Blog: Loft And Lost

These five songs on the Pitchfork 500 are the kind of thing you'd expect to hear on drivetime radio anywhere from California to Krakow. Mixing both European and American bands, all of these bands (aside one) were enormous in the 1970's, making their fortunes in the great commercial explosion of popular music. Fascinating people too, from Abba's intertwined romances, through Roxy Music's son-of-a-coal-miner glamour, Queen's flamboyant Zanzibari singer, to Bruce Springsteen's Noo Joisey working class boy made good from hard, hard work. Oh, and Journey. You just had to go and spoil it, [...]

• ABBA - The Day Before You Came
• Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City