Love To Love You Baby

Donna Summer

Plays during the opening sequence and a montage of New Year's 1975 celebrations.

Bird Song

The Holy Modal Rounders

Plays during a segment discussing "New Hollywood" and the success of counterculture films like Easy Rider (1969).

Psycho Killer

Talking Heads

Plays during a discussion about social isolation in America and the character Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976).

Assault on Precinct 13

John Carpenter

Rising street crime drove audiences toward self-defense and vigilante "revenge-amatics." Films like Death Wish (1974) turned Charles Bronson into an aspirational hero for an angry, paranoid public.

Theme From Shaft

Isaac Hayes

Plays during a section focused on the success of Blaxploitation films and their impact on the film industry.

I'm Feeling Good About America (Gerald Ford)

Oscar Brand

A campaign-style song playing during a segment about President Gerald Ford and public efforts to restore trust in the presidency.

Breakdown

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Plays during a montage examining the "American nightmare" and the disillusionment of the era.

Jocko Homo

DEVO

Performed by the band Devo; plays during a segment about the rise of computers and technology as a source of both progress and oppression.

Love Will Keep Us Together

Captain & Tennille

Plays during a discussion about the shift from political television like All in the Family to nostalgia-driven shows like Happy Days.

You're The Top - (From "Anything Goes")

Cole Porter

A Cole Porter musical number starring Burt Reynolds, used to illustrate the era's focus on lighter, nostalgic entertainment.

Why Can't We Be Friends?

War

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