ILX 70s album poll - results

Davis' corpse was always going to be perturbed by the preferences of tiny samples of online listmaking geeks. But what can you do?

Nice work Hobart Paving. Even though many of my choices have already appeared!

John Cale - Paris 1919

There was a lot of nostalgia in the early 70's. From Harry Nillson's drowsy take on easy listening to glam's rocket charged reworking of classic rock and roll memes, a whole generation of musicians were looking back to the carefree days of their youth.

If anyone should be immune to such revisionism then John Cale should be that man. Years spent with Lamonte Young and the Velvet's would be enough to prevent such indulgences . Even Cale wasn't immune, but preferred the richer emotional nostalgia of his youth rather than the callow retreads favoured elsewhere.

Paris 1919 was a work out of time, lush and poetic when elsewhere rock was going through a protracted adolescence. The sepia tinted Cover portrait hinted, like the Band's eponymous album, that this was a piece which would transcend fads and fashion.

Ignored at the time it nevertheless proved to be his most emotionally enduring work (though Music for a new society comes close). Playfully adult in it's themes of travel, mystery and nostalgia. A travelogue of the mind and the heart, a mystery which deepens through repeated listening.

points: 266
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 6

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER OFFICIAL SOUND TRACK

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disco was thriving in the mainstream pre-Saturday Night Fever, but the movie and especially the soundtrack made the genre unavoidable leading to disco crossovers by everyone from Elton John to Ethel Merman and a big backlash. No Saturday Night fever - no overexposure, maybe disco doesn't die. Of course you can argue that disco never died, it just turned into electro, etc. but try telling that to all the disco acts who suddenly lost their record deals sometime in the early '80s.-- J Blount (littlejohnnyjewe...), April 29th, 2002.

I don't suppose this is really a negative comment. And the Ethel Merman disco albums is FANTASTIC!!

-- helenfordsdale (helenfordsdal...), December 23rd, 2001.

err... a bit on the succinct side, that comment, but it serves the purpose, doesn't it?

x-post I could check if you voted for it if you want - remind me what name you'd have sent the e-mail under.

points: 269
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 10

WIRE - CHAIRS MISSING

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points: 269
1st place votes:1
total votes: 8

LED ZEPPELIN - HOUSES OF THE HOLY

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and I have a REAL BLURB SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THE OCCASION FOR THIS ONE. HURRAY!!

HERE IT IS:

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

Electric guitar as orchestra.

---Sundar

Short, and to the point.

points: 270
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 13

LED ZEPPELIN - IV

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Led Zeppelin - IV

A couple favourite moments:
- when Robert Plant's voice mutates into a bowed string at the end of
"Four
Sticks"
- that sort of crackling chord after "When the Levee Breaks"; the way
the most
traditional blues song is also the most studio-treated
- the piles of overdubbed guitars pulling off suspensions of D before
the
"Stairway to Heaven" solo; the sighing slide guitar overdub in that
solo

---Sundar

I suppose it depends whether you think its more important that a few people really, really loved an album or that more people thought it was quite good, but not their favourite. I decided on the former in the end, but can see why you'd suggest the alternative.

FUCK! No they haven't.

err... look away for a minute...

points: 269
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 10

WIRE - 154

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ahem... erm...note the subtle difference.

This is how that SHOULD have looked.

By the wonderful Keith C. I am hoping that by using shameless flattery I can deflect attention from the fact that its 12 (or 10, really, as we've just done 68) entries too late.

John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band

Compare the minimalism of the production and arrangements on "Plastic
Ono Band" to the Beatles' final album, "Abbey Road": in Lennon's
mind, not only were the Beatles over, their entire oeuvre was rendered
moot. "Ono" is a literal and figurative shedding of the albatross
Lennon felt that the Fab Four had become. Sometimes, evidently, you
just need to start from scratch. Backed by little more than Klaus
Voormann's bass and Ringo's drumming, Lennon howls and screams
(literally) about his estranged parents, the impossibility of fame and
the worthlessness of life. That the world's foremost pop music figure
released an album so gut-wrenchingly personal and uncompromising at
the height of his popularity is still shocking. That this LP almost
overshadows the entire Beatles catalog is more frightening still.

As a wise man once said: "this is not a thread that can be read casually".

65

points: 271
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 7

PINK FLOYD - WISH YOU WERE HERE

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HMMMM??!?!?

Better late than nevah!

I predict less than 10% of my votes will be here.

#66, but still.

(Above: Paris 1919 was produced by Chris Thomas, who produced Procol Harum, hence, kinda...)

points: 281
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 11

BIG STAR #1 RECORD

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(not sure if the above image is the correct one, or if it will work)

genius + internet = hobart

:)