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

man these are some cool posts here, AG

I am still doing listening for my ballot, a touch of stomach flu + a Sunday night KM show derailed my efforts for a while, right now I am imagining a whole genre of music that patterned itself off of Paul Kantner & Grace Slick's Sunfighter the same way doom metal patterned itself off of Master of Reality

new direction for KM?

http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2011/01/11/cosmology-of-pfunk/

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-08-15/features/1993227178_1_stuff-kool-funk

lol xxp I wish!

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Be Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish (EMI) 76
Guitar virtuoso Bill Nelson could deftly navigate between glam, pop, prog and metal, sometimes within the same song. He could do everything but write a hit, until the gorgeous “Ships In The Night,” from his band’s third album. He followed it up with two more solid albums of futuristic glammy prog pop, but was unfortunately unable to repeat the success of Sunburst Finish. The band broke up, and Nelson pursued a more experimental avant garde direction in his solo career.

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Crack The Sky - Crack The Sky (Lifesong) 75
Crack The Sky were formed in Ohio, and later based in Baltimore. Their impeccibly recorded prog rock was just catchy enough to get nationwide radio play, though “Ice,” “She’s A Dancer,” and “Surf City” never became hits. Despite Rolling Stone designating their self-titled debut as album of the year, they coasted below the radar throughout their lengthy career. Nevertheless, their first album stands the test of time as a classic.

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Heavy Metal Kids, Heavy Metal Kids (Lemon) 74
Like Dead Fingers Talk (and Steely Dan and Soft Machine), Heavy Metal Kids took their name from a Burroughs novel. And like Dead Fingers Talk, they resided in a no-man’s land between glam and punk that robbed them of the recognition they deserved. Mixing the boogie rock of The Faces and Slade with elements of prog and art rock, singer Gary Horton had a perfect, gravelly shout that inspired AC/DC to invite him to replace Bon Scott. They release three solid albums, the best of which was the self-titled debut, with several enduring anthems, peaking with the frenzied crescendo of “Rock ‘N’ Roll Man.”

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Sweet - Desolation Boulevard (Capitol) 74
Sweet were originally dismissed for their bubblegum pop singles, which actually were pretty great, as mentioned previously. Basically, they matured into a great rock band that spanned from glam to metal to progressive pop. Like Sweet Fanny Adams from that same year, Desolation Boulevard was loaded with hits like “The Six Teens,” “Fox On The Run” and “Teenage Rampage.” “Medussa” was never a hit, but it’s one of their most unique accomplishments, a jaw-dropping experiment in psychedelica that deftly mixes prog and metal.

There's more here like Cockney Rebel, Jobriath, City Boy, Dead Fingers Talk, Deaf School, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Sparks, but the ones are above are likely to be on my ballot.

Gary Holton of course became famous for a hugely popular tv series and sadly died before the 2nd series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was completed.

FnB post as much of your reviews as you like. They're most welcome. Anything that helps get ilxors to check albums out.

Looking through the list and I see a lot of names I'm not familiar with: AR & Machines, Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffaloes, Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias, Alphataurus, Ame Son, Arachnoid, Area, Arti & Mestieri, Barrabas, Bruce Palmer, Bull, Chico Magnetic Band, Circle X, Cos, Coum Transmitssions, Crushed Butler, Culpeper's ORchard, Dark, Demain, Demics, Dennis Coffey, Dorn, Donnie and Joe Emerson, Edward H. Dafis, Electric Sandwich, Eloy, Emtidi, Erkin Koray, Etron Fou Leloublan, Flied Egg, Fusioon, Gary Wilson, Gaseneta, Genya Ravan, German Oak, Gift, Good Rats, Hairy Chapter, He6, Human Instinct, Hurdy Gurdy, Illes, Jan Dukes de Grey, Jane, Jasper Wrath, Jeff Liberman, Johnny Moped, Junie, Karat, Kennelmus, Khan, Kin Ping Meh, Kraan, Larry Coryell, Las Grecas, Lser Pace, Le Orme, Legionaire's Disease, Les Rallizes Denudes, Les Variations, Lost Aaraaf, Lula Cortes, Madrigal, Malo, McChurch Soundroom, Message, Michael Quatro, Modulo 1000, Monitor, Mother's Finest, Niagara, Ofege, Osanna, Osibisa, P.F.M., Pau Riba, Pavlov's Dog, Paul Levinson, Pichhio dal Pozzo, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Punishment Of Luxury, Rabbitt, Rosa Yemen, Sand, Sapo, Satan's Rats, Savage Grace, SBB, Selda, Semool, Silberbart, Skull Snaps, Strawberry Path, Syrius, T2, Tarantula, Teenage Head, The Drones, The Gizmos, The Hand of Doom, The Kids, Three Man Army, Tirogo, Titus Groan, Üç Hürel, Univeria Zekt, Univers Zero, Vertical Slit, Virus, Vulcan, Walter Wegmuller, Weidorje, Wicked Lady, Yatha Sidhra, Yonin Bayashi, ZNR.

