This page contains the biggest part of the seventies. An era which isn’t very clear to me, genrewise (there wasn’t much disco yet in the first half of the seventies), and I can’t say very much about it, except one thing: Some songs are nice because of a certain cornyness.
*** = guilty pleasures
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My favorite songs of the year 1977 listed:
- The Babys – Isn’t it time
- Brothers Johnson – Runnin’ for your lovin’
- Chic – Dance, dance, dance (Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah)
- Electric Light Orchestra – Mr. blue sky
- First Choice – Dr Love
- Grace Jones – La vie en rose
- Gruppo Sportivo – Beep beep love ***
- KC And The Sunshine Band – I’m your boogie man
- Manhattan Transfer – Cuentame
- Meat Loaf – Paradise by the dashboard light ***
- Roy Ayers – Running away
- Stevie Wonder – I wish
*** = guilty pleasures
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My favorite songs of the year 1976 listed:
- Benitez And Nebula – Mariposa
- Bill Conti – Gonna fly now
- BZN – Mon amour ***
- Catherine Ferry – 1, 2, 3 ***
- Cheo Feliciano – Si por mi llueve
- Funkadelic – If you got funk, you got style
- The Jacksons – Show you the way to go
- Ocho – Mamey colorao
- Paco de Lucia – Entre dos agua
- Parliament – Give up the funk (Tear the roof off the sucker)
- Paul McCartney & Wings – Let ‘em in
*** = guilty pleasures
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My favorite songs of the year 1975 listed:
- Abba – I do, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do ***
- Abba – S.O.S.
- Dave – Danser maintenant
- Gloria Gaynor – Never can say goodbye
- The JB’s – Here we come here we go here we are
- Julio Iglesias – Quiero ***
- Kool & The Gang – Summer madness
- MFSB – K-Jee
- Michael Jackson – One day in your life (Note: 6 years later a Dutch hit)
- Minnie Riperton – Minnie’s lament
- Pussycat – Missisippi
- Queen – Bohemian rapsody
- Stanley Turrentine – Vera Cruz
- Teach-In – Ding-a-dong ***
*** = guilty pleasures
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My favorite songs of the year 1974 listed:
- Abba – Waterloo
- Ann Peebles – I can’t stand the rain
- David Bowie – Rebel rebel
- Donny & Marie Osmond – I’m leaving it all up to you ***
- Eric Clapton – Let it grow
- Gil Scott Heron – The bottle
- Les Vikings – Ti tong ti tong
- Love Unlimited Orchestra – Theme from together brothers
- Moments & Whatnauts – Girls
- Pekka Pohjola – Sekoilu Seestyy
- Pinduca – Vamos farrear
- Quella Vecchia locanda – Verso la locanda
- Tafari Syndicate – All for free
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My favorite songs of the year 1973 listed:
- Adriana Calentano – Prisencolinensinainciusol
- Aerosmith – Dream on
- Badder Than Evil – Hot wheels (The chase)
- Charles Aznavour – The old fashioned way
- Earth & Fire – Maybe tomorrow, maybe tonight
- Herbie Hancock – Watermelon man (the version on the album Headhunters)
- James Brown – The boss
- Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band – Apache
- Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo rock ’73 (Btw: One year before, there was already another song of this band with almost the same title, but with another melody)
- Originais do samba – Falador passa mal
- Procol Harum – Grand hotel
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My favorite songs of the year 1972 listed:
- America – A horse with no name
- Can – I’m so green
- Chakachas – Jungle fever
- Chicago – Saturday in the park
- Chi Coltrane – Go like Elijah
- Dee Edwards – Why can’t there be love
- Dizzy Man’s Band – A matter of facts
- Earth & Fire – Memories
- The Lafayette Afro Rock Band – Darkest light
- La Scoumoune – François de roubaix
- Lyn Colins – Think (about it) (Note: In 1988 a Dutch hit)
- Marcos Valle – Democústico
- Michael Jackson – Ben (acappella version)
- Michael Jackson – Ben (radio version)
- Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo rock
- Miles Davis – Black satin
- Peter Skellern – You’re a lady
- Prince Buster – Dance Cleopatra
- The Temptations – Papa was a rollin’ stone
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My favorite songs of the year 1971 listed:
- Bill Withers – Ain’t no sunshine
- Dave & Ansil Collins – Double barrel
- The Fortunes – Here comes that rainy day feeling again
- John Lennon – Imagine
- Johnny Cash – A thing called love
- Peret – Borriquito
- Slade – Coz’ I love you
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- *grinnikt* :P
- Van het ene in het andere uiterste...
