so much good stuff that isnt boring punk rock in 77, saturday night fever soundtrack! chic s/t! tejas! cat scratch fever!
Ziggy Stardust
Roxy Music's debut
Joni Mitchell - Blue
or maybe Led Zeppelin IV
Stooges - Funhouse
(can't understand why people on this forum keep going on about Raw Power this is clearly 100x better, in fact it is the 2nd best album ever)
David Bowie - Low
Television - Marquee Moon
Sex Pistols - NMTB
Ramones - Ramones
Marquee Moon
Suicide
mine are
blood on the tracks - dylan
desire - dylan
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
4 Way Street - CSNY
Personally...
Bowie-Low
Eno-Before And After Science
Nick Drake-Bryter Later, Five Leaves Left
Shit I mean Pink Moon
!
Hot pants
James Brown
For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
^
this is going to be the first dance at my wedding. for real.
Boston
First album. Not a duff track in sight.
I like you !
You're silly !
Tiger Feet
everyone knows it, everyone loves it.
That's right!
Q: Are we not men?
A: We are DEVO
I might get laughed at
but for me it's Dark Side of the Moon.
onknown pleasures
or are we not men? we are devo
ok if it's
favourite you're after, mine is Wigwam - Being.
...
77, More Songs, Fear of Music, Marquee Moon, Hunky Dory, Low, Ziggy, London Calling, Bollocks, Modern Lovers, Funhouse, Tago Mago, Entertainment, Pink Flag, Rumours, Blood on the Tracks, Desire, After the Gold Rush, Bryter Layter, Parallel Lines, This Year's Model.
Off the top of my head.
...
The Specials and Ramones S/T's as well.
I go with most of all these ^
Looking back Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" seemed phenomenally huge with the masses. For me it was: "Coney Island Baby" by Lou Reed
Notable mentions:
Deep Purple "Fireball"
Stones "Exile On Main Street"
Ramsey Lewis "Sungoddess"
Frank Zappa "Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe and Bongo Fury"
But surely "Dark Side Of The Moon" defined that decade
and
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
Ram
Band On The Run
Blood On The Tracks
After The Flood
Harvest
Roxy Music
Court And Spark
J Giels Band "Full House"
Bowie's Low
Transformer
Talking Heads 77
Most of the really standout stuff I didn't discover until the 80's or 90's like:
The Residents
Television
Sex Pistols
Clash
Stooges
...
I'd say 'Low' is probably the defining album of the decade but my personal favourite would probably be 'Rumours'.
Darkside is a good record, not a great one though
I guess it must have been pretty groundbreaking in it's cohesiveness and use of samples at the time though. I think I would consider Camel - Moonmadness better at achieving a similar thing, even it if could be considered a little derrivative.
....
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Van Halen - Van Halen II
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Stooges 'Stooges'
is better than fun house or raw power - i think it's their most sophisticated AND primal album...drug music all the way
Low
Tough one...
But I would say one of the three below-
David Bowie- Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Brian Eno- Here Come the Warm Jets
Stooges- Fun House
All brilliant, groundbreaking albums that are completely listenable all the way through.
It has to be:
Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks. Best album of that or any other decade ever.
Honourable mention to Television - marquee moon, Led Zep IV and physical grafitti, Bowie - Hunky Dory.
good call
good call
Exile in Main Street
Hotel California
Never Mind the Bollocks
Rumours
Exile, totally forgot about that. How could I?
What a fucking record.
...
...Warm Jets is an album I couldn't really get in to. Not massive on Eno generally really despite having fingers in the same pies I like (TH's, DB). Not bothered about Zep or any prog stuff really. Bunch of arse that sounds utterly dated if you ask me. 'Marquee Moon' is a brilliant album. Sounds like a 70's album yet also feels really fresh and vital now.
A commendably pointless exercise
I'd go for Robert Wyatt, 'Rock Bottom'
Led Zep 4
it's got to be
EXILE ON MAIN STREET
honourable mentions:
unknown pleasures
funhouse
raw power
london calling
the clash
blood on the tracks
^^^a very good list.
duh
Who's Next
i'm not quite sure what it is
but i reckon The Best Album Ever was made in the 70s
What...
