Motherhussy

1979

So today I found this ultra-cool, super swank, mega-hip station on iTunes. I’m listening to it right now as I type, although I shouldn’t even be typing—I should be vacuuming, but I’m not—I’m typing. Anyway, the station is Luxuria Music. I’m not going to review the station much more than to say that it kicks polyester-blend, terry-cloth covered ass! The station plays the kind of stuff you may hear while sitting on an orange couch, wearing a brown turtleneck sweater and cotton-knit blend bellbottoms, as you get ready to gingerly sip an ice-cold Tab. That’s EXACTLY what it sounds like. So, that’s the extent of my review on Luxuria Music.

While listening to the station I drifted off and started imagining, what would it be like to live in the 70s? With all the happy trumpets, tambourines, and “bom-bom-ba-da-da-doms”, I imagine it was nothing short of Eden. I was only present for a mere year in the 70s, so I can’t say that I remember much about it—although I do have a picture of me wearing a pair of plastic pants and looking much like a stoned 7-month-old, so that only supports my notion of the 70s being paradisiacal.

To support my exaggeratedly positive attitude about the 70s, I’ve compiled a short list of “What Was Good About the 70s” (Not to be compared with VH1s “I Love the 70s”).

1. I was born in the 70s
2. Women’s Lib gained steam
3. Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin
4. Shaft and Bruce Lee
5. All the many shades of brown one could find on the television screen
6. LHTP—beeyotches!
7. Gerald Ford on the Simpson’s…oh, wait—that’s present day
8. The Girl from Ipanema –oh, wait—that was the 60s
9. Shaggy hair?
10. Scooby Doo?
11. That noise that people could make on the keyboard that sounded like extraterrestrial humming…you know that sound, don’t you?
12. Jimmy Carter?
13. That “bow-chica-bow-wow” that guitars could only make from 1970-1979

Okay, I can’t really think of much more to add to the list. Damnit! If I were only born earlier, this would have been a good blog. Anyway, give Luxuria Music a spin, “you won’t be sorry for long”.

posted by Anonymous @ 5:33 PM