What are some 70's songs you liked at the time but now laugh at?

[liberalhistorian]

I was born in the mid-60's, so I grew up with most 70's music and it's my absolute favorite decade when it comes to pop and rock music (with some notable 60's exceptions, of course, the 60's had some fantastic rock, folk and folk-rock music, especially protest songs). However, there are usually some songs that came out when you were growing up that you liked and may have constantly played, but now, decades later, you cringe and/or laugh at them and, what's more, they're often fun to play just for the purpose and fun of laughing at them. I'm not even going to get into the Shaun Cassidy obsession my sister and I both had, and the concerts we attended (actually, he gave pretty good concerts!). We like to laugh about it now, although his covers of classic 50's songs weren't too bad.

There are many, many examples I can think of for myself, which include ANYTHING by the DeFrancos. Hell, their pictures alone cause me to double over in laughter now. One of the main examples, though, is this one, by David Geddes:

Being the romantic tweens that we were when this came out, my sister and friends and I played it over and over and even cried at times (gack, I hate even thinking of that now, lol!) It's only now that I've seen the video he made for it when searching for it on YT and I'm sorry, but I have to laugh even more. I still can't believe Glee did their own version of it!!!

So, let's hear your own examples now!

[pipi_k]

1. Can't really

think of any.

I mean, if I liked them then, I like them now, and if I hated them then I hate them now.

So anyway, one song I always thought was really lame...

[liberalhistorian]

4. OMG, I so agree with that!

My parents and I would laugh our asses off at that every single time it came on the radio, even though I didn't fully understand it at the time. There seems to be a period in the mid-70's where that kind of claptrap was popular, for whatever reason.

[davsand]

7. Oh URP! I hated that song then and still do!

The stuff that was bad back then was so over the top bad that I'm still in denial that I ever heard a lot of it. I used to joke that those were "ankle breaker" songs--I was gonna break an ankle running to change the station. Having My Baby was one of those. I still shudder at the thought!





Laura

[kwassa]

2. It is easier to find the opposite.

I thought "Born to Run" wildly pompous and over the top, at the time. It still is, but I kind of enjoy it now.

[liberalhistorian]

5. That song always seemed to me to have captured

the essence of adolescence, because, frankly, a lot of teens really are pompous with an air of "nothing will happen to us, we can do what we want". My parents were both high school teachers and I remember my stepdad being both disgusted and amused when the class that was graduating the year this came out chose the song and its title as their class "theme". He asked them "how are you going to feel 20-30 years from now about that?" Since it's been more time than that, I'd be curious myself now what they think!

[kwassa]

20. Tramps like us?

[Tabasco_Dave]

3. I was 8 when this song came out

I didn't know why that woman was moaning.

[liberalhistorian]

6. lol, I was just entering the land of

teenager-hood at the time and my friends and I would often pretend to be her singing it, adopting what we thought was a "sexy" pose and voice. Not that it was anything remotely sexy, but it was serious to us then. It's funny as hell now.

[Texasgal]

8. I cannot believe I ever liked this song

it's like nails on a chalk board!

[liberalhistorian]

9. lol, I always liked that one but

no one else I knew ever did. I can't really say why I liked it and still do, guess that's why art really is subjective.

[Taverner]

10. Billy don't be a hero

[jakeXT]

11. I'm too young, but it looks like melody lost vs. sound/groove

[Brigid]

12. Anything by Olivia Newton-John.

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I don't hate her or anything, but her songs were mostly pretty sappy. But even at that, she's better than Taylor Swift!

[liberalhistorian]

19. I always associate "Have you Ever Been Mellow"

with my grandfather's death when I was ten, because it came out just at that time and seemed to be everywhere. And it was in the winter, too, and sad/bittersweet songs like that that come out in the winter have always seemed even more dreary to me.

Of course, I hated Grease from the beginning and thought she was annoying as hell in it. Travolta was, too, but then he's always revolting so it didn't matter much. I think I was the only teen I knew at the time who didn't like Grease or any of the music from it that I couldn't seem to get away from no matter what.

[reformist2]

21. Ahem... The first 45 I ever bought was "You're the One That I Want" - and I still love it!

[Scurrilous]

13. I thought this was pretty cool at the time...the outfits too!

I hear it playing at the supermarket now and go "what was I thinking?"

[antiquie]

14. It's still gonna-make-you-smile.

[Scurrilous]

15. True.

[Brigid]

16. I still like that one

I used to have it on 45.

[liberalhistorian]

18. Oh, that's still such a neat song!

Really uplifting, but not sappy, hokey or corny. Oh, well, at least to me it isn't, lol.

[BainsBane]

17. The Bee Gees

the Saturday Night Fever stuff.

[Tabasco_Dave]

22. As a kid i thought this was so futuristic

Now it sounds like a bad 80's arcade game.

[olddots]

23. Feelings was the worst song ever written

We had to play that on gigs and sometimes the audience sang along so loud it drowned us out ..........who did that song ?????

[Archae]

24. Too many to list...

"Horse With No Name" gets the laugh treatment.

But this one cracks me up.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

25. How about

Marvin Gaye - "What's Goin' On?"

[kwolf68]

27. You laugh to What's Going On?

Maybe I missed the purpose of this thread.

Gaye's "What's Going On" is a LANDMARK album and I argue the greatest and most important piece of work to ever come out of Motown. Bar none....Marvin was a god, his voice was magical, his purpose was pure and as a SLAYER fan (among many others) recognize his genius everytime I hear him sing.

Go dig up his live concert on youtube in LA from sometime around 73 or 74, he puts on a great show.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

29. Mea culpa

Loved "What's Goin' On" back in the day and love it still.

[sigmasix]

26. my Bay City Rollers 45s aren't priceless?

The seventies were my childhood- born in 66 and turned ten in 76 the best 4th of july to be a kid- and I was 12 for the blizzard of 78- the coolest winter vacation a kid could ask for. The snow tunnels in our neighborhood went on forever. I still listen to a lot of the music from the time, but with a different ear that isn't capable of the same magical energy of a 10 year old boy. "Wendy" by the association and the entire Bay City Rollers catalogue. Sweet, Kiss and all the other glam bands were on the fm radio and on my little GE cassette player.

[d_r]

28. this

[UglyGreed]

30. Terry Jacks

[cyberswede]

31. This whole album...

*shudder*