What are some of your favourite albums of the 80s?  I love to collect vinyl records and to me there's nothing better than putting an 80s album on the turntable and just sitting back and listening to it!


Since there's not a topic like this yet on the 70's board, I thought I'd start it.  My only problem is, as I think about it, I already have dozens of albums I want to post!  Tough to choose!  :D

With each album post from me I'll include an embedded song - that's how I roll.

Perhaps you've heard of a band called The Beatles.  Their last "regular" album release, Let It Be from 1970 lines up with the Beatles' famed "Concert on the Roof". Despite that the album drew criticism in its final release form (after Phil Spector "fixed it up"), it stands regardless as a highly beloved album.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51F-JrWga3L.jpg

Rather than post the 3 singles from the album (Get Back, Long and Winding Road, title track) I'll post a personal album favorite, having many to choose from:

The Beatles - I Dig A Pony (1970)    :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpdJE7HG8Ls

Other favorites on the album include I've Got A Feeling, Two Of Us, Across The Universe, and One After 909, but there are no clunkers; there's even a little Beatle humor in the likes of Dig It.  Plus the inner sleeve and poster included with the vinyl album are a great touch.  If you haven't heard this one, do!

Oh, there are so many. But this is a majorly important one.


Blows Against the Empire
Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship
1970

This is one of the most classic albums of the rock era, and now widely acknowledged as such, although it remained "underground" for many years. It was also nominated for the prestigious science fiction writer's Hugo Award in 1971.

This was to be a Paul Kantner solo album, except for one thing. Paul Kantner never did solo albums. Even things done under his name were communal efforts. It's how he rolled. So he chose the name "Jefferson Starship" to signify the loose aggregation of people that populate this album. They were also known as "The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra" and also feature on David Crosby's 1971 solo album "If I Could Only Remember My Name". Players on "Blows Against the Empire" include fellow Airplaners Grace Slick and Jack Casady, as well as David Crosby, Graham Nash,  the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzman, and Phil Lesh, David Freiberg, Joey Covington and Harvey Brooks. Side two of the album is a long, interlocking suite about how a group of hippies hijack the first interstellar starship created by the US government, and take off to galactic parts unknown, creating a hippie utopia onboard. Idealistic, idealistic, idealistic. It' also brilliant.

As the Airplane started to fracture in 1972 Kantner & Slick made a couple of duo albums and an actual band "Jefferson Starship" solidified in 1974 with the album "Dragon Fly" as they welcomed Marty Balin back into the fold (for one song anyway. he would become a full fledged member on the next album, the multi million seller "Red Octopus" in 1975).

The original vinyl "Blows Against the Empire" came with a multi page libretto lyric booklet and a stunning gatefold sleeve featuring black and shiny silver ink. The innersleeve was also filled with drawings and poetry. Oh the glorious days when albums were like this!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE confuse NONE of this with the screechy 1980s Mickey Thomas era junk. Unfortunately that  seems to be what far too many people remember. these days. Forget about it. Blech!


Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship
"A Child Is Coming"
Listen how the song changes course midstream. It starts as a CSN type thing and shifts into a gorgeous cosmic improvisation between Kantner, Crosby and Slick. Also glorious bass by Jack Casady.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D0Qr7VxaMs

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/weoAAOSwoS9fnEG9/s-l1600.jpg

Oh, there are so many. But this is a majorly important one.


Blows Against the Empire
Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship
1970

This is one of the most classic albums of the rock era, and now widely acknowledged as such, although it remained "underground" for many years. It was also nominated for the prestigious science fiction writer's Hugo Award in 1971.

This was to be a Paul Kantner solo album, except for one thing. Paul Kantner never did solo albums. Even things done under his name were communal efforts. It's how he rolled. So he chose the name "Jefferson Starship" to signify the loose aggregation of people that populate this album. They were also known as "The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra" and also feature on David Crosby's 1971 solo album "If I Could Only Remember My Name". Players on "Blows Against the Empire" include fellow Airplaners Grace Slick and Jack Casady, as well as David Crosby, Graham Nash,  the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzman, and Phil Lesh, David Freiberg, Joey Covington and Harvey Brooks. Side two of the album is a long, interlocking suite about how a group of hippies hijack the first interstellar starship created by the US government, and take off to galactic parts unknown, creating a hippie utopia onboard. Idealistic, idealistic, idealistic. It' also brilliant.

As the Airplane started to fracture in 1972 Kantner & Slick made a couple of duo albums and an actual band "Jefferson Starship" solidified in 1974 with the album "Dragon Fly" as they welcomed Marty Balin back into the fold (for one song anyway. he would become a full fledged member on the next album, the multi million seller "Red Octopus" in 1975).

The original vinyl "Blows Against the Empire" came with a multi page libretto lyric booklet and a stunning gatefold sleeve featuring black and shiny silver ink. The innersleeve was also filled with drawings and poetry. Oh the glorious days when albums were like this!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE confuse NONE of this with the screechy 1980s Mickey Thomas era junk. Unfortunately that  seems to be what far too many people remember. these days. Forget about it. Blech!


Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship
"A Child Is Coming"
Listen how the song changes course midstream. It starts as a CSN type thing and shifts into a gorgeous cosmic improvisation between Kantner, Crosby and Slick. Also glorious bass by Jack Casady.

...



O0 Very cool!  I like the song; it's new to me.  Thanks for including the gatefold sleeve etc. artwork.

Jethro Tull-Songs From The Wood (1977)

It is hard to pick ONE song off the album because I love it ALL!

Of course I will pick the longest song on the album. I think if you listen to the first part of it, you will want to listen to it all.

Pibroch (Cap in Hand)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkUCchG0Kls

Hunting Girl was going to be my second choice.


Cat

Gene Clark
"No Other"
1974

This album from original Byrd member Gene Clark couldn't get arrested when it was released on David Geffen's Asylum label in 1974. Me and about two other people bought it. I don't even recall it getting any FM airplay. But it's Clark's  (and anybody else's) MAGNUM OPUS, and I certainly noticed right away. But it languished in obscurity.

Strangely, in recent years it has been rediscovered (or just plain discovered, as nobody noticed it the first time around) and it has been afforded full cult classic status. A whole host of indie band luminaries even went on tour a few years back, doing the entire album top to bottom with the exact elaborate arrangements of the original. And a year or so ago it got the full treatment with a pricey box set consisting of the original album, plus outtakes and demos, a hardcover book and more. A shame that Clark, who died at age 46 in 1991, did not live to see his masterpiece finally get the recognition it deserves.

The original album came with a poster of Clark in full glam rock drag. This was somewhat tongue-in cheek, as it was not the usual style of the denim-clad, California hippie cowboy Clark.

"Silver Raven"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1ZWsAAxyk

"No Other"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L7cAeZC-1o

Poster:

http://assets.rootsvinylguide.com/pictures/gene-clark-no-other-rare-sealed-orig-74-asylum-lp-w-poster-west-coast-psych_13218051

Perhaps you've heard of a band called The Beatles.  Their last "regular" album release, Let It Be from 1970 lines up with the Beatles' famed "Concert on the Roof". Despite that the album drew criticism in its final release form (after Phil Spector "fixed it up"), it stands regardless as a highly beloved album.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51F-JrWga3L.jpg

Rather than post the 3 singles from the album (Get Back, Long and Winding Road, title track) I'll post a personal album favorite, having many to choose from:

The Beatles - I Dig A Pony (1970)    :)

Other favorites on the album include I've Got A Feeling, Two Of Us, Across The Universe, and One After 909, but there are no clunkers; there's even a little Beatle humor in the likes of Dig It.  Plus the inner sleeve and poster included with the vinyl album are a great touch.  If you haven't heard this one, do!

My sister has the original album that has a photo booklet with it, of it a collectors item.

...and she has a record player to play her albums on.

My sister has the original album that has a photo booklet with it, of it a collectors item.

...and she has a record player to play her albums on.


Here in the US the album was not issued with the photo book. I bought the album in 1970, But three years later in 1973 I walked into a record store and they were selling the book (without the album) for $1.99!!! I don't know where they got them, but they had a ton of them. All on display right in the front of the store. So naturally I bought one. If I had known then what I know now (famous last words) I would have bought ten of them!!! I must say though, they were not bound very well. The pages all immediately started to separate from the binding and fall out. So I doubt my copy is worth very much. But at least I've got one!  :)

Who's next  (1971)

IMO their best album. So many great tracks. Behind Blue Eyes, Baba O'Riley and this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q

Here in the US the album was not issued with the photo book. I bought the album in 1970, But three years later in 1973 I walked into a record store and they were selling the book (without the album) for $1.99!!! I don't know where they got them, but they had a ton of them. All on display right in the front of the store. So naturally I bought one. If I had known then what I know now (famous last words) I would have bought ten of them!!! I must say though, they were not bound very well. The pages all immediately started to separate from the binding and fall out. So I doubt my copy is worth very much. But at least I've got one!  :)
I have never seen the photo book anywhere!

I have never seen the photo book anywhere!


It's actually quite thick and printed on highly glossy paper. All photos by Ethan Russell, and there are several pages of text, mostly dialog from the movie.

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"Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield.

My favourite album of the 1970s.

The album I would have on while I did my school homework...

...till I discovered Beethoven!

It's actually quite thick and printed on highly glossy paper. All photos by Ethan Russell, and there are several pages of text, mostly dialog from the movie.

http://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2016/2/14/c/6/f/c6f8e59e-d310-11e5-9e4e-64e4f6f41355.jpg

I've not seen this before . What a wonderful piece of memorabilia to own.

