![]() ![]() 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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