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Assuming most of us are the "sandwich generation " this should be fun!


What, in your opinion is the worst 70's song?


I'll start.


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I'm Generation X, but I grew up listening to a lot of the older stuff thanks to my mom...and I nominate "Beast of Burden" by the Rolling Stones as the worst 70s song. I absolutely abhor that song for some reason, maybe because it sounds like that one creepy old guy at every bar/club that would stagger over to all the women drunk as a skunk still thinking he looks sexy trying to pick people up lol. That's the image I get when I hear it. The title is apropos though. It is pretty beastly.
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My song would be . . .
the theme from "The Exorcist" - I think the song is Tubular Bells or something like that.
I'm not googling it to check for accuracy 'cuz even the thought of it scares me. Just typing out that movie name has me a little shook . . . . :o

I used to hear that on the radio as a wee lass - I shared a room with an older sister and she controlled the décor, the music, etc. She knew it scared my grade-school booty, so she would crank up that clock radio up tp 11. I think the tinny, scratchy sound made it more upsetting. That bitch.
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NeedHelpWithMom Mar 2020
Never saw that movie. I was a wuss. My friends went. I didn’t want to see it. I heard the song but the song didn’t bother me because I didn’t see the movie so I didn’t have the association.

Sorry that it disturbed you. I can see how it would.
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Worst - Paul Anka - Having My Baby! Sick and not creative.

One of my favorites - Shango, a sort of obscure group, never did many songs. The hit song that used to be on the radio no matter where we were in CA was even appreciated by our parents. It's silly, but creative lyrics were just fun.
Day After Day It's Slippin Away. Just cute and catchy. I wish I still had a recording of that song.
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xrayjodib Mar 2020
Houseplant,
I just googled it!! That's awesome!!
I don't remember it(I grew up in Ca), but it seems to me it's even more applicable today!
Thanks for sharing!
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Speaking of Santana my brother who is schizophrenic used to sit in front of the stereo and rock back and forth to Santana music. It soothed him somehow. I can't listen to Santana now without thinking of that.
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NeedHelpWithMom Apr 2020
Music can stir powerful up memories.
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Maybe there just isn't "the worst " 70's song!
How much fun is it to just slow our roll and take a stroll down memory lane?
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I just looked at a list from the 70's and I liked every song on the list except "Me And Mrs. Jones" so I will go with that one.
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Not all covers are bad. Santana's version of 'She's Not There' is magic, but you can't say that to anyone who liked The Zombies.
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xrayjodib Mar 2020
CM,
Anything Santana is magic!!
You're a true music lover!
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The problem is that at almost 50 (?😲) years on we've heard them all so many times that even the best of them have gotten a little bit... tired. Would it be blasphemous to admit I'd rather hear Lenny Kravitz's version of American Woman than the original by The Guess Who?
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Countrymouse Mar 2020
I saw that on Top of the Pops and I thought it was the scariest thing I had ever seen. He looked so angry! I mean the original, not the Lenny Kravitz. Who was it, then?
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We should give a positive shout out to "New York New York"
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Sylvia's Mother by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show.
Only because my name is Sylvia and I would hear this song so many times but actually the lyrics are not that bad.
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Since the confession that MacArthur Park actually has a fan here, I’ve been thinking of one of my favorite’70’s song that most people I know make fun of - Afternoon Delight. So upbeat. Anyone else?

”My mama always said when it’s right it’s right. Why wait until the middle of the cold dark night?”

”When everything’s a little clearer in the light of day and the night is always gonna be there anyway?”

Im off to YouTube it - I could use a pick-me-up this morning!
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Countrymouse Mar 2020
I loved that too. Admittedly when I used to skip along singing to it I had no idea what they were talking about. 😳
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Song: Having my Baby - Paul Anka. As a teen I used to want to throw up when it came on! Brick House would be runner up. ( and maybe most of the disco stuff)
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CantDance Mar 2020
Havin' My Baby always made me want to hurl. Always turned it off when it came on the radio.
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Totally not a song but from the 70s.

Does anyone remember friendship cakes?

You know the ones that you gave the starter, sourdough?, but you had made a small cake and delivered it with the starter? If memory serves me right they were really tasty and so much fun to share.
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xrayjodib Mar 2020
I think I have one that's been in my freezer for 20yrs. Just kidding!
It was always awesome to share like that!!
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CM, you're right. It is both the best and the worst. I was overexposed at a tender age. It certainly has it charms.

I was going to say "Convoy" but it has many of the same qualities.

MacArthur Park also comes to mind, but I've always loved it
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Rainmom Mar 2020
Oh, Barb - say it isn’t so!!!

”...someone left the cake out in the rain and I’ll never have that recipe agaaaain”?!!
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Harper Valley PTA
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Countrymouse Mar 2020
Worst?

Or best best best truest best song ever in the entire history of school universes????

