Boardsies Best Song of the 70s - Live Thread

Kolido

A great winner, not really surprising.

Thanks for the great work RBT, really enjoyed following and found some new songs along the way.

Worthy winner. Thanks for running the show, Trout.

Didn't throw in any nominations meself but enjoyed voting.

Zaph

Good competition that, even if the winner was hardly a shocker. Thanks for running it rainbowtrout, you played a blinder, especially considering how fast the thread was going at times.

I still think a disco song should have been in the final

My noms

Eric Clapton - Layla
Donna Summer - I feel love
Rose Royce - Car Wash
Bee Gees - you should be dancing
Barbra Streisand - the way we were
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Marvin Gaye - what’s going on
Joan Armatrading - love and affection
The Temptations - papa was a rollin stone
10cc - I’m not in love

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Great comp rainbowtrout - fair play for running it.

My 10 Nominees...

Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way ; https://youtu.be/oiosqtFLBBA
Elton John - Tiny Dancer ; https://youtu.be/0FjWM9VasZw
Dolly Parton - Jolene ; https://youtu.be/Ixrje2rXLMA
ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! ; https://youtu.be/XEjLoHdbVeE
CHIC - Everybody Dance ; https://youtu.be/aKmJxpKKvYM
Toto - Hold The Line ; https://youtu.be/htgr3pvBr-I
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swings ; https://youtu.be/h0ffIJ7ZO4U
Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son ; https://youtu.be/P5ZJui3aPoQ
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights ; https://youtu.be/Fk-4lXLM34g
Elvis Presley - Burning Love ; https://youtu.be/0SUC8sdP5eI

Some of which I still think fell far too early.

rainbowtrout

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Thanks for all your hard work, rainbow xxxx

Was it as good for you as it was for us?

Yes it was actually. I was wondering if I'd feel conflicted not being able to vote on certain matches, but I was so busy keeping track of them, that it didn't arise.

Zaph

Here's my list:

Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
Black Betty - Ram Jam
One Step Beyond - Madness
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone - The Temptations
Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed
Heroes - David Bowie
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
My Best Friend's Girl - The Cars
Ça Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand

rainbowtrout

These were the most popular nominations




Born to Run Bruce Springsteen 5
Go Your Own Way Fleetwood Mac 5
Dream On Aerosmith 4
Life on Mars David Bowie 4
Heroes David Bowie 4
Wuthering Heights Kate Bush 4
I Feel Love Donna Summer 3
What A Night (December 1963) Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons 3
Somebody to Love Queen 3
Black Betty Ram Jam 3
Psycho Killer Talking Heads 3
Teenage Kicks The Undertones 3

Tauriel

Thank you rainbowtrout for a great game and reveal. I'm thrilled Queen came out victorious.

Here were my nominations

AC/DC - Jailbreak
AC/DC - Can I Sit Next to You, Girl
Ram Jam - Black Betty
ABBA - SOS
Bee Gees - Jive Talkin'
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
Queen - Somebody To Love
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Aerosmith - Dream On
Stevie Wonder - Superstition

rainbowtrout

So I was surprised to see Space Oddity make it to the final ahead of Heroes/Life on Mars. Life on Mars would have been my own preference. Incidentally Bohemian Rhapsody only had two nominations, I presume as everyone was expecting someone else to nominate it. I was wondering for a good few days when the nominations were coming in if it would get any!

rainbowtrout

I think Abba, while not everyone's cup of tea suffered a similar fate to Radiohead in having so many nominations, that there wasn't the same desire to see a song advance as they still had others in the race. And as was pointed out Dancing Queen was not nominated at all.


So anyone up for a 60s competition?

Tauriel

rainbowtrout wrote: »

So anyone up for a 60s competition?

I would definitely need the help of Google for a 60s competition, it's a number of decades before my time.

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rainbowtrout wrote: »

So anyone up for a 60s competition?

Yep, have been having a little think about who I'd nominate for a few days, if there were a '60s comp. There are some classics I'd love to put forward... and then I'll be just as frustrated as I was in this comp when they get voted out in favour of something far interior...

A few of my 70s contenders were actually 60s. I’d submit a list again.

Kolido

I wonder if we ran these contests yearly, would opinion change much?

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Kolido wrote: »

I wonder if we ran these contests yearly, would opinion change much?

There's only one way to find out...

rainbowtrout

Kolido wrote: »

I wonder if we ran these contests yearly, would opinion change much?

Unless last year's winner was excluded for one year at a time....

rainbowtrout

I'd be happy to run a 60s one if there was interest.... unless somebody else would like to do it.

Electric Nitwit

rainbowtrout wrote: »

I'd be happy to run a 60s one if there was interest.... unless somebody else would like to do it.

