its between Tago Mago and Pawn Hearts for me. I'll probably wind up voting Tago Mago though - even the big knock against it (all the fucking around on the second LP) is forgivable in context, since they're 2 separate LPs that (I gather) were not really meant to be listened to straight through the way you do on CD. I was thinking about that in regards to ELP's Tarkus (also released in '71) - did that album come off better back then because of the implication of "you don't really need to flip the LP"?
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 February 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
Long albums always sound better on LP's as there's a break while flipping the records. Yes it can be a hassle with double and triple LP's but it definitely helps with the listening.
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 14 February 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
i would have gone for tago mago, jaki liebezeit at the top of his skills. but there is an album on that list that beats about every album in the world. i could drink a case of joni and i'd still be on my feet...
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 14 February 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link
gonna vote for who's next cause YEAAAAAAAHHHH
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Thursday, 14 February 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
Tanz der Lemminge is such a wild panoply of psychedelic 'looks' that I can't not vote for it. Faust is a close second. Riot an equally close third. I fucking love this year.
― aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 14 February 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
3 really great albums not on the list: Fragile (Yes), Acquiring the Taste (Gentle Giant), and Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren
that last one really gets overlooked in Rundgren's catalogue, it's not really experimental and none of the songs are well known but it might actually be his most consistent album overall
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 February 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
Runt is good
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 14 February 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
Is there a term for the practice of alphabetizing under "T" bands whose names start with "The"?
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 15 February 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link
wrongness
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 February 2019 00:15 (five years ago) link
At this point, Master of Reality is the only album on the list that I feel like listening to.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 15 February 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
the rockist in me says, "it's been a long time since I did the stroll"
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 15 February 2019 03:39 (five years ago) link
this was the easiest one yet, not much beats Journey In Satchidananda in my world
cosign
― pomenitul, Friday, 15 February 2019 12:00 (five years ago) link
How could you forget "Fragile"!? My favourite Yes album
― . (Michael B), Friday, 15 February 2019 12:53 (five years ago) link
Missing from that list:
Jan Garbarek Quartet - Afric PepperbirdLeonard Cohen - Songs of Love and HatePink Floyd - MeddleYes - Fragile
― pomenitul, Friday, 15 February 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
Have you heard of the band Yes? They released a couple of good albums that year. You might want to look into them.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Friday, 15 February 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
no i dont
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Friday, 15 February 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
I voted for Zep IV just because it is the one I have listened to the most in my life. The Miles, Mahavishnu, and VdGG are all really great.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Friday, 15 February 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
I thought you would have voted Mahavishnu for sure
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Friday, 15 February 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
^^haha I was thinking the same
― aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 16 February 2019 03:05 (five years ago) link
Middle school vs grad school
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Saturday, 16 February 2019 23:17 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
Master of Reality
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
popol vuh just slightly ahead of “journey” and sly
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
the hardest one yet imo !
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 03:47 (five years ago) link
calstars you seem unsure who to vote for
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 11:59 (five years ago) link
surf's up is the best album that's 50% bullshit
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Wednesday, February 13, 2019 6:39 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Haaaaa, I love the album and that's actually very otm.
― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi , 0
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 00:04 (five years ago) link
Hey! I wasn't the only who voted for Curtis! Internet fist bump to you, stranger with impeccable taste!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 00:17 (five years ago) link
The pressure's on Ege Bamyasi now.
― jmm, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 00:21 (five years ago) link
Luckily nothing else good came out in '72.
― jmm, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 00:26 (five years ago) link
let's see how this compares, Top 5 or so:
Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1971 poll
14 Can - Tago Mago 95 Joni Mitchell - Blue 93 The Who - Who's Next 62 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV 56 Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On 511 Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story 5
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1972
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 00:50 (five years ago) link
― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch)
it's frustrating because i put together a version containing only songs written by people with the last name "wilson" and it's consistently great in a way none of their albums except "pet sounds" are
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 02:46 (five years ago) link
These polls are just going to me endlessly rotating between Nick Drake, Can, King Crimson and Beefheart
― ٩༼ º෴º ༽۶ (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 02:52 (five years ago) link
What a damn year, that so many all-time classics could possibly wind up with zero votes!
― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 05:00 (five years ago) link
I think I'd like Pawn Hearts a lot more if I had a better sounding version. The 2005 CD I've got actually sent me off to the Hoffman forums to see if it was derided over and sure enough it gets slated for being very compressed. Prog is often so badly served by remasters.
