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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. David Bowie - Sound & Vision | |||
| 2. Blondie - (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear | |||
| 3. Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach | |||
| 4. Patti Smith - Because The Night | |||
| 5. The B-52s - Rock Lobster | |||
| 6. The Rezillos - Top Of The Pops | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead | |||
| 2. X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents | |||
| 3. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Playground Twist | |||
| 4. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry | |||
| 5. Joy Division - Transmission | |||
| 6. Public Image Ltd - Death Disco | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Ramones - Baby, I Love You | |||
| 2. Nick Lowe - I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass | |||
| 3. The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl | |||
| 4. The Pretenders - Kid | |||
| 5. Mink De Ville - Spanish Stroll | |||
| 6. Marianne Faithfull - Broken English | |||
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The Edge of the 70's
This is the 1st time i have taken the trouble to review something.
When i was a spotty teenager, various mates compiled tape cassettes of dubious tunes for you to investigate - This is the PERFECT compilation all on 3 cds.
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead, is the perfect start of CD2, a much missed 7" rarity & always featured at teen parties of the era.
Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity - wow, would not have thought of putting it in the selection, but it really works out well with the mix, & the Tourist to complete a fine mixture of tunes!! Buy Now & enjoy for the summer of 2009.
The Rezillos - Top Of The Pops - another fine rarity that does not feature on many compilations coupled with The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes - another wow selection on CD1.
Read the list of artist, think back to being 13 & sampling the beers, the summer of 1979 & forget about your mortgage now. 1979 was a top year for music, buy this, play it in your car this summer & await many more compilations of this brilliant kind.
This is the 1st time i have taken the trouble to review something.
When i was a spotty teenager, various mates compiled tape cassettes of dubious tunes for you to investigate - This is the PERFECT compilation all on 3 cds.
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead, is the perfect start of CD2, a much missed 7" rarity & always featured at teen parties of the era.
Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity - wow, would not have thought of putting it in the selection, but it really works out well with the mix, & the Tourist to complete a fine mixture of tunes!! Buy Now & enjoy for the summer of 2009.
The Rezillos - Top Of The Pops - another fine rarity that does not feature on many compilations coupled with The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes - another wow selection on CD1.
Read the list of artist, think back to being 13 & sampling the beers, the summer of 1979 & forget about your mortgage now. 1979 was a top year for music, buy this, play it in your car this summer & await many more compilations of this brilliant kind.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
For many people cool has always been defined by the clothes you wore and the music you listened to. Whatever generation, there are subcultures to be part of with lables and badges to wear which defined you as part of the right set and each has its very own soundtrack. At some time in our adolescent lives we all either were, or wanted to be, one of the cool kids.
The thing is, that there is always a plethora of music surrounding us and most would probably not slavishly stick to the confines of one style. "The Edge Of The Seventies" acknowledges this and does a good job in providing some examples of each of its styles and types. Covering the period from 1977-80 this is what many call the golden age of the pop single. These are the ones from its cooler hinterlands.
Across 3 CDs there is the pre-punk, punk, new wave, post-punk, power pop, electronica, mod revial, goth, and good left-field pop. It's a pretty good summation of the kind of records people of the time would have in their record collections. The surprising thing is how many of them are hits. This is a collection of accessible music with the emphasis, most of the time, on melody as opposed to dischord. It's sometimes experimental but without actually challenging the ears of the listener too excessively. This is still, at its heart, a pop album. Many of the acts here did appear on Top Of The Pops.
This is an era which has been plundered and re-packaged more times than it is really reasonable to mention and so there are some usual compilation suspects here including "Teenage Kicks", "Babylon's Burning", "Roadrunner", and "Being Boiled" detracts slightly from the selections as they all tend to suffer from slight overuse. That said thre are a good number of tracks not usually found in these places which really do mark this out as something close to a more worthwhile purchase. Inspired inclusions include: "Transmission", "7Teen", "Broken English", "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass", "Time For Action", "TV", and "IEYA", some of which are not exactly easy to find in any other format.
As an example of the kind of music people really went out and purchased in this period, this is a pretty good apporximation of the times. There are other more challenging, brilliant groundbreaking documents of this period featuring music which is far more difficult and, in some cases, more innovative. Yet without the music included here many of those bands would not have found an audience as this is the conduit to something a little more left-field. A well programmed (with the glaring exception of Quantum Jump), enjoyable reminder of what people really listened to in these groundbreaking years.
The thing is, that there is always a plethora of music surrounding us and most would probably not slavishly stick to the confines of one style. "The Edge Of The Seventies" acknowledges this and does a good job in providing some examples of each of its styles and types. Covering the period from 1977-80 this is what many call the golden age of the pop single. These are the ones from its cooler hinterlands.
Across 3 CDs there is the pre-punk, punk, new wave, post-punk, power pop, electronica, mod revial, goth, and good left-field pop. It's a pretty good summation of the kind of records people of the time would have in their record collections. The surprising thing is how many of them are hits. This is a collection of accessible music with the emphasis, most of the time, on melody as opposed to dischord. It's sometimes experimental but without actually challenging the ears of the listener too excessively. This is still, at its heart, a pop album. Many of the acts here did appear on Top Of The Pops.
This is an era which has been plundered and re-packaged more times than it is really reasonable to mention and so there are some usual compilation suspects here including "Teenage Kicks", "Babylon's Burning", "Roadrunner", and "Being Boiled" detracts slightly from the selections as they all tend to suffer from slight overuse. That said thre are a good number of tracks not usually found in these places which really do mark this out as something close to a more worthwhile purchase. Inspired inclusions include: "Transmission", "7Teen", "Broken English", "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass", "Time For Action", "TV", and "IEYA", some of which are not exactly easy to find in any other format.
As an example of the kind of music people really went out and purchased in this period, this is a pretty good apporximation of the times. There are other more challenging, brilliant groundbreaking documents of this period featuring music which is far more difficult and, in some cases, more innovative. Yet without the music included here many of those bands would not have found an audience as this is the conduit to something a little more left-field. A well programmed (with the glaring exception of Quantum Jump), enjoyable reminder of what people really listened to in these groundbreaking years.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
One of the best CDs of the era.
Dont think about getting it - just order it!
Your wont be disappointed.
Dont think about getting it - just order it!
Your wont be disappointed.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
The Edge of The Seventies
got what i paid for and more.not all of these are my genre of music so i will be kind.
nice collection with a few heavyweight punchers in there . Read more
nice collection with a few heavyweight punchers in there . Read more
Published 15 months ago by Patrick Pearson
Disappointing selection
This seems a little disappointing after the imaginative selection assembled for the sister compilation "Edge of the Eighties". Read more
Published on 2 Oct 2008 by Mr. J. H. Morris
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