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

otb_lifer said:
SNIPED!

guess I'm born to lose ...

Thunders rocked like none other, and this is as good a snapshot of that NY scene as 'The Ramones'

btw, saw an interesting interview with Johnny Ramone, where he said the Heartbreakers were the only band he thought was as good as his - "but I didn't worry too much cuz they were junkies and it was just a matter of time ..."
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Walter Lure is the only surviving member of either band.  I don't count Hell since they didn't record anything with that lineup of the Heartbreakers.

 
Eephus said:
If that terrible Jon Bon Jovi commercial was true and I really had "hey, the power to turn back time", I'm curious whether 70s progressive rock (not prog) radio stations were as good as I remembered them.   Teenage Eephus didn't have many albums so he listened to a lot of WZMF (Milwaukee) through a pair of ugly brown Koss headphones.  It was my first exposure to a lot of the stuff drafted so far and absolutely had some influence on what I became.
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They were certainly more eclectic when they were still progressive or free-form than when Lee Abrams got ahold of them and turned them into AOR FM; they throttled both the DJs and the playlists. 

 
I usually stay away from live albums in drafts.  It feels like a cheat a little bit, but there are so many great one from the decade we are drafting in.  The criteria I need is that I prefer a lot of the songs in the live version over studio versions, the albums themselves were a bit of a breakthrough for the band, and in this case it was one of my earliest intros to the bands.  I didn't see either taken, so I will grab 2 that fit the criteria perfectly for me:

8.xx:  CHEAP TRICK - At Budokan (1979 album)

9.xx:  KISS - Alive! (1975 album)

 
KarmaPolice said:
I usually stay away from live albums in drafts.  It feels like a cheat a little bit, but there are so many great one from the decade we are drafting in.  The criteria I need is that I prefer a lot of the songs in the live version over studio versions, the albums themselves were a bit of a breakthrough for the band, and in this case it was one of my earliest intros to the bands.  I didn't see either taken, so I will grab 2 that fit the criteria perfectly for me:

8.xx:  CHEAP TRICK - At Budokan (1979 album)

9.xx:  KISS - Alive! (1975 album)
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Two excellent picks.

In regard to feeling like your cheating a little bit for picking live albums you can cut your guilt in half. The Kiss Alive! album was overdubbed in the studio so much that that the only original live recording on the album is Peter Criss' drum tracks.

 
Buzzbait said:
Two excellent picks.

In regard to feeling like your cheating a little bit for picking live albums you can cut your guilt in half. The Kiss Alive! album was overdubbed in the studio so much that that the only original live recording on the album is Peter Criss' drum tracks.
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Never knew that. 

 
Buzzbait said:
Agree. Love, love, love Bridge of Sighs.
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Sirius XM's Deep Tracks is (mostly) less-played classic rock songs than you'd hear on a commercial FM CR radio station. They play stuff like Cactus, Wishbone Ash, Crack The Sky, etc....as well, as deeper cuts (duh) by the more well-known artists. I don't listen to it much anymore, but I swear the song I heard the most when I listened a lot was "Bridge Of Sighs". And I wasn't the only one who noticed - it became a running joke on one of the fan boards: "' Bridge Of Sighs' is like the 'More Than A Feeling' of Deep Tracks"

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Sirius XM's Deep Tracks is (mostly) less-played classic rock songs than you'd hear on a commercial FM CR radio station.
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#3 on my car preset.  :thumbup:

Uruk-Hai said:
I swear the song I heard the most when I listened a lot was "Bridge Of Sighs". And I wasn't the only one who noticed - it became a running joke on one of the fan boards: "' Bridge Of Sighs' is like the 'More Than A Feeling' of Deep Tracks"
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:lmao:

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Sirius XM's Deep Tracks is (mostly) less-played classic rock songs than you'd hear on a commercial FM CR radio station. They play stuff like Cactus, Wishbone Ash, Crack The Sky, etc....as well, as deeper cuts (duh) by the more well-known artists. I don't listen to it much anymore, but I swear the song I heard the most when I listened a lot was "Bridge Of Sighs". And I wasn't the only one who noticed - it became a running joke on one of the fan boards: "' Bridge Of Sighs' is like the 'More Than A Feeling' of Deep Tracks"
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Trower always had the ultimate #### face when he played. Hilarious.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Do they still play it a lot? I stopped listening a bunch not long after George Taylor Morris passed (and the merger).
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I don't think it's overplayed but may I just keep missing it. Was curious so I searched a SiriusXM playlist. Looks like it's been played 7 times in the last 10 weeks.

