# 191 – The Cover of the Rolling Stone – Dr. # 193 – 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover – Paul Simon # 198 – I Will Not Be Your Kind – Garland Jefferies This list is in somewhat random order…… # 200 – Fool If You Think It’s Over – Chris Rea Our top 200 pop songs list is just a reminder of so many of the great pop songs that we grew up with in the 1970s. Of course, there will be plenty missing, but in the end, these are the first 200 that came to mind or at least the first 200 that continue to stand out in our memories which is what pop music is all about. There were thousands of great pop songs released in the 1970s, so listing only 200 is definitely way too short of a list. However, we have plenty of top rock song lists that we could put those songs on. At least on this list, we tried to exclude songs that we thought just didn’t fit the pop song category even if they were very popular in mainstream culture. Yet there are Springsteen and Led Zeppelin songs that we believe could sneak in as pop and they have been placed on this list. This could cause issues in defining pop songs as would one rate a song like “Born To Run,” or “Black Dog” as pop? Probably not. However, over time the meaning has shifted towards songs that were not too heavy, not too country, or not too extreme in any way. Pop songs are defined by their own word….popular. One must remember what the word pop has always meant. Our Top 200 pop songs of the 1970s present a wide variety of pop songs that crossed the boundaries of rock, pop, and soul but all were very popular.
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