The official CDR Go! thread

Well, that was a year ago. And then I found out that 1950 was the beginning of Japan's latin craze.

Part I:
001. John Williams - Jaws Theme
002. Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
003. AC/DC - It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)
004. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Countdown
005. Dwight Twilley Band - I'm on Fire
006. Hawkwind - Motorhead
007. Led Zeppelin - The Wanton Song
008. Jeff Beck - 'Cause We've Ended as Lovers
009. Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
010. Chet Atkins - Mostly Mozart
011. John Fahey - Assassination of Stephan Grossman
012. The Doobie Brothers - Slat Key Sequel Rag
013. Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
014. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
015. Bob Dylan - Shelter from the Storm
016. Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy
017. Dolly Parton - The Bargain Store
018. Jacob Miller - Baby I Love You So
019. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown
020. The Upsetters - Coco Macca
021. U-Roy - Chalice in the Palace
022. Hugh Mundell - Africa Must Be Free (By 1983)
023. Burning Spear - Old Marcus Garvey
024. Blondie - Once I Had a Love (AKA the Disco Song)
025. Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy
026. Gil Scott-Heron - Johannesburg
027. The Isley Brothers - Fight the Power (Part 1)
028. Leon Haywood - I Want'a Do Something Freaky to You
029. LaBelle - Lady Marmalade
030. Parliament - Chocolate City
031. Gwen McCrae - Rockin' Chair
032. Betty Wright - Where Is the Love
033. Dionne Warwick - Take It from Me
034. The Spinners - Honest I Do
035. Milton Wright - Friends and Buddies
036. Total Experience - Contradiction
037. Ecstasy Passion and Pain - Touch and Go
038. Jimmy Castor Bunch - King Kong
039. The Fatback Band - (Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop
040. Sly and the Family Stone - I Get High on You
041. The Trammps - Rubber Band
042. Smokey Robinson - Baby That's Backatcha
043. Labi Siffre - I Got the (Blues)
044. Al Green - L-O-V-E (Love)
045. Hall and Oates - Sara Smile
046. The Blackbyrds - Walking in Rhythm
047. Bobby Moore - (Call Me Your) Anything Man
048. Ben E. King - Supernatural Thing (Part 1)
049. The O'Jays - I Love Music (Parts 1 and 2)
050. Brian Eno - Becalmed

Part II:
051. Monty Python - Another Executive CD Edition Announcement
052. KC and the Sunshine Band - That's the Way (I Like It)
053. The Moments - I've Got the Need
054. Exciters - Reaching for the Best
055. The Undisputed Truth - Help Yourself
056. South Shore Commision - Free Man
057. Ultra High Frequency - We're On the Right Track (Disco Gold LP mix)
058. Alvin Cash and the Registers - Stone Thing (Part 1)
059. The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner (Once)
060. Steely Dan - Everyone's Gone to the Movies
061. Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue
062. Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman
063. Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
064. Wings - Listen to What the Man Said
065. The Faces - Open to Ideas
066. Todd Rundgren - Real Man
067. ABBA - Mamma Mia
068. Teach-In - Ding Ding-a-Dong
069. Peter Horton - Am Fuss der Leiter
070. Thin Lizzy - Wild One
071. Slade - In for a Penny
072. David Bowie - Young Americans
073. The Jam - 100 Ways
074. The Tubes - White Punks on Dope
075. Be-Bop Deluxe - Maid in Heaven
076. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (1975 Demo)
077. Television - Little Johnny Jewel (Parts 1 and 2)
078. Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
079. The Who - Success Story
080. The Mystic Moods - Honey Trippin'
081. Sammy Davis Jr. - Keep Your Eye on The Sparrow
082. Nico Fidenco - Sweet Bossa
083. Franco Godi - W La Felicita (Long Version)
084. Tomita - Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells
085. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
086. 10cc - I'm Not in Love
087. Kraftwerk - Airwaves
088. Fripp and Eno - Evening Star
089. Herbie Mann - Hi-jack (Discotheque LP mix)
090. Archie Bell and the Drells - Let's Groove (Part 1)
091. The Bee Gees - Jive Talkin'
092. The Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh What a Night)
093. Consumer Rapport - Ease on Down the Road
094. Roxy Music - Love Is the Drug
095. ZZ Top - Heard It on the X
096. Funkadelic - Get Off Your Ass and Jam
097. Neil Young - Cortez the Killer
098. Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
099. Kiss - Rock and Roll All Nite (live)
100. Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry (live at the Lyceum)

Total Time: 6:55:55

I have to sequence mine into seven different 60-70 minute parts first (because I'm anal like that) and should be starting the thread, with tracks, and cover art and all that by end of this week (assuming I get a certain package from a certain Amazon reseller this week that is)

What years haven't been done yet??