- Better late than never. :)
- ja, die is schitterend inderdaad. :)
- Ik was eigenlijk totaal vergeten dat het bestond, ...
ABOUT THIS SITE
Besides links to my webradios, this site is filled with lots of songs to try. They are in the narrow bar on the left.
As long as I like it: everything (no purist talk here, when it comes to specific genres...), but in practice there's an emphasis on sound instead of lyrics. Expect lots of funky drums, grooves, riffs, horns, bleeps, chords and exotic instruments.
And in general, I like a natural feel (also when it's in fact 100 % electronic) and a dynamic sound, lacking obvious loudness wars. And forced hipness is simply not my cup of tea. But there will always be exceptions, with an undefinable 'x-factor'.
Simple: If a song is even more to me than 'very nice', really outstanding, it will be added to the site. Besides these tracks, there's a huge amount of other tracks I really like, just not enough to mention here.
About the year of release/on which page you can find the tracks I add: I see the - first - year of release mentioned at Discogs as right, or (if I can't find the track at Discogs, and have to search other sources) the 'oldest' year mentioned. Also if it became a hit one/two/more years later. I'm very consequent when it comes to that, very clear.
ABOUT MYSELF
I'm born in 1981, Dutch and female. My personal music history, because it's relevant on a site like this:
I'm listening to pop music since 1990, starting with my fathers cds/lps, with pop/rock oldies, some classical music, some 70s compilations with music like Boney M and Luv, and some typical Dutch stuff like BZN; some people would call it corny. No modern pop/dance yet (the Dutch children act Kinderen Voor Kinderen not counted; officially, KVK part 11 was my first cd).
That phase started halfway 1991. I especially started to like dance music, and for the next one and a half decade to follow, I wouldn't listen much to golden oldies anymore.
Till 2000 most dance I listened to was extremely commercial; a huge 2 Unlimited obsession, during from 1992 till 1996, included.
The period after that, it was still commercial but in a more grown-up way. That era started about December 2000/January 2001, after discovering an internet station (Dancenet.fm) playing groovy tunes, like Daft Punk - One more time.
In the next couple of years to follow, my devotion to dance music (especially the 'serious' side of it) would reach it's peak. Discussing all the stuff on discussion boards, buying Hed Kandi cds, buying dance magazines and obsessive downloading included. I was standing right in front of the current trends.
I remember myself getting quite tired of everything, late 2004/early 2005.
After a long break from enjoying music in an intense way (a period of breathing space) and making the decision to take it more easy in the future, 2005-early 2008 turned out to be the transition period to now.
Besides dance music (in 2005 heavily influenced by the French station Underground FG, playing quite subtle kinds of dance), I started to like more and more other kinds of music, and the way of producing records got more important. I didn't complain much about things like 'overproduction' and 'loudness wars' before, but I started to notice it.
When it came to music released before my time, something not really getting my attention the years before, I started save, with exploring the 1988-1990 era: De La Soul, Soul II Soul and all the others. Because there seemed to be a certain click. And in 2006, I started to like music released before that, often many years before my birth. Yeah, the oldies were back...
In general my taste was becoming more laidback, and the amount of funky elements also increased. Early 2008, Studio Brussel's De Hop (presented by the founder of internet station Laid Back Radio, and the same kind of music) was a huge influence. Discovering that, in combination with Miles Davis' track Pharao's dance (in the same period), was the reason the penny dropped finally.
Since Spring 2008, nothing has changed anymore (while the entire 2003-early 2008 era was VERY experimental; I can assure you I've not mentioned everything above). I'm still listening to dance music nowadays, just less intensively when compared to 1991-2005.
OLD WEBSITES
- Click this link to view old websites, from 2000 till halfway 2008, warning: huge load and much horizontal scrolling.
- And click this link to view more old websites, from halfway 2008 till June 2011, also huge load and much horizontal scrolling.
(In case you are interested in the history of my sites.)
Besides links to my webradios, this site is filled with lots of songs to try. They are in the narrow bar on the left.
As long as I like it: everything (no purist talk here, when it comes to specific genres...), but in practice there's an emphasis on sound instead of lyrics. Expect lots of funky drums, grooves, riffs, horns, bleeps, chords and exotic instruments.
