I Love #1's - 1973

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The clear favourite at the start, Madonna's 'Like A Prayer' topped the pops in 1989 with 39 ticks. Cor! 'Ferry Cross The Mersey' on the other hand, got fewer ticks than either of the Jive Bunny megamixes, oh dear. Today's year was so good, er... James Blunt wrote a song about it? Perhaps he was a big fan of G4ry Gl1tt3r? Behold! It's 1973.

[Poll #1129274]

(If you haven't been following them, check out freakytigger's Popular entries for 1973!)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I am REALLY GLAD I wasn't alive in 1973! This is all awful. Everything about glam rock creeps me out, and it's not much fun to listen to either.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

But I really like glam rock, and yet I really dislike most of these. 1973 was just a terrible year for music, clearly.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Contrary to other posters, I think there's a LOAD of good stuff here and a few greats - I can't imagine liking glam rock and NOT enjoying the Sweet, Slade, Suzi and Wizzard records here, which together make up a lot of the chart.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I agree entirely!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

yes the haters are all clearly in a coma or mad or something.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

I think the haterz are in crack too. It has 2 Wizzard number ones and Blockbuster!

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

I really did mean that they're not just on crack, they're swimming in it.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's really not great, is it?

Hmm, I appear to have left off the New Seekers. SUCH A GREAT LOSS. Ignore that, they only reached #1 in 1974, just entered it in 1973. You can tell I haven't done one of these polls in a while.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

1973 in America:

Carly Simon - "You're So Vain"
Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
Elton John - "Crocodile Rock"
Roberta Flack - "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
The O'Jays - "Love Train"
Vicki Lawrence - "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"
Dawn - "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"
Stevie Wonder - "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
Edgar Winter Group - "Frankenstein"
Paul McCartney & Wings - "My Love"
George Harrison - "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)"
Billy Preston - "Will It Go Round in Circles?"
Jim Croce - "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
Maureen McGovern - "The Morning After"
Diana Ross - "Touch Me in the Morning"
Stories - "Brother Louie"
Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On"
Helen Reddy - "Delta Dawn"
Grand Funk - "We're an American Band"
Cher - "Half-Breed"
The Rolling Stones - "Angie"
Gladys Knight & The Pips - "Midnight Train to Georgia"
Eddie Kendricks - "Keep on Truckin' (Part One)"
Ringo Starr - "Photograph"
The Carpenters - "Top of the World"
Charlie Rich - "The Most Beautiful Girl"
Jim Croce - "Time in a Bottle"

I'd have to call this a pretty clear win for America, though in fairness I have not heard around half the songs I didn't tick on the Brit list. (I ticked "Blockbuster", "Cum on Feel the Noize", and "Merry Xmas Everybody").

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Carly Simon - "You're So Vain"

I thought this was from the Eighties! Was there a UK re-release? I'm sure I remember this being on the radio all the time when I was little.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think every year since the DAWN OF TIME has been a clear win for America!

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

I think I might have gone overboard on my Blockbuster comment in that poll. It's still a horrible record though! And loads of you like it!

Wizzard

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I only know the two songs here and the Xmas hit, but every time I hear them I am struck by the whole retro aspect to glam -- I usually think of the glittery costumes that everyone wore but sonically only think of Bowie and Roxy, but a lot of it actually sounds like it comes from some alternate world where a lot of late 60s and early 70s stuff just never happened.

Can't say I hate it, but can't say I love it either. Gilbert O'Sullivan ain't so bad, though!

Re: Wizzard

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The woeful no. of ticks for "SMBJ" is an outrage.

But yes "Get Down" should have more too. (Ditto "Rubber Bullets" and "Daydreamer"). Young people, eh? What can you do with them?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I tried to call my younger brother Jive after that Wizzard song. 'See my baby AS IN ACTUAL TINY CHILD, Jive'

In all fairness I was three. And it was seventeen years after this lot came out so the term 'jive' might have passed out of common usage.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

A great year, and the first whole year that I was obsessed with pop music (I'd started becoming so early in 1972). I adored T. Rex (had they really stopped getting to #1 so early?) and Slade and Wizzard and the Sweet, and still do.