Top 50 Songs of 1974

For many who weren’t round within the 12 months 1974 — or as a refresher for individuals who had been — listed below are just a few notable occasions.

In February, publishing heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped by a gaggle of radicals referred to as the Symbionese Liberation Military, prompting one of many greatest nationwide information tales of its period. In August, President Richard Nixon resigned and President Gerald Ford instantly assumed workplace, totally pardoning Nixon a number of months later. In October, Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman within the “Rumble within the Jungle” struggle in Zaire, Africa, successfully reclaiming the world heavyweight title.

Throughout all of this, one of the vital fruitful batches of latest music of your entire decade was ushered in. Landmark releases from David Bowie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dolly Parton, the Eagles, Steely Dan and numerous others arrived — songs that, 5 a long time later, are nonetheless performed on heavy rotation.

Under, we’re having a look on the Prime 50 Songs of 1974 as voted by UCR employees. To start, a handful of songs tied for the No. 50 slot…

50. Sparks, “This City Ain’t Huge Sufficient for the Each of Us”
From: Kimono My Home

“My voice ain’t a ‘rock’ voice,” singer Russell Mael informed The Phrase at one level, talking in regards to the falsetto he utilized in “This City Ain’t Huge Sufficient for the Each of Us.” “It isn’t soulful, within the conventional rock method. It isn’t about ‘guts.’ It is untrained, unschooled, I by no means questioned why I used to be singing excessive. It simply occurred, dictated by the songs.” This observe was not successful in America, however carried out remarkably nicely in a number of European international locations.

 

50. Ohio Gamers, “Fireplace”
From: Fireplace

The sirens firstly of Ohio Gamers’ “Fireplace” can solely imply one factor: purple sizzling funk is on the way in which. The opening observe to the album of the identical title, “Fireplace” was a large hit for the band, going to No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 and the Scorching Soul Singles chart inside just some months. It grew to become one in all their signature songs.

 

50. Neil Younger, “Ambulance Blues”
From: On the Seashore

Neil Younger will need to have recognized that “Ambulance Blues,” the practically nine-minute closing observe to On the Seashore would not likely be appropriate for radio play given its size, however that was hardly the purpose of the track, nor the album as an entire. Right here, Younger yearns for the sooner days of his musical profession, earlier than excessive and disenchanting fame pounced on him — “Again within the outdated folky days / The air was magic after we performed.”

 

49. Chicago, “(I’ve Been) Searchin’ So Lengthy”
From: Chicago VII

“(I’ve Been) Searchin’ So Lengthy,” penned by trombonist James Pankow, was the primary single to be launched from Chicago VII, and it actually proved the best resolution. The track went to No. 9 within the U.S. (Pankow’s different sole songwriting contribution to the album was “Mongonucleosis.”)

 

48. Raspberries, “In a single day Sensation”
From: Beginning Over

Songwriters will typically say that songs will unfold in the identical method motion pictures do, with a plot and a forged of characters. That is what occurred with “In a single day Sensation” by Raspberries, written by lead singer Eric Carmen. “It was written very theatrically,” he recalled within the liner notes to 2005’s Raspberries Biggest. “The primary scene was, you may image Abbey Highway Studios, this nice, big darkish room with an actual excessive digital camera and this one highlight on the singer and it was like this man singing in his lounge, interested by the music enterprise. … Visually, I used to be attempting to get on a report what I used to be seeing in my head.”

 

47. Patti Smith, “Piss Manufacturing facility”
From: 1974 Single

Due to a person named Sam Wagstaff, a outstanding creative curator and benefactor, Patti Smith was capable of finance the making of her very first single, the double-sided “Hey Joe” / “Piss Manufacturing facility.” The previous is a Jimi Hendrix cowl, however the latter was the younger punk poet’s very first authentic launch. Like various her songs, it stemmed from a poem she’d been writing. “I used to be saying that as a teenager, I nonetheless had need — need to do nicely,” she later informed Rolling Stone. “Maybe a few of the individuals within the manufacturing unit misplaced all need. I can perceive how that may occur. … What ‘Piss Manufacturing facility’ is about is: somebody who within the midst of the useless felt alive.”

