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

Not necessarily for the best in my opinion...I find rap limited in many respects...that's a topic for another thread...another random observation that may or may not be related, but rock in the 70s was more racially integrated....
I'm not a big rap fan, but I can understand how/why others are. I think it's legit, even if I don't own any rap records.

As far as racially integrated, I dunno - if depends what you are calling "rock". "Classic Rock" is pretty white, save for Hendrix.

 
Shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom
Rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong
Shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom
Chang chang changitty chang sha-bop
Dip da-dip da-dip doo-*** da doo-bee doo
Boogedy boogedy boogedy boogedy
Shoo-be doo-*** she-bop
Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na yippity dip de doom
*** ba-ba lu-mop and *** bam boom!


5.18 - Grease - OST - (1978 album)

It has been put forth by certain intellectuals that human beings were meant to procreate in the late teenage years, when both men and women are at their most fertile. These same intellectuals have pointed out that our educational system, when mixed with our holdover of Christian thoughts about virginity and purity, has caused a bit of a powder keg regarding teenage sexuality.

Herein lies Grease, as surely as pomade hair, cars, poodle skirts, high school, letter sweaters, leather jackets, and sex could ever be. It’s a camp play: a possibly gay, kitsch way to address ‘50s teen sexuality through the prism of the ‘70s. The lead roles of the unforgettable Rizzo, Danny Zuko, and Sandra Dee (Dombrowski) are acted by various aspiring stars; written with such pathos that they are unforgettable to audiences everywhere.

The actors channel the fifties look, and the music drips with nostalgia; and both are usually met with acclaim, or at the worst, knowing patience. Grease has become such an institution that many audience members arrive at the play or movie already sympathetic to the characters and they already know the plot. It is a fixture of modern American tradition and it is received as the feel-good, big-smile history trip it is.

Unless, that is, you're a critic. It’s considered a bad play, a bad musical, and a bad movie. It breaks rules. There’s no chorus line, dammit. It loves to rock n’ roll and dance the lindy hop. Instead of stateliness or the hustle, we get ice cream parlors, diners, drive-ins, and yes, dives.

It has themes. In the movie, the central plot line revolves around whether or not beautiful Olivia Newton-John’s blonde-haired and virginal Sandy Dombrowski should or should not (ahem) do it with handsome John Travolta’s dark-haired Italian greaser Danny Zuko, who so desperately loves Sandy’s purity but wants to despoil her for his minute of pleasure? Then there is Stockard Channing, in a performance for the ages as the world-weary Rizzo; a juxtaposition to Sandy the sexual ingenue. Rizzo has already gone all the way, maybe even with Zuko. She is tough. She is wounded. She loves Zuko, but she knows it is futile—Zuko loves Sandy. She might be pregnant with a second-hand man's baby.

You know the play—this is about the album.

The first song (a #1 hit) is a disco track penned by the Brothers Gibb at the height of their popularity. It then segues into the meat of the album—the heart of the play. We are transported from the sexual and political individuation that the seventies embodied back to the fifties, with the knowing sensibilities that exist in a country that has gone through a sexual revolution, which continues here with a wink and a rewrite of its more innocent past. To wit, Danny and Sandy talk about their summer romance at the beach:

“I saved her life, she nearly drowned.”

“He showed off, splashing around.”

And from there we go. The songs. The doo-*** call and response of "Summer Nights," perspectival fools intact. The country twang of "Hopelessly Devoted To You,” and the pluckily upbeat "You’re The One That I Want." "Beauty School Dropout,” memorably crooned by Frankie Avalon. Channing’s unforgettable, slightly mean-but-funny mockery in “Look At Me I’m Sandra Dee." (Where the album might lag, Channing makes it kick again—her voice is not classically trained, but it is very effective when she cops an Italian accent and croak “Fongool! I’m Sandra Dee”?) More wistful and just as effective is Channing’s “There Are Worse Things I Could Do," a borderline hokey song saved by evincing the vulnerability in Rizzo’s character. The song, when put up against some of the duds that come immediately before it, saves the track order again.

