1975
| Artist | Song | |
| David Bowie |
Golden Years 
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| Bruce Springsteen | Born to Run | |
| Roxy Music | Love is the Drug | |
| Patti Smith | Redondo Beach | |
| The Sensational Alex Harvey Band | River of Love | |
| Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel | Come Up and See Me (Make Me Smile) | |
| The Dictators | Teengenerate | |
| Brian Eno | St. Elmo's Fire | |
| Archie Bell & The Drells | The Soul City Walk | |
| Donna Summer | Love to Love You Baby | |
| Johnny Hammond | Shifting Gears | |
| Kraftwerk | Antenna | |
| Neu! | Isi | |
| Burning Spear | Marcus Garvey | |
| Chris Squire | Hold Out Your Hand | |
| Pete Wingfield | 18 With a Bullet | |
| Kim Fowley | Night of the Hunter | |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Don't Cry No Tears | |
| Bob Dylan | Simple Twist of Fate | |
| Led Zeppelin | Kashmir | |
Comment:
The year is 1975 and the United States of America are still reeling from the Watergate scandal. By April communist forces take Saigon forcing the unconditional surrender of the South Vietnamese and the protracted conflict is over..Over the pond in the UK the Birmingham Six are wrongfully sentenced to life in prison and Peter Sutcliffe the Yorkshire Ripper commits his first murder..
This year also saw the sinking of SS Edmund Fitzgerald with the loss of all 29 on board. Ok... We can't seem to find any good news.. Correction, Mike Blasi arrived into the world! This one's for you mate....
1975, more than any year, produced the kind of pop music you hum when on the radio and procede to hum for the rest of the day. The kind of songs you don't dare admit you actually like. These songs are now known as Guilty Pleasures. Included here is a bonus mix consisting of 7 such pleasures. Download, listen & reluctantly enjoy. Hey, it's only 22 minutes of your life! SG
Click Here For Your Guilty Pleasures!
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Well, you found more good records from 1975 than could reasonably be expected... Cool addition to your series. When's this proposed 1971 mix dropping? ;-)
just pure wonderful stuff
Lubbly jubbly . . . . although the music of 1975 will never surpass my first sightings of 'live' female breasts - Kim Gill on Caversham Green in Aylesbury during the summer holidays . . . I still wonder what she is doing now (and her sister Debbie). But I digress . . . .
I remeber that Donna Summer being described in Time Magazine as "a string of 24 consecutive orgasms" and being 14 I, of course, had a Bevis & Butthead reaction. 1,2,3 and 20 were favs back then.
Awesome! Some absolute favorites songs on here - Redondo Beach, 18 with a Bullet and St. Elmo's Fire. Thanks for the shout out!
tracks 4 thru 12 provided a string of nine consecutive orgasms for me. discreet ones, since we were listening at work. wonderful! as for the guilty pleasures set, I don't know what that "only you" track is (the 3rd one I think?), but I don't feel guilty at all. I love it!
anything that uses both blood on the tracks & born to run on the same mix is a-okay in my book. love the patti smith, zeppelin, brian eno, bowie, roxy music & neil young choices. you sure did a pretty great job finding the best there was of '75.
Very nice.
This was a momentous year for me. How fitting that this mix is also momentous. Cheers.
Lovely mix; I particularly enjoyed listening to tracks 12, 13, 16, 19 & 20. That last one doesn't exactly mix well with the rest, but good to see it on here none the less (it is tough to mix their stuff with most everything else; but I managed on half a dozen mixes).
Funny that several of these guys have recent new stuff out (Eno, Dylan, Springsteen, Shakey...) but I really would like to hear some new Archie Bell.
Still stand by my previous stance re '75!
Well Cliff, I have it on good authority that at least one of The Wonder Years collective set about this task with those prophetic words ringing in the ear ;) and furthermore it was by far the most difficult one to seperate the wheat from the chaff as it were. Still c'mon you miserable old sod theres some good tunes there and we got to hear about a rampant hormonal Gobi glimpsing every schoolboys holy grail - t*ts. Every cloud mon ami...
OK Barry, 1,3,4,6,9,14,18 & 20 might just work lol!
Not sure what that wacky Engle-en-Francais is on about..., 1975 looks great from this lineup! I can't think of a single song on here I don't like for one reason or another...that Patti-to-Steve Harley trifecta is the STUFF!
Another great one, guys. And you know what - it suddenly occurred to me when I was nodding along to "TRAMPS LIKE US!" that I actually really like Born To Run...so many thanks for that! Also do like a bit of Steve Harley, and the Dictators, Eno and Bowie are all great too. (PS: gobi's comment is fantastic)
Smiles all around. Is Bat Out Of Hell on the seven incher?