An experiment - Music from 1970 only.

[Case]

For no real reason, except that modern music is, on the whole, a fetid pool of s****, I've decided to research music from one year only - at random, I've picked 1970 - so, for the next month or so, I'm going to search out and listen to music only from that year. Yer 'After the Gold Rush' and 'Led Zep III' are well known as are a couple of dozen more, but I'm going to search out some more obscure stuff too and see what I find. All recommendations welcome.

[Des]

Year I was born. Good choice. This little lot will do for starters...

 

Soundtracks - Can

Loaded - The Velvet Underground

Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

Funhouse - The Stooges

The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett

Psychedelic Shack - The Temptations

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Edited August 6, 2014 by Des

[Nerik]

Lizard-King Crimson

[Ostrich Man]

as fine a thing to do....

 

ginger bakers airforce 2

watt - ten years after

blows against the empire - paul kantner/jefferson starship

workingmans dead - grateful dead

free your mind and your ass will follow - funkadelic (maggot brain is 71 i think des)

full house - fairport convention

benefit - jethro tull

 

 

 

that would do for now....70 was a great year

[Ostrich Man]

csny - deja vu

leon russell - leon russell

wolf king of LA - john phillips

bryter later - nick drake

curtis - curtis mayfield

gasoline alley - rod stewart

john barleycorn must die - traffic

thank christ for teh bomb - groundhogs

[Kite]

Kraftwerk's first album, just entitled Kraftwerk, was released in 1970! Not very good mind ... :)/>/>

 

I'd reiterate Bryter Later, and all of Des's list really

 

(Edit: "Man who sold the World" isn't obscure but it's an often forgotten Bowie album ...)

Edited August 6, 2014 by Mr Kite

[Case]

Year I was born. Good choice. This little lot will do for starters...

 

Soundtracks - Can

Loaded - The Velvet Underground

Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

Funhouse - The Stooges

The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett

Psychedelic Shack - The Temptations

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Of those, I know Paranoid and Bitches Brew (which is f***ing brilliant) only. This is going to be fun.

 

as fine a thing to do....

 

ginger bakers airforce 2

watt - ten years after

blows against the empire - paul kantner/jefferson starship

workingmans dead - grateful dead

free your mind and your ass will follow - funkadelic (maggot brain is 71 i think des)

full house - fairport convention

benefit - jethro tull

 

 

 

that would do for now....70 was a great year

 

... and I've not listened to any of these bar Fairport.

 

csny - deja vu

leon russell - leon russell

wolf king of LA - john phillips

bryter later - nick drake

curtis - curtis mayfield

gasoline alley - rod stewart

john barleycorn must die - traffic

thank christ for teh bomb - groundhogs

Deja vu is one of my top #10 albums ever. Did you know I almost cut my hair by the way? It was just the other day if I recall correctly.

 

Bryter Later is a bit patchy IMO, and Pink Moon is almost unmistakable.

 

Thanks everyone so far.

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

I don't do obscure really.

 

Maybe I'm Amazed

 

The Love You Save - Jackson 5

 

f***ing hell I thought we were were doing songs, not albums. I should read threads properly. I'm like Macca sometimes.

[Stevie H]

Year I was born. Good choice. This little lot will do for starters...

 

Soundtracks - Can

Loaded - The Velvet Underground

Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

Funhouse - The Stooges

The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett

Psychedelic Shack - The Temptations

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

 

f***ing hell that's a list. and case has never heard the madcap laughs and maggot brain. jammy get.

 

atom heart mother as well. bryter later. all things must pass.

[Snakebite]

Pretty obvious I realize but:

After the Goldrush - Neil Young

American Beauty - Grateful Dead

Kristofferson - Kris Kristofferson

Sex Machine - James Brown

[Ostrich Man]

Lola vs powerman - the kinks

12 dreams od dr sardonicus - spirit

Fire and water - free

On the boards- taste

American Woman - the guess who

Stephen stills 1st

Band of gypsys - hendrix

New morning - dylan

Cosmos factory- CCR

[Stevie H]

had to check but van's moondance is 1970.

[Case]

f***ing hell that's a list. and case has never heard the madcap laughs and maggot brain. jammy get.

 

atom heart mother as well. bryter later. all things must pass.

Nope, never heard them. Love AGM though, and ALMP is wonderful from first to last.

 

Right. Less posting, more listening.

 

Ta all.

[Stevie H]

good idea for a thread mate.

 

i'll throw genesis 'trespass' in there but there's only cunny off here that will agree with me.

[Case]

No, there isn't, because there's no bigger Gabriel-era Genesis fan than me, and Trespass was one if the first vinyl albums I owned. But I'm going to avoid listening too much to what I already know.

 

Didn't know cunny was a fan though.

