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

simey said:
12.9 - Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons (1974 album)

I think my favorite country-rock song of all-time is Return of the Grievous Angel. Gram Parsons, and his singing partner Emmylou Harris, recorded this album in 1973. They had been on the road together for several months doing the GP tour, and the Grievous songs were written and practiced during that time. When they got to the studio they did the tracks in five days, and then did the vocals the remaining five days which were all first or second takes.  Some of the band members for the sessions consisted of Al Perkins on pedal steel, James Burton on lead guitar, Glen Hardin on piano, and Bernie Leadon, former Flying Burrito Brother and one of the founders of the Eagles, plays on three songs..  Emmylou said the album was basically "live." She said her and Gram complimented each other a lot, because she was the energy source and he was the visionary. He needed her energy, and she needed his direction. Sadly, Gram died in September of 1973 and never got to see the album released (January 1974). He was a visionary, and it is too bad his life was cut short.

Album trivia: Emmylou was supposed to be on the back cover of the album with Gram.  He had promised her he would put her photo on it. The album was finished and Gram had a picture picked out of the both of them for the back, but after he died the photo was scrapped by his wife before the album was released. Emmylou was very upset about it. She said she didn't really care if her picture was on the back, but she felt nobody had the right to mess with their finished album and change it.
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Simey'ed again!  

I sleep in a little on Father's Day and you take my album! This was going to be my pick today. 

Love it. Not quite as much as his ealrlier work with the Flying Burrito Brothers but still damn good. 

 
simey said:
12.9 - Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons (1974 album)

I think my favorite country-rock song of all-time is Return of the Grievous Angel. Gram Parsons, and his singing partner Emmylou Harris, recorded this album in 1973. They had been on the road together for several months doing the GP tour, and the Grievous songs were written and practiced during that time. When they got to the studio they did the tracks in five days, and then did the vocals the remaining five days which were all first or second takes.  Some of the band members for the sessions consisted of Al Perkins on pedal steel, James Burton on lead guitar, Glen Hardin on piano, and Bernie Leadon, former Flying Burrito Brother and one of the founders of the Eagles, plays on three songs..  Emmylou said the album was basically "live." She said her and Gram complimented each other a lot, because she was the energy source and he was the visionary. He needed her energy, and she needed his direction. Sadly, Gram died in September of 1973 and never got to see the album released (January 1974). He was a visionary, and it is too bad his life was cut short.

Album trivia: Emmylou was supposed to be on the back cover of the album with Gram.  He had promised her he would put her photo on it. The album was finished and Gram had a picture picked out of the both of them for the back, but after he died the photo was scrapped by his wife before the album was released. Emmylou was very upset about it. She said she didn't really care if her picture was on the back, but she felt nobody had the right to mess with their finished album and change it.
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Yep, this was the one I was talking about. Great pick!

 
Roxy Music was a band I never got into too much. They didn't get a ton of radio play in the 70s, so I think they slipped through the cracks for me. I should probably give them a closer listen.

 
rockaction said:
12.xx - Kiss - Kiss - 1974 album

This is the only album I have thought of that fits the bill. There will be more glam rock picks to come, but "Strutter," "Cold Gin," "Firehouse," and others are straight up rock classics, especially, "Strutter" and "Cold Gin," two tracks that seem to live on in my ever-decreasing musical vocabulary. 

The playlist gets shorter as the years get longer.  

Also, T. Rex's The Slider should be 1972 on the spreadsheet if there's any confusion. I'm not pushing, because it's a labor of love, especially in these first come first serve rounds. Peace. Oh, and Happy Father's Day to all you pops out there. (You know who you are.) 

-RA




 
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I bought that album and played the #### out of it.  Simple, straight-forward rock.  

I don't listen to them much anymore, but they don't get the credit they should.  

 
dal_boys_phan said:
Really don't want to use the wildcard slot early, but seems criminal to me that this one has fallen to the 12th round, so I'm gonna take the money and run...

