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

rockaction said:
Oh, I am hopefully changing my pick by The Clash to the 1979 song and changing O-o-h Child to soul/funk disco song so that I might open up 1970. This is what happens when you're disorganized. But I'll knock '70 and '72 off of my list in a few days.  
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Do you want me to change this? 

To Everyone, the spreadsheet is caught up, and I noticed I was putting the titles before the artists, so I flip flopped it so it would be the same as how Buzz was doing it. Higgins and Norwood owe repicks.

 
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15.xx Donna Summer - I feel love. Disco /soul song

Moroder wanted to create a sound of the future and it seems he succeeded

 
Mrs. Eephus and I went to see The Tubes last night.  She's always game to see a band but I might have passed on this one if not for this draft.  So thanks for that.

They still put on a great show.  Four of the five members are originals and the fifth has been with the band for twenty years so they're extremely tight.  Prairie Prince belong in the top echelon of rock drummers and Roger Steen is a gifted guitarist.  At 65, Fee has lost a bit of vocal range but is still crazy after all these years.  He gets up on the platform heels every show, chugs beers, cusses like a sailor and took a big hit off of a vape pipe that somebody handed him from the crowd.  Rock n roll.

 
Eephus said:
At 65, Fee has lost a bit of vocal range ...
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Was watching an I Heart Radio '80s concert on the Audience Channel (DirecTV) Friday night, and they had a load of '80s artists performing live. Culture Club (Original members! After the way they broke up!!), Rick Springfield, Tears for Fears, Billy Idol, Loverboy, etc. Every single singer had lost the top end of their range to Father Time -- though Springfield was closest to being able to hit the old notes.

The real trick was what the bands were doing behind the vocalists. Some bands changed the key of the songs to match the singers' current range, and those still sounded pretty good. A few acts, though, played the music the same way they played 30+ years ago and left the singer hanging in the wind. Poor Mike Reno.

 
Eephus said:
Mrs. Eephus and I went to see The Tubes last night.  She's always game to see a band but I might have passed on this one if not for this draft.  So thanks for that.

They still put on a great show.  Four of the five members are originals and the fifth has been with the band for twenty years so they're extremely tight.  Prairie Prince belong in the top echelon of rock drummers and Roger Steen is a gifted guitarist.  At 65, Fee has lost a bit of vocal range but is still crazy after all these years.  He gets up on the platform heels every show, chugs beers, cusses like a sailor and took a big hit off of a vape pipe that somebody handed him from the crowd.  Rock n roll.
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Dammit!!  Had no idea - and it looks like the tour is CA and Europe.  Saw these guys open for Todd in the late 70s/early 80s can't remember exactly - of course - fantastic show.  

Prairie has been with Todd for years now so good to see him tour with the band.  Vince Welnick played with Todd quite a bit too - RIP.  

 
timschochet said:
I believe I specified that Rush should be ineligible in this draft for a very good reason: they suck. You have chosen to ignore my advice, and deserve punishment, though perhaps having to listen to an entire Rush album will suffice. 
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Rush haters suck.  

Yeah, and let's listen to the entire soundtrack of "The Sting" instead.  

 
Don't you just hate it when you hear a song on the radio which you love, it hasn't been taken yet and you start thinking "why haven't I taken this? " then you remember the song you took for the year and think "ah,yeah, of course"

I'll find a way to fit it in. 

 
Doug B said:
Was watching an I Heart Radio '80s concert on the Audience Channel (DirecTV) Friday night, and they had a load of '80s artists performing live. Culture Club (Original members! After the way they broke up!!), Rick Springfield, Tears for Fears, Billy Idol, Loverboy, etc. Every single singer had lost the top end of their range to Father Time -- though Springfield was closest to being able to hit the old notes.

The real trick was what the bands were doing behind the vocalists. Some bands changed the key of the songs to match the singers' current range, and those still sounded pretty good. A few acts, though, played the music the same way they played 30+ years ago and left the singer hanging in the wind. Poor Mike Reno.
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I saw that.  

Time and liquor have not been kind to Mike.  

 
The Dreaded Marco said:
Rove! said:
15.xx Donna Summer - I feel love. Disco /soul song

Moroder wanted to create a sound of the future and it seems he succeeded
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I think this has been taken already.
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I thought it was taken previously too, but I don't see it anywhere. Love to Love You, Baby and her Bad Girls album were taken. 

 
simey said:
Do you want me to change this? 