 

46. The Doobie Brothers, “Black Water”
From: What As soon as Had been Vices Now Are Habits

Typically, a bit noodling goes a good distance. Whereas the Doobie Brothers had been at work on their 1973 album The Captain and Me, Patrick Simmons was simply playing around on his guitar in between takes. “All [of a] sudden I heard the talk-back go on,” Simmons recalled to Guitar Participant in 2016, “and [producer] Ted Templeman says: ‘What’s that?’ I stated: ‘It is just a bit riff that I got here up with that I have been tweaking with.’ He goes: ‘I like that. You actually ought to write a track utilizing that riff.'” And he did: 1974’s “Black Water.”

 

45. Blue Swede, “Hooked on a Feeling”
From: Hooked on a Feeling

“Hooked on a Feeling” was first recorded and launched by B.J. Thomas in 1968, a No. 5 hit. Six years later, the Swedish rock group Blue Swede took the track even larger to the No. 1 slot with their 1974 recording, which was modeled off a 1971 cowl by Jonathan King.

 

44. Unhealthy Firm, “Prepared for Love”
From: Unhealthy Firm

It is not likely stealing in case you achieve this from your self. “Prepared for Love,” penned by Mick Ralphs, was first launched by Mott the Hoople in 1972. Ralphs, who sang lead on the observe, was by no means fairly pleased together with his vocal efficiency, so when he left Mott the Hoople and fashioned Unhealthy Firm, the track received a second probability in 1974 with singer Paul Rodgers.

 

43. Nazareth, “Love Hurts”
From: Hair of the Canine

“Love Hurts” has been coated by various artists over time, together with the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Joan Jett, Rod Stewart and extra. However probably the most profitable model got here from Nazareth, who launched it as a single in 1974. It went to No. 8 within the U.S. and topped the charts in a number of different international locations.

 

42. Kraftwerk, “Autobahn”
From: Autobahn

Kraftwerk’s 20-plus minute track “Autobahn,” was launched with solely German lyrics, however the verbal language wasn’t the purpose. The general feeling of being on the highway was far more vital. “It was an environmental composition, a sound portray,” lead singer Ralf Hutter informed The Guardian in 2017. “We had been touring in Germany and after we performed in different cities, we did not have cash to remain in lodges. So we had been all the time driving on the autobahn, going someplace and coming again at night time on a regular basis.”

 

41. Cat Stevens, “Oh Very Younger”
From: Buddha and the Chocolate Field

The attention-grabbing factor about Cat Stevens is that he all the time appeared capable of impart a way of knowledge far past his age. He was solely 25 years outdated when he launched “Oh Very Younger,” a No. 10 hit that pointed to the brevity of life itself: “You are solely dancin’ on this earth for a short time / And although your goals could toss and switch you now / They may vanish away like your dads finest denims.”

 

40. Joe Walsh, “Flip to Stone”
From: So What

“Flip to Stone,” first launched by Barnstorm in 1972, was written about President Nixon’s administration, the Vietnam Struggle and the protests it precipitated. “In these days it felt like the federal government’s precedence was not the inhabitants,” Joe Walsh informed Rolling Stone in 2016. “They’d an agenda that was about one thing apart from doing what was essentially good for the nation.” Two years later, Walsh recorded the track once more for his personal solo album, So What.

 

39. Gordon Lightfoot, “Sunset”
From: Sunset

Gordon Lightfoot solely landed one No. 1 hit on the Billboard Scorching 100: the title observe to his 1974 album Sunset. “I believe my girlfriend was out together with her buddies one night time at a bar whereas I used to be at dwelling writing songs,” he informed American Songwriter in 2008, recalling its writing course of. “I believed, ‘I’m wondering what she’s doing together with her buddies at that bar!’ It is that sort of a sense. ‘The place is my real love tonight? What’s my real love doing?'”

 

38. Grand Funk Railroad, “Some Sort of Fantastic”
From: All of the Ladies within the World Beware!!!

In case you’ve by no means heard the unique model of “Some Sort of Fantastic,” recorded by the R&B group Soul Brothers Six, it is extremely beneficial. You can inform precisely the place Grand Funk Railroad was capable of pull the energy from for his or her enormously profitable 1974 cowl of the track.

 

37. Dolly Parton, “I Will All the time Love You”
From: Jolene

A lot has been written about Dolly Parton’s “I Will All the time Love You,” however arguably probably the most compelling story to have been born out of its creation is the one involving Elvis Presley. Because the track climbed the nation charts in 1974, Presley’s supervisor, Colonel Parker, knowledgeable Parton that his shopper needed to cowl the track, however that his customary process included being given half the publishing rights. Torn however decided to stay to her weapons, Parton declined the provide. Years later, she gave Whitney Houston permission to report the track. “When Whitney’s got here out, I made sufficient cash to purchase Graceland,” Parton quipped to Nation Music Tv in 2006.

