In 1974 'Carrie' was published. What are your'e 5 favourite songs from 1974; and favourite album?

[Blake]

My favourite album from 1974: My favourite songs: "The Joker" Steve Miller.
1 Suzi Quatro - Daytona Demon "I am Pegasus" Ross Ryan.
2 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died "Kung Fu Fighting" Carl Douglas.
3 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby "Band on the Run" Wings.
4 Debbie Byrne - He’s A Rebel "Cat's in the Cradle" Harry Chapin
5 William Shakespeare - Can’t Stop Myself From Loving You
6 Kiki Dee - Amoureuse
7 Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
8 Miss Linda George - Mama’s Little Girl
9 Creation - Tell Laura I Love Her
10 The Bootleg Family Band - The Shoop Shoop Song
11 The Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love
12 Sherbet - Slipstream
13 Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You
14 Olivia Newton-John - Long Live Love
15 Hush - Walking
16 Brian Cadd - Let Go
17 Golden Earring - Radar Love
18 Nana Mouskouri - Danny Come Home
19 Alvin Stardust - Jealous Mind
20 The Stylistics - You Make Me Feel Brand New

 

[skimom2]

My favourite album from 1974: My favourite songs: "The Joker" Steve Miller.
1 Suzi Quatro - Daytona Demon "I am Pegasus" Ross Ryan.
2 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died "Kung Fu Fighting" Carl Douglas.
3 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby "Band on the Run" Wings.
4 Debbie Byrne - He’s A Rebel "Cat's in the Cradle" Harry Chapin
5 William Shakespeare - Can’t Stop Myself From Loving You
6 Kiki Dee - Amoureuse
7 Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
8 Miss Linda George - Mama’s Little Girl
9 Creation - Tell Laura I Love Her
10 The Bootleg Family Band - The Shoop Shoop Song
11 The Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love
12 Sherbet - Slipstream
13 Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You
14 Olivia Newton-John - Long Live Love
15 Hush - Walking
16 Brian Cadd - Let Go
17 Golden Earring - Radar Love
18 Nana Mouskouri - Danny Come Home
19 Alvin Stardust - Jealous Mind
20 The Stylistics - You Make Me Feel Brand New
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I was 7 I remember my brother and I (he was 5) had dance moves and pantomimes for "Kung Fu Fighting", "The Night Chicago Died", and "Band on the Run". Looking at your list now, I think I'd have to go with "Stuck in the Middle with You" and "Radar Love". Oh, and KISS's self titled debut--I still sing "Cold Gin" all the time.

 

[Blake]

K-Tel used to bring out these really neat albums. In 1975 they had:

 

[skimom2]

K-Tel used to bring out these really neat albums. In 1975 they had:

I have quite a few of those! As soon as I started buying music (I think my first was Eagles Greatest Hits, bought when I was 8 or so), I started buying those. They're a blast from the past to look at now.

 

[Kurben]

74... I was 9. Hadn't advanced to pop and rock yet. I started with swedish songwriters like Povel Ramel and Evert Taube and fell in love with Mozart and Haydn in the classical section. A couple of years later i picked out Sergeant Pepper by coincidence from my parents collections one day. From there i discovered a whole new world. Then i started to buy Beatles, Stones and others.
Going back it would have to be
1. Hooked on a Feeling Björn Skifs and Blue Shoes
2. Band on The Run Paul McCartney
3. Seasons in the sun Terry Jacks
4. I shot the sheriff Eric Clapton
5. Annies song John Denver
Album Band on the run.

 

[blunthead]

1. Annie's Song - John Denver
2. Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
3. You're Sixteen - Ringo
4. Nothing From Nothing - Billy Preston
5. Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing - Stevie Wonder

 

[Walter Oobleck]

1. This Time~ Waylon Jennings
2. Back Home Again~ John Denver
3. Bungle in the Jungle~ Jethro Tull
4. Pure Love~ Ronnie Milsap
5. The Loco-Motion~ Grand Funk Railroad
6. Time in a Bottle~ Jim Croce
7. Bennie and the Jets~ Elton John
8. Hooked on a Feeling~ Blue Swede
9. Rock On~ David Essex
10. I Love~ Tom T Hall

Album...dunno...Elton John's Greatest Hits maybe...on 8-track. Selling like hotcakes on Ebay at the moment though my copy is gone long gone. That or the Osmonds. "Go Away! Little Girl!"

 

[GNTLGNT]

....I was 13...
Top 5:
-Smokin' In the Boys Room, Brownsville Station
-Never, Never Gonna Give You Up, Barry White
-Twilight Zone, Golden Earring
-Keep On Smilin', Wet Willie
-Hooked On a Feeling, Blue Swede

Top Album:
Bad Company's debut LP

 

[fljoe0]

I had to go look at a couple of lists and billboard's top 100 of 1974 to do this. In 1974, I was 13 and this is what I liked then (not necessarily my favorites now)

Favorite songs (when I was 13) from the top 100 of 1974

The Joker - Steve Miller
Bennie And The Jets - Elton
Radar Love - Golden Earring
I Shot The Sheriff - Eric Clapton
Band On The Run - Paul McCartney

Albums I loved

Second Helping - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Burn - Deep Purple
Not Fragile - Bachman Turner Overdrive (they were a real favorite of the 13 year old me )
It's Only Rock n Roll - Rolling Stones