Are all of these really ending up on someone's ballot, or did people go a little crazy with the noms??? Please enlighten us if any of these are must-hears!

I suspect at least a couple of those are not real.

Are all of these really ending up on someone's ballot, or did people go a little crazy with the noms??? Please enlighten us if any of these are must-hears!

I can personally say that Les Rallizes Denudes are occupying a very high position on my albums AND trax ballot. They do one thing and they do it really well. http://youtu.be/6H29NgCbXKU

Donnie & Joe Emerson are on their too, their album is really good...not so rocking, but bizarre and cool. http://youtu.be/ONIJXHvoynw

The SBB album Slovenian Girls is some slinky psychedelia that I love. 2 incredibly long jams make up this album and are both worth the hefty lengths.
http://youtu.be/6KPI3PE5Yd4

Chico Magnetic Band is also pretty interesting. Very fractured Jimi-styled rawk. There is even a cool cover of Cross Town Traffic on that album. http://youtu.be/oskTP4qhU7I

The Niagara album is very cool. Skeletal percussion driven fusion out of Germany.
http://youtu.be/ELdbrgDUlWE

A.R. & Machines is fucking awesome, but the Seth Man can say it better than I can. http://youtu.be/BTHnG97KVxs

I picked these out because they are all on my ballot somewhere.

That's what I'm talkin about.

A.R & Machines rule Check em out. Pavlov's Dog are awesome hard rock but it all depends on your tolerance for the singer David Surkamp who sings like larry the lamb on helium (i think he's awesome and even the late Martin Skidmore was a fan of them). If you like/tolerate Geddy Lee then you might dig em (i love em but hate rush haha)
German Oak are pretty damn good.
Wasn't really a fan of german band Eloy the time I heard them many years ago but some do rate them. Same with Jane ,Emtidi and Hairy Chapter. But if you like heavy german prog then they are worth checking out.
Erkin Koray and Selda are amazing turkish psych and those albums are essential.
Mothers Finest were a hard rockin (white iirc) funk band . Osibisa were funk and i think a later incarnation was quite succcessful.
Les Rallizes Denudes are awesome noisy bastards!
Sand are a really good krautrock band. Walter Wegmuller was about as weird as krautrock got.
Kraan are awesome krautrock too. Really go check em out.

The rest I dont know and I have been meaning to say this since nominations opened but I CANNOT BELIEVE THERE IS A BAND CALLED FLIED EGG

Les Rallizes Denudes is badass!

Bruce Palmer was the bassist for Buffalo Springfield. After they broke up, he recorded The Cycle is Complete and then kind of became an acid casualty. CiC has been getting some discussion in the 1971 Scaruffi poll thread. It sounds to me like an odd amalgam of Little Feat and Amon Duul II. Favorite track is probably the last, "Calm Before the Storm", which kind of reminds me of Blues Control's more ethereal moments. Unfortunately, thats not on youtube, so here's the first track, "Alpha Omega Apocalypse": http://youtu.be/YjdSxF4SLzo

Las Grecas' record is this sort of awesome psych-calypso record made by two gypsy sisters. One of the first records JF featured in his ill-fortuned Listening Club, it's a white-hot dance-rock record. one of the tracks jacked for Gonjasufi's Sufi and a Killer album was "Bella Kali" (Erkin Koray was also 'sampled' heavily for that record, I'm told)

Bella Kali: http://youtu.be/YjdSxF4SLzo

Achilipu: http://youtu.be/8bqdHJuxPbc

Orgullo: http://youtu.be/Rjq3ZbfURYU

Amma Immi: http://youtu.be/lLEViQaETBg

apparently the Amma Immi youtube is incomplete

cheers d.a.m.

It's funny but the ones I listed I would have assumed FnB would know of. I thought he was the font of musical knowledge!

