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

10.xx  Alice Cooper - Killer (hard rock/classic rock album)

Alice Cooper was the #### during the intersection of the 70s and the Nixon administration.   A little of that #### rubbed off on me when I was listening to him in Mike Erpelding's basement during junior high school.  Alice represented a different sort of counter-culture that in retrospect seems only a little more contrived than some others from the period.

I've listened to more Alice Cooper in the past few days than in the previous few decades.  His later albums have the hits, the production numbers and the great guitar duo of **** Wagner and Steve Hunter (see Rock n Roll Animal above), but I think this LP is the pick of the litter.  It has his strongest collection of songs and is positioned as close to the garage as the arena.

Lester Bangs' review of the album

 
Eephus said:
10.xx  Alice Cooper - Killer (hard rock/classic rock album)

Alice Cooper was the #### during the intersection of the 70s and the Nixon administration.   A little of that #### rubbed off on me when I was listening to him in Mike Erpelding's basement during junior high school.  Alice represented a different sort of counter-culture that in retrospect seems only a little more contrived than some others from the period.

I've listened to more Alice Cooper in the past few days than in the previous few decades.  His later albums have the hits, the production numbers and the great guitar duo of **** Wagner and Steve Hunter (see Rock n Roll Animal above), but I think this LP is the pick of the litter.  It has his strongest collection of songs and is positioned as close to the garage as the arena.

Lester Bangs' review of the album
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Alice created shock rock. KISS and others copied it but Alice was the Alpha.

I usually don't like the big hits from albums that I've heard thousands of times but Under My Wheels is still my favorite from that album.

 
Eephus said:
10.xx  Alice Cooper - Killer (hard rock/classic rock album)

Alice Cooper was the #### during the intersection of the 70s and the Nixon administration.   A little of that #### rubbed off on me when I was listening to him in Mike Erpelding's basement during junior high school.  Alice represented a different sort of counter-culture that in retrospect seems only a little more contrived than some others from the period.

I've listened to more Alice Cooper in the past few days than in the previous few decades.  His later albums have the hits, the production numbers and the great guitar duo of **** Wagner and Steve Hunter (see Rock n Roll Animal above), but I think this LP is the pick of the litter.  It has his strongest collection of songs and is positioned as close to the garage as the arena.

Lester Bangs' review of the album
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fantastic pluck here ... Bruce/Buxton/Dunaway/Smith were as tight as any band of the rock era. 

though I'm partial to Killer's two predecessors, all early 70s Alice is excellent listening 

 
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Been years since I watched The Rutles, but I still remember the funniest scene was when the "John" character starts a dating a girl wearing a Nazi SS uniform- "There was just something we didn't like about her" says one of the other Rutles  :lmao:

 
10.20 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy (1972 album)

I can still remember the first time I heard Trilogy the song. Blew me away. I was laying on the floor, head under my desk in my bedroom. Song came on the radio. When the DJ said the name of the song, I wrote it on the underside of my desk so I would not forget.

ETA: A good buddy of mine and I would often get high, turn out the lights and play air drums and air keyboard to this album all of the time. It was ####### awesome!

 
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Uruk-Hai said:
10.11 Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (1975 album)
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Didn't have time for a write up this morning.......

Was every last song on this record a radio hit? I guess stuff like this is what the punks were rebelling against (though, as we'd find out for real a couple of albums down the road, Buckingham was subversive as hell), but damned if this isn't one well-made record. And having three distinctive composer/singers kept it all fresh. This is about as good as mainstream music got in the mid-70s. I reckon "Rhiannon" is my favorite, though "World Turning" and "Over My Head" are damned close.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Didn't have time for a write up this morning.......

Was every last song on this record a radio hit? I guess stuff like this is what the punks were rebelling against (though, as we'd find out for real a couple of albums down the road, Buckingham was subversive as hell), but damned if this isn't one well-made record. And having three distinctive composer/singers kept it all fresh. This is about as good as mainstream music got in the mid-70s. I reckon "Rhiannon" is my favorite, though "World Turning" and "Over My Head" are damned close.
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This a great album...an interesting thing is that I prefer the single versions of a couple of the songs like "Say You Love Me"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2LsUX4sqUm4

 
Uruk-Hai said:
simey said:
I just signed on to see what was drafted since i left town Saturday, and i am otc.  I am on vacation so skip me until i come back later Friday. I will make up my picks then. A lot of great music has been drafted. Y'all better leave me some good albums. Start drafting more songs and less albums! 
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I took the Stevie album because the other 1A choice I had for 1974 would probably have you knifing me.

Enjoy your vacation!
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I wouldn't have cared if you had taken it (if we are thinking about the same thing). 

