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

Eephus said:
If you want Crime, you can take it and I'll repick.

I'm trying not to draft anything by artists previously selected :nerd: and I didn't remember Breakfast in America getting picked until after I'd finished the writeup.
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I'm not heartbroken.  I'll find something around round 30.

 
ScottNorwood said:
Yesterday afternoon was boiling hot and our community pool doesn't open until today.  So I took the kids (2 and 6) down to the basement and let them go nuts with some of the older toys we have down there.  I also have my old guitar and amp down there, so I decided to pick it back up and make some noise.  Almost immediately the kids ran over with their little drums and maracas and joined the jam session.  The song I was working on was Frankenstein by Edgar Winter - so in honor of our little Father's day jam session I'll take:

13.xx - They Only Come Out at Night - The Edgar Winter Group (Wildcard)




 
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What a great band too.  Rick Derringer, Ronnie Montrose and Dan Hartman.

 
Still have no idea what direction I am going in for my song picks, so I will continue on with the albums. 

13.xx: GROUNDHOGS - Thank Christ for the Bomb (1970 album)

 
I don't do big write-ups since I assume that most know my picks and probably know 5x more about them than I do.  A lot of stuff I have just stumbled onto over the last several years (mostly due to these drafts and DI drafts).   Groundhogs are a British band that did some backing for John Lee Hooker in the 60s and did their own thing in the 70s.  TCFTB is my fav, but do love a few of the other albums after as well.  RIYL Cream. 

Soldier

Thank Christ for the Bomb

 
Buzzbait said:
Was looking thru the spreadsheet and noticed you have two 1977 albums. You could make the Petty your Hard rock/classic rock album or make either a Wildcard album.
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Whoa. Sorry about that. I had three spots for two bands. That's my bad. I'll do that every so often. I'm going to take The Heartbreakers as the wildcard album. 

I've posted the change along with the original selection back a few pages, but it's noted and changed. Thanks again.  

 
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ScottNorwood said:
Yesterday afternoon was boiling hot and our community pool doesn't open until today.  So I took the kids (2 and 6) down to the basement and let them go nuts with some of the older toys we have down there.  I also have my old guitar and amp down there, so I decided to pick it back up and make some noise.  Almost immediately the kids ran over with their little drums and maracas and joined the jam session.  The song I was working on was Frankenstein by Edgar Winter - so in honor of our little Father's day jam session I'll take:

13.xx - They Only Come Out at Night - The Edgar Winter Group (Wildcard)
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He and his brother made some great music. I always thought Edgar looked less albinoish than Johnny. Johnny had weird eyes. 

 
simey said:
He and his brother made some great music. I always thought Edgar looked less albinoish than Johnny. Johnny had weird eyes. 
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Johnny was kind of cross eyed as well

He smoked a lot of cigarettes so there are some pictures where his teeth are the darkest part of his face.

 
13.xx - Van Halen - Van Halen II - 1979 album 

Despite what critics say, this could be their finest album. It doesn't have the songwriting skills of Fair Warning nor the utter #### and swagger of Women And Children First nor the bombast of Van Halen but it has a mixture of everything. From the opening strains of an old soul cover (later abused a bit on Diver Down, but perfect here) in "You're No Good" to the punk aspects of "Outta Love Again" and "Light Up The Sky" to the beautifully thought-out segue of "Spanish Fly" into "D.O.A." this album was a bit metal/glam/punk/thrash, way before its time. 

I've always thought I was a little bit off for liking this album, but if Dimebag Darrell of Pantera fame thinks it was his favorite, then so be it, and screw Christgau's ranking. I love the sloppiness of this album -- it makes it human, and not a bit bad of a follow-up, but rather a step forward from pure bombast into heavy metal/punk/glam song writing.  

 
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oh man, VHII ... the memories

hurt my leg pretty bad that summer, and couldn't go on family vacation... had to stay with my cousins in Jersey. 

my cousin Petey was a couple years older, and he hung with me throughout, to keep me entertained, etc

and it was all APBA football, and VHII

man, he loved that album, and spun it to death ... wouldn't even consider any of the music I suggested - he said VH was gonna be the biggest band of the 80s ... he even dyed his hair and grew it out, affectating his DLR pose  :D

it really grew on me, and I've come to love and appreciate it very much ... my favorite song is 'D.O.A.' - it sounded like 'School's Out' era Alice - or the Dolls - it was quite the eye (ear?) opener

:thumbup:

 
Binky The Doormat said:
9:19:  Caught In The Act! - Grand Funk Railroad - 1975 Album

This could have also been my hard rock album.  These guys don't get enough love ...what a great live album this is.  

Full album.
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YES!!!! I was gonna take it as a wild card. I wore this one right the hell out, too - both on vinyl and 8-track. Their version of "Gimme Shelter" ain't half bad and most versions of their own songs are better than the studio cuts. This was probably their peak - Runt had schooled them enough in how to sound good - but the cliff was quick and steep after this.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
13.11 - Togetherness - LTD (1978 album)

Full Album

Write up later when I have more time
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Jeffrey Osborne was sort of the Tony Bennett of the '70s. He could sing damned near anything and make it sound good, but you always knew it was him. He had a timbre and way of phrasing that telegraphed "It's Jeffrey!" from the first note. 

