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

or you can rank a part of your ballot and leave the rest unweighted

Ok I didn't realize people wouldn't want to rate their ballot, thanks.

Most did a split ballot in the 80s poll.

I keep putting off voting because I keep finding remarkable new albums. Harlem River Drive tonight, that is definitely going in!

Wish I had that Harlem River Drive record!

Fuck me that Fire On The Bayou is going above Dr John. Sorry Mac!

'idle hands' off the harlem river drive is an eternal favourite.

seandalai, i'll send it over tomorrow. cheers.

ok cool

I've listened to the first three Mandrill albums a few times now, and while they're pretty good, none of them would get near my top 100, even if I thought they rocked enough. They have a lot in common with the early Chicago albums, which is not necessarily a bad thing. The latin-jazz fusion is pretty cool.

While it's nice to hear his guitar playing, the solo Eddie Hazel album in no way measures up to Cosmic Slop/Standing../Let's Take It... It might compare favorably to the overrated One Nation Under A Groove though.

Why not use the ilxor Soundrop room on Spotify to campaign for tracks/albums and add/listen to songs.
http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W16fTbbsgjzuGhsN

That Kanguru album Fastnbulbous mentioned on the other thread is worth a big mention. When I saw it had 4 tracks I expected 4 longish jams but it is more like at least 10 different tracks and it has most of the best elements of classic krautrock.

Fucking incredible album.

Just listened again and at one point it almost sounds like Damo on Oxymoron.

I have already submitted my album vote, but this should be a lot higher.

A lot of variety on this album as well its got everything: Noise rock terrorism, motorik beats, Damo like vocal gymnastics and the odd surprising bit of post punk pop sesnsibility.

Glad you like it! Hopefully others will check it out. Is it on Spotify? I never opened an account as I can't use it at work.

I don't know to be honest. I don't do spotify.

there are a bunch of guru guru albums on spotify but kanguru doesn't appear to be one of them

Voted.

cheers!

now is anybody gonna campaign or discuss anything? hellhouse?

I had completely forgotten about Twink's Think Pink album but I saw it on the nominations list and just listened to it again and that thing is kind of insane and brilliant. Some serious psychedelic shredding on there.

Twink - Tiptoe On The Highest Hill
http://youtu.be/ZIdsndUSEA4

Twink - Ten Thousand Words In A Cardboard Box
http://youtu.be/Q7yeuwQvc0g

now is anybody gonna campaign or discuss anything? hellhouse?

yeah, I rambled a bit about my obsession w/Red Transistor on the tracks thread, and why Not Bite may be the best track of the 70s, but it's p. quiet over there, so w/e. I'll prob. campaign f/more recs/tracks if I'm able to steal away some time f/listening (only 1,000 recs, should be able to knock that out no prob, ha).

on a related note, I see that other people have begun to add to the Spotify album playlist, which is collaborative this time around, so please add yr. fave nominated recs:

http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/1rFbtUwZlcYHBD6gcemMeK

also, if anyone has any recommendations f/nasty psych, I'd love to hear them (I was a little underwhelmed by Satori, mainly b/c I've been ruined by Skullflower and F/i, though I always enjoy Les Rallizes Denudes).

Necronomicon has some pretty nasty guitar sounds http://www.youtu.be/8MEdhY1uxRc Gets going at about the 2:00 mark.

Last night I finally got round to listening to Amon Duul II - Yeti (yeah yeah I know, I'm always the last to everything) and it was pretty much everything I was hoping for. Grade A heavy psych. Will give Flower Travellin' Band - Satori a try next.

^^^

thanks, will check out Necromicon and Amon Duul II (have heard some of their stuff, but not much).

Preparing my list now. Noticed a few duplicates in the nominations list. Mostly S/T albums where there's listings for the album as both S/T and the album/band title i.e Roxy Music and La Dusseldorf.

Anyway, my ballot is pretty kraut heavy looking at it initially.

there's no rush listen to lots of albums before voting. plenty of time to discover new stuff.

or you can discuss the music that influenced Sonic Youth if that will help stimulate some chat.

or you can discuss the music that influenced Sonic Youth if that will help stimulate some chat.

ha, I think we've more-or-less exhausted all the SY angles. as a voter w/v. limited time, however, I would love to hear from anyone planning on making some challopsy or merely offbeat choices f/their top ten or twenty and why they think these oddball recs are worth hearing. I'm on solid ground w/the classic rock and punk and no wave and krautrock, but a fair amount of the psych and funk and more obscure hard rock recs are alien to me, so any illumination into these dark corners will be appreciated (especially if the recommendations are weird, loud, compelling or in any way fucked up).