― *there's (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 11:05 (five years ago) link
― *there's (Noel Emits)
yeah, the 2005 remasters are pretty awful unfortunately. this was before steven wilson came along (god it'd be great if he did pawn hearts)
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
the Pawn Hearts one has some good bonus tracks on it at least. the one that really disappoints me is Least We Can Do b/c the original master sounds pretty bad to me, but the 2005 version is brickwalled to the point where it's kinda painful to listen to.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
I've been listening to a playlist of albums that came out in October 1971 (pretty great moment, including the inexplicably left-out-of-this-poll Electric Warrior) and am really getting into Heron- Twice as Nice & Half the Price, a pretty loose folk rock double album where the singers routinely make each other crack up and the guitars sometimes remind me of Pavement. Like on "Big A":
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjAs42G7YThAhUN0IMKHf4iDY0QtwIIKjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsbdCyyy6_J4&usg=AOvVaw2lsOyzw8zaWnfZaG8mkv-R
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 15 March 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
Il n'y a pas vraiment deep question
― Et Dieu crea l' (Michael White), Saturday, 16 March 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
There are a number of "1971 album" threads to choose to revive. I was reading a website this morning that suggested that Nektar's Journey to the Centre of the Eye was the best debut of 1971. I can neither confirm nor deny, but I started thinking that there are relatively few canonical debuts from that year - it's like there was a period of consolidation after the rush of innovation over the previous half-decade or so.
The following debut albums from this year are ranked on Acclaimed Music. Crosby and Blunstone, and perhaps John McLaughlin, were of course veteran artists making a solo or group debut:
The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting FlameJohn PrineDavid Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My NameBill Withers - Just As I AmFaustComus - First UtteranceJudee SillColin Blunstone - One YearHound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers
Anyway, my choice for debut album of the year is Halfnelson AKA Sparks, which stands out of time as much as any proto-punk record of the year you might name.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 22 January 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
Allman Brothers "At Fillmore East" seems a pretty big record to be missing here thus far from '71.
Rory Gallagher's "Duece" is another good LP from '71. Probably not my favorite from the year, but it is my favorite of his studio albums. His debut solo record also came out in '71.
ZZ Top's "First Album", Little Feat and Thin Lizzy were a few other notable debuts in '71.
A few more notables from '71...
Jeff Beck Group "Rough and Ready"Humble Pie "Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore"Jimi Hendrix "The Cry of Love" Jethro Tull "Aqualung"Freddie King "Getting Ready"John Lennon "Imagine"Grateful Dead "Skull and Roses"Grand Funk Railroad "E Plurbius Funk"Badfinger "Straight Up"James Brown "Revolution of the Mind"
Just a crazy good year for LPs...
― earlnash, Sunday, 22 January 2023 18:12 (one year ago) link
These bands are usually regarded as peaking several albums later, although I was surprised how much Phil Lynott was already himself on that first Lizzy record; I was expecting a more run-of-the-mill heavy approach.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 22 January 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
Not if you live outside the USA.
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 January 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
Did the Allman Brothers never tour outside the US?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 22 January 2023 20:46 (one year ago) link
It struck me that the first albums by Faust and Sparks beat Roxy Music by a year in terms of introducing post-modernism to rock...unless you think Zappa got there before any of them.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 23 January 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
My favorite album of 1971 would also be my favorite debut of 1971, Judee Sill
― o. nate, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:19 (one year ago) link
As would mine. Gilbert's Himself.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link
Others besides O'Sullivan that I love but haven't been mentioned
The Scratch Orchestra - The Great LearningPaul and Linda McCartney - RamNick Drake - Bryter Layter (now officially 71 not 70)Lou Christie Sacco - Paint America LoveThe Keith Tippett Group - Dedicated to You, But You Weren't ListeningFreddie Hubbard and İlhan Mimaroğlu - Sing Me a Song of SongmyBrian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at JoujoukaTONTO's Expanding Head Band - Zero TimeThe StylisticsCarla Bley and Paul Haines - Escalator Over the HillBeau - CreationKingdom Come - Galactic Zoo DisasterEdgar Broughton BandOsibisa
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:39 (one year ago) link
"Did the Allman Brothers never tour outside the US?"
Got kind of curious about that myself after the question was posed. I did not figure the original band ever did as they were really only getting pretty popular with Duane Allman died. They don't appear to have played much in the 70s in Europe, but I found some notices that they headlined a festival at Knebworth in 1974.
Later on, I got to figure some of Greg Allman's arrest issues might have made it hard for him to get visas and it was probably just more profitable for them to keep playing in the US.
I did find note that Greg Allman and Cher did some dates together in Japan and Europe. Of course this tour from what is reads was also what done in the marriage for good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_the_Hard_Way_Tour
― earlnash, Monday, 23 January 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link
It looks like they played Montreal a couple of months before Duane died.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 23 January 2023 22:47 (one year ago) link