12.xx - Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle (wildcard album)

Spun this one MANY times as a college student - both at Thursday late night party gigs and my Monday radio show.  Finally saw him two years ago at the local shed and he killed it.  




 
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If you like this one, you likely, but may not have - Anthology.  It doesn't qualify in this draft as it's a compilation album, but it precedes this album and is very, very good.   

 
simey said:
The google sheet has the wrong album year for my Duke Ellington album. It is 1973, but the google sheet says 1977. I'd fix it myself if I could. Thanks.
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Also, the google sheet says 1977 for the Last Waltz in round 9, and it should be 1978. Thanks.

 
12.11 The Commodores - The Commodores (1977 album)

AKA: The One With "Brick House" And "Easy" On It.

I don't even think this is their best album, but it's the one that means the most to me. It was a huge part of one of the soundtrack in one of the signature years of my lifetime. "Brick House", of course, will forever be played wherever white people congregate to celebrate. And "Easy" is Richie's finest song. "Zoom" is probably the best of Lionel's "We look for something BIGGER" songs.

Those were the radio hits. But the rest of the album is what makes it for me. This is a fine slice of pop-funk from guys who knew what they wanted and knew how to get there (they'd know each other since college in the 60s). 

Full Album

Since you've heard the hits in dentist offices and malls for umpteen years, here are three of my favorite deeper cuts:

Funny Feelings

Won't You Come Dance With Me

Funky Situation

This was probably the last album they did when it wasn't a sure thing Richie going to leave them. Next record had "Three Times A Lady" on it and I knew he was toast. I'm surprised it took another three albums before he left, though.

 
simey said:
12.9 - Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons (1974 album)

I think my favorite country-rock song of all-time is Return of the Grievous Angel. Gram Parsons, and his singing partner Emmylou Harris, recorded this album in 1973. They had been on the road together for several months doing the GP tour, and the Grievous songs were written and practiced during that time. When they got to the studio they did the tracks in five days, and then did the vocals the remaining five days which were all first or second takes.  Some of the band members for the sessions consisted of Al Perkins on pedal steel, James Burton on lead guitar, Glen Hardin on piano, and Bernie Leadon, former Flying Burrito Brother and one of the founders of the Eagles, plays on three songs..  Emmylou said the album was basically "live." She said her and Gram complimented each other a lot, because she was the energy source and he was the visionary. He needed her energy, and she needed his direction. Sadly, Gram died in September of 1973 and never got to see the album released (January 1974). He was a visionary, and it is too bad his life was cut short.

Album trivia: Emmylou was supposed to be on the back cover of the album with Gram.  He had promised her he would put her photo on it. The album was finished and Gram had a picture picked out of the both of them for the back, but after he died the photo was scrapped by his wife before the album was released. Emmylou was very upset about it. She said she didn't really care if her picture was on the back, but she felt nobody had the right to mess with their finished album and change it.
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Crap.  I should have checked in earlier.  Needless to say I love this pick. 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
12.11 The Commodores - The Commodores (1977 album)

AKA: The One With "Brick House" And "Easy" On It.

I don't even think this is their best album, but it's the one that means the most to me. It was a huge part of one of the soundtrack in one of the signature years of my lifetime. "Brick House", of course, will forever be played wherever white people congregate to celebrate. And "Easy" is Richie's finest song. "Zoom" is probably the best of Lionel's "We look for something BIGGER" songs.

Those were the radio hits. But the rest of the album is what makes it for me. This is a fine slice of pop-funk from guys who knew what they wanted and knew how to get there (they'd know each other since college in the 60s). 

Full Album

Since you've heard the hits in dentist offices and malls for umpteen years, here are three of my favorite deeper cuts:

Funny Feelings

Won't You Come Dance With Me

Funky Situation

This was probably the last album they did when it wasn't a sure thing Richie going to leave them. Next record had "Three Times A Lady" on it and I knew he was toast. I'm surprised it took another three albums before he left, though.




 
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You could leave a few funk/r&b albums for that category for the rest of us UH.

