10: Your 1975-79 track faves - One track per album

This is the tenth topic in a series with one track per album for a set of given years. In this it is one track per album for the years 1975 through 1979. I hope to see some of your favourite tracks from those years (a long or short list). I wish I had decided to cover fewer years as it was hard not letting my list get very long, and there are many more to mention.

ABBA "Eagle" (the Album, 1977, Progressive Pop)
Anna Själv Tredje "Tusen år & sju timmar" (Tussilago Fanfara. 1977, Progressive Electronic)
Arachnoïd "La guêpe" (Arachnoïd, 1979, Prog)
Archaïa "Soleil noir" (Archaïa, 1977, Zeuhl)

Area "Megalopoli" (Crac!, 1975, Avant-Prog, Jazz-Rock)
Area "Gerontocrazia" (Maledetti, 1976, Avant-Prog)
Area "Ici on Dance!" (1978 gli dei se ne vanno, gli arrabbiati restano!, 1978, Avant Jazz-Rock)

Art Bears "Three Wheels" (Winter Songs, 1979, R.I.O.)

Art Zoyd "Les Fourmis" (Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités, 1976, RIO)
Art Zoyd "Bruit, silence - Bruit, repos" (Musique pour l'Odyssée, 1979, RIO)

Ashra "Nightdust" (New Age of Earth, 1977, Electronic)
Robbie Basho "Orphan's Lament" (Visions of the Country, 1978, Folk)
Bauhaus "Bela Lugosi's Dead" (Bela Lugosi's Dead / Boys, 1979, Gothic Rock, Post-Punk)
Besombes-Rizet "Haute pression" (Pôle, 1975, Progressive Electronic)

David Bowie "Wild Is the Wind" (Station to Station, 1976)
David Bowie "Warszawa" (Low, 1977, Art Rock)
David Bowie "Heroes" ("Heroes", 1977, Art Rock)
David Bowie "Move On" (Lodger, Art Rock, 1979)

Bubu "El viaje de Anabelas" (Anabelas, 1978, Prog)

Kate Bush "The Man With the Child in His Eyes" (The Kick Inside, 1978, Art Pop/Rock)
Kate Bush "Wow" (Lionheart, 1978, Art/Progressive Pop)

Camel "La princesse perdue" (The Snow Goose, 1975, Symph Prog)
Carol of Harvest "Somewhere at the End of our Rainbow (Carol of Harvest, 1978, Prog Folk)
Carpe Diem "Publiphobie" (En regardant passer le temps, 1975, Symph Prog)
Circus "Movin' On" (Movin' On, 1977, Prog Jazz-Rock)
Clearlight "1st Mouvement" (Clearlight Symphony, 1975, Symph Prog, Electronic)
Clivage "Mixtus Orbis" (Mixtus Orbis, 1978, Raga Rock, Indo-Jazz)
Codona "Codona" (Codona, 1979, Jazz Fusion, Indo Jazz)
Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho "Trilha de Sume (Pt 1)" (Paêbirú, 1975)
Cortex "Troupeau bleu" (Troupeau Bleu, 1975, Jazz-Funk/Pop)

Cos "Cocalnut" (Postaeolian Train Robbery, 1975, Canterbury Sound)
Cos "L'idiot Leon" (Viva Boma, 1976, Canterbury Sound)
Cos "Mein Maschine ist schön" (Babel, 1978, Canterbury Sound)

Eno "Sombre Reptiles" (Another Green World, 1975, Ambient Art Rock)
Far East Family Band "Kokoro" (Parallel World, 1976, Psych)
André Fertier "Mama Swat" (Clivage, 1977, Jazz-Fusion, Raga Rock)

Focus "Bennie Helder" (Mother Focus, 1975, Prog)
Focus "Red Sky at Night" (Ship of Memories, 1976, Prog)

Edgar Froese "Epsilon in Malaysian Pale" (Epsilon in Malaysian Pale, 1975, Berlin School)
Peter Gabriel "Solsbury Hill" (Car, 1977, Art Rock)

Geinoh Yamashirogumi "Osorezan" (Osorezan / Dou no Kenbai, 1976, Avant/Psych Folk/Rock)
Geinoh Yamashirogumi "Gassho Kariboshi-Kiriuta" (Yamato Gensho, 1977, Japanese Folk, Choral)