 

36. Stevie Marvel, “You Have not Carried out Nothin'”
From: Fulfillingness’ First Finale

Joe Walsh wasn’t the one artist taking intention at Nixon in 1974. Stevie Marvel voiced his personal opinion on “You Have not Carried out Nothin,'” which featured the Jackson 5 as backing vocalists. “Everyone guarantees you every part,” Marvel stated when the only was launched, “however in the long run, nothing comes out of it. … I am sick and bored with all their lies.”

 

35. Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Name Me the Breeze”
From: Second Serving to

Penned by J.J. Cale, there may be arguably no extra iconic model of “Name Me the Breeze” than Lynyrd Skynyrd’s. “Ronnie [Van Zant] was an enormous fan of J.J. Cale,” guitarist Rickey Medlocke informed UCR in 2023. “And I am telling you, you understand, in our historical past, and in our previous, I imply, there are a number of songs that you simply get into the present and there is a number of songs that you simply can not overlook to do. And ‘Name Me the Breeze’ is one in all them.”

 

34. Billy Preston, “Nothing From Nothing”
From: The Children & Me

Billy Preston’s “Nothing From Nothing” is noteworthy for a few causes. The primary, in fact, is that it was a big hit, reaching the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Scorching 100 and staying on the charts for 4 and a half months. The second is that Preston carried out it when he appeared as one of many two first ever musical friends on Saturday Night time Dwell in October 1975. (The opposite was Janis Ian.)

 

33. Labelle, “Girl Marmalade”
From: Nightbirds

Patti LaBelle didn’t perceive the French lyrics in 1974’s “Girl Marmalade” when it was first offered to her, however she did not care. All she knew was the track could be an enormous one for her band. “For as soon as I can say ‘sure’ and actually imply ‘sure’ as a result of we had been on our strategy to New Orleans with Allen Toussaint again within the day earlier than he handed,” she stated in a 2023 interview. “As soon as we received this ‘Girl M’ track I stated, ‘We’ve to report this primary, ‘trigger it is a hit,’ and it was successful!” (It held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Scorching 100 for an entire week.)

 

32. Eagles, “Better of My Love”
From: On the Border

“Glenn [Frey] discovered the tune; the tune I believe got here from a Fred Neil report,” J.D. Souther, co-writer of “Better of My Love” recalled to Acoustic Storm in 2009. “I don’t know who wrote the primary traces; we wrote it in London.” It grew to become the Eagles’ very first No. 1 hit, although actually not the final.

 

31. Funkadelic, “Pink Scorching Mama”
From: Standing on the Verge of Getting It On

When guitarist Eddie Hazel returned to Funkadelic for the primary time in three years, it was as if the items fell into place. You’ll be able to hear the reduction and cohesion of the group on a track like “Pink Scorching Mama,” co-written by Hazel.

 

30. Unhealthy Firm, “Unhealthy Firm”
From: Unhealthy Firm

Self-titling an album is one factor, self-titling one in all its tracks is one other. However that is what Unhealthy Firm did in 1974. Why? “I believe as a result of it had by no means actually been executed, so far as I knew,” Paul Rodgers informed Spinner in 2010. “I believed it was attention-grabbing to return out as a brand-new band with its personal theme track.”

 

29. Elton John, “The Bitch Is Again”
From: Caribou

You actually by no means know when a superb title goes to strike you. Within the case of Elton John’s “The Bitch Is Again,” it got here from Bernie Taupin’s spouse, Maxine Feibelman, who coined the phrase in the future when John was in a poor temper. From there the track, a No. 4 hit within the U.S., virtually wrote itself.

 

28. Rufus and Chaka Kahn, “Inform Me One thing Good”
From: Rags to Rufus

You may suppose that Rufus and Chaka Kahn’s “Inform Me One thing Good” has a form of Stevie Marvel high quality to it — and that may make sense, given he wrote the observe. Pay particular consideration to Tony Maiden’s guitar speak field half, one of many first situations of the instrument being utilized in successful track.

