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1970s music draft- Link to google spreadsheet in first post (1 Viewer)
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worrierking
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otb_lifer
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Eephus
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29.xx "Concierto de Aranjuez" - Jim Hall (Wildcard song)
Guitarist Hall is joined by Paul Desmond(as), Chet Baker(t), Ron Carter(b), Steve Gadd(d) and Roland Hanna(p) for a peerless 19 minute jazz rendition of Joaquin Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez".
The piece was originally written in 1939 for guitar and orchestra but is best known for the Miles Davis/Gil Evans version on Sketches of Spain. The fanfare was also used for 70s Chrysler Cordoba commercials with Ricardo Montalban.
Hall's version steers clear of fine Corinthian cliches. Hall delivers the first and last solos with precise lyricism. Desmond and Baker have always had some of the prettiest tone on their instruments. The rhythm section is excellent and is aided by Hall who is as fine an accompanyist as leader.
A lot of 70s jazz was played loud and fast but this track takes the opposite approach and draws you in with a whisper.
Guitarist Hall is joined by Paul Desmond(as), Chet Baker(t), Ron Carter(b), Steve Gadd(d) and Roland Hanna(p) for a peerless 19 minute jazz rendition of Joaquin Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez".
The piece was originally written in 1939 for guitar and orchestra but is best known for the Miles Davis/Gil Evans version on Sketches of Spain. The fanfare was also used for 70s Chrysler Cordoba commercials with Ricardo Montalban.
Hall's version steers clear of fine Corinthian cliches. Hall delivers the first and last solos with precise lyricism. Desmond and Baker have always had some of the prettiest tone on their instruments. The rhythm section is excellent and is aided by Hall who is as fine an accompanyist as leader.
A lot of 70s jazz was played loud and fast but this track takes the opposite approach and draws you in with a whisper.
simey
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I especially love Paul Desmond's sound.
simey
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30.xx - Just the Same Way - Journey (1979 song)
Gregg Rolie sighting! These guys haven't been drafted so I'll take them to end the decade.
Gregg Rolie sighting! These guys haven't been drafted so I'll take them to end the decade.
Eephus
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30.xx "Contort Yourself" - James White and the Blacks (punk/post-punk song)
I'm going to close out my draft with a little post-punk story involving my mom
First I have to tell you a little about her to provide some context. She had a gift of being able to talk to anyone about just about anything. To illustrate, I once left her waiting outside the post office while I mailed a package. I couldn't have been inside for five or ten minutes but when I came out, I found her having an animated conversation with somebody on the street. In that brief time, she met a perfect stranger, discovered the man was a school teacher (mom and dad were both retired teachers at that point) and got him to reveal his starting and current salary. I've had friends for 25 years who I wouldn't dream of broaching that subject with. Another of her many positive traits was her ability to preserve friendships. In the days before social media, she wrote letters, sent cards, called and visited to maintain her network of contacts. She and her friends from college maintained a rotating woman-only game of bridge that ran for over 60 years. Through marriages, children, divorces, relocations and eventually deaths, every other Thursday was club night where they'd gather in somebody's basement or living room and play cards. It originally was two tables but towards the end, it was a one table game once a month. But they still played even when they were old ladies who could barely drive at night.
One of her bridge club ladies was named Jean Siegfried and she had a son named Jimmy. He moved from Milwaukee in the 70s, fell in with the No Wave scenesters in lower Manhattan and changed his name to James Chance aka James White. He gained some notoriety in that movement and released records under the monikers of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Contortions and James White and the Blacks. This got the attention of the folks back home and he got a nice write-up in the Milwaukee papers. My mom, being the letter writer she was, clipped the article and mailed it to me at college. My roommate had a copy the James White and the Blacks album although it was a bit outside for our still pedestrian tastes. I borrowed the record on my next visit home and played side 1, track 1 for her. She listened intently to the whole thing and for one of the few times in memory, she was left absolutely speechless. I asked her what she thought of Jean's son's music. I remember she just smiled, tilted her head a little and left the room. It would probably be a better story if she said something funny or critical or sarcastic but that wasn't my mom. If you knew her, you'd understand that her silence said everything.
