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

Doug B said:
Four Billboard Hot 100 #1s on Side A alone :shock:
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Yeah, the Bee Gees dominated the charts for a time like no band since the Beatles in the early 60s. There was a time, around the summer of 1977, when every #1 song was either the Bee Gees, or Andy Gibb, or "Emotion" by Samantha Sang. It was an incredible run. 

 
timschochet said:
Yeah, the Bee Gees dominated the charts for a time like no band since the Beatles in the early 60s. There was a time, around the summer of 1977, when every #1 song was either the Bee Gees, or Andy Gibb, or "Emotion" by Samantha Sang. It was an incredible run. 
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It's very impressive in retrospect.  Not so much if you were listening to radio at the time.

 
timschochet said:
Yeah, the Bee Gees dominated the charts for a time like no band since the Beatles in the early 60s. There was a time, around the summer of 1977, when every #1 song was either the Bee Gees, or Andy Gibb, or "Emotion" by Samantha Sang. It was an incredible run. 
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During the time period you are speaking of, the Bee Gees had 6 consecutive #1 hits tying the Beatles.  Also, Barry Gibb wrote wrote Andy's "Love is Thicker Than Water" and "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" in 1977 that went to #1. The Bee Gees wrote "If I can't Have You" for Yvonne Elliman that went to #1 in 1978. Barry wrote "Shadow Dancing" for Andy in 1978 that went to #1, and "Grease" for Frank Valli that went to #1 in 1978. Barry and Robin wrote "Emotion" for Samantha Sang that went to #3 in 1977. Barry wrote "(Our Love) Don't throw it all Away" for Andy in '78 that went to #9.

Had they released "More than a Woman" as a single it possibly could have hit #1. It still gets airplay.

 
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The Dreaded Marco said:
2.12 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (1971) Funk album
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Sorry.  I was typing from a golf tournament and didn't have time to comment. You should've seen the look on my playing partner's face when I told him I had to get my 1970s funk album pick in on a fantasy football message board. I probably should've just told him I was just answering an email from the office.  Anyway........

This category was relatively thin for me but I love, love this album.  The title track alone, with Eddie Hazel's guitar solo, makes it worth the pick for me.  Possibly could've gotten it a little later but it was by far my #1 in this category so I felt I had to take it in R2.

Maggot Brain

 
The Dreaded Marco said:
Sorry.  I was typing from a golf tournament and didn't have time to comment. You should've seen the look on my playing partner's face when I told him I had to get my 1970s funk album pick in on a fantasy football message board. I probably should've just told him I was just answering an email from the office.  Anyway........

This category was relatively thin for me but I love, love this album.  The title track alone, with Eddie Hazel's guitar solo, makes it worth the pick for me.  Possibly could've gotten it a little later but it was by far my #1 in this category so I felt I had to take it in R2.

Maggot Brain
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Maybe you could have waited, but this draft is boomer-centric and this record always rates really highly among rock fans of a certain age when it comes to funk. IMO, you hit both VBD AND getting an album you love. My funk/soul/disco album will likely be the last LP I take, as that's my deepest category. And I'm almost positive my song in that category will be the last pick I make. 

 
simey said:
During the time period you are speaking of, the Bee Gees had 6 consecutive #1 hits tying the Beatles.  Also, Barry Gibb wrote wrote Andy's "Love is Thicker Than Water" and "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" in 1977 that went to #1. The Bee Gees wrote "If I can't Have You" for Yvonne Elliman that went to #1 in 1978. Barry wrote "Shadow Dancing" for Andy in 1978 that went to #1, and "Grease" for Frank Valli that went to #1 in 1978. Barry and Robin wrote "Emotion" for Samantha Sang that went to #3 in 1977. Barry wrote "(Our Love) Don't throw it all Away" for Andy in '78 that went to #9.

Had they released "More than a Woman" as a single it possibly could have hit #1. It still gets airplay.
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Probably. They were so hot then, anything was possible. Tavares' version beats the Bee Gees (still pretty good) one, IMO.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Some of the disco-ier stuff hasn't aged all that great (none of those are songs that you mentioned). The rest is a great cross-section on pop music in 1977. A lot of what the Bee Gees were doing wasn't even disco to me - it was the kind of R&B-based pop that's been around since Hector was a pup. Euro-disco was more in line with what I though of as "real" disco back then, but everyone's mileage varies..
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I think you meant to use the word "filler."

 
Tom Skerritt said:
2.?? Fear of Music - The Talking Heads (Best Punk/Post-Punk Album)
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Damn good album.  My first "older" girlfriend got it for me right as "Take Me to the River" came out.  Such a different sound from everything else we had heard.  

Note:  She was 26, with a job and her own apartment.  I was 21, living at home and going to college.  

She had money and a dirty mind.  