He was also in an amazing band. I ain't kidding - they were as accomplished and tight as any group of the late 70s. I saw them in concert twice back then - once opening for the Commodores and once as a headliner who Larry MF'IN Graham opened for. They won both, IMO, over two artists I love. 

LTD never got gut-bucket heavy like P-Funk or Fatback. They kind of rode the top end and were more urbane than even the Commodores were. 

There were no big radio hits like "Back In Love Again", but these are three that got pretty heavy airplay on black radio:

Holding On

Jam

Concentrate On You 

 
Big fan of LTD.  Sadly there's not any live footage available on YouTube except for lip syncs from Soul Train.  But based on those, they must have put on quite a show.

 
Eephus said:
Big fan of LTD.  Sadly there's not any live footage available on YouTube except for lip syncs from Soul Train.  But based on those, they must have put on quite a show.
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The horn section kicked it, man. There wasn't much in the way of guitar solos and the bass/keys tastefully made a groove. Jeff's vocal came seem really stiff at times, but not many r&b groups in the late 70s would sub a Dizzy Gillespie-esque trumpet solo for plucking some strings. 

It's Time To Be Real

 
13.xx  XTC - Drums and Wires (1979) 1979 album

Perfect transition album to the early 80's. Partridge and Moulding are one of my favorite song-writing tandems.  

Full album

 
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rockaction said:
13.xx - Van Halen - Van Halen II - 1979 album 

Despite what critics say, this could be their finest album. It doesn't have the songwriting skills of Fair Warning nor the utter #### and swagger of Women And Children First nor the bombast of Van Halen but it has a mixture of everything. From the opening strains of an old soul cover (later abused a bit on Diver Down, but perfect here) in "You're No Good" to the punk aspects of "Outta Love Again" and "Light Up The Sky" to the beautifully thought-out segue of "Spanish Fly" into "D.O.A." this album was a bit metal/glam/punk/thrash, way before its time. 

I've always thought I was a little bit off for liking this album, but if Dimebag Darrell of Pantera fame thinks it was his favorite, then so be it, and screw Christgau's ranking. I love the sloppiness of this album -- it makes it human, and not a bit bad of a follow-up, but rather a step forward from pure bombast into heavy metal/punk/glam song writing.  
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My last cut before I took Squeeze a few rounds back.

 
Gotta make some picks up. If the GoogleDoc is current, these should be available:
 

10.12: Fragile, Yes (1971 album)
   Mood for a Day
   Heart of the Sunrise
   Roundabout
   Long Distance Runaround


11.10: I'm Still in Love with You, Al Green (1972 album)
   Love and Happiness
   For the Good Times
   I'm Still in Love With You


12.12: I Robot, Alan Parsons Project (1977 Album)
   I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You
   Don't Let It Show
   I Robot
 

13.10: "Strawberry Letter 23", The Brothers Johnson [link] (Funk/Soul/Disco song)

 
Uruk-Hai said:
YES!!!! I was gonna take it as a wild card. I wore this one right the hell out, too - both on vinyl and 8-track. Their version of "Gimme Shelter" ain't half bad and most versions of their own songs are better than the studio cuts. This was probably their peak - Runt had schooled them enough in how to sound good - but the cliff was quick and steep after this.




 
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:thumbup:  You knew it was coming UH.  

 
Keep posting links, guys. I'm not commenting on everything, but a lot of new stuff has been added to various playlists. Both the LTD and XTC stuff have been nice finds, and I'll be scouring for that grand funk live album next time I go to the record store. 

 
14.xx - The Clash - The Guns of Brixton - soul/funk/disco song or 1979 song

South London ghetto or Yale University ghetto? (No, I didn't go, simply lived there.) Oh, there might be another to come with the wildcard song, but this simply takes the cake. Paul Simonon penned it, sang it, and Joe Strummer played bass for a minute. This makes it over two other 1979 ska songs for the fleeting moment. Watched a homeless guy with three teeth utterly sneer this song in New Haven, CT on an open mic night in front of my music critic buddy and others. "Oh, that guy's rough," my friend said before he got up on stage. Leathered skin, tracks, everything. Tore this #### apart. Haunting. 

When the law break in/How you gonna go/Shot down on the pavement/Or waiting in death row

I'll never forget it. The homeless guys' version is the definitive version in my head, without the sproings from over-production. Yes, even The Clash could over-produce. But as far as a song qua song, this is the one. That several 1979 songs could have come off of this album sort of cements tim's 1st rounder at 1.07 as an actual value pick in the draft. Nice work. Just one of the greatest albums ever.  

So what are we gonna do now?

 
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14.11: I Am - Earth, Wind, and Fire (1979 album)

Full Album

Though EWF continued to put out records after I Am, I think this was their last great album. "In The Stone", "Boogie Wonderland", and "After The Love Has Gone" were the 3 radio hits I can remember (& the last two are still played a ton on classic hits, oldies, and easy listening stations). Really, you can't go wrong with any of EWF's '70s stuff. 

