TURN THIS MUTHA OUT! It's the Alternate 1970s Albums Poll on ILX — Results Thread

A-little-embarrassed-but-hell-not-really is the best way to communicate your enthusiasm for music. Those 'Born To Run' comments are fantastic!

Oh yeah, I wish I had commentary like that available for ALL of these albums.

Strange thing: lot of records so far from 1970, including a few I was honestly surprised to find out came out in the 70s

Cosmo's Factory
Live at Leeds
Moondance
American Beauty
Yeti
Madcap Laughs
Free Your Mind...
Starsailor
Lick My Decals

Madcap Laughs just squeaked in btw. I think it was released the first week of Janurary, 1970.

or January, even.

It's a cover of Pilot's "January" by Scooby Doo

I gotta say, as an ILM johnny come lately, I've been lurking on this poll and I'm very suprised that the stuff in it wasnt already canonical, in many cases. I havent seen the original poll, but this one seems ... more ILM?

Good albums in the first poll for certain, but (for me) it contained more stuff I say I like, and this one contains more stuff I actually like and listen to regularly.

Original poll results here: ILX 70s album poll - results

Well now that I look back at the original poll results, that's not entirely true. I listen to gobs of those albums regularly too. The 70s were really just an embarrassing chest of riches as far as music goes, especially considering how much we've still managed to leave out.

Aha, thanks for the link! Good to see Low way up in the list (just heard it for the first time recently and was blown away).

I guess a whole decade is impossible to nail down, as much as ILM loves to try!

Fever, do you ever actually sleep?

Good job on all this!

I guess a whole decade is impossible to nail down, as much as ILM loves to try!

Yeah, I feel like it's easier to break the decade in half-- with 70-74 as the tail-end of the '60s, where Country Rock, Prog, Soul, Free Jazz and Hard Rock continued along roads forged from 65-69 (of course with things like Krautrock, Roxy, Stooges, reggae, funk pointing toward the future)--and the 2nd half dominated by punk, disco, new wave, early hip-hop, metal (setting the stage for the 1st half of the 80s.)

Isn't Chocolate City considered to be the second best Parliament album after Mothership Connection? Though I guess ILX prefers Funkadelic over Parliament, so CC won't probably have a chance anymore.

― Tuomas, Friday, January 8, 2010 2:01 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

choc city was down ballot for me, motor booty affair was top 5

yay standing on the verge made it, that was my no1. (no. its not better than Maggot Brain, on a par yes, its an Eddie Hazel album, he wrote most of it, so it's the eddie fans fave, Tuomas will hate it)

Maybe Parliament - Osmium will place? (nah sadly it wont)

Funkentelechy is regarded as the best after Mothership btw.

funkentelechy is my all-time favorite album of any decade

I've been such a huge fan of Funkadelic for a long time, but I neglected them in my ballot. I guess I took 'em for granted, especially after a 5 hour (not kidding) P-Funk performance in '96 wrung me out to the point where I couldn't listen to them for about a decade. Nice to see them represented though. This was the first thing I wrote for my site: Funkadelic: The Afro-Alien Diaspora. Repeat after Bootsy: I pledge allegiance to the funk, the whole funk,and nothing but the funk, so help me James, Sly and George, Amen!"

I voted for Chocolate City tbh

and me....so maybe it'll show up

Chocolate City was pretty much an obscure Parliament album until last year when people took notice for a reason I cant think of....
Its always been my 3rd fave though , if you can be arsed searching through ILM you will see me saying it years ago. I recommend CC thoroughly.

xp

Clones might make it. It's their pop album and is great too

Chocolate City got my vote too, it's my third favourite after the two in the first 70's list.

It's strange that I own nine Funkadelic albums from the 70's and out of the three I'm missing two of them are in this poll.

"Chocolate City was pretty much an obscure Parliament album until last year when people took notice for a reason I cant think of...."

They still call it the White House
But that's a temporary condition, too.

Check out the deluxe version of The Cars. Disc 2 has demos of They Won't See You, Take What You Want, Wake Me Up and You Just Can't Push Me that are full of progtastic guitar solos.

The breakdown of my ballot is something like this:

American soul/R&B 9
Jazz 12
Funk 3
African funk/soul 3
Brazilian pop & jazz 8
Disco 3
Afro-Cuban 1
Folk 1

Why does Finns never want to rock? :-(

Ha, well the breakdown of my admittedly curtailed ballot:

Prog 10
Jazz-prog 1
Southern rock 2
Proggy art-pop 2
Krautrock 1
Brit post-punk 7
Spoken-word comedy with song 1

(Several of my "prog" votes are really "proggy art-pop", if you make that distinction.)

I tried to count up my genres, but got stuck on where to categorise too many of them. I can tell you that there are 11 krautrock records (and at least another 4 records with Germans on).

