Here at TVD it's well known that we love the 70's, but it seems you guys REALLY love the '70's if the web tracking is any indication. Those two weeks of posts are still the highest viewed pages for any tracking period, but alas -- those links have all expired.
But fear thee not! As a little gift for the holidays, we've compiled all the tracks from those two weeks of posts into three handy (but large!) links below. So set those PCs to download while you're out clogging the malls exchanging gifts and upon your arrival home -- a nice bit o' nostalgia awaits.
Thanks for reading folks and Happy Holidays! TVD'S 70's COLLECTION |
1970 The Beatles - The Long and Winding Road | Carpenters - Close to You | Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime | B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head | Partridge Family - I Think I Love You | George Harrison - My Sweet Lord | Badfinger - Come and Get It
1971 Badfinger - No Matter What | David Bowie - Changes | Alice Cooper - Eighteen | Donny Osmond - Go Away Little Girl | T-Rex - Jeepster | The Temptations - Just My Imagination | Steven Stills - Love The One You're With | Rod Stewart - Maggie May | Jackson 5 - Never Can Say Goodbye | Osmonds - One Bad Apple | Chicago - Saturday in the Park | Marvin Gaye - What's Going On | Elton John - Your Song
1972 America - A Horse With No Name | Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes | T-Rex - Bang A Gong (Get It On) | Looking Glass - Brandy (You're A Fine Girl) | Raspberries - Go All The Way | Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now | Jim Croce - Operator | Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music | Paul Simon - Mother and Child Reunion | Gary Glitter - Rock & Roll Part 2 | Elton John - Rocket Man | Alice Cooper - School's Out | David Bowie - Space Oddity | Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze | America - Ventura Highway | Nilsson - Without You
1973 The Four Tops - Ain't No Woman (Like The One I Got | Alice Cooper - No More Mister Nice Guy | Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | Sweet - Ballroom Blitz | Wings - Band On The Run | Doobie Brothers - China Grove | The Spinners - Could It Be I'm Falling In Love | Elton John - Daniel | Seals & Crofts - Diamond Girl | Steely Dan - Do It Again | Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me | Paul Simon - Kodachrome | Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin' | Wings - My Love | Ringo Starr - Photograph | Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years | David Essex - Rock On | Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You
1974 Elton John - Bennie And The Jets | The Eagles - Best of My Love | ELO - Can't Get It Out of My Head | Harry Chapin - Cat's In The Cradle | Joni Mitchell - Help Me | Wings - Jet | Wings - Junior's Farm | Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting | Pilot - Magic | Barry Manilow - Mandy | Maria Muldaur - Midnight At The Oasis | Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number | Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat | Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun | Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown | Steve Miller Band - The Joker | Grand Funk Railroad - The Locomotion | ABBA - Waterloo | John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
1975 ABBA - SOS | Sweet - Action | Doobie Brothers - Black Water | Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody | ELO - Evil Woman | Sweet - Fox On The Run | Ace - How Long | 10cc - I'm Not In Love | Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue | Wings - Listen To What The Man Said | Minnie Ripperton - Loving You | Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover | Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom | KISS - Rock and Roll All Nite | America - Sister Golden Hair | KC and the Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It) | The Eagles - Take it to the Limit
1976 Eric Carmen - All By Myself | KISS - Beth | Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do | Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart | Gary Wright - Dream Weaver | Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around and Fell in Love | Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon | Seals & Crofts - Get Closer | Hall & Oates - Sara Smile | Mary MacGregor - Torn Between Two Lovers | Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right | Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music | Fleetwood Mac - Say You Love Me | Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way | Rod Stewart - Tonight's The Night | Barry Manilow - Weekend in New England | John Sebastian - Welcome Back | C. W. McCall - Convoy
1977 Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light | Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou | Foreigner - Cold As Ice | Fleetwood Mac - Dreams | Steve Miller - Fly Like An Eagle | The Eagles - Hotel California | Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love | Wings - Maybe I'm Amazed | ELO - Mr. Blue Sky | The Eagles - New Kid in Town | Hall & Oates - Rich Girl | Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night | Paul Simon - Slip Slidin' Away | Glen Campbell - Southern Nights | Fleetwood Mac - The Chain | 10cc - The Things We Do for Love | ELO - Turn To Stone | Queen - We Are The Champions | Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
1978 ABBA - Take A Chance On Me | Eddie Money - Baby Hold On | Patti Smith - Because The Night | Queen - Bicycle Race | Kansas - Dust In The Wind | Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls | Nick Gilder - Hot Child In The City | Alicia Bridges - I Love The Nightlife | Exile - Kiss You All Over | Chic - Le Freak | Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good | Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen | Bee Gees - Night Fever | Steely Dan - Peg | Randy Newman - Short People | Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing | Meat Loaf - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad | The O'Jays - Use Ta Be My Girl
1979 Styx - Babe | Player - Baby Come Back | Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy | ELO - Don't Bring Me Down | Chic - Good Times | Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger | Blondie - Heart Of Glass | Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me | KISS - I Was Made For Loving You | Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive | Supertramp - Logical Song | Donna Summer - MacArthur Park | The Knack - My Sharona | Peaches & Herb - Reunited | Anita Ward - Ring My Bell | Supertramp - Breakfast in America | Bee Gees - Too Much Heaven | Bee Gees - Tragedy | Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes
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(The links will stay active until 1/2/08 or until the bandwidth is exceeded.)
Simply put, one of the finest LP covers ever. Roslav Szaybo; sleeve concept and design, John Brown; photography, Kari-Ann; the lovely model.
