Living in the 70s

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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While undeniably most songs about people are simply written to a nameless ‘you’, ‘she’ or ‘he’, some songwriters seem to be inspired by particular individuals and want to name names. This week we return to a theme we haven’t visited in a while and bring together tracks from the Seventies featuring a person’s name in the title. Kiss apologises to Beth, Billy Paul yearns after Mrs Jones, ABBA encourages Helen, and Rick James expresses his love for Mary Jane, in just a few of our selection.

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This week we are bookending last week’s all black show with a show featuring all tracks with white in the title. Simple! We do love an easy theme 🙂 But while the theme may be a bit trite the music is anything but. There’s some punk, some easy listening, some rock – we’ve got it all. So let’s fade to white….

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This week we’re getting a bit dark and moody. We thought to do a ‘black and white’ show, in which all the songs had either black or white in the title, but there turned out to so many we decided to break it up into two shows. This first one features the black songs – Seventies tracks with black in the title. There’s leather, there’s water, there’s coffee, there’s paint. Turns out there are many black things that inspired songwriters from this era.

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This week we’re getting a break from the heavy lifting as we have asked YOU, our listeners, to pick the tracks for the show. And, as usual, you’ve done a brilliant job. What a great show! What great taste you all have!  A little bit of rock, a touch of glam, a pinch of folk. Overall a very tasty mix. Nice work gang.

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