 
Aerial Assault said:
Guys, I'd better bail.  I won't add anything to the terrific discussion and really don't want to hold people up at any point or be on skip, etc.  I'll lurk instead and see if judges are needed at the end. :)  
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Sorry Tim, all. I totally underestimated my work schedule over the weekend. Nonstop running, pry my eyes open for the ride home and pass out until the alarm clock went off again.  I know I'm already benched, but i didn't want to just duck and run. I was totally psyched for this too.

Totally sorry

 
WAY above it's ADP, but I need it for my theme.  Looks like it was my turn from page 1 about 3 hours ago...so I think dropping it in is correct.

2.15 The B-52's - The B-52's (post-punk album)

And no, the theme is not "draft albums/songs well above their ADP".

Well, at least not my intentional one...

Not sure who is up next, but I'll try to figure it out and PM.

 
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simsarge said:
Sorry Tim, all. I totally underestimated my work schedule over the weekend. Nonstop running, pry my eyes open for the ride home and pass out until the alarm clock went off again.  I know I'm already benched, but i didn't want to just duck and run. I was totally psyched for this too.

Totally sorry
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No worries. Work happens.

I would have no problem letting you jump back in but I'm not in charge. 

 
Up to you simsarge. If you want back in make 2 picks and I'll stick you in at #21

 
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By way of clarifying and also sending this thread back to the first page, Pink Flag by Wire was the ALBUM. THE ALBUM. THE WHOLE SHEBANG. THE WHOLE THING. NO EDIT.  IN THE BEST PUNK/POST-PUNK CATEGORY

:doh:

This is what happens in those political threads, isn't it?  

 
Groovy man!! Thanks guys. I had Yellow Brick Road and SN Fever as my first two picks predraft, but you snooze, you lose.

I'll take Physical Graffiti at #21 as my 1975 selection. I thought about my Singer Song Writer pick here, but hoping it falls and I get a sweet steal a little later.

I can take Plant's screeching in relatively small doses, but this album really shows Page's mastery and the groups diversity and think it deserves a first round pick.

My second rounder is Deep Purple's1972 monster classic Machine Head. Any album that has sandwiches Smoke on the water and Pictures of home in between Space Truckin and Highway Star can't go past the second round here.

Thanks agian!

 
simsarge said:
Groovy man!! Thanks guys. I had Yellow Brick Road and SN Fever as my first two picks predraft, but you snooze, you lose.

I'll take Physical Graffiti at #21 as my 1975 selection. I thought about my Singer Song Writer pick here, but hoping it falls and I get a sweet steal a little later.

I can take Plant's screeching in relatively small doses, but this album really shows Page's mastery and the groups diversity and think it deserves a first round pick.

My second rounder is Deep Purple's1972 monster classic Machine Head. Any album that has sandwiches Smoke on the water and Pictures of home in between Space Truckin and Highway Star can't go past the second round here.

Thanks agian!




 
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Well ####.  Both are in my top 3 for those years.  

Nice early snipe Sarge.

 
It's hard to do a double album without some filler.  Even if every track is good, some will naturally pale by comparison.

The 79 minute runtime of CDs killed many an ambition.

 
Don't get me wrong, y'all, I love Physical Graffiti, just not the stuff radio execs liked.

Hope to one day kick sand on the shores of Wales and listen to the album from beginning to end.

 
For whoever was asking about ages, I am 52 (but will be 53 before the draft ends).

I am not yet the mayor of Geezerville, but I am on the city council.

 
Eephus, what you wrote about double albums is true, but that's what makes Physical Graffiti, Quadrophenia, London Calling, Exile on Main Street so remarkable. These are albums with few or no weaknesses. 

On the other hand, The Clash followed up London Calling with a triple album, Sandinista. (Not eligible for this draft, from 1980.) It has some of the Clash's absolute best music, but talk about filler. Some of the stuff is simply unlistenable its so bad. 

 
timschochet said:
Eephus, what you wrote about double albums is true, but that's what makes Physical Graffiti, Quadrophenia, London Calling, Exile on Main Street so remarkable. These are albums with few or no weaknesses. 

On the other hand, The Clash followed up London Calling with a triple album, Sandinista. (Not eligible for this draft, from 1980.) It has some of the Clash's absolute best music, but talk about filler. Some of the stuff is simply unlistenable its so bad. 
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You forgot Saturday Night Fever. Or did you?

 
timschochet said:
Eephus, what you wrote about double albums is true, but that's what makes Physical Graffiti, Quadrophenia, London Calling, Exile on Main Street so remarkable. These are albums with few or no weaknesses. 

On the other hand, The Clash followed up London Calling with a triple album, Sandinista. (Not eligible for this draft, from 1980.) It has some of the Clash's absolute best music, but talk about filler. Some of the stuff is simply unlistenable its so bad. 
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Some of my favorite Sandinista(!) tracks are buried on the back half of the album.

I love Quadrophenia too but sound effects of waves are atmospheric filler IMO.as is the instrumental.  The movie soundtrack trimmed that stuff out and had space left for one side plus of oldies.

 
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