Best of the 70s

[Davey]

Lists, lists, lists. Some of you that frequent Pitchfork probably already saw today's first installment of their top 100 albums of the 70s. And I'm sure it will have many inspired choices to go along with the curious and mundane selections that inevitably populate their lists. But who cares about what Pitchfork thinks? Bunch of arrogant knownothing twentysomethings! Let's do our own!

Pick your favorite 10 albums from the 70s. Put them in order, 1 to 10. Anything goes. We'll apply a weighting to the list, ten points for your number 1 and one point for your number 10. That way if we get enough responses, say 25 or so, and tally all the results, we're less likely to award a less than perfect album the top spot just because a few people had it somewhere on their list (such as the questionable choice of Stone Roses for the top spot on the Guardian Top 100 British list).

All suggestions concerning guidelines encouraged and welcome. It will probably have a lot of similarities to our <a href=http://members.mailaka.net/davey/raverecsessentials.htm>Rave Recs Essential Albums</a> list of the past, but we didn't apply a weighting system to that one.

[Davey]

Well, even limited to one pick per artist I've still got about 30 to think about. This might be a little harder than I thought....more later ;)

The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
The Clash - London Calling
Television - Marquee Moon
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Brian Eno - Before And After Science
The Who - Quadrophenia
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Van Morrison - Moondance
David Bowie - Low
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
Queen - Night at the Opera
Mink DeVille - Cabretta
Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Van Morrison - Moondance
Wire - Chairs Missing
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3
Patti Smith - Easter
Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Led Zeppelin - IV

[Mr MidFi]

1. Who's Next
2. Born to Run
3. Sticky Fingers
4. Ziggy Stardust
5. Armed Forces
6. London Calling
7. Dark Side of the Moon
8. Zeppelin IV (actually, untitled)
9. Damn the Torpedoes
10. Fragile

That was hard. That was so hard, it was painful. Completing the list up to 9 was a breeze, but bumping Abbey Road, Blood on the Tracks, Trick of the Tail, Gabriel 3, etc. was like killing my own children. In fact, to hell with Fragile...put Trick of the Tail in there. No wait, don't.

[mad rhetorik]

Pick your favorite 10 albums from the 70s. Put them in order, 1 to 10.

<i>Only</i> ten!??!

10. Led Zeppelin: <b>III</b> (I'd put <b>II</b> in here but that was released in '69)
9. The Rolling Stones: <b>Exile On Main Street</b>
8. Black Sabbath: <b>Paranoid</b>
7. Pink Floyd: <b>Animals</b>
6. The Who: <b>Quadrophenia</b>
5. Bob Dylan: <b>Blood On The Tracks</b>
4. The Ramones: debut
3. Wire: <b>Pink Flag</b>
2. Joy Division: <b>Unknown Pleasures</b>

And # 1 is.....

Neil Young: <b>On The Beach</b>

It was really tough for this know-nothing twentysomething to call just ten picks. Runners-up:

The Stooges: <b>Fun House</b>
Pink Floyd: <b>The Wall</b>, <b>Dark Side Of The Moon</b>
Led Zeppelin: <b>Physical Graffitti</b>
King Crimson: <b>Red</b>
Neil Young: <b>Tonight's The Night</b>, <b>Zuma</b>
Black Sabbath: <b>Master Of Reality</b>
The Clash: debut, <b>London Calling</b>
Television: <b>Marquee Moon</b>
Bruce Springsteen: <b>Darkness On The Edge Of Town</b>
Mahavishnu Orchestra: <b>Birds Of Fire</b>
The Who: <b>Who's Next</b>
The Ramones: <b>Rocket To Russia</b>
Nick Drake: <b>Pink Moon</b>, <b>Five Leaves Left</b>
David Bowie: <b>Station To Station</b>, <b>Low</b>, <b>Heroes</b>

(not counting any live albums)

[nobody]

What the heck...here's ten..random order alert...these are as they come to my head...nothing more than that...

