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    YOUR TOP NON-DISCO 70's TOONS

    What are your top 15 70s non disco/soul toons?

    1. What a fool believes - Doobie Brothers
    2. Northern lights - Renaissance
    3. Guitar man - Bread
    4. Loving & free - Kiki Dee
    5. Do anything you wanna do - Eddie & the Hot Rods
    6. Storm in a teacup - Fortunes
    7. Loves grows - Edison Lighthouse
    8. Money - Flying Lizards
    9. No more Heroes - Stranglers
    10. Lonely boy - Andrew Gold
    11. Love is the answer - England Dan & John Ford Coley
    12. Hanging on the telephone - Blondie
    13. Man with the child in his eyes - Kate Bush
    14. Life on mars - David Bowie
    15. Love is the drug - Roxy Music

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    Oh boy this is gonna show me up! :o

    (Love Eddison Lighthouse btw!)

    In no particular order:

    1: Bobby Goldsbro - Summer (the First Time)
    2: Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us
    3: Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army
    4: Middle Of The Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep :oops:
    5: Chicory Tip - Son Of My Father (Giorgio Moroder's first outing!)
    6: David Dundas - Jeans On
    7: David Bowie - Jean Genie
    8: Neil Diamond - Beautiful Noise
    9: Neil Diamond - Forver In Blue Jeans
    10: Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You
    11: Squeeze - Tame Me I'm Yours
    12: The Clash - Bankrobber
    13: ELO - Mr Blue Sky
    14: Tubeway Army - Are Friends electric
    15: Godley & Creme - An Englishman In New York

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    Doh! That Squeeze track is Take Me I'm Yours, although Tame me, could be just as much fun!! ;)

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    Okay...cringe cringe...here is mine, if you are interested...

    In no particular order...

    01. Blondie - Heart Of Glass
    02. Sweet - Fox On The Run
    03. Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
    04. Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive
    05. Gary Numan - Complex
    06. Blondie - Denis
    07. Wizzard - See My Baby Jive
    08. Slade - Cos I Love You
    09. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love
    10. The Skids - Charade
    11. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
    12. Teach In - Ding-A-Dong (!!!!!!)
    13. The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More
    14. First Choice - Smarty Pants
    15. Cat Stevens - Moonshadow

    Eeeek!!! :D

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    Marmite... "Son Of My Father" was a great track...featuring Donna Summer on backing vocals...but I guess you knew that, lol :D

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    Interesting thread. Was going to include Roxy Music's 'Angel Eyes' but although I love it that particular track is kinda sorta disco isn't it, so after much thought here's my eclectic bunch.....

    1. FM (no static) - Steely Dan
    2. Reasons to Be Cheerful pt.3 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads
    3. I'm Mandy Fly Me - 10cc
    4. I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Vanelli
    5. SOS - Abba
    6. Layla - Eric Clapton
    7. Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie
    8. Autobahn - Kraftwerk
    9. Baby Come Back - Player
    10. Laughter In The Rain - Neil Sedaka
    11. Mouldy Old Dough - Lieutenant Pigeon
    12. Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan
    13. Love Is The Answer - England Dan & John Ford Coley
    14. It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr
    15. Don't Let It Die - Hurricane Smith

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    hi guys

    1.In trance - Scorpions
    2.Echoes - Pink Floyd
    3.Cocaine in my brain - Dillinger
    4.Whole lotta love - Led Zeppelin
    5.I shot the Sherif - Eric Clapton
    6.Walk on the wild side - Lou Reed
    7.School - Supertramp
    8.The Joker - Steve Miller Band
    9.Maggot brain - Funkadelic
    10.Sorry seems to be the hardest word - Elton John
    11.Catch the rainbow - Rainbow
    12.They wont go when I go - Stevie Wonder
    13.Dust in the wind - Kansas
    14.African reggae - Nina Hagen
    15.Poor man s moody blues - Barclay James Harvest

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    This is wayyyy too much fun! Heres my top 15 in no particular order:

    1. Pump it Up – Elvis Costello
    2. It Keeps You Running – Doobie Brothers
    3. Kashmir – Led Zeppelin
    4. Carry on My Wayward Son – Kansas
    5. The WASP – The Doors
    6. Rikki Don’t Lose That Number – Steely Dan
    7. Sugar Mountain – Neil Young
    8. Sweet Home Alabama – Lynard Skynard
    9. Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John
    10. Diamond Dogs – David Bowie
    11. Jeepster – T-Rex
    12. Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep – Middle of the Road (Yeah Go on Laugh!!)
    13. Lonely Boy – Andrew Gold
    14. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant – Billy Joel
    15. Ripples - Genesis

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    ok, 15 :)


    1-MICHAEL JACKSON - One Day In Your Life
    2-ALICE COOPER - I Never Cry
    3-JAMES TAYLOR - Fire And Rain
    4-ELTON JOHN - Blues For Baby And Me
    5-NEIL DIAMOND - Longfellow Serenade
    6-CAT STEVENS - Oh Very Young
    7-BREAD - If
    8-CARPENTERS - Bless The Beast And Children
    9-RICK WAKEMAN - Guinevere
    10-GODSPELL SOUNDTRACK - Day By Day
    11-10 CC - I'm Not In Love
    12-BARRY MANILOW - Can't Smile Without You
    13-WINGS- Let'em In
    14-SIMON AND GARFUNKEL -My Little Town
    15-HALL AND OATES -She's Gone

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    Only 15?