Genesis "Ripples" (A Trick of the Tail, 1976, Symph Prog)
Genesis "Blood on the Rooftops" (Wind & Wuthering, 1976, Symph Prog)

John Greaves/Peter Blegvad/Lisa Herman "Kew. Rhone." (Kew. Rhone, 1977, Avant-Prog, Canterbury)
Gryphon "(Ein Klein) Heldenleben" (Raindance, 1975, Progressive Folk/Rock)

Gentle Giant "His Last Voyage" (Free Hand, 1975, Prog)
Gentle Giant "I Lost My Head" (Interview, 1976, Prog)

Goblin "Profondo rosso" (Profondo Rosso, 1974, film score)
Goblin "Il risveglio del serpente" (Roller, 1976, Prog)
Goblin "Main Theme" (Suspiria, 1977, film score)

Nina Hagen Band "Naturtrane" (Nina Hagen Band, 1978, Deutschrock)

Peter Hammill "Pompei" (Nadir's Big Chance, 1975, Art Rock)
Peter Hammill "(On Tuesday She Used To Do) Yoga" (Over, 1977, Art Rock, Singer-Songwriter)

Harmonia "Deluxe" (Deluxe, 1975. Krautrock, Electronic)
Hatfield and the North "Mumps" (The Rotters' Club, 1975, Canterbury Scene)
Hawkwind "Spiral Galaxy 24968" (Warrior on the Edge of Time, 1975, Space Rock)

Heldon "Perspective I" (Agneta Nilsson, 1976, Prog Electronic)
Heldon "Marie Virginie C." (Un rêve sans conséquence spéciale, 1976, Prog Electronic)
Heldon "Interface" (Interface, 1977, Progressive Electronic)
Heldon "Une drôle de journée" (Stand By, 1979)

Eddie Henderson "Galaxy" (Sunburst, 1975, Jazz-Funk)

Henry Cow (Beautiful as the Moon - Terrible as an Army With Banners, 1975, Avant)
Henry Cow "Falling Away" (Western Culture, 1979, R.I.O.)

Michael Hoenig "Sun and Moon" (Departure From the Northern Wasteland, 1978, Berlin School)

Haruomi Hosono & Tadanori Yokoo "Madam Consul General Of Madras" (Cochin Moon, 1978, Electronic Exotica)
Island "Herold and King / Dloreh" (Pictures, 1977, Prog)

Jean Michel Jarre "Oxygène (Part 2)" (Oxygène, 1976, Electronic)
Jean Michel Jarre "Equinoxe Part 4" (Equinoxe, 1978, Electronic)

Joy Division "New Dawn Fades" (Unknown Pleasures, 1979, Post-Punk, Gothic Rock)

Kitaro "Kaiso" (Ten Kai, 1978, Electronic)
Kitaro "Aqua" (Oais, 1979, Electronic)

Kraftwerk "Airwaves" (Radio-Aktivität, 1975, Electronic)
Kraftwerk "Europa Endlos" (Trans Europa Express, 1977, Electronic)
Kraftwerk "Spacelab" (Die Mensch-Maschine, 1978, Synthpop Electronic)

La Düsseldorf "Silver Cloud" (La Düsseldorf, Krautrock, 1976)
Lard Free "Does East Bakestan Belong to Itself?" (I'm Around About Midnight, 1975, Electronic/ Avant)

Led Zeppelin "Ten Years Gone" (Physical Graffiti, 1975, Hard Rock)
Led Zeppelin "Tea for One" (Presence, 1976, Hard Rock)
Led Zeppelin "Carouselambra" (In Through the Out Door, 1979, Hard Rock)

Franco Leprino "Lato B" (Integrati ... Disintegrati, 1977, Progressive Electronic)

Egisto Macchi "Ritmica" (Contemporanea, 1975, Modern Classical)
Egisto Macchi "Pensee" (Voix, 1975, Library Music, Modern Classical)

Magma "De Futura" (Üdü Ẁüdü, 1976, Zeuhl)
Magma (Attahk, 1978, Zeuhl)

Malicorne "La fille aux chansons (Marion s'y promène)" (Malicorne, 1975, Prog Folk)
Marius Popp "Inscripţie" (Panoramic JazzRock, 1977, Jazz-Rock)
Bennie Maupin "Quasar" (Slow Traffic to the Right, 1977, Jazz-Funk)

