Just like snorting coke or bondage, these songs are thrilling pleasures to be explored and enjoyed in secret. And there are hundreds and thousands of them. Start poking around in the dark holes of your mind and you’ll find a disc full without any effort. Add on snatches seeping in from radio, TV, background noise and micro memories from fucked up childhoods where music was the only refuge and theres even more songs from youthful days touched by the mysteries of pop. They mean everything yet nothing.
One
01 Englebert Humperdinck / The Last Waltz / August 1967
02 Mary Hopkins / Those Were The Days / September 1968
03 Ray Stevens / Everything Is Beautiful / May 1970
04 Dave & Ansil Collins / Double Barrel / March 1971
05 The Carpenters / Rainy Days and Mondays / May 1971
06 Greyhound / Black And White / June 1971
07 Cat Stevens / Morning Has Broken / January 1972
08 Yvonne Elliman / I Don’t Know How To Love Him / January 1972
09 The Strawbs / Lay Down / October 1972
10 Colin Blunstone / I Don’t Believe In Miracles / November 1972
11 Roger Daltrey / Giving It All Away / April 1973
12 The Hollies / Air That I Breathe / February 1974
13 Glitter Band / Angel Face / March 1974
14 Slade / Everyday / April 1974
15 The Rubettes / Sugar Baby Love / May 1974
16 Andy Kim / Rock Me Gently / August 1974
17 Ken Booth / Everything I Own / September 1974
18 Barry Manilow / Mandy / February 1975
19 Murray Head / Say It Ain’t So / June 1975
20 Peter Frampton / Baby I Love Your Way / September 1976
21 Boz Scaggs / Lowdown / October 1974
Two
01 Racing Cars / They Shoot Horses Don’t They / February 1977
02 Fleetwood Mac / Don’t Stop / April 1977
03 ELO / Telephone Line / May 1977
04 City Boy / 5.7.0.5. / July 1978
05 Foreigner / Cold As Ice / July 1978
06 Cheap Trick / I Want You To Want Me / May 1979
07 The Knack / My Sharona / June 1979
08 Supertramp / Goodbye Stranger / October 1979
09 The Korgis / Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime / May 1980
10 REO Speedwagon / Keep On Loving You / April 1981
11 Ten Pole Tudor / Swords Of A Thousand Men / April 1981
12 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts / I Love Rock’n’Roll / April 1982
13 Bonnie Tyler / Total Eclipse Of The Heart / February 1983
14 Nick Heyward / Whistle Down The Wind / March 1983
15 The Alarm / 68 Guns / September 1983
16 Dream Academy / Life In A Northern Town / March 1985
17 Art Of Noise / Robinson Crusoe / August 1987
18 Deacon Blue / Dignity / January 1988
19 Cher / Just Like Jesse James / January 1990
