Musical interlude, part deux

[featherynscale]

Two musical memes:

A. Ten songs I really like right now, irrespective of time or genre:

• "Half Jack" - The Dresden Dolls
• "Tupelo" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• "Here's Where the Story Ends" - The Sundays (I have no idea what this song is about, and suspect that it might be about venereal disease, but hey, I like the sound of it, and you can't tell what half the words are anyway.)
• "Chocolate" - Snow Patrol
• "Counting Bodies Like Sheep To the Rythm of the War Drums" - A Perfect Circle
• "Jack the Ripper" - The Smiths
• "Somebody Told Me" - The Killers
• "Ice Cream" - Sarah McLachlan
• "Under the Milky Way" - The Church
• "BYOB" - System of a Down

B.

(I have an ulterior motive for posting this, which I will reveal later.) Top 100 Songs of 1977, courtesy of MusicOutfitters. Get your year by hopping over to their site and typing your year into their searching widget. Per meme instructions, bold the ones you like (herein defined as "I wouldn't change the channel if that came on"), underline your single favorite, and italicize the ones you don't know.

1. Tonight's The Night, Rod Stewart

2. I Just Want To Be Your Everything, Andy Gibb

3. Best Of My Love, Emotions

4. Love Theme From "A Star Is Born", Barbra Streisand

5. Angel In Your Arms, Hot

6. I Like Dreamin', Kenny Nolan

7. Don't Leave Me This Way, Thelma Houston

8. (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher, Rita Coolidge

9. Undercover Angel, Alan O'Day

10. Torn Between Two Lovers, Mary MacGregor

11. I'm Your Boogie Man, K.C. and The Sunshine Band

12. Dancing Queen, Abba

13. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, Leo Sayer

14. Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffet

15. Telephone Line, Electric Light Orchestra

16. Whatcha Gonna Do?, Pablo Cruise

17. Do You Wanna Make Love, Peter McCann

18. Sir Duke, Stevie Wonder

19. Hotel California, Eagles

20. Got To Give It Up, Pt. 1, Marvin Gaye

21. Theme From "Rocky" (Gonna Fly Now), Bill Conti

22. Southern Nights, Glen Campbell

23. Rich Girl, Daryl Hall and John Oates

24. When I Need You, Leo Sayer

25. Hot Line, Sylvers

26. Car Wash, Rose Royce

27. You Don't Have To Be A Star, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.

28. Fly Like An Eagle, Steve Miller Band

29. Don't Give Up On Us, David Soul

30. On And On, Stephen Bishop

31. Feels Like The First Time, Foreigner

32. Couldn't Get It Right, Climax Blues Band

33. Easy, Commodores

34. Right Time Of The Night, Jennifer Warnes

35. I've Got Love On My Mind, Natalie Cole

36. Blinded By The Light, Manfred Mann's Earth Band

37. Looks Like We Made It, Barry Manilow

38. So In To You, Atlanta Rhythm Section

39. Dreams, Fleetwood Mac

40. Enjoy Yourself, Jacksons

41. Dazz, Brick

42. I'm In You, Peter Frampton

43. Lucille, Kenny Rogers

44. The Things We Do For Love, 10cc

45. Da Doo Ron Ron, Shaun Cassidy

46. Handy Man, James Taylor

47. Just A Song Before I Go, Crosby, Stills and Nash

48. You And Me, Alice Cooper

 49. Slow Dancin', Johnny Rivers

50. Lonely Boy, Andrew Gold

51. I Wish, Stevie Wonder

52. Don't Stop, Fleetwood Mac

53. Barracuda, Heart

54. Strawberry Letter 23, Brothers Johnson

55. Night Moves, Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band

56. You're My World, Helen Reddy

57. Heard It In A Love Song, Marshall Tucker Band

58. Carry On Wayward Son, Kansas

59. New Kid In Town, Eagles

60. My Heart Belongs To Me, Barbra Streisand

61. After The Lovin', Engelbert Humperdinck

62. Jet Airliner, Steve Miller Band

63. Stand Tall, Burton Cummings

64. Way Down, Elvis Presley

65. Weekend In New England, Barry Manilow

66. It Was Almost Like A Song, Ronnie Milsap

67. Smoke From A Distant Fire, Sanford Townsend Band

68. Cold As Ice, Foreigner

69. Ariel, Dean Friedman

70. Lost Without Your Love, Bread

