Living in the 70's was the debut album released by Melbourne band Skyhooks in October 1974 on the Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records is an Australian recoJrd company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros...

 label. Initially charting in Melbourne only in 1974, by early 1975 the rest of the nation began to catch on. 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 up until that time, with sales of 240,000. In October 2010, it was listed at No. 9 in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums

100 Best Australian Albums

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.

The album was produced by former Daddy Cool

Daddy Cool (band)

Daddy Cool is an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in 1970 with the original line-up of Wayne Duncan , Ross Hannaford , Ross Wilson and Gary Young . Their debut single "Eagle Rock" was released in May 1971 and stayed at number 1 on the Australian singles chart for ten weeks...

 lead singer Ross Wilson.

Two singles were lifted from the album: "Living in the 70's"/"You're a Broken Gin Bottle, Baby" and "Horror Movie

Horror Movie (Skyhooks song)

"Horror Movie" was the second single from the Skyhooks album Living in the Seventies and was their first number-one single in Australia, staying there for two weeks in March 1975....

"/"Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)", the latter spending 2 weeks at the top of the Australian singles chart in 1975. Six tracks from the album were banned on commercial radio in Australia. However in defiance of this, the ABC's new youth station in Sydney, 2JJ

Triple J

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, played the track "You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good in Bed" as their first ever song when they began broadcasting in January 1975.

"Broken Gin Bottle", the B-side of the original "Living in the 70's" single, was included as track 11 on the 2004 CD remaster.

In 2011 the album featured at number 75 on the Triple J Hottest 100 Albums of All Time

Triple J Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time, 2011

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. In the same year, the title track was added to the National Film and Sound Archive

National Film and Sound Archive

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 of Australia's Sounds of Australia

Sounds of Australia

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 registry.

Track listing

All tracks by Greg Macainsh, except where noted. Red Symons provides lead vocals on "Smut".

1. "Living in the 70s" – 3:42
2. "Whatever Happened to the Revolution?" – 4:08
3. "Balwyn Calling" – 3:44
4. "Horror Movie
   Horror Movie (Skyhooks song)
   "Horror Movie" was the second single from the Skyhooks album Living in the Seventies and was their first number-one single in Australia, staying there for two weeks in March 1975....
   
   " – 3:47
5. "You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good in Bed" – 3:44
6. "Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)" – 3:56
7. "Toorak Cowboy" – 3:45
8. "Smut" – 5:19 (Red Symons
   Red Symons
   Redmond Symons is an Australian musician, writer, actor and radio host, probably best known as lead guitarist with Skyhooks and as the snide judge of "Red Faces", a segment of the long-running Hey Hey It's Saturday variety television show...
   
   )
9. "Hey, What's the Matter?" – 2:47
10. "Motorcycle Bitch" – 3:56
    • Length: 39:61

Bonus track on CD remaster

11. "Broken Gin Bottle" – 4:14

• Earlier CD versions contain a live version of "Saturday Night" and a version of "Why Don'tcha All Get Fucked", but the above version is today's standard.

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1975	Australian Kent Music Report Kent Music Report The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1998... Albums Chart	1

Personnel

• Graeme "Shirley" Strachan - Lead vocals
• Redmond Symons - Guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals (8)
• Bob "Bongo" Starkie - Guitar
• Greg Macainsh - Bass
• Imants Alfred Strauks - Drums, percussion, backing vocals