Bob Marley: Catch a Fire (but the Congos: Heart of Darkness that I'm just starting to get into may someday obliviate all reggae in it's path, fantastic percussion on that one)

Public Image Limited: First Issue

Marvin Gaye: What's Going On?

KISS

Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak

Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks

Ramones

Lou Reed; Transformer

Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul

Willie Nelson: Red Headed Stranger

David Bowie: Hunky Dory

Crap...that's 11. 'Course, I still need more room to toss something on there by Willie Nelson, and probably the Stones (either Sticky Fingers or Some Girls) I need Iggy Pop! Where's Al Green? Who? Tons missing...that'll have to do for now. Ten ain't much. H<a>ell, I left out the Clash...the younger me will never forgive my haggared old a<a>ss. Watcha gonna do?

[BradH]

Gabriel's third album was 1980.

[dld]

Well, even limited to one pick per artist I've still got about 30 to think about. This might be a little harder than I thought....more later ;)



I'll start with Davey's list (Helluva lsit Lonesum Dave), and cull a few and add a few:

14. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
13. The Clash - London Calling
12. Pink Floyd - The Wall
11. The Who - Who's Next
10. Nick Lowe - Pure Pop For Now People
9. Yes - Fragile
8. Led Zeppelin - IV
7. John Lennon - Imagine
6. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
5. Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
4. Van Morrison - Moondance
3. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
2. Mccaw - Band On The Run
1. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
.

Thats 14 and as close as I'm getting right now. If you insist on ten, leave off the botton 4 and rerank the others from 10 (best) to 1

[tentoze]

Dylan, Blood On The Tracks
Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
Springsteen, Darkness On The Edge Of Town
V. Morrison, Into The Music
The Band, Stage Fright
Guy Clark, Old #1
Joan Armatrading, S/T
Clash, London Calling
Graham Parker, Howlin' Wind
Wailers, Catch A Fire

[Davey]

Gabriel's third album was 1980.
Good catch. My fact checker has the day off. I always get confused with London Calling too. Is it 1979 or 1980? Seems to show up both ways. Guess it came out right at the end of 1979 so often winds up in the 1980 pile. I should leave it for the 80s. Those were some good years at the end of the 70s. I almost stuck XTC's English Settlement on my list of prospects. Now that error would've been a little worse - PG3 only missed by a few months, not a couple years like XTC :)

[BradH]

Good catch. My fact checker has the day off. I always get confused with London Calling too. Is it 1979 or 1980? Seems to show up both ways. Guess it came out right at the end of 1979 so often winds up in the 1980 pile. I should leave it for the 80s. Those were some good years at the end of the 70s. I almost stuck XTC's English Settlement on my list of prospects. Now that error would've been a little worse - PG3 only missed by a few months, not a couple years like XTC :)

I remember London Calling was 1979 because Sandanista was 1980 wasn't it? I guess I could look it up but I'm pretty sure that's right. Also, keep in mind that Go4's Entertainment was out in late '79 in Britain, not a commonly know fact among the trillions of American Go4 fans. (Filthy commies. Gawd, they were good.) Like you, I remember that being a great time for music. Fantastic stuff from several different genres.

I suppose I could do my list. I don't know, it seems really painful. It's gonna hurt, isn't it? You really are evil, aren't you....(grumble grumble....weighted system grumble mumble...weigh this... mumble grumble...)

[Dusty Chalk]

Tied for first place are:

1 - Animals by Pink Floyd
1 - Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

...see, I'm already screwing things up. You can either assign 9.5 to both of them, or someone else can choose the same two in reverse order, but I suggest the first option, since I can't be sure the latter will happen.