CDRGO4EVA

This thread sure died.

So, yeah, this was a long time ago. But I started a CDRGO 1971 way back then, and then a child's birth, a dissertation, and a couple of jobs intervened, detracting from the sort of focus one needs to do such a project. But now a PhD, a better job, and a kid who can entertain herself, and I'm finally done.

CDR Go! 1971: I'd Like To Teach The World The Beat Was Strong

001 “Weepy Tragic Beginning” Alex
002 Give More Power To The People Chi-Lites
003 Respect Yourself Staple Singers
004 Smiling Faces Sometimes The Undisputed Truth
005 Ain’t Got Time Impressions
006 Inner City Blues Marvin Gaye
007 Harlem Bill Withers
008 Hard Times Baby Huey & The Babysitters
009 Drowning In The Sea Of Love Joe Simon
010 Loser’s Seat Joni Wilson
011 If I Were Your Woman Gladys Knight & The Pips
012 Thin Line Between Love And Hate The Persuaders
013 Luv N’ Haight Sly & The Family Stone
014 Get Up And Get Down The Dramatics
015 Ungena Za Ulimwengu The Temptations
016 I Just Want To Celebrate Rare Earth
017 Morning Will Come Spirit
018 Queen Bitch David Bowie
019 Oh! Those Sweet Bananas Hackamore Brick
020 Sweet Mary Wadsworth Mansion
021 Funny Funny The Sweet
022 Chirpy, Chirpy, Cheep, Cheep Middle Of The Road
023 Sugar, Sugar Sakkarin
024 Get It On T. Rex
025 Sweet Jane The Velvet Underground
026 Melody Serge Gainsbourg
027 The Beat Lou Johnson
028 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Gil Scott-Heron
029 Dem Niggers Ain’t Playing The Watts Prophets
030 Theme From Shaft Isaac Hayes
031 I Don’t Want No Woman To Give Me Nothin’ Blowfly
032 It’s A Funky Situation Tim Taylor
033 I Know You Got Soul Bobby Byrd
034 Soul Power James Brown
035 Breakdown (pt 1) Rufus Thomas
036 Funky Rubber Band Popcorn Wylie
037 Son Of Shaft The Bar-Kays
038 Mr. Cool Rasputin’s Stash
039 Burning Spear S.O.U.L.
040 Howling For Judy Jeremy Steig
041 Put On Train The Three Sounds
042 What So Never The Dance (pts 1-2) Houseguests
043 Amos Moses Jerry Reed
044 Joshua Dolly Parton
045 One’s On The Way Loretta Lynn
046 Illegal Smile John Prine
047 Kentucky, Feb. 27, 1971 Tom T. Hall
048 Man In Black Johnny Cash
049 Me And Paul Willie Nelson
050 Take Me Home, Country Roads John Denver
051 Me And You And A Dog Named Boo Lobo
052 Watching Scotty Grow Bobby Goldsboro
053 Grandad Clive Dunn
054 Those Were The Days The Bunkers
055 20th Century Man The Kinks
056 Tonight The Move
057 10538 Overture ELO
058 My Sweet Lord George Harrison
059 It Don’t Come Easy Ringo Starr
060 Give Me Some Truth John Lennon
061 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey Paul & Linda McCartney
062 Day After Day Badfinger
063 Tiny Dancer Elton John
064 Ladies Of The Road King Crimson
065 Something For Trane That Trane Could Have Said Rahasaan Roland Kirk
066 Good Medicine Doc Severinsen
067 Vehicle Shirley Bassey
068 Racing Team Bob Elger Band
069 Feel So Bad Ray Charles
070 Love Her Madly The Doors
071 “The Dope Pusher” Bill Cosby
072 The Pusher Nina Simone
073 Locomotive Breath Jethro Tull
074 Super Stupid Funkadelic
075 Ezy Ryder Jimi Hendrix
076 Strange Kind Of Woman Deep Purple
077 Sweet Leaf Black Sabbath
078 Hocus Pocus Focus
079 Bird Of Prey Uriah Heep
080 Roundabout Yes
081 Strawberry Letter 23 Shuggie Otis
082 Fearless Pink Floyd
083 Back Street Luv Curved Air
084 Theme From A Clockwork Orange Walter Carlos
085 Baba O’Riley The Who
086 Sweet City Woman The Stampeders
087 Brand New Key Melanie
088 I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing The New Seekers
089 Carey Joni Mitchell
090 I Ain’t Got Time Anymore The Glass Bottle
091 Sooner Or Later The Grass Roots
092 Don’t Pull Your Love Hamilton, Joe, Frank, and Reynolds
093 It’s Great To Be Here Jackson 5
094 One Bad Apple The Osmonds
095 Superstar The Carpenters
096 Anticipation Carly Simon
097 She’s Got A Way Billy Joel
098 I Feel The Earth Move Carole King
099 Move Over Janis Joplin
100 Charity Ball Fanny
101 I’m Losing You Rod Stewart
102 You’re So Rude The Faces
103 Stone Cold Fever Humble Pie
104 Hot And Nasty Black Oak Arkansas
105 Keep On Growing Derek & The Dominoes
106 After Midnight J.J. Cale
107 Mirror Man Captain Beefheart
108 Little Red Rooster Howlin’ Wolf
109 When The Levee Breaks Led Zeppelin
110 “Limitations” Dirty Harry
111 Girl, Come On Home Major Lance
112 Treat Her Like A Lady Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
113 Pay To The Piper Chairmen Of The Board
114 You Think You’re Hot Stuff Jean Knight
115 Women’s Love Rights Laura Lee
116 Want Ads Honey Cone
117 I’ll Kill A Brick Hot Sauce
118 I’m A Ram Al Green
119 Slipped, Tripped, And Fell In Love Ann Peebles
120 There’s A Break In The Road Betty Harris
121 Scorpio’s View Lalo Schifrin
122 Right Off Miles Davis
123 Needle & The Damage Done Neil Young
124 Sister Morphine The Rolling Stones
125 Yesterday’s Numbers The Flamin’ Groovies
126 He’s Gonna Step On You Again John Kongos
127 Gypsies, Tramps, & Thieves Cher
128 Indian Reservation Paul Revere & The Raiders
129 Oye Como Va Santana
130 Grand Funk Jackie Mittoo
131 Comanche Jorge Ben Jor
132 Misaluba Cyan
133 Music For Gong Gong Osibisa
134 Coconut Nilsson
135 “I’m Plenty” James Bond
136 Double Barrel Ansel & Dave Collins
137 Shaft The Chosen Few
138 Johnny Coolman Toots & Maytals
139 Cherry, Oh Baby Eric Donaldson
140 Come Down The Beginning Of The End
141 You’re All I Need To Get By Aretha Franklin
142 I Thank The Lord Mighty Voices Of Wonder
143 Magnificent Sanctuary Band Donny Hathaway
144 Battle Hymn Of Lt. Calley C Company
145 Sunshine Jonathan Edwards
146 Have You Ever Seen The Rain? Creedence Clearwater Revival
147 I’d Love To Change The World Ten Years After
148 People Let’s Stop The War Grand Funk Railroad
149 Bring The Boys Home Freda Payne
150 Peace Begins Within Bobby Powell
151 Slippin’ Into Darkness War
152 Timothy The Buoys
153 If There’s A Hell Below, We’re All Going To Go Curtis Mayfield
154 Oh Yeah Can
155 “Party’s Over” Shaft

