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

How about we look at each member's list and make judgements not about the quality of the music, but we judge them as a person.

For example:  Looking at Uruk's list I would surmise that he likes hard drugs and lusts after black women.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
This is fun, but difficult.  Just so many tough choices, hate leaving so many good ones on the table.
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The 70s had so much great music in various genres. It was a great time listening to FM radio, because it played such a variety of different music, plus it would play deep cuts. I remember when FM radio would play full albums late night, and I would tape them. On Sunday nights there was the King Biscuit Flower Hour where you'd hear live shows. Good times.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
20.03:  Roll Away the Stone - Mott the Hoople - 1974 Song

One of my favorite groups of all time.  This was released in the UK in November of '73 but '74 in the US.  

song link

As much as I want to put one of my favorite Todd songs in here ...I'm not.  The rest of this draft my goal for this exercise is to bring some tunes/groups that typically get a little less attention these days.  Hopefully bring some good "new" stuff to the younger people in here and bring back some forgotten memories for the rest of us.  
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Did they record this in some kind of deaf, chunky teen convention after they woke 'em up in the middle of the night?

 
Starting off the 24th round with this. My favorite Heart song. by a country mile. Ann Wilson was closer to 30 than her teen years and the power in her voice shows here. Hard to believe listening to their new album that she's 66.

24.01 Mistral Wind by Heart 1978 Song

 
24.11 "Beach Baby" - First Class (1974 song)

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One in a long line of sorta one-off bands that Tony Burrows sang in. He also sang lead on the following:

Edison Lighthouse "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes"

White Plains "My Baby Loves Lovin'"

Brotherhood Of Man "United We Stand"

Pipkins "Gimme Dat Ding"

There are probably more that I'm forgetting

 
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"Suicide" - Suicide (1977 album)

talk about groundbreaking ... with all the different directions music was heading, these guys were cooking up a whole 'nother monster in their own little lab - recorded in just four days, on a minuscule budget (six songs) - it's an all out aural assault by Martin Rev and Allan Vega -  just keyboard and electronics, yet as brutally ripping as any guitar driven album ever was. 

Ghost Rider kicks this off, and it grabs you by the throat ... the production is brilliant, it's raw and mind numbing.

Frankie Teardrop. which opened side two, perfectly captures the ambiance and insanity.  it's a ride straight to hell, the story is unsettling, the song is unrelenting.

the album is the most punk as #### release of the era, imo ..., these guys didn't give one rat's ### about anything but laying their sh!t down, on their terms. it's legacy is forever cemented, it's influence is as far reaching as anything to come outta the decade. 

took us awhile to get around to this one, back in the day one had to work to find the 'underground' gems, and this was like digging to China, so to speak. those who had heard it swore by it ... wasn't always available at the record stores ... certainly didn't get any airplay.  a cassette copy began to get passed around, and we were hooked. 

could say a ton more, but one YouTube comment i read summed it up perfectly: "this album makes me wanna buy a motorcycle chain and start whipping the floor"

 
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I had to debate whether to take the album or one song from it, decided to take my favorite AC/DC song because it is my fave, I like the video, and you never go wrong with good bagpipes. 

It's s long way to the top if you want to rock and roll, AC/DC 1975 song

This is an autobiographical song for AC/DC describing their struggles as they try to make it big by delivering a top notch live show night after night. It was genuine: at the time they were just getting started and playing some seedy venues with even seedier business associates. The hard work eventually paid off, and several years later the band was selling out arenas. "It's A Long Way To The Top" really summed us up as a band," Angus Young told Rolling Stone. It was the audience that really allowed us to even get near a studio.

In 2004, one of the streets in Melbourne near where this video was filmed was renamed "ACDC Lane" in honor of the band. 

Some Aussies sing the chorus as "It's a long way to the top if you want a sausage roll" or even "Chicko Roll," which is even more Aussie - that's a kind of snack down under.

A Cover by another favorite band also rocks, a long way. 

 
simsarge said:
Starting off the 24th round with this. My favorite Heart song. by a country mile. Ann Wilson was closer to 30 than her teen years and the power in her voice shows here. Hard to believe listening to their new album that she's 66.

24.01 Mistral Wind by Heart 1978 Song
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Didn't realize they had a new album.  Thanks for pointing that out - going to check that out this weekend.

 
Man, I hate the Eagles...

24.xx - The Eagles - Already Gone - 1974 song

Heard this back in '97 on a punk cover comp and it's never sounded better. I dig it all. A pretty rock n' roll mid-tempo sounding joint from the masters of overwrought downbeat.  

 
24.xx - Kiss - Rock And Roll All Nite ("Dressed To Kill" album version)(1975 song)

Normally, I'm not much for Kiss songs with Gene Simmons' lead vocals.  Like his TV reality show, I can only take small doses.  But this is one of the few Simmons lead vocals I never get tired of hearing.  I only went with the studio version because I'm staying away from live cuts for this draft - the version from "Alive!" is much better, but hopefully that does not harm me too much in the voting.  Seen them a bunch of times and it's always a good time.

