Once again, at the time of writing ‘Love is Blind’ has amassed the ridiculously small figure of 3,360 Spotify plays, and I can’t figure out how that’s possible let alone fair. The battered sleeve offers precious little information and there’s nothing much online either, except a tour poster where their name features alongside Carole King and James Taylor. If anyone knows who Jo Mama are then please provide some answers on a postcard? And if perchance you somehow know them then please let them know that they’re still appreciated. This record was a lucky find in that bin of condemned second-handers that you often find in the back corner of a record shop. When the Blossom Toes broke up, guitarist Brian Godding and bassist Brian Belshaw were joined by Godding’s sister-in-law Julie Driscoll on vocals as well as Kevin Westlake on drums to turn out some of the most quintessentially ‘70s guitar music that there is. King. The band are an almost unknown off-shoot of the Blossom Toes, an underground British rock act from the ‘60s. Blunder receive 15 monthly listens on Spotify and about 14 of those are from me, presumably the other one comes from someone who was searching for B.B. The 100 most underrated songs of the 1970s: 100. You can catch a playlist of these ‘hits-that-never-were’ at the bottom of the piece (NB not all of the listed tracks are on Spotify). Hopefully, there are some tracks in here that you haven’t heard before or at least interesting songs of old, but ultimately, I simply hope they are all appreciated for the gems that they are. In this special compilation edition of our Unlucky for Some feature, we’re looking at the 1970s as a whole. With everybody absorbed in the giant glut of the gleaming mainstream, it was easy for the meek, peculiar or otherwise indisposed to fall through the cracks and remain shackled to the back rooms of history. Now, however, these lesser-known epics have been heroically summoned from the slumber of the ‘70s underworld to finally present these perennial bridesmaids as the brides they were born to be. This waywardness and the notion that the shackles were descending, and things were getting stilted scattered music off in all directions. The dream succeeded more than many would give credit to, however, the ‘70s had to find their feet in a flash as the embers of counterculture waned. The latter half of the 1960s saw the explosion of the pop-culture dream rally against the onset of societal tragedies. In short, it was the great decade of art in history. It saw Joni Mitchell make everybody cry with the folk explosion’s last hurrah on Blue, Californian rock ‘n’ roll went out in style with LA Woman, and the emergence of new masters on albums like London’s Calling, Marquee Moon, Paranoid, Horses, Rumours and an endless string of others. It was the decades that saw David Bowie unleash a constant swirl of singular masterpieces and inspire millions with his creative character studies. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).The 1970s: It was the decade that punk and disco landed like a bludgeon against the bourgeoise stronghold on the arts as virtuosity made way for music of attitude and individualism. Anthem5.O Pato6.Samba Soul7.Spacious Thoughts8.The Mayor9.There's A Party10.Whachadoin?Nasa Lyrics provided by Get the embed code Nasa - The Spirit Of Apollo Album Lyrics1.A .A.S.A Music4.N.A.S.A. With mics in hand, we'll stand against the test of time I will not be accountable for what comes out uhĬall to the club, tell them add to the guest list
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