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1970s music draft- Link to google spreadsheet in first post (1 Viewer)

Eephus said:
7.03  The Specials - The Specials (1979 album)

I'm going by the original UK release date although it didn't arrive on these shores until the following decade.
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as much as 1971 gets heralded as THE banner year for music in the decade, gotta say, I prefer 1979 ... just a jackpot of diverse offerings, and such new ground being broken, new voices being heard ... and this particular album by the Specials sits on the dais, as far as I'm concerned - have owned it for 36 years, and still spin the #### out of it, especially on Ska-turday (I always fire up some when I start boozin' proper)  :banned:

 
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otb_lifer said:
as much as 1971 gets heralded as THE banner year for music in the decade, gotta say, I prefer 1979 ... just a cornucopia of diverse offerings, and such new ground being broken, new voices being heard ... and this particular album by the Specials sits on the dais, as far as I'm concerned - have owned it for 36 years, and still spin the #### out of it, especially on Ska-turday (I always fire up some when I start boozin' proper)  :banned:
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I agree.  1971 seems like a carryover of the 60s to me.  A lot of the landmark albums represent the end of something.  1979 is the musical start of the 80s when sounds headed off in a hundred different directions after punk and disco crashed on the beach.

Of course, my age at the time has a lot to do with how I feel about the decade.

 
The Dreaded Marco said:
Doug on skip. 

Uruk on skip (I think?). 

FUBAR timed out.

simey OTC 
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I just signed on to see what was drafted since i left town Saturday, and i am otc.  I am on vacation so skip me until i come back later Friday. I will make up my picks then. A lot of great music has been drafted. Y'all better leave me some good albums. Start drafting more songs and less albums! 

 
simey said:
I just signed on to see what was drafted since i left town Saturday, and i am otc.  I am on vacation so skip me until i come back later Friday. I will make up my picks then. A lot of great music has been drafted. Y'all better leave me some good albums. Start drafting more songs and less albums! 
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I took the Stevie album because the other 1A choice I had for 1974 would probably have you knifing me.

Enjoy your vacation!

 
please move Elvis Costello to punk, not funk  :bag:  

ah screw it, make Elvis 1978.

 
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7.xx Miles Davis On the Corner - Funk

Chosen mostly for the mad respect to Mr. Davis, but also for the influence the album had later.  I love it when a top performer stretches out to something different, gets panned, but then the world catches up.
 

On the Corner was panned by most critics and contemporaries in jazz; according to Paul Tingen, it became "the most vilified and controversial album in the history of jazz" only a few weeks after its release.[5]Rolling Stone magazine's Ralph J. Gleason wrote positively of the album. He found the music to be "so lyrical and rhythmic", with "loving sounds" produced by Davis' horn and Garnett's saxophone, and said "the impact of the whole is greater than the sum of any part."[22] Its use of rhythm as the basis of the music's improvisations rather than melody, Robert Christgau wrote, were the reason most jazz critics were not as receptive to the album as rock critics. Christgau himself said "rhythmic improvisations are hardly the equivalent of a big beat and don't guarantee a good one. I'd like to hear 'Black Satin' right now. But the rest I can wait for."[15]

On the Corner continued to be renounced by the jazz community while many other writers deemed it "a visionary musical statement that was way ahead of its time", Tingen said.[5] In 2014, Stereogum hailed it as "one of the greatest records of the 20th Century, and easily one of Miles Davis' most astonishing achievements," noting the album's mix of "funk guitars, Indian percussion, dub production techniques, loops that predict hip-hop."[6] According to Alternative Press, the "essential masterpiece" envisioned much of modern popular music, "representing the high water mark of [Davis'] experiments in the fusion of rock, funk, electronica and jazz".[14]Fact characterized the album as "a frenetic and punky record, radical in its use of studio technology," adding that "the debt that the modern dance floor owes the pounding abstractions of On the Corner has yet to be fully understood."[23]Pitchfork Media described the album as " the sound of icy hot heroin coursing through the veins [...] longing, passion and rage milked from the primal source and heading into the dark beyond."[24]