The record doesn't sound nearly as outrageous to me now as it did at the time. Almost 40 years of artists pushing boundaries has taken away much of the ability of music to shock. Chance's late 70s hipster hybrid of James Brown and Ornette Coleman with a huge bassline and skronking saxophone bleats sounds almost normal today but just almost. I'm drafting the original LP version that so baffled my mom over the August Darnell 12" single remix that's been played more over the decades.
I'm going to close out my draft with a little post-punk story involving my mom
First I have to tell you a little about her to provide some context. She had a gift of being able to talk to anyone about just about anything. To illustrate, I once left her waiting outside the post office while I mailed a package. I couldn't have been inside for five or ten minutes but when I came out, I found her having an animated conversation with somebody on the street. In that brief time, she met a perfect stranger, discovered the man was a school teacher (mom and dad were both retired teachers at that point) and got him to reveal his starting and current salary. I've had friends for 25 years who I wouldn't dream of broaching that subject with. Another of her many positive traits was her ability to preserve friendships. In the days before social media, she wrote letters, sent cards, called and visited to maintain her network of contacts. She and her friends from college maintained a rotating woman-only game of bridge that ran for over 60 years. Through marriages, children, divorces, relocations and eventually deaths, every other Thursday was club night where they'd gather in somebody's basement or living room and play cards. It originally was two tables but towards the end, it was a one table game once a month. But they still played even when they were old ladies who could barely drive at night.
One of her bridge club ladies was named Jean Siegfried and she had a son named Jimmy. He moved from Milwaukee in the 70s, fell in with the No Wave scenesters in lower Manhattan and changed his name to James Chance aka James White. He gained some notoriety in that movement and released records under the monikers of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Contortions and James White and the Blacks. This got the attention of the folks back home and he got a nice write-up in the Milwaukee papers. My mom, being the letter writer she was, clipped the article and mailed it to me at college. My roommate had a copy the James White and the Blacks album although it was a bit outside for our still pedestrian tastes. I borrowed the record on my next visit home and played side 1, track 1 for her. She listened intently to the whole thing and for one of the few times in memory, she was left absolutely speechless. I asked her what she thought of Jean's son's music. I remember she just smiled, tilted her head a little and left the room. It would probably be a better story if she said something funny or critical or sarcastic but that wasn't my mom. If you knew her, you'd understand that her silence said everything.
The record doesn't sound nearly as outrageous to me now as it did at the time. Almost 40 years of artists pushing boundaries has taken away much of the ability of music to shock. Chance's late 70s hipster hybrid of James Brown and Ornette Coleman with a huge bassline and skronking saxophone bleats sounds almost normal today but just almost. I'm drafting the original LP version that so baffled my mom over the August Darnell 12" single remix that's been played more over the decades.
simsarge
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FUBAR
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Tom Skerritt
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simsarge
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The Dreaded Marco
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Uruk-Hai
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It's hard to say because he's going so damned fast, but I think the guy who put the linked video together caught every artist mentioned in the song.
Anyway, this was what I wanted as my final pick when we started the draft. Even though only part overlaps with the 70s, it seemed appropriate to me - especially with this group of drafters. Y'all some knowledgeable SOBs about 70s music
Binky The Doormat
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For those that didn't know, the album came out picturing a carved up school desk . The front lifted from the bottom (like a school desk).
Enveloping the album itself was a pair of girl's panties made out of the material similar to the disposable dish cloths that were relatively new at the time.
I listened to this heavily while laying on my black fur mattress (on the floor) with my black light and black light posters (including "beep beep yer ###" & "stoned again" - all Spencer Gift specials).
Binky The Doormat
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timschochet
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This is true. It's even more true of that blues movie Crossroads in which the Devil's guitarist (Steve Vai) blows Daniel-san out of the water.
Eephus
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FUBAR
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Mister CIA
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Personally I'm not a Metallica fan, but if you are, then you should love this album because they were such a heavy influence. I love the last track, Parents. Imagine hard rock meets James Bond soundtrack and they decide to jam for ten minutes.
