Tag Archives: 1975 albums
1975 COUNTDOWN | #10 — #6
Finally we arrive at the Top 10. The first of two parts… * #10 POPOL VUH — EINSJÄGER UND SIEBENJÄGER Probably my favourite Popol Vuh album, Einsjäger und Siebenjäger is also one of their most rock-orientated, with guitars well in evidence. This more muscular sound serves the music well and pulls the pieces back from […]
1975 COUNTDOWN | FESTIVE BEST OFS
It’s December 1975, less than a week out from Christmas. What to get your teenage niece? Her parents gave her a small record player for her birthday and have been complaining about the noise emanating from her bedroom ever since. And the last time they visited she sat with her ear pressed against a tiny […]
1975 COUNTDOWN | #20 — #11
#20 BETTY DAVIS — NASTY GAL Paradoxically, Nasty Gal is Betty Davis’s fiercest and most polished record. Produced by Davis herself, it fuses hard funk with glam-inflected edge: serrated guitar riffs, tight horn stabs over a rhythm section that struts and swaggers. Davis’s vocals are raw, confrontational and defiantly sexual, pushing beyond the already bold […]
1975 COUNTDOWN | #30 — #21
#30 NEIL YOUNG — ZUMA After the grim soul scouring of Tonight’s The Night, Young reformed Crazy Horse with new guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro replacing Danny Whitten. Zuma blends wistful reflection with raw electric power. “Don’t Cry No Tears” and “Barstool Blues” evoke rough-edged tenderness, while “Cortez the Killer” stands among his finest works—a thunderhead […]
1975 COUNTDOWN | #40 — #31
#40 DAVID BOWIE — YOUNG AMERICANS The greasepaint and sequins have been relegated to the dress-up box as Bowie shifts direction again. Recorded in Philadelphia and New York with contributions from Luther Vandross and guitarist Carlos Alomar, the album drew heavily on American R&B and funk influences. Its sound—lush, rhythmic, brass-laden—captured Bowie’s fascination with U.S. […]
1975 COUNTDOWN | PROLOGUE
What do you remember about 1975? Were you even born? Was your world dominated by mother’s breast, or were you starting your first job? Attending kindergarten or enrolling at uni? Doing calisthenics or marching against the Vietnam war? What music was rocking your world… or has wormed its way into your cultural landscape over the […]
IN THE SPOTLIGHT, SO CLEAR
It’s a Friday night in the late nineties. Steven and I are lounging around talking shit about music. A single slice of Capricciosa sits uneasily in the grease-stained box and half a bottle of red stands on the coffee table. The pizza gets ignored; we’re either too full or too polite to take it. Not […]
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