AllMusic stated that "the music on the album itself influenced [...] every single thing that came after it in jazz, rock, soul, funk, hip-hop, electronic and dance music, ambient music, and even popular world music, directly or indirectly." [25]BBC Music noted the music and production techniques of On the Corner "prefigured and in some cases gave birth to nu-jazz, jazz funk, experimental jazz, ambient and even world music."[26] Critic Simon Reynolds also noted the album's influence on a variety of post-punk and industrial artists.[27]Stylus Magazine's Chris Smith wrote that the record's music anticipated musical principles that abandoned a focus on a single soloist in favor of an emphasis on collective playing: "At times harshly minimal, at others expansive and dense, it upset quite a few people. You could call it punk."[28]Fact named On the Corner the 11th best album of the 1970s,[23] while Pitchfork Media named the album the 30th best album of that decade.
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Tom Skerritt said:
7.02  Heart - Little Queen (album 1977)

If only for the song "Love Alive", but this album also gives us Baracuda, Kick it Out, and Little Queen. 
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Totally sniped, This was my next pick!! My first concert ever and saw them in Savannah Ga. Totally blew the doors off the place

 
simsarge said:
Totally sniped, This was my next pick!! My first concert ever and saw them in Savannah Ga. Totally blew the doors off the place
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Heart - had never heard of them until "Crazy On You" blasted on the radio late my senior year of HS.  Great song.  

Saw them a couple of months later at the Columbus Agora - standing right below Nancy with her split skirt cranking out the jams.  

1976.  They kicked ### and were incredibly hot.

ETA:  pic 

 
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Dammit - it didn't register that it was my pick when I checked in last night.  Got all excited and had to listen to some Floyd after seeing Higgins' pick. 

There is a ton of great selections for this category, so I will take one that ended the decade.  I just might use this for my 1979 pick at the end of the draft and grab something else for the category, but for now:

7.17: AC/DC - Highway to Hell (hard rock/classic rock album)

 
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KarmaPolice said:
Dammit - it didn't register that it was my pick when I checked in last night.  Got all excited and had to listen to some Floyd after seeing Higgins' pick. 

There is a ton of great selections for this category, so I will take one that ended the decade.  I just might use this for my 1979 pick at the end of the draft and grab something else for the category, but for now:

7.17: AC/DC - Highway to Hell (hard rock/classic rock album)
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:headbang:  The last album from the late great Bon Scott!!! Not a bad song on the album but partial to Touch Too Much and Girls Got Rhythm.

 
Buzzbait said:
:headbang:  The last album from the late great Bon Scott!!! Not a bad song on the album but partial to Touch Too Much and Girls Got Rhythm.
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:thumbup:

I always loved the down and dirty Night Prowler too.  Was one of their first songs to reel me in, so I will always have a soft spot for it. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
Dammit - it didn't register that it was my pick when I checked in last night.  Got all excited and had to listen to some Floyd after seeing Higgins' pick. 

There is a ton of great selections for this category, so I will take one that ended the decade.  I just might use this for my 1979 pick at the end of the draft and grab something else for the category, but for now:

7.17: AC/DC - Highway to Hell (hard rock/classic rock album)
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YES!

 
KarmaPolice said:
Dammit - it didn't register that it was my pick when I checked in last night.  Got all excited and had to listen to some Floyd after seeing Higgins' pick. 

There is a ton of great selections for this category, so I will take one that ended the decade.  I just might use this for my 1979 pick at the end of the draft and grab something else for the category, but for now:

7.17: AC/DC - Highway to Hell (hard rock/classic rock album)
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####

:hot:

 
7.20 1970 album Deep Purple In Rock 

Probably a bigger album in Europe than in North America, but a big album it is.  Deep Purple would later turn to a bluesier hard rock sond, but this album is a foundation albums for heavy metal music.  The album features some tremendous musicianship while keep the song structures closer to basic rock and roll - avoiding f the masturbatory excess of the prog bands.  For me, Flight of the Rat is my favorite on the album...nice riff, nice solos, great drums....amazing guitar/keys....Child in Time, a song that is really about the cold war, became a manistay in the live set.  It features a ridiculously good guitar sols and the silver-throated screamings of Ian Gillan in his prime.  In Speed King we an see what   In Speed King we see some roots of thrash.  Into The Fire, Bloodsucker, Living Wreck all feature great riffs and band interplay.  The closer - Hard Lovin' Man is another epic tune with a great riff and sparkling solos that stay focused and don't meander.  Definitely a heavy rock album by excellent musicians who knock this one out of the park.

