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
Flash & the Pan - California
Japan - Stateline
The Cars - Nightspots (Early Version)
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 feat. The Bee Gees - Emotion
NBC Promo: Death of Her Innocence
ABC Promo: How to Pick Up Girls
Columbia Records and Tapes Commercial
Rose Royce - Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
The Walker Brothers - I’ve Got to Have You
Tapper Zukie - Mah Ah Warrior
P-Funk Commercial - Funkentelechy
The Emotions - I Wanna Come Back
Radio Commercial - Pink Floyd Miami Concert 1977
Radio Commercial - Sire Records feat. Richard Hell
Pere Ubu - Over My Head
Can - Mother Sky
K-tel Records “Get Down With Boogie”
News Report: Studio 54
Vangelis with Chrisma - U (Part 1)
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - Superrappin’ Theme
Funky Constellation - Street Talk (Madame Rapper)
Bama the Village Poet - Social Narcotics
D. Richmond - Confunktion
Curtis Mayfield feat. The Staple Singers - After Sex
Moggi (Piero Umiliani) - Officina Stellare
Led Zeppelin - In the Light
Neu! Seeland
Tatsuro Yamashita - Dancer
Papa Bear & His Cubs - Sweetest Thing on This Side of Heaven
Mandre - Interlude
Dire Straits - Follow Me Home
Joan Armatrading - Somebody Who Loves You
Brian Eno - Everything Merges With the Night
Prince - Unreleased Instrumental
Stanton Davis and the Ghetto Mysticism Band - Nida
Leo Sayer - When I Need You