free your mind and your hellhouse will follow

so who is gonna campaign? What album should we all check out since everyones now checked out
http://www.octopussgarden.es/imagenes/shirts/01_08bd.jpg
and
http://www.classiclps.co.uk/images/shopcovers/P01648.jpg

putting the "The"s under "T" is disgustingly savage imo

damn google

I'm trying to narrow down my list, but it looks like my top spots are going to be heavy on obvious stuff like sabbath, misfits, stooges, ADII, etc. But some of the slightly less celebrated albums that I'll probably rank high are

Aphrodite's Child - 666
Captain Beyond
Groundhogs - Split
Pretty Things - Parachute
Modulo 1000

Aphrodite's Child - 666

Yesssssssssssss

I absolutely second that Captain Beyond album. It's one that seems to embody most of the rawkin' 70's traits without sounding too much like Sabbath or the Stooges or any of the No Wave bands. It was originally described to me as a more spacey Lynyrd Skynyrd which really didn't sound all that interesting (the description wasn't entirely off), but after hearing it it's an incredible progressive rock/southern rock album in the vein of Uriah Heep...but it improves on that style as well.

We've got the system to fuck the system!

I don't know how high I'll rank a Move album because they're kind of inconsistent, but people should really check them out if they haven't yet. You could make a killer double album out of Shazam, Looking On, and Message From the Country. Might as well add Wizzard into that playlist too.

Captain Beyond is like a progressive rock version of Blue Cheer to me. Or the logical progression of Iron Butterfly.

I think 666 may be the greatest progressive rock album. It's the only album I've found where the classical pretensions are fully successful.

Also I can't say enough great things about Wayne County and the Electric Chairs - Things Your Mother Never Told You. I had never heard of these guys prior to this poll but it is sitting very highly on my list. One of my favorite glammy punk albums.

Wall City Girl
http://youtu.be/nSjBrXnH4jM

Things Your Mother Never Told You
http://youtu.be/Hj5SzQrSoTk

Captain Beyond is like a progressive rock version of Blue Cheer to me. Or the logical progression of Iron Butterfly.

Yeah, this sounds a lot better than a progressive version of Lynyrd Skynryd. Let's go with that.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KcJj6wN1MA4/RsiFUVPbn6I/AAAAAAAAAsY/Fw6SuIJ8Nz4/s400/nov1.jpg

November – En Ny Tid är Här (Sonet Grammofon, 1970)
Lots of Swedish bands have named proto-metallers November as a big influence, like Witchcraft, Graveyard, Captain Crimson, probably Dead Man and Troubled Horse. I'm guessing their influence hasn't stopped spreading, as people beyond Sweden are still just starting to hear about them. It's hard not to be skeptical that this is just another lost 70s band that is overrated because of its previous obscurity, but I have been enjoying their first three albums immensely for a while now. I think they definitely measure up to other heavy blues Cream acolytes and proto-metal from the time like Mountain, Leaf Hound, Cactus, Deep Purple, Atomic Rooster, Jerusalem, Captain Beyond, Night Sun, even Led Zep! They evolved out of two Stockholm groups, Train and The Imps and toured with Fleetwood Mac in 1969 before recording their rocking debut(translates to "A New Time Is Here, which remains slightly more consistent than their second album, 2:a (1971), especially with the less bluesy hard rockers "En Annan Värld" and "Ta Ett Steg I Sagans Land”.

http://c3.cduniverse.ws/MuzeAudioArt/Large/71/570671.jpg

Pink Fairies – Kings Of Oblivion (Polydor, 1973)
London's Portobello Road must have been an interesting scene in the early 70s with The Edgar Broughton Band, Hawkwind, Deviants and Pink Fairies playing mostly free shows to hippies, anarchists and biker gangs. Pink Fairies were influenced by both post-beatnik jokesters The Fugs and the MC5. By their third album, Kings Of Oblivion, MC5 was more of a factor with the help of Larry Wallis. Wallis went on to create an early template for Motörhead based on the album, even re-cutting opener "City Kids" on his recordings with Lemmy. It was also considered a key pre-punk influence. One only has to up the tempo of "Raceway" slightly to be reminded of Buzzcocks' "Fast Cars." Or perhaps a slightly less cartoonish precursor to The Dictators Go Girl Crazy. Either way, it's damn fun.

"kings of oblivion" rules but i tried (in the main part) to limit myself to one album per artist so it didn't make my ballot. i should have nominated larry wallis's wondrous "police car" in the tracks poll though.

I'm re-listening to Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, as I always just considered it an interesting but second tier album, kind of like Streetwalkers - Red Card.

Im not sure i can do 1 album per band and choosing which pink fairies albums gonna be tricky

there were a handful i couldn't limit to one but i tried hard.

Aphrodite's Child - 666

I listened to this for the first time last night. It's really good! I was actually unaware that Vangelis used to be in a prog band.

"made with the highest british attention to the wrong detail"

omfg