Which five songs best convey to you the feeling of the 1970s?

Seventeen
Black water
The ink is black / the page is white
The night the lights went out in Georgia
On Top of the World
Energy crises '74
Age of Aquarius
You're so vain
Garden Party
Moondance
Wild World
Midnight at the Oasis
Man Machine
Yellow Snow
God Save the Queen
Bungle in the Jungle
Kodachrome
Diamond girl / Hummingbird
I am woman
I did my first couple hours of french kissing (I was in the 6th grade, she was 8th) to a 45 of Chick-a-boom. Reminds me of 'long haired overgrown hippie gnome in the hall of the mountain king'.
Oh crap, you even got 'playground in my mind' - exellent survey.
Couldn't do just five. ABC, 123,

Bee-gees. Night Fever
Carpenters. 'the one about love'
Disco Inferno
Abba 'Waterloo'
Slade 'Here it is Merry Christmas'

after the goldrush
can't get enough of your love
higher ground
ohio
and one of my own choosing: so into you- atlanta rhythm section
i was a teen in the 70's wooooohooooo

Other dance music songs. I can't remember their exact names now but if they'd been mentioned, it would've come back to me. I was mostly into disco/dance music at this time. I thought 70s music was mainly too mellow.

I recognise more from your list than Zang's. I like Garden Party

-Three Dog Night had 21 hit singles between 1969 and 1975. Funny how they seem to be completely forgotten now.

-What would the 70s have been without The Carpenters?

-...and Cat Stevens?

In 1985 I bought a cassette called "Cruisin' 1974". It seemed like the tackiest thing I could imagine at the time. I remember listening to it one time with a buddy, we were wasted on acid, it was totally cranked, we had all the lights out...It has the song "Midnight at the Oasis" on it...

-"Man Machine" is probably my all time favourite album...

Do you mean: "Goodbye To Love"? (The Carpenter's tune)

I was 7 when the 70s started and 17 when they ended.

Heart of Glass by Blondie

Funkytown by Lipps, Inc.

It's Raining Men by the Weathergirls (which, incidentally, the tune got ripped off for the movie FAME in the 80's)

Gimmee Gimmee Gimmee (A Man After Midnight)

Hot Stuff by Donna Summers

Dancing Queen by ABBA

The Logical Song "Please tell me who I am, Who I ammmmm, who I aaaaammmm..."

It's My Life (the Bosom Buddies theme)

I was -4 in 1979!

Aretha Franklin, respect
Kool and the Gang, Jungle Boogie
Edwin Starr, War
Marvin Gaye, I heard it through the grape vine
The Supremes, Stop in the Name of Love

Boston, Paul Simon, and Ted Nugent, but also Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zepplin, and Pink Floyd all the way, dude!

I Will Survive
My Sharona
You Sexy Thing
Sarah Smile
Rock The Boat

Ahh Yes! We can't forget Supertramp!

Dancing Queen has a special personal significance to me...

Once again, three of those tunes are from the 60s. You have a way of picking tunes ahead of their time!

"Rock The Boat" was on that "Cruisin' 1974" cassette I mentioned above too!

Here's the complete track listing:

The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies
When Will I See You Again? - The Three Degrees
TSOP - MFSB
Rock The Boat - The Hues Corporation
I Can Help - Billy Swan
Billy Don't Be A Hero - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods
Midnight At The Oasis - Maria Muldaur
Be Thankful Of What You've Got - William DeVaughn
Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Rock Your Baby - George McCrae

I have a huge 70's compilation. All on CD! It's wonderful!!!!!

sister golden hair,annie's song, one nation under a groove, soul rebel...AND anything by miss joplin, the dead or led zep

You can remove your asinine remark from my survey anytime before it qualifies Zang. >

i was 11 when it started and 20 in 1979..........

moondance, what a wonderful song!!!! i have loved that ever since college!!!!! still so great...

Where the hell are the Rolling Stones on your list, baby? I think "Miss You" encompasses it all.

Four dead in Ohio. War, good God, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing! I get by with a little help from my friends. I get high with a little help from my friends. Bye bye Miss American pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. Oh, black water, keep on rolling. I want to hear some funky Dixieland, Pretty mama, come and take me by the hand. Big wheel keep on turning. Proud Mary keeps on burning. Rolling on the river! Burn baby burn baby burn. Disco Inferno! Come on people, now, Smile on your brother, Everybody get together. Try to love one another right now.
(I think I picked more than five).

Many of them. Good survey!

lol Oops! I have a CD of 60's and 70's soul music that I love, and I just randomly picked my five favorites that I thought were from the 70's!

Quite all right! I was getting a little heat in qualification to the effect that the younger people would have problems with this. Not having been around back then and all...Hey! 500 years from now, do you think people will be able to tell the difference?

Oh well, I still think it's a really good survey. I'm not too good with the year that music came out. lol I wonder if the music we listen to now will even be remembered in 500 years. I can just picture these futuristic people listening to Britney Spears or something and saying "What were they thinking?!"

I can imagine an oldies channel of 2nd millenia music that plays Britney and gregorian monk chants, and people thinking all that 2nd millenia stuff sounds the same.

lol That would be pretty funny. To us, it is so much different.

Yay Edwin Starr! I love the song war!

Me, too! I said War! (Sing along, Jemmy) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!

War! Huh! yeah! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin'? Say it again y'all! War! Good god y'all...

led zeppelin-fool in the rain, james taylor-up on the roof, mantico-star wars theme/cantina band, elo-don't bring me down, wings-venus and mars/spirits of ancient egypt

Yay! Get down, Jemmy!

Best music in 1970s? You gotta be kidding!

lol

I wasn't alive in the 1970's so I have no idea.

Not the greatest selection of songs here.

too many to say