Aside from inexplicably giving Sha-Na-Na fifteen minutes of album time, the rest of the platter is a winner, telling the story of Danny, Sandy, The Pink Ladies and the T-Birds (or whoever they were). It’s one of the best-selling albums of all-time and with good reason—the songs are full of seventies production with a ‘50s sensibility. They're hummable. Sing-along-able. They're greased lightning!

Critics never really take the time to address these songs and their enduring popularity. Grease enjoyed a revival amongst college women in the nineties. It’s enjoying another chart run as of February of this year. Punk rock labels like Hopeless Records, home of Dillinger Four at the time, had a period in the nineties when the bands on their compilations would cover Grease songs and use their album art to pay homage to Grease’s album cover.

Speaking of which, as always, the cover. The cover itself is a picture of a Polaroid snapshot, with the two beautiful leads, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John , on the high-gloss photo. Like the album itself, the artwork had the benefit of '70s technology with the aesthetic sensibility of the '50s. Your memories in color. It was perfect all around—Danny and Sandy, happily ever after, enshrined in their high school picture. Photo album art. Brilliant.

Look at me...
 
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I used to love Grease. 

That was before: 

1. My older daughter performed in it in 8th grade, two years ago. 

2. My younger daughter performed in it in 8th grade, two weeks ago. 

Now I swear if I never hear another song from that musical it will be too soon. 

 
I used to love Grease. 

That was before: 

1. My older daughter performed in it in 8th grade, two years ago. 

2. My younger daughter performed in it in 8th grade, two weeks ago. 

Now I swear if I never hear another song from that musical it will be too soon. 
:lmao:

I have also had the, um, benefit of a few local productions. I'm still happy to have it in my stable of picks. This was supposed to be my second pick, but it fell way down the board. Let's hope the one I have queued up also falls.  

 
Shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom
Rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong
Shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom
Chang chang changitty chang sha-bop
Dip da-dip da-dip doo-*** da doo-bee doo
Boogedy boogedy boogedy boogedy
Shoo-be doo-*** she-bop
Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na yippity dip de doom
*** ba-ba lu-mop and *** bam boom!


5.18 - Grease - OST - (1978 album)

It has been put forth by certain intellectuals that human beings were meant to breed in the late teenage years, when both men and women are at their most fertile. These same intellectuals have pointed out that our educational system, mixed with our holdover of Christian thoughts about virginity and purity, have caused a bit of a powder keg regarding teenage sexuality.

Herein lies Grease, surely as pomade hair, cars, poodle skirts, high school, letter sweaters, leather jackets, and sex could ever be. It’s a camp play: a possibly gay, kitsch way to address ‘50s teen sexuality through the '70s. The leads of the unforgettable Rizzo, Danny Zuko, and Sandra Dee (Dombrowski) are ascendant, unless you're a critic. It’s considered a bad play, a bad musical, a bad movie. It breaks rules. There’s no chorus line, dammit. It loves to rock and dance the lindy hop. Instead of stateliness or the hustle, we get ice cream parlors, diners, drive-ins, and yes, dives.

Oh, it has its themes. Should or shouldn’t Sandy Dombrowski (ahem, do it) with Danny Zuko, who so desperately loves her purity but wants to savage it all at the same time for all that minute of pleasure? Stockard Channing, in a performance for the ages in the form as Rizzo, is there as juxtaposition to this tension, already having gone all the way. She's tough. She's wounded. We think she loves Zuko, but she knows he loves Sandy. Her and Zuko might have dated once. She might be pregnant with a second-hand man's baby.

You know the play; it’s about the album.

The first song (a #1 hit) is disco, penned by the Brothers Gibb, at the height of their popularity. It then segues into the meat of the album, the heart of the play. We are transported from the sexual and political individuation that was the seventies and transported back to the fifties, with the knowing sensibility of having grown up as a country in the meantime. To wit, Danny and Sandy talk about their summer romance at the beach:

“I saved her life, she nearly drowned.”