*THE* stand out album of the 1970s? the *ONE AND ONLY* stand out album of the *ENTIRE* decade?
NRGH! Threads like this annoy me. As if you can boil down the musical acheivements of 10 years into one album. Total bollock.
And don't reply with the cop out response of "oh its so we all talk about music" - no, that's rubbish. It's so people can look as if they know lots more about 70s music than they actually do, to impress people who give a shit what they think
NRGH.
*bollocks
shit, I can't even rant right.
^^^
votes for rumorus
not having a good day?
I have never ever got annoyed with a thread
yeah, it's been a quiet one, and I miss my gf
but i do often get annoyed with threads here. Like the "Will the beatles ever be surpassed?" one. God, that one made me wanna go drown things.
i think people start these
threads to try and wind people up.
Anyway hope your weekend is better. I have spent all day in a boiling hot office
stay off
the fuckin thread if it annoys u so much. jesus
ramones
ramones ramones ramones ramones ramones
it is too hard to decide
but for me it is probably one of these
parliament - mothership connection/clones of dr funkenstein
sly and the family stone - fresh
funkadelic - maggot brain
david bowie - hunky dory/low
led zeppelin - III/IV/houses of the holy/physical graffiti
rush - hemispheres
t. rex - electric warrior
queen - sheer heart attack
i think i just love the 70s.
Dark Side Of The Moon
By a mile. I also love...
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
T.Rex - Electric Warrior
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Magazine - Real Life
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Led Zeppelin - IV
David Bowie - Hunky Dory/Ziggy Stardust/Low/"Heroes"
Lou Reed - Berlin
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left/Bryter Layter
The Doors - LA Woman
Tim Buckley - Starsailor
Can - Flow Motion
Japan - Adolescent Sex
Ultravox - Ultravox
Mick Ronson - Slaughter On 10th Avenue
King Crimson - Islands
Tangerine Dream - Phaedre
Gong - You
Dark Side of the Moon
Raw Power
Satori
Entertainment!
Is This Real?
Marquee Moon
Just kind of sums up everything good about the 70's.
.
Tago Mago
Neu!
Unknown Pleasures
Germ-Free Adolescents
Phaedra
The Man Machine
Pink Moon
Songs Of Love And Hate
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
Metal Box
The Undertones
Ramones
Roxy Music
i say
you're so wrong. Do you mean standout as in era-defining? In which case it would be Hotel California (US) or Never Mind The Bollocks (UK).
Not really.
More just which you think's the best. Hotel California's rubbish.
you're right
Hotel California is rubbish. Just era-defining.
fuck you
it's brilliant
Ride A White Swan?
Fuck knows.
Rush - 2112
Seriously.
it is definitely top 10
in my eyes
actually
i've changed my mind. i think i prefer hemispheres to 2112. sorry.
Hmm, I see where you're coming from.
It's a close call for me, but I think 2112 just pips it.
Raw Power
Iggy & the Stooges
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
I'm just sayin ones I enjoy alot.
Physical Graffiti -Led Zep
Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
They're my favourites
^ or raw power
Nevermind the bollocks
for me it's
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
or else
David Bowie - Low
Pink Floyd - Darkside Of The Moon
whatever was played in Forest Gump.
.
Fun House surely?
David Bedford
10,000 metres, 1973 - 1977. Used to run 200 miles a week while training. What a hero !
^^^ off course Funhouse
Im having serious doubts about alot of people on this forum, the dodgy stuff I am seeing listed here
Boring suggestions, but...
Horses
Songs in the key of life
London Calling
most Bowie
Before and after science
Psychedelic Shack by the Temptations
And Live at the Witch Trials by The Fall
shame that gaucho was released in 1980 as that would be my pick but otherwise:
1973: Countdown to Ecstasy
1974: Pretzel Logic
1975: Katy Lied
1976: The Royal Scam
1977: Aja
^
these!