A.R. & Machines thirded, I can also vouch for Alphataurus (Their s/t album made the lower reaches of my ballot - this is my favourite track: http://youtu.be/BOIOsN1Az6s).

That's a band I've never heard of. Usually in these polls if bands are nominated I've never heard of its because the following 3 nominated them - edward iii, acid metrics and rudipherous.

So if anyone wants to tell us why they nominated the albums or want to campaign for them please do!

btw which A.R. & Machines do you think is the best?

39 ballots are in btw. Thanks to those who voted and keep em coming!

Ha, no musical knowledge comes out of my ass. I have to suckle at every available teat like the rest of us addicts.

heyup ferrignu here.
@AG,'pologies no time to fart around w/ a ballot anymore. schedule sadly upped a gear (hooray for €) i shouldn't have spare time for this, even ! gawd bless you all!
@fastnbulbous - if i had to pinpoint any recommendations from your list of "unheard of" items:
check: chico magnetic band (hall of mirrors yowl-rock), kennelmus( tv theme tunes vs twangy surf guitar vs proto sun city girlsiness), lula cortes & ze ramalho ( uetzcoatl worship brazilian psych w/ flutes & weirdness), osanna (aggressive, dramatic, operatic italian prog unbeatable on "palepoli", univeria zekt & weidorje are magma spin-offs in the same vein, gary wilson is a creepy stalker persona besement geek doing steely-dan loverz jamz

Well look on the bright side , you can now check out a bunch of stuff you had never heard of now thanks to the poll. Which is always my prime motivation in running them and why I like larger roll-outs.
So everybody who has access to Spotify please subscribe to http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/1rFbtUwZlcYHBD6gcemMeK

xp
does that mean you cant do a ballot or you're putting in a quick one?

Minimum is a top 20 maximum is 100. You can do anything inbetween obviously.

A top 20 can be rattled off in minutes!

btw which A.R. & Machines do you think is the best?

I've only heard A.R. 4 but I voted for it - it's not *that* rocking to be honest but it's a great record.

I do wonder though if I should allow a min of ten (1 album per artist max) but a recommended min of 20 (ie id still prefer everyone to do 20 at least) but you can understand why balls and i wanted to avoid ballots of the top 10 best known albums of the 70s and then just end up with the same old boring top 10.

I recommend
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/895/MI0002895418.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Cool, I'll check that one out.

Is there a lack of punk love on ILM now? No chat on punk at all, probably hardly any votes. wtf are all the punks?

punk and prog fans get in here!

Go have a listen to my fave 70s punk LP
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdkwjdrelg1qkoukro1_1280.jpg

http://open.spotify.com/album/5Wmr7UWbQr7XuBb1wbKbXg

mike t-diva pointed out to me that the opening post wasn't changed so here is something for those just reading for the 1st time
You can vote for a minimum of 20 and maximum of 100 albums, But you CANNOT VOTE FOR MORE THAN 3 ALBUMS BY THE ONE BAND unless YOU FILL OUT A FULL BALLOT OF 100

If a kindly mod can edit the 1st post that would be most helpful.

Looks like we got over the 40 ballot mark!

I have never listened to "A Wizard, a True Star". Remedying that now.

oh you're in for a treat!

I'm not hugely into punk but it's more of a singles thing isn't it? I'll be voting for that adverts album, it & another music in a different kitchen are the only punk albums that I can remember (offhand) enjoying from start to finish.

Also: you poll dudes need to learn how to play hard to get a little :-)

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just funnin man, your tireless "everybody vote" enthusiasm is cute & made me smile is all

ssooooo is anybody gonna vote for that emerson lake & palmer album?

I see, well dont forget to vote in the sister poll run by the viceroy Takin' Care of Business: ILX 70s RAWK TRAX VOTING RULES AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD - VOTING THREAD!- Closes Nov 8th 11.59 PM UK Time - All ILXORS/LURKERS WELCOME

I dont think this poll can compete with Madonna though.

Yeah but Madonna will be over with by 3/8

they said that after her first hit

Has anyone else discovered album(s) they like that they had never heard before?

Pavlov's Dog sounds OK so far but also don't sound very different to me from other American AOR bands that you hate. If someone told me it was an early Styx record, I would have probably believed them.

"doesn't sound... told me that album was an..."

None of them have a song like Song Dance I first heard them when my mate bought a 2 albums in 1 Double LP in the late-ish 90s. At first the vocals made us laugh hard but i grew to love them.

http://youtu.be/bn6PoixRZcs