Looking for the Magic: American Power Pop in 70s: Looking For The Magic: American Power Pop In The Seventies / Various
Looking for the Magic: American Power Pop in 70s: Looking For The Magic: American Power Pop In The Seventies / Various
Format: CD
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Artist: Looking for the Magic: American Power Pop in 70s
Label: Grapefruit
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929193901
Genre: Rock
Comprehensive three CD overview of the American power pop scene's evolution throughout the 70s. Featuring the genre's major bands, cult names, hits, rari7es and several previously unissued tracks. Although the power pop genre wasn't named and codified until late 1977, the sound and spirit had been slowly gathering steam throughout the decade. Surrounded by heavy metal and introverted singer/songwriters, the likes of The Raspberries, Big Star, Blue Ash and The Wackers spearheaded an early 70s return to the spiky, three-minute pop urgency of the mid-60s British Invasion bands. While only The Raspberries charted, such bands established a musical template that was adopted by a new raft of slightly younger acts including the Dwight Twilley Band, The Rubinoos and Shoes. The tide had turned by the late 70s, with such names as Cheap Trick and The Cars achieving success as the American music industry embraced power pop as a radio-friendly alternative to punk. When The Knack emerged from nowhere to dominate the summer of 1979 with the single 'My Sharona' and the album 'Get The Knack', it was clear that the decade was ending with power pop established as a significant commercial proposition. A chronologically-arranged set, 'Looking For The Magic' traces power pop's development throughout the Seventies as largely unsuccessful bands were afforded cult status by the burgeoning grass-roots fanzine network that nurtured them. As well as featuring all of the aforementioned acts, we include the likes of Todd Rundgren, Flamin' Groovies, Sparks, Ramones and the USA-based 1979 revamp of Badfinger, one of the seminal prototypal power pop bands at the start of the decade. We also focus on a huge number of cult names and little-known acts, showcasing many tracks that were unissued at the time and even several cuts now gaining a first-ever release. Housed in a clamshell box that includes a heavily annotated and illustrated 48-page booklet, 'Looking For The Magic' is a fascinating, highly entertaining celebration of a genre that went under the radar for most of it's formative years.
Tracks:
1.1 Shakin' Street - MC5
1.2 Go Back - Crabby Appleton
1.3 Egg Carton Wall - the American Dream
1.4 We Gotta Get You a
1.5 Woman - Todd Rundgren
1.6 Moon Tears - Grin
1.7 Down on My Knees - Bread
1.8 You Tore My Down -Flamin' Groovies
1.9 To Be Your Friend - Sid
1.10 Bradley (Erik)
1.11 When My Baby's Beside Me
1.12 (Alternative Mix) - Big Star
1.13 Top of the City - Stories
1.14 It's My Life - the Wackers
1.15 I Like Girls (Bearsville Version) - Sparks
1.16 Abracadabra (Have You Seen Her?) - Blue Ash
1.17 Must Be Love - Bang
1.18 Friday on My Mind - Earth Quake
1.19 Play on - the Raspberries
1.20 I Don't Mind - Athanor
1.21 Some Kind of Jerk- Foxpass
1.22 Ahead of My Time - the Droogs
1.23 I Don't Want to Know -Nils Lofgren
1.24 Little Lost and Innocent-Milk 'N' Cookies
1.25 Rock and Roll Love Letter - Tim Moore
1.26 Government Center -Jonathan Richman
1.27 She Might Look My Way (Take 2) - Alex Chilton
1.28 Familiar Faces - Target
1.29 Last Night - Eric Carmen
2.1 American Nights - the Runaways
2.2 (Don't Fear) the Reaper
2.3 (Single Edit) - Blue Öyster Cult 3 Downtown Menagerie -Hollins Ferry
2.4 All in All* - Just Boys
2.5 When You Find Out - the Nerves
2.6 If You've Got the Time -The Babys
2.7 Lonely Boy - Andrew Gold
2.8 To Stay - John Scoggins
2.9 See No Evil - Television
2.10 I Trust You* - the Meyce
2.11 Oh, Candy (Single Mix) - Cheap Trick
2.12 Ridin' in My Car - NRBQ
2.13 Boys Don't Lie - Shoes
2.14 She Say Yea - the Scruffs
2.15 She's the One - Themarshalls
2.16 Love in Action - Utopia
2.17 Alright You Boys - Venus ; the Razorblades
2.18 Looking for the Magic -Dwight Twilley Band
2.19 Ecstasy - Paley Brothers
2.20 Forgive and Forget -Marbles
2.21 All for the Love of Rock
2.22 And Roll - Tuff Darts
2.23 You, Yeah You - the Quick
2.24 New Year's Eve - Van Duren
2.25 Mind of My Own - the Leopards
2.26 Walk in the Rain - the Pop
2.27 Decline and Fall -Sneakers
3.1 My Best Friend's Girl - the Cars
3.2 Losing You to Sleep -Tommy Hoehn
3.3 The First One - Gary Valentine
3.4 Leave the Past Behind -The Moberlys
3.5 I Wanna Be Sedated -Ramones
3.6 Let Her Dance - Spitballs
3.7 You Just Don't Wanna
3.8 Know - Jules ; the Polar Bears
3.9 Gotta Have Pop - Segarini
3.10 Say Girl - Robert Johnson
3.11 Come Back - Fotomaker
3.12 Don't Listen to Them - Bill Kern
3.13 Love Is Gonna Come at
3.14 Last - Badfinger
3.15 Drivin' Music - Rubinoos
3.16 Rendezvous - the Greg Kihn Band
3.17 Your Number or Your
3.18 Name - the Knack
3.19 Poly Vinyl - the Mumbles
3.20 Rolene - Moon Martin
3.21 Get 'Im Outa Town - the Laughing Dogs
3.22 She Don't Know Why I'm
3.23 Here (Album Version) - the Last
3.24 Slip Away - Ian Lloyd
3.25 Should Have Known
3.26 Better - Richard Lloyd
3.27 No More Heartbreaks* -The Names
3.28 She Said - Cheese
3.29 Cheri - 20/20
