For many years the only song I knew by The Three Degrees was "When Will I See You Again" which I've always hated. I was therefore surprised how much I liked "Woman In Love" when I first heard it, given who it's by, it's a slower number and it's a cover of a song originally by Twiggy who wasn't really a singer.
In 2nd place we have the debut of heavy metal band Judas Priest with "Take On the World". They'd been going a few years but we were now entering the "New wave of British heavy metal" era of which Judas Priest we a big part of.
On paper the 3rd placed record should be rubbish because it's a non-disco group making a disco record but there's no denying "Heart of Glass" by Blondie is a great record. It's ahead of "Can't Get It Out Of My Head" by ELO which is decent but far from my favourite record of theirs.
I finally get to include an authentic punk record with "King Rocker" by Generation X which is decent. It's ahead of new wave one hit wonders Doll with "Desire Me" which in turn is ahead of "Milk & Alcohol" which was the biggest hit for pub rockers Dr Feelgood.
Most of the bottom half is disco records which is indicative of where disco was at by this point. Down the bottom is Leif Garrett with "I Was Made For Dancing". He was a teen idol who went off the rails, the usual story.
Whilst I would put the Leif Garrett record and "This Is It" by Dan Hartman and "Shake Your Groove Thing" by Peaches & Herb in the cheesy disco pop category what I would say are these are far from the worst disco records I've heard and the remaining disco records seem more credible.
The problem is that it seems to have become a bit formulaic by this point, something that does happen when you get too much of the same thing.
Overall we don't have the bad records keeping the score down, it's more the average records stopping the score from getting too high.
Score: 50
Now we've reached the end of the 70s let's take a look at the leaderboard:
Interesting how 1970 is so high up and 1971 is in the bottom half. It's almost like a sharp declined at some point in 1970 except 1973 finds itself sat in 3rd place.
Perhaps no surprise to see 1976 2nd from bottom with 1975 not far above. Goes with the general theory that the 70s started and ended good but weren't so good in the middle.
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