Archive for the ‘1975’ Category
- Fleetwood Mac: New Haven, 1975
Did you know that in 1975, 2% of all records sold in the World were Elton John LPs? Do you care? Just think about it, there were a lot of people making albums then, so 2% of all sold is pretty good. One band that probably weren’t too far behind, even if they were still yet to hit stratospheric heights, were this lot.
At that time, bands did not expect albums and singles to chart immediately, it seems amazing by modern standards to reflect on the fact that their eponymously titled album only hit the No. 1 spot on the American Billboard chart a whole year after it was released, in 1976, and that the band needed to tour to sell potential hit singles such as Rhiannon and Landslide to the fans. Again, at the time, that seemed the only way.
Here they are then, almost at the peak of their powers, in their radio-friendly glory…
Part 1
1 Station Man
2 Spare Me A Little Of Your Love
3 Rhiannon
4 Landslide
Part 2
5 I’m So Afraid
6 World Turning
7 Don’t Let Down Again
8 Hypnotized
- 22nd September, 1975
OK, can anyone name the two actresses and the show in the picture? Thought so! Doesn’t seem that long ago, does it?
This is the penultimate edition of Top Gear and a copy of this show has been kicking around in a much edited, poor (by which I mean excellently medium wave) quality, version for ages.
A big thank you to Humphrey for a longer, cleaner show, which for some reason doesn’t feature the delights of ABBA, despite the musical excellence they clearly display in their Waterloo Seaside special of the same month.
Track list:
The Faces: ‘Stay With Me’ (Peel Session)
Steeleye Span: ‘Rave On’ (Peel Session)
Roxy Music: ‘If There Is Something’ (Peel Session)
Syd Barrett: ‘Gigolo Aunt’ (Peel Session)
Steeleye Span: ‘Lark In The Morning’ (Peel Session)
Steeleye Span – The Blacksmith
Lindisfarne – Road To Kingdom Come
Syd Barrett – Effervescing Elephant
The Faces – Maggie May
For those of you who weren’t there, this is what life was like in the 1970s…
Please help us at the JP wiki if you have any more info about this show.
- The Ramones: The 914 Sessions, September, 1975
Thanks to the mighty Big Ozine for this…
At that time, the Ramones were punk. But then, given the simplicity of the songs, the catchy melodies, the singalong-ness of their tunes and those bombastic chords (never mind that they were the same three or four ones) – it’s hard not to like the Ramones and doubly hard not to be inspired by them. For many, the idea of the Ramones might be boiled down to this: it’s so simple anyone can do it! But the Ramones were being themselves and the fans understood this.
Track list:
-I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement
-53rd & 3rd
-I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
-Judy Is A Punk
-Loudmouth
Lineup:
Johnny Ramone – guitar
Joey Ramone – vocals
Dee Dee Ramone – bass
Tommy Ramone – drums
File size: 14mb
- 1976 Festive 50 Heartbreak #1: War’s ‘Low Rider’
Inevitably, asking you to trawl through your memories and choose 3 tracks from 1976 was going to cause problems, i.e. some of yous would end up picking songs from ’75. In a rare case of me actually researching for the blog, I’ve come up with the first such case of 75ism. ın this case, it’s War’s classic ‘Low Rider’. According to this quote which I’ve lifted blatantly from Wikipedia,
“The lyric takes the cool image of the low rider — the Chicano culture practice of hydraulically hot-rodding classic cars — and using innuendo, extends the image to a lifestyle.”
It’s a bloody great track, never the less, and so is getting aired now.
If you’re one of those select few who chose this, feel free to get back to me with an altyernative.