 
So, brief write ups on my last few picks......

1972: Made In Japan - Deep Purple. I wore this right the #### out when I was a wee lad. I prefer this album's versions of "Child In Time" & "Highway Star" to the originals. "Smoke" is good, but goes on too long, and "Space Truckin" is just too long period. That said, at the time, this thing hit every hormonal beat in my body. 

1973: A Wizard, A True Star - Todd. This is one of the weirdest records I've ever heard for a "mainstream" artist. Especially one working mainly within the poppier side of things without going off the deep end like Lou Reed. There are times when I don't feel like hearing it at all, and times when I don't want to hear anything else. I'm sure Binky knows much more about what went into these songs than I do, but this is one of the craziest listening experiences you'll have listening to a 70s artist.

1974: FFF - Stevie Wonder. His "Revolver" to Innervisions' "Rubber Soul" and Songs In The Key's "Sgt Pepper". I've chosen Innervisions in prior drafts but this album matches it and I think the deeper cuts are better. This dude was running on all twelve cylinders at this point (wanna talk album runs?) - he was giving away career-making hits (to Rufus, for one) because he was so prolific. 

 
McGarnicle said:
I'm stunned you guys still haven't mentioned one of the greatest 70's bands. :thumbdown:  
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Who?  I know the Temptation but there's no Rush or be Sly. As my Momma and Poppa always said Keep It Simple Stupid.  :yes:    Are we keeping this to America?  The Average White Band from Chicago is Good, Charlotte. But the Band from Uranus wrote some good Stories.

 
rockaction said:
Bolan likes to rock man

Yes he does yes he does

8.04 - T. Rex - The Slider - 1972 album

Probably the finest slab o' vinyl one marijuana-laden ####er can smoke down with ease. I'm thrilled to have this album in the roster, though Electric Warrior was already taken. It feels like a first pick. There are no remains with Bolan -- no pun intended -- he just is and lives large. 

There are other albums that could have gone here, but I'm thinking they'll be back around. Nothing else really fit in the stable thus far but this. Plus, I listened to this album for years and still love it. Out of my wheelhouse, but into the slide. 




 
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Love this album.  

I could never understandThe wind at allWas like a ball of loveI could never never seeThe cosmic seaWas like a bumblebeeAnd when I'm sadI slideI have never never kissedA car before It's like a doorI have always alwaysGrown my own beforeAll schools are strangeAnd when I'm sadI slideI have never neverNailed a nose beforeThat's how the garden growsI could never understandThe wind at allWas like a ball of loveAnd when I'm sadI slideWatch now I'm gonna slide

 
Uruk-Hai said:
You took Something, Anything instead of this one. I'm a-wondering why
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Didn't want to go way heavy on Todd since I overloaded people with a double Todd only playlist (one hard and one softer/pop) over a 40 year period in our last music draft.  

My favorites tend to change around a bit with his stuff but AWATS is always among the top couple.   

 
FUBAR said:
what do you use for Pandora or other apps?  You're probably right, I remember growing up listening to 94.7 in Detroit, lots of good 70s stuff there but mostly late 70s with a few of the big time early 70s thrown in. 
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At home, I usually listen to my own mixed spotify playlists. I listen to albums a lot now, too. In the car, it's XM  (deep tracks, 70's, 80's stations, the classic rock station, etc).

I just wish some of these stations would expand their thinking. There's no reason XM's classic vinyl can't play Funkadelic, for example. 

 
catching up with my rd. 9 selection ...

