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Post by Joaquim on Nov 27, 2018 2:57:22 GMT
We're jumping straight into the 70s.
• Send me a list by PM, not in the thread. • It should contain your Top 25 albums of the 70s, numbered from 1 – 25. If your lists are not numbered, I will count them as 1 – 25 in the order sent. • Your #1 will earn 25, #2 earns 24....and #25 will earn 1 point. You all know the drill. • Once you've voted, you can of course edit your vote by re-sending your ballot to me by PM. • This isn't specific to one genre, it spans all music. So you could have a disco album on your ballot followed by Black Sabbath. This will probably lead to a large number of albums getting mentioned but I'm sure things will be fine, especially considering this is limited to just one decade. However no composers, sorry. • While live albums are eligible, concert films are not. So you can't vote for something like Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains the Same or Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii.
We'll keep voting open until Sunday, February 10 at midnight (so technically Monday, February 11).
As always, please use this thread for FYCs and discussions/arguments.
Ballots Received
1. pacinoyes * 2. waterloobridge * 3. Deceit * 4. countjohn * 5. Mattsby * 6. Viced * 7. themoviesinner * 8. ibbi *
9. DeepArcher *
10. TheAlwaysClassy *
11. ingmarhepburn * 12. Joaquim * 13. The_Cake_of_Roth * 14. Ugolin *
* = counted
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Post by Joaquim on Nov 27, 2018 2:59:07 GMT
I have a fuckton of FYCs but this gets it's own separate post to really let it stand out from the rest.
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Post by DeepArcher on Nov 27, 2018 3:10:46 GMT
Main FYC for this decade: UNKNOWN PLEASURES ~ JOY DIVISION
A few more shot-outs off the top of my head: Marquee Moon by Television, Wish You Were Here, and basically anything that Bowie put out this decade. Will invariably post more along the way.
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Post by Joaquim on Nov 27, 2018 3:16:47 GMT
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2018 3:33:17 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 27, 2018 12:43:58 GMT
Issue #1 - London Calling is indeed a 70s album, even though its often a contender for best of the 80s (released Dec 79).
This is going to be really great because unlike the 60s imo you can no longer argue popular as equivalent to great - Dylan, Kinks, Stones, Who, Beatles, are instead equaled by new artists that failed because well the radio died and the demographics changed - the equal to the previous bands for new bands was Big Star, The Ramones, Johnny Thunders, Elvis Costello - but you could love Rock music and never have heard of any of them too.
That leaves room for some left field picks and mine, aside the mentions already (great job viced!) I'd like to put in a pick for The Damned Machine Gun Etiquette. The Clash and Sex Pistols were more "serious" maybe and more "important" but this will rank higher on my list than either of their debuts because it is by far the most flat out fun. I love this record and not coincidentally..........so did the very best band of the 80s, but I digress. It is a blast 40 years later......
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Nov 27, 2018 16:51:59 GMT
FYC: Anything/everything by Brian Eno, who completely dominated the decade.
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Nov 27, 2018 22:44:03 GMT
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Post by Deceit on Nov 28, 2018 1:09:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 2:57:25 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Nov 28, 2018 4:33:54 GMT
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Post by Joaquim on Nov 28, 2018 7:06:56 GMT
2 ballots in and I can already tell this is gonna be more interesting than our 60s poll.
But really, if the Big 4 Pink Floyd albums don't rank very highly I will riot. I'll be more accepting if Meddle misses out since it's not as well known (despite having 2 of their greatest songs) and Atom Heart Mother due to the more divisive nature of that one.
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 28, 2018 13:17:51 GMT
I will say there were 5-10 big albums for me personally that I have championed on here that I left off including 2 of which I'd have considered obvious but that as I wrote them down I knew were going to be squeezed out. For the 60s list, I was struggling to make it to 25 - from the 70s list I was struggling to keep it under 35......at least.
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Post by countjohn on Nov 29, 2018 3:55:58 GMT
I have a harder time ranking eras in music than I do in movies. I'd say 50's-90's have pretty much equal amounts of great music, although in some decades you have to look harder to find it. Nonetheless, if I were forced to choose a favorite music decade, I would probably say the 70's. There were so many different movements, and so many of them were really good. Obviously the punk explosion, mainstream rock still managed a lot of great stuff, glam rock, jazz fusion/funk, and pop music was still listenable a lot of the time. Disco is the one big musical trend of the decade that might be a bit questionable, but even then the early stuff like Donna Summer and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack were pretty decent. Like others, it took me a few days to really narrow the list down because there were so many contenders, whereas with other polls I am pretty decisive and can just shoot off a list.
FYC's sorted by genre (not gonna try and guess what will need them)-
Punk/New Wave
This Year's Model by Elvis Costello Parallel Lines by Blondie Ramones by Ramones Nevermind the Bollocks by The Sex Pistols Damned Damned Damned by The Damned Horses by Patti Smith Entertainment! by Gang of Four Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! by Devo First Issue by Public Image Ltd.