“He showed off, splashing around.”

And from there we go. The songs. The doo-*** call and response of "Summer Nights," perspectival fools intact. The country twang of "Hopelessly Devoted To You". "You’re The One That I Want." "Beauty School Dropout" by Frankie Avalon. The unforgettable "Look At Me I’m Sandra Dee." (Where the album might lag, Channing makes it kick again. Her voice is not classically trained, it would seem, but is very effective. Who can forget her “Fongool! I’m Sandra Dee?”) More wistful and less effective lies "There Are Worse Things I Could Do," a song that is a bit hokey, but still shows us the vulnerability in Rizzo’s character.  The song, when put up against some duds that came immediately before it, saves the track order again.

Aside from inexplicably giving Sha-Na-Na fifteen minutes of album space, the rest of the platter is a winner, telling the story of Danny, Sandy, The Pink Ladies and the T-Birds (or whoever they were). It’s one of the best-selling albums of all-time, and with good reason. The songs are full of seventies production with a ‘50s sensibility. They're hummable. Sing-along-able. They're greased lightning! 

Critics never really take the time to address the songs and their enduring popularity. It enjoyed a revival amongst college women in the nineties. It’s enjoying another chart run as of February of this year. Punk rock groups had a period in the nineties when they covered Grease, down to its album cover.

Speaking of which, as always, the cover. The cover itself is a picture of a snapshot Polaroid, with two beautiful people on the high-gloss photo. Like the album itself, it had the benefit of '70s production with the aesthetic sensibility of the '50s. Perfect all around, Danny and Sandy, happily ever after, enshrined in a picture. Photo album art. Brilliant. 

Look at me...




 
Geezus ...what's with the long write ups  :bag:

 
Geezus ...what's with the long write ups  :bag:
There for exegesis. This coming from the guy that posted the entire Wiki page about Todd? 

Todd!   :D

Anyway, I can't see this keeping up. I did it for three of them one night, because I knew I was picking them, but Little Girl and New York Dolls were pretty brief.  

So take heart! It won't continue. 

I think.  

 
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i like the long responses. The longer the better- much like several 1970s albums! 

We need a few triple albums in here, featuring progressive bands with guitars with double necks, and lead singers with winged capes! 

 
There for exegesis. This coming from the guy that posted the entire Wiki page about Todd? 

Todd!   :D

Anyway, I can't see this keeping up. I did it for three of them one night, because I knew I was picking them, but Little Girl and New York Dolls were pretty brief.  

So take heart! It won't continue. 

I think.  




 
Yes, it was a hit on me ... :D

Your's was much shorter.  I enjoy the backgrounds ...

 
i like the long responses. The longer the better- much like several 1970s albums! 

We need a few triple albums in here, featuring progressive bands with guitars with double necks, and lead singers with winged capes! 
There is one triple album I thought would have been drafted in the first two rounds that is still there for the taking.

 
Well,  I guess the I thought wouldn't make it back to me actually did, so I will take it now.  There is a lot of talk about runs of music from a lot of these bands, and I would put the Talking Heads' first 4 or 5 albums up at the top of those lists.  This is my fav from the 70s though:

5.17: TALKING HEADS - More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978 album)

 
The back half of Muswell Hillbillies on a non-stop for the past two days in la palace de rockaction. 

:thumbup:
I'm thinking the song Here Come the People in Gray strikes a little too close to home for your comfort.

Favorite lyric:

Well I said goodbye to Rosie Rook this morning

I'm going to miss her bloodshot, alcoholic eyes

 
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I'm thinking the song Here Come the People in Gray strikes a little too close to home for your liking.
Well, I am listening to Mountain Woman

It's even got the English version of eminent domain over rural water rights :rant: , and my ears perked up. I love anti-bureaucratic and centralization lyrics. 