The main goals were "flow" and trying to cover nearly all the sub-genres and mixed-genres that were important, so I included paranoid soul, Motown, blue-eyed soul, jazz-rock, power pop, bubblegum, glam, novelty, jazz-pop, funk, spoken-word, jazz-funk, country-funk,pop-country, outlaw, folk-country, English music hall, art/prog rock, free jazz, MOR jazz, hard rock, heavy metal, art-soul, moog, K-Tel, singer-songwriter, countrypolitan-AM pop, bubblegum soul, blues-rock, avant-blues, Memphis soul, soundtrack, "world", reggae, gospel, and Krautrock.

I regarded anything on the '71 charts, a 71 album, or a 71 single release as fair game. Cheats: UK release of "Sweet Jane" as '71 single, and '72 single version of "Roundabout" rather than the (8 minute) album version. I just used whichever mp3 was available, and when 149 songs fit, rounding to 150 real songs seemed logical.

I included songs I don't particularly care for, but I judged representative. I probably wasted too much space on middlebrow jazz (Bassey, Severinsen, The Doors), but to me that seemed a substantial part of the era's sound. The Sweet song is not particularly strong, but I wanted to make an argument about bubblegum and glam. My knowledge of 1971 Jamaican and synthesized music is pretty thin, so those are probably poorly represented. I could only take so much of the countrypolitan backwash into the AM charts, so those choices ("Sooner or Later," "Don't Pull Your Love") were almost random and interchangeable ("Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling," "Do You KNow What I Mean"). Later samples and covers were probably pretty influential on some of the choices (cf. Boutique, Paul's).

Purposeful omissions: "The Day The Music Died," Van Morrison, James Taylor, "Joy To The World."

Close-but-not-quite: Alice Cooper, "Chick-A-Boom," "Standing In For Jody," Slade, Carla Thomas, The Stovall Sisters, Tommy James, Tommy Roe, Lester & Mac, "People Make the World Go Round," Brainticket, "Cousin Norman," "She's A Lady."

My playlist duplicates 21 selections from disco violence's 100 song '71 list.

Since it coincided with the poll-closing of 1001 Songs You Gotta Hear Before You Die 1974, here's