Classic Rock
A Night at the Opera by Queen Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones All Things Must Pass by George Harrison Abraxas by Santana Imagine by John Lennon Heroes by David Bowie
Pop Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel Off the Wall by Michael Jackson Paris 1919 by John Cale
Jazz Fusion
Bitches Brew by Miles Davis Headunters by Herbie Hancock
Glam Rock
Electric Warrior by T. Rex Transformer by Lou Reed
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Post by Joaquim on Nov 29, 2018 4:01:40 GMT
In our 60s poll, 103 albums received votes from 11 ballots.
So far here, 82 albums have received votes from 4 ballots.
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Post by countjohn on Nov 29, 2018 4:12:39 GMT
In our 60s poll, 103 albums received votes from 11 ballots. So far here, 82 albums have received votes from 4 ballots. I also observed while doing it that my votes were spread out amongst artists a lot more. The Rolling Stones and Stevie Wonder were the only ones who got multiple albums for me here. Whereas looking at my 60's ballot I had The Beatles, Coltrane, and The Kinks with three, and the Stones, Velvets, and Hendrix with two. That's more than half the ballot on six artists.
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 29, 2018 4:30:05 GMT
I have a harder time ranking eras in music than I do in movies. I'd say 50's-90's have pretty much equal amounts of great music, although in some decades you have to look harder to find it. Nonetheless, if I were forced to choose a favorite music decade, I would probably say the 70's. There were so many different movements, and so many of them were really good. Obviously the punk explosion, mainstream rock still managed a lot of great stuff, glam rock, jazz fusion/funk, and pop music was still listenable a lot of the time. Disco is the one big musical trend of the decade that might be a bit questionable, but even then the early stuff like Donna Summer and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack were pretty decent. Like others, it took me a few days to really narrow the list down because there were so many contenders, whereas with other polls I am pretty decisive and can just shoot off a list. FYC's sorted by genre (not gonna try and guess what will need them)- Punk/New WaveThis Year's Model by Elvis Costello Parallel Lines by Blondie Ramones by Ramones Nevermind the Bollocks by The Sex Pistols Damned Damned Damned by The Damned Horses by Patti Smith Entertainment! by Gang of Four Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! by Devo First Issue by Public Image Ltd. Classic RockA Night at the Opera by Queen Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones All Things Must Pass by George Harrison Abraxas by Santana Imagine by John Lennon Heroes by David Bowie PopInnervisions and Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel Off the Wall by Michael Jackson Paris 1919 by John Cale Jazz FusionBitches Brew by Miles Davis Headunters by Herbie Hancock Glam RockElectric Warrior by T. Rex Transformer by Lou Reed Thoughts on the folk music of the decade? It's the music that most speaks to me -- in this decade at least. Of the FYCs I listed, five of them qualify inside of that genre. Hako Yamasaki and Yoshiko Sai's work in a folk-rock setting (I used their debut albums, but everything from their 70's output is pretty good imo); Anne Briggs in her self-titled, mostly acapella album of traditional songs; Vashti Bunyan's Just Another Diamond Day, which would create the freak-folk movement decades later (also a strong contender for my favorite album ever); and Linda Perhacs with her psychedelic folk album Parallelograms. The main reason I ask is that I didn't see any listed under this genre, and since I'm biggest on folk music, it just made me wonder if you have any favorites to impart to me (or if the whole folk scene turns you off). I never vote in these album/music polls because I don't have enough experience in the more well known pieces, and usually wind up despising them, truth be told -- I'm a very picky listener. I'm always open to new things though, so I'm going to follow these FYC's everyone is posting and see if anything speaks to me.
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Post by countjohn on Nov 29, 2018 4:43:13 GMT
I have a harder time ranking eras in music than I do in movies. I'd say 50's-90's have pretty much equal amounts of great music, although in some decades you have to look harder to find it. Nonetheless, if I were forced to choose a favorite music decade, I would probably say the 70's. There were so many different movements, and so many of them were really good. Obviously the punk explosion, mainstream rock still managed a lot of great stuff, glam rock, jazz fusion/funk, and pop music was still listenable a lot of the time. Disco is the one big musical trend of the decade that might be a bit questionable, but even then the early stuff like Donna Summer and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack were pretty decent. Like others, it took me a few days to really narrow the list down because there were so many contenders, whereas with other polls I am pretty decisive and can just shoot off a list. FYC's sorted by genre (not gonna try and guess what will need them)- Punk/New WaveThis Year's Model by Elvis Costello Parallel Lines by Blondie Ramones by Ramones Nevermind the Bollocks by The Sex Pistols Damned Damned Damned by The Damned Horses by Patti Smith Entertainment! by Gang of Four Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! by Devo First Issue by Public Image Ltd. Classic RockA Night at the Opera by Queen Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones All Things Must Pass by George Harrison Abraxas by Santana Imagine by John Lennon Heroes by David Bowie PopInnervisions and Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel Off the Wall by Michael Jackson Paris 1919 by John Cale Jazz FusionBitches Brew by Miles Davis Headunters by Herbie Hancock Glam RockElectric Warrior by T. Rex Transformer by Lou Reed Thoughts on the folk music of the decade? It's the music that most speaks to me -- in this decade at least. Of the FYCs I listed, five of them qualify inside of that genre. Hako Yamasaki and Yoshiko Sai's work in a folk-rock setting (I used their debut albums, but everything from their 70's output is pretty good imo); Anne Briggs in her self-titled, mostly acapella album of traditional songs; Vashti Bunyan's Just Another Diamond Day, which would create the freak-folk movement decades later (also a strong contender for my favorite album ever); and Linda Perhacs with her psychedelic folk album Parallelograms. The main reason I ask is that I didn't see any listed under this genre, and since I'm biggest on folk music, it just made me wonder if you have any favorites to impart to me (or if the whole folk scene turns you off). I never vote in these album/music polls because I don't have enough experience in the more well known pieces, and usually wind up despising them, truth be told -- I'm a very picky listener. I'm always open to new things though, so I'm going to follow these FYC's everyone is posting and see if anything speaks to me. Yeah, folf-rock isn't really my bag for the most part.
