Best of the 70s

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[Dusty Chalk]

6. Roxy Music – Avalon

That was the 80's, dude.

[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, Damnit! 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.

[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.

[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.