 

[Shoe]

Good year for music. Too many to choose, many more left off. No particular order:

From the Mars Hotel - Grateful Dead
Rush - Rush
Starless and Bible Black - King Crimson
Apostrophe - Frank Zappa
Bridge of Sighs - Robin Trower
Big Fun - Miles Davis
Ragged Old Flag - Johnny Cash (The Man in Black released his 47th album on the same day that Carrie was released)
Standing on the Verge of Getting It On - Funkadelic
Secret Treaties - Blue Oyster Cult
Tales of the Great Rum Runners - Robert Hunter
Compliments - Jerry Garcia
Rejuvenation - The Meters
Up for the Down Stroke - Parliament
Roxy & Elsewhere - Frank Zappa and The Mothers
Walls and Bridges - John Lennon
Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers
The Heart of Saturday Night - Tom Waits
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
Get Up with It - Miles Davis
Red - King Crimson
Soon Over Babaluma - Can
Stormbringer - Deep Purple
Dark Horse - George Harrison

 

[Out of Order]

John Lennon ~ Walls and Bridges
Yes ~ Relayer
Neil Young ~ On the Beach

And a lot of others already mentioned

 

[fushingfeef]

Albums:
Band on the Run - Wings
Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends - ELP
Todd - Todd Rundgren
Rush - Rush
Starless and Bible Black - King Crimson
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
Relayer - Yes

Songs:
Jolene - Dolly Parton
Cant Get it Out of My Head - ELO
Jet - Paul McCartney & Wings
Killer Queen - Queen
Money - Pink Floyd
Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

[hipmamajen]

I was 4, so I didn't really appreciate the music until later. But, if we're going to discuss albums from 1974, I am still in love with this one: David Bowie's Diamond Dogs

I just mentioned John D in another thread, and I'm going to do it again... I can't remember the context, but on the old boards he brought up the movie Freaks, and related it to the David Bowie song Diamond Dogs. He pointed out how the lyrics mention the movie.

"With your silicone hump and your ten inch stump
Dressed like a priest you was,
Todd Browning's freak you was."

I'd never known what that part of the song said, and now every time I hear it I think about John D.

 

[Grandpa]

In 1974, I was working my first adult job and then joined the Marines. In the midst of the start of impeachment proceedings, Nixon resigned, and then Ford pardoned him. The Patty Hearst story gripped the nation. Hank Aaron drew all kinds of acclaim and fury for breaking Babe Ruth's home run record. OPEC ended the oil embargo. India went nuclear with the successful text of a nuclear device under a program ironically named "Smiling Buddha." There were leaders (besides Nixon) deposed and plane crashes around the world.

Music? What music?

Okay, okay. Five songs.

Time in a Bottle, Jim Croce
Rikki Don't Lose that Number, Steely Dan
Please Come to Boston, Dave Loggins
Twilight Zone, Golden Earring
And.... Time, or Us and Them, by Pink Floyd, take your pick, although I don't think either of them exactly climbed the charts.

One album?

I dunno. Wasn't paying attention then, and I don't remember buying any albums. I remember that Bowie's Diamond Dogs and Ronstadt's Heart Like a Wheel were popular. (With those Pink Floyd and Elton John songs mentioned earlier, I want to say Dark Side of the Moon and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, but they were released prior to 1974.)

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Album:
Apostrophe - Frank Zappa

Songs:
Same Old Song and Dance – Aerosmith
Oh Very Young - Cat Stevens
Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow – Frank Zappa
Hello, It's Me - Todd Rundgren
Rebel Rebel – David Bowie

 

[Dana Jean]

I love cat stevens

 

[Grandpa]

I love cat stevens

I used to. Then there was the whole Rushdie controversy which Stevens later sorta disclaimed, but his intent is pretty clear in his actual words. I couldn't believe that Mr. Peace Train would so casually adopt that mentality.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I love cat stevens

Ditto. Tea for the tillerman & Teaser and the firecat might be my two favorite albums of all time.

 

[Lily Sawyer]

Bennie and the Jets - Elton John
You're Sixteen - Ringo Starr
Band On the Run - Wings
Mockingbird - Carly Simon & James Taylor
Waterloo - ABBA

Albums:
Hotcakes - Carly Simon
Paradise and Lunch - Ry Cooder
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell
Heart Like A Wheel - Linda Ronstadt

 

[kingricefan]

....I was 13...
Top 5:
-Smokin' In the Boys Room, Brownsville Station
-Never, Never Gonna Give You Up, Barry White
-Twilight Zone, Golden Earring
-Keep On Smilin', Wet Willie
-Hooked On a Feeling, Blue Swede

Top Album:
Bad Company's debut LP

My God, Scott! You actually listened to Barry White? Barry White? Ya know, if Tracy ever kicks you outta the house you can come stay with me? I loved Barry White!!!! I was the only white boy in my area that used to listen to the great black artists at the time- Barry White, Isaac Hayes (Shut Yo Mouth! Well, I'm Talkin' 'Bout SHAFT!), Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross. Good Lord, this brings back the memories......

Remember The Rubberband Man??? Ohio Players?? Rufus featuring Chaka Khan??