It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972
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It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972
Forgot I started that other thread. So here's the updated version.
1972 was half a century ago. What were the five best LPs of the ones listed? If your fave isn't here, tell us what it is.
1972 was half a century ago. What were the five best LPs of the ones listed? If your fave isn't here, tell us what it is.
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Shit, I forgot Nuggets. Oh well, just list your fave if it's not above.
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My fave would be TD's Zeit ... but full marks for including On The Corner ... easily my favourite on that list.
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Superfly, Talking book, Ziggy, Exile, Transformer
I kept thinking "swim as far as you can, swim as far as you can".
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Neu's debut and Hunky Dory would be the main contenders for me.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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Bowie
Deep Purple
Yes
Alice Cooper
Genesis.
Difficult to restrict my choices to just 5. I have to admit it's been quite a while since I played School's Out.
Deep Purple
Yes
Alice Cooper
Genesis.
Difficult to restrict my choices to just 5. I have to admit it's been quite a while since I played School's Out.
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Todd, Yes, Genesis, Roxy, Manassas. Could probably submit another five lists. What a year, full of music and full of diversity
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Positive passion wrote:Superfly, Talking book, Ziggy, Exile, Transformer
Easier to quote this. Swap Exile for Roxy and you've got my five.
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Bowie, Sabbath, Deep Purple (Machine Head), Yes & Alice Cooper .
That was VERY difficult.
That was VERY difficult.
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Diamond Dog wrote:Bowie, Sabbath, Deep Purple (Machine Head), Yes & Alice Cooper .
That was VERY difficult.
What's with all the metal Pete? I thought you were a man of sophistication!
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EXILE
Let's Stay Together
Pink Moon
Talking Book
Manassas
With apologies to Sabbath, Rio Grande Mud, Bare Trees, Eat A Peach, Garcia, and, well, lots of other things, I suppose.
Let's Stay Together
Pink Moon
Talking Book
Manassas
With apologies to Sabbath, Rio Grande Mud, Bare Trees, Eat A Peach, Garcia, and, well, lots of other things, I suppose.
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The Modernist wrote:Diamond Dog wrote:Bowie, Sabbath, Deep Purple (Machine Head), Yes & Alice Cooper .
That was VERY difficult.
What's with all the metal Pete? I thought you were a man of sophistication!
Or is it hard rock?
I kept thinking "swim as far as you can, swim as far as you can".
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Exile, of course. (But not Ziggy. Have @me.)
Into the Purple Valley - yeah, I voted for a few for which mine might be the only vote. I don't love this as much as I used to - he gets some lyrics wrong for one thing - but this is what I've always hoped "Americana" would turn into (it hasn't). Personal renditions of 'The Great American Songbook" infused with the personality of their interpreter. For the wild syncopation on "Jesse James" alone, this is right up my (quiet suburban) back alley.
Clear Spot - not much I have to say about this one, do I? It's between this and Decals for favorite Beefheart album - between the most outré one (but with a stream-of-consciousness bent I find very relatable) and the one where he 'plays it straight' and proves he has a gift for melody and silly humor. His weirdness contains multitudes.
Grave New World - I definitely don't rate this as high as I used to, but I figured anything that ever lived in my top ten - as this did for at least part of the following decade - deserves a vote. See my Strawbs thread for more info. "Queen of Dreams" is still a masterpiece of British psych (a few years too late).
The Harder They Come - It's not often the perfect primer for an entire genre can be encapsulated in one 40-minute LP. Not the whole history, I realize, and fairly Cliff-centric (though his songs for it might be his very best), but it's probably the record here that you could MOST say affected everything. The next decade would have been VERY different without it.
Lots of runners-up. Ziggy, BOC, Simon, Drake, Crosby/Nash (particularly the Crosby stuff, which I like better than ...name), Little Feat, and Miles, in particular.
Into the Purple Valley - yeah, I voted for a few for which mine might be the only vote. I don't love this as much as I used to - he gets some lyrics wrong for one thing - but this is what I've always hoped "Americana" would turn into (it hasn't). Personal renditions of 'The Great American Songbook" infused with the personality of their interpreter. For the wild syncopation on "Jesse James" alone, this is right up my (quiet suburban) back alley.
Clear Spot - not much I have to say about this one, do I? It's between this and Decals for favorite Beefheart album - between the most outré one (but with a stream-of-consciousness bent I find very relatable) and the one where he 'plays it straight' and proves he has a gift for melody and silly humor. His weirdness contains multitudes.
Grave New World - I definitely don't rate this as high as I used to, but I figured anything that ever lived in my top ten - as this did for at least part of the following decade - deserves a vote. See my Strawbs thread for more info. "Queen of Dreams" is still a masterpiece of British psych (a few years too late).
The Harder They Come - It's not often the perfect primer for an entire genre can be encapsulated in one 40-minute LP. Not the whole history, I realize, and fairly Cliff-centric (though his songs for it might be his very best), but it's probably the record here that you could MOST say affected everything. The next decade would have been VERY different without it.
Lots of runners-up. Ziggy, BOC, Simon, Drake, Crosby/Nash (particularly the Crosby stuff, which I like better than ...name), Little Feat, and Miles, in particular.
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So many great albums it’s hard to choose.
Nevertheless I went with old and true favourites, Stones, Bowie, Roxy, Rod and Yes.
One favourite, not there but which I would most probably have ticked is Wishbone Ash’s masterpiece Argus. Think I’ve probably got at least 95% of these albums.
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Nevertheless I went with old and true favourites, Stones, Bowie, Roxy, Rod and Yes.
One favourite, not there but which I would most probably have ticked is Wishbone Ash’s masterpiece Argus. Think I’ve probably got at least 95% of these albums.
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Darkness_Fish wrote:Neu's debut and Hunky Dory would be the main contenders for me.
Before Matt says it, I think Hunky Dory came out late ‘71 not ‘72 but happy to be wrong.
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The Modernist wrote:Diamond Dog wrote:Bowie, Sabbath, Deep Purple (Machine Head), Yes & Alice Cooper .
That was VERY difficult.
What's with all the metal Pete? I thought you were a man of sophistication!
Not a thing I'm often accused of, G!
Firstly- Bowie ain't metal (but you knew that).
Secondly - Alice Cooper isn't metal (and that album has some things that would blow your mind, if you'd listen to it).
Thirdly - Yes aren't metal!! They're even worse - PROG!! But maybe the greatest Prog album, so I forgive them.
Machine Head is one of those albums that kind of cemented my childhood. It is very deeply ingrained - I cannot desert it (nor would I want to).
Lastly...there are days that Vol 4 is the greatest rock album ever made. Genuinely. It's not your thing but... it's glorious. Truly.
As I said - it was tough. I can't believe Harvest isn't in there, for instance. Amongst others. You pays your money......
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Diamond Dog wrote:I can't believe Harvest isn't in there....
It is. You were probably too busy averting your eyes from the Dead/Garcia immediately below.
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Exile
Superfly
Pink Moon
Talking Book
Clear Spot
Point of order: There is no such album as Saturate Before Using It is self titled.
Superfly
Pink Moon
Talking Book
Clear Spot
Point of order: There is no such album as Saturate Before Using It is self titled.
We're way past rhubarb
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The Fish wrote:Diamond Dog wrote:I can't believe Harvest isn't in there....
It is.
Nobody asked, but it’s my least favorite of his 70s records.
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Exile
Ziggy
Clear Spot
Transformer
Roxy
All five would make a personal top 30, the last two in that list probably a top ten. What a year!
Ziggy
Clear Spot
Transformer
Roxy
All five would make a personal top 30, the last two in that list probably a top ten. What a year!
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