To Everyone, the spreadsheet is caught up, and I noticed I was putting the titles before the artists, so I flip flopped it so it would be the same as how Buzz was doing it. Higgins and Norwood owe repicks.
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Sure thing. I should knock off 1970 next round. 

Thanks for doing this, simey. 

 
Doug B said:
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck, sayin' /
"Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya"
At seven p.m., the main hatchway caved in, he said /
"Fellas, it's been good to know ya"

26.12: "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", Gordon Lightfoot  [link]  (soft rock/singer-songwriter song)


Chills when I was a kindergartener in my mom's station wagon when I didn't know what the man was singing about. More chills today now that I understand.
 
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Pretty sure I was stoned the first time I heard this song. One of my faves. Nice pick.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
24:03: Search & Destroy - The Stooges - Punk Song

So much here.  I really had planned on taking another song off my punk album - Never Mind the Bullocks, but decided on The Stooges.  Lots and lots still out there.  

Really wish the Dead Kennedys had formed a little earlier  - Holiday in Cambodia, California Uber Alles, Kill the Poor, Too Drunk to #### ...
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California Uber Alles was released as as single in 1979.

 
26:03: I Wanna Go To The Sun - Peter Frampton

Here is an example of a deep cut off a popular album.  "Frampton Comes Alive" was in everybody's collection at that time.  It was huge and Frampton was huge.  I became a fan a few years prior as he was the young guitarist with Humble Pie and my love for Steve Marriott.  First heard this song on Somethin's Happenin album.  

Too much popularity and the awful, awful Sgt. Pepper's movie, along with nearly getting killed in a car crash sent his career in the dumper.  This guy has singing chops and is a killer guitarist - and is still around.  

I love this song over all the singles that made him famous on this album.  

 
25.xx Roy Rogers - Elton John - 1973 Song Not especially breezy, but still kinda cheesy  Link

Yellow Brick Road was four sides of musical bliss back in the mid seventies still is now, just on a one sided CD). Even though Funeral/Love Lies Bleeding is my favorite song of all time, it's not my favorite song on the album. This one is. I could listen to Johnstone's eerie guitar in the back ground for about an hour and not care.

26.XX Love Will Keep Us Together -  Captain and Tenille 1976 Song

I was going to go back to back Elton here with a different "Captain", but couldn't resist this toe tappin' guilty pleasure

 
27.01 ELO - Don't Bring Me Down (1979 song) 

More popular songs to chose from for 79 still available but I like Jeff Lynne so I'm going with this one. 

 
Need to make some adjustments. 

Move afternoon delight to soft rock song. 

Move don't fear the reaper to 1976 song.

27.F classic rock song: Dream On, Aerosmith, I prefer the longer, 1975 cut. 

Live 

Simply an outstanding song that helped launch one of the best bands of the last 40 years and became a staple of rock.

The album version of "Dream On" (4:28, as opposed to the 3:25 1973 45rpm edit) was re-issued in late 1975, debuting at number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on January 10, 1976, breaking into the Top 40 on February 14 and peaking at number 6 on April 10.Columbia Records chose to service Top 40 radio stations with both long and short versions of the song, thus, many 1976 pop radio listeners were exposed to the group's first Top 10 effort through the 45 edit.

In a 2011 interview, Tyler reminisced about his father, a Juilliard-trained musician. He recalled lying beneath his dad's piano as a three-year-old listening to him play classical music. "That's where I got that Dream Onchordage," he said.

Tyler says that this was the only song on the band's first album where he used his real voice. He was insecure about how his voice sounded on tape, so for the other songs, he tried to sing a bit lower and sound more like soul artists, such as James Brown. The song is also famous for its building climax to showcase Tyler's trademark screams. The main riff and chorus of the song were sampled in the 2003 song "Sing for the Moment" by rapper Eminem on The Eminem Show album.

 
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rd.27

S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT - Bay City Rollers (1976 song)

Tartan Time!

'cause it's groovy and goofy and cheesy and infectious as all hell ... made them the gold standard for the Tiger Beat set (move over David Cassidy and Bobby Goldsboro and the Osmonds and the Jacksons)  :D

it also spread it's tentacles to the punk scene, inasmuch that Sex Pistols Svengali Malcolm McClaren stated that he wanted a band that was "like a more dangerous version of the Bay City Rollers"   :excited:  (mission accomplished).

was ubiquitous that year, they were a worldwide sensation ... ROLLERMANIA!