CDR Go! 1974: Rock Attained Perfection in 1974--It's A Scientific Fact

001 “An Important Message” JACK VAN IMPE
002 Do It B.T. EXPRESS
003 Loose Booty SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
004 Sexy Ida (Part 1) IKE & TINA TURNER
005 Fever In The Funkhouse GENERAL CROOK
006 Lady Marmalade LABELLE
007 Bim Salah Bim HUDSON COUNTY
008 Roc Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again LYN COLLINS
009 Don’t Fight The Feeling SOUND EXPERIENCE
010 I Feel Sanctified COMMODORES
011 Testify PARLIAMENT
012 Lil’ Red Riding Hood THE UNDISPUTED TRUTH
013 Everybody Party All Night CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD
014 Day Of The Eagle ROBIN TROWER
015 Brighton Rock QUEEN
016 Working Man RUSH
017 Na Na Na COZY POWELL
018 Not Fragile BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE
019 Discovery ROSS
020 Ma-Ma-Ma Belle ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA
021 What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, And Understanding BRINSLEY SCHWARZ
022 Overnight Sensation THE RASPBERRIES
023 The Air That I Breathe THE HOLLIES
024 Amoureuse KIKI DEE
025 Band On The Run WINGS
026 Crazy Lazy Little Miss Daisy SMYLE
027 Magic PILOT
028 Come And Get Your Love REDBONE
029 Cat’s In The Cradle HARRY CHAPIN
030 You’re Sixteen RINGO STARR
031 I Can Help BILLY SWAN
032 Nothin’ From Nothin’ BILLY PRESTON
033 Good Times Theme JIM GILSTRAP & BLINKY WILLIAMS
034 Finally Got Myself Together THE IMPRESSIONS
035 Be Thankful For What You Got WILLIAM DE VAUGHN
036 Aht Uh Mi Hed SHUGGIE OTIS
037 Rock Your Baby GEORGE MCCRAE
038 Listen To The Music DOOBIE BROTHERS
039 Rock The Boat HUES CORPORATION
040 Rock Me Gently ANDY KIM
041 Sundown GORDON LIGHTFOOT
042 This Time WAYLON JENNINGS
043 The Grand Tour GEORGE JONES
044 Bloody Mary Morning WILLIE NELSON
045 Old Home Filler-Up An’ Keep On A-Truckin’ Café C.W. MCCALL
046 Tamp ‘Em Up Solid RY COODER
047 I’m A Train ALBERT HAMMOND
048 Walk On NEIL YOUNG
049 Sweet Home Alabama LYNYRD SKYNYRD
050 Already Gone EAGLES
051 Motherless Children ERIC CLAPTON
052 The Joker STEVE MILLER BAND
053 Roxette DR. FEELGOOD
054 Party Of Special Things To Do CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
055 Red China Blues MILES DAVIS
056 La Grange ZZ TOP
057 Homework JOHN LEE HOOKER
058 Rite Away DR. JOHN
059 Chicken Heads OSCAR BROWN, JR.
060 Hey Pocky A-Way METERS
061 Funk Pump THE COUNTS
062 Don’t Let The Door TOMMY JOE WHITE
063 Your Mama Wants Ya Back BETTY DAVIS
064 Women’s Liberation THE SINGING PRINCIPAL
065 I Feel Like Dynamite KING FLOYD
066 Yes It’s You CHARLES SHERELL
067 I’m Gonna Get You JOE QUARTERMAN
068 Cross The Track MACEO & THE MACKS
069 Bittern Storm Over Ulm HENRY COW
070 Piss Factory PATTI SMITH
071 The Bottle GIL SCOTT-HERON
072 The Joneses (Part 1) S.O.U.L.
073 Brothers On The Slide CYMANDE
074 For The Love Of Money THE O’JAYS
075 Live It Up (Parts 1 & 2) THE ISLEY BROTHERS
076 Blow Your Head FRED WESLEY & THE JB’S
077 Caramel CLUSTER
078 Six Million Dollar Man Theme OLIVER NELSON
079 Autobahn KRAFTWERK
080 Golliwog’s Cakewalk ISAO TOMITA
081 The Entertainer BILLY JOEL
082 The Entertainer MARVIN HAMLISCH
083 Puttin’ On The Ritz FRANKENSTIEN AND THE MONSTER
084 Pencil Thin Moustache JIMMY BUFFETT
085 Wildwood Weed JIM STAFFORD
086 Between Lust and Watching TV CAL SMITH
087 Auguas De Marco ELIS REGINA & ANTONIO CARLOS