PiL - Metal Box (1979 album)

been posting in here about the strength of '79, and am pleased to snatch my favorite release from that year.  

this, along with my rd. 7 pick (First Issue), was so ground breaking and vital to moving music in new directions. gotta hand it to Lydon, this is a ballsy, trippy, spacious effort, unlike anything ever heard at that time.  dude could've printed money by  :deadhorse:   his "Johnny Rotten" persona, but chose to push boundaries and limits, instead.

 superbly aided by Wobble - with that fuzzy, crunching bass, and Levene's slashing, dissonant guitar - their finest moments are all here.   

from the genius packaging, to the claustrophobic and dank, eerie feel ... it was a stroke of brilliance all round.  along with "Unknown Pleasures" it explored uncharted territory, and emphatically planted a flag for countless acts to follow.

favorite track

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10.xx I'll take the album that is the most played album in the fubar household, by far.  Probably not on anyone else's list and I probably don't need to take it yet but when an album is played virtually nonstop from November through December every year for the past 14, I have to take it.  

https://youtu.be/dPki7AqPAP4 - wildcard album (yeah, it's John Denver and the muppets, a Christmas together)

 
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10.xx - The Rolling Stones - Some Girls (1978 album)

Saw them for the first time at the opening show of the Steel Wheels tour.  Big fan ever since and this is one of my go to RS albums when I want to get into the deeper cuts rather than listening hits from "40 Licks" on shuffle.

Would have taken it much earlier had I not wanted to lock down certain combos of artist/album where options for my theme were limited, but cannot leave it on the table at this juncture.

 
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10.02 hard rock - Judas Priest Unleashed in the East

its a live album, but it really redefines the older material as heavy metal.  The songs are heavier and the sound is full.  It's a great album with the definitive version of Victim of Changes.  The cover of Greeen Menalishi (Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac) and Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez) are excellently metal and revived some radio play.  Exciter, Sinner and other metal classics also reside.

this was the album that put the band on the map....some critcism has been levied about how much this may have been touched up in the studio, but I have a couple of bootlegs from that tour and Halford and the boys sound amazing on those...

 
10.xx Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers (1978) 1978 album

This album sounds like it could've been released last month and unlike back then, it would be a hit.  So good and so influential. 

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10.xx - Lou Reed - Rock n Roll Animal - 1974 Album

Been wanting to take this for a few rounds now, as it's one of my favorites. Great versions of Sweet Jane and (especially) Heroin. 

 
timschochet said:
ABBA - 1975 album

How can we have a 70s draft without this group? I shamelessly love them, and always have. 
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About time they made an appearance. ABBA was great. Another beef with classic rock radio - why is Heart or Fleetwood Mac ok, but not Abba? Because of a guitar riff or two? 

 
jwb said:
About time they made an appearance. ABBA was great. Another beef with classic rock radio - why is Heart or Fleetwood Mac ok, but not Abba? Because of a guitar riff or two? 
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:confused:    I don't mind ABBA, but that's a weird question.

 
jwb said:
I had mentioned classic rock radio being limited in scope earlier in the thread.

Yea, it's weird out of context  :)
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I'll agree with it being limited, I just don't see a lot of connection between ABBA and Fleetwood Mac other than a woman singer.  Might be my limited knowledge. 

I'm sort of regretting not taking Sundown earlier.  Only reason I didn't is every time I think of the song, "In a room where ya do what ya don't confess..." My mind somehow flips to "With your sister in the rain, Let her talk about the things, You can't explain, To touch is to heal, To hurt is to steal..." Mysterious Ways U2.  I have no idea why that is, probably just switched the station once and it stuck with me.

 
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10.xx I take The Rutles -1978 Album

The album did not have to be this good.  It would have been enough if it sounded like the Beatles and it was funny (they accomplished both), but they went the extra mile and actually made it worth listening to repeatedly.

The abrupt piano note to end Cheese and Onions is perfectly done.  Ouch! and Hold My Hand are flawless.

 
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