I was in the cd store looking for something from the 70s & 80s. I bought the Essential

[applegrove]

Barry Manilow, the Essential Dixie Chicks, the Essential 80's collection and Cat Stevens. There were 30 songs on the Essential Barry Manilow. 3 of them were decent. The rest were horrible (Ouch! My ears!!!!!).

[txwhitedove]

1. Her name was LOLA. She was a SHOWGIRL...... yeah, that's your

punishment. I resent whatever poll decided 'older' women like Barely Manilow.

Dixie Chicks was a good choice.

[applegrove]

2. Yes I love the Dixie Chicks.

[catnhatnh]

3. And NOW Barry Manilow....

...singing a medley of his greatest hit "I write the songs that all sound alike".....

[applegrove]

6. Nooooooo!!!

[pokerfan]

4. don't have any of those

I have... the Essential Dave Brubeck, Essential Cheap Trick, Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd, Essential Roy Orbison and the Essential Johnny Cash.

[csziggy]

5. For late 70s, get the FM soundtrack set of two CDs

Great list of great songs of the period.

1. "FM (No Static At All)" - Steely Dan – 4:52
2. "Night Moves" - Bob Seger – 3:27
3. "Fly Like an Eagle" - Steve Miller – 3:04
4. "Cold as Ice" - Foreigner – 3:20
5. "Breakdown" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – 2:44
6. "Bad Man" - Randy Meisner – 2:38
7. "Life in the Fast Lane" - Eagles – 4:46
8. "Do It Again" - Steely Dan – 5:54
9. "Lido Shuffle" - Boz Scaggs – 3:42
10. "More Than a Feeling" - Boston – 4:45
11. "Tumbling Dice" - Linda Ronstadt – 4:51
12. "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" - Linda Ronstadt – 4:15
13. "Livingston Saturday Night" - Jimmy Buffett – 3:10
14. "There's a Place in the World for a Gambler" - Dan Fogelberg – 5:41
15. "Just the Way You Are" - Billy Joel – 4:49
16. "It Keeps You Runnin'" - The Doobie Brothers – 4:13
17. "Your Smiling Face" - James Taylor – 2:43
18. "Life's Been Good" - Joe Walsh – 8:05
19. "We Will Rock You" - Queen – 2:04
20. "FM (Reprise)" - Steely Dan – 2:54

My favorite anthology album of all time.

[PassingFair]

7. Hey, I had that anthology...it was background music to my first romance....

Here's my latest favorite find.

My husband tracked down the album and bought it for
me for my birthday last year:



He actually found the "marbelized" version.



This song wraps the 70's up for me in a bow.
Great lyrics, great songwriting, great guitar playing:

"Look at Me, Look at You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSfAYnI3MBc

[csziggy]

17. It was background music to first year of marriage

The movie came out but we didn't see it for years. but we bought a cassette of the soundtrack and played it often as we traveled around the state. That, "Dark Side of the Moon", and "Rocky Horror Picture Show" (which we saw at a theater on Market Street in San Franscico with two gay friends in January of 1977 while on our honeymoon before it was common for audience participation) were our favorite albums to play.

I never saw the original album cover for FM, just the cassette and CD covers.

[PassingFair]

19. The picture I posted was a Dave Mason album....

not the FM Album cover.

I listened to Dave Mason a lot in the early 70's.

Also, Fleetwood Mac in the summer of 77......

[hifiguy]

10. An excellent mainstream collection but

Lordy Lu, was there ever a poorer song choice by Linda Ronstadt - and she usually had very good instincts in picking covers - than "Tumbling Dice"? She absolutely massacred that song in ways I am sure Mick and Keef never thought possible.

[csziggy]

18. I know - that one sucks. For years that was the only thing I connected with her

And did not listen to anything she did.

[Archae]

11. They just HAD to throw Steve Miller shit in there...

(As you can guess, I am no fan of Steve Miller and his shit band.)

[yankeepants]

15. I'm with you

They ruined it with Miller. There was so much good stuff from that era.

[Iggo]

12. Wow. That's pretty much high school radio for me. (n/t)

[AngryOldDem]

14. That is a fantastic soundtrack! Listened to it constantly.

Unfortunately, it went missing, along with about 100 other albums, when I moved out of my folks' house many moons ago.

[LynneSin]

8. I like my Barry Manilow CD

I also find it amusing that my Barry Manilow CD is right next to my Marilyn Manson CD

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. I got a lifetime supply of Manilow in the late 1970s...

...via a live-in girlfriend who listened to pretty much nothing BUT Barry Manilow.

So it's a two-pronged thing...hearing Barry Manilow now makes me think of Barry Manilow...which is bad enough all by itself...but it also makes me think of Paula, who was kind of like Jessica Walters' legendary "batshit crazy lady" character in "Play Mist For Me."

:-)

[bif]

13. I can't stand listening to music from my high school days.

There's too much good new music to listen to tunes I've heard a million times already!

[Archae]

16. The funny part about looking back on those days...

For every "Bad Moon Rising" they MIGHT play once a day on the radio, there were 4 or 5 "Sugar Sugar" tunes from bubble gum bands like "The Archies," that got constant play.

[applegrove]

20. I hated my last 3 years of high school so I cannot stand the music of that time.