Why is Mellow Candle on this list???
― calstars, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 01:34 (five years ago) link
My second vote would be Exile
― calstars, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 01:35 (five years ago) link
“acabou chorare” and “transa” are two of the very best records released anywhere, ever.
as for this list, well !
maybe miles, popol vuh, or aretha.
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 01:36 (five years ago) link
“harvest” the best-selling album of 1972 btw
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 01:37 (five years ago) link
early 70s were an embarrassment of riches
― calumy (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 02:18 (five years ago) link
yup
― calstars, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 02:30 (five years ago) link
exile
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link
for the record i am not generally one to stan for yes but having "foxtrot" on this poll but not "close to the edge", which is the one record of theirs that has consistently top-notch writing, is pure bs
here's what i have, as per usual my tags are shit so please forgive any misdatings
alan sorrenti - ariaamerican spring - springarthur verocai - s/tbanco del mutuo soccorso - darwin!berto pisano - kill!bill withers - still bill (i know you only had room for 50 but this is even more egregious an omission than close to the edge)bonga - angola 72catherine ribeiro & alpes - paixcharles tolliver and music inc - live at slug'scontraction - s/tcoulson, dean, mcguinness, flint - lo and beholddakila - s/tdavid fanshawe - african sanctusdelia derbyshire - electrosonicdiabolus - high tonesdimos moutsis - agios febrouariosdon bradshaw-leather - the distance between usthe dramatics - whatcha see is whatcha geteddie kendricks - people... hold onel polen - cholothe facedancers - s/tflamengo - kure v hodinkachfranco battiato - fetusi teoremi - s/tjean-claude vannier - l'enfant assassin des moucheskhan - space shantyles mccann - invitation to opennesslove cry want - s/tmadhouse - serve 'emmarcos valle - vento sulmirageman - thunder and lightningmtume umoja ensemble - alkebu-lan, land of the blacksnight sun - mournin'novos baianos - acabou chorarethe pharaohs - awakeningpiel de pueblo - rock de las heridapiero umiliani - il mondo dei romani (this one is great, the historic analog synthesizer music of ancient rome, but if you're not feeling that musica dell'era tecnologica and to-day's sound are from the same year, umiliani was killin' it in '72)premiata forneria marconi - per un amicoquarteto em cy - s/truth white - short circuitssandrose - s/tslapp happy - sort ofsteve miller band - journey from edenstringtronics - mindbenderthe supremes - floy joyt rex - the slider (a more egregious omission than "still bill"? maybe not, but egregious!)tribo masaahi - estrelando embaixador (a recent ilm poll loser!)william s. fischer - akelarrewilliam sheller - lux aeterna
some absolute ringers on your list, though, torn between, like, half the records on your list, voted "superfly" basically by throwing a dart
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 03:06 (five years ago) link
On the Corner, obviously.
really only into OTC, Pink Moon, Eat a Peach here. the Bowie and Steely Dan have great songs but are uneven.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 05:39 (five years ago) link
Voted for the Stones in one of the earlier polls. So it’s Big Star over Stevie and Bowie.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 05:54 (five years ago) link
after the first roxy music album the music world was not the same as before.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 06:26 (five years ago) link
Can or Chick
― brimstead, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 06:29 (five years ago) link
Or the Dan
― brimstead, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 06:41 (five years ago) link
I had no idea you were such a Krautrock fan.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 07:42 (five years ago) link
1972 was an amazing year in Brazil:Caetano Veloso, TransaGilberto Gil, Expresso 2222Jorge Ben, BenLô Borges, s/tMilton Nascimento & Lô Borges, Clube da EsquinaNelson Ângelo e Joyce, s/tOs Novos Baianos, Acabou Chorare
― rob, 20. februar 2019 02:20 (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Such an amazing list, though I'm not the biggest fan of Transa. But Expresso 2222, what a record!
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 08:30 (five years ago) link
neu just ahead of ege and 666
― nxd, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 09:41 (five years ago) link
Vol 4: GOAT
― Neil S, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 09:41 (five years ago) link
Either On the Corner or Exile on Main St..
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 09:45 (five years ago) link
You may also have heard of this band called YES. They put out a pretty good record that year.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 09:47 (five years ago) link
Definitely won't be voting for a Black Sabbath LP this time. Voting Foxtrot.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 09:58 (five years ago) link
Fecking tough, this one.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 10:27 (five years ago) link
"On The Corner" over Big Star, and that's a very recent change.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 10:31 (five years ago) link
Wolf City over Roforofo Fight
― *there's (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 10:50 (five years ago) link
"On The Corner" over Big Star Can, and that's a very recent change.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 10:58 (five years ago) link
Some excellent albums but fewer that I'm truly over the moon about. I think maybe I just haven't dug sufficiently deeply into '72? Must rectify.
