?

We also have pages on this topic devoted to the 80s and 90s

10. The Best Disco In Town by The Ritchie Family
This was such a good megamix of disco songs.
9. Disco Inferno by The Trammps
Just perfect.
8. The Robots by Kraftwerk
This song was like one of the first techno tunes and led the way for the dance and techno of today.
7. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
His best work, second only to 'Can You Feel The Love Tonight'.
6. Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd
This song revolutionised the music industry.
5. Rivers Of Babylon by Boney M
This song was good because it fused disco with world music.
4. Mandy by Barry Manilow
I love this ballad.
3. Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin
This was one of those songs that guitarists worldwide tried to learn the guitar riff to, and it still happens today.
2. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
Very good pop song by Queen... the masters of rock.
1. Popcorn by Hot Butter
This was one of the first synthesized songs and a good one too; it also has more than 500 covers.

10. Highway To Hell by AC/DC
Another kick a** band in 70's.
9. Hotel California by Eagles
One of the best song of theirs. I listen to anytime, it never gets old for me...
8. Double Vision by Foreiger
Love it. They are good band.
7. Smoke On The Water by Deep Purle
The sweetest guitar song ever made in the 70's.
6. School's Out by Alice Cooper
I sing it every summer when school lets out for the summer.
5. Riders On The Strom by The Doors
They kicked butt in 60's. Jim had the best voice ever.
4. American Woman by The Guess Who
Great song.
3. Dream On by Areosmith
One of the best songs ever made by them...
2. Kashmir by Led Zeppelin
Best song ever made!!
1. Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin
They kick butt in 70's and now.

10. Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd
It's one of my favourites, it's a classic, and it scared me clean out of my wits when I was a child. Good times.
9. Proud Mary by Ike & Tina Turner
One of the most high-energy songs of all time.
8. Fire And Rain by James Taylor
One of the first songs I remember making me sad, before I was old enough to know what sad was.
7. Lowrider by War
This song just sounds dirty.
6. The Chain by Fleetwood Mac
This song is like brainwashing - I know I'll never break the chain.
5. Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
This song makes me feel proud to be from Alabama, and I've never even been there.
4. American Woman by Guess Who
Maybe because I'm Canadian?
3. Live And Let Die by Paul McCartney & The Wings
It's a great song. What else can I say?
2. Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
It's not necessarily the second best song, technically, but David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust makes it the second best.
1. Imagine by John Lennon
Choosing this song as # 1 is trite, I know, but that doesn't make it less true.