Several of my Brit post-punks are proggy art-pop! :D

(Specialist aside: Was there any Afro-Cuban music on the nominations list? Everything I nominated was Puerto Rican or NuYorican salsa, which may build on an Afro-Cuban base, but I resent the idea that Puerto Rican salsa somehow reduces to "Afro-Cuban." It has its own distinctive sound.)

"Chocolate City was pretty much an obscure Parliament album until last year when people took notice for a reason I cant think of...."

"...it's time. It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. And I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day." New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, January 16, 2006

30. Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story (1971) [140 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]

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Every Picture was the FutureSex/LoveSounds of its day, people! (where jeff beck = timbaland lol)

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, December 6, 2009 11:56 PM

The bass playing on "Maggie May" is sooo bad, so show-offy, so obviously played by a guitarist who thinks bass playing is "easy", that it puts me off the song completely. A shame, because I agree that Rod had some great stuff in this era.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, November 15, 2004 6:41 AM (5 years ago)

I really like this song, but reading the comments about the drumming, I'm just like WTF? Part of the reason I've always liked this song is that the drumming sounds so amateurish. It sounds like something I could play, including all the fills, and I'm a terrible drummer. Is this a case of something sounding easy but being really hard, or is his drumming better on other songs, or am I just wrong?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, November 15, 2004 11:06 AM (5 years ago)

so what we've established is that "maggie mae" is punk rock.

― amateur!!st, Monday, November 15, 2004 2:23 PM (5 years ago)

I'm currently answering an email from someone who wrote to my site demanding to know why I don't like Zappa. I don't hate him, just think he really needed to pare down the wankery. Anyone voted some Zappa?

My breakdown -- this has a lot to do with the initial poll featuring most of my soul, punk and post-punk, but neglecting reggae.

18 reggae
4 post-punk
3 pre-punk
3 kosmische
3 avant rock
2 soul
2 jazz fusion
1 punk
1 afrobeat
1 glam
1 brazilian
1 classic rock

i had totally given up on Lick My Decals Off, Baby placing after the first fifteen or so were posted. did not expect to see it at 32! underrated and underplayed record for sure.

an attempt at a genre breakdown:

kraut 8
non german prog rock 9
jazz 8
folk 4
straight up pop and/or rock 9
modern classical 1
adult jazz-rock 1

hey i'm up to 7 of 40 now w/ zuma, the cars, born to run

still holding out hope for my #1, i think it's got a good chance, but i think i may have to give up on Rush and The Soft Boys at this point

I have three Zappas on my ballot, including a top-5.

my list was like 27 rock/pop, 8 prog, 2 electronic, 2 folk, 1 fusion. i'm such a rockist...

classic rock 23 (YEAHHHHH MOTHERFUCKERS I'M PART OF THE PROBLEM)
funk/soul 7
new wave 5
punk 2
comedy 1
country 1
jazz 1

Fear Of Music has to be coming soon, right? ILM can't be crazy enough to put Remain In Light at the top of one decade's poll and then miss its predecessor twice, can it?

I like how 'Brazilian' just is a genre now.

if u classify it as "MPB", it kinda is!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BAsica_Popular_Brasileira

29. Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 - Zombie (1977) [141 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]

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NOTE: I couldn't find posts of any substance regarding Zombie. Most Fela Kuti threads just seem to consist of people asking what album they should begin with, and several people suggest Zombie.

lmao

Glad to see Fela make it! Not the album I chose (went with He Miss Road) but it's not like there are bad Fela albums in the 70s.

28. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (1975) [146 points, 14 votes]

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I always feel like the first disc is super-unified, and if it stood alone would be LZ's greatest album, but the second disc is kinda thrown-together, "here's a whole bunch more songs we had kicking around." They're good songs, but they're not an album the way the first disc is an album.

― unperson, Monday, July 9, 2007 4:50 PM (2 years ago)

you know, I hear you kinda, unperson, insofar as if the second disc had been released as a single album it might have tanked, but on the other hand it's sort their "experimental" side - drums dropping in & out, some weird transitional stuff - it's like the more Album Rock album to me, allowing itself to be weird 'cause they've already proven themselves on the first disc. Also, "the Wanton Song" is massively underrated.

― J0hn D., Monday, July 9, 2007 5:02 PM (2 years ago)

Zeppelin were never heavier and more assured. Many of Physcial's songs are truly great - "Kashmir", "Ten Years Gone", "In My Time..." etc. Sure the album has one or two filler tracks, but it's hardly one of those doubles which would have made a killer single album with x tracks omitted.

― -the-night-watch- (-the-night-watch-), Friday, February 18, 2005 10:03 PM (4 years ago)

Not "In Through the Out Door"?????

Not "In Through the Out Door"?????

They both made my ballot.

thought about voting for it, but threw underdog votes to Presence and In Through The Out Door instead. there are lots of great classic rock double albums that don't suffer from double album syndrome, but that one just doesn't hold together for me.

Glad The Song Remains The Same hasn't made it...yet...

the first of my top 10 to place! my favorite zeppelin album, it's astonishingly close to the mythical fillerless double album. shame about 'black country woman'...