 
There's a bunch in the late 70s, Bink. It's like the late 60s/early 70s embarrassment of riches for classic rock. Hell, the one-shots are probably more enjoyable than the legacy artists I'm picking. In any case, I'm going all-funk/r&b for the rest of my albums from here on out. My selection tomorrow shouldn't worry anyone, as I doubt I'm the only one outside of that particular artist who would ever pick it.

 
12.xx For my 1974 album I select Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers.

It was my intro to Reggae my freshman year of college at SIU in 1981.  I borrowed it from my next door neighbor in the dorms.  He left before I could give it back and I kept it.  Later it was stolen from me at EIU when our house was broken into and the thieves went through our records and only selected the best to steal.

This one has the studio version of No Woman, No Cry, which alone would make it a classic, but it also has Lively Up Yourself, the title track and Revolution, which are favorites.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
You could leave a few funk/r&b albums for that category for the rest of us UH.
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I met Uruk for some beers a few years ago when he was in town for the ACC tournament. Before I met him I thought he might be black based on him talking about playing basketball with Dereck Whittenburg and some others, and he talked about r&b and funk a lot, and I think he dated some black girls too. He is white as snow.

 
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dal_boys_phan said:
Really don't want to use the wildcard slot early, but seems criminal to me that this one has fallen to the 12th round, so I'm gonna take the money and run...

12.xx - Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle (wildcard album)

Spun this one MANY times as a college student - both at Thursday late night party gigs and my Monday radio show.  Finally saw him two years ago at the local shed and he killed it.  
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He came off as a cool cat at his R&R HoF induction ceremony.

Go Badgers!

 
12.xx  Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Over-Nite Sensation (1973 Album)
 

Zappa at his most pop, which wouldn't be very pop for anybody else.  Over-Nite Sensation is one of his two Gold albums.  It charted on the album charts which says something about 1973.  The twisted humor served as a gateway for listeners into Zappa's musical constructions (and to finance them for that matter).  He's no longer around to care but I'm a bit sad he's remembered more as a rather mean spirited, perverted comedian than a sometimes overly serious musician.

This record is almost Funkadelish in its jams and absurdist tone.  The lyrics aren't as hilarious as I remember them from when I was a teenager but time takes nothing away from Zappa's guitar chops.  He is one of the 70s best guitar players with a special combination of technical skill and inventiveness.  This version of the Mothers is one of the tightest with George Duke, Jean Luc-Ponty, the Underwoods, the Fowlers and Tina Turner and the Ikettes (Ike didn't dig the tapes and demanded they go uncredited).  The other fun fact is singer Ricky Lancelotti who over-emotes on Fifty-Fifty and Zomby Woof once did vocals for Hanna Barbera's The Banana Splits.  I'm sure Wikipedia has a robot army continuously validating Lancelotti's page.

 
worrierking said:
12.xx For my 1974 album I select Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers.

It was my intro to Reggae my freshman year of college at SIU in 1981.  I borrowed it from my next door neighbor in the dorms.  He left before I could give it back and I kept it.  Later it was stolen from me at EIU when our house was broken into and the thieves went through our records and only selected the best to steal.

This one has the studio version of No Woman, No Cry, which alone would make it a classic, but it also has Lively Up Yourself, the title track and Revolution, which are favorites.
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Marley had about as strong a decade as anybody. 

 
Eephus said:
12.xx  Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Over-Nite Sensation (1973 Album)
 

Zappa at his most pop, which wouldn't be very pop for anybody else.  Over-Nite Sensation is one of his two Gold albums.  It charted on the album charts which says something about 1973.  The twisted humor served as a gateway for listeners into Zappa's musical constructions (and to finance them for that matter).  He's no longer around to care but I'm a bit sad he's remembered more as a rather mean spirited, perverted comedian than a sometimes overly serious musician.

