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

Rove! said:
8.02 1971 album Aqualung - Jethro Tull
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I'm sorry to be late and throw things off. That will probably happen more in the future on my end, so I can be skipped. PM me if we're off the clock and I'll hopefully get the message. I think my picks get more obscure from here on out, so it's okay.    

I think @Binky The Doormatis now up. Should we PM him or is this enough?

 
Rove! said:
8.02 1971 album Aqualung - Jethro Tull

ian Anderson and crew in their peak era...kicking out some underrated riffs to go with their thoughtful lyrics and great music.
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When I was a kid one of my favorite movies was Oliver! and I loved the Fagin character (played by Ron Moody.) If you've seen the movie he's got a beard, dancing around with a flute. My brother, who was a few years older, was a big Jethro Tull fan, and the first time he showed me Ian Anderson, I admit I got confused. It was the same guy! Anyhow, love this album, love Jethro Tull. 

 
Also want to add- one of the best scenes in Season 1 of Breaking Bad is when Pinkman urges his little brother to play Jethro Tull. 

 
timschochet said:
When I was a kid one of my favorite movies was Oliver! and I loved the Fagin character (played by Ron Moody.) If you've seen the movie he's got a beard, dancing around with a flute. My brother, who was a few years older, was a big Jethro Tull fan, and the first time he showed me Ian Anderson, I admit I got confused. It was the same guy! Anyhow, love this album, love Jethro Tull. 
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I've never seen the movie, but I just did a Google image search on Fagin and I see that resemblance...

 
otb_lifer said:
- Vanian was gold, James was blistering, the Captain just flat out Captained, and Rat was the punk Keef Moon -

ridiculously potent album  :thumbup:
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The "The Damned:  Don't You Wish That We That We Were Dead" documentary is streaming on Amazon Prime.  I highly recommend it if you're a fan or either punk rock or former bandmates squabbling about stuff.   But the best part is a guest appearance from Mrs. Eephus who gets a few seconds of screen time at around the 1:17 mark during "New Rose".

 
Rove! said:
8.02 1971 album Aqualung - Jethro Tull

ian Anderson and crew in their peak era...kicking out some underrated riffs to go with their thoughtful lyrics and great music.
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the two that stick with me to this day are "My God" and "Wind Up" ... the former being a pretty visceral, emblematic screed, the latter a proto punk forerunner 

made me question the whole religion puzzle at a very young age, and Anderson's delivery in both is so powerful and raw, really dig the conviction

 
Mister CIA said:
7.whatever - Just a Boy by Leo Sayer. Singer/Songwriter album

If you ever feel like there's a hole in your soul that you can't seem to fill, try this on for size.
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I listened to this album last night.  There were a couple of nice melodies and the album was alright.  I've set a reminder in 2058 to listen to it again.

 
Eephus said:
The "The Damned:  Don't You Wish That We That We Were Dead" documentary is streaming on Amazon Prime.  I highly recommend it if you're a fan or either punk rock or former bandmates squabbling about stuff.   But the best part is a guest appearance from Mrs. Eephus who gets a few seconds of screen time at around the 1:17 mark during "New Rose".
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No kidding. Immediately firing it up. See my write-up; I remember you seeing this. I was jealous. 

Yeeha!  

 
Eephus said:
The "The Damned:  Don't You Wish That We That We Were Dead" documentary is streaming on Amazon Prime.  I highly recommend it if you're a fan or either punk rock or former bandmates squabbling about stuff.   But the best part is a guest appearance from Mrs. Eephus who gets a few seconds of screen time at around the 1:17 mark during "New Rose".
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Mrs. Eephus in the '76 promo vid??? or a live performance clip?

damn, pretty cool, gotta check this out asap  :thumbup:

 
Bolan likes to rock man

Yes he does yes he does

8.04 - T. Rex - The Slider - 1972 album

Probably the finest slab o' vinyl one marijuana-laden ####er can smoke down with ease. I'm thrilled to have this album in the roster, though Electric Warrior was already taken. It feels like a first pick. There are no remains with Bolan -- no pun intended -- he just is and lives large. 

There are other albums that could have gone here, but I'm thinking they'll be back around. Nothing else really fit in the stable thus far but this. Plus, I listened to this album for years and still love it. Out of my wheelhouse, but into the slide. 

 
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timschochet said:
Jim Croce- You Don't Mess Around With Jim- 1972 album

This would also work well as my singer/songwriter album, and I may put it there and put Jackson Browne in 1972- not sure yet. 

