Boardsies Best Song of the 70s - Live Thread

Electric Nitwit

Superstition - Stevie Wonder
(tough one though)

Psycho Killer - Talking Heads

I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

rainbowtrout

Match 5: Donna Summer - I Feel Love 4 - 6 Abba - Mamma Mia
Match 6: Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper 6 - 2 B52s - Rock Lobster
Match 7: Lynard Skynard - Sweet Home Alabama 6 - 4 Chic - Everybody Dance
Match 8: Black Sabbath - Paranoid 6 - 1 Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays

Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music

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Stevie
ABBA
Slade
Bruce Springsteen

rainbowtrout

Match 9: David Bowie - Space Oddity 6 - 2 Van Morrison - Jackie Wilson Said
Match 10: Iggy Pop - Lust for Life 4 - 6 Don't Believe a Word - Thin Lizzy
Match 11: T. Rex - Children of the Revolution 2 - 6 Van Morrison - Moondance
Match 12: David Bowie - Heroes 6 - 4 Gary Numan - Cars

Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays

Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music

Zaph

Match 13 - Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks

Match 14 - Psycho Killer - Talking Heads

Match 15 - I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats

Match 16 - Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

Irish Aris

Match 13: The Buzzcocks (another one I discovered from the cover version of Fine Young Cannibals)
Match 14: Talking Heads (I love ABBA but not one of my favourites this one)
Match 15: No Vote
Match 16: Wild Cherry (can't see it winning anyway, but I like both)

ArnoldJRimmer

Match 13: Superstition - Stevie Wonder v Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks


Match 14: Psycho Killer - Talking Heads v Abba - Knowing Me, Knowing You


Talking Heads

Match 15: Merry Christmas Everybody - Slade v I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
Boomtown Rats



Match 16: Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen v Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry

Wild Cherry

Kolido

Bruce springsteen

rainbowtrout

Match 13: Stevie Wonder - Superstition 3 - 5 Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks
Match 14: Talking Heads - Psycho Killer 6 - 1 Abba - Knowing Me, Knowing You
Match 15: Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody 1 - 6 I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
Match 16: Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run 5 - 4 Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music

Tauriel

Match 13:
Superstition - Stevie Wonder

Match 14:
Abba - Knowing Me, Knowing You

Match 15:
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats

Match 16:
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry

rainbowtrout

Match 13: Stevie Wonder - Superstition 4 - 5 Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks
Match 14: Talking Heads - Psycho Killer 6 - 1 Abba - Knowing Me, Knowing You
Match 15: Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody 1 - 6 I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
Match 16: Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run 6 - 4 Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music

rainbowtrout

Match 17: You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones v SOS - Abba

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Match 18:Life on Mars - David Bowie v Because the Night - Patti Smith Group

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Match 19: Black Betty - Ram Jam v Waterloo - Abba

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Match 20: Boys Don't Cry - The Cure v Dreaming - Blondie

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ArnoldJRimmer

Match 17: You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones v SOS - Abba

Rolling Stones

Match 18:Life on Mars - David Bowie v Because the Night - Patti Smith Group

David Bowie

Match 19: Black Betty - Ram Jam v Waterloo - Abba

Abba

Match 20: Boys Don't Cry - The Cure v Dreaming - Blondie

The Cure

Electric Nitwit

You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones
Life on Mars - David Bowie
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Boys Don't Cry - The Cure

Necro

rainbowtrout wrote:

Match 17: You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones v SOS - Abba

Stones, SOS not my favourite ABBA track tbh

rainbowtrout wrote:

Match 18:Life on Mars - David Bowie v Because the Night - Patti Smith Group

Because The Night

rainbowtrout wrote:

Match 19: Black Betty - Ram Jam v Waterloo - Abba

Hard call here

Black Betty for me

rainbowtrout wrote:

Match 20: Boys Don't Cry - The Cure v Dreaming - Blondie

The Cure

Tauriel

Match 17:
SOS - Abba
My nomination

Match 18:
Because the Night - Patti Smith Group

Match 19:
Black Betty - Ram Jam
My nomination

Match 20:
Abstaining

#17 - You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones
#18 - Because the Night - Patti Smith Group
#19 - Waterloo - Abba
#20 - Boys Don't Cry - The Cure

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Abba - SOS

Patti Smith Group - Because The Night

Ram Jam - Black Betty

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

Irish Aris

3 of the 4 matches very difficult choices (on another day 17 and 20 would have gone the other way)

Match 17: ABBA
Match 18: David Bowie (just because I nominated it)
Match 19: ABBA again (the only easy one, also a nomination of mine)
Match 20: Blondie

Zaph

Match 17 - You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones

Match 18 - Because the Night - Patti Smith Group

Match 19 - Black Betty - Ram Jam

Match 20 - Dreaming - Blondie

angel eyes 2012

Match 17:
SOS - Abba

Match 18:
Because the Night - Patti Smith Group

Match 19:
Black Betty - Ram Jam

Match 20:
Blondie

Abba

Pattie Smith Group

Ram Jam

Blondie

ShaneU

Match 17: You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones
Match 18:Life on Mars - David Bowie
Match 19: Black Betty - Ram Jam
Match 20: Boys Don't Cry - The Cure

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16 Bruce Springsteen
17 Rolling Stones
18 David Bowie

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16 Bruce Springsteen
17 Rolling Stones
18 David Bowie

rainbowtrout

Match 21: A Horse with No Name - America v Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf

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Match 22: Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen v Your Song - Elton John

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Match 23: Teenage Kicks - The Undertones v The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel

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Match 24:Whiskey in the Jar - Thin Lizzy v Let It Be - The Beatles

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Meatloaf
Queen
Simon & Garfunkel
Thin Lizzy

Also Starring LeVar Burton

America - A Horse With No Name

Elton John - Your Song

Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer

The Beatles - Let It Be