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I'm stuck. I've tried some of the suggestions that you guys provided in my previous post, but those really just get the big, well-known, common, early 1970's "hits".
I've even posted for Mike Fremer's help in this matter - since he's the very personification of the rock listener to which I'm referring: long haired, counter-culture type, 20 to 30 something in the early 1970's. Additionally, Mr. Fremer's an expert rock critic - so that this should be a well known part of his very life.
So far, he hasn't responded.
So, again, I'm searching for rock music that was on hip turntables during the years 1970-1973, but not the stuff that was a big hit. I don't need Carole King. I need the other stuff.
So, here's the list I've gathered so far. Here's your challenge; here's your mission, should you be brave enough to accept it: you add to the list in the style and spirit of the list so far.
Step up and put your music in!
Spirit - "Nature's Way"
Wishbone Ash "Blind Eye"
Grand Funk Railroad - "I'm Your Captain/I'm Getting Closer To My Home"
Jethro Tull - "My Sunday Feeling"
Eric Clapton - "Let It Rain"
Creedance Clearwater - "Ramble Tamble"
Neil Young - "Tell Me Why"
Ten Years After - "I'd Love To Change The World"
Severius! Supremus Invictus
Follow Ups:
Yes-Close to the Edge '72
All 3 songs
It was all about albums not songs (like someone else says below). I was not "hip" enough for this stuff but I'll add (in retrospect) the Paul Kantner/Grace Slick collaborations, Funkedelics Maggot Head, Rory Gallaghers Live In Europe and Sly & the Family Stone's Stand and There's A Riot Goin' On to the list (yea those listening to that stuff had to be much hipper than me). Me I was discovering Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, the Doors and the Beatles, while following Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd during this period. An unbelievably tasty era of music.
Steve Harley and the Cockney Rebels, Make Me Smile, 1975
this was the peak period for the Stones work. Stick Fingers, Let it Bleed Beggars Banquet- 3 of the greatest albums ever, that were such a part of those times.
Then the DSOTM the most overplayed album of that time (I am finally coming back to it now, but overplaying sort of killed it.(much like happened to Massive Attack and various other bands that you ear every time you walk into a cafe/bookshop etc.)
Oh we listened to Albums then not songs:)
Did not listen to individual songs in those days.
Television Marquee Moon
Ramones Rocket to Russia (or any of their first 4)
Fairport Convention Liege and Lief
Roxy Music Siren (or again any of their first 4)
John Prine first album
David Bowie Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust
Stooges Fun House
Kraftwerk Autobahn
Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire
T. Rex Electric Warrior
Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman
great list, but Television might be a bit later than 73 by the way, i saw Lucinda Williams a few years ago and he band did a falling version of Marquee Moon (that are her support act as well)
Yes I checked you're right even though Television started in 74 their album did not come out until 77. A few years ago, I read the very interesting memoir of Richard Hell about starting the band with Tom Verlaine and the early scene that may now be considered pre-punk.
OK I will replace that with New York Dolls, which I previously forgot, and which my friend Mike Sherman was hip to before anyone else I knew. Must have been about 74.
I just finished a talking heads book, so I was pretty up on Television :)
Coming off:
"Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)"
Waiting for:
WYWH and APP I Robot.
Did anything else matter, if you had long hair.
I see you're at this again and you've decided to stop using disparaging remarks concerning these iconic rock bands in order to get responses. If you hate rock & roll so much why not just pick a different subject to write about.
Martin
Sounds like you're looking for songs as opposed to albums based on the examples provided. If so, I'll toss some out:
Captain Beyond - Dancing Madly Backwards
J. Geils Band off the Full House Album - First I look at the Purse
The Who from Live at Leeds - Young Man Blues... or just about anything else on that LP
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Black Sabbath - Iron Man and/or War Pigs
Camel - Lunar Sea
Edgar Winter's White Trash - Tobacco Road
Blue Oyster Cult - The Red and the Black Itself
Foghat - Ride, Ride, Ride
These are some of the songs that we were rockin to back in the day, but why not find you're own? So easy to explore using spotifty, pandora, itunes music, etc. Those were the early days of underground FM stations that played less commercial stuff that was as good or better than any of the more mainstream music.
Free Live 1972
Rory Gallagher Live in Europe 1972
Wishbone Ash Argus 1972
Average White Band Eponymous 1974
Argent In Deep 1973
Alex Harvey Next 1973
Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story 1973
Status Quo Piledriver 1972
Little Feat Feats don't fail me now 1974
Some great concert memories there to....
Great idea for a Thread. Now I need to build a playlist of as many of these as I can find in my collection!
