About Music of the 70s

Music of the 70s started with a simple conviction: the 1970s was the richest, wildest, most inventive decade popular music has ever known — and it deserves a home that's as fun to play with as the records are to listen to.

This is a free, no-strings resource for anyone who loves the era. Maybe you lived through it and want to relive the songs that scored your life. Maybe you discovered these records decades later and can't believe how good they still sound. Maybe you're just curious what was #1 the week you were born. Whoever you are, you're in the right place.

Why the 70s? Because no other decade covered so much ground. It gave us the thunder of hard rock and the ambition of prog. It gave us disco's glittering dance floors and funk's unstoppable groove. It gave us the confessional honesty of the singer-songwriters, the velvet of soul, the warmth of soft rock, the storytelling of country, and the raw energy of punk crashing in at the end. Ten years, and every one of them sounded different from the last.

Everything here is built around real data — verified Billboard chart history and a library of 600+ artists across every genre the decade touched. Our tools turn that into something playful: spin the Random 70s Song Generator, find your Birthday #1, get matched by the Mood Song Matcher, discover acts with the Random Artist Picker, test yourself on the Trivia Quiz, or take the Decade Wheel for a spin.

There's no sign-up, no paywall, and no agenda beyond sharing the joy of this music. So poke around, follow the links out to YouTube and Wikipedia, and fall down a few rabbit holes. That's exactly what it's for.

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