 
This board needs more cowbell. 

14.xx blue oyster cult,  Don't fear the reaper, 1976 song

One of the most easily and quickly recognized songs, sounds just as good today as it must have 40 years ago. 

The song is about the inevitability of death and the foolishness of fearing it, and was written when Dharma was thinking about what would happen if he died at a young age. Lyrics such as "romeo and Joliet are together in eternity" have led many listeners to interpret the song to be about a murder-suicide pact, but Dharma says the song is about eternal love, rather than suicide. He used Romeo and Juliet as motifs to describe a couple believing they would meet again in the afterlife.  He guessed that "40,000 men and women" died each day, and the figure was used several times in the lyrics.

 
rd. 13 pick

"Love It To Death" - Alice Cooper (1971 album)

the platter that put them on the map ... "I'm Eighteen" (killer live version) broke them, one of the quintessential early 70s power anthems.

the album's outro is, imo, their finest moment on record - best three song run they ever threw down Second Coming/Ballad of Dwight Frye/Sun Arise

love the proto goth/thrash/punk/glam styling of Hallowed Be My Name

just a perfect combo of power, sleaze, theatrics and chops - as i mentioned after the "Killer" selection earlier, this band was tight as ####, and they bring a ton of talent here ... this album catches them at their ascent to superstardom

 
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FUBAR said:
well, there goes the last album on my list for 1974.  Looks like I'll be punting the year.  (is it just my lack of knowledge or was 1974 overall pretty weak?)
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Well this is mildly embarrassing.  I just saw that my ringtone is from a 1974 album.   :bag:    My pick for tomorrow is set.  

 
14.xx - Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black (1972 album)

With a limited palette of choices for this year, decided to go deep in the archives to memorialize probably the worst show I have ever seen live - Aretha at Radio City in 2008.  She brought out her nephew to rap for us during the intermission in the middle of a "show" that barely cracked the 75 minute mark including said intermission.  And her set was rather uninspired and sometimes truncated versions of hits.  So, I'll never get that hour and change back, but makes her a candidate for me to select in this draft.

Love this album though and nearly went in a different direction to allow me to draft one of the singles off this one instead later in the draft (trying not to double up on any artist).

 
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14.21 - Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974 album)

A double album that was the last recorded with Peter Gabriel as the lead vocalist.

 
Graham Parker & The Rumour- Squeezing Out Sparks (1979 album) 

Parker produced music in a similar style as Elvis Costello yet even more bitter and ascerbic! But he is a fine writer, as songs like "Discovering Japan" and "Local Girls" attest. This is a great album, his best. 

 
timschochet said:
Graham Parker & The Rumour- Squeezing Out Sparks (1979 album) 

Parker produced music in a similar style as Elvis Costello yet even more bitter and ascerbic! But he is a fine writer, as songs like "Discovering Japan" and "Local Girls" attest. This is a great album, his best. 
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I took that already (Round 7 pick 5).  Damn fine album.

 
14.09 - Night Moves - Bob Seger (1976 album)

It is hard to find any of Seger's studio songs on youtube unless it is live. The link to the studio version hasn't been up for long, so it will probably get killed by UMG soon. Half of this album Bob recorded with The Silver Bullet Band, and the other half he recorded with The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. All the tracks on the album are good. Bob wrote Night Moves, Main Street, Ship of Fools, Fire Down Below, Rock n Roll Never Forgets, Sunspot Baby, and Sunburst. He does two covers which are Come to Poppa and Mary Lou. This album got a lot of spins back in my school days.

 
Since OTB_Lifer took my intended pick, I will start on some songs.

14.xx Classic/Hard Rock Song Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd has never been accused of having songs that are too short, but it fits in this case.  The plaintive chorus is only sung once.  They could repeat that all night and i would sing along til I couldn't.  

 
14.xx - Styx - The Grand Illusion - 1977 Album

Before they went all Mr. Roboto on us, Styx was an excellent band that prettymuch blended prog and pop into a unique "yup, that's Styx" sound.  

 
Still staring at albums, so I guess I will follow the crowd and start on some songs.  I am pretty sure that the album, but not the song was taken, so I will grab it here:

14.xx:  Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (1975 song)

 
jwb said:
14.xx - Styx - The Grand Illusion - 1977 Album

Before they went all Mr. Roboto on us, Styx was an excellent band that prettymuch blended prog and pop into a unique "yup, that's Styx" sound.  
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Was between this and I Robot for my 1977 album. Dennis DeYoung has been pretty unsung as the years have passed, and the guy had some unusual tastes for a rock songwriter. But DeYoung, IMHO, had some all-time pipes and was rock-solid on keys.

There was a yin-and-yang between DeYoung and Tommy Shaw, which would eventually lead to the unfortunate dissolution of Styx in the wake of the Mr Roboto tour. Shaw was the charismatic, macho front-man type himself, and could have readily lead Styx alone in an alternate universe where DeYoung wasn't around as a founding member.

 
Repick

The Cars- Candy-O 1979 album

"Let's Go", "Double Life", "It's All I Can Do", plus perhaps the greatest album cover of the 1970s. 

 
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