VA - Best Songs of the Seventies (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CD's)
The 1970s was arguably the single decade of the 20th century when recorded music was most central to culture. There were, of course, fewer kinds of media competing for the average consumer’s time—television meant just a handful of channels, video games were the size of refrigerators and could be found in arcades. As the used vinyl bins of the world are still telling us, records were the thing. Labels were flush with cash, sales of LPs and singles were brisk, and record stores were everywhere. Home stereos were a standard part of middle-class culture. Analog recording technology was at its zenith, FM radio was ascendant, and the AM dial still focused on music. The children of the baby boom were coming into their late twenties and thirties—young enough to still be serious music consumers, but old enough to have their own generation of children who were starting to buy music.
And then there was the music itself. Disco, an entire cultural movement fueled by a genre of music—with massive impact on fashion, film, TV and advertising -was utterly ubiquitous. Rock music emerged from the ’60s as to go-to choice of white youth culture. Soul and funk were reaching new levels of artistry. Punk, the first serious backlash against the rock mainstream, came into its own. Records from Jamaica were making their way to the UK and, eventually, the U.S., changing sounds and urging a new kind of political consciousness. As culture moved in every direction at once, there were more great songs than anyone could count. (Pitchfork)
Here are 4 sets of the best music from the seventies (possibly?). Rather than picking the best songs in priority order (Which is near impossible to do) I have chosen to list these in year by year lots, ie 1970->1971 -> 1972 thru to 1979. There is a bit of everything that made the seventies exciting and wonderful. Enjoy!
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VA - Best Songs of the 1970s (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1 70-71
VA - Best Songs of the 1970s (A Butterboy Compilation) CD2 71-75
VA - Best Songs of the 1970s (A Butterboy Compilation) CD3 75-77
VA - Best Songs of the 1970s (A Butterboy Compilation) CD4 77-79
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Track list 1
01 Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up 08:51 1970
02 Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane 04:09 1970
03 Minnie Riperton - Les Fleur 03:20 1970
04 Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 03:11 1970
05 Black Sabbath - War Pigs 07:54 1970
06 Alice Coltrane - Journey Into Satchidananda 06:31 1970
07 Beatles - Let It Be 04:08 1970
08 Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll 04:46 1970
09 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord 04:30 1970
10 Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me 04:32 1970
11 James Taylor - Fire And Rain 03:14 1971
12 David Bowie - Life On Mars 03:55 1971
13 Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine 02:06 1971
14 Joni Mitchell - A Case Of You 04:24 1971
15 David Bowie - Changes 03:29 1971
16 Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks 07:10 2007
17 Funkadelic - Can You Get To That 02:52 1970
18 Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 03:53 1971
19 James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine 05:18 1971
20 Sly & the Family Stone - Family Affair 03:07 1971
21 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain 10:21 1971
22 Rolling Stones - Wild Horses 05:37 1971
23 Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat 05:16 1971
24 Who - Baba O'riley 05:09 1971
25 Kinks - Lola 04:44 1971
Track list 2
26 Miles Davis - Right Off 26:54 1971
27 Al Green - Lets Stay Together 03:20 1972
28 Big Star - Thirteen 02:35 1972
29 Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone 05:17 1972
30 Al Green - Love And Happiness 05:05 1972
31 Nick Drake - Pink Moon 02:04 1972
32 Can - Vitamin C 03:33 1972
33 Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone 11:46 1972
34 Stevie Wonder - Superstition 04:26 1972
35 Lou Reed - Perfect Day 03:39 1972
36 Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street 03:50 1972
37 Caetano Veloso - You Don T Know Me 03:49 1972
38 Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come 03:13 1972
39 Bob Marley & the Wailers - Concrete Jungle 04:16 1972
40 Stevie Wonder - Living For The City 07:22 1973
41 Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand The Rain 02:33 1973
42 Isley Brothers - That Lady (Parts 1 And 2) 05:35 1973
43 Can - Future Days (Edit) 03:24 1973
44 Doobie Brothers - Black Water 04:15 1974
45 Dolly Parton - Jolene 02:42 1974
46 Neil Young - On The Beach 06:59 1974
47 Big Star - September Gurls 02:48 1974
48 O'jays - For The Love Of Money 07:2 1974
49 Kraftwerk - Autobahn 22:47 1974
50 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 05:51 1975
Track list 3
01 Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run 04:31 1975
02 Patti Smith - Gloria 05:56 1975
03 Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue 05:41 1975
04 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 05:21 1975
05 David Bowie - Young Americans 05:09 1975
06 10cc - Im Not In Love 03:59 1975
07 Brian Eno - St. Elmo's Fire 03:0 1975
08 Patti Smith - Land 09:26 1975
09 Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop [Single Version] 02:12 1976
10 Fela Kuti - Zombie 12:26 1976
11 Modern Lovers - Roadrunner 04:07 1976
12 Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves The Sunshine 04:00 1976
13 Abba - Dancing Queen 03:51 1976
14 Stevie Wonder - As 07:09 1976
15 Donna Summer - I Feel Love 05:49 1977
16 David Bowie - Heroes 06:11 1977
17 Television - Marquee Moon 10:47 1977
18 Fleetwood Mac - Dreams 04:17 1977
19 Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express 03:55 1977
20 Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up (Part 1) 04:04 1977
21 Althea and Donna - Uptown Top Ranking 03:49 1977
22 Talking Heads - Psycho Killer 04:30 1977
23 Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 03:05 1977
24 Fleetwood Mac - The Chain 04:27 1977
25 Bob Marley - Waiting In Vain 04:00 1977
Track list 4
26 Parliament - Flash Light 04:29 1977
27 Steely Dan - Peg 03:57 1977
28 Congos - Fisherman 06:05 1977
29 Iggy Pop - Lust For Life 05:12 1977
30 Elvis Costello - Alison 03:26 1977
31 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights 04:30 1978
32 Blondie - Heart Of Glass 04:32 1978
33 Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again 13:04 1978
34 X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours! 02:48 1978
35 Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) 02:40 1978
36 Cars - Just What I Needed 03:45 1978
37 Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough 06:06 1979
38 Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover 03:00 1979
39 Clash - London Calling 03:24 1999
40 Gang of Four - Damaged Goods 03:27 1979
41 Chic - Good Times 03:42 1979
42 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) 05:14 1979
43 Slits - Typical Girls 03:57 1979
44 Talking Heads - Life During Wartime 03:41 1979
45 B-52's - Rock Lobster 04:54 1979
46 Blondie - Dreaming 03:07 1979
47 Joy Division - Disorder 03:31 1979
48 Police - Walking On The Moon 05:03 1979
49 Knack - My Sharona 04:54 1979
50 Michael Jackson - Rock With You 03:40 1979
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