A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies...

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 […]

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Tags: Benjamin Orr, Drive, Good Times Roll, Heartbeat City, Just What I Needed, Live Aid, Majestic Hotel, Music of the Seventies, My Best Friends Girl, New Wave, Palmerston North, Panorama, Ric Ocasek, Seventies Rock Bands, Shake It Up, Since You're Gone, Snatch, The Cars, The Pogues, Touch And Go

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Ultravox – “Vienna”, “Slow Motion”, “Maximum Acceleration” and “I Can’t Stay Long”

by Paul

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 […]

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Tags: I Can't Stay Long, Majestic Hotel, Maximum Acceleration, Music of the Seventies, New Wave, Palmerston North, Seventies Rock Bands, Slow Motion, Snatch, Systems Of Romance, Ultravox, Vienna

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Stealers Wheel – “Stuck In The Middle With You”, “Everyone’s Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine”, “Star”, “Late Again”, “Another Meaning”, “I Get By” and “You Put Something Better Inside Me”

by Paul

Stealers Wheel, the band formed in 1972 by Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan from Paisley, Scotland, had several hits in the early to mid Seventies, in particular “Stuck In The Middle With You” and “Everyone’s Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine”. “Star” also reached the Top Thirty in both the US and the UK […]

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Tags: Another Meaning, Baker Street, Everyone's Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine, Gerry Rafferty, I Get By, Joe Egan, Late Again, Music of the Seventies, Star, Stealers Wheel, Stuck In The Middle With You, You Put Something Better Inside Me

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Three Dog Night – “One”, “Celebrate, “Eli’s Coming”, “Easy To Be Hard”, “Mama Told Me Not To Come”, “Just An Old Fashioned Love Song”, “Black And White” and “Joy To The World” (“Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog”)

by Paul

Three Dog Night hardly wrote a song of their own, but they had numerous hits with the songs they covered, such as “One”, “Celebrate, “Eli’s Coming” and “Easy To Be Hard”, “Mama Told Me Not To Come”, “Just An Old Fashioned Love Song”, “Black And White” or “Joy To The World” (sometimes called “Jeremiah Was […]

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Tags: Black And White, Celebrate, Easy To Be Hard, Eli's Coming, Golden Bisquits, Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog, Joy To The World, Just An Old Fashioned Love Song, Mama Told Me Not To Come, Music of the Seventies, One, Seventies Rock Bands, Three Dog Night

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Pavlov’s Dog – “Julia”, “Late November”, “Fast Gun”, “Natchez Trace”, “Theme From Subway Sue”, “Of Once and Future Kings”, “She Came Shining”, “Gold Nuggets” and “Did You See Him Cry”

by Paul

I have always treasured the two albums by Pavlov’s Dog I have on an old cassette, with tracks like “Julia”, “Late November”, “Fast Gun”, “Natchez Trace”, “Theme From Subway Sue”, “Of Once and Future Kings”, “She Came Shining”, “Gold Nuggets”, “Early Morning On” and “Did You See HIm Cry”. The band from St. Louis, Missouri, […]

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