Eighties | My Seventies Music

Mother Goose – “Baked Beans” And “This Is The Life”

by Paul

Last night by chance I came across an old favourite from New Zealand in the Seventies: Mother Goose singing their slightly ludicrous “Baked Beans” – which just goes to show you can make a rock song outof anything! I had forgotten about Mother Goose, but they actually did pretty well for themselves, having coming up […]

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Roxy Music – “Virginia Plain”, “If There Is Something”, “Psalm”, “Pyjamarama”, “Love Is The Drug”, “Both Ends Burning”, “Still Falls The Rain”, “Dance Away”, “Over You”, “Oh Yeah”, “Same Old Scene”, “Jealous Guy”, “More Than This” And “Avalon”

by Paul

With Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music I’m never sure where to start, there’s so much, and I keep discovering more. I mainly know some of their songs from the late Seventies and early Eighties, but I’ve also taken some of their work from the early Seventies here. In the early years Brian Eno was in […]

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Klaus Doldinger And Passport – “Uranus”, “Schirokko”, “Mandragora”, “Ataraxia” And The Theme From The Movie “Das Boot”

by Paul

And now for something completely different – Klaus Doldinger and Passport, a German jazz formation that has been compared with the US band Weather Report. I won’t claim to know the individual tracks, I only heard Doldinger’s music for the first time in 1983, and liked it. Here are some tracks I have found from […]

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(UK) Squeeze – “Goodbye Girl”, “Cool For Cats”, “Up The Junction”, “Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)”, “Tempted”, “Black Coffee In Bed” and “Annie Get Your Gun”

by Paul

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 […]

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United Balls – “Pogo In Togo”, “Good Understanding”, “Blackbird”, “Gisela”, “Gänseblümchen”, “No More Feelings” and “Sur Le Pont D’Avignon”

by Paul

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”, “Gisela” and the title track “Pogo In Togo”. What I of course couldn’t know was that I […]

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