Living in the 70s

This week our hosts are taking a break from the themes and just picking a few tracks they feel like playing. As usual, it’s an eclectic but tasty mix. Some we’ve played before, some entirely new. But all guaranteed to satisfy even the pickiest Seventies connoisseur. Enjoy

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We’re super excited! This week we explore superb, superior, supreme Seventies songs with super either in the title or in the name of the artists. Why? Well, because it’s super fun. And we’ve certainly found some super tracks.  Proving, once again, that there is no decade like the Seventies for truly super music.

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Long live the cover version! Sometimes other artists do it better, sometimes they just do it differently, but it’s always interesting to hear a great song reinterpreted.  In the Seventies great cover songs could be released practically on the heels of the original. On this week’s show we explore just a few of these Seventies cover versions that had already been released in the same decade.

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Yes it’s happy birthday, happy anniversary and how-the-heck-is-this-little-show-still-going to us! We have had the enormous pleasure of bringing fabulous Seventies music to you for the past five years.  So this week’s show is all about the number 5 – whether that’s band members, band names or song titles, the number 5 is where it’s at.  Cheers!  And may there be many more.

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This week we are showcasing tracks from what we consider to be some of the great debut albums of the 1970s.  There are way too many to cover them all in just one show, but we think we’ve put together a great selection, including Patti Smith (or course), The Saints, Skyhooks, Kate Bush and many more.

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Life is full of ups and downs and it turns out that the Seventies music catalogue is as well. In this week’s show, all of our songs feature either up or down in the title, demonstrating that there’s nothing like a bit of turbulence to generate some good lyrics. So let’s get up and dance, get down tonight, give it up and stir it up with some great Seventies tracks.

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We have learned doing this show, that any band with a long and successful career will inevitably become woven into a tangled web of musical connections. People from other well known bands will produce their albums, cover their songs, sing back up vocals or play an instrument on a recording or even leave their original bands and become part of the group, or leave the group and go on to record their own music.  On today’s show, we explore just some of the connections that thread their way through the life of that iconic Seventies band, Fleetwood Mac.

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Who are they, and what are they to you? That’s what we want to know this week, as we explore Seventies songs about cheating and affairs. It’s all about lying eyes and cheating hearts and the wrong kind of loving. Oooooh you done me wrong! But you know what? After all is said and done, can we still be friends?

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This week we are revisiting the Sixties by way of the Seventies. A few weeks ago we looked at what the individual Beatles members got up to in the Seventies after they disbanded. On today’s show we explore how the music of the Beatles continued to reverberate through the Seventies by playing some of their most well known songs as covered by other artists. It really is hard to overstate the significance of the Beatles to modern music, and just how loved so many of their songs are.

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On this week’s show we’re mining the archives for Seventies songs featuring some kind of metal in the title.  We’ve found rich seams of gold rings and hearts, and silver eyes and ladies, and some less flashy metals, like tin men and brass bands. But whether they are pure or alloy, all the tracks on today’s show are precious in their own way.

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