The CDRGO! Project has been putting together a series of yearly CDRs, in which the object is to fill up a 700MB CDR with mp3s of songs released in a given year. There’s no other guidelines – some folks went with hits, some with obscurity, some with both. I volunteered to do 1973 and here’s how it went:
- The Electric Company, “Third Season Theme”
- Alice Cooper, “Hello Hooray”
- CKLW radio babble – FM converter ad
- Queen, “Keep Yourself Alive”
- Black Sabbath, “Killing Yourself To Live”
- Blue Oyster Cult, “Hot Rails To Hell”
- Zior, “Entrance Of The Devil-The Chicago Spine”
- New York Dolls, “Jet Boy”
- David Bowie, “Watch That Man”
- The Stooges, “Gimme Danger”
- ZZ Top, “Jesus Just Left Chicago”
- Shocking Blue, “In My Time Of Dying”
- Joe Walsh, “Rocky Mountain Way”
- Franco Battiato, “Aria di Rivoluzione”
- Don Cherry, “Trans-Love Airways”
- Neu!, “Fur Immer (Forever)”
- Faust, “Krautrock”
- Area, “Le Labbra Del Tempo”
- Magma, “Mekanik Kommandoh”
- Ocho, “En Tropicana”
- Rare Earth, “Smiling Faces Sometimes”
- Jerry Reed, “Lord Mr. Ford”
- Charlie Daniels Band, “Uneasy Rider”
- Electric Light Orchestra, “Showdown”
- Pink Floyd, “Us And Them”
- Kevin Ayers, “Decadence”
- Fleetwood Mac, “Hypnotized”
- Al Kooper, “(Be Yourself) Be Real”
- Todd Rundgren, “Zen Archer”
- The Kinks, “Sweet Lady Genevieve”
- ABBA, “Ring, Ring”
- Deep Purple, “Woman From Tokyo”
- The Who, “Sea And Sand”
- Genesis, “Dancing With The Moonlit Knight”
- Amon Duul II, “Apocalyptic Bore”
- Roxy Music, “Mother Of Pearl”
- King Crimson, “Easy Money”
- Vicki Lawrence, “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia”
- Dolly Parton, “Jolene”
- Charlie Rich, “Behind Closed Doors”
- Beach Boys, “Trader”
- Golden Earring, “Radar Love”
- Slade, “Cum On Feel The Noize”
- Little Feat, “On Your Way Down”
- Roy Harper, “Bank Of The Dead”
- Serge Gainsbourg, “Des Vents Des Pets Des Poums”
- Scott Walker, “Any Day Now”
- Stealers Wheel, “Stuck In The Middle With You”
- Kris Kristofferson, “From The Bottle To The Bottom”
- Lee Hazlewood, “Poet, Fool Or Bum”
- Buffy Sainte-Marie, “Why You Been Gone So Long”
- Marie Osmond, “Paper Roses”
- Roberta Flack, “Killing Me Softly With His Song”
- Lou Reed, “The Bed”
- John Cale, “The Endless Plain Of Fortune”
- Sandy Denny, “Solo”
- “Live And Let Die” movie radio spot
- Johnny Pate, “Brother On The Run (Opening)”
- Herbie Hancock, “The Spook Who Sat by the Door”
- James Brown, “Down And Out In New York City”
- New York City, “I’m Doin Fine Now”
- “Willow’s Song” from The Wicker Man soundtrack
- PFM, “Photos Of Ghosts”
- Bruce Springsteen, “Incident on 57th Street”
- Tangerine Dream, “Circulation Of Events”
- Agitation Free, “Dialogue And Random”
- Gabriel And Marie Yacoub, “Pierre de Grenoble”
- Gong, “Other Side Of The Sky”
- Mike Oldfield, “Tubular Bells Part 1”
- KFRC radio babble “Mick Jagger car giveaway”
- The Rolling Stones, “Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)”
- Eloy, “Future City”
- Neil Young, “L.A.”
- Steely Dan, “My Old School”
- Joao Donato, “Chorou, Chorou”
- TM Productions, Interkey promo spot
- Nazareth, “Razmanaz”
- Rory Gallagher, “Walk On Hot Coals”
- Hawkwind, “Orgone Accumulator”
- Can, “Future Days”
- David Essex, “Rock On”
- Ann Peebles, “I Can’t Stand The Rain”
- Sly And The Family Stone, “In Time”
- Betty Davis, “Game Is My Middle Name”
- Suzi Quatro, “Skin Tight Skin”
- Sylvia, “Pillow Talk”
- Jimmy Cliff, “Struggling Man”
- Stevie Wonder, “Living For The City”
- Donny Hathaway, “The Slums”
- 24-Carat Black, “Food Stamps”
- Fela Kuti, “Alu Jon Jonki Jon”
- Kraftwerk, “Kristallo”
- Leny Andrade, “Nao Adianta”
- Risken Finns, “Barnen Fragar Annu Efter Dig”
- Lucio Battisti, “Ma E’ Un Canto Brasileiro”
- The Gimmicks, “Att Fa Resa”
- Tom Waits, “Martha”
- Gladys Knight And The Pips, “Midnight Train To Georgia”
- Sweet, “Little Willy”
- Brownsville Station, “Let Your Yeah Be Yeah”
- Johnny Cash, “Oney”
- Alan Price, “Look Over Your Shoulder”
Threw together a cover too. Hooray for 1970s retrofuture! (and microgramma font)
