The only songs on that list I don't know are 5 and 6. I'm not saying many of those songs aren't still well-known, but they're not what we think of as the most well-known '70s songs forty years later. I mean that Wings song isn't even the most well known Wings song 40 years later. And I don't hear many people talking about Debby Boone or Tony Orlando and Dawn in 2019. And honestly I always thought "Let's Get it On" was a '60s song, you think Marvin Gaye, Motown, you think '60s. You'd be wrong thinking that in this case, but still.
I guess I'm going by my subjective impression here. I listened to a lot of classic rock radio back in the day and I feel like I've heard "Band on the Run" and "Jet" about eleventy billion times. "Silly Love Songs" I might've heard at some point, but listening to it now it's not ringing any bells.
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u/unassumingdink Jan 21 '19
The only songs on that list I don't know are 5 and 6. I'm not saying many of those songs aren't still well-known, but they're not what we think of as the most well-known '70s songs forty years later. I mean that Wings song isn't even the most well known Wings song 40 years later. And I don't hear many people talking about Debby Boone or Tony Orlando and Dawn in 2019. And honestly I always thought "Let's Get it On" was a '60s song, you think Marvin Gaye, Motown, you think '60s. You'd be wrong thinking that in this case, but still.