 
Steve Miller Band "The Joker" 1974 song

You're the cutest thing that I ever did see

Really love your peaches, want to shake your tree

Where would the 1970s  be without the Steve Miller band? 

 
24.xx - How Long - Ace (wildcard song)

This song reminds me of spending the summers at the neighborhood pool, and hearing the great sound of the 70s being played there. Paul Carrack was the lead singer in this band, and he wrote the song. He would go on to be in a number of other bands. He has always had a very distinctive singing voice.

 
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24.xx - The Hollies - Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress - 1971 Song

When I used to use Pandora, it didn't matter what type of rock station you made - this is the one song that transcended everything and always eventually came on. The included link has the words, so you'll finally learn the connection between the FBI and his temperature rising and the Woman in the black dress (which is basically all one catches from listening).

 
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jwb said:
24.xx - The Hollies - Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress - 1971 Song

When I used to use Pandora, it didn't matter what type of rock station you made - this is the one song that transcended everything and always eventually came on. The included link has the words, so you'll finally learn the connection between the FBI and his temperature rising and the Woman in the black dress (which is basically all one catches from listening).
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The Hollies could imitate just about anyone (that's a compliment in their case), and sometimes do it better than the guys they were imitating. I don't know if this particular song is better than CCR's best records, but it's right up there with them.

 
timschochet said:
Steve Miller Band "The Joker" 1974 song

You're the cutest thing that I ever did see

Really love your peaches, want to shake your tree

Where would the 1970s  be without the Steve Miller band? 
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Must read link:

In Steve Miller's "The Joker," what is "the pompatus of love"?

October 25, 1996
 

What does "pompatus" mean? There's a movie out now called The Pompatus of Love, and of course it contains the Steve Miller song as a theme. I can't find "pompatus" in the dictionary. Any clues?

— Cane95, via America Online
 

Cecil replies:

Clues? Pfui. We have cracked the freaking case, thanks to some outstanding legwork by Jon Cryer — actor, cowriter, and coproducer of the movie Pompatus of Love — and my new assistant, J.K. Fabian. J.K. has what it takes to make a real impact in this business: pluck, luck, and an outstanding record collection.

"Pompatus" mystified millions when Steve Miller used it in his 1973 hit "The Joker": "Some people call me the space cowboy. / Yeah! Some call me the gangster of love. / Some people call me Maurice, / Cause I speak of the Pompatus of love."

"Space cowboy" and "gangster of love" referred to earlier Miller songs. Maurice was from Miller's 1972 tune "Enter Maurice," which appeared on the album Recall the Beginning ... A Journey From Eden.  "Enter Maurice" had this lyric: "My dearest darling, come closer to Maurice so I can whisper sweet words of epismetology in your ear and speak to you of the pompitous of love."

Great, now there were two mystery words. What's more, it appeared even Miller himself was uncertain how pompatus was spelled. It appeared as "pompatus" in at least two books of sheet music but as "pompitous" in the lyrics included with "Recall the Beginning."

Miller has said little about the P-word over the years. In at least one interview, fans say, he claimed "it doesn't mean anything--it's just jive talk."

Not quite.

Some sharp-eared music fan noticed the "Enter Maurice" lyric above bore a marked resemblance to some lines in a rhythm and blues tune called "The Letter" by the Medallions. The song had been a hit in R & B circles in 1954.  J.K. found the record. It had the lines, "Oh my darling, let me whisper sweet words of [something like epismetology] and discuss the [something like pompatus] of love." J.K. tried to find the sheet music for the song, but came up only with the Box Tops hit ("My baby, she wrote me a letter").

Then came a stroke of luck. Jon Cryer the movie guy had stumbled onto the secret of pompatus. Eager to reveal it to the world, he sent it to — who, Rolling Stone? The New York Times?

Of course not. He sent it to us.

Speculation about "pompatus" was a recurring motif in the script for The Pompatus of Love. While the movie was in postproduction Cryer heard about "The Letter." During a TV interview he said that the song had been written and sung by a member of the Medallions named Vernon Green. Green, still very much alive, was dozing in front of the tube when the mention of his name caught his attention. He immediately contacted Cryer.

Green had never heard "The Joker." Cryer says that when he played it for Green "he laughed his ### off." Green's story:

"You have to remember, I was a very lonely guy at the time. I was only 14 years old, I had just run away from home, and I walked with crutches," Green told Cryer. He scraped by singing songs on the streets of Watts.

One song was "The Letter," Green's attempt to conjure up his dream woman. The mystery words, J.K. ascertained after talking with Green, were "puppetutes" and "pizmotality." (Green wasn't much for writing things down, so the spellings are approximate.)

"Pizmotality described words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved," Green told Cryer. And puppetutes? "A term I coined to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure [thus puppet], who would be my everything and bear my children." Not real PC, but look, it was 1954.

Green went on to record many other songs and is still writing today. He can be reached at P.O. Box 1394, Perris, CA 92572.