Dang, 1977 alone was hard enough...<s>the following is a tentative order</S> (EDIT: I think this is my final answer):

3 - Romantic Warrior by Return to Forever (can't think of too many albums better than this one...by anyone...)
4 - Tales from Topographic Oceans by Yes (thought I'd show some love to a completely unfairly crucified album -- so what if even the band members don't like it as much as I do? It's my opinion that's being asked, not theirs.)
5 - Klaus Schulze, Mirage (divine, blissful, delicate, beyond reproach -- one of the first truly "ambient" albums -- I still listen to it regularly...wish I had a really good recording of it)
6 - Jeff Beck, Blow By Blow -- is this really worse than Klaus Schulze? No, of course not. We're talking albums that range from 9.8 to 10.0 on a scale of 1.0 to 10.0, so it's just a matter of taste. Hard choosing a good "guitar" album (Al Di, Tommy Bolin), but this one has "Scatterbrain"...
7 - Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds -- some of the most emotive "produced" music, narrowly ousting the likes of Alan Parsons.
8 - Rick Wakeman, Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table -- grandiose. Excellent use of completely overblown instrumentation -- full rock band, multiple vocalists, choir. Simply gorgeous music.
9 - Kraftwerk, The Man Machine -- boppin'!
10 - Deep Purple, Machine Head -- from the opening moments of "Highway Star" to the closing chords of "Space Truckin'", this flat-out rawks!

Honorable mentions (this is where I lose it):

Blue Oyster Cult, Tyranny and Mvtation, Secret Treaties, Agents of Fortune, and perhaps the first album, but the first album would be the first to fall.
Tangerine Dream, Force Majeure -- dang, only 10?!?!? This is the perfect TaDream album...
The Cars -- a great pre-new-wave pop album.
Alan Parsons Project, I, Robot -- dang, only 10?!?!? Well, it does have that clunker, "Total Eclipse"...
Jeff Beck, Wired
Al Di Meola, Splendido Hotel
A New World Record by ELO
A Night at the Opera, Queen
Crack the Sky, Safety in Numbers

Others that could have been on the list, maybe, perhaps, don't know...my brain's overloaded...

Face the Music by ELO (1975)
Out of the Blue by ELO (1977)

Going for the One by Yes (1977)

ELP:

Brain Salad Surgery, Welcome Back My Friends..., Pictures..., Trilogy, Tarkus...

Crack the Sky, Animal Notes, Safety in Numbers

Black Sabbath, Paranoid

Styx, Grand Illusion, Equinox, Crystal Ball...hmmm...

Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells, Ommadawn, Incantations

Vangelis, Heaven & Hell, Opera Sauvage, China, Spiral, Albedo 0.39...

Synergy, Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra, Sequencer

Klaus Schulze, X

Jean-Michel Jarre, Equinoxe, Oxygene

King Crimson (Islands, L, even Red with its one weak track overtakes hundreds of other albums)? Genesis (Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, Selling England, Lamb, Trick of the Tail, Wind & Wuthering)? Jethro Tull (Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, Heavy Horses, Songs from the wood, Minstrel in the Gallery)? Rush (2112, Hemispheres, Farewell to Kings)? Foreignor? Skynyrd?

Other possible choices:

Van Halen's first album
Devo's first album
Judas Priest (Stained Class, Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin)
Kansas
Buzzcocks
Bruford albums

Police, UK, Renaissance, Joe Walsh, Steve Hackett (Spectral Mornings, Please Don't Touch, Voyage of the Acolyte), Scorps (Lovedrive), Supertramp, Aerosmith, Rocks, Wings, Venus & Mars...

Tommy Bolin, Teaser, Private Eyes

Lpppt, this is hard...

[Wireworm5]

My picks
1.Made in Japan-Deep Purple
2.Caught in the Act-Grand Funk
3.All the World's Stage-Rush
4.On Stage-Rainbow
5.Judas Priest-Unleashed in the East
6. Jesus Christ Superstar (original London release)
7.ELP- Show that Never Ends
8. Killer- Alice Cooper
9.Paranoid-Black Sabbath
10. Equiniox- Jean Michel Jarre

[-Jar-]

I know I'll want to revise this later, but oh well..