 

Reason for the thread was I 'accidentally' found a US radio station that played a Syd Barrett track followed by a Van Der Graaf Generator track the other day, and they were fecking great.

 

Lucky I wasn't listening to Nick Heyward.

Edited August 6, 2014 by Case

[charlie clown]

Here're a few from my collection that I don't think have been mentioned:

 

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

Bill Fay - s/t

Donny Hathaway - Everything Is Everything

Grodeck Whipperjenny - s/t

Bob Dylan - New Morning

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis

Nico - Desertshore

Joni Mitchell - Ladies OF The Canyon

The Nice - Five Bridges

Jimmy Scott - The Source

Alice Cooper - Easy Action

Kuni Kawachi & Friends - Kirikyogen

Van Der Graaf Generator - H To The He Who Am The Only One

John Cale- Vintage Violence

Michael Nesmith & The First National Band - Magnetic South

Stevie Wonder - Music Of My Mind

Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again I'd Do It All Over You

Kevin Ayers & The Whole World - Shooting At The Moon

Fleetwoopd Mac - Then Play On

Hawkwind - s/t

Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms

Tyrannosaurus Rex - A Beard Of Stars

Shawn Phillips - Second Contribution

Paul McCartney - Ram

Soft Machne - Three

Stephen Stills - s/t

James Brown - Sex Machine

The Byrds - Untitled / Unissued

Isaac Hayes - The Isaac Hayes Movement

Doris Troy - s/t

Yes - Time & A Word

Parliament - Osmium

 

That's a decent pile to get your teeth into.

Edited August 6, 2014 by charlie clown

[Case]

Wowsa!

[pipnasty]

Curtis - Curtis Mayfield

Sunflower - Beach Boys

Desertshore - Nico

Third - Big Star

Just Another Diamond Day - Vashti Bunyan

Yeti - Amon Duul

Lick My Decals Off - Beefheart

If I could Do It All Over Again - Caravan

Small Talk at 125th - Gil Scott Heron

A Divina Comédia - Os Mutantes

Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs

Pass the distance - Simon finn

The LAst Poets - The last poets

Magnetic South - Michael Nesmith

Ptah - Alice Coltrane

Forca Bruta - Jorge Ben

Stone Flower - Antônio Carlos Jobim

 

I think they are all 1970 or thereabouts.

 

Edit - just seen Mr Clown's list, yeah, Soft Machine too.

Edited August 6, 2014 by Pipnasty

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

Sunflower is good. Especially "Forever".

[baja the hut]

Sunflower is good. Especially "Forever".

 

Favourite beach boy record by far.

[JRC]

Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditations

Gong - Magick Brother

First, eponymous albums from Wishbone Ash and ELP

MC5 - Back in the USA

Deep Purple - In Rock

 

And surely a shout for still the best of its kind - The Who, Live at Leeds

Edited August 6, 2014 by JRC

[Des]

I don't do obscure really.

 

 

 

Get to f***. You know enough.

 

had to check but van's moondance is 1970.

 

Yeah I'm a c*** for missing that.

 

Also, haven't read the whole thread but has anybody said Plastic Ono Band? Well, Plastic Ono Band.

 

 

Third - Big Star

 

 

I think they are all 1970 or thereabouts.

 

Edit - just seen Mr Clown's list, yeah, Soft Machine too.

 

Third is 75, la. Get your facts right.

 

Tim's been in italics for ages. This is gonna be fantastic.

Edited August 6, 2014 by Des

[baja the hut]

Abraxas - Santana

 

Funhouse - Stooges

Edited August 6, 2014 by baja the hut

[Des]

 

Cosmos factory- CCR

 

Of course. s***.

[£440,000]

Curtis - Curtis Mayfield

Sunflower - Beach Boys

Desertshore - Nico

Third - Big Star

Just Another Diamond Day - Vashti Bunyan

Yeti - Amon Duul

Lick My Decals Off - Beefheart

If I could Do It All Over Again - Caravan

Small Talk at 125th - Gil Scott Heron

A Divina Comédia - Os Mutantes

Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs

Pass the distance - Simon finn

The LAst Poets - The last poets

Magnetic South - Michael Nesmith

Ptah - Alice Coltrane

Forca Bruta - Jorge Ben

Stone Flower - Antônio Carlos Jobim

 

I think they are all 1970 or thereabouts.

 

Edit - just seen Mr Clown's list, yeah, Soft Machine too.

 

Big Star's Third was recorded in 74, but not officially released until 78.

 

Lee Dorsey - Yes, We Can

From A Whisper To A Scream - Allen Toussaint

Remedies - Dr John

Struttin' - The Meters

Deaf, Dumb, Blind - Pharaoh Sanders

Spirit In The Dark - Aretha Franklin

The Outside Man - Junior Parker

A Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddle Player In The World - Merle Haggard

1+1+1=4 - Sir Douglas Quintet