I've never heard it before, thank you! :)
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It's not a worst song, but was anyone else startled when they finally got round to listening to the words of 'The Happening'?

Lovely jaunty number, Diana Ross in fine voice, then lo and behold - it's absolutely miserable :(
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cwillie Mar 2020
I had to look that up - how did such dismal lyrics get been paired with that music?
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Soooo many candidates, so little time!

Yet, a choice must be made ... and ... it's ... a ... tie!

"Disco Duck" vs. "The Pina Colada Song."
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xrayjodib Mar 2020
Two real stinkers!!🤪
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This is actually older, but some of us probably remember ‘The Bloody Red Baron of Germany’ (10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or more, the Bloody Red Baron is running up a score). However if you were a teenager in South Australia, the ‘hit parade’ was played on a radio station owned by the Methodist Church, which disapproved of ‘Bloody’, a common swear word here. Each ‘Bloody’ was replaced with a ‘beep’ on the radio. People of my age still burst into song about ‘The Beep Red Baron of Germany’. That Beep Red Baron certainly ran up a score, trying to count the Beeps!
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xrayjodib Mar 2020
Sounds like a great song for a drinking game to me!!😉
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"In your mind you have capacities, you know

To telepath messages through the vast unknown

Please close your eyes and concentrate

With every thought you think
Upon the recitation we're about to sing..."


Any guesses?
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xrayjodib Mar 2020
My first thought would be The Doors , I don't think that's right. 🤔
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I nominate anything of any decade by Bob Dylan. And I refuse to wash my mouth out with soap and water!
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Countrymouse Mar 2020
I'm glad you said that! I didn't dare!
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It's supposed to be a classic but I'd be happy if I never heard Joan Baez sing The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ever again.
and now it's stuck in my head :(
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NeedHelpWithMom Mar 2020
I don’t think there is ever an artist where we like every song that they did. Or that some of them weren’t played way too many times.

Same thing with actors. I often think of very talented people who took subpar gigs because they were low on money, especially one too many divorces!
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First I was afraid
Then I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live
Without you by my side....
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xrayjodib Mar 2020
I will survive!! And I imagine so will this song!😋
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We Will Rock You...
You can't go to a football or hockey game and not hear it! It seriously needs to go away!
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xrayjodib Mar 2020
Emanes,
My first concert ever was was Queen at the Long Beach arena!
It was AWESOME!!
I do have to admit that We Will Rock You is overused, but I still love it!!
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Me and you and a dog named Boo
Song by Lobo.
I actually had a black lab named Boo. Awesome dog! Horrible song!
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NeedHelpWithMom Mar 2020
Sweet dogs. Ridiculous song! Hahaha
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Seasons in the Sun.

Ok I have a confession. This was played (& recorded onto vinyl!) by my primary school band... sung by children & accompanied by more children on recorders. Maybe with a teacher on piano. And I (OMG I am laughing so hard) played this on REPEAT - I could not get enough - for weeks! Sweet Caroline was the flip side. I was 5 & so pleased I was going to start at school soon so I could learn recorder too.

This was before my ABBA stage...

In case you ask... Yes my parents are still alive & no, I do not know how they lived through this.
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Countrymouse Mar 2020
Beatty I have been that parent. Hugs!
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My Ding-A-Ling got banned by the BBC, Can'tDance!

Someone high-up suspected he meant something rude. Surely not.
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xrayjodib Mar 2020
You mean to tell me that it wasn't about his bell??? Haha
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For a complete run-through of the desiderata of the 70s jet-set, how about "Where Do You Go To My Lovely?"

You talk like Marlene Dietrich
And you dance like Zizi Jeanmaire
Your clothes are all made by Balmain
And there's diamonds and pearls in your hair...

You live in a fancy apartment
Off the Boulevard Saint Michel
Where you keep your Rolling Stones records
And a friend of Sacha Distel

So look into my face Marie-Claire!
And remember just who you are
Then go and forget me forever
But I know that you still bear the scars...
Deep inside...

To be fair it is a pretty well-worked ballad. Just, you know, a bit... you don't know where to look.

PS. Oh. Released 1969. Dang, it doesn't count.
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xrayjodib Mar 2020
Ugh!!!
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Terry Jacks and "Seasons in the Sun." OMG, just awful. "We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun, but the stars we could reach, were just starfish on the beach."

Someone hold my barf bucket.

Oh, and "Havin' My Baby" by Paul Anka. Eeew. "Baby, Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" by Mac Davis. "My Ding-A-Ling" by Chuck Berry.

Somebody stop me.
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Countrymouse Mar 2020
Oh God the verse about his DOG! - "goodbye to you, my trusted friend..."

Brings tears to the eyes. Not in a good way.
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How about Sean Cassidy Da Doo Run Run. Horrible song. Also, Sad Eyes by Robert John. Another horrible song!!
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xrayjodib Mar 2020
Awesome Elaine!
Or should I say Awful! Lol
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