Content tagged as have a nice decade.
The Apples in Stereo: Travellers in Space and Time (YepRoc/Southbound)
This will be brief: I never much cared for ELO back in the day and I still don't like them in this guise of Apples in Stereo on this over-long (16 tracks), Vocoder-splattered, ironically Seventies referencing, vaguely conceptual album about human and robots and space travel.
Seventies pop for those who either haven't heard it before, or who...
> music/3083/the-apples-in-stereo-travellers-in-space-and-time-yeproc-southbound/
Freda Payne: Band of Gold/Contact/Reaching Out (Edsel/Triton)
Although it was slightly ambiguous about who had failed on the wedding night, it is Freda who says her new husband should come back and "love me like you tried before".
And so we might guess . . .
This was interesting and slightly saucy stuff -- was he gay or impotent? -- but the sexy Payne from Detroit turned it into a hit...
> music/2908/freda-payne-band-of-gold-contact-reaching-out-edsel-triton/
John Morales: The M&M Mixes (BBE)
Recently I have been reading some interesting political histories of disco: how anti-gay and anti-black elements (notably in white radio and rock culture) conspired to kill the music, and how the combination of cocaine, money and the hijacking of the culture by the Studio 54 types ripped the music away from its roots.
When all those factors...
> music/2874/john-morales-the-mandm-mixes-bbe/
PET ROCKS AND PUNK ROCK: Have A Nice Decade; The '70s Pop Culture Box considered
It might have been famously "the decade that taste forgot", but the Seventies has spawned an interesting nostalgia for smiley faces (on e-mails!), terrific films such as Dazed and Confused . . . and this extraordinary box set of seven CDs which unflinchingly collects up the great (James Brown's The Payback, Freda Payne's Band of Gold...
> absoluteelsewhere/2732/pet-rocks-and-punk-rock-have-a-nice-decade-the-70s-pop-culture-box-considered/