And in general, I like a natural feel (also when it's in fact 100 % electronic) and a dynamic sound, lacking obvious loudness wars. And forced hipness is simply not my cup of tea. But there will always be exceptions, with an undefinable 'x-factor'.
Simple: If a song is even more to me than 'very nice', really outstanding, it will be added to the site. Besides these tracks, there's a huge amount of other tracks I really like, just not enough to mention here.
About the year of release/on which page you can find the tracks I add: I see the - first - year of release mentioned at Discogs as right, or (if I can't find the track at Discogs, and have to search other sources) the 'oldest' year mentioned. Also if it became a hit one/two/more years later. I'm very consequent when it comes to that, very clear.
ABOUT MYSELF
I'm born in 1981, Dutch and female. My personal music history, because it's relevant on a site like this:
I'm listening to pop music since 1990, starting with my fathers cds/lps, with pop/rock oldies, some classical music, some 70s compilations with music like Boney M and Luv, and some typical Dutch stuff like BZN; some people would call it corny. No modern pop/dance yet (the Dutch children act Kinderen Voor Kinderen not counted; officially, KVK part 11 was my first cd).
That phase started halfway 1991. I especially started to like dance music, and for the next one and a half decade to follow, I wouldn't listen much to golden oldies anymore.
Till 2000 most dance I listened to was extremely commercial; a huge 2 Unlimited obsession, during from 1992 till 1996, included.
The period after that, it was still commercial but in a more grown-up way. That era started about December 2000/January 2001, after discovering an internet station (Dancenet.fm) playing groovy tunes, like Daft Punk - One more time.
In the next couple of years to follow, my devotion to dance music (especially the 'serious' side of it) would reach it's peak. Discussing all the stuff on discussion boards, buying Hed Kandi cds, buying dance magazines and obsessive downloading included. I was standing right in front of the current trends.
I remember myself getting quite tired of everything, late 2004/early 2005.
After a long break from enjoying music in an intense way (a period of breathing space) and making the decision to take it more easy in the future, 2005-early 2008 turned out to be the transition period to now.
Besides dance music (in 2005 heavily influenced by the French station Underground FG, playing quite subtle kinds of dance), I started to like more and more other kinds of music, and the way of producing records got more important. I didn't complain much about things like 'overproduction' and 'loudness wars' before, but I started to notice it.
When it came to music released before my time, something not really getting my attention the years before, I started save, with exploring the 1988-1990 era: De La Soul, Soul II Soul and all the others. Because there seemed to be a certain click. And in 2006, I started to like music released before that, often many years before my birth. Yeah, the oldies were back...
In general my taste was becoming more laidback, and the amount of funky elements also increased. Early 2008, Studio Brussel's De Hop (presented by the founder of internet station Laid Back Radio, and the same kind of music) was a huge influence. Discovering that, in combination with Miles Davis' track Pharao's dance (in the same period), was the reason the penny dropped finally.
Since Spring 2008, nothing has changed anymore (while the entire 2003-early 2008 era was VERY experimental; I can assure you I've not mentioned everything above). I'm still listening to dance music nowadays, just less intensively when compared to 1991-2005.
OLD WEBSITES
- Click this link to view old websites, from 2000 till halfway 2008, warning: huge load and much horizontal scrolling.
- And click this link to view more old websites, from halfway 2008 till June 2011, also huge load and much horizontal scrolling.
(In case you are interested in the history of my sites.)
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I’m also not a real 80s lover. O.k., there are enough 80s songs mentioned on this site, but these are often quite ‘human’ (or warm) sounding for 80s standards. The stereotypical cold 80s sound is not my cup of tea. Especially the sound of the middle of the decade.
Thank God, it became better around 1988. 1988-1993 brought a lot of my favorite music, the 2000-2005 era also.
The 60s and 70s era (and a little bit 50s) is something I discovered since 2006/2007, by a growing need for more natural sounding, less overproduced music. Less ‘in your face’. Before, I wasn’t interested at all in the music of these decades.
“Expect lots of funky drums, grooves, riffs, horns, bleeps, chords and exotic instruments.”
Looks like you like some the same sounds I like, the ’70s is probably my favorite music decade because the music was so groovy, the ’70s definitely had alot of funky drums, grooves, riffs, horns, bleeps, and exotic instruments(clavinets, sitars in philly soul, latin/calypso percussion in disco). I like the ’70s synths(the Dream Weaver Arp synth is my favorite) the best too, it was a warmer sound than the loud, icy digital synths of the mid/late ’80s, and those HUGE snare drum sounds dated very quickly.