A few additions, couple of Texas-centric thoughts: there was a lot of fun stuff cooking in the Hill Country back then, the fusion of myriad cultures and a devil-may-care attitude:
Iggy Pop and the Stooges / Fun House (1970)
ZZ Top / Tres Hombres (1973)
Sir Douglas Quintet / Together After Five (1970)
Jerry Jeff Walker / Viva Terlingua (1973)
Roy Buchanan / Roy Buchanan (1973)
Genesis / Nursery Cryme (1971)
Rolling Stones-Exile on Main Street
Velvet Underground -Loaded
Bowie- Hunky Dory; Ziggy...
Waylon Jennings- Honky Tonk Heroes
Serge Gainsbourg-historie de melody nelson
Funkadelic S/T
Bonus-pick an Italian film soundtrack from that period, e.g., Piero Piccioni-Colpo Rovente.
Antonio Carlos Jobim-Stone Flower
Just get a cupla songs off each of these albumsMott The Hoople, All The Young Dudes
War, The World Is A Ghetto
Lou Reed, Transformer
The Byrds, Untitled
Jerry Jeff Walker, Viva Terlingua
Neil Diamond, Hot August Night
Free, Fire and Water
Isaac Hayes, Shaft
Gil Scott Heron, Pieces Of A Man
Howlin' Wolf, The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
Nilsson, Nilsson Schmilsson
These should take care of you for awhile
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"E Burres Stigano?"
Edits: 04/21/17
Lots of great music and memories there.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
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"E Burres Stigano?"
Frank Zappa - "Willie the Pimp"
Johnny Winter And - "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
Mountain - "Never In My Life"
The James Gang - "The Bomber"
The Mahavishnu Orchestra - "Meeting of the Spirits"
Redbone - "Maggie"
Pink Floyd - "One of These Days"
Tim Buckley Greetings from LA 1973
The Beach Boys in Concert 1973
John Cale Paris 1919 1973
Nico Desertshore 1970
Curtis Mayfield Roots 1971
Weather Report I Sing The Body Electric 1972
Miles Davis Bitches Brew 1970
Jackson Brown Jackson Brown 1972
Ry Cooder Into The Purple Valley 1972
Captain Beefheart Lick My Decals Off 1970
I've been enjoying these since they came out, with the exception of the Santana LP, which for
some reason I did not discover until much later.Steppenwolf - For Ladies Only - 1971
Rare Earth - One World - 1971
Steve Miller Band - Number 5 - 1970
Little Feat - Sailing Shoes - 1972
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken - 1973
Buddy Miles - Them Changes - 1970
Santana - Caravanserai - 1972
Manassas - Manassas - 1972
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Edits: 04/21/17
2 more-
T Rex, Slider '71
Temptations, All Directions - Esp. Papa was a Rolling Stone - '72
Happy Listening
I'll pick Black Sabbath's eponymous debut album and the follow-up Paranoid... 1970 and 1971 respectively.
Regards,
SF
Roxy Music - eponymous album - released in '71
King Crimson - in the court of the Crimson King - '69
John Mayall, Back to the Roots - Great album! '71
Kinks: Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One '70
Two of the best albums to be released in 1970: Working Man's Dead & American Beauty, and in '72, out comes the triple - Europe '72
Traffic: John Barlycorn...'70; Low Spark...'71
David Bromberg - eponymous album 1970
Chicago - produced their first album just before your period, and then produce 4 more '70-'73
Styx - 2 albums '72 & '73
There is lots more...
Not sure quite what you are looking for-
Happy Listening
Well, everyone's idea of hip will be different-to me, none of the records you list above would have ever been considered hip, with the possible exception of Neil Young, and Spirit. I was only a early teen in those years, but we considered David Bowie the hippest ting going at that time. Later, I would discover solo Lou Reed, solo Iggy Pop, the first Modern Lovers record (recorded in '72 but released in '76,) and the New York Dolls, all from the early 70's. Obviously, I grew up in white America!
Now I would say the hippest things in the early 70's were in the r'and b' field: Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and as always James Brown. And you shouldn't forget that the early seventies saw the emergence of the first third world superstar-Bob Marley and the Wailers, whose records would have been on the turntables of hippest folks of the time--black or white.
But you have to find your own path to hip; you can be hipped to the hip, but only if you're hip. You dig? But one could place to start to get a handle on the 70's would be via the self declared "Dean" of the rock critics (and rock critics were larger than live cultural figures in their own right in the 70's) Robert Christigau, who as the Village Voice's head rock critic was one of the major delineators and arbitrators of hip.
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