Where was the NME 'at' in 1975, going by this eccentric selection?

By the looks of it half of them had got into reggae and the rest were still listening to old crap.

King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown for me. I like all the reggae stuff here, the rest is crap though.

Crap? Young Americans?

Youtube Bowie's performance of this on the Dick Cavett show immediately!

You're right. I'm a huge Bowie fan. Although Young Americans not one of my favourite 70's albums of his.

I voted Young Americans too. A great song, apart from the line, "Is there a woman I can sock on the jaw". Boo!

Voted for Marley - been listening to a lot of his stuff lately.

Not that theres much to choose from - not a classic year it seems! :huh:

Very chart-led, weren't they, in those days? Even to the extent of including a song from 1972, Steely Dan's 'Do It Again', which had been a modest UK hit as a re-release in '75.

I'm surprised they liked 'I'm Not In Love' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody' so much, too. I can remember 1975 very well, and those songs were ubiqitous to the point of nausea.

Tempted to vote for Pete Wingfield's 18 With A Bullet at number 16 - for the irony.
Went for Shirley & Company Shame Shame Shame - for the incongruity.

Young Americans is my favorite Bowie single, followed closely by Fame (featuring Lennon of course). I'm Not In Love is a classic 70's pop record. The production was amazing.

And wasn't Love Hurts by Nazareth?

The only songs I didn't know by 1975 are two of the very best: King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown and Welding. :huh:

Tempted to go for Augustus Pablo, but I picked the title track from Young Americans. That album is most likely Bowie's oddest from the 70s. However it's one of my faves, might even come up on top.

Nazareth's version of that song was a couple of years later.

Susan Cadogan - that is such a great tune, though Pablo's elpee is possibly in the top ten best ever.

I've not heard of many of these and yes, the comments here, and the fact I've not heard many of them does suggest many are crap.

1. No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley & The Wailers

good stuff :)

2. I'm Not In Love - 10cc

good, but I always preferred 'I'm Mandy Fly Me' :applaud: - *that* was their masterpiece for me :).

3. Shame Shame Shame - Shirley & Co.

Brill! <stranger starts dancing round the office. Or wishes he could>

4. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Used to dislike it / found it overrated. I've warmed to it a bit more over the years, yes good stuff.

6. Fame - David Bowie

Not one of my biggest favourite Bowie ones, but good yes.

7. Young Americans - David Bowie

Ditto, but better.

14. Hurt So Good - Susan Cadogan

Very good, but wasn't it done by someone else first? Unless I'm getting mixed up with another song. :unsure:

18. Love Hurts - Jim Capaldi

Didn't like this so much at first, having preferred Nazareth's version (and later
Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris' version). However bright and breezy, good fun. A lot of white soul by then wasn't there? Bowie, Bryan Ferry, Elton, Jim here...

Hmm, going to shuffle along to vote for Shame Shame Shame today (incidentally one of the Bowie biographers reckoned the 'Fame, Fame, Fame' chorus bit was nicked from this by Bowie and Lennon... :whistle: )

Jim Gilstrap for me, with the Bowie songs trailing not far behind (trust me guys, even to a 12 year old, the Nixon and woman bashing references were considered somewhat IRONIC. Just cos it's old don't mean it was serious, young dudes).

Anyways this is very subjective. I'm talking about how just hearing the keyboards in Gilstrap's songs makes me feel: an awful lot (experiences of people and places and early complex adolescent feelings) is attached to simple stuff like that. I couldnt be objective about it now, and don't want to be.

Lucas and Coppola did American Graffitti around the time, and it was about what adolescence was like when we were born. A lot of people dont like this film now, but at the time, it was a snapshot of a drama set in one night that was very 70s despite its setting and soundtrack in that it wasnt about hope, it was about surviving when you knew the best you had to look forward to was not staying in the same place, and with a little luck your friends would stay by you.

Lucas went off to indulge his quasi-religious space westerna and other crap and Coppola continued to create a tempate for much serious American drama to follow (even though he ran out of steam himself pretty quickly).

A grim time.

I am the only one who voted for the Sir Douglas Quintet. :nahnah:

labelle - lady marmalade

the moment when i realised you don't need to rock

:)