I've not seen this before . What a wonderful piece of memorabilia to own.


And all for $1.99!  :D

My sister has the original album that has a photo booklet with it, of it a collectors item.

...and she has a record player to play her albums on.


I have a t shirt with that picture on it. I’m sure it’s worth nothing.  ;D

Dave Mason
"Alone Together"
1970

Plainly speaking, this is one of the most perfect albums in the history of recorded music. Dave Mason left Traffic, relocated to the US, hung out with West Coast musicians, and created an organic masterpiece.

The original pressing of the album was on swirly multicolored vinyl. Each one individually done by dropping a dye pellet into the vat of liquid black vinyl. No two were alike. The innersleeve folded out into a poster. the whole thing must have cost a fortune to make.


"Only You Know And I Know"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn0tnfv0KCc

"Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave"
(Leon Russell on piano)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tsyXWIBGgQ


http://www.popsike.com/pix/20111112/330640788711.jpg

George Harrison in the 70s...he was so great looking! I like his look around 1970 or 71. ❤ 

George Harrison in the 70s...he was so great looking! I like his look around 1970 or 71. ❤


What does this have to do with albums of the 70s?

What does this have to do with albums of the 70s?


Nothing. Just saying.  ::)

So many amazing albums posted already!  The bar is set pretty high!  :D

True confession time: I own this album on CD, not on vinyl.  In fact it was a later discovery for me - but oh I'm glad I did.  This is an album that has earned a lot of critical acclaim over the years.  An album's earning acclaim doesn't mean it is good or isn't - it means someone noticed.  In this case, the acclaim is completely justified.

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Van Morrison's Moondance album (1970) has a mellow, soulful, almost smoky overall flavor - but there are also some toe-tappers that can beckon one to the dance.  I love to just put the album on and get lost in Morrison's colorful imagery - very colorful imagery indeed.

I could post any song on the album, but I pick the midtempo These Dreams Of You.  Don't ask me why.  Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WapeKX1J1B0

Listening to the whole album is highly recommended - mustn't skip any songs.  Then maybe it will make sense why I love this album so.  :)

Listening to the whole album is highly recommended - mustn't skip any songs.  Then maybe it will make sense why I love this album so.  :)


Yes, exactly. "The album as collection of songs".  All of the albums mentioned here thus far are meant to be listened to in their entirety. As a whole piece. The songs sound BETTER because they are surrounded by the other songs. Theyw ere often conceived as a whole. Great care went into sequencing. That's what is unfortunately dead now due to steaming (and originally due to downloading).

Traffic
"John Barleycorn Must Die"
1970

I mentioned Dave Mason's "Alone Together" and now I must mention this album. They somehow go together in my mind. While Mason was creating his masterpiece in L.A., his old Traffic bandmates were creating an album of equal brilliance back in England. It started out to be what would have been Steve Winwood's first solo album (to be called "Mad Shadows"). But he invited Jim Capaldi and Chris Wood to play and soon Traffic was reborn. Like "Alone Together" it's a perfectly SYMMETRICAL album. Mason's had four songs per side, perfectly sequenced. "Barleycorn" has three long songs per side, also perfectly sequenced.  Not a note is wasted or out of place. There is nothing on Earth like this album.

The photo on the inside of the gatefold sleeve is hauntingly surreal, featuring  the band members under a green sky.

"Glad"
"Freedom Rider"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ow1yz0P84E


"John Barleycorn"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYMW24HgGVE


http://cincinnatibabyhead.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/traffic-john-barleycorn-must-die-inside-gatefold.jpg?w=547

So many amazing albums posted already!  The bar is set pretty high!  :D

True confession time: I own this album on CD, not on vinyl.  In fact it was a later discovery for me - but oh I'm glad I did.  This is an album that has earned a lot of critical acclaim over the years.  An album's earning acclaim doesn't mean it is good or isn't - it means someone noticed.  In this case, the acclaim is completely justified.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51hidgyQgJL._SX355_.jpg

Van Morrison's Moondance album (1970) has a mellow, soulful, almost smoky overall flavor - but there are also some toe-tappers that can beckon one to the dance.  I love to just put the album on and get lost in Morrison's colorful imagery - very colorful imagery indeed.

I could post any song on the album, but I pick the midtempo These Dreams Of You.  Don't ask me why.  Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WapeKX1J1B0

Listening to the whole album is highly recommended - mustn't skip any songs.  Then maybe it will make sense why I love this album so.  :)



I also own it on CD. I LOVE Moondance. I think I mentioned this a while ago but I once choreographed and preformed a dance to that song.


Cat

This album may not be fair to the 70s, but one of my favourite albums ever is called Flying Colors by Trooper.  It was released in September of 1979 and the reason I say it's not fair to the 70s was because 2 of the 3 hits that came from it peaked in 1980, one of them titled Janine becoming (rightfully so) their highest charting single in Canada.  At the end of the day though, this entire album was written and recorded in the 70s and it is just a masterpiece!

Here is Janine and the lone '79 hit 3 Dressed Up As A 9

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George Harrison in the 70s...he was so great looking! I like his look around 1970 or 71. ❤


http://spillmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/George-Harrison.jpg
Do you like this album Jess?

Do you like this album Jess?


What album are you referring to, Howard? The photo you post is from a box set of twelve vinyl Harrison albums. It's selling for $370 but Jess may have it, you never know.

Do you like this album Jess?
Where you were the one who had made it so clear, all those years ago?

Donovan
"Open Road"
1970

Truly one of my all time favorite albums. Donovan changed direction somewhat with this 1970 release and formed a three piece rock band (also called Open Road). The sound is somewhat stripped back and the album features a wide array of musical styles, but it's all pure Donovan. It garnered a minor hit "Riki Tiki Tavi", but did not reach the heights of his string of hits of the previous five years. This lesser-known album has grown in stature over the years and is now widely regarded as a classic. And rightfully so!

"Changes"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6nxyeFvVC0

"Riki Tiki Tavi"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY7Rxae4pjU


Back & Front Cover:

http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49039765037_f2203e0a95_n.jpg

"Autobahn"
Kraftwerk
1974

The is the fourth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released in November 1974. It was the band's first album to fully embrace the repetitive electronic sound they would become known for (although organic instruments still remained part of their sonic palette) and was inspired by the titular German motorway system. The radio edit of the title track became a surprise international hit, reaching number 11 in the UK, number 12 in both Canada and the Netherlands, number 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number 30 in the Australian chart.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/A74-D-front-250.jpg

http://spillmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/George-Harrison.jpg
Do you like this album Jess?


I do! I like all of his albums, and The Beatles.  :)

What album are you referring to, Howard? The photo you post is from a box set of twelve vinyl Harrison albums. It's selling for $370 but Jess may have it, you never know.

Sorry, I thought it was a regular single album.

"Autobahn"
Kraftwerk
1974

The is the fourth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released in November 1974. It was the band's first album to fully embrace the repetitive electronic sound they would become known for (although organic instruments still remained part of their sonic palette) and was inspired by the titular German motorway system. The radio edit of the title track became a surprise international hit, reaching number 11 in the UK, number 12 in both Canada and the Netherlands, number 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number 30 in the Australian chart.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/A74-D-front-250.jpg


My eldest brother was a big Kraftwerk fan. Great choice

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LaylaCover.jpg

“Layla and other assorted love songs”, 1970

I have this on vinyl, but along with the rest of my other records, the covers got destroyed by my young naive self storing them in a box in my crawl space. Same with the Frampton Comes Alive album. I disinfected the mold off the vinyl itself and kept those.

Two by Styx-The Grand Illusion & Pieces of Eight.


Cat

In honor of Ringo's birthday, this delightful work seems an appropriate choice.  Ringo Starr's 1973 album, Ringo.  It's as close as anything to a post-breakup Beatles' reunion, given the fact that all four Beatles contributed to the album.  The album was well received and even got some critical acclaim, but more importantly, I like it  :)

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I could pick any song from the album to post including its three hits Photograph, You're Sixteen, or Oh My My, but instead I'll post this Paul and Linda McCartney penned dandy, entitled Six O'Clock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZH_z60fkhg

All four Beatles' influences can be heard on this album.  If you haven't heard it, it's worth giving a listen!

Surprised to not see this one yet. “Rumours” by Fleetwood Mac, 1977.

Surprised to not see this one yet. “Rumours” by Fleetwood Mac, 1977.


You're invited to tell us about Rumours if you like, wagonman  :)

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers.
Yeah, the one with the zipper  ;D
Sticky Fingers is the ninth British and eleventh American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 23 April 1971. 
The Mick Taylor era:

Such great songs like "Brown Sugar", "Wild Horses", "Can't you hear me knocking"

IMO arguably their best album, although as a fan it's really hard for me to pick a best Stones album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59K2kF6o9Tk

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers.
Yeah, the one with the zipper  ;D
Sticky Fingers is the ninth British and eleventh American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 23 April 1971. 
The Mick Taylor era:

Such great songs like "Brown Sugar", "Wild Horses", "Can't you hear me knocking"

IMO arguably their best album, although as a fan it's really hard for me to pick a best Stones album.




Still have my original copy from 1971 with he working zipper!  8)

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers.
Yeah, the one with the zipper  ;D
Sticky Fingers is the ninth British and eleventh American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 23 April 1971. 
The Mick Taylor era:

Such great songs like "Brown Sugar", "Wild Horses", "Can't you hear me knocking"

IMO arguably their best album, although as a fan it's really hard for me to pick a best Stones album.