My gut response is one of the Ornette albums. They're both phenomenal.
― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 11:27 (five years ago) link
I had no idea you were such a Krautrock fan.― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.),
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.),
for about 25 years. Was tough tracking it down before Napster though
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 12:25 (five years ago) link
and ftr I just don't like the band Yes
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link
Well, we agree on that, at least.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 12:41 (five years ago) link
can't not vote for Ege Bamyasi here. but Faust So Far is a close second. always loved that album. "No Harm" is still one of the most exciting tracks in my collection.
I do agree that not including Close to the Edge is pretty odd given the other stuff on here. That's my favorite of '72, hands down. I still love ELP's Trilogy as well.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
Al Green is usually the correct answer for any '70s albums, so that.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
I just dont like Yes!
And you all know as the years go on a certain other band whom I hate wont be appearing that is beloved by many people.
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
but hey, you cant like everything
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
Neechy: it's only this morning occurring to me that the Nite-Liters, an early '70s instrumental R&B/funk combo similar to many of the acts among your favorite, have been so consistently absent from these polls that I wonder if you're familiar with them? Because if you aren't I would recommend them most highly.
― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
The era seems to have been a major purple patch, though i think I would have started in '68. Not sure where I'd cut off. THough think 73 seems to be the end of that run for a lot of people. Might be influenced by the idea that pubnk was the major grond changer so the years before it get swept away as needing to be before the year zero. I think there were still some great things coming out in '74 and '75 that don't fit into that model.& that model is probably artificial, though it did see a whole bunch of new people recognising they could pick up instruments and do it for themselves. That might have initially been suggested by interest caused by the release of Nuggets in '72 though and a return to basic hook ridden non meandering self importance.
Or maybe p[eople were already doing things like that in patches across teh globe and that is what gives us things like rocket from The Toimbs, Simply Saucer and the avant-garage or whatever you want to call that.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
old lunch, I have not but will defo check them out, thanks!
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
Stevolende I'll be doing lists up to 79, so we can see the changes then.I wont do 80s polls as my tastes will differ from ilm.
Would be nice if someone else did a top 50 for every year of the 80s and polled them though.
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
Exile, my favorite record by anyone
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
Also Sandy Denny's "Sandy" is a personal favorite
Great record. From these, it’s between Argus and Can’t Buy a Thrill for me.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
Roforofo Fight, my favorite Fela.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
Voted for Skies of America but a lot of great stuff here.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
xpI voted for Gentleman in the earlier poll, but every time I get to the Fela entry on the list, I'm tempted. This time I somewhat randomly voted for Popol Vuh with Can and Davis being the closest contenders. Black Unity is rad too.
― Frederik B
Going through it, I was definitely a little doubtful that all those came out in the same year (and past polls have shown my itunes to be suspect). Transa was my entry point into Tropicalia/MPB, so I'll always have a soft spot for it, but Expresso is pure joy! The Arthur Verocai album rushomancy listed is great too, and while I can't claim to have ever fully loved it Veloso's Araçá Azul is notable.
Oor Neechy: you should poll all the discoveries you made as a result of these polls when you're done.
― rob, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
yeah that's a good idea
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
I like these polls for making me scroll through my collection by year. Now I'm listening to Congregacion's "Viene" (from '72). They're Chilean psych-folk, the "folk" being Andean and it's mournful and melancholy rather than sunny and dippy. I picked this up back when RARE PSYCH reissues were coming out every few minutes, but unlike a lot of disappointing junk I bought then, this album is quite good so long as hippy flutes and bird sounds don't bother you.
― rob, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
Roxy Music for me, a life-changer. Such an audacious debut, such a whirl of aural and visual ideas.
― Dial Alexa, derelict! (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
It's possible that I'm presently overrating Skies of America because, y'know, events but it feels to me like the most perfectly frank aural interpretation of the American experience that I've maybe ever heard. Like an album of patriotic anthems left to warp in a sunlit and trash-strewn gutter.
― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
Pink Moon.👍🏻
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
will need to remember I already did 1973 so 1974 will be next (and eno voters can rejoice unless its proven it was out 73)
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 18:50 (five years ago) link
maybe by the 79 poll we will have resolved it
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
There's only 1 #1 Record.
― dorsalstop, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
― rob
fyi el polen are peruvian and not chilean but they are very much on the same tip, recommended
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Thursday, 21 February 2019 00:24 (five years ago) link
This is Hosianna Mantra right now. Foxtrot, Ege Bamyasi, Pink Moon are also very important.
― jmm, Thursday, 21 February 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
And the Ash Ra album. Germany owned this year.