Joni Mitchell "Harry's House / Centerpiece" (The Hissing of Summer Lawns, 1975, Singer-Songwriter)
Joni Mitchell "Coyote" (Hejira, 1976, Folk Rock)
Joni Mitchell "Paprika Plains" (Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, 1977, Singer-Songwriter)

Douji Morita "Boku ga kimi no omoide ni natte ageyou" (A Boy, 1977, Chamber/Psych Folk)
Giorgio Moroder "(Theme From) Midnight Express" (Midnight Express, Film Score, 1978)
Ennio Morricone "Main Theme" (Il gatto a nove code, 1978 release of 1971 soundtrack)
The Muffins "The Adventures of Captain Boomerang (For Mike Forrester)" (Manna / Mirage, 1978, Avant, Canterbury Sound)

National Health "Tenemos Roads" (National Health, 1978, Canterbury Scene)
National Health "Squarer for Maud" (Of Queues and Cures, 1978, Canterbury Scene)

NEU! "Isi" (NEU! '75, 1975, Krautrock)
Gary Numan "M.E." (The Pleasure Principle, 1979, Synthpop)

The Alan Parsons Project "The Fall of the House of Usher" (Pavane) (Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1976, Art Rock)
The Alan Parsons Project "I Robot" (I Robot, 1977, Art Rock)

Penguin Cafe Orchestra "The Sound of Someone You Love Who's Going Away and It Doesn't Matter" (Music From the Penguin Café, 1976, Chamber Music)
Pere Ubu "Chinese Radiation" (The Modern Dance, 1978, Post/Art Punk)
Picchio dal Pozzo "Seppia" (Picchio dal Pozzo, 1976, Canterbury Sound)
Pierrot Lunaire "Gudrun" (Gudrun, 1977, Avant Prog)

Pink Floyd "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)" (Wish You Were Here, 1975, Progressive/Art Rock)
Pink Floyd "Dogs" (Animals, 1977, Progressive/Art Rock)
Pink Floyd "One of My Turns" (The Wall, 1979, Rock Opera, Art Rock)

Plat du jour "Zilbra" (Plat du jour, 1977, Jazz-Prog Rock)

Popol Vuh "Kyrie" (Letzte Tage, Letzte Nächte, 1976, Krautrock, Neoclassical)
Popol Vuh "Aguirre I" (Aguirre, 1976, Film Score, Krautrock)

Public Image Ltd. "Albatross" (Metal Box, 1979, Post-Punk)
Quiet Sun "Sol Caliente" (Mainstream, 1975, Canterbury)
Ragnarök "Vattenpussar" (Ragnarök, 1976, Prog Rock/Folk)
Renaissance "Song of Scheherazade" (Scheherazade and Other Stories, 1975, Symph Prog)

The Residents "The Residents - Hitler Was A Vegetarian" (The Third Reich 'n Roll, 1976, Experimental)
The Residents "You Yesyesyes" (Fingerprince, 1977, Experimental)
The Residents "Part Two: The Making of a Soul" (Not Available, 1978, Experimental)
The Residents "The Electrocutioner" (Duck Stab / Buster & Glen, 1978 Exp. Rock)
The Residents "The Festival of Death" (Eskimo, 1979, Exp. Rock)

The Rutles "Cheese and Onions" (The Rutles, 1978, Parody)
Terje Rypdal "Over Birkerot" (Odyssey, 1975, Jazz Fusion)

Klaus Schulze "Totem" (Picture Music, 1975, Berlin School)
Klaus Schulze "Wahnfried 1883" (Timewind, 1975, Berlin School)
Klaus Schulze "Floating" (Moondawn, 1976, Berlin School)
Klaus Schulze "Crystal Lake" (Mirage, 1977, Berlin School)
Klaus Schulze "Frank Herbert" ("X", 1978, Berlin School)

Siouxsie and The Banshees "Switch" (The Screma, 1978, Post-Punk)
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow "The Owl" (Desperate Straights,, 1975, Art/Avant Pop/Rock)
Sloche "J'un oeil" (J'un oeil, 1975, Prog )
Patti Smith "Land" (Horses, 1975, Art Rock, Proto-Punk)
Stormy Six "Il labirinto" (L'apprendista, 1977, R.I.O.)
Sun Ra "Languidity" (Languidity, 1978, Jazz Fusion)