Sad news:

The Sticky Fingers Restaurant in London owned by Bill Wyman will closed after 32 years of trading.

Sad news:

The Sticky Fingers Restaurant in London owned by Bill Wyman will closed after 32 years of trading.


That stinks  :(  A Covid victim?

Still have my original copy from 1971 with he working zipper!  8)

;D ;D

All the talk here about George Harrison albums - no one posted an album.  So I will.  It's hard to pick just one as I'm a big fan - such tremendous works including All Things Must Pass, Living in the Material World, George Harrison, but today I'll highlight his 33 1/3 album (1976).  Not necessarily my favorite, but I like it.  (See I'm easy that way.)

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George was coming off a period where his prior two albums had been less than stellar in the eyes of his critics, not to mention it was a very dark period for him personally.  In a way this album represents a comeback out of that funk to the George Harrison who tickles the ear of the masses.  But the album was not only well received; it is good.

Rather than post its two hit songs This Song and Crackerbox Palace, I'd like to post this gem which he says was a tribute to his sweetheart (who he ended up marrying), Olivia Arias:

George Harrison - Beautiful Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbagFNiIIso

This album is filled with gems and has something for everyone.  If you haven't already, I suggest to give it a listen!  :)

Still have my original copy from 1971 with he working zipper!  8)



Read here:

So about that Rolling Stones’ cover: Whose crotch is it anyway?
https://nypost.com/2015/06/06/so-about-that-rolling-stones-cover-whose-crotch-is-it-anyway/


http://i1.wp.com/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/stonesmaybe.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&ssl=1

http://andyearhole.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/cassette-tape-slip.jpg?w=1200

Read here:

So about that Rolling Stones’ cover: Whose crotch is it anyway?
https://nypost.com/2015/06/06/so-about-that-rolling-stones-cover-whose-crotch-is-it-anyway/


http://i1.wp.com/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/stonesmaybe.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&ssl=1

http://andyearhole.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/cassette-tape-slip.jpg?w=1200


After reading the article I gotta laugh  ;D  ;D  ;D

After reading the article I gotta laugh  ;D  ;D  ;D


Yes, Andy Warhol didn't care who it was, he just wanted the photo to look a certain way. It's funny that the outside and the inside may not even be the same person. People always used to think it was Jagger or one of the other Stones,  and ad campaigns like this perpetrated the misconception:


http://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F8%2F8%2F5%2F6%2F18856628%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D

After reading the article I gotta laugh  ;D  ;D  ;D

And why would the album feature a guy's crotch in your face?

Graham Nash/David Crosby
1972

The first of the duo albums by David Crosby and Graham Nash. It contained the top 40 hit "Immigration Man" (lead guitar by Dave Mason) and the much loved (among fans) "Southbound Train" (Jerry Garcia on steel guitar). Though released in 1972, "Immigration Man" remains highly relevant today.

The album came in a triple fold out gatefold sleeve with a cut-out cover revealing a photo of the duo and bears the dedication "To Miss Mitchell", a reference to Joni Mitchell.

Oh, and I always liked the way the font with their names corresponds with the colors of the way they were dressed.  :)

"Immigration Man"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uKlRPaQmbM

"Southbound Train"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5VZwSNRKds


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Country Joe McDonald
"Hold On, It's Coming"
1971

I'm sure you've never heard of this album. Very few have. It's the very definition of an obscure gem. Country Joe McDonald released this album in 1971, a year or so after leaving Country Joe & the Fish. He'd already done a couple of solo albums already, including an album of all Woody Guthrie covers, which itself is a classic of the genre.

Underground radio stations used to play songs from "Hold On It's Coming", which is where I heard it. They often played the title song, which appears in two versions on the album. One basically acoustic, and one slightly more arranged. I have included the more arranged version here. Listen to the psychedelic tale it tells of a strange encounter with a hitchhiker. Background vocals are by Spencer Davis of the Spencer Davis Group (known for being where 16 year old Steve Winwood got his start). Lead guitar on a few songs is by Peter Green, late of Fleetwood Mac, who appears under the pseudonym "Rockhead".

I do remember that I had to search high and low for this album back in the day. Though it was on Vanguard, a prominent folk-oriented label, it wasn't easy to find. A true lost classic!

"Hold On, It's Coming" (version two)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsPLvTDSkAM

"Jamila"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYnMBVweXsc

http://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/284324756572_/COUNTRY-JOE-MCDONALD-Hold-On-Its-Coming-LP.jpg

Graham Nash/David Crosby
1972

The first of the duo albums by David Crosby and Graham Nash. It contained the top 40 hit "Immigration Man" (lead guitar by Dave Mason) and the much loved (among fans) "Southbound Train" (Jerry Garcia on steel guitar). Though released in 1972, "Immigration Man" remains highly relevant today.

The album came in a triple fold out gatefold sleeve with a cut-out cover revealing a photo of the duo and bears the dedication "To Miss Mitchell", a reference to Joni Mitchell.

Oh, and I always liked the way the font with their names corresponds with the colors of the way they were dressed.  :)

"Immigration Man"

"Southbound Train"

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O0 I haven't heard this album before - it doesn't surprise me that it's good.  I like Southbound Train very much (it's new to me).

The Crosby/Nash pose is curious - it looks like Crosby just popped Nash on the chin!  ;D

Country Joe McDonald
"Hold On, It's Coming"
1971

I'm sure you've never heard of this album. Very few have. It's the very definition of an obscure gem. Country Joe McDonald released this album in 1971, a year or so after leaving Country Joe & the Fish. He'd already done a couple of solo albums already, including an album of all Woody Guthrie covers, which itself is a classic of the genre.

Underground radio stations used to play songs from "Hold On It's Coming", which is where I heard it. They often played the title song, which appears in two versions on the album. One basically acoustic, and one slightly more arranged. I have included the more arranged version here. Listen to the psychedelic tale it tells of a strange encounter with a hitchhiker. Background vocals are by Spencer Davis of the Spencer Davis Group (known for being where 16 year old Steve Winwood got his start). Lead guitar on a few songs is by Peter Green, late of Fleetwood Mac, who appears under the pseudonym "Rockhead".

I do remember that I had to search high and low for this album back in the day. Though it was on Vanguard, a prominent folk-oriented label, it wasn't easy to find. A true lost classic!

"Hold On, It's Coming" (version two)

"Jamila"

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O0 Fascinating!  I like his sound, much to my surprise.  It's always great discovering hidden gems.  Thanks for posting it!

The Crosby/Nash pose is curious - it looks like Crosby just popped Nash on the chin!  ;D


I never noticed that before. But if you look at the photo closely (the one that shows more of their bodies, which is what you see when you open the gatefold) you will see that Crosby is holding something which turns out to be a guitar. 

Here's the back cover which is equally intriguing. Again you will see the outline of the guitar in front of them.

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O0 Fascinating!  I like his sound, much to my surprise.  It's always great discovering hidden gems.  Thanks for posting it!


I'm glad you like this lost classic. Not sure why you'd be surprised though, Country Joe has always been a respected songwriter.  Unfortunately these days he seems to ONLY be known for his bravura performance of "Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag" and it's infamous "cheer" in the Woodstock movie.

If I may indulge, here's another song from "Hold On, It' Coming". Amazing that such an ethereal, "cosmic" sound was achieved with just acoustic guitar, layered vocals and a little bit of electric piano.

"Travelling"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Z_ND18rf4

...If I may indulge, here's another song from "Hold On, It' Coming". Amazing that such an ethereal, "cosmic" sound was achieved with just acoustic guitar, layered vocals and a little bit of electric piano.

"Travelling"


O0 Thanks for the "indulging" - that one's good listening, too.

Rick Wakeman: Journey to the Centre of the Earth. (1974)

Here is the entire album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ9W2pZwvlY

Worth listening to the entire album.


Cat

Blondie - Parallel Lines

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Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American rock band Blondie. It was released on September 23, 1978. The album reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom in February 1979 and proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the United States, where it reached No. 6 in April 1979. In Billboard magazine, Parallel Lines was listed at No. 9 in the top pop albums year-end chart of 1979. The album spawned several successful singles, notably the international hit "Heart of Glass", and this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXewIR7Y7cc

Fleetwood Mac
"Bare Trees"
1972

Fleetwood Mac made a string of great but lesser known albums throughout the early 70s, before Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined in 1975. They sold well enough, but not spectacularly. Mick Fleetwood says the standard joke was that Fleetwood Mac Albums (pre Buckingham-Nicks) paid the record company's light bill.  ;D

This is a terrific one from when the band was fronted by Bob Welch, Danny Kirwan and Christine McVie. It contains the original "Sentimental Lady" which received a moderate amount of airplay. Bob Welch would later re-do it and turn it into a smash hit. I like this earlier version much better. The guitar tones on this album are beautiful.

""Sentimental Lady"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAz_a8AjHgE


"Spare Me A Little of Your Love"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiGEEHtumDM

Buckingham Nicks
1973

The one and only album made Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks before they joined Fleetwood Mac. Contains the original version of "Crystal", which they would redo on the first album with Fleetwood Mac. I don't remember any airplay with this album when it was new, but it got a lot of airplay after Buckingham and Nicks's success with Fleetwood Mac. It's a lovely album.

