Palmerston North | My Seventies Music

Magazine – “Rhythm Of Cruelty”, “Believe That I Understand”, “I Wanted Your Heart”, “Talk To The Body”, “Permafrost”, “The Thin Air”, “Feed The Enemy” and “Back To Nature”

by Paul

Magazine 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”, […]

Read the rest »

Tags: Back To Nature, Believe That I Understand, Feed The Enemy, Heart Talk, House Band, I Wanted Your Heart, Magazine, Majestic Hotel, Music, Music of the Seventies, Nature Magazine, New Wave, Palmerston North, Palmerston North New Zealand, Permafrost, Punk Band, Rhythm Of Cruelty, Secondhand Daylight, Seventies Rock Bands, Slow Motion, Snatch, Talk To The Body, The Thin Air, Thin Air, Ultravox, Wave Bands

Posted in Seventies Punk Rock Add a comment

(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 […]

Read the rest »

Tags: (UK) Squeeze, Annie Get Your Gun, Australia, Black Coffee In Bed, Coffee In Bed, Cool Cats, Cool For Cats, Eighties, Goodbye Girl, Legal Conflicts, Majestic Hotel, Music of the Seventies, New Wave, Nineties, North America, Palmerston North, Palmerston North New Zealand, Play On Words, Pulling Mussels, Pulling Mussels (From The Shell), Railway Junction, Recognise Numbers, Seventies, Seventies Rock Bands, Shell, Squeeze, Tempted, Uk Charts, Up The Junction

Posted in Seventies Pop Music Add a comment

Mi-Sex – “Graffitti Crimes”, “Computer Games” and “But You Don’t Care”

by Paul

Mi-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 […]

Read the rest »

Tags: Bass Player, But You Don't Care, Car Accident, Computer Games, Crazy Diamond, Dances, Different Style, Don Martin, Father Thyme, Graffitti, Graffitti Crimes, Massey University, Mi-Sex, Music of the Seventies, New Wave, Palmerston North, Pink Floyd, Predecessor, Seventies, Seventies Rock Bands, Sex Crimes, Sex Games, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Single Computer, Steve Gilpin, Student Orientation, Summer Vacation, Welcome To The Machine

Posted in Uncategorized Add a comment

George Thorogood And The Destroyers – “You Got To Lose”, “Madison Blues”, “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”, “Ride On Josephine”, “I’ll Change My Style” And “Delaware Slide”

by Paul

The George Thorogood And The Destroyers album of the same name came out in 1977, with a track list (largely covers of blues evergreens at that stage) that included “You Got To Lose”, “Madison Blues”, “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”, “Ride On Josephine”, “I’ll Change My Style” and “Delaware Slide”. Now GD and T, […]

Read the rest »

Tags: blues, blues rock, Delaware Destroyers, Delaware Slide, George Thorogood And The Destroyers, GT And D, I'll Change My Style, Madison Blues, Music of the Seventies, One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer, Palmerston North, Ride On Josephine, Seventies Rock Bands, slide guitar, You Got To Lose

Posted in Seventies Blues,Seventies Blues Rock Add a comment

The Cars – “Just What I Needed”, “My Best Friends Girl”, “Good Times Roll”, “Touch And Go”, “Since You’re Gone”, “Shake It Up” and “Drive”

by Paul

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 […]

Read the rest »