Supertramp "Fool's Overture" (Even in the Quietest Moments..., 1977, Progressive Pop/Rock)
Supertramp "Take the Long Way Home" (Breakfast in America, 1979, Progressive Pop-Rock)

Talking Heads "Mind" (Fear of Music, 1979, Post-Punk, New Wave)

Tangerine Dream "Rubycon (Part I)" (Rubycon, 1975, Berlin School)
Tangerine Dream "Ricochet (Parte 2" (Ricochet, 1975, Berlin School)
Tangerine Dream "Invisible Limits" (Stratosfear, 1976, Berlin School)

Television "Marquee Moon" (Marquee Moon, 1977, Art Punk/Rock)
This Heat "24 Track Loop" (This Heat, 1979, Experimental)
Laurent Thibault "Mais on ne peut pas rêver tout le temps" (Mais on ne peut pas rêver tout le temps, 1979, Prog)
Tubeway Army "Down in the Park" (Replicas, 1979, Synthpop)

Univers Zéro "Docteur Petiot" (Univers Zéro, 1977, R.I.O.)
Univers Zéro "Jack the Ripper" (Hérésie, 1979, R.I.O.)

Van der Graaf Generator "The Sleepwalkers" (Godbluff, 1975, Prog Art Rock)
Van der Graaf Generator "La Rossa" (Still Life, 1976, Prog Art Rock)
Van der Graaf Generator "Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild)" (World Record, 1976, Prog Art Rock)
Van der Graaf "Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever (Running)" (The Quiet Zone / The Pleasure Dome, 1977, Prog Art Rock)

Vangelis "Spiral" (Spiral, 1977, Electronic)
Vanagelis "Stuffed Aubergine" (The Dragon, unofficially released in 1978, Psych Rock)

Vortex "Délicieuse créature" (Vortex, 1975, Avant Prog)
Vortex "Prolegomenes" (Les cycles de Thanatos, 1979, Avant Prog)

Weidorje "Elohims Voyage" (Weidorge, 1978, Zeuhl)
Lenny White "The Venusian Summer Suite" (Venusian Summer, 1975, Jazz Fusion/Funk)
Robert Wyatt "Muddy Mouse (c) Which in Turn Leads to Muddy Mouth" (Ruth Is Stranger Than Fiction, 1975, Canterbury)
Yellow Magic Orchestra "Rydeen" (Solid State Survivor, 1979, Synthpop)

Zanov "Green Ray" (Green Ray, 1976, Progressive Electronic)
Zanov "An Zero" (Moebius 256 301, 1977, Progressive Electronic)

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention "Inca Roads" (One Size Fits All, 1975, Jazz-Rock)

I made a youtube playlist of almost all of my choices, and will share it in case any one is interested in checking out any of the tracks (I should have made shorter lists).



Please share some of your own faves.

Here are the past series topics which some may wish to see, list and or/comment on.

Here are the past topics:

9: Your 1980-1984 track faves. One track per album (CLICK)
8* Your 1985-1989 track faves One track per album (CLICK)
7: Your 1990-1994 track faves: One track per album (CLICK)
6: Your 1995-1999 track faves: One track per album (CLICK)
5- Your 2000-2004 track faves: One track per album (CLICK)
4: Your 2005-2009 track faves (one track per album) (CLICK)
3: Your 2010-2015 tracks faves (one per album) (CLICK)
2016-2019 Album tracks, one track per album (CLICK)
One per act: 2020s tracks under ten minutes, or... (CLICK)

Thanks to those who have participated. :)

EDIT: Decided to break up that list. It is bit longer than I would like, and I might shorten it a bit later since some stuff here does not appeal as much as it once did. For the first time I have COVID and been sick for a few days (was not as sick when I prepared this list, but not the best thing to do when sick).

If coming up with list without set limits (other than it's for certain years and no more than one track per album) seems too daunting, I suggest coming up with rules yourself to limit your efforts. For instance, you might limit it to ten tracks, or one per year etc. I like not having those limits enforced.

Edited by Logan - November 11 2023 at 19:40

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