"Crystal"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jpOp7u9Rok

"Races Are Run"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrMyQ60dUic

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Fleetwood Mac
"Bare Trees"
1972

Fleetwood Mac made a string of great but lesser known albums throughout the early 70s, before Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined in 1975. They sold well enough, but not spectacularly. Mick Fleetwood says the standard joke was that Fleetwood Mac Albums (pre Buckingham-Nicks) paid the record company's light bill.  ;D

This is a terrific one from when the band was fronted by Bob Welch, Danny Kirwan and Christine McVie. It contains the original "Sentimental Lady" which received a moderate amount of airplay. Bob Welch would later re-do it and turn it into a smash hit. I like this earlier version much better. The guitar tones on this album are beautiful.

""Sentimental Lady"

"Spare Me A Little of Your Love"


O0 Great pick!  BTW today is Christie McVie's birthday - "Spare Me A Little Of Your Love" sounds great (new to me) and I love hearing her sweet voice taking the lead in that one.

Buckingham Nicks
1973

The one and only album made Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks before they joined Fleetwood Mac. Contains the original version of "Crystal", which they would redo on the first album with Fleetwood Mac. I don't remember any airplay with this album when it was new, but it got a lot of airplay after Buckingham and Nicks's success with Fleetwood Mac. It's a lovely album.

"Crystal"

"Races Are Run"

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O0 Ooh, I like what I hear from this too!  I know the later version of Crystal but never heard this original (I think).  And I like "Races Are Run", new to me.

Confession time - I was fully contemplating posting today about Fleetwood Mac's self-titled album, Fleetwood Mac - I haven't organized my thoughts yet (been xtra busy).  I'll still post about it but I'll wait a day or so first.

I do prefer the solo Bob Welch version, but this one is different and very nice 👍

Surprised to not see this one yet. “Rumours” by Fleetwood Mac, 1977.


Love Rumours.  Perhaps I'll post about it unless someone else beats me to it (hint, hint).


... Confession time - I was fully contemplating posting today about Fleetwood Mac's self-titled album, Fleetwood Mac ...


The group's first release in its new configuration, the self-titled Fleetwood Mac (1975), can tend to be overlooked in the shadow of a giant like Rumours.  But this fine album introduces the group's updated sound to the world.  Understand that at the time the album was released, the group was nowhere close to being a household name; they'd gotten some action in the underground networks but that's it.  Thus it took a long time for the album to reach the heights of popularity.  But it's a wonderful album filled with gems, and eventually it won over the masses.

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The album spawned three well known hits: Rhiannon, Over My Head, and Say You Love Me.  But the rest of the album is excellent.  One example of its fine album cuts -

Fleetwood Mac - Warm Ways
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWpDhLuon68

Other well-known songs from the album include Landslide, Monday Morning, and Crystal.  If you love Rumours (and you should), don't miss this.

Love Rumours.  Perhaps I'll post about it unless someone else beats me to it (hint, hint).

The group's first release in its new configuration, the self-titled Fleetwood Mac (1975), can tend to be overlooked in the shadow of a giant like Rumours.  But this fine album introduces the group's updated sound to the world.  Understand that at the time the album was released, the group was nowhere close to being a household name; they'd gotten some action in the underground networks but that's it.  Thus it took a long time for the album to reach the heights of popularity.  But it's a wonderful album filled with gems, and eventually it won over the masses.



I saw the first tour Fleetwood Mac did with Buckingham/Nicks in 1975. They played "Rhiannon" for about 15 minutes, and it wasn't even OUT yet. It was mind boggling.:D  I bought this album when it was new. I FAR prefer it to "Rumours". There is a FRESHNESS to this album, a newness. Dare I say almost an innocence, but that's if you compare it to "Rumours". "Rumours", though highly glossy and eminently listenable, sounds exactly like what it is. A heavily labored over album fueled by copious amounts of cocaine, made by people who were breaking up romantically, coping with all the pressures of sudden success,  and who were basically in a miserable mood. But 1975's "Fleetwood Mac" also sounds like what it was. A new beginning. There's a breath of fresh air to that album.

Neil Young
"Rust Never Sleeps"
1979

Neil Young ended the decade of some of his best work on an incredibly high note with this much loved album.

"My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6RZY4Ar3fw


"Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=331kyZ9OXMc

T. Rex
"Electric Warrior"
1971

Honestly, any and all of T. Rex's 70s albums belong here, but we'll start with this because it is so definitive. It contains their one and only US hit "Get It On", retitled "Bang A Gong (Get It On)" in the Us. T. Rex never caught on in America the way they did in England, but grew to be very influential over the years and were recently inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Marc Bolan died tragically young in a car accident in 1977, two weeks before his thirtieth birthday.

"Mambo Sun"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQi4Hf0Foa0

"Cosmic Dancer"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMfjA4gyEcU


Inside gatefold:

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Madman Across the Water is the fourth studio album by Elton John, released in 1971 through DJM and Uni Records. There were two singles released from Madman Across the Water, "Levon" and "Tiny Dancer." It was certified gold in February 1972, followed by platinum in March 1993, and 2× platinum in August 1998 by the RIA.


The title track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq4J_n6vMYo

John Kongos
"Kongos"
1972

This album was a big hit in the UK. Not so much in the US, although it did receive a noticeable amount of airplay. It's a magnificent album. But strangely, Kongos all but dropped out of sight after it's release. This album remains a high point of 70s musical achievement.

"He's Gonna Step On You Again"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy3Pm3gu9Xc

"Jubilee Cloud"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbWI5Gf9rv8

John Kongos
"Kongos"
1972

This album was a big hit in the UK. Not so much in the US, although it did receive a noticeable amount of airplay. It's a magnificent album. But strangely, Kongos all but dropped out of sight after it's release. This album remains a high point of 70s musical achievement.

"He's Gonna Step On You Again"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy3Pm3gu9Xc

"Jubilee Cloud"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbWI5Gf9rv8

First time for me hearing this, marvelous sound!

John Kongos
"Kongos"
1972

This album was a big hit in the UK. Not so much in the US, although it did receive a noticeable amount of airplay. It's a magnificent album. But strangely, Kongos all but dropped out of sight after it's release. This album remains a high point of 70s musical achievement.

"He's Gonna Step On You Again"


"Jubilee Cloud"

I only know John Kongos from his 1971 hit "Tokoloshe Man".

I only know John Kongos from his 1971 hit "Tokoloshe Man".


That's on the album. I almost posted it. That triumvirate of songs, "Tokoloshe Man", "He's Gonna Step On You Again" and "Jubilee Cloud" are the apex of the album. I believe they were also his three hit singles. Then he basically vanished. I believe he lives in Phoenix, AZ now and his four sons have a locally well known band called "Kongos".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68C1wfOybD8

Neil Young
"Rust Never Sleeps"
1979

Neil Young ended the decade of some of his best work on an incredibly high note with this much loved album.

"My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)"

"Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)"



T. Rex
"Electric Warrior"
1971

Honestly, any and all of T. Rex's 70s albums belong here, but we'll start with this because it is so definitive. It contains their one and only US hit "Get It On", retitled "Bang A Gong (Get It On)" in the Us. T. Rex never caught on in America the way they did in England, but grew to be very influential over the years and were recently inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Marc Bolan died tragically young in a car accident in 1977, two weeks before his thirtieth birthday.

"Mambo Sun"

"Cosmic Dancer"



John Kongos
"Kongos"
1972

This album was a big hit in the UK. Not so much in the US, although it did receive a noticeable amount of airplay. It's a magnificent album. But strangely, Kongos all but dropped out of sight after it's release. This album remains a high point of 70s musical achievement.

"He's Gonna Step On You Again"

"Jubilee Cloud"



I only know John Kongos from his 1971 hit "Tokoloshe Man".



That's on the album. I almost posted it. That triumvirate of songs, "Tokoloshe Man", "He's Gonna Step On You Again" and "Jubilee Cloud" are the apex of the album. I believe they were also his three hit singles. Then he basically vanished. I believe he lives in Phoenix, AZ now and his four sons have a locally well known band called "Kongos".



Just getting caught up (been running around w/ errands etc. a couple days).  Man alive, some good stuff here!  O0  The only ones of these I knew before were the Neil Young tunes; the rest are new to me.  I like the T. Rex songs a lot and also like the Kongos songs too.  Good stuff!

Madman Across the Water is the fourth studio album by Elton John, released in 1971 through DJM and Uni Records. There were two singles released from Madman Across the Water, "Levon" and "Tiny Dancer." It was certified gold in February 1972, followed by platinum in March 1993, and 2× platinum in August 1998 by the RIA.


O0 Haven't heard the entire album but the title track is classic - along with "Levon" and "Tiny Dancer".

Can't Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released in November 1972 by ABC Records. The album was written by band members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, recorded in August 1972 at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles, which huge hits  "Do It Again", and  "Reelin' In the Years".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmdiKePVUy8

Can't Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released in November 1972 by ABC Records. The album was written by band members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, recorded in August 1972 at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles, which huge hits  "Do It Again", and  "Reelin' In the Years".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmdiKePVUy8


Love the album version of Do It Again. Almost every radio version cuts out Donald Fagen’s organ solo. To me that’s the best part of the song.

Can't Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released in November 1972 by ABC Records. The album was written by band members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, recorded in August 1972 at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles, which huge hits  "Do It Again", and  "Reelin' In the Years".


O0 I agree, excellent album!  Some might also know "Dirty Work" as it has had airplay.  But its album cuts nicely complement these well-known hits.  One example (and I could've picked anything on the album):

Steely Dan - Kings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNBTUJbnN1o

Arlo Guthrie
"Amigo"
1976

"Alice's Restaurant" may be better known, but this is quite possibly the single best album Arlo Guthrie ever made. Though I have a strong penchant for "Running Down the Road" (1969) and "Washington County" (1970) also.

