A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies…
Looking for a present for my sister in the late Seventies, I bought her the 1978 The Cars album, aptly titled “The Cars”, so I could also listen to tracks like “Just What I Needed”, “My Best Friend’s Girl” and “Good Times Roll”, which I had heard covered live by resident band Snatch at the [...]
British New Wave band Ultravox had a hit in 1980 with “Vienna”, but except for the singing of the title, to quote the song itself, “this means nothing to me”. What I do recognise, however, is “Slow Motion”, from their 1978 album “Systems Of Romance”, which I have. I haven’t played it for ages, but [...]
Tags: I Can't Stay Long, Majestic Hotel, Maximum Acceleration, Palmerston North, Slow Motion, Snatch, Systems Of Romance, Ultravox, ViennaNorthern Irish band The Undertones, formed in 1975 in Derry, soon turned to punk when the style began to dominate, and began their rise to national prominence with “Teenage Kicks” in 1978. They had sent a demo tape to legendary BBC DJ John Peel. Peel paid for them to do a proper recording in a [...]
The British New Wave band XTC, with songs like “Statue Of Liberty”, “Radios In Motion”, “Making Plans For Nigel” or their very unique version of the Bob Dylan song “All Along The Watchtower” (most famously covered by Jimi Hendrix), came to my attention towards the end of the Seventies. In the late Seventies, while studying [...]
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