A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies…
At the very end of the Seventies, late 1979, I remember Englishman Gary Numan singing “Cars”, from his album “The Pleasure Principle”. In fact, whenever I hear it or think of Gary Numan or “Cars”, it reminds me of being in not a car but a Transit van, at 4 o’clock in the morning. We [...]
Tags: Cars, Gary Numan, Massey University, New Zealand, Palmerston North, The Pleasure PrincipleMagazine is another of those UK New Wave bands whose music I first heard played by the house band (Snatch) at the Majestic Hotel in Palmerston North, New Zealand, prompting me to buy their album “Second Daylight” with songs like “Rhythm Of Cruelty”, “Believe That I Understand”, “I Wanted Your Heart”, “Talk To The Body”, [...]
Squeeze are a UK band (I always thought they were called UK Squeeze) who began charting in the late Seventies with songs like “Goodbye Girl”, “Cool For Cats” and “Up The Junction” and continued to record in the Eighties and Nineties. Actually I’ve just seen that they were called UK Squeeze initially outside the UK [...]
I think it was 1978 on a trip to Germany, before I lived there, that I came across German band United Balls, whose 1981 album “Pogo In Togo” I would later acquire, with songs like “Blackbird”, Good Understanding”, “Bitch” and the title track “Pogo In Togo”. What I of course couldn’t know was that I [...]
Tags: Bamberg, Barbarella, Bavaria, Bayreuth, Berlin, Blackbird, Dio In Rio, Fresenius Biotech, Gänseblümchen, Good Understanding, Hollfeld, Münchner Freiheit, Munich, NDW, Neue Deutsche Welle, Pogo In Togo, Relax, The Bitch, Trion Pharma, United Balls, Upper FranconiaMi-Sex was a top New Zealand band that went to Australia in the late Seventies and had a lot of success there, culminating in their first album “Graffitti Crimes”, featuring the title track as well as songs like the Australian No. 1 single “Computer Games” and their recent other single from 1979, “But You Don’t [...]
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