"Victor Jara"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4BdVB5t_Vg

"Darkest Hour"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJlnTOLZcNc

Cosmo's Factory is the fifth studio album by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released by Fantasy Records in July 1970, – the same month as the single release of "Lookin' Out My Back Door" with "Long As I Can See the Light" on the B-side. The album spent nine consecutive weeks in the number one position on the Billboard 200 chart.

Here's another track from that album
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnRsaHXHznQ

Cosmo's Factory is the fifth studio album by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released by Fantasy Records in July 1970, – the same month as the single release of "Lookin' Out My Back Door" with "Long As I Can See the Light" on the B-side. The album spent nine consecutive weeks in the number one position on the Billboard 200 chart.



A classic!

Joan Baez
"Diamonds & Rust"
1975

This came as something of a surprise. Although she had had a huge top 40 hit just a few years before with The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", Joan Baez was never very commercial. One might even say she had far too much integrity to be "commercial". But this album took the airwaves (and the charts) by storm in 1975. The first single released from it was a cover of the Allman Brothers' "Blue Sky" which really didn't do very much. But then came the title cut, Joan's gorgeously lyrical, evocative reminisce of her relationship with Bob Dylan in the 1960s. It remains a classic to this day.

"Blue Sky"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KjmePK456Q


"Diamonds & Rust"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrVD0bP_ybg

"Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers"
1976

The first album. Due to the time period in which it was released, and maybe even a bit because of the cover art, the general public initially thought Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers was a punk band. Petty's reply to this was "call me a punk and I'll cut you".


"Breakdown"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqxns-JTTqA

"Luna"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JvrZkNP_ik

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Here's a favourite of mine that's actually a compilation double album by K-Tel called Disco Fire that was released in 1978.  There are three versions of this album (that I know of), one released in the US, one in Brazil and one in Canada.  This one is the Canadian version and I own it on both cassette tape and vinyl and it's just a nice mix of disco songs I knew about and some I didn't

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A1 Donna Summer – I Feel Love
A2 Barry White – It's Ecstacy When You Lay Down Next To Me
A3 Tuxedo Junction – Chattanooga Choo Choo
A4 Revelation – House Of The Rising Sun
A5 Samantha Sang – You Keep Me Dancing

B1 Eruption – I Can't Stand The Rain
B2 T-Connection – Let Yourself Go
B3 Space Project – Conquest Of The Stars
B4 High Inergy – You Can't Turn Me Off (In The Middle Of Turning Me On)
B5 Heatwave – Boogie Nights

C1 Michael Zager Band – Let's All Chant
C2 Grace Jones – La Vie En Rose
C3 Stargard – Which Way Is Up
C4 Grand Tour – Flight To Versailles
C5 Wham – Lovemaker

D1 The Emotions – Best Of My Love
D2 Andre Gagnon – Surprise
D3 Claudja Barry – Dancin' Fever
D4 Ronnie Jones – Under My Thumb
D5 The Sunshine Band – Black Water Gold

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The track Flight to Versailles as performed by Grand Tour is the standout for me on this album.  The group was a one album studio project created by the producers of the disco act THP Orchestra.  It's an instrumental track and it is quite fun!

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Here's a favourite of mine that's actually a compilation double album by K-Tel called Disco Fire that was released in 1978.  There are three versions of this album (that I know of), one released in the US, one in Brazil and one in Canada.  This one is the Canadian version and I own it on both cassette tape and vinyl and it's just a nice mix of disco songs I knew about and some I didn't


I was dreading this. But I knew at some point somebody would post a disco album. We managed to avoid it for quite a decent amount of time. ;D  It's just not from the person I thought it would be from.

By the way, an interesting bit of trivia about K-Tel albums. They were notorious for shaving a few seconds off of the ends of songs (specifically songs that end in a fade, where it might not be too noticeable) so they could shoehorn as many songs as possible onto a side. A side effect of this is that the songs become instantly collectable as such, because they are technically  "alternate versions". I'd personally call them "altered versions", but nonetheless they are different than the officially released versions.

The Rolling Stones
"Some Girls"
1978

Though the Stones had been around well over a decade already when "Some Girls" was released, I remember thinking how FRESH it sounded. They achieved the near impossible with this album. They took ALL of the disparate, seemingly opposed elements of the late 70s; disco, punk, rock & roll, even country, as well as the dismal glitter of celebrity, and combined it into one cohesive, unified, utterly LISTENABLE album. I don't know how they did it, but they did. If you really want to know what the late 70s were like, this is the album for you. It even SMELLS like the late 70s.  Genius.

"Miss You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKVXSo9ROpg

"When The Whip Comes Down"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwgGdfp-kc0

The original, recalled cover:

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/r5gAAOSwo2la30CQ/s-l1600.jpg

The Rolling Stones
"Some Girls"
1978

Though the Stones had been around well over a decade already when "Some Girls" was released, I remember thinking how FRESH it sounded. They achieved the near impossible with this album. They took ALL of the disparate, seemingly opposed elements of the late 70s; disco, punk, rock & roll, even country, as well as the dismal glitter of celebrity, and combined it into one cohesive, unified, utterly LISTENABLE album. I don't know how they did it, but they did. If you really want to know what the late 70s were like, this is the album for you. It even SMELLS like the late 70s.  Genius.

"Miss You"

"When The Whip Comes Down"



O0 Great album choice!


The original, recalled cover:

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/r5gAAOSwo2la30CQ/s-l1600.jpg



Can you explain "recalled cover"?    ???

O0 Great album choice!

Can you explain "recalled cover"?    ???


Don't you notice the difference between the two? Notice the missing faces?  The original cover design was challenged legally when Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe threatened to sue for the use of their likenesses without permission. The album was quickly re-issued with a redesigned cover that removed all the celebrities, whether they had complained or not. The only celebrity they didn't remove was George Harrison. And I doubt he gave a hoot whether he was on there or not. He probably got a kick out of it.  The celebrity images were replaced with the phrase "pardon our appearance – cover under re-construction". That's the cover my 1978 copy has. Silly me, I actually thought at some point the "under construction" cover would be replaced with a new design. But the "under construction" WAS the design.

Here's the original, recalled  innersleeve which shows the celebrates clearer than the cut-out cover (George Harriison is bottom row, second from right):

http://assets.rootsvinylguide.com/pictures/the-rolling-stones-some-girls-banned-1st-us-orig-album-cover-coc-39108-lp_8383988

Here's the later "under construction" innersleeve, like the one I have:

http://assets.rootsvinylguide.com/pictures/the-rolling-stones-some-girls-vinyl-lp-coc-39108-band-cut-out-alternate-cover_44596178

"Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert"
1973


This concert took place at London's Rainbow Theater on January 13, 1973. Organized by Pete Townshend ostensibly to celebrate Great Britain's entry into the Common Market, it was really an attempt to drag Eric Clapton out of his self-imposed exile and heroin stupor of the early 70s.

The album was released later that year and curiously featured only six songs, two of which are sung by Steve Winwood. A lot of live albums were like that in those days and have become curios. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the concert  a CD was released featuring the full show. Inasmuch as this is a thread about 70s albums I am only posting songs from the 1973 release, so you don't get "Layla", as that only appeared on the 1998 version. Of course, nothing is stopping you from going to Youtube and hearing it for yourself.  :)

The band:

Eric Clapton - guitar / vocals
Pete Townshend - guitar / vocals
Ronnie Wood - guitar / vocals
Steve Winwood - keyboards / vocals
Rick Grech - bass
Jim Capaldi - drums
Jimmy Karstein - drums
Reebop Kwaku Baah - percussion


The original 1973 album:

Side One:
Badge
Roll It Over
Presence of the Lord

Side Two:
Pearly Queen
After Midnight
Little Wing

1998 CD release:

Layla
Badge
Blues Power
Roll It Over
Little Wing
Bottle of Red Wine
After Midnight
Bell Bottom Blues
Presence of the Lord
Tell the Truth
Pearly Queen
Key to the Highway
Let It Rain
Crossroads


"After Midnight"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdQu_4Yk-NA

"Presence of the Lord"
(sung by Steve Winwood)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQzAfOgON_M


The original album:


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Claptonrainbowconcert.jpg

"Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert"
1973

This concert took place at London's Rainbow Theater on January 13, 1973...


O0 Awesome!  I didn't know anything about the concert.


...Organized by Pete Townshend ostensibly to celebrate Great Britain's entry into the Common Market, it was really an attempt to drag Eric Clapton out of his self-imposed exile and heroin stupor of the early 70s.



I'd heard quite a bit about Eric Clapton being in a bad way in those days, although I never quite had the full picture  :-\\


...The album was released later that year and curiously featured only six songs, two of which are sung by Steve Winwood. A lot of live albums were like that in those days and have become curios. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the concert  a CD was released featuring the full show. Inasmuch as this is a thread about 70s albums I am only posting songs from the 1973 release, so you don't get "Layla", as that only appeared on the 1998 version. Of course, nothing is stopping you from going to Youtube and hearing it for yourself.  :)

The band:

Eric Clapton - guitar / vocals
Pete Townshend - guitar / vocals
Ronnie Wood - guitar / vocals
Steve Winwood - keyboards / vocals
Rick Grech - bass
Jim Capaldi - drums
Jimmy Karstein - drums
Reebop Kwaku Baah - percussion


The original 1973 album:

Side One:
Badge
Roll It Over
Presence of the Lord

Side Two:
Pearly Queen
After Midnight
Little Wing

1998 CD release:

Layla
Badge
Blues Power
Roll It Over
Little Wing
Bottle of Red Wine
After Midnight
Bell Bottom Blues
Presence of the Lord
Tell the Truth
Pearly Queen
Key to the Highway
Let It Rain
Crossroads

...