What a question!
I'd have to go for Exile On Main Street.
Marquee Moon, Loaded and Blood On The Tracks would be all be up there though.
Thinking about it, i don't think you could possibly pick one!
rumours
yeah!!!!!!
rumours of course! man all the punks missed out on some good shit in 77 didn't they
rush
a farewell to kings was 77 too
No, It's all true...
lols!
^ its Rumours for sure
also, any Steely Dan record
third by soft machine
is amazing
Unknown Pleasures
yes yes yes
:)
Neil Young - Harvest
King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic
Queen - A Night At The Opera
J Tull - Thick as a Brick
John Martyn - Solid Air
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman (unless that was 60's)
Camel - Flight of the Snow Goose
Good call on Rumours poptimus, and Pink Moon baron!
i heart solid air
so much that I actually think my heart grows every time i hear it. flawless album.
I knew there would be some love out there somewhere
it's my no.1 bathtime music album.
Born to Run
by Springsteen. Obviously. 1975 so bang in the middle of the decade too.
There were loads of amazing records released in the 70's. Erm, like any other decade since people started making albums really.
darkness on the edge of town
is fucking amazing too. oh man, the 70s was so great...
shit I forgot about that one
only recently got into it, it took a while to de-cynicalise my soul and enjoy the drama and passion and bravado
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_in_music#Albums_released
so much good stuff that isnt boring punk rock in 77, saturday night fever soundtrack! chic s/t! tejas! cat scratch fever!
Ziggy Stardust
Roxy Music's debut
Joni Mitchell - Blue
or maybe Led Zeppelin IV
Stooges - Funhouse
(can't understand why people on this forum keep going on about Raw Power this is clearly 100x better, in fact it is the 2nd best album ever)
David Bowie - Low
Television - Marquee Moon
Sex Pistols - NMTB
Ramones - Ramones
Marquee Moon
Suicide
mine are
blood on the tracks - dylan
desire - dylan
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
4 Way Street - CSNY
Personally...
Bowie-Low
Eno-Before And After Science
Nick Drake-Bryter Later, Five Leaves Left
Shit I mean Pink Moon
!
Hot pants
James Brown
For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
^
this is going to be the first dance at my wedding. for real.
Boston
First album. Not a duff track in sight.
I like you !
You're silly !
Tiger Feet
everyone knows it, everyone loves it.
That's right!
Q: Are we not men?
A: We are DEVO
I might get laughed at
but for me it's Dark Side of the Moon.
onknown pleasures
or are we not men? we are devo
ok if it's
favourite you're after, mine is Wigwam - Being.
...
77, More Songs, Fear of Music, Marquee Moon, Hunky Dory, Low, Ziggy, London Calling, Bollocks, Modern Lovers, Funhouse, Tago Mago, Entertainment, Pink Flag, Rumours, Blood on the Tracks, Desire, After the Gold Rush, Bryter Layter, Parallel Lines, This Year's Model.
Off the top of my head.
...
The Specials and Ramones S/T's as well.
I go with most of all these ^
Looking back Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" seemed phenomenally huge with the masses. For me it was: "Coney Island Baby" by Lou Reed
Notable mentions:
Deep Purple "Fireball"
Stones "Exile On Main Street"
Ramsey Lewis "Sungoddess"
Frank Zappa "Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe and Bongo Fury"
But surely "Dark Side Of The Moon" defined that decade
and
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
Ram
Band On The Run
Blood On The Tracks
After The Flood
Harvest
Roxy Music
Court And Spark
J Giels Band "Full House"
Bowie's Low
Transformer
Talking Heads 77
Most of the really standout stuff I didn't discover until the 80's or 90's like:
The Residents
Television
Sex Pistols
Clash
Stooges
...
I'd say 'Low' is probably the defining album of the decade but my personal favourite would probably be 'Rumours'.
Darkside is a good record, not a great one though
I guess it must have been pretty groundbreaking in it's cohesiveness and use of samples at the time though. I think I would consider Camel - Moonmadness better at achieving a similar thing, even it if could be considered a little derrivative.