01 Pink Floyd - Animals
02 Black Sabbath - Paranoid
03 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
04 AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
05 King Crimson - Red
06 Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
07 Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
08 Can - Ege Bamyasi
09 The Clash - London Calling
10 T. Rex - The Slider

[Davey]

OK, I'm back with my top 10. Reading some of the other lists here makes me wanna change it already. And I just checked out the second installment of the Pitchfork list and they are doing a really nice job with it, IMO. Oh well, my choices seem kinda bland but those are the ones I still listen to. Didn't wanna put something on the list that I hadn't listened to in a long time. Got some Kraftwerk playing right now and they should be on my list, but aren't. I like Dusty's choice of Man Machine probably the most. And just listened to Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure last night for the first time in quite awhile and it's still hard to believe that music like that actually topped the charts "back in the day". Too cool. Call it #11 on my list. And Jar's inspired pick of The Slider is cool too. That might be my favorite today, but I can't forget the million times I played Electric Warrior so I went with that one. Toss a coin. Same with Eno, but gotta go with my gut here and Science is the one I love the most of his 4 pop albums, even though I've developed lately a renewed love of Warm Jets that might make it my favorite at the moment. Same with Bowie too. I could pick from 4 or 5 of his 70's albums, and the last few years my fave has been The Man Who Sold The World, but Low is still the one I think of as his best and most far reaching. Either that or Ziggy or Hunky or Aladdin or Station or Diamond. Hmmm, guess I'll stick with Low.

1. The Clash - London Calling
2. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
3. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
4. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
5. David Bowie - Low
6. Brian Eno - Before And After Science
7. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
8. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
9. Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks
10. Mink DeVille - Cabretta

[Ex Lion Tamer]

This is rediculously hard. Following your guidelines (picking my favorite, not necessarily "the best"), these are the albums that got the most listening time over the years, and one's that I'll still pull out today:

Coney Island Baby
Darkness On The Edge of Town
Harmonium
Another Green World
Wish You Were Here
Loaded
Ziggy Stardust
The Clash
All Mod Cons
Pink Flag

Notes: List is from # 10 (at the top) to #1 (at the bottom). Harmonium is the eponomously titled first release of a French-Canadian folk rock band...think Tea For the Tillerman in French, I wore out the grooves in this one back in high school. Also, though London Calling was released in December 1979, I consider it an '80s album, since when it's impact was felt. If the consensus is that it is a '70s album, that's my choice for a Clash album, (and it would be #1).

...and those that juuuust missed...
Lola
Quadrophenia
Blood On the Tracks
Tonight's The Night
Second Contribution (Shawn Phillips)
Paradise & Lunch (Ry Cooder)
Oxygene (J.M. Jarre)
Selling England By The Pound
Hero & Heroine (Strawbs)
Never Mind the Bollocks
Elegant Gypsy (Al Dimeola)
More Songs About Buildings & Food
Inflammable Material
Equal Rights
Madman Across the Water
Rattus Norvegicus
Unknown Pleasures
Damn the Torpedoes
Tea for the Tillerman
Court & Spark
Horses
Plastic Ono Band
Stranded
Brain Salad Surgery

[Davey]

Dave, I think you're trying too hard to be "cool"
The implication being that I'm not already incredibly "cool" http://forums.audioreview.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

[Davey]

Also, though London Calling was released in December 1979, I consider it an '80s album, since when it's impact was felt. If the consensus is that it is a '70s album, that's my choice for a Clash album, (and it would be #1).

Yeah, I think we're gonna make it a 70s album even though I tend to think of it as 80s as well. Just heard that Epic is releasing an expanded new 25-year anniversary CD with a bunch of bonus tracks and a DVD. Guess that shows how much Sony Music supports Sony's own SACD format, eh?

[Stone]

This is incredibly hard.

1. The Clash – London Calling
2. The Kinks – Lola . . .
3. Ramones – Leave Home
4. Gang of Four – Entertainment!
5. The Modern Lovers – s/t
6. The Clash – s/t
7. Ramones – s/t
8. Van Morrison – Moondance
9. Big Star – Radio City
10. Wire – Pink Flag

Hard for me to believe that no Marley is on the list, or that Blood on the Tracks or Fun House didn't make it, but for now (I think) these are the top 10.