O0 Sounds like it's amazing!

By the way, an interesting bit of trivia about K-Tel albums. They were notorious for shaving a few seconds off of the ends of songs (specifically songs that end in a fade, where it might not be too noticeable) so they could shoehorn as many songs as possible onto a side. A side effect of this is that the songs become instantly collectable as such, because they are technically  "alternate versions". I'd personally call them "altered versions", but nonetheless they are different than the officially released versions.


A lot of times, K-Tel would remove some good instrumental portions of songs and ruin them, but sometimes the K-Tel version of a song was better.  It was rare though

Machine Head is the sixth studio album released by the English rock band Deep Purple. It was recorded in December 1971 at Montreux, Switzerland, and released on 25 March 1972 on Purple Records.
This album contains Smoke On The Water, Space Truckin', Highway star.  Arguably my favorite Deep Purple album.

https://progrography.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/machinehead.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr9ie2J2690

Machine Head is the sixth studio album released by the English rock band Deep Purple. It was recorded in December 1971 at Montreux, Switzerland, and released on 25 March 1972 on Purple Records.
This album contains Smoke On The Water, Space Truckin', Highway star.  Arguably my favorite Deep Purple album.



I was thinking of Deep Purple. Glad you posted it. And don't forget lead singer Ian Gillan also sang the part of Jesus on the original (and ONLY, as far as I'm concerned) "Jesus Christ Superstar" album in 1970, which I'm sure we'll get up here at some point.

Mott The Hoople
"Mott"
1973

The followup to their breakthrough "All The Young Dudes" album, "Mott" spawned the huge UK hit "All The Way From Memphis" and the timeless "I Wish I Was Your Mother", among others. A watershed album!

"All The Way From Memphis"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubBpu3MHmtM

"I Wish I Was Your Mother"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9IOKo6UPBg

Poem:

The following poem appeared inside the gatefold of the original album:

A Sane Revolution
by D.H. Lawrence

If you make a revolution, make it for fun,
don’t make it in ghastly seriousness,
don’t do it in deadly earnest,
do it for fun.

Don’t do it because you hate people,
do it just to spit in their eye.

Don’t do it for the money,
do it and be damned to the money.

Don’t do it for equality,
do it because we’ve got too much equality
and it would be fun to upset the apple-cart
and see which way the apples would go a-rolling.

Don’t do it for the working classes.
Do it so that we can all of us be little aristocracies on our own
and kick our heels like jolly escaped asses.

Don’t do it, anyhow, for international Labour.
Labour is the one thing a man has had too much of.
Let’s abolish labour, let’s have done with labouring!
Work can be fun, and men can enjoy it; then it’s not labour.
Let’s have it so! Let’s make a revolution for fun!

Michael Nesmith & The First National Band
"Loose Salute"
1970

Michael Nesmith was a busy guy in 1970. He made his first post-Monkees album "Magnetic South" (with a blue cover) with the newly formed First National Band, which spawned the minor hit "Joanne", a gorgeous song. Later that year they released another album "Loose Salute" (with a red cover) which also spawned a minor hit, the somewhat more electric "Silver Moon". It also featured a cover of the Patsy Cline hit "I Fall To Pieces". In 1971 the third and final Michael Nesmith & The First National Band album "Nevada Fighter" (with a white cover) was released. Nesmith continued to release many albums after that.

"Silver Moon"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5D2wAY0NY

"I Fall To Pieces"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gayAMQ7PILQ

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/93/Nesmith_Loose_Salute.jpg/220px-Nesmith_Loose_Salute.jpg

Here is Time, a 1974 album by a rock band called Abraham's Children.  They were from Toronto and the album produced three hits in Canada:  Gypsy, Thank You and Goodbye Farewell

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It would be their only album release as conflicts over direction of the band and lack of success in the US caused them to part ways before a 2nd album could be recorded.  It's a rare and hard to find album, but one that any rock music fan of the 70s should give a listen.  Gypsy is such a fantastic song!

Gypsy
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Goodbye Farewell
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"The Good Book"
Melanie
Early 1971

This one came between two big hit albums for Melanie, 1970's "Candles In The Rain" which featured the big hit "Lay Down", and late 1971's "Gather Me" with the mega-hit "Brand New Key" and a followup hit "Ring The Living Bell".  "The Good Book"  fell between the cracks a bit. But it contains "Babe Rainbow" which I think is one of her BEST songs, as well as some other fine material. The cover art went all out. The front cover features a detachable booklet full of lyrics, photos and illustrations, and the gatefold is a triple. You can flip it inside as if it is three cardboard pages. All with exquisite photos. "The Nickel Song" from this album was a minor hit.

"Babe Rainbow"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHXfE8SYZIs

"The Good Book"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEADzTzp8zY

Back cover:

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/2F6FW40/melanie-1971-lp-back-cover-the-good-book-2F6FW40.jpg

Alice Cooper
"Billion Dollar Babies"
1973

By 1973 Alice Cooper was on a roll. The title cut is a duet with Donovan.

"Billion Dollar Babies"
(duet w/Donovan)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6oOFSYo-tU

"No More Mr. Nice Guy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huKbLK5aC6Q

Alice Cooper
"Billion Dollar Babies"
1973

By 1973 Alice Cooper was on a roll. The title cut is a duet with Donovan.

"Billion Dollar Babies"
(duet w/Donovan)




I like Welcome To My Nightmare better.

A lot of good songs on that album.

Years Ago
Steven
Some Folks
Department of Youth


Cat

Todd Rundgren
"Something/Anything?"
1971

This breakthrough double  album for Rundgren featured the hits "I Saw The Light", "Couldn't I Just tell You" and "Hello, It's Me", the latter of which, in an earlier version,  had already been a minor hit for Rundgren with his previous band Nazz. Except for the last side of the album which was done live-in-studio with musicians, all the instruments on the first three sides were played by Rundgren himself.

"Couldn't I Just Tell You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XERFyUsnlro

"Black Maria"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXa87ITX9lw

You'd NEVER see an ad like this now. But they were everywhere in 1971:

http://i.pinimg.com/originals/0a/f7/f5/0af7f5734cd9b15f0ccc89bd46ab53b4.jpg

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0256/5944/1214/products/sbmk788674_584e0469-e346-4114-b94b-2cf12e36b9b7_540x.jpg?v=1610921746

52nd Street is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on October 11, 1978. The follow-up to his breakthrough success album, The Stranger, Joel tried to give the album a fresh sound, hiring various jazz musicians to differentiate it from his previous albums.

It was the first of four Joel albums to top the Billboard charts, and it earned him two Grammys. Three songs reached the Top 40 in the United States, contributing to the album's success: "My Life" (number 3), "Big Shot" (number 14), and "Honesty" (number 24).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4gOIt-M02A

This album takes me back to high school.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/00/Bat_out_of_Hell.jpg/220px-Bat_out_of_Hell.jpg

So many great songs off of it but I think my favorite would probably be the title track.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ES7ueI7p0

I was so jealous of a friend of mine who saw him in concert back then. I finally got to see him when he did the Back In Hell tour in the '90s.


Cat

Exile on Main St. is a studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Released on 12 May 1972 by Rolling Stones Records, it was the band's first double album, tenth studio album in the United Kingdom, and twelfth American album. Recording began in 1969 in England during sessions for Sticky Fingers and continued in mid-1971 at a rented villa in the South of France named Nellcôte while the band lived abroad as tax exiles.
The album was originally met with mixed reviews before a positive critical reassessment during the 1970s. It has since been viewed by many critics as the Rolling Stones' best work and a culmination of a string of the band's highly critically successful albums, following the releases of Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969) and Sticky Fingers (1971). Rolling Stone has ranked Exile on Main St. number 7 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003 and 2012.

Here's one of the songs from that album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U8JlcB_BzA

Exile on Main St. is a studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Released on 12 May 1972 by Rolling Stones Records, it was the band's first double album, tenth studio album in the United Kingdom, and twelfth American album. Recording began in 1969 in England during sessions for Sticky Fingers and continued in mid-1971 at a rented villa in the South of France named Nellcôte while the band lived abroad as tax exiles.
The album was originally met with mixed reviews before a positive critical reassessment during the 1970s. It has since been viewed by many critics as the Rolling Stones' best work and a culmination of a string of the band's highly critically successful albums, following the releases of Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969) and Sticky Fingers (1971). Rolling Stone has ranked Exile on Main St. number 7 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003 and 2012.



Good one. You aren't kidding about the revisionist history involved with this album. It is now routinely considered one of, if not THE best, album(s) of the 70s, but at the time of it's release it got poor reviews. I've still got some of them. "Circus" magazine ran a really scathing one and said the horns sounded like "cheesy kazoos". Can you imagine!

I think the very "basementness" of this album worked against it at the time. It was recorded in a cellar and it sounds it.  But that garage-y sound was not the thing in 1972. It was more in the punk and post-punk era that that sound got it's recognition. I loved the murky sound of "Exile" from the minute I heard it in 1972. Listen to that DENSENESS of "Tumbling Dice". The way it ends and then just starts again in a seeming haphazard manner. Brilliant!