 
Eephus said:
10.xx  Alice Cooper - Killer (hard rock/classic rock album)

Alice Cooper was the #### during the intersection of the 70s and the Nixon administration.   A little of that #### rubbed off on me when I was listening to him in Mike Erpelding's basement during junior high school.  Alice represented a different sort of counter-culture that in retrospect seems only a little more contrived than some others from the period.

I've listened to more Alice Cooper in the past few days than in the previous few decades.  His later albums have the hits, the production numbers and the great guitar duo of **** Wagner and Steve Hunter (see Rock n Roll Animal above), but I think this LP is the pick of the litter.  It has his strongest collection of songs and is positioned as close to the garage as the arena.

Lester Bangs' review of the album
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I dunno. Three songs off of this record made his GH album, which more people I knew had than any of his studio albums. I think they've been retconned in as "hits" for 40+ years even if they weren't chart monsters in '72. 

"Under My Wheels" is probably THE tightest of his well-known songs. As someone said, that band was ####### ROLLING at this point.

 
Like I said, I really haven't listened to a lot of Cooper since Jr. High (although I considering going to see him at the Warfield in October).  

All ten of his most played songs are off albums that came after Killer.  Poison has 47 million plays and the big single off the album that followed Killer has 14 million.  I would have figured they'd be reversed but what do I know :shrug:

 
I saw Cooper open for Iron Maiden a couple of years ago. I wish he had headlined, because he was the only reason I went. He was great and his band kicked butt (chick guitarist - Oriantha or something like that?). But the show was too short and he didn't have enough of the stage to work with because Maiden's #### took up half of it. In fine voice, though.

Where are you getting the "played" stats from? It would only make sense to me that a more recent hit would have more plays, as I doubt as many people our age go looking for Cooper tunes as people born 10 years later do. And so on down the line.....If he had a monster hit in, say, 2002 THAT would probably have the most plays on the internet

 
6.9 - Be Altitude: Respect Yourself - The Staple Singers (funk/soul/disco album)

Pops, Mavis, Cleo, and Yvonne are in the house!  The Staple Singers were still on the Stax label during this record, but they changed house bands. Instead of using Booker T and the MGs like usual in Memphis, they decided to head to Alabama and record at Muscle Shoals. The result spawned this great album. It contains the well-known singles "Respect Yourself" and "I'll Take You There", but the whole album is great. Southern soul at its finest. 

I saw Mavis perform last year at the International Folk Festival, and she can still belt it out.

7.13 - Pink Moon - Nick Drake (1972 album)

This album is a short journey into Drake's tortured soul. Hauntingly beautiful.

 
Mavis is still cutting albums - and good albums, too. Younger dudes like Jeff Tweedy are falling all over themselves to record her. Since Aretha has been dormant for a good long while, is there a greater legacy soul artist still recording?

 
Uruk-Hai said:
I saw Cooper open for Iron Maiden a couple of years ago. I wish he had headlined, because he was the only reason I went. He was great and his band kicked butt (chick guitarist - Oriantha or something like that?). But the show was too short and he didn't have enough of the stage to work with because Maiden's #### took up half of it. In fine voice, though.

Where are you getting the "played" stats from? It would only make sense to me that a more recent hit would have more plays, as I doubt as many people our age go looking for Cooper tunes as people born 10 years later do. And so on down the line.....If he had a monster hit in, say, 2002 THAT would probably have the most plays on the internet
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:penalty:

 
:D  Sorry, KP. I don't mind Maiden, but I wouldn't have gone to that concert if Cooper wasn't there. Iron Maiden was fine, but we left before they were done. Bunch of 50-ish dudes, we were all there to see the undercard.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Mavis is still cutting albums - and good albums, too. Younger dudes like Jeff Tweedy are falling all over themselves to record her. Since Aretha has been dormant for a good long while, is there a greater legacy soul artist still recording?
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I have a lot of her 21st century stuff on playlists. She is awesome! 

 
timschochet said:
I have a lot of her 21st century stuff on playlists. She is awesome! 
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It's so great that many of today's artists are in a position to help the people whose music they love and introduce them to newer generations. Jerry Lee is still cutting records, Mavis, Booker T, Steve Cropper, Solomon Burke just before he died a couple of years ago put out a killer album, Loretta Lynn, Tony Bennett, Willie Nelson..... Most of these aren't nostalgic "there's life in the old boy/girl yet!" types of things. They are vibrant works of art and matter. 

Any of y'all who have Sirius XM, give The Loft (channel 30) a listen. They play a lot of hip new stuff, but also feature many legacy artists.

 
timschochet said:
Some favorites:

Joni Mitchell sings "Coyote"

Van Morrison sings "Caravan"

Neil Diamond sings "Dry Your Eyes"

Great great album. 
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40 years later, still the undefeated champion of concert films.  My highlights:

The look on Ronnie Hawkins' eyes after he his screams in Who Do You Love?

