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Michael Bachman
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Post Number: 1211
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 03:08 pm:   

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
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Geoff Holmes
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Post Number: 387
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 05:11 am:   

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???
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Randy Adams
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Post Number: 1681
Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 04:44 pm:   

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.
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Ewan Talisker McEwan
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Post Number: 247
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 05:10 pm:   

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...
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kevin
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Post Number: 2151
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 06:39 pm:   

23:59 on December 31.
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Jeff Whiteaker
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Post Number: 1293
Registered: 10-2004
Posted on Monday, July 14, 2008 - 12:43 am:   

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
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David Gagen
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Post Number: 176
Registered: 02-2007
Posted on Monday, July 14, 2008 - 01:26 pm:   

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
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Michael Bachman
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Post Number: 1212
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Monday, July 14, 2008 - 04:59 pm:   

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.

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