Stephen Stills/Manassas
"Manassas"
1972

This double album is one of the single best albums of the 70s (or ever) full stop. Engineers Ron & Howard Albert who engineered the album at Criteria Studio in Miami said it was the best album they ever worked on. And when you figure they worked on "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" and everything else that came out of Criteria (THE studio to record at in the 70s) that's saying something. Each of the four sides has an individual title. Side One: "The Raven", Side Two: "The Wilderness", Side Three: "Consider" and Side Four: "Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay". Side One is an interlocking suite of songs, Side Two is country, bluegrass and country rock, Side Three is folk and pop rock and Side Four is  harder edged rock, save for the last song "Bluesman", a solo acoustic tour-de-force where Stills laments the recent deaths of three guitar playing friends of his, Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman and Al Wilson of Canned Heat.

The album only yielded a minor hit, the Byrds-y "It Doesn't Matter" but this was the era of albums, and they didn't need hit singles to propel them into the stratosphere.

Aside from Stills, the second in command in Manassas was former Byrd Chris Hillman. The band toured for two years solid, recorded one more album (not quite as good as this one) and ultimately fragmented for a number of reasons, not least being the lure of Stills going back to CSNY and big money.

This album is a masterpiece in every sense of the word.

"It Doesn't Matter"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so--q9hgXpc

"Bluesman"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvhNDc0wlks

The poster that came with the album:
(with lyrics on the other side)

http://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2015/8/10/c/d/8/cd853b70-3f8a-11e5-9199-c3932dd881f8.jpg

Another one that reminds me of high school.

Supertramp-Breakfast in America (1979)

This one is probably my favorite from the album (The title track) .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YQb-0P320s

I finished second in a dance contest in my 20s dancing to "Lord is it Mine" from the album.


Cat

The Rolling Stones
"Some Girls"
1978


By the way, when "Some Girls" came out the Stones appeared on Saturday Night Live and did three songs from it. All in a row, like a mini-concert. I couldn't think of another time (certainly up to that point anyway) where the live band played three songs in a row instead of being spaced out throughout the show. Here's a nine second clip of it that, again, really epitomizes the late 70s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF5cOl9ti_Y

Pink Floyd-The Wall (1979)


Hey You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFjmvfRvjTc


Cat

Tapestry is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1971 on Ode Records and produced by Lou Adler. The album was certified 13× Platinum by RIAA and it is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with over 25 million copies worldwide. It received four Grammy Awards in 1972, including Album of the Year. The lead singles from the album—"It's Too Late" and "I Feel the Earth Move"—spent five weeks at number one on both the Billboard Hot 100.

https://i.etsystatic.com/10759380/r/il/c6f2d2/2489243641/il_794xN.2489243641_3g03.jpg

Pretty much everyone had this album back then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofYl3dataU

Tapestry is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1971 on Ode Records and produced by Lou Adler. The album was certified 13× Platinum by RIAA and it is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with over 25 million copies worldwide. It received four Grammy Awards in 1972, including Album of the Year. The lead singles from the album—"It's Too Late" and "I Feel the Earth Move"—spent five weeks at number one on both the Billboard Hot 100.

https://i.etsystatic.com/10759380/r/il/c6f2d2/2489243641/il_794xN.2489243641_3g03.jpg

Pretty much everyone had this album back then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofYl3dataU


I was thinking of posting this album the other day but then I forgot to.  :-[

I bought the album for the first time on CD probably about 5 years or go or so. It is amazing even though I never owned the album before, I knew EVERY song. (Thanks, Sis!  :) )


Cat

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This Jacksons album is from 1976, I like it because it shows the unity and togetherness of the Jackson family themselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QGWZ9OOGAI

So many great albums mentioned already!  :D

One I'd like to highlight is one of my favorite Paul McCartney & Wings albums, Venus and Mars from 1975.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61B2VrsLDbL._SY355_.jpg

Besides its well known releases Listen To What The Man Said, Venus and Mars/Rockshow, and Letting Go, the album is stacked with wonderful, lovable listenable tunes that make me just put on the album, kick back and enjoy!  As usual, I'd like to highlight a couple of its less well-known gems.

This whimsical tune from the album is a nod to comic book super heroes (kudos to the YT poster's cartooning):

Paul McCartney & Wings - Magneto and Titanium Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHz_7e7yluM

This rocker is an anti-drug tune - interestingly, the lead vocals are not McCartney's, but rather those of Wings' Jimmy McCulloch:

Paul McCartney & Wings - Medicine Jar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQVI16436Uc

                                      8)

An album that some might call cliche - nonetheless, there's a reason for all the adoration it's gotten over the years, not to mention it's a much loved listening experience for me.  The highly acclaimed self titled debut album of the band Boston from 1976 is among my favorites, not because of hype, but because of the music:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51G%2BRL3nZKL._SX300_SY300_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg

The entire album beginning to end is a joy to listen to.  Every tune is a winner in this fine classic rock album.  It spawned three hits, More Than A Feeling, Long Time, and Peace of Mind.  As usual, I'd like to highlight a couple of the album's other gems (I picked two, I could've picked any):

Boston - Something About You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1nhIyf5_6Q

Boston - Hitch A Ride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3pR87L-T8

                                      8)

An album that some might call cliche - nonetheless, there's a reason for all the adoration it's gotten over the years, not to mention it's a much loved listening experience for me.  The highly acclaimed self titled debut album of the band Boston from 1976 is among my favorites, not because of hype, but because of the music:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51G%2BRL3nZKL._SX300_SY300_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg

The entire album beginning to end is a joy to listen to.  Every tune is a winner in this fine classic rock album.  It spawned three hits, More Than A Feeling, Long Time, and Peace of Mind.  As usual, I'd like to highlight a couple of the album's other gems (I picked two, I could've picked any):

Boston - Something About You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1nhIyf5_6Q

Boston - Hitch A Ride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3pR87L-T8

                                      8)


Arguably the best debut album from the 1970s

Queen: News Of The World

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How can you go wrong with "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions".

I LOVE this one (Spread Your Wings):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyd6OLyhPJo

One time my step-father wanted to make sure that I was listening to music that didn't send a "bad" message so I played him a bit of this album. As he was listening to the song, "All Dead, All Dead." He thought they were singing "All Day, All Day." He said that's not bad. I can't remember if I told him the actual lyrics or not. But, to this day, I can't hear the song without thinking of my step-father thinking it was "All Day, All Day." lol.


Cat

Queen: News Of The World

https://altrockchick.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/j22131000000000-00-500x500.jpg


Nice - thanks for posting this!


One time my step-father wanted to make sure that I was listening to music that didn't send a "bad" message so I played him a bit of this album. As he was listening to the song, "All Dead, All Dead." He thought they were singing "All Day, All Day." He said that's not bad. I can't remember if I told him the actual lyrics or not. But, to this day, I can't hear the song without thinking of my step-father thinking it was "All Day, All Day." lol.


;D  Good story!


I LOVE this one (Spread Your Wings):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyd6OLyhPJo


O0 That's a pretty nice tune!


How can you go wrong with "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions".

Cat


So, I need to tell why I dislike "We Will Rock You".  When I was a university student living in the dorm (an all-girls dorm incidentally), at 1:30ish one Saturday morning, I received a phone call that woke me up.  I didn't recognize the caller but I recognized the song in the background, it was "We Will Rock You".  The caller, who it was hard to understand at times, proceeded to say a number of very obscene things to me while the music was blaring.  :o  Soon I come to learn each of my dorm neighbors received a similar obscene phone call around the same time.  We compared phone numbers - our numbers were all sequential!  What an easy mark we were! 

So, I can't listen to "We Will Rock You" without remembering that obscene caller...  ;D

So, I need to tell why I dislike "We Will Rock You".  When I was a university student living in the dorm (an all-girls dorm incidentally), at 1:30ish one Saturday morning, I received a phone call that woke me up.  I didn't recognize the caller but I recognized the song in the background, it was "We Will Rock You".  The caller, who it was hard to understand at times, proceeded to say a number of very obscene things to me while the music was blaring.  :o  Soon I come to learn each of my dorm neighbors received a similar obscene phone call around the same time.  We compared phone numbers - our numbers were all sequential!  What an easy mark we were! 

So, I can't listen to "We Will Rock You" without remembering that obscene caller...  ;D


What a story! Given the song playing in the background, I might venture to guess that the obscene caller was likely also a student of the college.

One thing about todays technology, it has pretty much rendered obscene phone calls obsolete.

Since we are on a 70s music thread, there was a really cool cult figure of sorts in the 70s named Dore Previn. She made a series of very interesting albums back then. Check out this song about an obscene call from her 1974 album called "Dory Previn". It's very cleverly constructed, about a poor woman who keeps trying to report an obscene call to the authorities, and it keeps getting escalated until she gets as high as it gets on the chain of authority.

Dory Previn
"The Obscene Phone Call"
1974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__O3kVWbu18

One thing about todays technology, it has pretty much rendered obscene phone calls obsolete.


Indeed - it was difficult in those days to discover who called us.  And I agree - most likely a student.


Dory Previn
"The Obscene Phone Call"
1974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__O3kVWbu18


Very apropos - of course, I wasn't threatened with a Boy Scout knife!  ;D  (Nor did I report the call to FBI, CIA etc.)

Nice - thanks for posting this!

;D  Good story!

O0 That's a pretty nice tune!

So, I need to tell why I dislike "We Will Rock You".  When I was a university student living in the dorm (an all-girls dorm incidentally), at 1:30ish one Saturday morning, I received a phone call that woke me up.  I didn't recognize the caller but I recognized the song in the background, it was "We Will Rock You".  The caller, who it was hard to understand at times, proceeded to say a number of very obscene things to me while the music was blaring.  :o  Soon I come to learn each of my dorm neighbors received a similar obscene phone call around the same time.  We compared phone numbers - our numbers were all sequential!  What an easy mark we were! 

