About a month ago, I started a new show where I talked about the catchiest songs of all time. But they are the good catchy, where you love it when they get stuck in your head. Well, I chose 7 from the 70s, and most of you agreed with them, but many said, Well, you have to include this one and this one. Well. We’re gonna do it again. We’re counting down the 7 catchiest songs of the 70s. It’s Round 2, and these songs and the stories behind them are even better than our last list. First, there’s Van Halen, who covered a 60s Kinks classic and so thoroughly reinvented it that fans of the band thought that they had written it. This mix-up led to fans approaching the original band after shows and at airports to compliment them on their cover version of their own song. It made them livid. Then there’s the thoroughly misunderstood rock anthem Sweet Home Alabama that was calling out a corrupt politician, but everyone thought they were cheering him on... leading this corrupt leader to hijack the song and make it his personal campaign track. And finally, there’s the burned-out rock frontman Bon Scott who snapped at his producer and dared him to get in the booth and sing this future hit song better than he could. He had to eat crow as he watched in stunned silence as this producer hit every screaming note perfectly. It’s all coming up next on POR.
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Hey Music junkies, Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the greatest artists and greatest songs of all time. If you ever send money through the mail to get X-ray glasses, you’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia. Make sure to like, share, and comment to keep this channel alive. Alright, the last time we did this I got a lot of props on the songs that we chose, but there were so many people that thought we missed a few, and they were right, so by popular demand... this is volume two of the catchy songs of all time. It's our show Earworm... the songs that you're grateful when they get stuck in your head. Let's get into it. Here are seven more from the 70s: At #7, we have one of the most mystical songs in history. It’s Kashmir by Led Zeppelin. Ask Robert Plant which Zeppelin song he's most proud of, and the answer might surprise you. It's not "Stairway to Heaven."
Plant has said repeatedly that he wishes the band were remembered more for "Kashmir" than for their signature anthem. Jimmy Page felt the same way. For the people who actually made "Stairway," it was "Kashmir" that represented what Led Zeppelin was really about… at full power, doing something no one else could touch. The song's origin goes back to 1973, when Plant and Page were driving through the Moroccan desert on their way to the Folklore Festival in Marrakech. The road cut through the Sahara in a straight, relentless line — nobody around for miles, just sand and sky. Plant was struck by the sheer vastness of the landscape. Said Robert, “The road went on and on and on. I thought — this is great, but one day... Kashmir. That's my Shangri-La.”
The guys had never been to Kashmir, tucked away in the remote northern region of the Indian subcontinent. But the name carried exactly the mythic, otherworldly quality Plant was reaching for.
The music that Jimmy Page built around that vision was something else entirely. When he first stumbled onto the riff, he described feeling like he hadn't written it so much as uncovered it… like he had unearthed something ancient. Said Page, “It was so eerie and powerful it scared the hell out of me. It didn't feel like I wrote it. It felt like I'd uncovered something.” He wasn't speaking casually. Page, long fascinated by the occult, believed that something had taken hold of him in that room. He felt possessed. The recording sessions at Headley Grange in early 1974 only deepened that feeling. John Bonham's drum performance was ferocious. He was locked in with such intensity that he reportedly shattered part of his kit mid-take, but just kept going.
Bonham himself, not a man easily rattled, later told a roadie that the song took something out of him every time he played it live.
