1970-1979 WTF - The Hard 'n' Heavy 'n' Loud + Krautrock, Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Shit - Albums Poll! - VOTING THREAD! Closes Mar 8th 11.59 PM UK Time - All ILXORS/LURKERS WELCOME

Preparing my list now. Noticed a few duplicates in the nominations list. Mostly S/T albums where there's listings for the album as both S/T and the album/band title i.e Roxy Music and La Dusseldorf.

Anyway, my ballot is pretty kraut heavy looking at it initially.

there's no rush listen to lots of albums before voting. plenty of time to discover new stuff.

or you can discuss the music that influenced Sonic Youth if that will help stimulate some chat.

or you can discuss the music that influenced Sonic Youth if that will help stimulate some chat.

ha, I think we've more-or-less exhausted all the SY angles. as a voter w/v. limited time, however, I would love to hear from anyone planning on making some challopsy or merely offbeat choices f/their top ten or twenty and why they think these oddball recs are worth hearing. I'm on solid ground w/the classic rock and punk and no wave and krautrock, but a fair amount of the psych and funk and more obscure hard rock recs are alien to me, so any illumination into these dark corners will be appreciated (especially if the recommendations are weird, loud, compelling or in any way fucked up).

free your mind and your hellhouse will follow

so who is gonna campaign? What album should we all check out since everyones now checked out
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and
http://www.classiclps.co.uk/images/shopcovers/P01648.jpg

putting the "The"s under "T" is disgustingly savage imo

damn google

I'm trying to narrow down my list, but it looks like my top spots are going to be heavy on obvious stuff like sabbath, misfits, stooges, ADII, etc. But some of the slightly less celebrated albums that I'll probably rank high are

Aphrodite's Child - 666
Captain Beyond
Groundhogs - Split
Pretty Things - Parachute
Modulo 1000

Aphrodite's Child - 666

Yesssssssssssss

I absolutely second that Captain Beyond album. It's one that seems to embody most of the rawkin' 70's traits without sounding too much like Sabbath or the Stooges or any of the No Wave bands. It was originally described to me as a more spacey Lynyrd Skynyrd which really didn't sound all that interesting (the description wasn't entirely off), but after hearing it it's an incredible progressive rock/southern rock album in the vein of Uriah Heep...but it improves on that style as well.

We've got the system to fuck the system!

I don't know how high I'll rank a Move album because they're kind of inconsistent, but people should really check them out if they haven't yet. You could make a killer double album out of Shazam, Looking On, and Message From the Country. Might as well add Wizzard into that playlist too.

Captain Beyond is like a progressive rock version of Blue Cheer to me. Or the logical progression of Iron Butterfly.

I think 666 may be the greatest progressive rock album. It's the only album I've found where the classical pretensions are fully successful.

Also I can't say enough great things about Wayne County and the Electric Chairs - Things Your Mother Never Told You. I had never heard of these guys prior to this poll but it is sitting very highly on my list. One of my favorite glammy punk albums.

Wall City Girl
http://youtu.be/nSjBrXnH4jM

Things Your Mother Never Told You
http://youtu.be/Hj5SzQrSoTk

Captain Beyond is like a progressive rock version of Blue Cheer to me. Or the logical progression of Iron Butterfly.

Yeah, this sounds a lot better than a progressive version of Lynyrd Skynryd. Let's go with that.

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November – En Ny Tid är Här (Sonet Grammofon, 1970)
Lots of Swedish bands have named proto-metallers November as a big influence, like Witchcraft, Graveyard, Captain Crimson, probably Dead Man and Troubled Horse. I'm guessing their influence hasn't stopped spreading, as people beyond Sweden are still just starting to hear about them. It's hard not to be skeptical that this is just another lost 70s band that is overrated because of its previous obscurity, but I have been enjoying their first three albums immensely for a while now. I think they definitely measure up to other heavy blues Cream acolytes and proto-metal from the time like Mountain, Leaf Hound, Cactus, Deep Purple, Atomic Rooster, Jerusalem, Captain Beyond, Night Sun, even Led Zep! They evolved out of two Stockholm groups, Train and The Imps and toured with Fleetwood Mac in 1969 before recording their rocking debut(translates to "A New Time Is Here, which remains slightly more consistent than their second album, 2:a (1971), especially with the less bluesy hard rockers "En Annan Värld" and "Ta Ett Steg I Sagans Land”.

http://c3.cduniverse.ws/MuzeAudioArt/Large/71/570671.jpg

Pink Fairies – Kings Of Oblivion (Polydor, 1973)
London's Portobello Road must have been an interesting scene in the early 70s with The Edgar Broughton Band, Hawkwind, Deviants and Pink Fairies playing mostly free shows to hippies, anarchists and biker gangs. Pink Fairies were influenced by both post-beatnik jokesters The Fugs and the MC5. By their third album, Kings Of Oblivion, MC5 was more of a factor with the help of Larry Wallis. Wallis went on to create an early template for Motörhead based on the album, even re-cutting opener "City Kids" on his recordings with Lemmy. It was also considered a key pre-punk influence. One only has to up the tempo of "Raceway" slightly to be reminded of Buzzcocks' "Fast Cars." Or perhaps a slightly less cartoonish precursor to The Dictators Go Girl Crazy. Either way, it's damn fun.

