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

...[had not] died shortly after of...

i just couldn't believe this was still going on. when i saw this thread today. it's an oldie but a goodie. i vote for armageddon as well. you have a winner.

― scott seward,

you only just spotted the thread??

a few weeks after it opened we postponed it until after the EOY polls. So it hasn't really been going all that time.

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

seandalai things all ok for march 8th?

I listened to three Fela Kuti albums. I really liked Zombie but I have to admit I'm puzzled as to the rationale for including these but excluding Queen's biggest album or more of the early Pink Floyd.

fela gets in under 'funk'

I guess that I have an easier time seeing how funk like Funkadelic fits in with heavy rock than I do with some of the other funk-related stuff. But whatevs, a lot of good music here.

maybe. but the funk wasnt to be funk rock. Its all funk! The kind that rolling stone ignores.
the funk/weird/noisy etc was supposed to be the anti-rolling stone part of the poll.

Even if I was asked to remove that part from the poll (but lets keep it in spirit!)

POIII Fela Kuti: No Agreement, He Miss Road, Zombie

I think every person has their own favourite fela albums

don't like fela's london scene much (never mind that it's from '69), the version of "egbe mi o" on live! is much better

wish I'd nommed live! and why black man dey suffer

You only have bout 50 to choose from

Uh there are barely any funk albums on this nom list.

Rolling stone loves funkadelic and hard rock last I checked!

Also no grateful dead? Not hip enough for ya?

Plenty of funk!

No I mean funk not funk rock but whatever, not a big deal

Not my fault I was the only one nominating it!

I wish you and others had nominated plenty. I cant recall if we insisted on the rockier end or not.

I tried really hard to get into Grateful Dead. Listened to most of their albums, even watched a damn documentary. I still hate the majority of their stuff, so, F**k the Dead! ;)

AG who asked you to remove the anti-Rolling Stone portion of the title?

Iirc some people said it would not be suitable as RS loves zep,sabbath etc

Going back to yesterday's buttrock topic, is there any particular album by Black Oak Arkansas, Foghat, Grand Funk, Humble Pie, etc. that anyone wants to talk up? Not makin fun, I enjoy most of 'em, just not sure if any one album stands out the most, other than Humble Pie's Smokin' which wasn't even nominated!

live album is the space ritual of buttrock

it was recorded in florida, that's all you need to know

Speaking of Rolling Stone, here's something from a 70s retrospective issue from 1990:
The Seventies Reconsidered: 50 Essential Albums of the Decade

I'm trying to do this, but there are two albums here with a strong claim to being my favourite of all time, and I honestly can't choose which should be my number one.

they're both by Speed, Glue & Shinki right?

Ha, no. I don't actually rate SG&S all that much, though one of those albums may make it into my unranked section if I feel like squandering my time on doing a full 100.

Iirc some people said it would not be suitable as RS loves zep,sabbath etc

They didn't in the 70s and they HATED Queen, Rush, AC/DC, and most American AOR (although they did like a lot of funk). But I still don't think "anti-RS" makes sense as a description of the aesthetic you're going for.

RS loved a lot of punk and proto-punk, for instance.

And listening again, "Zombie" does kind of rock hard so I'll withdraw my previous comment about it.

Which are the best 70s Isley Bros albums for guitar action?

The ones nominated!

emil.y you know viva is #1 in your mind!

What I meant was: out of the four Isleys albums on that list, what is the first (or first two) that I should check out?

"out of the FIVE..."

The Heat Is On and Go For Your Guns

3+3 is their best known 70s album obviously. The 1st with the younger brothers.

...if I feel like squandering my time on doing a full 100.

Squandered! This is time wisely spent! The results of this poll will be passed on, immortalized on sites like RYM, placed in time capsules, and someday your children's children will reference it in selecting their entertainment while languishing in their post-apocalyptic underground lairs.

Feel like the voting options are a bit broad and ambiguous here, literally anything could be nominated.

with 1000+ it kinda was

fastnbulbous only ilm dance polls get recognised in the blogosphere

There are dance polls?

the waltz won 5 polls running

(the 00s electronic poll i think got tweeted about by some dance magazines and lindstrom)

problem w/ fela shit is his stuff's been so reissued and repackaged based on original pressings that were already not very well documented in the first place. but I'm voting for roforo fight based on a version that in includes this smoldering gem:

http://youtu.be/gJ_uSSorbbw

Fastnbulbous, u shd listen to Kansas' first album though it is entirely possible you may hate it. Unlike Pantera (which is AG's perpetual joke about me), I actualy am kind of an embarrassingly huge Kansas fan. It happened when I was like 12 and too young to know better, and I've still never quite got over it, but I kind if feel like theur first album might be solid even from an objective vantage point.

emil.y, us one of your 2 fave albums by Faust?

I just got done listening to five consecutive albums by Golden Earring from 1969-73, so sure, why not!

Drugs A. Money likes Pantera?????????

Anyone like Kraan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7CiSqyja5A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R9GzBUJJQA