I didn't mean it as exactly an "I wish it was on there" when I posted it, but after looking at my Dave Mason "We Just Disagree" suggestion, I realize it sounded like I thought your list would've been better with it. I loved your list. It was great, and I only brought that up as yet another example of 70's cheeze. Anyway, you probably understood that, and this needlessly verbose mea culpa is doing more to assuage my vanity than your hurt feelings. But isn't that so often the way with apologies?

I digress.

There ain't no good guys
There ain't no bad guys
There's only you and me and
We just disagree
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh.

As I surely mentioned before, it's not that we necessarily disagree; it's just the lyrics of the song. Thanks, matildaben.

Hey Hugh -

I certainly didn't take your comment the way you seem to think I would. I'm very happy to take additional suggestions. The whole purpose of Volume 2 is to put on tracks that wouldn't fit on Volume 1.

So far I have had a request for John Denver from DeepFriedTwinkies (although he didn't offer a specific song), a request for ABBA (probably "Fernando") from Miles, and a list a mile long from Lipstick Thespian.

The purpose of this thread is just to have a place to keep them all.

Journey?

Although don't stop believin' was in 81, and that would be my top candidate.

Oooh, Queen?

Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen was requested.

As for Journey, I was thinking "Any Way You Want It" because Don't Stop Believin' is kind of overplayed.

'Any Way You Want It' makes a great appearance in the Rodney Dangerfield Simpsons episode, but the cheesiest Journey song is still 'Faithfully.'

Joan Baez - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"*
America - "Horse With No Name"
Jim Croce - "Bad Bad Leroy Brown"
Tony Orlando & Dawn - "Tie a Yellow Ribbon (Round the Old Oak Tree)"
Terry Jacks - "Seasons in the Sun"
Glen Campbell - "Rhinestone Cowboy"*
Coven, "One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)"

* Not exactly bad, mainly overplayed?

Horse With No Name is definitely on the list. I had it in the pool for Vol. 1 but it didn't fit.

I've always been offended by Seasons In The Sun because I'm a big Jacques Brel fan and it's such a bastardization of his original song, but you're right, that it has to go on a cheeze compilation.

Another Tony Orlando and Dawn song - Knock Three Times.

Oh yeah, and Kansas - Dust in the Wind (although it's on an SUV commercial now).

Or else "Carry On My Wayward Son".

Hey Nineteen by Steely Dan.

Full of queso and deliciously skeevy.

I just want to thank all of you for helping me rediscover my deep love for some of the songs of my childhood. And my deep screaming terror of others.

Any Moody Blues recommendations? I always hated them so I'll defer to the communal wisdom on this one. I suppose "Knights In White Satin" would be the obvious choice - what about something else?

You're not keeping it in the '70s...
Most of Journey's cheesiest were in the '80s; try "Lights" instead.
Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin" was '68, and "Gemini Dream" was '81: inbetween, try "The Answer" or "I'm Just a Singer in a Rock & Roll Band".
Steely Dan's "Hey 19" I show as 1980, so try "FM" or "Peg".
Queen? I'd go with something early like "Killer Queen" or the obscure but now-ironic "Keep Yourself Alive".

Some of the suggestions (like "Seasons in the Sun" and "One Tin Soldier") are just moldy cheese to me. You might as well include "Feelings" or "Playground in My Mind"...

Trying to keep it positive, I offer the following cheesarific suggestions:
Golden Earring "Radar Love"
Grass Roots "Sooner or Later" ('71, though their '60s cheese is cheesier)
Carole King "Jazzman" (her cheeziest by far)
Billy Swan "I Can Help"
England Dan & John Ford Coley "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"
Todd Rundgren "Hello It's Me" OR "We Got to Get You a Woman"
Carly Simon "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" OR "Haven't Got Time for the Pain (the aspirin commercial)" OR "Anticipation (the ketchup commericial)" OR the obvious "You're So Vain"
Maxine Nightengale "Right Back Where We Started From"

And what? No Bee Gees or Elton John? so... much... to... choose..

