Mem'ries, Like the Caw....nuhs of My Mind

I recently happened across a list of the top 100 songs of the 1970's.  Some - many - are the most gawdawful excuses for pop tunes that you will ever hear (Seasons in the Sun, Do Ya Think I'm Sexy, and more). However - - the 70s were the years of high school and college for me, and these songs bring back so many fond, misty water-colored mem'ries from the cawnuhs of my mind, that I can't help but enjoy listening to every sappy one of them.  Here's the list from 1974,the year I graduated high school, featuring a towering triumvirate of corn - Barbra, Terry Jacks and John Denver:

The Top 10 Singles of 1974

1."The Way We Were" - Barbra Streisand

2."Come And Get Your Love" - Redbone

3."Seasons In The Sun" - Terry Jacks

4."Show And Tell" - Al Wilson

5."Love's Theme" - The Love Unlimited Orchestra

6."The Loco-motion" - Grand Funk

7."Bennie And The Jets" - Elton John

8."You Make Me Feel Brand New" - The Stylistics

9."Sunshine On My Shoulders" - John Denver

10."T.S.O.P. (The Sound Of Philadelphia)"" - MFSB featuring The Three Degrees

The rest of the list can be found here, along with links containing some fairly detailed information about the tunes, the performers, and writers.

Comments

[Mark]

All I can say is, people listened to some lame shit the year I graduated. I can't even see blogging this! :oP>

The Top 10 Singles of 1977

1."You Light Up My Life" - Debby Boone

2."I Just Want To Be Your Everything" - Andy Gibb

3."Evergreen" - Barbra Streisand

4."Undercover Angel" - Alan O'Day

5."I Like Dreamin'" - Kenny Nolan

6."Dancing Queen" - Abba

7."Torn Between Two Lovers" - Mary MacGregor

8."Higher And Higher" - Rita Coolidge

9."Best Of My Love" - The Emotions

10."Southern Nights" - Glen Campbell

[Bookworm]

The 1970s, for better or worse, were also my music era have musical flashbacks, not only to the songs you mentioned, but to the songs Mark added in his comment. For me, it's not important whether they're good or not. It's that I feel good when I think back to them. I guess I must have had a pretty happy youth-hood.

Also, if you look at all of them, they seem so innocent and hopeful compared to sordid rap or modern whining pop songs.

[draftervoi]

There's a lot of great pop music out there, right now. You just have to work harder to find it, because radio really stinks. They endlessly recycle the same Baby Boomer trash, or have "narrowcast" their playlist down to a mindnumbingly minimalist single style. But there's good music out there...you just have to dig for it.