@djchameleon,
You know what? I still like the 1974 song better. Why? Because both sound like a hundred other songs that had already been written by their time, but at least the 1974 song came first.
And The Band Perry song still can't even remotely come close to Faithless Love. I mean, it's like ...
no contest! I'd still like to hear
any song in the past 10 years that can approach it.