 

27. Rush, “Working Man”
From: Rush

Even a long time after its 1974 launch, Geddy Lee nonetheless cited “Working Man” as his favourite track to play dwell — and it is change into a fan favourite, too. It is becoming then that this was the final track the band performed dwell collectively at their ultimate live performance in 2015.

 

26. Billy Joel, “The Entertainer”
From: Streetlife Serenade

By his personal admission, Billy Joel did not have lots to say on 1974’s Streetlife Serenade — he frankly was too busy touring to provide you with a lot materials for a brand new album. Joel wrote about this strain in “The Entertainer,” a cynical form of ode to the relentless grind that’s being a working musician in an business that strikes at lightning pace. “I will not be right here in one other 12 months,” he sings on the finish of the observe, “if I do not keep on the charts.”

 

25. Kiss, “Black Diamond”
From: Kiss

Paul Stanley had nearly all the mandatory elements for “Black Diamond,” the closing observe to Kiss’ debut album. Nevertheless it was Gene Simmons who supplied the ultimate puzzle piece: the riff. “It is all about association and embellishment,” Stanley informed Guitar World in 1996. “That is what you are imagined to do in a band: are available in and add one thing.”

 

24. Electrical Mild Orchestra, “Cannot Get It Out of My Head”
From: Eldorado

ELO first fashioned in 1970, but it surely wasn’t till 1974 that they started reaching a wider viewers, thanks partially to Eldorado. The band landed their very first Prime 10 hit within the U.S. with “Cannot Get It Out of My Head,” regardless that it did not chart of their native nation. This was nonetheless a welcome growth contemplating Jeff Lynne had purposefully written the observe to show a degree to his father, who had informed him his songs had no tune. “So I stated, ‘I’’ll present you a tune then,'” he recalled on the Final Basic Rock Nights radio present in 2019.

 

23. Ringo Starr, “No No Music”
From: Goodnight Vienna

Penned by Hoyt Axton and David Jackson, “No No Music” is meant to be a humorous tackle, nicely, drug habit – typically it’s a must to snicker to maintain from crying. Ringo Starr, on the time he recorded the observe, was over a decade away from changing into sober himself, making his model much more tongue-in-cheek. In any case, it was successful, reaching No. 3 within the U.S.

 

22. Bob Dylan, “Ceaselessly Younger” (Sluggish Model)
From: Planet Waves

Over the course of his profession, Bob Dylan has change into well-known for reinventing his personal songs, placing new spins on them such that the result’s one thing fully totally different. Again in 1974, he did this within the studio with “Ceaselessly Younger,” two variations of which, one sooner and one slower, had been included on Planet Waves. It is the slower model, although, that strikes extra of an emotional chord.

 

21. Huge Star, “September Gurls”
From: Radio Metropolis

“I actually liked the mid-’60s British pop music, all two and a half minutes or three minutes lengthy, actually interesting songs,” Alex Chilton of Huge Star informed The Impartial in 2010. “So I’ve all the time aspired to that very same format, that is what I like.” “September Gurls,” which didn’t chart on the time of its launch, is a wonderful instance of this.

 

20. ABBA, “Waterloo”
From: Waterloo

ABBA’s “Waterloo” was particularly written with the intention of being entered into the 1974 Eurovision Music Contest, the nineteenth operating of this system. This mission was profitable, however past that, it was an enormous step for ABBA — “Waterloo” made it to No. 6 within the U.S., serving to carry them to a wider American viewers.

 

19. Kiss, “Strutter”
From: Kiss

Not like “Black Diamond” above, “Strutter” was actually a collaborative effort between Stanley and Simmons, who had been credited as co-writers. Utilizing a track Simmons had written referred to as “Stanley the Parrot,” Stanley modified the groove a bit and wrote new lyrics. “With ‘Strutter,’ I used to be attempting to approximate the texture of the Stones’ ‘Brown Sugar,’ to put in writing a track that had swagger and angle and a bravado to it,” Stanley informed Basic Rock in 2021. “As soon as the texture of the track modified it appeared to lend itself to a lyric which captured that swagger.”

 

18. Harry Chapin, “Cat’s within the Cradle”
From: Verities & Balderdash

It is probably one of the best recognized track in regards to the circle of familial life: Harry Chapin’s “Cat’s within the Cradle.” “Frankly, this track scares me to demise,” Chapin as soon as stated of it, noting that he was considering of his personal relationship together with his son, Josh, when writing the observe.