The booger or chunk of coke in Neil's nostril

The shot of Danko in silhouette singing Stagefright

Clapton's strap breaking during his solo in Further On Up the Road

Muddy Waters and his well, well, well, well

One of the Staples whispering beautiful after The Weight

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Yeah, well I might knife HER now because I had that pegged for my next pick  :rant:
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If you're just talking about the Band, I've always preferred their other live album to the Last Waltz.  The guest stars are great in the movie but kind of hit or miss for me on the album.

 
10.9 - The Great Paris Concert - Duke Ellington (1973 album)

The Duke and his orchestra did a series of concerts in Paris during February 1963. The shows were recorded, but never released until they were put together for a double album in 1973 called The Great Paris Concert. Duke had many great periods during his time, and this was one of his best bands. This album swings, but it also has some ballads sprinkled in, and my favorite alto sax fella Johnny Hodges leads the way on this slow burning delight The Star-Crossed Lovers.  Let's swing.

 
I know I'm on the turn and the clock (OT), going to try and get caught up tonite....Who is updating the spreadsheet?  My last two aren't on there

Before i get beat to the punch, for my 1978 entry I'm choosing REO Speedwagon and You can tune a piano, but you can't tune a fish.

Great, great LP with some lasting hooks.

 
with no clock / snake, can we pick on the weekend, or no?

 
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10.xx - Larry "Wild Man" Fischer - Go To Rhino Records - (singer/songwriter song)

Schizophrenic or savant? Such was the question about Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, a weird cult figure in LA during the late sixties and early seventies. Despite a history of violence, Fischer landed on Frank Zappa's Bizarre subsection of Reprise records, where he become a celebrity of sorts for his earnestly screamed songs. Reminding one of a modern-day Wesley Willis, others around him blurred the line between exploitation of mental illness and the acceptance of genius in the form of social undesirability. He was, by all accounts, moody and violent, and probably schizophrenic. He's a microcosm of the deinstutionalization debate, and once again politics have slipped into a draft. 

Anyway, this is a catchy tune, though I can't find the original version of the 45 anywhere on the internet. It is, ironically, Rhino Records's first original label release, transforming them from retail outlet into savant-like giants in the record compilation (ahem!) industry. This song is picked as much for quality as historical context, though one listen to this will have one humming his unpaid for jingle for hours. Many a songwriter could learn a hook from Wild Man, many a record label could learn to recognize greatness like Rhino. 

Here's the best link I could find. Track #9. 

It's not a great representation of the original single, but I'm happy with the selection knowing what the original single sounds like. http://www.allmusic.com/album/wildmania-mw0000673508

 
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dal_boys_phan said:
simsarge said:
I know I'm on the turn and the clock (OT), going to try and get caught up tonite....Who is updating the spreadsheet?  My last two aren't on there

Before i get beat to the punch, for my 1978 entry I'm choosing REO Speedwagon and You can tune a piano, but you can't tune a fish. 
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I have the spreadsheet but am away from my computer. Missed your previous two picks but just searched & see them now. I'll update when back in front of a computer as well as the REO pick. 

P.S. Sorry about the double quote that includes dal_boys_phan. A phone isn't ideal with responding & it seems to have a mind with its own with this response. 

Soft rock/singer-songwriter album - Neil Diamond - Hot August Night.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile 1974 album 
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Also, since i'm being a nuisance....Tim, can we get the link to the spreadsheet put at the top of the OP?  Thanks to both of you for doing this.

 
Rove! said:
picking songs is going to super tough....I may just pick whatver comes up off one of my playlists...
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Really? I think it's going to be easy, and fun.

I'm going to pick a lot of stuff I heard on AM top 40 radio when I was a kid (and not so much cool album cuts). To give perspective, I was 10 in 1976, and the two major stations we could get were WABC and WNBC from New York City. From about 1973 until 1979-80, that was prettymuch all I listened to.Then in 8th grade, we discovered FM.

 
timschochet said:
one pick each day on the weekend. 

And when I get to a computer I'll fix the OP. 
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I gotchya on the one per. I was just catching up with my 9th and 10th round that I missed. Do I make an 11th round this weekend or wait until Monday-ish?

Thanks for moving the link. In actuality, just eliminating the draft list would have worked too. The 4 whole seconds it took to scroll down was making my finger pretty weary

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Didn't have time for a write up this morning.......

Was every last song on this record a radio hit? I guess stuff like this is what the punks were rebelling against (though, as we'd find out for real a couple of albums down the road, Buckingham was subversive as hell), but damned if this isn't one well-made record. And having three distinctive composer/singers kept it all fresh. This is about as good as mainstream music got in the mid-70s. I reckon "Rhiannon" is my favorite, though "World Turning" and "Over My Head" are damned close.




 
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Saw them last year and they are still kicking ###.   :thumbup:

 
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