Steve Miller must have loved R&B. Another line from "The Joker" goes "I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree. / Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time." A similar line may be found in the Clovers' 1953 hit "Lovey Dovey": "I really love your peaches wanna shake your tree / Lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time."

When I spoke to Miller's publicist Jim Welch about these coincidences, he said Miller's comment was "artistic license." Pressed a bit, Welch said Miller acknowledged that he'd been "influenced" by earlier artists. Not perhaps the most forthcoming statement in the world. But at least we now know it didn't come to him in a dream.
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Jigsaw - Sky High (1975 song)

- this was the 'Take On Me' moment of the 70s (preceding the A-ha hit by exactly one decade)... psuedo dance pop/disco, perhaps referred to as "Euro Trash" in some circles ... but, damn, is it a glorious earworm. 

production is bombastic as all hell, and it does feel like you're standing amidst the gathering winds of a hurricane - it hits that desperation note perfectly - picks you up, gives you a spin, then disappears.  

as disposable and sticky as a jaw full of cotton candy ... and just as tasty. 

 
Interesting stuff Doug B. I always figured Maurice referred to Chevalier- ladies' man, etc. 

Miller's music was highly derivative- there was nothing original about it. Many of his guitar riffs were sniped. But it was fun to listen to. Growing up in Southern Cal as a teenager I relate his songs to driving to the beach. 

 
otb_lifer said:
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Jigsaw - Sky High (1975 song)

- this was the 'Take On Me' moment of the 70s (preceding the A-ha hit by exactly one decade)... psuedo dance pop/disco, perhaps referred to as "Euro Trash" in some circles ... but, damn, is it a glorious earworm. 

production is bombastic as all hell, and it does feel like you're standing amidst the gathering winds of a hurricane - it hits that desperation note perfectly - picks you up, gives you a spin, then disappears.  

as disposable and sticky as a jaw full of cotton candy ... and just as tasty. 
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Really like this stuff being picked - this, beach baby, afternoon delight a few rounds ago... all stuff that was largely forgotten in just a few years.

 
24.12: "Achilles Last Stand", Led Zeppelin  [link]  (hard rock/classic rock song)

Classic rock fans love to argue about whether or not LZ was really "heavy metal". Well, here's one take: LZ wasn't of "heavy metal" -- but they did heavy metal with some frequency. Furthermore, their metal songs are some of their most influential. The galloping drums & bassline of "Achilles Last Stand" would reverberate throughout British heavy metal for the next two decades.

 
Doug B said:
24.12: "Achilles Last Stand", Led Zeppelin  [link]  (hard rock/classic rock song)

Classic rock fans love to argue about whether or not LZ was really "heavy metal". Well, here's one take: LZ wasn't of "heavy metal" -- but they did heavy metal with some frequency. Furthermore, their metal songs are some of their most influential. The galloping drums & bassline of "Achilles Last Stand" would reverberate throughout British heavy metal for the next two decades.
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What you hear from many of the fans of bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden is that "heavy metal" (as it was defined in the 70s) isn't the same as "real" metal (as it came to be defined in the 80s).

This song proves them wrong. If it had a more...um....muscular and operatic singer like Ian Gilliam of Deep Purple over this track, it's Iron Maiden's entire career. That Zep just didn't do this over & over proves that they had more finesse in their pinky fingers than most of the later bands did.  Deep Purple did, too - and, hell, they were doing thrash a decade before it became a thing (see: "Highway Star" among others). Only Sabbath - of the original Holy Trinity Of Metal - was as obvious and sometimes one-note as many of the later groups and even they were more varied than a band like Motorhead or Metallica. 

Led Zeppelin was a heavy metal band just like Elvis was a rockabilly singer - "well, yeah....but....."

 
simey said:
24.xx - How Long - Ace (wildcard song)

This song reminds me of spending the summers at the neighborhood pool, and hearing the great sound of the 70s being played there. Paul Carrack was the lead singer in this band, and he wrote the song. He would go on to be in a number of other bands. He has always had a very distinctive singing voice.




 
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So much cheesy goodness.  

Hated it back in the day ...couldn't escape for almost a year on the radio.  

Now it brings back great memories.  AND how can you not like Carrack?  Tempted?  Hello?

 
24.xx  "Do Anything You Wanna Do"  Eddie & The Hot Rods  (1977 song)

This was a UK Top Ten hit in the summer of punk.  It's pure punk sentiment packed in a power pop anthem.  Singer Barrie Masters still tours under the Eddie & The Hot Rods banner (Eddie was dummy who was propped up on stage for the band's initial gigs).  Masters shows up every couple years and always plays one of few punk dives left in SF.  He's in his 60s now but still rocks out for 50 drunks in a ####hole like his life depends on it. And it probably does.  Lovely guy, he always kisses Mrs. Eephus' hand.

25.xx "Starry Eyes" The Records (1979 song)

This is basically the same song.  The Records shamelessly rip off Eddie and The Hot Rods, tack on an intro from Roger McGuinn's closet and somehow manage to improve on the original.  All's fair in rock n roll.

 
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