OK, there are a few good songs here. But you might agree that quite a few of these are not endorsements of the popular tastes of the time.

There are a lot of forgotten and somewhat lost songs that came out in 1977, and some of them deserve way more love today.

Before we get to our final collection of great songs from the 1970s, I thought I’d try something a little different. That final genre is pop, the easiest genre to recognize and the hardest to define.

The careers of Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf will be forever linked. The pair, born a little more than a month apart in 1947, rose to prominence on 1977's Bat Out of Hell, Meat Loaf's multiplatinum debut ...