anthology is the one i heard, it was too much and too dispiriting as a whole. this one is a great album
but even aside from what happened to the band on a personal level the version of "rock" you hear on these 60s tracks feels so much more radically open than what people later decided rock was supposed to mean. parts of it do eventually feed into disco esp via 70s R&B (no longer accepted as rock to rock's detriment) including but actually not primarily their/his own 70s work. i can't be cynical about the early lyrics bc it's easy & the cynicism feels like it comes from a much smaller place than the lyrics did, one with at least some connection to the backlashes & disillusonments that made earnest pleas for social change seem *so obviously* corny or naive to basicall y everyone over the next few decades
― Left, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link