Nominations for a 70s 'Anti-Rolling Stone Canon ' style Albums Poll

Rocket From The Tombs - The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From The Tombs
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom

yeah but would you call him hard rock? was he extreme? badass attitude? make you wanna say fuck you? do you really want born to run in this poll?

But I wouldn't say those things about Marquee Moon or Loaded either, Fragile even.

I'll need time to think about this.

Johnny Moped Band - Cycledelic

lou reed always makes me wanna say fuck you

Lots of middling art-rock nominated so far... I love a lot of it, but this thread definitely needs more balls-out rock. More when I'm not on my phone's browser...

I'll nominate some things though, so you know I'm not just trolling:

AC/DC - Jailbreak '74
Boston - s/t
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream
Styx - Pieces of Eight
Styx - The Grand Illusion

I'm with sund4r a bit as well on having confusion over the parameters. I think almost no postpunk belongs here, but I can't really articulate why right now.

Magma - MDK

seconding the VDGG ones. also would like to add H to He there

I wasn't around for the debates over the parameters (imagine in Robert Ashley's voice) of the last poll, but I just sort of assumed that in saying "music that rocks" you were using in a Chuck Eddy sort of sense, with an emphasis on rhythm/rhythmic drive, which is the only way it really makes much sense to me. All the stuff about extremity seems too broad and diffuse. On the other hand, the last poll ended up being so much fun that maybe the lesson is it doesn't matter what the theoretical underpinnings of the poll are. Maybe if "hard" and "heavy" were in the poll title. I don't know. Of course this time around "music that rocks" isn't even in the thread title.

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
John Martyn - Solid Air

Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned

an emphasis on rhythm/rhythmic drive

so disco's in then

pink moon is one of my favorite albums ever but lol gtfo

x-post

If it rocks!

On the other hand, the last poll ended up being so much fun that maybe the lesson is it doesn't matter what the theoretical underpinnings of the poll are.

this is OTM

Not just any emphasis on rhythm, but an emphasis on rhythm along rock longs, but that could include some disco. Actually toying with suggesting something controversial along those lines.

if there's no post-punk can we have fela kuti to compensate?

A Chuck Eddy poll of music that rocks would maybe have a fair amount of disco and country (and country disco), but not so much Krautrock or proto-indie. (Not that I idolize Mr. Eddy, I just find his slant on this actually makes a certain amount of sense to me, or more sense than the alternatives.)

Anyway. Controversy!

Willie Colon - El Juicio

AC/DC - T.N.T.
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Re: nominations politics, I've always said when I've run any polls that you can nominate wtf you want, just don't expect anyone else to vote for your craziness.

the '80s had a LOT more of things like hip hop and 'proper pop' and light rock etc. -- by comparison the '70s poll is veering dangerously close to 'any white person who didn't sing too many ballads'

a lot more things to frame the poll in opposition to, i mean

Lynyrd Skynyrd - (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping

Fela Kuti - Zombie
Fela Kuti - He Miss Road

lou reed always makes me wanna say fuck you

Because of his lyrics, delivery, and persona? If so, you're basically appreciating him as a singer-songwriter, not that differently from how people appreciate Bob Dylan and Warren Zevon. (And how different are "Sweet Jane" and "Rock and Roll" from those guys, really?)

Amon Duul II - Tanz der Lemminge
Yoko Ono - Fly
Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Twink - Think Pink
Peter Green - The End of the Game
Randy Holden - Population II
Blue Phantom - Distortions
Roxy Music - s/t
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Kansas - s/t
Heart - Dreamboat Annie (oh come on AG, you gotta!)
Babe Ruth - First Base
Las Grecas - Gipsy Rock
Neu! 2
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
The Fall - Dragnet
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Join Hands
The Raincoats - s/t
Chrome - Alien Soundtracks
Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves

oh yeah, and:

Fela Kuti - No Agreement

The Meters - Struttin'
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Focus - Hamburger Concerto
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
Uriah Heep ‎– ...Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble...

what about Grateful Dead's Europe 72?

There's so much late 70s stuff that is just lumped into the 80s in my mind that I forget it's from the 70s.

The Groundhogs - Split

lou reed always makes me wanna say fuck you

Because of his lyrics, delivery, and persona? If so, you're basically appreciating him as a singer-songwriter, not that differently from how people appreciate Bob Dylan and Warren Zevon. (And how different are "Sweet Jane" and "Rock and Roll" from those guys, really?)

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, October 5, 2012 11:53 AM (13 minutes ago)

Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music

Erkin Koray - Elektronik Turkuler

Dr John - In The Right Place
The Fall - Grotesque
Henry Cow - Unrest

Dust - Dust
Dust - Hard Attack

Grotesque is 1980

Morena y Clara - Morena y Clara

(This is flamenco rock; no es salsa.)

Thinking about this poll reminded me that none of you bastards voted for Metal Urbain in the 80s poll

The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
The Fall - 77–Early Years–79

Wait, my mind is getting fuzzed up here - the Metal Urbain album is a comp of 70s stuff right?

Metal Urbain - Les hommes morts sont dangereux

I agree with the general feeling that the boundaries feel significantly harder to pin down for the 70s (and no Stones would be madness imo), but that said -
Funkadelic - Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned

Bad Company - Bad Company

Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
Shuggie Otis - Freedom Flight

Oops saw NickB alredy nommed Damned Damned Damned. Was skimming but obv not well enough.

Even though it's one of my favorite things ever made, if Music for 18 Musicians is included in this poll then I quit life

That's disrespectful to Reich and to rock; ditto Fela's inclusion

I promise to stop being a grumpy old man and to actually vote in this one, but I do fear this poll's slow descent into cleverness...

there's lots of stoopidity included too. i will think of some more dumb favourites.

Umm Guilty. But I think you are taking it too seriously Clarke, and if it is an offensive faux pas it is more out of dumbness than trying to be clever!

i like these attempts to broaden the poll's boundaries to the point of meaningless. maybe the whole thing will be called off, or turned into another 'alternate' poll where nothing that made the first 2 polls is eligible.

meaninglessness