 
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5.19: 1974 Album - Here Come the Warm Jets - Brian Eno

I love this album.  If you only know Eno as the ethereal ambient music guy - please check this out.  With all the Eno talk I wanted to snap this up quickly.  

AllMusic - Eno's solo debut, Here Come the Warm Jets, is a spirited, experimental collection of unabashed pop songs on which Eno mostly reprises his Roxy Music role as "sound manipulator," taking the lead vocals but leaving much of the instrumental work to various studio cohorts (including ex-Roxy mates Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay, plus Robert Fripp and others). Eno's compositions are quirky, whimsical, and catchy, his lyrics bizarre and often free-associative, with a decidedly dark bent in their humor ("Baby's on Fire," "Dead Finks Don't Talk"). Yet the album wouldn't sound nearly as manic as it does without Eno's wildly unpredictable sound processing; he coaxes otherworldly noises and textures from the treated guitars and keyboards, layering them in complex arrangements or bouncing them off one another in a weird cacophony. Avant-garde yet very accessible, Here Come the Warm Jets still sounds exciting, forward-looking, and densely detailed, revealing more intricacies with every play.

Correction:  1974 Album

 
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5,20 Soft Rock/ Singer songwriter album - Billy Joel - The Stranger

his first outing working with Phil Ramone...He had some great songs prior to this album, but here he put it all together.  A huge commercial success, but don't hold that against it.  Scenes from and Italian Restaurant is just a fantastic epic song from start to finish.  This album also includes Movin' Out, Always a Woman, Only the Good Die Young and Grammy winning song of the year Just the Way You Are.  The title track with its whistling opening, Vienna, and the remaining two tracks are all very strong and may have been lead tracks had they been on on his future albums.

Overall, his best album.

 
5,20 Soft Rock/ Singer songwriter album - Billy Joel - The Stranger

his first outing working with Phil Ramone...He had some great songs prior to this album, but here he put it all together.  A huge commercial success, but don't hold that against it.  Scenes from and Italian Restaurant is just a fantastic epic song from start to finish.  This album also includes Movin' Out, Always a Woman, Only the Good Die Young and Grammy winning song of the year Just the Way You Are.  The title track with its whistling opening, Vienna, and the remaining two tracks are all very strong and may have been lead tracks had they been on on his future albums.

Overall, his best album.
great pick. Wasn't really on my radar for this category, which is why I'm not going to win this draft. But where else could it really go? 

Page 1 bump, too. 

 
5,20 Soft Rock/ Singer songwriter album - Billy Joel - The Stranger

his first outing working with Phil Ramone...He had some great songs prior to this album, but here he put it all together.  A huge commercial success, but don't hold that against it.  Scenes from and Italian Restaurant is just a fantastic epic song from start to finish.  This album also includes Movin' Out, Always a Woman, Only the Good Die Young and Grammy winning song of the year Just the Way You Are.  The title track with its whistling opening, Vienna, and the remaining two tracks are all very strong and may have been lead tracks had they been on on his future albums.

Overall, his best album.
just shows how little research I've done when I didn't even have this on my list yet.  I love this album and somehow overlooked it.

 
I beg to differ on your first paragraph - records stores here absolutely had segregated aisles (& I can remember this well into the '90s). But my statement was meant more to call out how dumb trying to classify genres (there are always more exceptions than rules) is and also a little dig at Tim for falling into that trap in this draft.

I honestly don't care about what judges have to take into account. As I implied above to someone else above, I'd rather do away with the labels altogether but I'd love to hear someone make an intelligent argument that the Partridge Family is post-punk.
Well, they practiced in the garage :shrug:

 
Can we get our momentum back? I think this is where we are:

19. Binky the Doormat  - Here Come the Warm Jets - Brian Eno

20. Rove! -  Billy Joel - The Stranger

21. simsarge - timed out

Round 6

1. simsarge - timed out

2. Rove! - OTC

3. Binky the Doormat 

4. rockaction 

5. Karma Police

 
My next pick is a doozy. 