This record is almost Funkadelish in its jams and absurdist tone.  The lyrics aren't as hilarious as I remember them from when I was a teenager but time takes nothing away from Zappa's guitar chops.  He is one of the 70s best guitar players with a special combination of technical skill and inventiveness.  This version of the Mothers is one of the tightest with George Duke, Jean Luc-Ponty, the Underwoods, the Fowlers and Tina Turner and the Ikettes (Ike didn't dig the tapes and demanded they go uncredited).  The other fun fact is singer Ricky Lancelotti who over-emotes on Fifty-Fifty and Zomby Woof once did vocals for Hanna Barbera's The Banana Splits.  I'm sure Wikipedia has a robot army continuously validating Lancelotti's page.
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We're the Banana Splits…yeah!...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksb0sc3y5k0

Anybody needing an acid flashback need only watch this.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtbyvzYZOmw

 
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13.xx - Eric Clapton - Slowhand (1977 album)

Finally saw him at Jazz Fest a few years back, so I decided to use him in my theme here rather than waiting for the song selections.  I was expecting "a little" more - maybe it was the festival setting, maybe something else, but the performance just seemed off.  Still, was quite glad I got to see one of the guitar legends.

 
I took LZ IV with my first pick and I'm going to go ahead and double down with Zep for my first song.

13.01 Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (Hard rock/classic rock song)

Deliberating between putting this in Hard rock/classic rock or 1971 category. Thinking about that begs the question of what year to use for songs. I assume the year will be when the album came out and not the year the single was released.

P.S. The spreadsheet should be up to date as of this post (including corrections). Please let me know if anything else is missing.

 
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13.13 - Baby Love - Mother's Finest (Best funk/soul/disco song)  :fro:

I have drafted this song in the past, but it is by far my favorite funk song ever. Mother's Finest is a funk rock band from Atlanta. In the 70's they were known as the show stealing opening act. They opened for bands such as  Black Sabbath, The Who, AC/DC, Aerosmith, etc. They were popular in the Southeast, but never got the national recognition they deserved. Strangely, they were extremely popular in Europe. They still tour today, and still have four of the 6 original band members in the band (Baby Jean, Doc, Wyzard, and Moses Mo). Baby Jean still has her pipes. Here is one of their kickass live performances of Baby Love.

 
jwb said:
It's inevitable that zep and queen (et al) get picked
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Of course. Not at all surprising. I've just been a round too late every time

jwb said:
but the song list mirroring the album list is kinda boring. 
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I get this too but I'm not picking for style points. I could go really deep on either artist and truth be told Stairway isn't my fav LZ song (that would be In My Time of Dying).

 
simey said:
Thanks for doing the spreadsheet for everyone.
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No worries. Someone asked earlier about splitting up the picks into two spreadsheets. Would rather not do that but you should be able to use the filter at the top of the columns. Just click on the blue down arrow at the top of any column and you can filter the picks.

 
The Boomtown Rats- A Tonic for the Troops-1978 album

With all apologies to the great Thin Lizzy, the Rats were the best Irish rock band ever and this is their best album. Featuring the epic, Springsteenesque songs "Rat Trap" and "Joey's On the Street Again", the hilarious "I Never Loved Eva Braun", the hard rocking "Mary of the Fourth Form" and "She's So Modern", and the lyrical gems "Like Clockwork" and   "Living On an Island". But Bob Geldof's highlight might be "Me and Howard Hughes", an ode to isolation and paranoia. Tremendous album. 

Unfortunately this album is no longer available and can only be purchased as part of a 6 album collection. 

 
timschochet said:
The Boomtown Rats- A Tonic for the Troops-1978 album

Unfortunately this album is no longer available and can only be purchased as part of a 6 album collection. 
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Did you really mean to say album (i.e. sometimes I say album because of my era but really mean CD)? The only reason I ask is that I would assume a lot of older music isn't available in that format.

P.S. I can't help think of  Don't Like Mondays when I hear of The Boomtown Rats. To quote Forrest Gump they're like peas and carrots to me.

