The Long Seventies Podcast

We discuss some super synth-based soundtracks and scores from Long Seventies films

Author Sean Howe joins the show to talk about his new book "Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s.” 

We talk about Oliver Stone's 1987 drama Wall Street, starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen, and wrap up the Decade of Dystopia series. 

We discuss the rapid and sweeping financialization, corporate raiding and deindustrialization that took place during the Long Seventies and what effect it had on society. 

Decade of Dystopia continues with two movies, The Crazies and Wizards. We discuss what these movies have in common, the dystopian visions they provide and what critique they make of the world of the Long Seventies. 

We discuss why the Long Seventies gave birth to so many dystopian creative works, specifically in the context of crises of continuity and progress. 

We discuss the 1976 dystopian sci-fi classic film Logan's Run, societal symbolic illiteracy, announce the Decade of Dystopia series and much more. 

We discuss acclaimed author JG Ballard’s 1969 experimental piece of transgressive syncromystical literature. Love, death, loss, trauma, tragedy, eroticism, car accidents as immanent mystical experiences, JFK, Ralph Nader, Elizabeth Taylor, WWII, Vietnam, art etc. 

We each choose ten pieces of audio and musical gear that we think were important to the audio/musical landscape of the Long Seventies. 

We discuss the eerily prescient 1975 dystopian film Rollerball, starring James Caan. Skates, motorcycles, fire, blood, murder, drugs, multivision tv and more!