29.XX - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend by Budgie, 1973 album
29.XX - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend by Budgie, 1973 album
Binky The Doormat
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30.xx: International Feel - Todd Rundgren - Wildcard Song
I had several songs lined up and the more I thought about it the more I felt I had to pick the song that best represented the 70s for me - this song.
"But there's more ..."
So much promise for the rest of the decade ...and life.
I had several songs lined up and the more I thought about it the more I felt I had to pick the song that best represented the 70s for me - this song.
"But there's more ..."
So much promise for the rest of the decade ...and life.
Mister CIA
Footballguy
ScottNorwood
Footballcutie
Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult - Hard Rock Song
Isaac Hayes - Shaft - Funk/Soul
Cat Scratch Fever - 1977
Jean Michelle Jarre - Oxygene Wild Card
Isaac Hayes - Shaft - Funk/Soul
Cat Scratch Fever - 1977
Jean Michelle Jarre - Oxygene Wild Card
timschochet
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ScottNorwood
Footballcutie
Eephus
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ScottNorwood
Footballcutie
I searched - no Shaft.
Tim please cite your sources.
Tim please cite your sources.
Mister CIA
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Most pleasant TimDraft ever!
timschochet
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ScottNorwood
Footballcutie
Blatant trolling - just like the time you pretended to like Hillary Clinton
The Dreaded Marco
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This was my first TimDraft---haven't even really lurked in one before that I can recall. How do they typically go?
Eephus
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jwb
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Yea, this was fun. The one pick a day worked well, and there's a ton of good music in here.
otb_lifer
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rd. 29
Radio City - Big Star (wildcard album)
power pop milestone, and Chilton and co. bring it in glorious jangling chords, wrapped around some of the crispest sounding chops ever laid down.
long a personal favorite of mine, and it's influence is evident in every note. a perfect slice of mid 70s brilliance.
an all-time top 10 song for me is the shimmering goodness of September Gurls
"i never travel far, without a little Big Star ..."
Radio City - Big Star (wildcard album)
power pop milestone, and Chilton and co. bring it in glorious jangling chords, wrapped around some of the crispest sounding chops ever laid down.
long a personal favorite of mine, and it's influence is evident in every note. a perfect slice of mid 70s brilliance.
an all-time top 10 song for me is the shimmering goodness of September Gurls
"i never travel far, without a little Big Star ..."
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rockaction
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KarmaPolice
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Usually one or both of: somebody quitting, or people getting impatient and we try to wrap it up in 2 days 1/2 way through the thing.
The Dreaded Marco
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I'm partial to 3rd/Sister Lovers--selected it mid draft, but love this one too.
These guys were definitely ahead of their time.
worrierking
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Here are some songs I considered. There are several others but you know them well, so I don't feel a need to link them.
Aloha Steve and Danno- Radio Birdman Crazed proto-punk from Australia. It's a punk adaptation of the Hawaii 5-0 theme.
Convict- Jules and the Polar Bears "The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again."
There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards-Ian Dury & The Blockheads
The Man Who Couldn't Cry- Loudon Wainwright III
Aloha Steve and Danno- Radio Birdman Crazed proto-punk from Australia. It's a punk adaptation of the Hawaii 5-0 theme.
Convict- Jules and the Polar Bears "The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again."
There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards-Ian Dury & The Blockheads
The Man Who Couldn't Cry- Loudon Wainwright III
Eephus
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Leroy Hoard
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Maybe they should have combined the 2 movies. Britney on screen and Steve Vai dubbing in all her guitar work.Eephus said:I take it that's not the same Crossroads with Britney Spears
ScottNorwood
Footballcutie
Tau837
Footballguy
Hardly... one could still draft a list of songs that would be competitive with the rest, even after spotting 21 x 15 songs.
timschochet
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We'll wait until middle of next week (for the last few to catch up) and then have a daily poll for each category, hopefully with some discussion.
Tom Skerritt
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simey
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