[MindGoneHaywire]

This is difficult, but fun...I guess. The sort of fun that leaves me thinking, 'why do I care about this nonsense?' The answer, as you all well know, is because. And that's good enough for me.

1. Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers--L.A.M.F. (better than So Alone or Live At Max's. Best rock'n'roll rec of the decade? You bet yr bippy. At least until tomorrow when I'll nominate the soundtrack to the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band movie)

2. Rolling Stones--Exile On Main St. (better than Sticky Fingers, possibly the best double album of all time)

3. Ramones--Ramones (better than Road To Ruin, my other favorite Ramones album, and one that I'm pained to exclude from this top 10)

4. Iggy & The Stooges--Raw Power (better than Fun House, and one of the greatest rock-band-guitar albums of all time, never anything like it before or since, really...though that's something that can be said for most of the albums on these lists)

5. The Who--Quadrophenia (better than Who's Next, and another one of the very best double albums of all time)

6. John Lennon--Plastic Ono Band (better than Imagine)

7. Big Star--#1 Record (better than Radio City, though I've noticed over the years that some on this board disagree with me on this)

8. Soft Boys--A Can Of Bees (nearly as good as Raw Power in terms of "rock guitar" innovation, and with better lyrics, though Hitchcock's snarl doesn't quite equal Iggy's output, at least on these two albums)

9. Richard Hell & The Voidoids--Blank Generation (I like this better than Television's Marquee Moon, one of my absolute favorites from this era, Hell's best moment by a mile, and quite possibly the best work the recently departed Robert Quine ever got on tape, either)

10. You know, it's ridiculously difficult to decide here...I suppose that I should have London Calling here, it makes the most sense, though I wasn't considering it a 70s album when I went through these. If I had it might well place higher, but there's plenty of love for that record in this thread anyway. Which means that it gets the nod over Blood On The Tracks, Moondance, All Things Must Pass, In The City, This Year's Model, Labour Of Lust, David Johansen, The Dictators Go Girl Crazy, Paranoid, Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire Du Melody Nelson, and the other recs I mentioned in parentheses. At one time I might've had Houses Of The Holy or another Zep rec in there, but not at this point; and at some point in the future I might discover a jazz album I think worthy of this list, but I haven't heard it yet; my taste in jazz remains solidly restricted to (mostly) stuff recorded prior to 1965.

Half or more of my list could be considered punk rock, which should surprise no one, but this raises a point (or beats a dead horse, depending on what you think of my raising this point from time to time): beyond an elite few albums, punk rock as a genre, as well as disco, featured a lot of artists who put out great singles but not great albums. How about a thread about singles, or great singles bands? I guess I should start one myself. Unless someone beats me to it, hint, hint. If anyone cares enough, that is.

[Dusty Chalk]

The implication being that I'm not already incredibly "cool" http://forums.audioreview.com/images/smilies/confused.gifWell...there's the reality, and there's the perception. The reality is, of course, that you are already incredibly cool. But the problem is, with the perception. If you have to "try", then you're not. I know, that's overgeneralizing, but that's just the way some people work.

Hey, on a completely under-related note -- I found a magazine, "Under The Radar" (or perhaps it's Under The Weather), that's talking about the most anticipated albums of 2004 -- a lot of which you and your followers would be interested in: Voyager One, Hot Hot Heat, Sonic Youth, Sparklehorse, Polyphonic Spree, Magnetic Fields, Idlewild, Doves, Clinic, Badly Drawn Boy, Divine Comedy, The Faint, The Beta Band, Broken Social Scene, Low, The Avalanches, Rachel Goswell, Dntel, Luna, Fischerspooner, Mellowdrone, many others.

Also a feature on Martina Topley-Bird (I was hoping that she was working on a new album...she is, but the article covers the Quixotic development as well, so it's too early to tell us much, apparently) and ...Rilo Kiley...? Anyone ever heard of them?

[Dusty Chalk]

Yo, Jay -- whut, no Buzzcocks? Yes, they were a singles band, but they had so many good singles, that they had whole albums full of singles. C'mon, Another Music in a Different Kitchen, A Different Kind of Tension?

