PAST 10s: A Top 10 Time Machine - Music of the 70s, 80s and More

Hot Dam! The Glam of 1975


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Fire up the Time Machine, people—Dave and Milt are going full throttle back to ’75, and it’s a funky, feathered-hair free-for-all. On this Past Tens episode, your fearless hosts trash-talk, gush, and generally geek out over Billboard’s Top 10 from September 27, 1975. Bad Company growls, Sweet glitters, and somewhere in there Dave derails the whole thing with a personal “I almost died in a hospital gown” story.

Milt, ever the Chartmeister historian, connects the dots between these jams and the cultural circus of the mid-’70s, while Dave sprinkles in snarky asides, dad jokes, and a rant or two about sandwiches. They bounce between rock, funk, country, and schmaltz, drop a few under-the-radar nuggets, and even debate whether Glen Campbell’s Broadway references were about, y’know… actual Broadway.

Then it’s Playdate time: Dave throws down a Generation X Rock Hall challenge that makes Milt sweat. By the end, they’re arguing about whether this whole lineup deserves a permanent plaque in the Time Machine Hall of Fame—or just a polite golf clap.

Timestamps for your nostalgic pleasure:

00:00 – Past Tens roll call
00:25 – Sandwich rambling commences
01:34 – Dave’s hospital misadventure
06:05 – Time Machine ignition
07:06 – Top 10 countdown starts
13:52 – Bad Company brings the thunder
20:59 – Sweet turns the glam up to 11
28:56 – Freddie Fender’s tear-stained road trip
34:52 – Famous Freds ranked (because why not?)
35:12 – Fender deep dive
36:01 – Janis Ian breaks every heart in the room
40:23 – Seventeen-year-old angst songs dissected
48:31 – Barry Manilow achieves… let’s call it a musical climax
54:09 – Gen X Rock Hall face-off
01:04:19 – “Run Joey Run” and the tragedy of teen melodrama
01:12:22 – The Isley Brothers get funky
01:14:19 – Disney, algorithms, and mild outrage
01:14:53 – Tragic news + media gripes
01:19:10 – Glen Campbell mysteries solved (or not)
01:22:54 – Bowie goes funky chic
01:29:06 – John Denver’s swan song
01:33:12 – Wrap-up, wisecracks, and reflection

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