 

17. Genesis, “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway”
From: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Understandably, the music of Genesis just isn’t everybody’s cup of tea. However for prog rockers, it does not get far more seminal than The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Its title observe was launched as a single, and although it didn’t chart, it was nonetheless performed typically on American radio stations — a tantalizing style of the remainder of the LP.

 

16. John Lennon, “No matter Will get You Via the Night time”
From: Partitions and Bridges

Amazingly, 1974’s “No matter Will get You Via the Night time,” was the one track of John Lennon’s that went to No. 1 whereas he was alive. “At night time he liked to channel-surf, and he would choose up phrases from all of the reveals,” Lennon’s then-girlfriend Might Pang stated to Radio Occasions journal in 2005. “One time, he was watching Reverend Ike, a well-known black evangelist, who was saying, ‘Let me inform you guys, it does not matter, it is no matter will get you thru the night time.’ John liked it and stated, ‘I’ve received to put in writing it down or I will overlook it.’ He all the time stored a pad and pen by the mattress. That was the start of ‘No matter Will get You Via the Night time.'”

 

15. Jackson Browne, “Late for the Sky”
From: Late for the Sky

You’d doubtless by no means guess it, however Jackson Browne was simply 25 years outdated when he wrote the achingly tender “Late for the Sky. “I keep in mind it very nicely,” Browne informed The Dallas Morning Information in 2015. “I keep in mind writing the traces, ‘Now, for me, some phrases come simple, however I do know that they do not imply that a lot, in contrast with the issues which can be stated when lovers contact.’ That sort of broke me down proper there, and it is very emotional.”

 

14. Eagles, “Already Gone”
From: On the Border

Again in 1968, songwriter Jack Tempchin was the supervisor of an unassuming membership in San Diego. He and fellow songwriter Robb Strandlund would typically present the leisure for the membership themselves, however one night they had been within the again room of the venue once they discovered a mysterious jug of liquid, which they proceeded to drink. “So, we had been consuming out of this jug and we began to really feel actually good, and I stated, ‘Let’s write a rustic track,'” he recalled to Songfacts. (The jug contained arduous cider, it turned out.) “So in about 20 minutes within the again room there, we wrote ‘Already Gone.’ The refrain goes woo hoo hoo as a result of I simply felt so good out of the blue.” Tempchin despatched a tape of the track to Glenn Frey and the Eagles took it from there.

 

13. Bob Marley and the Wailers, “No Girl, No Cry”
From: Natty Dread

It isn’t precisely clear what position Bob Marley performed within the writing of “No Girl, No Cry,” as a result of he gave the composer credit score to a person named Vincent Ford, a good friend of Marley’s who ran a soup kitchen within the neighborhood Marley grew up in. Thus, the royalty funds Ford obtained helped hold the kitchen afloat and feeding individuals in want.

 

12. The Rolling Stones, “It is Solely Rock ‘n Roll (However I Like It)”
From: It is Solely Rock ‘n Roll

“The thought of the track has to do with our public persona on the time,” Mick Jagger would recall of “It is Solely Rock ‘n Roll (However I Like It)” in the 1993 compilation Leap Again. “I used to be getting a bit bored with individuals having a go, all that, ‘oh, it is not so good as their final one’ enterprise. The only sleeve had an image of me with a pen digging into me as if it had been a sword. It was a lighthearted, anti-journalistic form of factor.”

 

11. Joni Mitchell, “Assist Me”
From: Court docket and Spark

Working with the jazz group Tom Scott’s L.A. Specific as her backing band, Joni Mitchell made probably the most profitable single and the one Prime 10 of her profession in 1974: “Assist Me.” It isn’t simple to distill simply how influential Mitchell’s ’70s work was to different musicians, however this is an instance. “Assist Me” was later referenced in Prince’s “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker:” “‘Oh, my favourite track,’ she stated / And it was Joni singing: ‘Assist me, I believe I am falling.'”

 

10. Al Inexperienced, “Take Me to the River”
From: Al Inexperienced Explores Your Thoughts

Loads of artists have recorded Al Inexperienced’s “Take Me to the River:” Speaking Heads, Levon Helm, Annie Lennox and Bryan Ferry amongst them. However the definitive model, that includes the Memphis Horns, stays Inexperienced’s authentic 1974 minimize.