So, I can't listen to "We Will Rock You" without remembering that obscene caller...  ;D


Totally understandable that you would associate the song with a disturbing incident. To me, I can't help think about 9th grade when we used to sing it as "We will, we will f**k you!" What did you except from a bunch of 9th graders?  :D ;D ;D



Cat

Many of my fellow posters know me as a Motown music fan.  I am indeed!  In the 1970s, there was likely no greater Motown star than the great Stevie Wonder.  Perhaps my favorite Stevie Wonder album of the 1970's is his late Summer 1973 release, Innervisions.

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The 70's was a fabulous decade for Stevie Wonder, not only for his single hits, which there were many, but his albums were mostly outstanding.  Innervisions was among the best.  Innervisions sadly had the opportunity to be his last album, considering his near fatal car accident on August 6, 1973, which left him in a coma.  (Thankfully for all of us, he did recover.)  This album spawned three top hits, Living For The City, Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing, and his outstanding #1 smash, Higher Ground.  But the rest of the album is just as amazing.  I'd call it a must for any serious 70's album collection.

As usual, I want to highlight a couple of its lesser-known gems.

Here's Visions.  This soft beauty, a song of hope, speaks for itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy4fMlLj_B8

The mid-tempo Golden Lady possesses that snappy exuberance Wonder is known for:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXCTjAMR3eA

                                      8)

Here's another album some might call cliche; but I'm featuring it for its music.  Led Zeppelin IV (1971)

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I love listening to this album.  It has been highly hailed as a masterpiece - with good reason IMO.  Its best known song (a best-known for the group) was never released as a single, the iconic Stairway To Heaven.  On the other hand its best charting single is IMO probably its weakest cut, Black Dog.  Other tunes that might be well known due to classic rock airplay are the beloved (by me) gems Misty Mountain Hop, Rock And Roll, and Going To California.  As usual, I choose to highlight a couple of its lesser-known album cuts.

It's hard to articulate exactly what I love about this unusual storytelling ballad, but it's a definite favorite for me.

Led Zeppelin - Battle Of Evermore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88b0OYxdtyM

I'll be honest - regarding this heavy droning blues cut (actually a cover of an old folk song) it took me several listens to "get it".  Once I did, however, I now love it and appreciate its special genius.

Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFDYuO53BUk

                                      8)

The Byrds
(untitled)
1970

This is a wonderful album. And by far the best of all the later-era Byrds albums. It's a double album, with one live album and one studio album. (A long version of "Eight Miles High" takes up one entire side). The reason the album is called "(untitled)" is because they were still deciding on a name ("Phoenix" was one possibility) when the album had to go to the pressing plant and the artwork had to go to the printer. Since the name hadn't been decided on, somebody wrote "(untitled)" on the paperwork for the printer, planning on letting them know later. The printer took it as the title, and there you go.

Here's a song each from the live side and the studio side. Both are classics. "Chestnut Mare" got quite a bit of airplay and was even a hit in the UK. It's a highlight of Roger McGuinn's live shows to this day.

"Lover of the Bayou"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myLTgLqFaj8

"Chestnut Mare"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SdiSjpOdyU

The Radha Krsna Temple 
1971

A 1971 album of Vedic devotional songs recorded by the London chapter of the Radha Krishna Temple produced by George Harrison and released on The Beatles Apple record label. Their recording of the "Hare Krishna Mantra" , produced by Harrison, had already been a huge hit in the UK, and appears on this album. My favorite is "Govinda", another UK hit. I actually heard this on an AM Top 40 station here in the US in 1971. I loved it and bought the album as a result, as well as for the Harrison connection.

This album is a great example of the diverse things that were being released back then that managed to find their way onto the airwaves, however esoteric they may have been.

The album comes  in a lavish, full color gatefold sleeve and an insert featuring the lyrics in English as well as their original language, making it easy to follow along with what is being sung. It also contains informative liner notes. It was re-released on CD in 1993 as "Chant and Be Happy".

"Govinda"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3fDKGjJQSs

"Hare Krishna Mantra"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PMGeQCr-aU

1993 re-issue:

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The Radha Krsna Temple 
1971

A 1971 album of Vedic devotional songs recorded by the London chapter of the Radha Krishna Temple produced by George Harrison and released on The Beatles Apple record label. Their recording of the "Hare Krishna Mantra" , produced by Harrison, had already been a huge hit in the UK, and appears on this album. My favorite is "Govinda", another UK hit. I actually heard this on an AM Top 40 station here in the US in 1971. I loved it and bought the album as a result, as well as for the Harrison connection.

This album is a great example of the diverse things that were being released back then that managed to find their way onto the airwaves, however esoteric they may have been.

The album comes  in a lavish, full color gatefold sleeve and an insert featuring the lyrics in English as well as their original language, making it easy to follow along with what is being sung. It also contains informative liner notes. It was re-released on CD in 1993 as "Chant and Be Happy".

"Govinda"

"Hare Krishna Mantra"

1993 re-issue:

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O0 Fascinating!  Never heard of this.  I confess I'm not a huge fan of this genre; however, events in my life recently have provided me quite the opportunity to hear Nepali music, which shares some similarities.  In any case, I love the George connection...

O0 Fascinating!  Never heard of this.  I confess I'm not a huge fan of this genre; however, events in my life recently have provided me quite the opportunity to hear Nepali music, which shares some similarities.  In any case, I love the George connection...


Yes, discovering all this back then was very mind-expanding. It was one thing after another.

Before Big Country, there was Skids, a Scottish punk rock group led by future Big Country vocalist Stuart Adamson, and singer Richard Jobson (who would go on to form a moderately successful band of his own in the UK called The Armoury Show). 

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The debut Skids album Scared to Dance came out in 1979 and while not successful in North America, it was a Top 20 hit in the UK, charting 2 hits with Into the Valley and The Saints Are Coming, the latter which became a world-wide hit in 2006 for U2 and Green Day

Into the Valley
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The Saints Are Coming
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Before Big Country, there was Skids, a Scottish punk rock group led by future Big Country vocalist Stuart Adamson, and singer Richard Jobson (who would go on to form a moderately successful band of his own in the UK called The Armoury Show). 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Skids_-_Scared_To_Dance.jpg

The debut Skids album Scared to Dance came out in 1979 and while not successful in North America, it was a Top 20 hit in the UK, charting 2 hits with Into the Valley and The Saints Are Coming, the latter which became a world-wide hit in 2006 for U2 and Green Day

Into the Valley

The Saints Are Coming


O0 Never heard of the Skids.  Interesting sound, remind me a little of early Clash.

Today I'm featuring Outlandos d'Amour by the Police (1978).  It was a coin flip whether to post this debut album or the group's equally fine sophomore album, Reggatta de Blanc; the coin chose the former.  Outlandos d'Amour, their debut album, got enough recognition to quickly catapult the group to stardom.  It is an energetic, fun album that defies classification.  More importantly, IMO it's really good.

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Outlandos d'Amour spawned one hit, Roxanne, as well as Can't Stand Losing You, not a big hit but received a lot of airplay.  As usual I'd like to post a couple of its lesser known gems.

This one speaks for itself - So Lonely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm5rCQs7NJs

This odd, hypnotic gem makes me dance - Masoko Tanga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gja4rAfiiRg

                                      8)

Roxanne, Can’t Stand Losing You and So Lonely were first release in 1978 in the U.K. Only Can’t Stand Losing You charted.

In 79 Roxanne and Can’t Stand Losing You were reissued, with Can’t Stand Losing You reaching number 2.

So Lonely was reissued in 1980 and reached number 6 in the U.K. Singles Chart.

Patti Smith
"Wave"
1979

Produced by Todd Rundgren. Some gorgeous stuff on this album.

"Frederick"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-befOtn9GQ

"Dancing Barefoot"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKIWYddocpA

Patti Smith
"Wave"
1979

Produced by Todd Rundgren. Some gorgeous stuff on this album.

"Frederick"



"Dancing Barefoot"




EXCELLENT album. What was really strange was that most people in my circle never heard this album. I couldn't understand because I thought it was EXCELLENT. After trying to convince people of it, I basically kept it to myself.

I especially love those two songs. I like this one, too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVDRe_V-_wE


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EXCELLENT album. What was really strange was that most people in my circle never heard this album. I couldn't understand because I thought it was EXCELLENT. After trying to convince people of it, I basically kept it to myself.

I especially love those two songs. I like this one, too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVDRe_V-_wE





"Revenge" is the FIRST song I ever heard from that album, and the reason I bought it!  Back in 1979 I heard it on the radio before they started playing the ones that became more popular like "Frederick" and "Dancing Barefoot".  Also the album is dedicated to Pope John Paul I. Everybody knows Pope John Paul II but not many remember John Paul I, "the smiling pope" as he was called,  who died (some say mysteriously) after only 33 days as pope.

"Revenge" is the FIRST song I ever heard from that album, and the reason I bought it!  Back in 1979 I heard it on the radio before they started playing the ones that became more popular like "Frederick" and "Dancing Barefoot".  Also the album is dedicated to Pope John Paul I. Everybody knows Pope John Paul II but not many remember John Paul I, "the smiling pope" as he was called,  who died (some say mysteriously) after only 33 days as pope.



I was about to say, "The pope who only lived for a month" before I read your last sentence. I remember on SNL's Weekend Update a few months after John Paul II was there. "This just in, the Pope is STILL ALIVE."


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