 
Yesterday afternoon was boiling hot and our community pool doesn't open until today.  So I took the kids (2 and 6) down to the basement and let them go nuts with some of the older toys we have down there.  I also have my old guitar and amp down there, so I decided to pick it back up and make some noise.  Almost immediately the kids ran over with their little drums and maracas and joined the jam session.  The song I was working on was Frankenstein by Edgar Winter - so in honor of our little Father's day jam session I'll take:

13.xx - They Only Come Out at Night - The Edgar Winter Group (Wildcard)

 
rd.12 pick

"Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd (classic/hard rock song)

I rarely listen to PF, and when I do, it's mostly all cuts from "The Wall' - and this is by far my favorite.

punctuated by Gilmour's awe-inspiring solos (middle/outro) ... still gives me shivers  :thumbup:

the song impacted me from the start (circa 1980), and still does to this day. it's 'classic' rock at it's finest and most compelling - it kills on every level.

 
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Buzzbait said:
I took LZ IV with my first pick and I'm going to go ahead and double down with Zep for my first song.

13.01 Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (Hard rock/classic rock song)

Deliberating between putting this in Hard rock/classic rock or 1971 category. Thinking about that begs the question of what year to use for songs. I assume the year will be when the album came out and not the year the single was released.

P.S. The spreadsheet should be up to date as of this post (including corrections). Please let me know if anything else is missing.
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we should be able to use either IMO.  Rapper's Delight is one example of why - single released in 1979, album was released in 1980.

 
13.xx Supertramp Crime of the Century (1974 album)

Supertramp fits somewhere on the rock spectrum between the Beatles and Pink Floyd but with nowhere near the cred of either.  AOR bears some of the blame for the band's welterweight image for focusing on their poppier efforts at the expense of their grand orchestral epics.  

This 1974 release was their first with a new lineup and abandoned some of their prog tendencies of their first two largely unsuccessful albums.  It was also the first time songwriters Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies wrote separately.  This coupled with a three year gap since their previous album gave the band the luxury of choosing from a large number of songs.  As a result, even though it's not a concept album but it flows like one.  The album includes pop hits "Dreamer" and "Bloody Well Right" and the atmospheric "School" and "Rudy". Like the band, the Wurlitzer electric piano is an underrated 70s keyboard sound vs the Rhodes or Clavinet usually associated with the decade.

As a teenager, I liked this album but moved on to harder stuff before Supertramp's huge US commercial breakthrough in 1979.  I've developed a greater appreciation for pop craft over the past 40 years and like the three 70s albums that followed this one but Crime of the Century is still my favorite.

 
Eephus said:
13.xx Supertramp Crime of the Century (1974 album)

Supertramp fits somewhere on the rock spectrum between the Beatles and Pink Floyd but with nowhere near the cred of either.  AOR bears some of the blame for the band's welterweight image for focusing on their poppier efforts at the expense of their grand orchestral epics.  

This 1974 release was their first with a new lineup and abandoned some of their prog tendencies of their first two largely unsuccessful albums.  It was also the first time songwriters Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies wrote separately.  This coupled with a three year gap since their previous album gave the band the luxury of choosing from a large number of songs.  As a result, even though it's not a concept album but it flows like one.  The album includes pop hits "Dreamer" and "Bloody Well Right" and the atmospheric "School" and "Rudy". Like the band, the Wurlitzer electric piano is an underrated 70s keyboard sound vs the Rhodes or Clavinet usually associated with the decade.

As a teenager, I liked this album but moved on to harder stuff before Supertramp's huge US commercial breakthrough in 1979.  I've developed a greater appreciation for pop craft over the past 40 years and like the three 70s albums that followed this one but Crime of the Century is still my favorite.
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well, there goes the last album on my list for 1974.  Looks like I'll be punting the year.  (is it just my lack of knowledge or was 1974 overall pretty weak?)

 
FUBAR said:
well, there goes the last album on my list for 1974.  Looks like I'll be punting the year.  (is it just my lack of knowledge or was 1974 overall pretty weak?)
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If you want Crime, you can take it and I'll repick.

I'm trying not to draft anything by artists previously selected :nerd: and I didn't remember Breakfast in America getting picked until after I'd finished the writeup.

 
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