And they're punk, aren't they? They're at least pop-punk.

[MindGoneHaywire]

A Different Kind Of Tension is a very good album, maybe a great one, so far as I'm concerned. I'm a pretty big Buzzcocks fan, but that is by far their best album work to my ears. It probably belonged in my 'honorable mention' list at the end of my post, but I probably overlooked quite a few recs--first Damned album, X-Ray Spex, Never Mind The Bollocks, even. I definitely think of them as 'punk rock.' But they're a perfect example of what I was referring to--an outstanding singles band that for the most part didn't produce strong albums. Tension is the only rec until TTT that flowed well; the first two always struck me as being relatively choppy, disjointed even. So while the Buzzcocks remain relatively high in the mix if I'm thinking about favorite artists, this thread wasn't a place where I felt they really belonged.

[nobody]

The thing I both love and hate about these list threads is how I see those gaping holes in my collection. Plugging up them holes makes my ears very happy but my wallet very sad.

[-Jar-]

The thing I both love and hate about these list threads is how I see those gaping holes in my collection. Plugging up them holes makes my ears very happy but my wallet very sad.

Me too.. I hardly have anything from the 70's. That Pitchfork list too.. I hardly have anything from that list either. There's always more new music. It makes it harder to go back and pick up the things you missed.

-jar

[Ex Lion Tamer]

I just saw the last instalment of Pitchfork's list...

Low at #1 is a huge surprise to me. Another huge surprise; no Bruce Springsteen! Generally a fine list I'd have to say, and I've concluded that I better get me some Sly & the Family Stone, besides the Greatest Hits album, not to mention Maggot Brain.

[Davey]

I just saw the last instalment of Pitchfork's list...Generally a fine list I'd have to say
Yeah, I thought they did a very good job, but not surprising since my taste was corrupted at an early age by rock critics. Still, I tried to mix up my list just a little this time with some of the ones I'd been listening to in recent times, at the expense of some of my usual Exile On Main Street/Marquee Moon/Led Zep IV/Blah Blah Blah type selections. I'm also a bit surprised at Low being #1 but it was also near the top of mine so I can't argue. I still think it's his most inspired and ultimately timeless album, and the one I'm most inclined to pull out these days. I also love the heavy Eno showing on this list. Might be kind of a revisionist way to look back at the 70s, but the 3 middle selections on my list also featured Eno, and I mentioned another that just missed at my #11 position.

[nobody]

Lots of good stuff on that Pitchfork list I must admit. Sure, we've all got favorites we love that are missing. I'm still waiting for Germfree Adolescents, Da<a>mnit! And, I still think Led Zep blows no matter what they say. I never liked that stuff even when it was fresh and new to my ears. But, a fun list that has more "outside-the-box" stuff to think about than most.

Some nice surprises, Low surprised me too, even though I really like it. (The comments on it were a bit odd to me. They act like Eno had nothing much to do with it, even though he gets songwriting credits and is listed as playing on two of the most remarkable tunes, the soundscapes that open side 2. I'm also not sure where they're gong with the whole Low as a comment on Punk thing and the assertation that Punk somehow had no impact on music, only on society. Have those guys been paying attention for the last 30 years?)

One thing that always bugs me when I see it, which seems to be pretty much all the time....how many places did Miles Davis take up?

I LOVE Miles Davis, it's not that at all. It just sends a weird message. Does it mean that they are including jazz, and Miles is the only jazz player that did anything worth a crap for an entire decade? Or, does this mean that we have been wrong all these years and Miles is really a rock performer? Oh well, I guess anything that gets people listening to more Miles is a good thing. I'd just suggest that if all those Miles Davis records are very much to their liking, they may wanna expand their jazz horizons beyond a single fella.

Still, another fun list. Even when I complain about them, I could read these list things all day.

[Dusty Chalk]

It is refreshing, in its absence of the usual suspects canon. Or at least, minimizing it.

I almost predicted Low's position. I had predicted it would be in the top 10, along with Joy Division. That should have been pretty easy to call.

