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Acceptable in the 70s

  • June 19, 2008
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Tim in our office has a theory (which we may well have mis­un­der­stood) that while iPod cuture could have decimated com­pil­a­tion culture, the instant avail­ab­il­ity of all music ever and the over­whelm­ing choice at all of our fin­ger­tips could even­tu­ally make com­pil­a­tion albums more essential than ever.

Sometimes you don't want a shuffle — all you want is for someone to do the work for you and surprise you with some amazing tunes.

From its title '70s Dinner Party' could easily have been just another infuri­at­ingly ironic, so-bad-it's‑good effort for the Justin Lee Collins gen­er­a­tion but the triple CD sidesteps the obvious choices and oozes warmth and affection. It's been on the office stereo every day for the last week and we have been seriously con­sid­er­ing buying two extra stereo systems, putting one CD in each and super­glu­ing each drawer shut, ensuring that nothing but '70s Dinner Party' is ever played.

The best portion of the 54-track blowout is the middle of CD3, which goes like this.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO549tEGgRI

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iiryJwvDtc

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzoPBrZNVnw

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9b7CgTIRKU

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLPgKdDMpsU

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMfkESB1Z0M

In fact all that's missing is a bit of Racey, but you can't have everything.

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