"Nights on Broadway" or "You Should Be Dancing" Bee Gees, both cheesy and not terribly overexposed.
"Surrender" Cheap Trick or even cheesier "Dream Police"
"Magnet and Steel" Walter Eagan
"Me You and a Dog Named Boo" Lobo
"Nice To Be With You" Galler
"Brother Louie" Stories
Anything by ELO
Or the uber-cheesiest of all Meatloaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard lights"

Wendell is right..so....many...to...choose

"Avenging Annie," Andy Pratt

What about having my baby? Is that 70's? It's certainly awful enough...

Bread.

Ooh ooh... Styx? Renegade? Come sail away?

Y'know, not everything released during the 70s was cheese. I'll grant that there certainly wasn't any sort of shortage of it, but "Surrender"? Wayne Newton's "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" is cheese; "2525" by Zager & Evans is cheese. "Surrender" is most definitely not.

Oh, and get offa my lawn.

/cranky old fart

Ok, not John Denver. This speaks to my 70's heart by gum.

Even though technically it was 1969.

Have you considered the great Streisand/Gibb collaboration Guilty? It is vile stinky cheese.

Donna Summer's version of MacArthur's Park, Ram Jam's Black Betty, The Knack's My Sharona, Neil Diamond's America, Barry Manilow's Mandy.

Actually, the 70's are my favorite musical decade.

Mile Long List by Lipstick Thespian: (edited for running time, content and to fit on your screen:)
Journey - Wheel in the Sky
Anne Murray - I Needed You
Olivia Newton John - I Honestly Love You
KC and Sunshine Band - anything
Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing.

I have spoken.

bmarkey:
I humbly apologize for my "Surrender" comment. It is one of my favorite songs, just like "Jailbreak" and "Vehicle" on Metacheeze Vol. 1 (and those are so far from cheese it ain't funny). Those songs were included, if I remember correctly, as 70's favorites that would be much better than the tepid 70's schmaltz that was being piped in the bar at the time.

I am now off the lawn.

Alright then. Here's your frisbee back.

And, since I'm home now and celebrating the first beer of the night*, here's the song in question.

*Yeah, so it's actually 12:47 AM here as I type this; "first beer of the morning" just gives people the wrong idea.

"2525" was a 60s song. Keep it away from the 70s cheeze.
For pop weirdness, make it "Long Tall Glasses" by Leo Sayer.
Best cheeze by Bread: "If".
Best cheeze by Harry Wayne Casey: "Get Down Tonight".
Best cheeze by John Dutchendorf: "Thank God I'm a Country Boy".
Best cheeze by Reggie Dwight: "Crocodile Rock".
Best Country cheeze: Johnny Paycheck's "Take This Job and Shove It" and Dolly Parton's "9 to 5".
Best stuttering cheeze: BTO's "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet".
Biggest letdown goes to the Guess Who, going from "Undun" and "American Woman" (NOT cheeze) to "Clap for the Wolfman" (BIG cheeze).
And the LAST #1 of the 1970's: "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)".

Here's a good resource for 70s Mega-Cheeze: SuperSeventies.com Hit Singles by Month

Hmm. Woulda sworn that "2525" was early 70s. Oh well. How about Alice Cooper's wince-inducing "Only Women Bleed"?

Did anybody say "Jungle Boogie"? Is that even '70s? probably not.

okay, well... carry on.

rfs, MacArthur Park is on the Vol. 1 compilation.

I've been disappearing up my own name with the apologies of late. Something must be wrong. I didn't used to be this way. Maybe I'll snap out of it.

I don't think "Radar Love" is cheeze, nor "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," but hearing the latter takes me back to Memorial Stadium, section 39, row 9, seat 10; Ken Singleton is somewhere down there stretching, Al Bumbry and Eddie Murray are shooting the shit, and you might catch a glimpse of Sammy Stewart warming up in the bullpen. To the left of us there's a roar as Wild Bill Hagy leads the stands in another cheer, contorting himself (as a thousand others follow) to spell out the O's, and Rex Barney, the PA announcer, pushes play on some 8-track stack and I get up and start wiggling my seven-year old butt to Mr. Deutschendorf's masterpiece.

Well life on the farm is kinda laid back
Ain't much an old country boy like me can't hack
It's early to rise, early in the sack
Thank God I'm a country boy

Stretch!