 
27.xx You Never Even Call Me By My Name -David Allen Coe (1975 Song)

The self-proclaimed "perfect Country & Western song".  It's hard to argue the point.

When I moved to Louisiana in 1988 I heard this song in every bar on every jukebox and by every hack country crooner.  I had no idea it was iconic in these parts.  Every drunk redneck would sing along at full volume.  Now I do too.

 
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27. Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group (1973 song)

As the release's only instrumental cut, the song was not initially intended to be on the album, and was only included on a whim as a last-minute addition. It was originally released as the B-side to "Hangin' Around", but the two were soon reversed by the label when disc jockeys nationwide in the United States, as well as in Canada, were inundated with phone calls and realized this was the hit.

Frankenstein (always strange seeing this song played live)

 
Tom Skerritt said:
27. Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group (1973 song)

As the release's only instrumental cut, the song was not initially intended to be on the album, and was only included on a whim as a last-minute addition. It was originally released as the B-side to "Hangin' Around", but the two were soon reversed by the label when disc jockeys nationwide in the United States, as well as in Canada, were inundated with phone calls and realized this was the hit.

Frankenstein (always strange seeing this song played live)
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That was cool. Edgar Winter was ridiculously talented. 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
27.11 "Disco Inferno" - Trammps (1978 song)

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This song has an interesting history. From wikipedia:

The song was originally recorded by The Trammps in 1976 and released as a single. It was inspired by a scene in the 1974 blockbuster film The Towering Inferno in which a discotheque is caught in the blaze.[5] According to Tom Moulton, who mixed the record, the Dolby noise reduction had been set incorrectly during the mixdown of the tracks. When engineer Jay Mark discovered the error and corrected it, the mix had a much wider dynamic range than was common at the time. Due to this, the record seems to "jump out" at the listener. With "Starvin'" and "Body Contact Contract", it topped the U.S. Disco chart for six weeks in the late winter of 1977.[6]On the other US charts, "Disco Inferno" hit number nine on the Black Singles chart, but it was not initially a significant success at pop radio, peaking at number fifty-three on the Billboard Hot 100.[7]

"Disco Inferno" gained much greater recognition once it was included on the soundtrack to the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, this time in extended form, running nearly 11 minutes.[8] Re-released by Atlantic Records, the track peaked at number eleven in the U.S. during the spring of 1978, becoming The Trammps' biggest and most-recognized single. Later, it was included in the Saturday Night Fever musical, interpreted by the 'DJ Monty' in the "Odissey 2001" discothèque.

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Listening to this song now through speakers on a mobile or laptop doesn't do justice to what it (the remastered version in '77) sounded like at the time coming through a good stereo system. That record POPPED, man. Just jumped out of the speakers. The long-form version doesn't do much for me, but it's better than most "disco versions" (as we called them back in the day). I posted the single edit.

I can't think of another record that matches title with playing/singing so perfectly like this one does. Jimmy Ellis' Voice Of God vocal harkens back to Edwin Starr and Wilson Pickett, which gives the record a kick that many couldn't compete with at the time. The bass is like lava after a volcano blow. Drums & keys promise bad things coming, and the strings drive it home. 

 
27.xx - Bob Seger - Night Moves (1976 song)

Not being thrilled with my possible choices from 40 years ago, I have decided to cast this one like a rock to finish up my selections locked by year.  Only saw him once on tour, probably the only time he played MSG without Springsteen showing up (my luck).  Great show and Bob still has night moves for sure.

Enjoy the 4th everybody - will check back tomorrow with the first of three final picks...

 
26.06 -- 'Living in the Material World' by George Harrison, '73 album.

27.16 -- 'Voulez Vous' by ABBA, disco album

 
dal_boys_phan said:
27.xx - Bob Seger - Night Moves (1976 song)

Not being thrilled with my possible choices from 40 years ago, I have decided to cast this one like a rock to finish up my selections locked by year.  Only saw him once on tour, probably the only time he played MSG without Springsteen showing up (my luck).  Great show and Bob still has night moves for sure.

Enjoy the 4th everybody - will check back tomorrow with the first of three final picks...




 
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Can you imagine this guy touring and opening for Kiss?  

It happened and right around that time ('76).  Saw them twice and they were great shows.  

 
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