    1.Heart: Magic Man
    2.Lynsey DePaul: Sugar Me
    3.Steve Miller: The Joker
    4.Mud: The Cat Crept In
    5.Carly Simon: You're So Vain
    6.Pink Floyd: Money
    7.Queen: Killer Queen
    8.Weissberg & Mandel: Duelling Banjos
    9.George Baker Selection: Little Green Bag
    10.Status Quo: Down, Down
    11.Gary Wright: Dreamweaver
    12.Godley & Creme: An Englishman In N.Y.
    13.Rolling Stones: Fool To Cry
    14.Earth & Fire: Weekend
    15.Carpenters: Yesterday Once More

    And the mother of all Rocksongs: Led Zeppelin: Kashmir

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    1. Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
    2. Placebo - Taste in Men
    3. The Cure - Boys don't Cry
    4. T.Rex - Dreamy Lady
    5. David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
    6. Monaco - What do you want from me
    7. Placebo - Daddy Cool
    8. The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom
    9. James Blunt - You're Beautiful
    10. The Smiths - This Charming Man
    11. Blondie - One way or another
    12. The Clash - Rock the Casbah
    13. Franz Ferdinand - Take me out
    14. The Vapours - Turning Japanese
    15. Eraser - Love to hate you

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    Lady R, good as your choices are, most of them are from the 80s, 90s & 00s. :-?

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    I shall re-do it... :oops:

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    Quote Originally Written by SandraDee
    Lady R, good as your choices are, most of them are from the 80s, 90s & 00s. :-?
    San, careful, Lady R is a dominatrix. You'll get a good spanking if you continue like that. :o

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    Err, I can't remember the rest of the '70s!!!!!

    Put me down for most of the above ( Steely's list most resembles what I might have put down) plus:

    Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh
    Hocus Pocus - Focus
    The Faith Healer - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
    Voodoo Chile (slight return) - Jimi Hendrix (released as a single in 1970)
    Stuck In The Middle - Stealers Wheel
    I Just Want To Celebrate - Rare Earth
    Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo - Johnny Winter
    Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
    Vehicle - Ides of March
    Lively Up Your step - Bob Marley & the Wailers

    and hundreds more that my grey cells won't access.

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    Quote Originally Written by Videoskooter
    Quote Originally Written by SandraDee
    Lady R, good as your choices are, most of them are from the 80s, 90s & 00s. :-?
    San, careful, Lady R is a dominatrix. You'll get a good spanking if you continue like that. :o
    Indeed I have my whip in by my side ready :P

    My correct list is...

    T-Rex - Dreamy Lady
    Bowie - Moonage Daydream
    Sweet - Love is like Oxygen
    Rolling Stones - Angie
    Glitter Band - Angle Face
    Slade - Everyday
    Carly Simon - Nobody does it better
    Mott the Hoople - All the young dudes
    T-Rex - Highway knees
    Buzzcocks - Ever fallen in love
    Gary Numan - Cars
    Black Sabbath - Parnoid
    Thin Lizzy - Romeo and the lonely girl
    Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
    Suzi Quatro - Wild one
    :P

    And an added extra of Mud's Tiger feet as that was NO 1 in the UK the week I was born

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    Oh yes-siree!! :D

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    1. Magic Man - Heart
    2. Dream On - Aerosmith
    3. Barracuda – Heart
    4. Tush - ZZ Top
    5. Fire And Rain - James Taylor
    6. (They Long To Be) Close To You – Carpenters
    7. YOU'RE SO VAIN - Carly Simon
    8. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - Queen
    9. I HONESTLY LOVE YOU - Olivia Newton-John
    10. The Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
    11. Rock'n'roll All Nite - Kiss
    12. This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us - Sparks
    13. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC
    14. I Want You to Want Me - Cheap Trick
    15. Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Cher

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    1. Prove it - Television
    2. It's a rainy day (Sunshine baby) - Faust
    3. New Age - The Velvet Underground
    4. Timer - Laura Nyro
    5. Ambition-Vic Godard and the subway sect
    6. X Offender - Blondie
    7. Jessica - Allman Brothers Band
    8. Saxophone song - Kate Bush
    9. Do the strand - Roxy Music
    10. Whip it! - Devo

    :lol:

    non rock, trθs good

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    ok i'll participate in no particular order... off the top of my head.


    1. Can't Get It Out Of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra
    2. Laughter In The Rain - Neil Sedaka
    3. Alone - Heart
    4. Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
    5. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
    6. For All We Know - The Carpenters
    7. Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John
    8. Magic Man - Heart
    9. Baker's Street -Gerry Rafferty
    10. Wrapped Around Your finger - Police
    11. Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
    12. Behind Closed Doors - Charlie Rich :lol:
    13. Heart Of Gold - Neil Young
    14. Magic - Olivia Newton-John
    15. Promises, Promises - Naked Eyes


    Tried staying away from anything r&b or rhythm oriented... HARD! plus & like more but those are what came to mind first.

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    Quote Originally Written by efunk_adelic
    14. Magic - Olivia Newton-John

    I love that one too! A guilty pleasure.

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