But Croce's breakthrough album is an unforgettable collection, which includes the title song, "Operator", and "Time In a Bottle"- all early 70s classics, but also some lesser known gems like "Box #10", "Hey Tomorrow", "Walking Back to Georgia", and "New York's Not My Home". Jim Croce WAS the early 70s. 
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Passed some of those musical genes onto his son too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7rcDrA0S0A

There's a really, really good AJ Croce song that I love but I can't find right now, When I find it, I'll post it.

 
Pretty sure I'm either on the clock or skipped....so I'll take the following :

Soft rock/singer-songwriter album - Neil Diamond - Hot August Night. This is my all time favorite album bar none. I literally wore all four sides out twice. I hope this qualifies, since he's widely considered a soft rock type although he seriously belts out some of the songs on this album, and the cover has to be considered a little unsoft rock-ish.

And for my 1974 album entry I'm picking my all time air guitar album. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile. Probably more popular and certainly more eccentric picks here, but I couldn't think of anything else I'd want in their respective places.

Speaking of covers, we should add a favorite (not necessarily the "best") album cover of the decade as our last pick, just for ####s and giggles.

 
Eephus said:
I listened to this album last night.  There were a couple of nice melodies and the album was alright.  I've set a reminder in 2058 to listen to it again.
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I set reminder to follow up with you in 2058 to get your thoughts on how well the music aged.

 
Hot August Night is so awesome!!! My parents took me to see Neil in 1976 at the opening of the Aladdin Hotel in Vegas. But  Hot August Night- especially the opening music that leads into "Crunchy Granola Suite"- and the closing "Soolaimon-Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show"= money. 

 
timschochet said:
Hot August Night is so awesome!!! My parents took me to see Neil in 1976 at the opening of the Aladdin Hotel in Vegas. But  Hot August Night- especially the opening music that leads into "Crunchy Granola Suite"- and the closing "Soolaimon-Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show"= money. 
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Pales in comparison to his 12 Greatest Hits album.

 
I'm 8.07. Skip me and I will pick soon. Got to go walk a dog, and then imagine what life would be like if I resided in Colorado.

 
So without further ado I will select my 1973 album: 

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends! 

Emerson Lake and Palmer- Brain Salad Surgery

 
Round 8 - John Barleycorn Must Die, Traffic. 1970 Album

Really like everything about this album. Traffic reunites (well, sorta), and comes up with something very different from their previous sound, leaving the 60's behind.

 
timschochet said:
So without further ado I will select my 1973 album: 

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends! 

Emerson Lake and Palmer- Brain Salad Surgery
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It's too bad we didn't do a prog rock category. This becomes a first or second round pick then.

 
i'm down a pick here, so let's go ...

Johnny Rotten in January of  '78, the death knell of punk, and the greatest ever farewell "a haha, ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"  followed by THE mic drop of all-time

John Lydon in December of '78, staking his own claim, giving the finger to McClaren ... and venturing off into a meandering, yet dazzling, solo career.

a bit uneven at times, and ####### maddening at others, but true to himself, and his vision.

Keith Levene (ex the Clash) and Jah Wobble (nee John Wardle) are highly complicit here, prodding Lydon along to spew out the tacks, and bury his 'Rotten', manufactured persona (yeah, Malcolm and his Situationist Paris '68 tendencies drove the Pistols)

my 7th round pick: PiL  - First Issue (1978 album) 

POST PUNK, you are officially born  :thumbup:

 
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jwb said:
Round 8 - John Barleycorn Must Die, Traffic. 1970 Album

Really like everything about this album. Traffic reunites (well, sorta), and comes up with something very different from their previous sound, leaving the 60's behind.
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Scouted this album earlier in the week.  It's gotten better with age.

 
Eephus said:
:goodposting:

In retrospect, I think we should have stuck to albums and had more genre categories. 

Live and learn.
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actually, I think the songs will be a lot of fun - I'm really hoping at least a few of us leave the classic rock / cool stuff behind and pick stuff not from albums already selected (I definitely will). The seventies were rich with one/two hit wonders.

 
jwb said:
actually, I think the songs will be a lot of fun - I'm really hoping at least a few of us leave the classic rock / cool stuff behind and pick stuff not from albums already selected (I definitely will). The seventies were rich with one/two hit wonders.
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Yes, there are a lot of individual songs I love but not the rest of the album. 

 
  :no: Not even close, IMO. Especially if you had the one with the studio version of Holy Holy. This and Brother Love's TSS alone make HAN better. Everything else is dollops of yummy gravy atop a big mound of thick, lumpy mashed potatoes.

"Are you still there tree people?"

 
8.xx  Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.  1973 album

Such a great debut.  Blinded by the Light, Spirit in the Night and the excellent It's Hard to be a Saint in the City.  My favorite is the underrated Lost in the Flood, but I love every song on this one. Glad to get it.

 
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