AIRBUS Test Flight (WHCD030)

 

1. Back On The Street Again

2. This Time

3. Without A Second Word

4. Walking The Silver Hay

5. Living On Borrowed Time

6. Time On My Side

7. Susanna In The Summer

8. Alias Oliver Dream

9. I’m About To Lose My Mind

10. I Think I’ll Stay

11. Do You Need A Someone In Your Life

12. Every Day Is Like Saturday

13. Send Susanna Home

14. Smokey Chimney Tops

15. Down On The Farm

16. Raincloud

17. The Sound Of Her Laughter

18. Hurry On Home To London

19. Rodeo

20. Anytime At All

21. It’s Only Human

22. Once Upon A Wednesday

23. Kentucky Summer

24. Windmill Hill

25. Lonely River

 

West Coast Consortium spinoff Airbusnever 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…

 

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