― jmm, Thursday, 21 February 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
No Captain Beyond!
― bidfurd, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
Between Roxy Music, Vol 4 and Argus otherwise
― bidfurd, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
Don’t be shy, just vote Vol 4 and get it over with
― calstars, Thursday, 21 February 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link
Wishbone Ash are pretty important too in the development of heavy metal with their twin guitar leads that pretty much every 70s metal band inc Judas Priest say influenced them.
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Friday, 22 February 2019 10:58 (five years ago) link
Went with Exile on Main St because you hipsters are bound to underrate it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 22 February 2019 10:59 (five years ago) link
write-in for The Slider
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 22 February 2019 11:53 (five years ago) link
Exile is good but I voted for Sticky Fingers (which I prefer anyway) in the last poll so I’m going to follow my heart and vote for Argus.
― o. nate, Friday, 22 February 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
have voted hiply in the other polls but this comes down to Exile and Roxy
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Friday, 22 February 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
It was the Neu! debut for me but it wasn't a quick decision. 73 and 74 choices are going to be a bitch.
― doug watson, Friday, 22 February 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
you missed 73 that was the 1st poll
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
Best Album on my Favourite albums of 1973 (The year I was born) list
Right... it's a late vote for For Your Pleasure then
― doug watson, Friday, 22 February 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
obligatory list of albums I like that aren't mentioned:
Alice Cooper - School's OutBudgie - SquawkDeep Purple - Machine HeadDust - Hard AttackHawkwind - Doremi Fasol LatidoJames Brown - Get On The Good FootSlade - Slayed?Velvert Turner Group - s/t
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 22 February 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
yeah i had to cut the budgie album
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Saturday, 23 February 2019 21:02 (five years ago) link
that dust album is also very good
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Monday, 25 February 2019 00:04 (five years ago) link
I hope herbie escapes the 0 votes this time but If anyone hasn't heard the brilliant McCoy Tyner album then you really really must. Even deej might agree!
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Monday, 25 February 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
Lots of mindblowingly great albums on this list, but only Pink Moon is perfect.
― ⅋ (crüt), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
Exile is by far the best stones album. Voted for it
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 01:39 (five years ago) link
& May the good lord shine a light on you all
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link
exile going to walk this?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 12:28 (five years ago) link
I had to go with Exile. Tough one. 7 or 8 strong contenders from this year
― . (Michael B), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 12:40 (five years ago) link
On a cold winter’s night, world weary rock gods find a clearing in the woodsso as to build a fire and rest and drink some wine. They drink and smoke andunfold stories of their long journey of conquests and mishaps.
― nicky lo-fi, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
It's not wholly 'perfect' but three or four brilliant songs is enough so going with my first thought Wolf City, also because it probably won't get too many votes in this grouping.
― *there's (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
a lot of great albums have got zero votes so far
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
I think we can all agree that this was a great, sunny, edgy year
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
Of the ones that didn't get a vote, I really love the Charles Mingus and the Allman Brothers.
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 01:30 (five years ago) link
I have that Chick Corea album. It's pretty good too.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 01:51 (five years ago) link
Too bad that Ornette Coleman fans split their votes.
― aworks, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 01:53 (five years ago) link
that's a lot of votes!
― sold out in presale (sleeve), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 01:58 (five years ago) link
exile is a bore imo, worst winner yet
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
fp'd ^^
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 03:21 (five years ago) link
wow way more votes than I expected. I'll start 74 shortly (for those late to the game 1973 was the 1st year I polled)
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 12:38 (five years ago) link
oh shit i have 60 albums on it. what to leave out
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link
I take back what I said, you're not hipsters after all.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 12:45 (five years ago) link
Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1974
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 12:50 (five years ago) link
Listening to Dr. John's Gumbo today, and it occurred to me that I've listened to that more than anything on this list, including the Roxy Music album I voted for.
― While My Guitar Gently Wheedly-Wheedly-Wheedly-Weeps (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
The Top 5 played from my listening list kept since '96.
Rolling Stones- Exile on Main St.Deep Purple- Machine HeadBlack Sabbath- Vol. 4Pink Floyd- Obscured by CloudsZZ Top- Rio Grande Mud
― earlnash, Saturday, 9 March 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link
Earl, How do you track your listening? Assume if it’s back to 1996 it’s not computer plays tracked by software.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Saturday, 9 March 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
I have been keeping a couple of Excel spreadsheets and an Access database I built years ago. Same setup tracks my Cds and LPs. It started on an old Windows 3.1 box.
― earlnash, Saturday, 9 March 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
Only one other voter for Foxtrot??
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Saturday, 9 March 2019 23:49 (five years ago) link