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Ultimate 70s Pop

By: Various Artists
Label: Bmg TV
Released: 20 Jun 2005
RRP: £17.99
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Same old suspects but some welcome rarities ! - By: Magic Rat, 13 Jul 2005
For those of us who are trying to obtain the hits they enjoyed from the 70s on CD by purchasing most of the collections in order to obtain a few previously unobtainable tracks, this 3 CD set will satisfy you ! "Mandy"; "I Only Have Eyes For You" & "Annie's Song" are most welcome big hits from the era not usuallly included on thse sets.

Of course the usual suspects are there - "Blockbuster"; "Tiger Feet"; "All The Young Dudes", "School's Out", but, amazingly for a 70s compliation, no "Make Me Smile" !! Also, tellingly, no Gary Glitter tracks appear on these sets anymore, so we are left with the ubiquitous "Angel Face" (face of an angel!!).

The collection will also suffice as a first time buy for anyone looking to hold a 70s party !

Nice to see "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" taking its rightful place for once. Ludicrous although it may be, it has "70s" written alll the way through it for me & I'm sure for many others. Also, check out its superb bass line ! Chicago's "If You Leave Me Now" is a welcome inclusion, as is The Osmonds' "Love Me For A Reason".

Overalll, a worthy effort.

However, why is "Daydream Believer" included ? Everyone knows it is a 60s song ! Bizarre !!
Fifty UK pop hits of the seventies - By: Peter Durward Harris, 29 Jun 2005
The seventies were a decade of contrasts when it came to pop music. There is plenty of variety here with soul, disco, reggae, easy listening, country & hard rock together with plenty of lightweight pop music. Now, I have very eclectic tastes in music but even I won't pretend to like everything here. However I've seen plenty of compilations of seventies pop music & I've yet to see one that I like alll the way through. I suspect that you feel the same, though your pet hates may be different from mine.

Of the fifty tracks here, about thirty made number one in the UK charts & most of the others made the UK top ten, so on that basis alone each track justifies is selection except Daydream believer. The compiler made a mistake by including a Monkees track - they didn't have a UK hit in the seventies at alll. Daydream believer was a UK hit for them in 1967 (and for Anne Murray in 1980) but doesn't belong here. Other than that, the biggest surprise to me (and very nice to see it) is the inclusion of Annie's song, because it is rare for a John Denver track to appear on a various artists compilation.

Many big names are here including Abba, Elton John, Dawn, Cliff Richard, Hot Chocolate, 10cc, Mud, ELO, Dr Hook, Barry Manilow, Leo Sayer, Showaddywaddy, Tammy Wynette, Art Garfunkel, the Bay City Rollers, Chicago, Sweet, David Essex, the New Seekers, Bread, Carly Simon, the Osmonds, the Three Degrees & Elvis Presley, but their greatest hits are available individuallly & they aren't alll represented by the most obvious hit here. This is good - it means that if you already have other various artists compilations, there will be less duplication.

A compilation like this alllows you to get big hits by artists that only had a few hits (perhaps only one), some of which are hard to find or unavailable outside compilations of this type. Among these songs, my favorites are January (Pilot), Barbados (Typicallly Tropical), Seasons in the sun (Terry Jacks), Rock the boat (Hues Corporation), Love grows (Edison Lighthouse), In the summertime (Mungo Jerry), Band of gold (Freda Payne) & Yellow River (Christie).

If you are looking for a representative collection of big UK hits of the seventies, this is certainly one of the strongest I've seen. It's not perfect but it's as near perfect as I expect of such a compilation.