In article <11EEFA4B6844D511A0E70008C71E9F018F396C@ABDEXH01>, Richard
Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com> writes
>Well, after recent discussions about Rainbow, Led Zepp etc., I decided I
>need to identify all the best music from the year my car was made (well,
>give or take a little!). Looks like I'm going to have one hell of a
>compilation album to drive to (if I ever find the time to put it together!)
>
>Meat Loaf - Bat out of hell
Wasn't that '77 or even '76? I'm not complaining - the whole LP is a
frequent visitor to my car cassette-player.
>Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
and almost everything else off the "Jazz" LP.
>Status Quo - Again and Again
Yawn
>Sex Pistols - Holiday in the Sun
That was definitely '77 - and definitely not one of their better tracks.
>Hawkwind - Quark, strangeness and charm
>Rainbow - Since You Been Gone
And that was '79.
>Whitesnake - Ain't no love in the heart of the city
>The Clash - London Calling
Oh, yes. One of the best songs of my youth.
>Motorhead - Motorhead
>AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
1980, I'm sure. Did you mean Rock and Roll Damnation?
>Aerosmith - Sight For Sore Eyes
???
>Alice Cooper - Nurse Rozetta (OK, '78 was possibly one of Alice's lower
>periods!)
>Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love
Love it.
>Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)
'79 - and late '79 at that. :-(
>Stranglers - No More Heroes
1977 again, I'm afraid.
>Led Zeppelin - All My Love
>Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
And "Denis, Denis," and, most especially, "Picture This".
>Judas Priest - Better By You Better Than Me
??? Never heard of it.
>ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses
??? Never heard of it - and ZZ Top were an Eighties band, surely?
>Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
>
>All my personal taste, of course, there are no doubt some out there whose
>idea of ideal '78 music is the Bee Gees and Earth, Wind and Fire. Not me...
I still think you've missed a few from '78 that absolutely should not
have been missed:
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Oliver's Army (Best track of the
Seventies - and, possibly, of the last 30 years)
Undertones - Teenage Kicks (Second-best song of the Seventies)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden (and, I think, her version
of "Helter Skelter" might also have been '78)
Tom Robinson Band - the entire "Power in the Darkness" LP
Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap and She's So Modern
Jam - David Watts and Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster (Actually, I think this was
'79, but WTF, it's a great track, and goes nicely with the rest...)
ATB
--
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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