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Post by DeepArcher on Nov 29, 2018 5:27:18 GMT
Let's not forget about this early-decade gem from the same group that (rightfully) topped our '60s poll...
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 29, 2018 9:09:57 GMT
I have a harder time ranking eras in music than I do in movies. I'd say 50's-90's have pretty much equal amounts of great music, although in some decades you have to look harder to find it. Nonetheless, if I were forced to choose a favorite music decade, I would probably say the 70's. There were so many different movements, and so many of them were really good. Obviously the punk explosion, mainstream rock still managed a lot of great stuff, glam rock, jazz fusion/funk, and pop music was still listenable a lot of the time. Disco is the one big musical trend of the decade that might be a bit questionable, but even then the early stuff like Donna Summer and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack were pretty decent. Like others, it took me a few days to really narrow the list down because there were so many contenders, whereas with other polls I am pretty decisive and can just shoot off a list. FYC's sorted by genre (not gonna try and guess what will need them)- Punk/New WaveThis Year's Model by Elvis Costello Parallel Lines by Blondie Ramones by Ramones Nevermind the Bollocks by The Sex Pistols Damned Damned Damned by The Damned Horses by Patti Smith Entertainment! by Gang of Four Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! by Devo First Issue by Public Image Ltd. Classic RockA Night at the Opera by Queen Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones All Things Must Pass by George Harrison Abraxas by Santana Imagine by John Lennon Heroes by David Bowie PopInnervisions and Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel Off the Wall by Michael Jackson Paris 1919 by John Cale Jazz FusionBitches Brew by Miles Davis Headunters by Herbie Hancock Glam RockElectric Warrior by T. Rex Transformer by Lou Reed I had several artists in the 70s with multiple albums - 6 artists with 2 (or more) albums on my list - that's 50%+ accounted for right there which is why so much was squeezed out, and my entire list is almost all Punk or some loosely defined version of that word rather than any other trend or movement that defines the decade. For example, I like Nick Drake and Stevie Wonder who arguably made top 25 albums of the decade that wouldn't come close for my list because I just don't play it personally and I would have to go pretty deep even within in my own list to consider Damned Damned Damned (though I do like it), whereas I had to struggle on where to include Machine Gun Etiquette because that was going on the list as a given and if I was playing it while doing the list I would place it irrationally way too high . Its almost a given for me that by doing that sort of thing I'm really mostly voting for bottom feeder records in the rankings overall but more beloved ones to me personally. It's always a struggle between the established "canons" for genre and personal canons - for example, Graham Parker wouldn't rank in our poll at all and in his time made among the most highly admired Rock records of '76-'79 - certainly in his time he was perceived as far less marginal and much more important than Nick Drake (who? didn't chart!) or bands like Television (less "who", but still didn't chart!) even but time has built a canon around those other artists and albums and left Parker well more to the fringes even in his own genre or style (Springsteen or Costello etc). The trick of course is always to hear it all with fresh ears and find your own personal canon whether it's Drake, Television or Parker that established canons have maybe unfairly bypassed that you may be the champion for........
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Post by Joaquim on Nov 30, 2018 19:24:45 GMT
No consistent leader so far, 4 lead changes after 5 ballots.
At this point during the 60s poll, Highway 61 Revisited and Let It Bleed were the clear Top 2. At least until all the other ballots came in and they dropped.
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Post by countjohn on Dec 11, 2018 5:44:59 GMT
Listened to this recently and am going to throw it an FYC. The first disc is what you'd expect from Can. They're a great jam band and I can appreciate that even if it isn't really my thing. But the second disc is just spectacular. If you think Revolution no. 9 or some Pink Floyd song is the most far out thing you've heard, listen to this. The second disc really stands alone as a great album. One of the rare times where a rock band went avant garde and clearly knew what they were doing and created a specific mood as opposed to just making funny noises. In this case something harrowing that sounded like the soundtrack to a perverse and effed up horror movie.
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Post by civilwarsugardaddy on Dec 15, 2018 14:22:55 GMT
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Post by Joaquim on Jan 8, 2019 5:56:49 GMT
Need moar ballots.
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Post by DeepArcher on Jan 8, 2019 6:08:18 GMT
Totally forgot about this. Will try to submit something soon.
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