Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 8, 2024 10:07:23 GMT
Morning, all.
Especially happy to get to kick off this one in Eppers' absence, as, for me, it has covered the era that others have to beat. No way, I fear, of whittling down to a short-list of five here!
As a young teenager in 1976-77, my eyes and ears were opened by the new, vibrant and (for me, at the time) relevant bands to follow. So, for starters, check out some of their tracks...
The Clash: Complete Control; Police and Thieves; (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais; White Riot.
The Jam: Away From the Numbers; Down in the Tube Station At Midnight; In the City; The Eton Rifles.
Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the UK; God Save the Queen; Holidays in the Sun; Pretty Vacant.
The Special AKA: Gangsters; and most of the tracks on The Specials album that came out on 19th October 1979 - the day I went to the gig of my life at Brighton Top Rank and saw them appear with Madness and The Selecter as part of the legendary 2-Tone Tour.
But sticking to a handful of groups was not enough during five years in which some of the finest music of my boyish days - and across all manner of genres - was being made. It was a period that saw me starting to create compilation cassettes for myself and others, and, looking back, this 'A to Z' of further fave tunes (kicking off, confessionally, with the one to which I had my first kiss
) would have comprised a typical line-up on tape...
A - ᗅᗺᗷᗅ: That's Me [1976]
B - Buzzcocks: Moving Away From the Pulsebeat [1978]
C - Elvis Costello: Lipstick Vogue [1978]
D - The Damned: New Rose [1976]
E - Earth, Wind And Fire & The Emotions: Boogie Wonderland [1979]
F - The Fall: Rowche Rumble [1979]
G - Gang Of Four: Damaged Goods [1978]
H - The Human League: You've Lost That Loving Feeling [1979]
I - Gregory Isaacs: Mr. Know It All [1978]
J - Joy Division: New Dawn Fades [1979]
K - Evelyn 'Champagne' King: Shame [1977]
L - Labelle: Lady Marmalade [1975]
M - Modern Lovers: Roadrunner [1976]
N - Nilsson: Kojak Columbo [1975]
O - The Only Ones: Another Girl, Another Planet [1978]
P - Public Image Limited: Public Image [1978]
Q - The Quads: There Must Be Thousands [1979]
R - Racing Cars: They Shoot Horses Don't They? [1976]
S - Suicide: Dream Baby Dream [1979]
T - Television: Little Johnny Jewel [1976]
U - The Undertones: Teenage Kicks [1978]
V - Sid Vicious: My Way [1978]
W - Wreckless Eric: Whole Wide World [1977]
X - X-Ray Spex: Oh Bondage Up Yours! [1977]
Y - Neil Young: Like a Hurricane [1977]
Z - Frank Zappa: Bobby Brown (Goes Down) [1979]
So - over to you! List as many as you like, from any or all of the five years, but remember also to nominate your own first choice to go on the voting paper at the weekend.
Mine, after much deliberation and mind-changing, will be Teenage Kicks - a peerless pearl of adolescent angst, and, arguably, as near to perfect pop as it is possible to find.
Especially happy to get to kick off this one in Eppers' absence, as, for me, it has covered the era that others have to beat. No way, I fear, of whittling down to a short-list of five here!
As a young teenager in 1976-77, my eyes and ears were opened by the new, vibrant and (for me, at the time) relevant bands to follow. So, for starters, check out some of their tracks...
The Clash: Complete Control; Police and Thieves; (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais; White Riot.
The Jam: Away From the Numbers; Down in the Tube Station At Midnight; In the City; The Eton Rifles.
Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the UK; God Save the Queen; Holidays in the Sun; Pretty Vacant.
The Special AKA: Gangsters; and most of the tracks on The Specials album that came out on 19th October 1979 - the day I went to the gig of my life at Brighton Top Rank and saw them appear with Madness and The Selecter as part of the legendary 2-Tone Tour.
But sticking to a handful of groups was not enough during five years in which some of the finest music of my boyish days - and across all manner of genres - was being made. It was a period that saw me starting to create compilation cassettes for myself and others, and, looking back, this 'A to Z' of further fave tunes (kicking off, confessionally, with the one to which I had my first kiss
) would have comprised a typical line-up on tape...A - ᗅᗺᗷᗅ: That's Me [1976]
B - Buzzcocks: Moving Away From the Pulsebeat [1978]
C - Elvis Costello: Lipstick Vogue [1978]
D - The Damned: New Rose [1976]
E - Earth, Wind And Fire & The Emotions: Boogie Wonderland [1979]
F - The Fall: Rowche Rumble [1979]
G - Gang Of Four: Damaged Goods [1978]
H - The Human League: You've Lost That Loving Feeling [1979]
I - Gregory Isaacs: Mr. Know It All [1978]
J - Joy Division: New Dawn Fades [1979]
K - Evelyn 'Champagne' King: Shame [1977]
L - Labelle: Lady Marmalade [1975]
M - Modern Lovers: Roadrunner [1976]
N - Nilsson: Kojak Columbo [1975]
O - The Only Ones: Another Girl, Another Planet [1978]
P - Public Image Limited: Public Image [1978]
Q - The Quads: There Must Be Thousands [1979]
R - Racing Cars: They Shoot Horses Don't They? [1976]
S - Suicide: Dream Baby Dream [1979]
T - Television: Little Johnny Jewel [1976]
U - The Undertones: Teenage Kicks [1978]
V - Sid Vicious: My Way [1978]
W - Wreckless Eric: Whole Wide World [1977]
X - X-Ray Spex: Oh Bondage Up Yours! [1977]
Y - Neil Young: Like a Hurricane [1977]
Z - Frank Zappa: Bobby Brown (Goes Down) [1979]
So - over to you! List as many as you like, from any or all of the five years, but remember also to nominate your own first choice to go on the voting paper at the weekend.
Mine, after much deliberation and mind-changing, will be Teenage Kicks - a peerless pearl of adolescent angst, and, arguably, as near to perfect pop as it is possible to find.
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