Living in the 70's explained

Living in the 70's
Type:studio
Artist:Skyhooks
Cover:livingin70s.jpg
Released:7 October 1974
Recorded:June 1974
Studio:TCS Studios, Melbourne
Genre:Rock, glam rock
Length:38:48
Label:Mushroom
Producer:Ross Wilson
Next Title:Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
Next Year:1975

Living in the 70's is the debut album by Melbourne band Skyhooks. Released in October 1974 on the Mushroom Records label, the album achieved relatively little success until early 1975. It spent 16 weeks at the top of the Australian album charts from late February 1975, and became the highest-selling album by an Australian act in Australia until that time, with sales of over 330,000.[1] In October 2010, it was listed at No. 9 in the book 100 Best Australian Albums.[2] The album's eponymous track was ranked number 72 as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time ranking.[3]

Details

The album was produced by former Daddy Cool lead singer Ross Wilson. Macainsh later said, "We didn't know what to expect and to what extent we'd have to do things over and over. Ross was a tough producer but he knew what he wanted. The way we recorded it was pretty much the band playing live. We'd been playing those songs live for a while, and that's what we were aiming to get."[4]

The artwork (external front and back, and internal gatefold) was painted by Niels Hutchison.

Two singles were lifted from the album: "Livin' in the 70's", which was released with a non-LP track, "You're a Broken Gin Bottle, Baby", included as track 11 on the 2004 CD remaster; and "Horror Movie"/"Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)". The latter spent 2 weeks at the top of the Australian singles chart in 1975. Six tracks from the album were banned on commercial radio in Australia; in defiance of this, however, the ABC's new youth station in Sydney, 2JJ, played the track "You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good in Bed" as its first ever song when it began broadcasting in January 1975.

In 2011 the album featured at number 75 on the Triple J Hottest 100 Albums of All Time.[5] In the same year, the album was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry.[6]

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for Living in the 70's!Chart (1974–1975)!Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart[7] 1

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for Living in the 70's!Chart (1975)!Position
Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart1

Notes and References

  1. Australia - Explosive Talent Gains Temper Year of playing Dangerously. Billboard. Glen A.. Baker. World Radio History. A-3. 28 May 1983. 10 November 2021.
  2. Book: . O'Donnell . John . John O'Donnell (music journalist) . Creswell . Toby . Toby Creswell . Mathieson . Craig . Craig Mathieson . Hardie Grant Books . October 2010 . . 978-1-74066-955-9 .
  3. News: Musicfeeds. Here Are The Songs That Made Triple M's 'Ozzest 100'. 4 January 2020. 27 January 2018.
  4. News: . Rock of Ages. Peter Holmes. 1 November 1998.
  5. Web site: Countdown - All 100 | Hottest 100 Australian Albums Of All Time | triple j . Abc.net.au . 2011-01-28 . 2012-02-29.
  6. National Film and Sound Archive: 'Living in the 70s' on the Sounds of Australia registry
  7. Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book Ltd. St Ives, NSW. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.

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