71. Star Wars Theme-Cantina Band, Meco

72. Float On, Floaters

73. Jeans On, David Dundas

74. Lido Shuffle, Boz Scaggs

75. Keep It Comin' Love, K.C. and The Sunshine Band

76. You Made Me Believe In Magic, Bay City Rollers

77. Livin' Thing, Electric Light Orchestra

78. Give A Little Bit, Supertramp

79. That's Rock 'N' Roll, Shaun Cassidy

80. Love So Right, Bee Gees

81. The Rubberband Man, Spinners

82. I Never Cry, Alice Cooper

83. Nobody Does It Better, Carly Simon

84. High School Dance, Sylvers

85. Love's Grown Deep, Kenny Nolan

86. Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman), Joe Tex

87. I Wanna Get Next To You, Rose Royce

88. Somebody To Love, Queen

89. Muskrat Love, Captain and Tennille

90. Walk This Way, Aerosmith

91. Whispering-Cherchez La Femme-C'est Si Bon, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band

92. Year Of The Cat, Al Stewart

93. Boogie Nights, Heatwave

94. Go Your Own Way, Fleetwood Mac

95. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word, Elton John

96. Don't Worry Baby, B.J. Thomas

97. Knowing Me, Knowing You, Abba

98. How Much Love, Leo Sayer

99. Star Wars (Main Title), London Symphony Orchestra

100. Devil's Gun, C.J. and Co.

Comments

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

Somebody told me is a great song.

It's a bitch, girl.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Hall and Oates. And Boz Scaggs. And 10cc. And especially Bee Gees. Only not so much this era. You would very much approve of 10cc. And the song "Ariel." I'll post the lyrics in my journal so I can make a cut.

This was my junior year in high school. Can you tell much?

Split decisions

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

Interesting results on Fleetwood Mac and Eagles - some songs approved, some not. And I'd make the sme choices for both.

But I was four or five then. Many of these songs are irrevocably burned into my brain.

Re: Split decisions

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I have a love/hate relationship with the Eagles. This possibly stems from the fact that I took a road trip with my parents when I was 11 or 12, from Phoenix up to Denver. This was like a week and a half from Hell. And during it all, One Eagles Tape. Over and over and over again. Granted, it was Eagles Live, so I think that's a double album, But Still.

[duriyah.livejournal.com]

Muscrat Love is the most hidious type of earworm. Oh, dear god!

Da Doo Ron Ron, Shaun Cassidy

I had a crush on Shaun Cassidy, as did every other 11 year old girl at the time.

OMG! The Rubberband Man! That was such a cool song! Staples used it in a TV commercial recently.

I think Livin' Thing might be my favorite from that list, but there are some good songs there. Did you underline one as your favorite? I might have missed it.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oh man. Livin' Thing makes me want to stick a pencil in my eye. If I had a bottom 100 songs of all time, that would definitely make the list... maybe that will be the next game - List your least favorite songs ever.

Also, not doing the TV thing, then, means I have missed the Rubberband Man song twice.

And I did forget the favorite. I think it's gotta be Queen - Somebody to Love. Though I also really like the Cantina Band Song... funny that that's even in there. I don't think movie score songs chart anymore, or at least not on the pop charts.

giggling

[opaljax.livejournal.com]

I also had a crush on Shaun Cassidy. He was so cute!! Now, not so much. I even had the Da Doo Ron Ron album, and had memorized the words. Phew, eleven year old girls are weird. :D

[tsninja.livejournal.com]

Nice current songs! I just assumed that Sundays song was about her breaking up with somebody. She's always breaking up with somebody, or kicking them in the balls, or something like that. It makes sense that there would be VD and then unceremonious dumping.