It’s hard to imagine an album that successfully encompasses (without ommission) a whole decade in music. It’s a tougher task to mash one.
If the Sixties with it’s vast social upheaval was the benchmark for everything that came after it in the youth movement; and if the Eighties was it’s spoilt materialistic little brother, the seventies was the troubled middle child; Caught between the desire to want to fit in and be loved by its’ older, wiser sibling, and wanting to rebel and turn its back on everything that came before it.
Yes, The seventies was a musically troubled decade. The first half of the decade was a continuation of the sixties ideals of love and peace, but also a cynical decline - As John Lennon sang “the dream was over”, Most of the original rock rebels either died from excess or retired to their Los Angeles’ mansions to take drugs and generally churn out increasingly dire progressive Rock. It’s second half was dominated by a nihilistic movement to smash everything that came before it, whilst at the same time looking to the original Rock and Roll movement of the fifties for inspiration.
Yet if most people think of the seventies, it’s almost always this first half that comes to mind because of the outrageous fashions. The Handlebar moustache, long hair, platforms, Disco and Glam. This was the decade that gave us Punk Rock - the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and Wire. This was the decade that gave us Bob Marley, David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Abba and Elton John.
Most of us have probably still never forgiven it for the last one.
So this brings us nicely onto the new BBI Compilation - Blame it on the Bootie. With such an evocative “Jackson 5″ name you’lld be forgiven for thinking that it was a predominantly disco album, and you’lld be wrong. Bar Miss Frenchie’s pop blending of the ubiquotous Britney with the Doobie Brothers, and Celebrity Murder Party’s mash of a seventies novelty disco album with some distincly 90’s esque Drum and bass, the 70’s disco cliche is refreshingly absent.
Instead we have an Electro house version of The Temptations by the Illuminoids, a Pop monster in MP3J’s take on the pussycat dolls vs Roxy Music, Icky’s “smoove” R’n’B take on Bob Marley’s “I shot the sherrif”, Johnny Red’s update of ZZ top, of all people, Useo and CMP’s shouty version of “Sirens” by Dizzee Rascal, grafted over 1,2,X,U by Wire and even The Who Boys’ cheeky rendition of Status Quo - “Beat Caroline”. And the list doesn’t end there.
Yes, it’s hard in just 13 tracks to take on the whole of the seventies, but this is still an accomplished compilation that steers clear of anything too obvious and guides us in the right direction to aural ecstasy.
Presented in 2 halves, the first shows the more aggressive side of the 70’s and Side B shows it’s calmer, poppier side.
Tracklisting:
Side A
Who Boys - Beat Caroline
CMP - Love to Sex Me Pacman
The Illuminoids - Read my Rolling Stone
CMP vs Useo - 1,2, Sirens U
Budtheweiser - Root Down in Babylon
DJ Le Clown - Get back under my Wheels
Side B
Miss Frenchie - Me vs the Doobie Brothers
Icky - Remember Hip Hop Swinging
MP3J - Doncha Love Drug
Guv’nor - Dre, the Big Boss Man
Icky - Sherrif Hotel
Mad Martigan - Mama for My name
Johnny Red - ZZ Top vs the Game
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I DO HOPE THIS CAN MAKE THE FRONT PAGE OF TOTALLY CRAP LIKE THE SUMMER BOOTY ALBUM DID.... I KNOW IT DESERVES IT
ICKY