I can feel all of your excitement, palpable, teetering on the brink of emotional clumsiness, sort of like me. 

:P

 
This is the story of a transition period in American rock and roll, of a changeling era which dashed by so fast that nobody knew much of what to make of it while it was around, only noticeable in retrospect by the vast series of innovations it would eventually spawn, both in the way music would be listened to and the way it was constructed. When it began, the centrifugal force was AM radio; under three minute singles, imaginative/predictable packaging (depending on who, what and where), all carefully held within the easily-accepted full sway of the pop vanguard, opening up new vistas in stylistic content, lyrics and even lifestyle. As rock and roll had been born, so it would be born again, by casually nudging the old off the side of the road, making way for a semi-headed, decked and stroked, highly combustible juggernaut of the new.

-from Lenny Kaye's liner notes
5.xx Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968  (1972 album)

Yeah, it's a compilation of tracks recorded in the 60s but the album is a quintessential part of 1970s rock n roll that had a major influence on punk and the chaos that followed.  

These songs would have eventually been rediscovered and reissued if for no other reason than the music industry's voracious appetite for product.  But this particular collection by rock critic/guitarist Lenny Kaye and pioneering label exec Jac Holzman has been imitated endlessly but never equaled.  It also happened to arrive at the perfect moment to act as a twenty ton counterweight to the forces of prog and jazz-rock that were yanking (and wanking) rock n roll out of the garage.

Teenage Eephus owned a copy and would sneak it onto the turntable late in parties when everyone was too wasted to realize the music wasn't the new wave.

 
5.xx Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968  (1972 album)

Yeah, it's a compilation of tracks recorded in the 60s but the album is a quintessential part of 1970s rock n roll that had a major influence on punk and the chaos that followed.  

These songs would have eventually been rediscovered and reissued if for no other reason than the music industry's voracious appetite for product.  But this particular collection by rock critic/guitarist Lenny Kaye and pioneering label exec Jac Holzman has been imitated endlessly but never equaled.  It also happened to arrive at the perfect moment to act as a twenty ton counterweight to the forces of prog and jazz-rock that were yanking (and wanking) rock n roll out of the garage.

Teenage Eephus owned a copy and would sneak it onto the turntable late in parties when everyone was too wasted to realize the music wasn't the new wave.
:heart:

I think you can make the argument that it's the soundtrack to Teenage Eephus and the mystery therein. 

 
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6.02 1974 Album Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky

many have called this JBs masterpiece....I'm inclined to agree.  Great album - may favorite of his,,,"for a dancer" is one song I'd want played at my funeral...every song on here is great

 
glad someone picked up on this ... I was afraid that, again, I would go unnoticed 
Certainly not. I even proposed, given that you subjected me to that, a draft within a draft. Look ^ a bit

Your move if you want. I've got Swing Kids at 1.01. 

Otherwise, I'm just counting down emo bands, and that's no fun.  

 
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Certainly not. I even proposed, given that you subjected me to that, a draft within a draft. Look ^ a bit

Your move if you want. I've got Swing Kids at 1.01. 

Otherwise, I'm just counting down emo bands, and that's no fun.  
actually "Again I Go Unnoticed" is one of Carraba/Dashboard Confessional's signature tunes ... so I was trying to make a funny there  :D  

and I take them all day everyday in an EMO draft ... Conor and Bright Eyes can ####### suck it  :thumbup:

 
actually "Again I Go Unnoticed" is one of Carraba/Dashboard Confessional's signature tunes ... so I was trying to make a funny there  :D  

and I take them all day everyday in an EMO draft ... Conor and Bright Eyes can ####### suck it  :thumbup:
Oh, jeez. Really? Carraba is from around where I grew up (like thirty minutes away) and it's sort of a rural, suburban area, and we were just like...

this? This is what we sent to the world?  :doh:

 
6.02 1974 Album Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky

many have called this JBs masterpiece....I'm inclined to agree.  Great album - may favorite of his,,,"for a dancer" is one song I'd want played at my funeral...every song on here is great
This is his best LP that I was ambiguously spotlighting a while back.