Yay for Kraftwerk.

Hey, Davey, they agree with me as to which Eno album is best. Hee-hee.

As to Miles -- what it says to me is that either Miles is the only jazz that will appeal to a rocker, or that is the extent of their jazz knowledge. I have to admit, mine does not go much further. But c'mon, what about Coltrane? Thelonius Monk? Chick Corea? Lpppt.

Someone pointed out on another forum that at least 5 of the artists are credited for "creating" electronica/techno in one form or another. Oops.

[tentoze]

I just saw the last instalment of Pitchfork's list...


I enjoyed reading the whole list, but I have to admit that the final installment today leaves me with a fairly puzzled look on my face, particularly the top 10. Either I must have been in the ditch further than I thought during that decade, or the Pitchfork staff were in an alternate reality (or unborn) back then. Or both.

:confused:
:p

[Davey]

Hey, Davey, they agree with me as to which Eno album is best. Hee-hee.
Everybody, and I do mean EVERYBODY, says Another Green World is his best work. Except lonesome little me. Just label me a free thinker ;)

I do use part of the cover as my avatar on occasion and I do tend to think of it as his most realized album, just not as my favorite. Not far behind, though.

http://members.mailaka.net/davey/eno.gif

[BarryL]

Pick your favorite 10 albums from the 70s. Put them in order, 1 to 10. Anything goes.

Hmmm.
1. Yes - Close To The Edge
2. Yes - Relayer
3. ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
4. Camel - Moonmadness
5. Be-Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish
6. Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
7. Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
8. RDM - Contamination
9. Triumvirat - Spartacus
10. Moody Blues - This Is The Moody Blues

Note for Dave G.: No Gino Vanelli

Boston - Boston

Max Webster - High Class In Borrowed Shoes

[audiobill]

1. Van Morrison – Moondance
2. Led Zeppelin – IV
3. Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick
4. Pink Floyd – Animals
5. David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
6. Roxy Music – Avalon
7. The Clash – London Calling
8. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
9. The Cars – The Cars
10. Elvis Costello – This Year’s Model

Great thread Davey.
Perhaps, once you’ve tabulated the “top ten”, we could each contribute our next 20 & then, 21-30, until say…by the middle of July we have our own top 100 RR 70’s list.

Whaddya think??
audiobill

[Davey]

Perhaps, once you’ve tabulated the “top ten”, we could each contribute our next 20 & then, 21-30, until say…by the middle of July we have our own top 100 RR 70’s list.

Whaddya think??
Well, I think there weren't enough responses to bother tabulating. Less than 15 lists doesn't make a very good sample size but it was fun reading all of them. I think you're in the wrong decade with Avalon, though :)

NP: The Best of the Waterboys: '81 - '90

[tentoze]

Well, I think there weren't enough responses to bother tabulating. Less than 15 lists doesn't make a very good sample size but it was fun reading all of them. I think you're in the wrong decade with Avalon, though :)

NP: The Best of the Waterboys: '81 - '90
Digging in hthe vaults, eh.....Ever heard the Secret Life of the Waterboys, with some alternate takes of some of The Big Music stuff? Kinda interesting.

[Davey]

Digging in hthe vaults, eh.....Ever heard the Secret Life of the Waterboys, with some alternate takes of some of The Big Music stuff? Kinda interesting.
Never been much of a Waterboys fan but I've noticed this Best Of at the library so prompted by a post by markl at http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=35673 I decide to grab it yesterday. It is some pretty nice music but maybe I found them a little late cause it doesn't grab me all that strongly. I'm gonna give it some more listens though. Also picked up Neil Young Unplugged which many mention as one of their favorites. Never heard the whole thing before so that's fun too. Got it playing right now. Just came back from a way too hot run. Got a late start this morning. Already about 100 out there.