088 (We’re Not) The Jet Set GEORGE JONES & TAMMY WYNETTE
089 Big Game Hunter BUCK OWENS
090 Hey Loretta LORETTA LYNN
091 Hooked On A Feeling BLUE SWEDE
092 You Little Trustmaker TYMES
093 Toast To The Fool THE DRAMATICS
094 Might Cloud Of Joy THE MIGHTY CLOUDS OF JOY
095 Every Natural Thing ARETHA FRANKLIN
096 Porque Te Vas JEANETTE
097 Marcus Garvey BURNING SPEAR
098 Looking For Love BOBBY WOMACK
099 No Woman, No Cry BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS
100 Virgin Man SMOKEY ROBINSON
101 Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love SIDNEY JOE QUALLS
102 Take Me To The River AL GREEN
103 Delta Dirt LARRY GATLIN
104 I’m Comin’ Home CHARLES HILTON BROWN
105 Bungle In The Jungle JETHRO TULL
106 Crosswind BILLY COBHAM
107 Apostrophe’ FRANK ZAPPA
108 Evie (Parts 1-3) STEVIE WRIGHT
109 Help Me JONI MITCHELL
110 Midnight At The Oasis MARIA MULDAUR
111 Oh Effendi 10 CC
112 China My China ENO
113 The Psychedelic Warlords HAWKWIND
114 Bloody Well Right SUPERTRAMP
115 Street Lady DONALD BYRD
116 Fire OSIBISA
117 (Chant) OK JAZZ
118 Kalimba Story EARTH, WIND & FIRE
119 Breakthrough ISAAC HAYES
120 The Kung Fu THE LORDS OF PERCUSSION
121 Dance The Kung Fu CARL DOUGLAS
122 Theme: Black Belt Jones DENNIS COFFEY
123 Red Hot Mama FUNKADELIC
124 Same Old Song And Dance AEROSMITH
125 Rock And Roll Hoochie Koo RICK DERRINGER
126 You Could Have Been A Lady APRIL WINE
127 If You Can’t Rock Me ROLLING STONES
128 Can’t Get Enough BAD COMPANY
129 “Rock … Perfection” HOMER SIMPSON
130 Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe BARRY WHITE
131 Hang On In There Baby JOHNNY BRISTOL
132 Everlasting Love CARL CARLTON
133 T.S.O.P. MFSB/THREE DEGREES
134 Mighty Love THE SPINNERS
135 Never Can Say Goodbye GLORIA GAYNOR
136 Heart Of Stone SILVER CONVENTION
137 Crystal Grass CRYSTAL WORLD
138 Bingo THE WHISPERS
139 Love Don’t You Go Through No Changes On Me SISTER SLEDGE
140 Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City BOBBY BLAND
141 Ain’t No Sunshine/You BILL WITHERS
142 Let’s Straighten It Out LATIMORE
143 The Heart Of Saturday Night TOM WAITS
144 Menina Mulher Da Pele Preta JORGE BENJOR
145 Jolene DOLLY PARTON
146 Woman To Woman SHIRLEY BROWN
147 Secretary BETTY WRIGHT
148 The Rap MILLIE JACKSON
149 You’re No Good LINDA RONSTADT
150 I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down ANN PEEBLES
151 Emma HOT CHOCOLATE
152 Heavy Fallin’ Out STYLISTICS
153 Nautilus BOB JAMES
154 Right On For The Darkness CURTIS MAYFIELD
155 Dizzy Dizzy CAN
156 Westbound Train DENNIS BROWN
157 O My Soul BIG STAR
158 All I Want Is You ROXY MUSIC
159 Rebel, Rebel DAVID BOWIE
160 I’ve Had It FANNY
161 Born Late ‘58 MOTT THE HOOPLE
162 Energy Crisis ‘74 DICKIE GOODMAN
163 Life Is A Rock REUNION
164 The Crude Oil Blues JERRY REED
165 Vietnam Will Win RED STAR SINGERS
166 Billy Don’t Be A Hero PAPER LACE
167 “Kick Foreman’s Behind” MUHAMMAD ALI
168 Funky President JAMES BROWN
169 You Haven’t Done Nothin’ STEVIE WONDER
170 Dancing Machine JACKSON 5
171 Police Woman Theme MORTON STEVENS
172 Fire OHIO PLAYERS
173 Sehnsucht KATI KOVACS
174 You Got The Love CHAKA KHAN & RUFUS
175 The Bitch Is Back ELTON JOHN
176 Shanghai’d In Shanghai NAZARETH
177 Hotter Than Hell KISS
178 Bangin’ Man SLADE
179 The Bump KENNY
180 Tell Him HELLO
181 The Wild One SUZI QUATRO
182 Human Being NEW YORK DOLLS

