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     Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1211 Registered: 01-2005 |
1. John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band 2. The Stooges - Fun House 3. Syd Barrett - Barrett 4. Velvet Underground - Loaded 5. Derek & The Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs 6. Neil Young - After The Gold Rush 7. The Pretty Things - Parachute 8. Can - Soundtracks 9. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die 10. Peter Green - The End Of The Game Higly rated albums from 1970 that I should own but don't: 1. Nico - Desertshore 2. Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off Baby 3. The Soft Machine - Third 4. Tim Buckley - Starsailor 5. Amon Duul II - Yeti 6. Robert Wyatt - The End Of An Ear 7. Third Ear Band - Third Ear Band 8. Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day 9. Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt 10. John Cale - Vintage Violence | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 387 Registered: 05-2005 |
A great year that I have been discovering slowly. What about: McCartney All things must pass Cosmos factory Deja Vu Tea for the Tillerman Bridge over troubled water ...some of the more obvious. LOVE John Barleycorn must die! Maybe the best that year??? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1681 Registered: 03-2005 |
It's the Go Betweens' combination of Dylan with the Monkees that brought me to them. That will go a long way to explain my list. In alphabetical order: David Bowie--The Man Who Sold the World Jackie DeShannon--Songs Dillards--Copperfields Nick Drake--Bryter Layter Hollies--Confessions of a Mind. Haute bubblegum, complete with one last great Clarke/Hicks/Nash song, several great kitchen sink melodramas, and a Pete Townsend-inspired mini opera, all showcasing the band's idiosyncratic but excellent musicianship. The U.S. version of this album ("Moving Finger") is even better, with the two weakest songs dropped and replaced with contemporaneous single "Gasoline Alley Bred" and the one truly great track from the otherwise disappointing previous album ("Hollies Sing Hollies"), inexplicably deleted from the U.S. release of that record. Philamore Lincoln--The North Wind Blew South. I'm pretty sure this was really recorded in 1968 but took a couple years to see release. The Monkees--Changes. A surprisingly listenable bubblegum album created by Jeff Barry. The Move--Shazam Michael Nesmith--two (!) fine albums for that year, Magnetic South and Loose Salute though his best would arrive in 1971. Dusty Springfield--A Brand New Me Toots & the Maytals--Monkey Man Scott Walker--Til the Band Comes In And, yes, absolutely "Fun House" and "Loaded" even if the latter is when the Velvets lost their edge. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 247 Registered: 02-2008 |
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Derek and the Dominos - Layla Sly & the Family Stone - Greatest Hits (a comp I know, but I'm including it based on its general greatness, but also because it contained two arse-kickin' singles that weren't available anywhere else. Their placement on the album makes it a stand-alone, discrete work of art on its own) Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking Van Morrison - Moondance Al Green - Gets Next to You James Brown - Sex Machine VU - Loaded Beatles - Hey Jude Neil Young - After the Goldrush Really, a remarkable year for music. People must've been wetting their pants on a daily basis over the music that was comin' out... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2151 Registered: 05-2005 |
23:59 on December 31. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1293 Registered: 10-2004 |
Nick Drake – Bryter Layter Antonio Carlos Jobim – Stone Flower Bowie – Man Who Sold the World Beach Boys – Sunflower Stooges – Fun House John Cale – Vintage Violence (far outshone what VU was doing at this point, IMHO) Curtis Mayfield – Curtis George Harrison – All Things Must Pass Captain Beefheart – Lick My Decals Off Baby | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 176 Registered: 02-2007 |
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead CSN&Y - Deja Vu Neil Young - After The Gold Rush Led Zeppelin 111 Santana - Abraxas Doors - Morrison Hotel Van the Man - Moondance George H - All Things Must Pass Creedence - Cosmo's Factory Focus - In And Out Of Focus Lennon - Plastic Ono Band Joni - Ladies Of The Canyon The Who - Live At Leeds Bowie - Man Who Sold The World Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs & Englishmen Dylan - New Morning Nick Drake - Bryter Layter ELP Sweet Baby James Taylor | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1212 Registered: 01-2005 |
Doink! I can't believe I forgot to include Nick's Bryter Layter. My revised list would slot it at #6. 11. Peter Green - The End Of The Game 12. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass 13. Grateful Dead - American Beauty 14. The Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South 15. Van The Man - Moondance 16. Jethro Tull - Benefit 17. Santana - Abraxas 18. Spirit - The Tweleve Deams of Dr. Sardonicus 19. The Who - Live at Leeds 20. Woodstock Ewan, I'm pretty sure Unhalfbricking was released in 1969 and the sans Sandy Denny follow-up Full House was released in 1970. |