The ’70s can get tarred with being the decade of glam rock by people who think glam rock must always be naff. No such luck for The Kinks manager Robert Wace, who had his unfortunate encounter immortalised in what would become one of the band’s most iconic songs. Spending the night flirting with and romancing a lady who turned out to be a man in a dress might be something that most men would try to sweep under the carpet. Their seminal cover of Dandy Livingstone’s 1967 rocksteady track showed they could skank along gaily with the most light-hearted of them, and as one of the key tracks on their 1979 debut album, this was a turning point for the blooming 2Tone label. It wasn’t all unemployed grimness in ghost towns round The Specials’ way. 89 The Specials – ‘A Message To You Rudy’ It remains an effervescent festival favourite to this day. Originally a B-side from Jamaican artist Prince Buster, ‘One Step Beyond’ was turned into a hit by Madness, who as pioneers of the British ska scene, remade it as a giddy runaround jam. Looking back on one the most thrilling journeys in music history, Macca sounds sentimental and weatherbeaten, a man finding peace, and the song is one of the warmest and fuzziest of the decade.
#Top quiet storm songs of 70s skin#
The Beatles nudge into the ’70s by the skin of their career, and we find McCartney at his most McCartneyish for the band’s swansong. Musically a more mature strain of post-punk, but not lacking in his signature bile, here was a lacerating attack on what he saw as his exploitation at the hands of Malcolm McLaren.ĩ1 The Beatles – ‘The Long And Winding Road’ In which the former Johnny Rotten did the unthinkable at the time and reinvented himself in an outfit just as compelling as the Sex Pistols.
Although rather less catchy than the Ash track of the same name. Their third record ‘Tago Mago’ is described as their most extreme, but this has stood the test of time as one their most beloved. Ari Up makes a simple, direct, but biting attack on the perceived attitudes to femininity, at once offering up a delicious and mischievous alternative.Īs the 70s hit their stride, Cologne’s krautrock pioneers evolved into more expressive and extreme forms of jazz-inflected sound.
The zippy and infectious signature tune from the definitive female force of the punk rock scene. It was very quickly acknowledged as a classic. This oriental-flavoured day-glo riot proved she had the personality and musical muscle to forge a career that would outlast and outgrow the scene that she came from.
Siouxsie Sioux proved herself as far more than a scenester from punk’s notorious ‘Bromley Contingent’. Casting herself as tragic heroine Cathy from Emily Bronte’s gothic romance, perhaps the reason so few pop songs are based on classic novels is that they’d have to live up to this.ĩ5 Siouxsie And The Banshees – ‘Hong Kong Garden’ Serene, pristine and deranged, nobody should underestimate quite how shocking it was when the teenaged Bush emerged to the world with this haunting piano melodrama of her own creation. Imploring his girlfriend not to cry with the promise that things were going to get better, its hypnotic charm make it one of the best-loved of Bob’s catalogue. Bob Marley & The Wailers – ‘No Woman, No Cry’īob at his lilting best, looking back at his impoverished past in the ghettos of Trench Town in Jamaica.
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