I'll nominate Space Oddity

Necro

Go for it RT

I'll have to do some serious research to find 10 decent 60s songs but will endeavour to do so

Kolido

rainbowtrout wrote: »

I'd be happy to run a 60s one if there was interest.... unless somebody else would like to do it.

Could you place a rule please, no beatles or elvis allowed?

rainbowtrout

Necro wrote: »

Go for it RT

I'll have to do some serious research to find 10 decent 60s songs but will endeavour to do so

I suspect the Beatles might feature heavily in this competition... but couldn't point at a specific song that would stand out as much as Bohemian Rhapsody.

Deserving winner.
Thanks for running rainbowtrout

Here was my nominations

The undertones... Teenage kicks.. 1978
Talking heads... Psycho killer... 1977
Iggy pop..... Lust for life..... 1977
The doors..... Roadhouse blues... 1970
Buzzcocks..... Ever fallen in love..... 1978
Aerosmith..... Dream on..... 1973
The runaways..... Cherry bomb..... 1976
The kinks..... Lola...... 1970
Ram Jam..... Black Betty..... 1977
T-Rex..... Children of the revolution..1972

Man Vs ManUre

This is bullsh1t. Hotel California is by far the best song of the 70s and one of the best of all time. Where did it even finish I can’t be arsed reading back through the pages??

Necro

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

This is bullsh1t. Hotel California is by far the best song of the 70s and one of the best of all time. Where did it even finish I can’t be arsed reading back through the pages??

It got knocked out in the semi finals by Space Oddity.

rainbowtrout

Kolido wrote: »

Could you place a rule please, no beatles or elvis allowed?

I think that would lead to mutiny. I think most posters limit themselves anyway when nominating. Personally I'm not a big fan of elvis and he wouldn't feature in my 10

lassykk

Surprised Bohemian Rhapsody was only nominated once or twice. I nominated it and would find it highly amusing if I was the only one who nominated the winner when I struggled to even pull together a list of 70s songs (had to take 2 out after nominating them and they didn't qualify)

rainbowtrout

rainbowtrout wrote: »

So anyone up for a 60s competition?

Up for it but need to question the "charts" rule - can we submit something that was released as a single but didn't necessarily have commercial chart success? Otherwise very influential bands like The Velvet Underground and The Stooges would be out of the running.

ArnoldJRimmer

rainbowtrout wrote: »

I'd be happy to run a 60s one if there was interest.... unless somebody else would like to do it.

I'd love a 60s competition, and would probably struggle to narrow it down to ten. The Noughties I struggled thinking of contenders for

Declan A Walsh

Great competition. I missed out on the later stages but it was fun to read. I liked all the semi-finalists except for Don’t Stop Me Now which irritates me!

Bohemian Rhapsody is a great song. That said, there are other songs by Queen I would have preferred, and I might have picked Space Oddity- not sure, tough choice.

It is interesting the ones that no-one nominated: other songs by 10cc, ANY songs by Hot Chocolate, Mud (Tiger Feet for example), other songs by various members of The Osmond family (I nominated Crazy Horses by The Osmonds and that was the only one!), more soul music, more Earth Wind & Fire, La Freak by Chic, more David Bowie, The Stranglers, The Jam and Do What You Wanna Do by Eddie & The Hot Rods.

rainbowtrout

Deleted User wrote: »

Up for it but need to question the "charts" rule - can we submit something that was released as a single but didn't necessarily have commercial chart success? Otherwise very influential bands like The Velvet Underground and The Stooges would be out of the running.

Personally I'm fine with that.

Irish Aris

Just back home to see a really worthy winner in this competition!!

Rainbowtrout, thank you very much once again, you were an excellent organiser

My 10 nominations were as follows:

David Bowie-Life On Mars
Abba-Waterloo
Kraftwerk-Autobahn
Queen-Somebody To Love
Jean Michel Jarre-Oxygene 4
Kate Bush-Wuthering Heights
The B-52's-Rock Lobster
AC/DC-Highway To Hell
Gary Numan/Tubeway Army-Are Friends Electric
Gary Numan-Cars

tusk

Sake. I missed this thread

Declan A Walsh

Another major omission was Rod Stewart. He had a tonne of hits in the 1970s.

These were my nominations:
Crazy Horses by The Osmonds
Roll Over Lay Down by Status Quo
Hold Your Head High by Argent
My Forbidden Lover by Chic
London Calling by The Clash
Heroes by David Bowie
Take Me to The River by Talking Heads
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) by Edison Lighthouse
Young Hearts Run Free by Candy Staton
One of These Nights by The Eagles

Most of them were only nominated by me!

One song that I meant to nominate and then forgot about was Mary of the Fourth Form by The Boomtown Rats!