When We Were Plush - An Alternate Take on the Late Seventies
If the modern world is digital, the 1970s were definitely analog. Vinyl pressings and 8 track tapes mirrored the warmth of a decade that existed as a pastiche of shag carpeting, growling muscle cars, and unkept pubic hair. It was also an era of open-minded exploration - disco largely defined the era, unaware that it would one day grow up to be house music, and hip hop came into existence, an apparent musical fad that left few to predict that it would one day define pop music on the whole. The product of a more comprehensive analysis of the decade I have been struggling with for more than a year, this selection previews some of the lesser known music of the era with me avoiding the requirement to be definitive and instead compile the music as if it were recently released.
Track List
Radio Commercial - Iggy and the Stooges
Radio Commercial - Rock Magazine
Mandre - Masked Music Man
Belle Epoque - Miss Broadway
Amadeo - Real Magic
Christy Essien - You Can’t Change a Man
Adrienne Ste-Claire - Ce Soir
Chilly - Sensation
John Forde - Stardance (Side 2)
Samantha Song - Emotion
Goya - House at the Sea
K-tel Records “Get Down With Boogie”
News Report: Studio 54
Vangelis with Chrisma - U (Part 1)
Paradise Frame - Paradise Theme
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - Superrappin’ Theme
Xanadu & Sweet Lady - Rapper’s Delight
Funky Constellation - Street Talk (Madame Rapper)
NBC Promo: Death of Her Innocence
ABC Promo: How to Pick Up Girls
Columbia Records and Tapes Commercial
Flash & the Pan - California
The Cars - Nightspots (Early Version)
Japan - Stateline
Pere Ubu - Over My Head
Rose Royce - Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
William Onyeabor - Beautiful Baby
Mabrak - Serenade Talk
Tapper Zukie - Mah Ah Warrior
P-Funk Commercial - Funkentelechy
The Emotions - I Wanna Come Back
Ashra - Oasis
The Walker Brothers - The Electrician
Radio Commercial - Pink Floyd Miami Concert 1977
Jujus & Sarah Webster Fabio - If We Come as Soft Rain
Curtis Mayfield feat. The Staple Singers - After Sex
Tatsuro Yamashita - Dancer
Moggi (Piero Umiliani) - Officina Stellare
Neu! - Leb Wohl
