ILX 70s album poll - results

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

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JR11.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

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

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=%22big+star%22+%22no.+1+record%22/v=2/SID=e/l=IVI/SIG=11q9gg1k5/EXP=1114012993/*-http%3A//www.mic.gr/dbImages/24820_2.jpg

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

genius + internet = hobart

:)

points: 289
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 10

BLACK SABBATH - PARANOID

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It fucking rules. Buy it.

It's not made clear when Black Sabbath gained freedom over the choice of album art for their records, but it's noted in the liner notes that they certainly didn't have it circa Paranoid. Two revelations from reading the liner notes, the latter of which is funny, were that a) they had to rename their album, originally slated War Pigs, to Paranoid, basically to stem possible protest and banning because of the Vietnam War situation and b) they were very underwhelmed and baffled by the final result of the Paranoid album art. Iommi was quoted as saying "I don't know who the guy with the sword was on the cover -- it wasn't me! What sense did that make? A chap with a sword and a shield on the cover of an album called Paranoid? People kept asking us about that for years afterwards."
-- donut bitch (do...), April 24th, 2004.

points: 289
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 7

DAVID BOWIE - STATION TO STATION

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-- Alfred Soto (sotoal...), March 31st, 2005.

Try the 'thread title' search or Google tricks with rubbish names like Big Star.

points: 296
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 9

NEIL YOUNG - RUST NEVER SLEEPS

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That first record sounds more like a revved up Kinks crossed with the glam glory of T.Rex, and there's nothing wrong with that. If it sounds boring and cliched, now, it's only because they invented some of those cliches.
-- Sean Carruthers (oneiro...) October 18th, 2001

The first time I heard "Thirteen" I nearly cried.
-- Helen Fordsdale (helenfordsdal...) October 19th, 2001

I thought #1 Record was my least favorite but recently reappraisals have made me feel that album is a bit tighter rhythm-wise and has more perennials I dig.
-- Anthony Miccio (anthonymicci...), January 9th, 2004

points: 297
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 12

ELVIS COSTELLO - MY AIM IS TRUE

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-- Clyde (clyd...), August 27th, 2002.

points: 299
1st place votes: 1
total votes 12

MILES DAVIS - BITCHES BREW

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-- Josh (kortbei...), August 29th, 2002.

points: 300
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 9

BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND - THE BASEMENT TAPES

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More either later or tomorrow. Probably tomorrow.

-- Amateurist (amateuris...), March 19th, 2003

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
75. John Cale - Paris 1919
74. Donna Summer - On the Radio
73. Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
72. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
71. Parliament - The Mothership Connection
70. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
69. VA - Saturday Night Fever
68. Wire - Chairs Missing
67. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
66. Led Zeppelin - IV
65. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
64. Big Star - #1 Record
63. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
62. David Bowie - Station to Station
61. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
60. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
59. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
58. Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes