Looking For The Magic American Power Pop In The Seventies 70s 3 Disc New CD

Looking For The Magic American Power Pop In The Seventies 70s 3 Disc New CD

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Comprehensive 3CD 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.

- Disc 1 - 1 Shakin' Street - MC5 2 Go Back - Crabby Appleton 3 Egg Carton Wall - the American Dream 4 We Gotta Get You a 5 Woman - Todd Rundgren 6 Moon Tears - Grin 7 Down on My Knees - Bread 8 You Tore My Down -Flamin' Groovies 9 To Be Your Friend - Sid 10 Bradley (Erik) 11 When My Baby's Beside Me 12 (Alternative Mix) - Big Star 13 Top of the City - Stories 14 It's My Life - the Wackers 15 I Like Girls (Bearsville Version) - Sparks 16 Abracadabra (Have You Seen Her?) - Blue Ash 17 Must Be Love - Bang 18 Friday on My Mind - Earth Quake 19 Play on - the Raspberries 20 I Don't Mind - Athanor 21 Some Kind of Jerk- Foxpass 22 Ahead of My Time - the Droogs 23 I Don't Want to Know -Nils Lofgren 24 Little Lost and Innocent-Milk 'N' Cookies 25 Rock and Roll Love Letter - Tim Moore 26 Government Center -Jonathan Richman 27 She Might Look My Way (Take 2) - Alex Chilton 28 Familiar Faces - Target 29 Last Night - Eric Carmen - Disc 2 - 1 American Nights - the Runaways 2 (Don't Fear) the Reaper 3 (Single Edit) - Blue Öyster Cult 3 Downtown Menagerie -Hollins Ferry 4 All in All* - Just Boys 5 When You Find Out - the Nerves 6 If You've Got the Time -The Babys 7 Lonely Boy - Andrew Gold 8 To Stay - John Scoggins 9 See No Evil - Television 10 I Trust You* - the Meyce 11 Oh, Candy (Single Mix) - Cheap Trick 12 Ridin' in My Car - NRBQ 13 Boys Don't Lie - Shoes 14 She Say Yea - the Scruffs 15 She's the One - Themarshalls 16 Love in Action - Utopia 17 Alright You Boys - Venus & the Razorblades 18 Looking for the Magic -Dwight Twilley Band 19 Ecstasy - Paley Brothers 20 Forgive and Forget -Marbles 21 All for the Love of Rock 22 And Roll - Tuff Darts 23 You, Yeah You - the Quick 24 New Year's Eve - Van Duren 25 Mind of My Own - the Leopards 26 Walk in the Rain - the Pop 27 Decline and Fall -Sneakers - Disc 3 - 1 My Best Friend's Girl - the Cars 2 Losing You to Sleep -Tommy Hoehn 3 The First One - Gary Valentine 4 Leave the Past Behind -The Moberlys 5 I Wanna Be Sedated -Ramones 6 Let Her Dance - Spitballs 7 You Just Don't Wanna 8 Know - Jules & the Polar Bears 9 Gotta Have Pop - Segarini 10 Say Girl - Robert Johnson 11 Come Back - Fotomaker 12 Don't Listen to Them - Bill Kern 13 Love Is Gonna Come at 14 Last - Badfinger 15 Drivin' Music - Rubinoos 16 Rendezvous - the Greg Kihn Band 17 Your Number or Your 18 Name - the Knack 19 Poly Vinyl - the Mumbles 20 Rolene - Moon Martin 21 Get 'Im Outa Town - the Laughing Dogs 22 She Don't Know Why I'm 23 Here (Album Version) - the Last 24 Slip Away - Ian Lloyd 25 Should Have Known 26 Better - Richard Lloyd 27 No More Heartbreaks* -The Names 28 She Said - Cheese 29 Cheri - 20/20