YouTube Links to the 100 Greatest Songs of the 1970s

A list of links to the 100 greatest songs of the 1970s according to Paste Magazine.

  1. Funkadelic — “Maggot Brain”
  2. Carly Simon — “You’re So Vain”
  3. Stevie Wonder — “As”
  4. Nina Simone — “Stars”
  5. The Meters — “It Ain’t No Use”
  6. Joni Mitchell — “A Case of You”
  7. Suicide — “Frankie Teardrop”
  8. Fela Kuti / Africa ’70 — “Zombie”
  9. Bruce Springsteen — “Thunder Road”
  10. Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges — “Tudo Que Você Podia Ser”
  11. David Bowie — “Station to Station”
  12. Dinosaur — “Kiss Me Again”
  13. Herbie Hancock — “Chameleon”
  14. Paul & Linda McCartney — “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey”
  15. Sly & The Family Stone — “Family Affair”
  16. Tom Waits — “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis”
  17. Marvin Gaye — “Got to Give It Up”
  18. Chico Buarque — “Construção”
  19. The Clash — “Lost in the Supermarket”
  20. Blaze Foley — “If I Could Only Fly”
  21. ABBA — “SOS”
  22. The Walker Brothers — “The Electrician”
  23. Willie Nelson — “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain”
  24. Buzzcocks — “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve?)”
  25. Kris Kristofferson — “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”
  26. Miles Davis — “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down”
  27. Fleetwood Mac — “The Chain”
  28. Betty Davis — “F.U.N.K.”
  29. Neil Young — “Powderfinger”
  30. X-Ray Spex — “Oh Bondage! Up Yours!”
  31. Mulatu Astatke — “Tezeta (Nostalgia)”
  32. Dolly Parton — “I Will Always Love You”
  33. Gil Scott-Heron — “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
  34. Black Sabbath — “Supernaut”
  35. Patti Smith — “Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer(de)”
  36. Television — “Marquee Moon”
  37. Charles Mingus — “The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers”
  38. The Rolling Stones — “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking”
  39. The Congos — “Fisherman”
  40. Gary Stewart — “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Double)”
  41. Donna Summer — “I Feel Love”
  42. Gang of Four — “Damaged Goods”
  43. Ryuichi Sakamoto — “Thousand Knives”
  44. Prince — “I Wanna Be Your Lover”
  45. Can — “Vitamin C”
  46. Chic — “Good Times”
  47. Labi Siffre — “Cannock Chase”
  48. Kate Bush — “Wuthering Heights”
  49. Lou Reed — “Street Hassle”
  50. Ann Peebles — “I Can’t Stand the Rain”
  51. Talking Heads — “Life During Wartime”
  52. Carole King — “It’s Too Late”
  53. Evans Pyramid — “Never Gonna Leave You”
  54. Townes Van Zandt — “Pancho & Lefty”
  55. Roxy Music — “Mother of Pearl”
  56. Novos Baianos — “Preta Pretinha”
  57. Curtis Mayfield — “So in Love”
  58. Shin Joong Hyun & Yup Juns — “Beautiful Woman”
  59. Gladys Knight & The Pips — “Midnight Train to Georgia”
  60. Led Zeppelin — “When the Levee Breaks”
  61. William Onyeabor — “Atomic Bomb”
  62. Barbra Streisand — “One Less Bell to Answer/A House Is Not a Home”
  63. Devo — “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
  64. Waylon Jennings — “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)”
  65. Aretha Franklin — “Rock Steady”
  66. Blondie — “Hanging on the Telephone”
  67. Alice Coltrane / Pharoah Sanders — “Shiva-Loka”
  68. The Roches — “Hammond Song”
  69. Yes — “Close to the Edge”
  70. James Brown — “The Payback”
  71. Neu! — “Hallogallo”
  72. Bob Dylan — “Idiot Wind”
  73. Taeko Onuki — “4:00 A.M.”
  74. Thin Lizzy — “The Boys Are Back in Town”
  75. Judee Sill — “Jesus Was a Cross Maker”
  76. Elton John — “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding”
  77. Augustus Pablo — “King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown”
  78. Jim Croce — “Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)”
  79. Kraftwerk — “Trans Europe Express”
  80. Al Green — “Love and Happiness”
  81. Warren Zevon — “Werewolves of London”
  82. Jorge Ben — “Ponta de lança africano (Umbabarauma)”
  83. Ramones — “Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World”
  84. The Temptations — “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone”
  85. Karen Dalton — “Something on Your Mind”
  86. Bill Withers — “Ain’t No Sunshine”
  87. Joy Division — “Disorder”
  88. Roberta Flack — “Killing Me Softly With His Song”
  89. This Heat — “The Fall of Saigon”
  90. Nick Drake — “Northern Sky”
  91. Yellow Magic Orchestra — “Rydeen”
  92. Guy Clark — “L.A. Freeway”
  93. The Slits — “Typical Girls”
  94. Big Star — “Kanga Roo”
  95. The Staple Singers — “I’ll Take You There”
  96. Todd Rundgren — “I Saw the Light”
  97. Leonard Cohen — “Chelsea Hotel #2”
  98. Bob Marley & The Wailers — “Waiting in Vain”
  99. Rita Lee & Tutti Frutti — “Agora Só Falta Você”
  100. Elvis Costello — “(The Angels Wanna Hear My) Red Shoes”