| rdfs:comment | - Todd: Nope. Not today. [Walks off...] Nope. Not doin' it. [...and comes back with the lists] Okay, Billboard's Top 100 Year-End Lists. [Starts flipping through] Just gonna pick one at random here... [pulls out the list] ...uh...okay. [Starts playing "Rhiannon" by Fleetwood Mac on his piano] 1976, ya'll! Episode of Soul Train with Candi Staton's "Young Hearts Run Free" playing. Todd (VO): 1976—a grand year! The year of America's bicentennial and, oh how this country celebrated. With picnics and cookouts, with a renewed sense of patriotism, and most of all, with a buttload of awesome music!
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| abstract | - Todd: Nope. Not today. [Walks off...] Nope. Not doin' it. [...and comes back with the lists] Okay, Billboard's Top 100 Year-End Lists. [Starts flipping through] Just gonna pick one at random here... [pulls out the list] ...uh...okay. [Starts playing "Rhiannon" by Fleetwood Mac on his piano] 1976, ya'll! Episode of Soul Train with Candi Staton's "Young Hearts Run Free" playing. Todd (VO): 1976—a grand year! The year of America's bicentennial and, oh how this country celebrated. With picnics and cookouts, with a renewed sense of patriotism, and most of all, with a buttload of awesome music! Clip for KC and the Sunshine Band's "That's The Way (I Like it)" as the song plays in the backround KC and the Sunshine Band: That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh, I like it. Montage of clips including: Peter Frampton - "Show Me the Way"; Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"; Elton John and Kiki Dee - "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"; Donna Summer - "Love to Love You Baby"; David Bowie - "Golden Years"; Hall & Oates - "She's Gone"; Thin Lizzy - "The Boys are Back in Town"; Diana Ross - "Love Hangover"; Aerosmith - "Dream On"; Paul Simon - "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"; Earth, Wind & Fire - "Sing a Song"; Bellamy Brothers - "Let Your Love Flow"; Parliament - "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)"; KISS - "Rock and Roll All Nite"; Bay City Rollers - "Money Honey"; and Lou Rawls - "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" Todd (VO): Yeah, that's the way I like it. I've gone through all these lists, and '76 would probably rank up there with 1965 and 1983 as one of the best years ever for pop music. There is so much great funk, soul, classic rock, R&B, singer-songwriter ballads, hard rock, early disco, and even crossover country music that it is absolutely ridiculous. I could make a Top 30 out of this list and still have to make some really painful cuts. And it's not just that there's a lot of good stuff; it's that all the good stuff is amazingly good. This is the year that brought us "Dream On," "Give Up the Funk," "Bohemian Rhapsody," "The Boys Are Back in Town," "Love Rollercoaster," "Evil Woman," "Rock and Roll All Nite." Dear God, this year rocks! Todd: Of course, when the good stuff is that good, it just makes the bad stuff look that much worse, and it's helpful to compare the worst of '76 to the other Top 10s I've done in the past. Todd (VO): [Clips of Ke$ha - "BlahBlahBlah"] Where the worst songs of 2010 were aggressively obnoxious [Glenn Medeiros - "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You"] and the worst songs of 1987 were bland and insipid, [Clip from The Donny and Marie Show, with the two singing "Deep Purple"] the worst songs of 1976 are kitschy and lame. And if you've got more of a stomach for 70s cheese than I do, you're not gonna like my picks for this list very much. But you know what? Todd: When a year can give you Elton John and P-Funk, there's no making excuses for turds like the ones I'm about to reveal to you. So wake up everybody, we're gonna take it to the limit one more time! We're counting down... Clip of Wings - "Silly Love Songs", which serves as the interlude through the countdown Paul McCartney: You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs Todd (VO): ...the Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 1976! Paul: Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs
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