Airbus - Test Flight

 

2010 archive collection from this early '70s British Pop band. West Coast Consortium spinoff Airbus never played live or even released a record during their 1970-1972 lifespan, instead spending their entire subterranean existence holed up in their self-owned Whitechapel studio, writing and performing innumerable high quality demos and then attempting to place those songs with major label acts. But, more by accident than design, they came to leave behind THE Great Lost Early '70s British Pop Album - a jaw-dropping collision of superb songs, dazzling vocal harmonies, intelligent lyrics and hook-laden melodies that occupy the same studio überpop territory as the first two 10cc albums and even Paul McCartney's Ram. Here, then, is the strange, previously untold story of a band that didn't leave so much as a footprint in the musical sands, but recorded a greater number of three-minute pop nuggets than almost all of their contemporaries.

 

Tracks:

1.1 Back on the Street Again

1.2 This Time Tomorrow

1.3 Without a Second Word

1.4 Walking the Silver Hay

1.5 Living on Borrowed Time

1.6 Time on My Side

1.7 Susanna in the Summer

1.8 Alias Oliver Dream

1.9 I'm About to Lose My Mind

1.10 I Think I'll Stay

1.11 Do You Need a Someone in Your Life

1.12 Every Day Is Like Saturday

1.13 Send Susanna Home

1.14 Smokey Chimney Tops

1.15 Down on the Farm

1.16 Raincloud

1.17 The Sound of Her Laughter

1.18 Hurry on Home to London

1.19 Rodeo

1.20 Anytime at All

1.21 It's Only Human

1.22 Once Upon a Wednesday

1.23 Kentucky Summer

1.24 Windmill Hill

1.25 Lonely River

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