 
This is his best LP that I was ambiguously spotlighting a while back.
I wasn't sure if that was a dig at Tim or if you were talking about this one.  I had this penciled in for 74, and was hoping I didn't wait too long

 
Late for the Sky is more cohesive as an album.  The first two albums have great songs but seem more cobbled together.  Late for the Sky's sound and worldview are more consistent.  And there's no Lindley on Browne's debut.

He's totally a 70s artist.  There was a huge artistic and commercial falloff after 1977's Running on Empty (although Hold Out charted at #1 in 1980).  Maybe he was the tortured artist who grew content and wealthy enough to run out of material to write about, 

His 80s output did produce one of Mrs Eephus and my thousand inside jokes though.  We live near a boulevard so "on the boulevard" gets said a lot around our house, usually followed by one of saying something about "they look at life with just disregard".  No wonder our kids think we're weird.

 
6.04 - Jimmy Cliff...The Harder They Come - OST - (disco/funk/soul album)

A ska classic, it coasts along beautifully. Starting with the Desmond Dekker-penned "You Can Get It If You Really Want" through to the tenth track (the last two are repetitive). It's a sunshine album, done wonderfully by all parties involved. Scotty's "Draw Your Brakes" received a memorable Dust Brothers sample during B-Boy Bouillabaisse by the Beasties, Rivers of Babylon got a Sublime treatment, and on and on. Few people haven't heard "Pressure Drop," few have heard Dekker and "007 (Shanty Town)," a shame. Dekker could have stolen this album, and on the re-pressings with bonus tracks, does. But that's for another day. There doesn't seem a false note on this album, and it's not overplayed in my household (though I love all the artists and songs) so here it goes, at 6.04.  

For the draft, I would argue this is soul because it's almost impossible to hear Desmond Dekker, Jimmy Cliff, The Maytals, and Scotty as anything but soul, just from Jamaica instead of America. If soul incorporates rhythm and blues and jazz, and ska adds calypso (hello, Meghan Trainor) to it, why is it not soul, both to the ear and in origin? This might be something better left to music experts, but I'm going with it as soul. Also, if not soul, the album was released in 1972 in UK, 1973 in the US. I think the original release point should be the cosmopolitan one, and it makes sense for Britain and its love of colonial music to have the release date be for its intended audience.  

I'd say more write-up TK, but I'm not sure I can say anything more about this album that can't be experienced by the listener. It's a collection of reggae hits on a soundtrack. Truly brilliant, a work of art (and soul.)

 
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Certainly not. I even proposed, given that you subjected me to that, a draft within a draft. Look ^ a bit

Your move if you want. I've got Swing Kids at 1.01. 

Otherwise, I'm just counting down emo bands, and that's no fun.  
haha, my extent of EMO band knowledge is two groups (the ones I mentioned) ... my nieces made the trip down to the City to see both, and I was Uncle Chaperone 

so, yeah ... a draft would be over in three picks  :banned:

on mobile now, but will be checking your links out when I get home  :thumbup:

 
6.02 1974 Album Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky

many have called this JBs masterpiece....I'm inclined to agree.  Great album - may favorite of his,,,"for a dancer" is one song I'd want played at my funeral...every song on here is great
There goes my Singer/Song Writer choice. Nice pick.

 
haha, my extent of EMO band knowledge is two groups (the ones I mentioned) ... my nieces made the trip down to the City to see both, and I was Uncle Chaperone 

so, yeah ... a draft would be over in three picks  :banned:

on mobile now, but will be checking your links out when I get home  :thumbup:
Same here. 

1.01 Swing Kids

1.02 Thursday

1.03 Brand New

1.04 Taking Back Sunday

etc., etc., ad nausea 

 

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