....
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Van Halen - Van Halen II
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Stooges 'Stooges'
is better than fun house or raw power - i think it's their most sophisticated AND primal album...drug music all the way
Low
Tough one...
But I would say one of the three below-
David Bowie- Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Brian Eno- Here Come the Warm Jets
Stooges- Fun House
All brilliant, groundbreaking albums that are completely listenable all the way through.
It has to be:
Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks. Best album of that or any other decade ever.
Honourable mention to Television - marquee moon, Led Zep IV and physical grafitti, Bowie - Hunky Dory.
good call
good call
Exile in Main Street
Hotel California
Never Mind the Bollocks
Rumours
Exile, totally forgot about that. How could I?
What a fucking record.
...
...Warm Jets is an album I couldn't really get in to. Not massive on Eno generally really despite having fingers in the same pies I like (TH's, DB). Not bothered about Zep or any prog stuff really. Bunch of arse that sounds utterly dated if you ask me. 'Marquee Moon' is a brilliant album. Sounds like a 70's album yet also feels really fresh and vital now.
A commendably pointless exercise
I'd go for Robert Wyatt, 'Rock Bottom'
Led Zep 4
it's got to be
EXILE ON MAIN STREET
honourable mentions:
unknown pleasures
funhouse
raw power
london calling
the clash
blood on the tracks
^^^a very good list.
duh
Who's Next
i'm not quite sure what it is
but i reckon The Best Album Ever was made in the 70s
What...
*THE* stand out album of the 1970s? the *ONE AND ONLY* stand out album of the *ENTIRE* decade?
NRGH! Threads like this annoy me. As if you can boil down the musical acheivements of 10 years into one album. Total bollock.
And don't reply with the cop out response of "oh its so we all talk about music" - no, that's rubbish. It's so people can look as if they know lots more about 70s music than they actually do, to impress people who give a shit what they think
NRGH.
*bollocks
shit, I can't even rant right.
^^^
votes for rumorus
not having a good day?
I have never ever got annoyed with a thread
yeah, it's been a quiet one, and I miss my gf
but i do often get annoyed with threads here. Like the "Will the beatles ever be surpassed?" one. God, that one made me wanna go drown things.
i think people start these
threads to try and wind people up.
Anyway hope your weekend is better. I have spent all day in a boiling hot office
stay off
the fuckin thread if it annoys u so much. jesus
ramones
ramones ramones ramones ramones ramones
it is too hard to decide
but for me it is probably one of these
parliament - mothership connection/clones of dr funkenstein
sly and the family stone - fresh
funkadelic - maggot brain
david bowie - hunky dory/low
led zeppelin - III/IV/houses of the holy/physical graffiti
rush - hemispheres
t. rex - electric warrior
queen - sheer heart attack
i think i just love the 70s.
Dark Side Of The Moon
By a mile. I also love...
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
T.Rex - Electric Warrior
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Magazine - Real Life
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Led Zeppelin - IV
David Bowie - Hunky Dory/Ziggy Stardust/Low/"Heroes"
Lou Reed - Berlin
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left/Bryter Layter
The Doors - LA Woman
Tim Buckley - Starsailor
Can - Flow Motion
Japan - Adolescent Sex
Ultravox - Ultravox
Mick Ronson - Slaughter On 10th Avenue
King Crimson - Islands
Tangerine Dream - Phaedre
Gong - You
Dark Side of the Moon
Raw Power
Satori
Entertainment!
Is This Real?
Marquee Moon
Just kind of sums up everything good about the 70's.
.
Tago Mago
Neu!
Unknown Pleasures
Germ-Free Adolescents
Phaedra
The Man Machine
Pink Moon
Songs Of Love And Hate
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
Metal Box
The Undertones
Ramones
Roxy Music
Hmmm.
The Who -Live at Leeds.
thats a very good list
you have done well old man ;)
The Man Machine being a personal favourite.