Also picked up a couple books to read by Jack McDevitt (Ancient Shores) and Michael Kube-McDowell (Emprise). I only discovered McDevitt in the last year but have read about 5 or 6 of his books now. Great writer and loads of fun. I metioned his <i>A Talent for War</i> in the book thread a couple weeks ago. Right now I'm reading his <i>Ancient Shores</i> which starts out with a North Dakota farmer discovering a perfectly preserved yacht buried in one of his fields, which it turns out is on the shores of what was once a great inland sea 10,000 years ago. And the construction and materials are beyond anything modern man could make. Kube-McDowell writes some really interesting stuff too. His <i>Alternities</i> from the mid 80s is a great alternate universe novel.

NP: Like A Hurricane

[Dusty Chalk]

6. Roxy Music – AvalonThat was the 80's, dude. :)

[audiobill]

Well, I think there weren't enough responses to bother tabulating. Less than 15 lists doesn't make a very good sample size but it was fun reading all of them. I think you're in the wrong decade with Avalon, though :)

NP: The Best of the Waterboys: '81 - '90

Alex,
I'll take 70's Roxy Music albums for 200.

What is ............Country Life??

Cheers, he,he,he,he,he,he
Bill

[Davey]

Alex,
I'll take 70's Roxy Music albums for 200.

What is ............Country Life??

Yeah, I like that one (other than the middle section which always seemed kind of disjointed and meandering to me) and For Your Pleasure (my favorite) better than the more schmaltzy Avalon anyway :)

[Troy]

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8. RDM - Contamination

What's this, Barry?

[BarryL]

What's this, Barry?

RDM was an italian band. The initials stand for three words in Italian, which may be their names (Revechio Della Maglioni, or some such). RCA released their second album with english lyrics. It's a prog rockin' dynamo, with heavy and light keyboards, guitars, bass, drums, and some parts orchestrated. It's based loosly on themes by Bach.

Demetrio sent me the Italian version, which was available on CD at one point, but I've copied my vinyl onto CD. I'll make sure I get a copy to you. I wore out more than one vinyl copy during those prog heydays.

[Troy]

RDM was an italian band. The initials stand for three words in Italian, which may be their names (Revechio Della Maglioni, or some such). RCA released their second album with english lyrics. It's a prog rockin' dynamo, with heavy and light keyboards, guitars, bass, drums, and some parts orchestrated. It's based loosly on themes by Bach.

Demetrio sent me the Italian version, which was available on CD at one point, but I've copied my vinyl onto CD. I'll make sure I get a copy to you. I wore out more than one vinyl copy during those prog heydays.

THANKS! Please, don't hurt yourself getting it to me. I am already a mile in the hole with you!

[Troy]

Late to this party, but here's a list. Yeah, more than 10 and not in order. Never was good at following directions

Frank Zappa- Sheik Yerbouti
Ambrosia
10CC- How Dare You
Billy Joel- Streetlife Serenader
War- The World is a Ghetto
Bowie- Station to Station
Yes- Close to the Edge
The Buggles- Video Killed the Radio Star
Camel- Mirage
Utopia- RA
The Tubes
Genesis- Seconds Out
Jethro Tull- Aqualung
Gary Numan- The Pleasure Principle
Elton John- GBYBR
Be Bop Deluxe- Sunburst Finish
Bill Nelson's Red Noise
Pink Floyd- uhhhhhh . . . DSOTM, No, WYWH . . . . . wait, Animals. Can't pick just one.
Random Hold- Etceteraville
Rush- Farewell to kings
Steely Dan- Royal Scam
Talking Heads- Fear of Music
UK- UK

And note that none of these match J's list! What a shock.

[BarryL]

The Tubes
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I saw them perform it T.O. on that first tour. I still think that's a great album, from start to finish.

So tell me, was Mirage the album that introduced you to Camel? My into was Moonmadness, and that's probably why it's my favorite Camel album.

[Troy]

So tell me, was Mirage the album that introduced you to Camel? My into was Moonmadness, and that's probably why it's my favorite Camel album.

Good guess, but no. My first Camel album was Moonmadness too.

I picked it mainly to be contrary jagoff. . .

Actually, I like it a little more because it rocks harder. I could easily pick Moonmadness on a different day.