 

9. Bachman-Turner Overdrive, “You Ain’t Seen Nothing But”
From: Not Fragile

Randy Bachman didn’t intend to make an enormous hit single out of a crude joke track, however that is what occurred with “You Ain’t Seen Nothing But,” which he purposefully sang with a stutter in an effort to make enjoyable of his brother and Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s supervisor, Gary. “He had a speech obstacle,” Bachman stated in Fred Bronson’s 1988 e book, The Billboard E-book of Quantity One Hits. “We thought, only for enjoyable…we would take this track and I might stutter and we’d ship it to him. He’ll have the one copy on the planet of this track by BTO.” Clearly, issues modified and the track, full with the stuttering, was included on 1974’s Not Fragile.

 

8. Queen, “Killer Queen”
From: Sheer Coronary heart Assault

“It is a few excessive class name woman,” Freddie Mercury defined of “Killer Queen” to NME in 1974. “I am attempting to say that elegant individuals will be whores as nicely. That is what the track is about, although I might choose individuals to place their interpretation upon it — to learn into it what they like.” Not solely did “Killer Queen” go to No. 2 within the U.Okay., it reached No. 12 within the U.S., Queen’s first American hit.

 

7. Linda Ronstadt, “You are No Good”
From: Coronary heart Like a Wheel

Hell actually hath no fury like a girl scorned, particularly if you place that lady in a recording studio. Linda Ronstadt was not the primary to report “You are No Good,” however her model grew to become the definitive one. She’d already been performing the track dwell together with her band, however her studio minimize went to No. 1 on the Billboard chart.

 

6. Dolly Parton, “Jolene”
From: Jolene

In the meantime in 1974, Dolly Parton was recording a track fairly totally different from “You are No Good,” one in regards to the desperation felt when a prettier lady enters the image. In keeping with Parton, “Jolene” was impressed by an awfully pleasant financial institution teller she observed flirting together with her husband once they had been newlyweds. However for what it is value, the couple has been married for near 60 years.

 

5. Steely Dan, “Rikki Do not Lose That Quantity”
From: Pretzel Logic

By 1974’s Pretzel Logic, it was abundantly clear that Steely Dan, the band, actually referred to its core two songwriters, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. However however essential to the recording of the track “Rikki Do not Lose That Quantity” was drummer Jim Gordon (a decade earlier than he was sentenced to 16 years to life in jail for murdering his mom) and guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, who joined the Doobie Brothers not lengthy after.

 

4. Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Candy Residence Alabama”
From: Second Serving to

“Flip it up,” Ronnie Van Zant confidently says on the high of “Candy Residence Alabama.” Sooner or later guitarist Gary Rossington was messing round within the studio. “I had this little riff,” he recalled to Backyard & Gun in 2015. “It is the little selecting half and I stored taking part in it time and again after we had been ready on everybody to reach for rehearsal. Ronnie and I had been sitting there, and he stored saying, ‘play that once more.'” Van Zant added lyrics and Ed King helped write the remainder of the music, leading to one in all Lynyrd Skynyrd’s signature songs.

 

3. Aerosmith, “Identical Previous Music and Dance”
From: Get Your Wings

There’s an entire assortment of artists whose sophomore album ended up a droop. Aerosmith was not one in all them. They got here extra into their very own on 1974’s Get Your Wings, particularly on “Identical Previous Music and Dance.” “I informed them that we should always herald some horns to carry out their rhythm and blues aspect,” producer Jack Douglas recalled to Music Radar in 2012. “They positively had that sort of fashion and sound already.”

 

2. Elton John, “Do not Let the Solar Go Down on Me”
From: Caribou

“I wish to be extra attention-grabbing than a superb outdated ‘I like you, you like me, my coronary heart will break in case you go away me,” Bernie Taupin informed Esquire in 2012. “Throw in a curveball. ‘Do not Let the Solar Go Down on Me.’ Put a darkish twist on them.” Carl Wilson and Bruce Johnston of the Seashore Boys sang backing vocals on this No. 2 hit.

 

1. David Bowie, “Insurgent Insurgent”
From: Diamond Canines

If there’s a stronger ode to gender-bending, unbridled glam rock than David Bowie’s “Insurgent Insurgent,” we have no idea it. With one of the vital recognizable guitar riffs in music historical past, it is not troublesome to see why it grew to become a crowd favourite, the sort of track that invitations one to bounce and throw warning to the wind. Who cares in regards to the future when you may dwell within the current?