1970s from NME

1970s from NME – Top 100 songs

Markdown

NME made a good list of 1970s songs. Since I didn’t experience the 1970s myself, I can’t tell you how accurate this list is. I know that it’s subjective, but it was really fun to convert to a Youtube playlist and listen to. How did I do this? Well, see the bottom for some simple source code.

NME’s list of 100 best songs of the 1970s

1970s Youtube playlist

  1. Funkadelic – ‘One Nation Under a Groove’
  1. The Pretenders – ‘Brass In Pocket’
  1. James Brown – ‘Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine’
  1. Bob Marley & The Wailers – ‘No Woman, No Cry’
  1. Kate Bush – ‘Wuthering Heights’
  1. Siouxsie And The Banshees – ‘Hong Kong Garden’
  1. The Slits – ‘Typical Girls’
  1. Can – ‘Oh Yeah’
  1. Public Image Ltd – ‘Public Image’
  1. The Beatles – ‘The Long And Winding Road’
  1. Madness – ‘One Step Beyond’
  1. The Specials – ‘A Message To You Rudy’
  1. The Kinks – ‘Lola’
  1. Roxy Music – ‘Virginia Plain’
  1. Leonard Cohen – ‘Chelsea Hotel No. 2’
  1. Buzzcocks – ‘Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)’
  1. Joni Mitchell – ‘Big Yellow Taxi’
  1. Althea & Donna – ‘Uptown Top Ranking’
  1. Giorgio Moroder – ‘Chase’
  1. Chic – ‘Le Freak’
  1. Blondie – ‘One Way Or Another’
  1. The Jam – ‘The Eton Rifles’
  1. New York Dolls – ‘Personality Crisis’
  1. John Lennon – ‘Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)’
  1. The Only Ones – ‘Another Girl, Another Planet’
  1. Neil Young – ‘Heart Of Gold’
  1. Brian Eno – ‘Needles In The Camel’s Eye’
  1. XTC – ‘Making Plans For Nigel’
  1. The Who – ‘Who Are You’
  1. Suicide – ‘Ghost Rider’
  1. Wire – ‘I Am The Fly’
  1. Sparks – ‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us’
  1. The Clash – ‘(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais’
  1. Carly Simon – ‘You’re So Vain’
  1. Prince – ‘I Wanna Be Your Lover’
  1. George Harrison – ‘My Sweet Lord’
  1. Big Star – ‘September Gurls’
  1. Nick Drake – ‘Pink Moon’
  1. Gary Numan – ‘Cars’
  1. Patti Smith – ‘Because The Night’
  1. Elvis Costello – ‘Oliver’s Army’
  1. Curtis Mayfield – ‘Move On Up’
  1. The Modern Lovers – ‘Roadrunner’
  1. Squeeze – ‘Up The Junction’
  1. The Velvet Underground – ‘Rock & Roll’
  1. Junior Murvin – ‘Police & Thieves’
  1. Elton John – ‘Tiny Dancer’
  1. Thin Lizzy – ‘The Boys Are Back In Town’
  1. Queen – ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
  1. Iggy Pop – ‘Lust For Life’
  1. The Cramps – ‘Human Fly’
  1. The Clash – ‘Train In Vain’
  1. Bob Dylan – ‘Tangled Up In Blue’
  1. Fleetwood Mac – ‘Dreams’
  1. Gang Of Four – ‘Damaged Goods’
  1. Blondie – ‘Hanging On The Telephone’
  1. Deep Purple – ‘Smoke On The Water’
  1. Dolly Parton – ‘Jolene’
  1. T. Rex – ‘Get It On’
  1. The Rolling Stones – ‘Tumbling Dice’
  1. The Knack – ‘My Sharona’
  1. Bee Gees – ‘Stayin’ Alive’
  1. Sex Pistols – ‘Anarchy In The UK’
  1. Iggy And The Stooges – ‘Search And Destroy’
  1. Sly And The Family Stone – ‘Family Affair’
  1. Gladys Knight And The Pips – ‘Midnight Train To Georgia’
  1. Rod Stewart – ‘Maggie May’
  1. Marvin Gaye – ‘What’s Going On’
  1. Black Sabbath – ‘Paranoid’
  1. Television – ‘Marquee Moon’
  1. Al Green – ‘Let’s Stay Together’
  1. The B52’s – ‘Rock Lobster’
  1. Kraftwerk – ‘The Model’
  1. ABBA – ‘Dancing Queen’
  1. Lou Reed – ‘Walk On The Wild Side’
  1. David Bowie – ‘Life On Mars?’
  1. AC/DC – ‘Highway To Hell’
  1. Tubeway Army – ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?’
  1. Sugarhill Gang – ‘Rapper’s Delight’
  1. Marvin Gaye – ‘Let’s Get It On’
  1. Led Zeppelin – ‘Stairway To Heaven’
  1. Joy Division – ‘Transmission’
  1. Ian Dury – ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’
  1. The Rolling Stones – ‘Brown Sugar’
  1. Bruce Springsteen – ‘Thunder Road’
  1. Stevie Wonder – ‘Superstition’
  1. Pink Floyd – ‘Comfortably Numb’
  1. The Undertones – ‘Teenage Kicks’
  1. John Lennon – ‘Imagine’
  1. Talking Heads – ‘Psycho Killer’
  1. Wings – ‘Band On The Run’
  1. Michael Jackson – ‘Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough’
  1. Bruce Springsteen – ‘Born To Run’
  1. Blondie – ‘Heart Of Glass’
  1. Donna Summer – ‘I Feel Love’
  1. The Ramones – ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’
  1. David Bowie – ‘Heroes’
  1. The Clash – ‘London Calling’
  1. Fleetwood Mac – ‘Go Your Own Way’
  1. Sex Pistols – ‘God Save The Queen’

Source Code

// Get the song names from the page.
a = $$('h2');
b = ''; for(i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { b += a[i].innerText + "\n"; }
document.write(b);
// Then select a word, right click, and view selection source.
# Convert from song-name to likely Wikipedia page
b = open('filename.txt').read().split('\n')
for c in b:
  if '‘' not in c: continue
  song_name = c[c.index('‘')+1:-1]
  print(song_name.replace('‘',"'").replace(' ', '_'))

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