This week TVD welcomes a guest DJ for your Weekend Shots: John Foster is a funny guy who writes depressing songs under the guise of his Sad Crocodile moniker. You may also know him from his design work or various books and web columns. 
The late Tower Records' self-published magazine 'Pulse' crossed my mind the other day. If there ever was a publication with less discerning taste, I've yet to see it. Each CD or artist interview was positively fawning. "Well honey, here we are RIGHT in the Tower Records ready to purchase this new Insane Clown Posse CD but Tower themselves says it's a boatload of crap - so why bother?!" That'd be self-defeating, right? So, every review spoke to SOMETHING redeeming for ANY CD, and let's face it, Insane Clown Posse? (Shite.) What 'Pulse' did have as a feature was something called "Desert Island Discs" -- the ten or so LPs or what have you that you'd want to turn your new pal Friday onto while stranded on the aforementioned desert island -- and just listen to forever. And it was a pretty decent monthly feature. You could tell basically who you'd want to immediately hang out with given their taste in music versus the guy you'd wanna whack with a bat. Which brings me to today's selection: "Together Alone" by Crowded House. I'd turn to Friday and he'd be singing "Well, I've been locked out/ I've been locked in..." and we'd laaaaaugh. He makes great Mojitos too, that Friday.
I'd like to postulate that there are some bands who should never enter a studio and simply play live - forever. Like, just never record. Producers most often simply don't know how to harness the energy and power of a killer live act. The results are too clean, glossy, and well, commercial. Case in point (no pun) are The Plimsouls -- a band I first heard live for the most part via a cassette of the LP right up there. "One Night In America" is a much better example of how the band really sounded, with swagger to its rhythms, grit in the vocals, and spectacularly honed and inventive vocals from Peter Case, who also gets some good duel guitar action with Eddie Munoz on every track. Not only doesn't the band sound slick, like their one Geffen album does, it sounds dangerous, in the best rock 'n' roll tradition. 
"Here at TVD, we're all about breaking new bands. So let us introduce you to a wonderful 6-piece combo from NYC who have big things ahead of them..."
Teardrop Explodes - Bouncing Babies (Mp3)
Mark Saxby, Phil Morris and Phil Payne WERE (we think?) Arnold - initially signed to Alan McGee's Creation Records and later on his Poptones imprint. These tracks come from their demos (recorded over 12 days in a medieval barn in Kent) which impressed McGee so much he released them -- as is. Some of these tracks later appeared on Arnold's wonderful debut "Hillside" which was followed by "Bahama" and subsequently a self-titled EP of new (fantastic) material. Then well, Saxby and Payne now record as Little Massive. So, Arnold - where are you? (Yes, we're big fans...)
"Nobody does it better / makes me feel saaad for the rest..."
Five today from the hugely underrated Marshall Crenshaw from his first LP. Always just loved this cover too...
We're delighted to have been invited to contribute to the interesting international collective known as Fun and Heartbreak. Come join us, won't you?
At one point during the past weekend with the house to myself and a cold one in hand, I blasted last Monday's Daily Wax -- the Joe Jackson Band's "Beat Crazy" followed by the reunited band's '03 release "Volume 4." Now, Joe's taken some serious detours between these two 'band' releases...swing, salsa, film scoring and more -- but you wouldn't know it playing these two LP's back to back. There's a continuity of energy, attack and wit like those divergent musical paths of Joe's were never taken. See what I mean:
Ten live tracks to kick off the first Friday of '08...
TVD kicked this off in '07 and it becomes a regular Friday feature for '08 -- Shuffle Bored. The premise is simple -- the iPod's selections have become predictable and boring, so here's my random five for your random five. List, post, link -- whatever -- just hit us with your Friday five...
I'm not sure how many of you who read TVD with any frequency do so for the the music alone or for the vinyl rips to Mp3, but shortly TVD HQ will have a new addition for the latter -- the ION Audio TTUSB10 pictured above. As with most purchases of this sort, research was conducted, options were weighed, and the dice was rolled in favor of the ION model. When the new turntable arrives (mid-January) TVD will delve into the set-up and usability of the product and will follow the progress from box to broadband. Feedback, advice and warnings from current ION owners quite welcome along the way...
just a girl who can’t say no / and her sweetheart on parole / parents named her jupiter / blessed her with a lucky soul / he’s a boy who never cried / when they locked him up inside / and she nicknamed him her teardrop / for the tattoo by his eye / now she’s sleeping in her bed / and he’s sleeping in her bed / and it’s jupiter and teardrop / and it’s jupiter and teardrop / she divines by radio / pushing buttons show to show / and she wonders ’bout the fate of / lovers in the barrio / she forgets after a while / when she tunes in on the dial / jackie wilson’s lonely teardrops / and she drives another mile / now she’s sleeping in her bed / and he’s sleeping in her bed / and it’s jupiter and teardrop / and it’s jupiter and teardrop / and they want to have a child / walk together down the aisle / but the world they live in is mean / and its built on sheer denial / the phone rings it’s for her / "got to see ya jupiter" / "i’m in trouble with the law" / "bring my 38 caliber" / now she’s sleeping in her bed / as she pulls the phone plug dead / and it’s jupiter and teardrop.
"This album represents a desperate attempt to make some sense of Rock and Roll. Deep in our hearts, we knew it was doomed to failure. The question remains: Why did we try?"
The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Mp3) 
Here at TVD it's well known that we love the 70's, but it seems you guys REALLY love the '70's if the web tracking is any indication. Those two weeks of posts are still the highest viewed pages for any tracking period, but alas -- those links have all expired.