Machine Head is great and all (Lazy just cooks  + some radio songs),, but, IMHO, In Rock is the jewel...

 
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7.18 - The Damned - Damned Damned Damned - 1977 album 

This is one of my personal favorites so I can write it from a bit off of the top of my head. Any write-up spotlights best overall punk song and best 1976 song, so I should stop. There really aren't enough superlatives to this album. otb_lifer just gave a great little lineup synopsis down below, and I'll just say that this is one of the craziest finds ever. This thing was even out of print for a while in America (seriously, it was on Frontier Records, and they'd let it lapse somehow).  Well, it's in print now. "I Fall," "Fish," "1 of The 2," a cover of "I Feel Alright" that scalds. (Shouldn't the damned thing be called 1970?I digress. Who cares?) And those aren't even the main tracks that everyone likes. And again, an iconic cover. Four guys, whipped cream all over, Dave Vanian with only the whites of his eyes and a vampiric bloodstain on his neck, head askew. Classic. 

On an intra-board note, not all of us live in cosmopolitan areas that get screenings of The Damned movie like Eephus (I'm still jealous), but we can love the band anyway.  :D  (Still can't wait to see that movie)

I think it sits up there with the best of punk rock.

 
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rockaction said:
7.18 - The Damned - Damned Damned Damned - 1977 album 

This is one of my personal favorites so I can write it from a bit off of the top of my head. Any write-up spotlights best overall punk song and best 1976 song, so I should stop, but I can't.  More TK. 
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- Vanian was gold, James was blistering, the Captain just flat out Captained, and Rat was the punk Keef Moon -

ridiculously potent album  :thumbup:

 
rockaction said:
7.18 - The Damned - Damned Damned Damned - 1977 album 

This is one of my personal favorites so I can write it from a bit off of the top of my head. Any write-up spotlights best overall punk song and best 1976 song, so I should stop, but I can't.  More TK. 
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Bahhh! Sniped! That's what I get for continuing to ignore the punk category. My weakest knowledge area and I'm at the bottom of the barrel now.

Good pick.

 
otb_lifer said:
- Vanian was gold, James was blistering, the Captain just flat out Captained, and Rat was the punk Keef Moon -

ridiculously potent album  :thumbup:
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Vanian, for some reason, is one of my favorite lead singers or frontmen ever. Strange fellow. I did not follow The Damned down the goth path, but I enjoy his theatrics. 

A write-up about one of their first live America shows in HuffPo http://www.huffingtonpost.com/binky-philips/the-damned-at-cbgb-the-ni_b_777706.html

 
8.02 1971 album Aqualung - Jethro Tull

ian Anderson and crew in their peak era...kicking out some underrated riffs to go with their thoughtful lyrics and great music.

 
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rockaction said:
Vanian, for some reason, is one of my favorite lead singers or frontmen ever. Strange fellow. I did not follow The Damned down the goth path, but I enjoy his theatrics. 

A write-up about one of their first live America shows in HuffPo http://www.huffingtonpost.com/binky-philips/the-damned-at-cbgb-the-ni_b_777706.html
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:thumbup:

my favorite Damned tale deals with Vanian striking up a kinship with Danzig, and inviting the Misfits across the pond to do a show ...

Glenn and Bobby Steele get busted before they even gig, giving us the Misfits classic "London Dungeon" (about their night in the nick)

Vanian is the #### ... his marriage to Patti Morrisson (Sisters of Mercy, among others) was the ultimate goth/punk union 

 
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