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

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!

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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.

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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?
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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

oops i thought youtube didn't auto embed anymore

if you use the youtu.be format it doesn't embed, the old youtube.com/watch format still embeds. basically have to click "share" on the youtube page and copy that link.

at least we remembered toad
http://youtu.be/_zyWwGleUcU

but forgot time to suck which is pretty cool for an album of covers
http://youtu.be/KkGcABw8LHw

nice article btw fnb!

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?

If you use the same username on both ballots I should catch it anyway, but posting here to make sure is also a good idea.

ok cool, you heard the man, guys!

everyone should check out Stray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKtM8mKKupA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coMlCLX4sP0

im drunk but i want to stand by my challop above. Apart from mayyyybe jb, no funker is heavier than betty davis.. Just the performance. So RAW. Def worth a listen or lots

I picked up the Repertoire reissue of Frijid Pink used for just $5 on the way home. I've heard it before, but not the bonus tracks. "End Of The Line" is rockin and "House Of The Rising Sun" is a nice version, but overall their sound is still anchored in 60s garage. It's good stuff that compares well to Mitch Ryder and Amboy Dukes.

The third self-titled Gila album is cool so far, though I interrupted it halfway to listen to the 20+ minute live version of Man's "Spunk Rock." Trying to dl their self-titled album, live one and Do You Like It Here... but it's taking forever.

Enjoying the Heavy Riffage - s/d thread. Who's Mr. Diamond these days?

this is a good one too

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

^all time ilm thread

so much great music discussed therein

Voting never ends for this poll.

but it does - March 8th

Apart from mayyyybe jb, no funker is heavier than betty davis.

because everyone knows its a challop. Betty Davis is not heavier than early funkadelic.

And the weekend is a fine time to work on ballots!

Yeah I'm using my own definition of heaviosity! Probably why I shouldn't vote in this thing. I love funkadelic don't get me wrong.

oh just vote. Anyway you like. Some are voting the heaviest some the most metal or krautrock or funk or weird and some just pick 20-100 albums they like on the list.
all of those ways are fine!

i'm trying to vote but I can't seem to copy and paste anything from the spreadsheet

really? its ok for me. Are you maybe on a mac?
But i find it easier in these polls to download the spreadsheet as excel and open it with my office program. It really is much easier.

thanks, that seems to work

I would like to thank this poll because scrolling through the nominations got me thinking about Mother's Finest, which got me Googling, and now I'm going to go see them play in May. Psyched. Maybe I'll submit a ballot in gratitude.

oh just vote. Anyway you like. Some are voting the heaviest some the most metal or krautrock or funk or weird and some just pick 20-100 albums they like on the list.
all of those ways are fine!

thanks man. tbph I have no memory of writing that post last night so I'm not gonna spend too much energy defending what was no doubt an overstatement designed to get ppl to listen to betty davis; still, the intensity of davis's performance makes it seem to fit this poll in a way that a lot of other stuff doesn't. like I love that 1st hot chocolate album & will vote for it but I really have no idea what it's doing in a "hard & heavy & loud" poll despite having some rock elements, but with nasty gal I'm like, ok that makes sense. But it's always worth bearing in mind that a large proportion of what I post will be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJgWq_kSR9w

my ballot as it stands is pretty ahem heavy on the art-rock and funk stuff, rock-rock is a blind spot for me. I don't want to submit it just yet because I want to catch up on the stuff that's more in the "spirit" of this poll. Like the other day I listened to an aerosmith album for the 1st time ever. (it was fantastic actually!)

Oh there's no shortage of Betty Davis fans on ILM, whether they vote or not in this poll remains to be seen. But if its nominated and on the sheet then anyone can vote for it whether they think its heavy or not. The "weirder" stuff is to give the poll results something a bit different like with the 80s equivalent we did. There will be no shortage of the heavier rock in the poll hehe.

ps do check out Flower Travellin' Band - Satori.

and lots of the other nominations too

Remember the new rules - if you vote for 100 albums then there is no artist limit.

and please subscribe to the SPOTIFY PLAYLIST

If anyone wants to check out a lost classic black acid rock album then do check out
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/218/MI0000218646.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

African-American psychedelic groups, and rock bands from Trinidad, were both uncommon items around 1970. The Next Morning fit into both categories, making them an interesting curiosity regardless of their music. The music, however--average 1970 hard-rock with soul, hard rock, and psychedelic influences, particularly from Jimi Hendrix--is not as unusual as their origins. One would not suspect from listening that the group were largely from Trinidad, with the proliferation of heavy, bluesy guitar and organ riffs, and the strained soul-rock vocals of Lou Phillips. They recorded one album, released in 1971, that received little notice before their breakup.
The Next Morning formed in the late 1960s in New York, four of the five members having come to the city from Trinidad; Lou Phillips was from the Virgin Islands. Jimi Hendrix was a big influence on the band, as were some other hard rock acts of the period like the Who, and rock-soul hybrids like Sly Stone and the Chamber Brothers. The Next Morning were busy on the New York club circuit and attracted attention from Columbia Records, but ended up signing to the smaller Roulette label, whose Calla subsidiary issued their lone, self-titled LP in 1971. Although the jagged guitar sounds of Bert Bailey and some unexpected chord shifts made the album less pedestrian than some efforts in the style, the songs tended toward the long and meandering side, and the material was not as outstanding as their influences.

review
by Cub Koda

Take four musicians from the Caribbean, relocate them to New York and start filling their heads with the Who, Chambers Brothers, Sly and the Family Stone and Jimi Hendrix. After they become the tightest and most talked about rock band in the city, have them cut their debut album in something like three hours. This is the scenario of the Next Morning, a band of Caribbean immigrants who cut this amazing little piece of psychedelia around 1970 for Roulette's Calla subsidiary. Tunes like "Changes of the Mind," "A Jam of Love," "Life Is Love" and "Back to the Stone Age" literally drip with trippy, fuzzed over and phasey vibes. Another lost classic.

I've got a horrible feeling I forgot to vote for Family - Bandstand

I checked and I had *phew*