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Feelin’ 1975 mix

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I have enjoyed doing 6 other 70’s mixes and today my latest one is out. I am kinda nervy of doing 1977 and 1979 as they were both such amazing musical years (for me) so I’m leaving them until last. The one from 1972 was great fun to do as I started digging and found nothing but incredible funk and soul music from that year so may do a more rock orientated one in the future, Roxy, Bowie etc. This one has nods to several genres and most of the tracks are linked with samples from TV, film, adverts etc from that year, it was great fun to do and I share it here in the hope you will dig it too!

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Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel : Introducing ‘The Best Years’
Pete Wingfield : Eighteen With A Bullet
Parliament : Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)
Wild Cherry : Play That Funky Music
Wings : Medicine Jar
Nazareth : Hair of The Dog
Queen : Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To…)
Alice Cooper : Only Women Bleed
Hatfield & The North : Fitter Stoke Has A Bath
Robert Wyatt : Solar Flares
Camel : Rhayader
Split Enz : Time For A Change
Goblin : Profondo Rosso
Roxy Music : Love Is the Drug
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention : Inca Roads
Steve Hillage : The Salmon Song
10cc : Life Is a Minestrone
Be Bop Deluxe : Jean Cocteau
Andy Fairweather Low : Wide Eyed and Legless
Peter Skellern : Hold On To Love
Stretch : Why Did You Do It?
The Tubes : What Do You Want From Life
Captain & Tennille : Love Will Keep Us Together
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band : Delilah (live)
Max Boyce : The Pontypool Front Row
Roy Harper : When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel : The Best Years of Our Lives

samples

Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Jaws
Fawlty Towers
Dog Day Afternoon
Rollerball
The Sweeney
Shampoo
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Space 1999
Survivors
Deep Red
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Man Who Would Be King
Picnic At Hanging Rock
French Connection II
Love & Death
Trilogy of Terror
The Day of The Locust
Royal Flash

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Comments

  1. Only missing a track from “Physical Graffitti”, and the first definitive stadium rock concerts, introduced by Led Zeppelin’s 5 shows at Earl’s Court. The true enormodome rock show in the UK started there, scaling up previous efforts in theatres and Wembley Empire Pool.

    • good point, it didn’t escape my mix box I just couldn’t fit any in time wise, I could hardly leave out Capt. & Tennille now could I? In fact the main reason they fitted in was because The Tubes before them covered Love Will Keep Us.. and it seemed only fair to add them as it was their best song*

      *and my mum likes it

  2. Ah, Hair Of The Dog. The first song I was able to play along to in time with the record on guitar without screwing up.

    Very fond of it. It’s quite easy. Essentially the first half of the Day Tripper riff and some power chords. Great fun.

    • This was a very pleasant accompaniment to my window cleaning this morning. Some of my faves on it (Tubes, Roy, AFL, Hillage) but also some things I wasn’t familiar with. The Cockney Rebel was a nice surprise – not heard that before.

      Not sure about the Max Boyce, mind you. A bit of Man from Maximum Darkness would have kept the 1975 Welsh vibe but that’s just my taste.

      Overall, nice one

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