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

Filling out my ballot for this poll got me to finally check out Slade and holy cow I think I'm in love.

is there a consensus on best Slade album?

xp I only wish I could be as prolific like Scaruffi who's published a shit-ton of books. I should read one someday.

Speaking of books, I came across this passage while on the train this morning, 83% into Goodbye Mickey Finn. He's on tour in Japan:

31st October 1973
...On the bed isa package courtesy of EMI Japan. There's a selection of our albums; top quality vinyl housed in shiny cardboard covers, Japanese script alongside the more familiar English words, which seems weird to me, as if somehow the songs are going to sound different. Also enclosed are a selection of LPs by Japanese rock bands with crazy names such as Flower Travelin' Band (the cover of which features the band stark bollock naked speeding down the highway on a set of choppers straight out of Easy Rider), Far Out and my personal favourite, Masahiko Satoh & New Herd Orchestra. I've no idea what this stuff sounds like although Takeshi, a security bloke who speaks a smattering of English, reckons some of it is as good, if not better, than English and American stuff. Apparently the bands can really play and the only thing that holds it back as far as Western ears are concerned is the incomprehensible language it's sung in. Still, you can't have everything.

Unfortunately it doesn't give an account of him actually listening to them and reactions. They should have given him Satori, which would have been more recent than Anywhere.

great to see Betty Davis's Nasty Gal on here. Anyone who hasn't heard it should def check it out. I'm out of my depth with this rawk stuff but I'd state categorically that this is "heavier" than all the other funk on this poll

xp I like Slayed? (1972)

So speaking of underrated glam...

Sweet - Sweet Fanny Adams (RCA, 1974)

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/sweet-sweet1.jpg

...Despite the fact that it melded the best of both the worlds of T. Rex and Queen, and influenced everyone from Kiss to Cheap Trick and Motley Crue, Sweet Fanny Adams wasn’t even released properly in the U.S. Only part of it was heard in a domestic reissue of Desolation Boulevard (1974), a minor classic in its own right. It was finally reissued by Sony BMG in 2005, remastered with copious bonus tracks. The album kicks off with proto-speedmetal, I kid you not. “Set Me Free” is fast and clean with a tight guitar solo that sticks in the brain, basically providing a template for later Judas Priest and NWOBHM, and eventually covered by Saxon among many others. It definitely shows Andy Scott is one of the undersung guitar heroes of the era. “No You Don’t” is a brooding, psych rocker with vocals that rival Ozzy Osbourne’s paranoia. The B-side “Burning” also pays tribute to Black Sabbath. “In To The Night,” has the coolest intro, building up from a simple drum pattern and riff, that probably made the likes of Alice Cooper and Ted Nugent green with envy, had they even heard it. “Peppermint Twist” and “AC-DC” break up the dark rockers with some pop. I believe the Australian AC/DC already existed by the time the latter came out. Sweet F.A., yeah!

Glad to see some campaigning for albums

oh good 3 more album ballots overnight but I do wish you all would post here just so the thread gets bumped and we can doublecheck it went through.

A repost of the spotify link http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/1rFbtUwZlcYHBD6gcemMeK

intending to do a ballot AG, just a matter of finding the time...

You still have 3 weeks but I know others like to do listening first so they should be doing that if they want to get a vote in on time.

btw I forgot to say but im dumping the you can only vote for 3 bands bit IF you fill out a full 100 ballot.

so if you do a ballot of 100 there is no limit. If you wanna vote all the funkadelic or miles davis or sabbath or priest etc then just make sure its a full ballot of 100.

Cool!

Though I dont see why anyone would want to do that as I had enough trouble cutting stuff.
Just dont stuff 5 led zep or funkadelic or whatever at the top!

And of course anybody can resubmit ballots if they wish.

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I'm in the process of doing a re-vote after getting this extra time to listen to stuff but I really didn't anything I heard now had much of a chance to break into my top 50 but HOLY SHIT...this Sir Lord Baltimore Kingdom Come album is incredible! These songs (with the exception of the tame proggier track, which is fine too) sound like they are about to run off the rails at any moment. So so good. If there is more stuff like this lurking in the overwhelming album nominations I might need to reassess my entire ballot. So, is there more stuff like this?

oh probably.But you need to ask the others who are well versed in it. I know some like Man (ask vegemite grrrl) , Bang, Leaf Hound and Captain Beyond. And you are probably familiar with Flower Travellin Band and The Groundhogs.
Skot to thread I guess.

frijid pink, josefus, highway robbery, dust, buffalo

I guess death's ...for the whole world to see is eligible in this horse race too

Man rulez! Seek this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5wdyyjci0o

keep suggested listening suggestions coming guys!

If you want krautrocking heavy jams then do check out
Ash Ra Tempel
Guru Guru
Gila

Also seandalai I meant to ask. Should those resubmitting their ballots say soon their ballot somewhere just to make it a bit easier for you?

man did we really not put highway robbery on the nom list

http://youtu.be/FA5_pT6p4mI

Glad to see you back campaigning Edward! Where is acid metrics though?