"kings of oblivion" rules but i tried (in the main part) to limit myself to one album per artist so it didn't make my ballot. i should have nominated larry wallis's wondrous "police car" in the tracks poll though.

I'm re-listening to Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, as I always just considered it an interesting but second tier album, kind of like Streetwalkers - Red Card.

Im not sure i can do 1 album per band and choosing which pink fairies albums gonna be tricky

there were a handful i couldn't limit to one but i tried hard.

Aphrodite's Child - 666

I listened to this for the first time last night. It's really good! I was actually unaware that Vangelis used to be in a prog band.

(I don't personally agree that it's the greatest progressive rock album but I do like it.)

Do you know who the bassist/singer is?

Captain Beyond rules. As does kings of oblivion. As does split. Fucking awesome

I'm drunk

I don't think I know Demis Roussos's work outside of AC.

who is gonna make the obvious joke here?

I need to get into Pink Fairies. Their stuff was impossible to find in the late '90s when I was getting into Hawkwind, Deviants, etc. and then I always forget to check them out.

I'm not into solo Demis Roussos, but I love that song "Mehbooba Mehbooba" by RD Burman which is a ripoff/improvement of a Roussos song.

A Roussos and Animal Collective collab would be great

not that AC

Alice Coltrane collab would be cool too. And Alice Cooper. Alex Chilton even. I suspect you're talking about a.... different AC though. ;)

just imagine the song titles

poor roddy

Will be voting for solo Demis in the disco poll.

I've seen a lot of talk about Yeti (rightfully so) but I'm getting through Tanz Der Lemminge right now and that album is a beast.

^real talk, Tanz is probably my single favorite Krautrock album

Those that were liking the Things Your Mother Never Told You album might want to check out Blatantly Offensive under Jayne County and The Electric Chairs, its equally underrated imo.

i'm gonna campaign for MUSIC TO EAT by the hampton grease band. 1971. double album of goofy, sloppy punky jazz rock. this is buttrock. by frazzled nerd-weirdos. track times largely exceed 15 mins a piece. shouting. lyrics found in tourist brochures & on the sides of spray cans. monumentally WIGGY wigouts with out-of-nowhere asymmetrical unison heads a-rearin. how the flip they signalled these beyond me. cross-eyed-chicken-dance grooves. wilful stupidity. 5/7 gallops. BOOGIE. biting guitar tones. drum skins flap. fantastically indistinct 60's basstone insistently mangling the jazz-time. these guys were ITCHING. EPIC ephemera. commonly likened to capting beefart. i grew up w/ the captain, somehow i prefer this now.

I guess this is somewhat "canonical" for this poll/thread, but I just wanted to underline how SCORCHING the first Ash Ra Tempel album is. "Amboss" is 19 minutes of mindfuck, a brain slowly but violently turning itself inside-out. Schulze's drumming is incredibly powerful and propulsive, but unpredictable and intuitive; and Gottsching's guitar is all over the place. Just amazing stuff.

lol @ a world where ash ra tempel is canonical

he's talking ILM-World

I am too

they're no Taylor Swift, it's true.

BTW, I finally picked up Satori. Lord almighty that's a cool-ass record.

I'm putting my ballot together, and most of the stuff I'm excited about voting for doesn't really need campaigning for but I will through up a couple albums that might need help that absolutely rule:

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This was before they went full fantasy-nerd, it's just an amazingly classic hard rock album. I recommend highly you examine it before you write-off Uriah Heep completely...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518EY2TMGYL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

This Thin Lizzy album doesn't get alot of cred or mention, but it's among my favorite albums of all time. It's a very very loose "concept" album but it never really ties together. It's got hard rockin' tracks, and it also has a few really awesome and really depressing blues rock ballads... like Borderline and the absolute classic Fool's Gold

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Potlatch_%28album%29_cover.jpg

Redbone is an awesome rock band comprised of Native Americans. Their debut was a self-titled double LP that is awesome, but their second - Potlach - is probably their best album made in the 70s. It's very much a mix of funk and country rock that's got a lot of edginess. Ahead of the curve, they were writing songs about cocaine in 1970!

Ok, that's my campaigning so far. I might come up with others...
Oh yeah, laugh at me all you want but my favorite Who album is Quadrophrenia. It's going high on my ballot. If you've written it off without giving it a good listen I would recommend trying it again. It doesn't have the singles and hits of "Who's Next" but I think it stands the test of time very very well.

That's enough for now.

The only Heep I have is The Magician's Birthday, and I definitely need to remedy that; thanks for the reminder.

Quadrophenia sucks even more than Tommy

IMO it sucks a lot less than Tommy... But I do agree that Tommy sucks.

i'm gonna campaign for MUSIC TO EAT by the hampton grease band

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be on the spreadsheet... otherwise it would already be on my shortlist! Is the spreadsheet link on the OP still good or is there a newer updated one around? I think I remember the ol' HGB being nomminated...