1970s retrospective
Best Songs of the 1970s
The '70s are still the ceiling for what an album can be. Disco, prog, soul, country-rock, punk, glam, funk — every genre was simultaneously at a peak. The decade's records still sell at vinyl reissues priced like new releases, which is the market voting on how durable the songs are.
What defined this era
The peak of the album era. Side A and side B were a deliberate craft.
Artists at the center
- • David Bowie
- • Stevie Wonder
- • Pink Floyd
- • Joni Mitchell
- • Marvin Gaye
- • Led Zeppelin
- • Fleetwood Mac
- • Bob Dylan
- • Patti Smith
- • Donna Summer
A listening note
Listen to '70s albums in track order, all the way through. They were sequenced; shuffling them breaks them.
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