Thanks! I am familiar with Flower Travellin' Band, Captain Beyond, Ash Ra and Guru Guru (all currently occupying premium real estate on my ballot) but I haven't heard any of those other ones.

If people keep recommending/campaigning for things we could get some really good less well known stuff into the ballot and that is what made the 80s poll so much fun. Plus with the funk and the kosmiche and the weird we could have some bizarro world results just like the 80s poll that made it so much fun!

acid metrics disappeared into a work-related hurricane sandy k-hole, perhaps he will reappear at some point

I do hope so! He will end up kicking himself if the stuff he really loves just misses out.

Got anything really weirdor esoteric you think everyone should check out?

While we are recommending stuff, I'm not sure if this is an obvious pick or not but Bobby Beausoleil's Lucifer Rising soundtrack is a killer. Pretty dark, eerie jams. Definitely one of my favorites from the era...and since it all the songs kinda bleed into each other I can't recommend an entry track but it's on Spotify so you should listen to the whole thing.

Gr8 poll, I am defo doing this.

seconded xp

but as usual I just wanna rep the stuff we didn't nom

I mean c'mon
http://youtu.be/LfD7ywsMqnY

we forgot this one too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeGYv6jXDNk

Anyone else wanting to declare theyre gonna vote? If so i wont hassle you!

xp

ha keith! well done

In addition to Edward III and Pfunk's suggestions for stuff like Sir Lord Baltimore, November, Cactus, Atomic Rooster, Jerusalem and to an extent, Night Sun. And of course Budgie! I posted something on my site to promote the poll too.

Still not done with ballot, looks like I need to revisit Gila and Frijid Pink!

While we are recommending stuff, I'm not sure if this is an obvious pick or not but Bobby Beausoleil's Lucifer Rising soundtrack is a killer. Pretty dark, eerie jams. Definitely one of my favorites from the era...and since it all the songs kinda bleed into each other I can't recommend an entry track but it's on Spotify so you should listen to the whole thing.

yeah thats great stuff. I wish i couldve afforded that box set that came out.

xp

I thought we got all the budgie albums. How did we miss that?

xxp

Gila are teh awesome

OK maybe a wee guide needed for people to check out the pfunk & related so try
http://people.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/discog-top.html the best site on the interwebs

Mr Copes top 50 Krautrock
http://www.midsuffolk.unisonplus.net/Top%2050.htm

Scroll down a bit here http://www.midsuffolk.unisonplus.net/ and you see additional stuff recommended (a bunch of it is nominated in this poll so please have a look)

I just kinda glanced at the budgie list when we were doing noms and thought "that looks like all of them" oops

if anybody wants to fall in riff canyon recommend you go spelunking in these threads

Heavy Riffage - s/d

Rolling Late-60's/Early-70's Thud-Rock Thread

highway robbery's for love or money will just have to be the unsung hero of this poll

hehe im still chuckling about the bizarro world results in The ILM 1980s Anti-Rolling Stone Canon (FREE PUSSY RIOT) Rock Poll Results - ALBUMS! Top 20! ends today

so if everyone campaigns for the lesser known stuff maybe we can at least try replicate that poll in spirit even if the results wont be quite the same style (though you just never know)

if anythings missing then add here http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/1rFbtUwZlcYHBD6gcemMeK

Did my votes get through?

more nom MIAs

iron claw
http://youtu.be/eSRZz13YiqI

zior
http://youtu.be/wqvYPY-E_pE

Yes Keith it did, thank you for voting!

So among these proto-metal/blues-psych bands, any particular album some of you would especially want to promote? I never got around to hearing The Groundhogs' Who Will Save The World (1972), which I'll try to fix this weekend. I've only heard the first Frijid Pink album. Is Defrosted worth hearing?

Didn't check but some of these probably aren't on the list, but just in summary: Atomic Rooster, Bang, Blackwater Park, Bloodrock, Blues Creation, Edgar Broughton Band, Budgie, Buffalo, Bullet, Captain Beyond, Cactus, Damnation, Dust, Frigid Pink, Groundhogs, Hard Stuff, Head Over Heels, Highway Robbery, Jerusalem, Josepfus, Leaf Hound, Lucifer's Friend, Necromandus, Night Sun, November, Orang-Utan, Pink Fairies, Poobah, Power Of Zeus, Sir Lord Baltimore, Speed, Glue & Shinki, Steel Mill, The Third Power, Uriah Heep, Warpig, Wishbone Ash...

man it's hard to make recommends cuz more than half that list is pretty solid, I'm just gonna stay on message and say highway robbery

you recommending those or asking for info?
xp

add iron claw if you wanna get doomy, high tide if you feel trippy

high tide are great, yeah. Pashmina is a big fan of em.

btw everyone you all need to watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmmzbVM5BMw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayhpzgUrPQM