Moving on with the songs by year thing, it’s time for 1972. This one was pretty easy, I have a few of these left before things get really crowded. We’re also now five years away from when I was actually around.

Deep Purple – Smoke On The Water

One of rock’s most immortal songs with the craziest of stories behind it. Perhaps the most iconic riff in history too. I know this song is over 50 years old so I don’t take it for granted that everyone “knows” it, but I do think just about everyone knows this song.

Alice Cooper – School’s Out

This might be The Coop’s prime anthem, kinda hard to say. But this song is an absolute blast. It’s great every year when school lets out for the summer, it’s great in movies about school, and it’s still great as an adult because school being out means less traffic and headaches than normal.

Neil Young – Heart Of Gold

Neil was 26 when he wrote this sad, sad song about searching for love and growing old while striking out. He’s now a few months from his 79^th birthday and has about that many studio albums to his credit. But this song still resonates as one of his signature tracks. His unique vocal timber and acoustic guitar made some damn fine music.

David Bowie – Suffragette City

I talked about this song earlier this year. A nice, crazy and noisy affair with attitude and a great false ending. On heralded album full of classics, this one still jumps out to me. Bowie influenced rock of all stripes with this song and album.

Humble Pie – 30 Days In The Hole

This is a fun song about using every type of drug known to man and getting put away for it. Humble Pie were a supergroup before anyone really knew what that was, though Peter Frampton was gone by the time this song came out. This is one of those songs that wasn’t a hit at the time but it got picked up by FM radio and became an enduring classic in the years since.

That does it for this post. The ’70’s keep pushing on next week.

As for next week – the Album of the Week post will be held back until Tuesday. It lines up in order to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of the album on the exact day. Not sure what album came out on September 3, 1984 that I’d be interested in…