Songs were chosen for album or single release in '74, or substantial chart action ("Jolene," "For The Love Of Money," and "The Joker," esp.) in that year. Got a little greedy, and all the mp3s would be 160 or 128 kbps. Flow was very important for order, but this time tried to include cross-genre affinities rather than segregating genres entirely. (E.g., matching gospel-y moments from country and soul music; avoided lumping all reggae together.) Again, I tried to get a selection from all relevant genres and sub-genres.

Intentional omissions: Steely Dan, Odds And Sods (Cozy Powell for your Who fix!), Lou Reed (see Andy Kim for "Sally Can't Dance" done right), Gram Parsons (real country is preferable, thank you), ABBA, "How Long", John Lennon (see Smyle), Grand Funk (they don't always suck, but '74's covers did), Randy Newman, Carly Simon/James Taylor, Sparks (I've got Queen, no?), Dave Loggins, Genesis, Ray Stevens, and some I'd reserve for '73 ("Show And Tell," "Smokin' In The Boys' Room," "Ballroom Blitz," "Tubular Bells").

Regretted absences: Herbie Hancock "Palm Grease" (if I coulda found a single version...), Blackbyrds, Dawson Smith "I Don't Know If I Can Make It," David Ruffin "No Matter Where," Jimmy Castor Bunch, Joe Farrell "Upon This Rock," Mel Tillis "Stomp Them Grapes," Moments & Whatnauts "Girls," Mud "Tiger Feet," Novi Singers "Five, Four, Three," Gary Stewart "Drinkin' Thing," Rasputin Slash "The Devil Made Me Do It," Sweet Sensation "Sad Sweet Dreamer" (high quality sap), and Ultrafunk "Kung Fu Man." The biggest disappointment was no soundtrack (at least that I could find) to Soul Power (the documentary that is basically an out-take version of the Zaire '74 concert shown in When We Were Kings), particularly the soukous (and other African) material.

Epiphanies: That the doomy strings that are characteristic of early '70s soul migrated into disco rather than actually disappearing; that "Old Black Water" is a really offensive tune; Shuggie Otis and Hot Chocolate are deeply weird.

Hardest calls (picking a band's representative song): James Brown (assuaged somewhat by "cheating" with Lyn Collins, Fred Wesley, and Maceo), New York Dolls, Isaac Hayes (many good, but not great, instrumentals), and Loretta Lynn ("Trouble In Paradise," oh my God, her voice).

these would be cooler if there was links to stream them

Did anyone ever compile DVD-Rs of this whole thread? Just wondering; there are still mixes here I'd love to hear sometime.