The 70s - 80's was a great decade for music. What is your top ten or twelve albums, prog or otherwise. Here's mine:
Led Zepplin IV
Paul McCartney Ram
Genesis Foxtrot
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
King Crimson Red
Joni Mitchell Blue
Neil Young After The Goldrush
Yes Close to the Edge
Pink Floyd Meddle
George Harrison All Things Must Pass
Zappa Apostrophe
I could have easily have listed twelve more.
Yes -CTTE
Yes -Fragile
Yes-Relayer
Yes -The Yes Album
Alice Cooper -Killer
David Bowie -Aladin Sane
Uriah Heep-Demons & Wizards
Utopia -Ra
Budgie -Squawk
UFO -Lights Out
Stranglers -Rattus Norvegicus
Boston -Boston
From the 70's? One possible answer:
Queen: A Day At The Races
Hawkwind: Space Ritual
Pink Floyd: Animals
Kiss: Dressed To Kill
Uriah Heep: Live
Allman Brothers Band: Live At Fillmore East
Grateful Dead: American Beauty
Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
The Who: By Numbers
Magma: Köhntarkösz
Miles Davis: Pangaea
Genesis: A Trick Of The Tail
Those were the first 12 that came to mind. Tomorrow, it'll probably be a different 12.
What's the Grateful Dead movie soundtrack? Is that the one for Play River Music for Apocalypse Now?
Originally Posted by hippypants
http://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Dead-...vie+soundtrack
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Hmmm. These come to mind as personal favorites today.
Genesis - Selling England
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail (Trespass & Foxtrot might make the list on a different day)
PFM - Per Un Amico
Gentle Giant - Power & The Glory (hard to pick only one GG album)
Yes - Close To The Edge
Yes - Tales
Yes - Relayer
Bo Hansson - Lord of the Rings (or Magician's Hat)
King Crimson - Islands
Hatfield & The North - Rotters Club
Arti & Mestieri - Giro Der Valzer Per Domani
Ooooh ! Favorite 70s albums? I'll play (in no particular order)
Electric Light Orchestra - On The Third Day
Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
Yes - Fragile
Yes - Close To The Edge
Ethos - Open Up
Earth,Wind, & Fire - Spirit
Steely Dan - Aja
Stanley Clarke - School Daze
Rush - Caress Of Steel
Sweet - Give Us A Wink
Klaatu - 3:47 EST
theres prolly a few more
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar babies
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny & Mutation
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy
Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Bruford - One Of A Kind
Dixie Dregs - What If
Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Those albums were in heavy rotation during my teenage years growing up in the 70s.
I could add another 100 that I discovered in the 80s and beyond.
Last edited by nosebone; 08-29-2013 at 09:10 AM.
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
12 today, in no particular order. Could be another 12 easily any other day.
Yes- Relayer
Genesis- Wind & Wuthering
Black Sabbath- Sabotage
UFO- Strangers in the Night
BOC- Tyranny & Mutation
Jethro Tull- A Passion Play
Gentle Giant- Power & The Glory
Judas Priest- Stained Class
Frank Zappa/MOI- One Size Fits All
Jimi Hendrix- Cry of Love
Yes- Close to the Edge
VdGG- Pawn Hearts
It's the five CD soundtrack to the Grateful Dead Movie, which was filmed in October 1974 at the Winterland in San Francisco. It is in my opinion the best concert film ever made. Although the soundtrack release didn't appear until the 21st century, I reckon that the fact that it was recorded in the 70's, and the original movie was released in 1977, qualifies it as a "70's era album".
Last edited by GuitarGeek; 08-28-2013 at 09:47 PM.
There are too many to even try to list only twelve.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!
Now that is a fine list!
Also not a fixed dozen, (but fairly close to what got the most spins)
.
Zappa / Grand Wazoo or Waka Jawaka
PFM / Cook
Kraan / Live
Soft Machine / too hard to pick just one
Miles Davis Jack Johnson
Can / Future Days
King Crimson / Larks Tongues
B.O.C. / Tyranny and Mutation
Scorpions / Fly To The Rainbow
Patto / Patto
Mahavishnu Orchestra / Inner Mounting Flame
Larry Coryell / Fairyland
That's why I won't bother.... don't want to waste time and energy in eliminating great albums
Anyway in rock, my 70's list woulmd probably be my all-time listy
in Jazz & JR/F, my 70's list would probably have to make space for two or three 60's albums, but that would be close to my all-time liust as well
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
King Crimson – Red
Mahavishnu Orchestra – Inner Mounting Flame
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Brian Eno – Another Green World
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Led Zeppelin - IV
King Crimson – Larks Tongues In Aspic
Miles Davis – Jack Johnson
Yes - The Yes Album
Gentle Giant - In A Glass House
National Health – Of Cues And Cures
Can – Ege Bamyasi
Banquo--thanks for the link to the GD movie. I went over to NF to see if they handled the movie, which they may have at one time, but I see it's a "Saved" movie now, and doesn't look like they plan on buying another copy.
B.O.C. / Tyranny and Mutation--a couple of picks of this one. I have their first two albums and the Don't Fear the Reaper album. I might have to check it out.
It's my favorite BOC album.
Banco - Io Sono Nato Libero
YES - Relayer
National Health - Of Queues and Cures
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
PFM - Storia Di Un Minuto
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
Area - Arbeit Macht Frei
Genesis - THe Lamb
Zappa - One Size Fits All
Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Van Der Graff - Pawn Hearts
Ask again tomorrow, and the list will probably be different.
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
Pink Floyd - Animals
Yes - Going For The One
Steely Dan - Aja
King Crimson - Red
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Elton John - Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
U.K. - U.K.
Bruford - One Of A Kind
P.F.M. - Jet Lag
F.M. - Black Noise
Gentle Giant - In A Glass House
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
I'll limit this to 70s albums that got ridiculous amount of plays from me as a kid (in the 70s):
Aerosmith-Rocks
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Kiss - Destroyer
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
Queen - Night At The Opera
Zappa - Overnight Sensation
I could easily name dozens more....the 70s are my favorite.
Keeping it to one album per band:
Bruford - One of a Kind
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down
Yes - Relayer
Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Dixie Dregs - What If
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Chick Corea & RTF - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
The Brecker Brothers - s/t
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All
Last edited by No Pride; 08-29-2013 at 01:25 PM.
Tyranny is their second album, and my favorite.
Still Life------VDGG
The Silent Corner and Empty Stage----pH
One Size Fits All------FZ
John Barleycorn Must Die-----Traffic
Led Zeppelin III----LZ
Animals-----Pink Floyd
Rattus Norvegicus----The Stranglers
A Passion Play----Jethro Tull
Highway To Hell---AC/DC
Mutiny Up My Sleeve----Max Webster
"The woods would be very silent if the only birds that sang were those who sang best..." - Henry David Thoreau
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