ILX 70s album poll - results

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THIS is Surf's up.

It looks very sinister. Is it?

points: 241
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 8

THE BEATLES - LET IT BE

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Searching the site for "Let It Be" is really very time-consuming, yknow...

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oops, wrong poll.

solid through and through, though i've never understood the appeal of "get back," which is the template for every bad paul mccartney rock song to come. "i me mine" is sub-par george. "one after 909" is a throwaway that doesn't stand up to great throwaways like, say, "gary's got a boner." "long and winding road" is an ok piano ballad that's got nothing on "androgynous." "two of us," on the other hand, is every bit as good an album opener as "i will dare." "dig it" tops "seen your video" in the celebrating/defecating-pop-culture department. "let it be" is as exactly as good as rem's "everybody hurts," another song i admire but don't need to ever hear again.

-- fact checking cuz (factcheckingcu...), February 23rd, 2005.

Yes, that's a good one, because I agree with it. "Get Back" really is terrible, isn't it?

points: 241
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 11

This beats "Let It Be" because its highest placing was 5th, whereas The Beatles highest was 8th.

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JL/POB's 'angry' tracks like "Well Well Well" haven't aged well. However, the way Lennon sings the last verse of "God" may be the best singing of his career.

-- Justyn Dillingham (aubade8...), September 28th, 2002.

John Lenon Plastic Ono Band is classic stuff. It's been a while since I've heard much of this music, however, so it's that much more difficult to say why I like it. Raw, stripped down, etc.

-- Rockist Scientist (Rockistscientis...), September 27th, 2002.

The bloke on the grass is John Lennon.

points: 246
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 12

FUNKADELIC - MAGGOT BRAIN

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Maggot Brain: Easily the best first 2/3 of any rock OR funk album of the 1970s, but goes way overboard with "Wars of Armageddon". "Super Stupid" is better than 80% of any song written by Led Zeppelin, 90% better than any song written by Black Sabbath, and 250% better than any song written by Grand Funk Railroad.

-- Stupornaut (natepatri...), March 29th, 2005.

aren't there, like, two blokes? it's kinda hazy from afar, y'kno.
;)

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points: 251
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 9

BIG STAR - THIRD

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It's a little painful to have to revisit my brilliant comments, etc.

The three BS albums are like a drunk's progress. First album - happy buzz, sociable and 'up'. Second album - nasty, sloppy, mean-minded, initially amusing but unpleasant to be with. Third album - all the grief, dysfunction and ultimate serenity of the hangover. I like a lot of their stuff, I love a bit of their stuff - ultimately Chilton has to take some of the indirect blame for lo-fi's cult of the fuck- up.
-- Tom (ebro...), October 19th, 2001 1:00 AM.

Of course the third Big Star record is an Alex Chlton solo album and it's one of the greatest LPs ever made, in my opinion, greater even than "Radio City."

-- Jess Hill (jesshil...), May 9th, 2003

"Kanga-Roo" is a magically fucked up song. It's just devestating, made all the more so by what a total wreck it is structurally and rhythmically.

-- The Good Dr. Bill (fadeout9...), November 9th, 2004

One of the top 10 most depressing albums of all time.

-- alex in mainhattan (alex6...), July 11th, 2001

Not judging by that quote about Maggotbrain up above! (Which I don't agree with at all.)

I'm sorry to hear about your Grand Funk Railroad fandom

100. VA - Nuggets
99. New York Dolls - s/t
98. David Bowie - Heroes
97. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
96. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On the Edge of Town
95. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
94. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
93. Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach
92. Sparks - Kimono My House
91. Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
90. Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstacy
89. Sparks - No. 1 in Heaven
88. Can - Future Days
87. The B52s - The B52s
86. Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome
85. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
84. Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
83. The Slits - Cut
82. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
81. The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
80. Neu! - Neu!
79. The Beatles - Let It Be
78. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
77. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
76. Big Star - Third

points: 256
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 7

JOHN CALE - PARIS 1919

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points: 257
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 6

DONNA SUMMER - ON THE RADIO

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Now there's a record which creates a world.

-- Tom (ebro...), May 29th, 2001

Paris 1919, Music for a New Society - two of the greatest albums ever released by anyone, anywhere

-- Dadaismus (kcoyne3...), January 12th, 2004

Somehow I think it's nice to get this one in before going to Church of Anthrax / New Society, which if you heard them completely out-of-the-blue would sound like the flailing piss of a coked-up bag of bellybooze. Which they are. The secret is to learn to love the bag, and that takes a while.

-- Lynskey (pau...), January 12th, 2004 2:19 PM.

It's one of the few albs that make me think that "chamber pop" might be anything other than Chicago Live Vol. 1-2000.

-- Jess (dubplatestyl...), August 7th, 2001.

points: 258
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 7

MILES DAVIS - A TRIBUTE TO JACK JOHNSON

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points: 260
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 5

MARVIN GAYE - LET'S GET IT ON

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points: 262
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 10

PARLIAMENT - THE MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION

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points: 262
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 10

PARLIAMENT - THE MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION

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First jazz album I can remember enjoying was Miles' Tribute To Jack Johnson - steady beat, plenty of rockin', lots of surprises. I still don't get Kind Of Blue to this day.

-- Patrick (calimer...), July 16th, 2001

Search: pretty much all the 70s electric stuff sans At Fillmore (no to be confused with Black Beauty: Live at Fillmore West). start with In a Silent Way ('69, but still; most beautiful), Jack Johnson (hardest-rocking), Dark Magus (most ferociously intense).

-- M Matos (michaelangelomato...), December 14th, 2002

Absolutely the best thing Miles Davis in the '70s, even greater than "Agartha" or the best of "Get Up With It."

-- eddie hurt (eddshur...), March 29th, 2004 6:45 PM.

and if you like the standard issue Jack Johnson, the complete sessions box is fascinating. Chockful of random beauty and killer guitar skronk. Really, it's not just another overstuffed ripoff.

-- lovebug starski (writeco...), March 28th, 2004 2:49 PM.

(In reply to "If you were boxer, what would your entrance music be):

'Right Off' from Miles Davis' Tribute to Jack Johnson. Obv.

-- Jordan (jordancohe...) December 2nd, 2003

funny you should ask.

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points: 263
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 11

BRIAN ENO - TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN (BY STRATEGY)

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