Last week, after almost a year-and-a-half, we wrapped up the longest and widest-ranging multi-author series in Popdose history — our epic survey of the AM Gold compilations. But after 72…
Digging for Gold
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With this, the fourth installment of our look at AM Gold: 1979, the Digging for Gold series comes to a close. Thanks to everyone for reading, listening, and mellowing with us!
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One more. Just one more installment of Digging for Gold after this week’s and our journey through Time-Life’s AM Gold series is at an end. Here we go with the third batch of tracks from AM Gold: 1979.
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Thanks to this week’s “Digging for Gold,” in which we look at the second batch of songs from AM Gold: 1979, you can now cross the words “shriveled testicles” off the list of phrases you thought you wouldn’t read on the internet today.
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It’s 1979! That also means it’s the final year of our look at the AM Gold series.
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That’s a wrap on AM Gold: 1978, friends. That means we have just one more year of Time-Life treasures to explore before our little experiment comes to an end. But as a wise man once said, all mellow things must come to an end. Or something like that.
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This week’s installment of AM Gold: 1978 features no Bee Gees songs, but two songs written by the Brothers Gibb.
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In the words of our own Jason Hare, esteemed curator of all things mellow, this second part of AM Gold: 1978 is, “seriously, the Mellow Goldiest list of all.”
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We hope you’ve been enjoying our collective journey through the fields of AM Gold so far, because the end is nearly in sight.
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It’s the beginning of the Carter Administration and the malaise has started in the world of AM Gold.
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Say what you want about the cultural phenomenon that was Star Wars, but boy could you dance to its theme song.
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One song in this room just filled the expanse with methane. Can you guess which one? – Dw. Dunphy, on seeing the second batch of songs for AM Gold: 1977.
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This week’s AM Gold is dedicated to the memory of the late Hal David (May 25, 1921 – September 1, 2012).
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We close out AM:Gold 1976 the only way possible – really mellow, man.
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There’s only one way to truly appreciate this week’s AM Gold: 1976 entries, and that’s to listen once again to the famous Casey Kasem rant inspired by Henry Gross. RIP Snuggles.
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Gasoline might have been in short supply in the ’70s, but mellow tunes were not.
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As America celebrated its 200th birthday in 1976, two of its biggest hits were the theme song to a show about the 1950s and a retro disco number from a band recalling a fond night more than a decade earlier.
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As we will learn in this, the fourth and final installment in AM Gold: 1975, few things inspire passion and raw emotion in us like… Glen Campbell and Carly Rae Jepsen?
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This week’s installment proves, once and for all, that we are not the cynical, cold-hearted bunch we seem to be sometimes. Witness the praise heaped upon Captain & Tennille.
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This week’s edition of Digging for Gold contains not one, but two references to Twilight. No reason why, that’s just how we roll at Popdose.
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Disco, glam rock, and Leo Sayer are riding high on the charts, which can only mean one thing. It’s time for AM Gold: 1975 baby!
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If there was any doubt that disco was quickly gaining traction in America in 1974, witness two of the three chart-topping songs highlighted this week. And then check out “Seasons in the Sun” so we don’t have to again.
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We’re up to week #50 in our AM Gold series. That’s half of 100!
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1973 didn’t end on such a high note for our humble AM Gold series, so maybe 1974 will pick things up nicely. Maybe.
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That’s a wrap on AM Gold: 1973. This week may not offer a lot, but it does have David Foster!
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Certainly you’ve noticed by now that we have good weeks and bad weeks here on Digging for Gold. This is definitely one of the good weeks.
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As we float like a mellow breeze into the second installment of AM: Gold 1973, we leave behind the deep analyses of the story-song and just enjoy some great tunes.
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It’s AM Gold: 1973! Get comfortable, folks, because we’re feeling analytical this week.
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The final installment of AM Gold: 1972 floats in on a summer breeze and gets really weird at the end.
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