FIlling In Your Holes
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A contemporary who has been a close friend since the late 70's and I compiled a list of every record (we think) one should have if one wants to recapitulate the early "explosion" years in R & R. Though our list includes releases well before 1967, that was the magical year of the beginning of the FM Rock Revolution. AOR didn't stand for "Adult Oriented Rock," it was used to denote ALBUM (non-hit) OR. Sometimes songs or artists could be both, but you would never hear deep cuts on AM, let alone new album releases played front to back, w/o interruption, the second the station got it in-hand.
So, basically, we're covering '66 through about '82, though there may be a few artists before and after those years, 'cause we would want to include them on every list. More importantly, we went from AOR to MTV's early, yet most influential times. There IS no sucky decade. There's tons of 70's in here and almost none of it is disco.
We met and hit it off in college because of R & R. We were both Beefheart fans, so that sort of sealed the deal.
This list includes "Kevin things" I can't stand, and "Bob things" that he can't. We wanted to try to keep as much on the table as possible. Disagree at will. It's just the ramblings of 2 geezers (who were THERE when you weren't, punks!), so play it at is lays. Outrages for omissions or inclusions encouraged. I said we were geezers, so we may have made omissions because of dementia precox.
Our individual lists were in alphabetical order, not by decade. We tried to pick not nec. our faves (sometimes we just had to!), but which albums by which artists we felt are the best examples of their sort. A great deal of these recordings were in EVERYONE'S 'plank and cinder block' book cases, cool, hip, or dweeb. No matter your musical mainstays, everyone owned Carol King's "Tapestry," everyone owned "Rumors," by Fleetwood Mac, most people had Beatles AND Stones albums, unless you were some die-hard, "them or us" person and couldn't understand any personality that allowed for BOTH Beatles AND Stones, and they were not in short supply. I am the only person in the world who owns "Orchestra Luna." Yeah, they were that gifted and unusual. We did try to stay away from "obscura" like that, but allowed each other a couple, otherwise, no "Buzzcocks!"
AC/DC Power Age Adam Ant Viva La Rock Aerosmith Toys in the Attic Argent In Deep B52's 1st release The Band Music from Big Pink Blind Faith 1st release Beatles Meet the.. Jeff Beck Truth BeeGee's Greatest Hits II Big Brother & The Holding Co. Cheap Thrills Big Star #1 Record Bloodwyn Pig A Head Ring Out Bowie Ziggy Buffalo Springfield Again The Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man Bauhaus The Sky Gone Out Buzzcocks Singles Bronski Beat Age of Consent Captain Beefheart Troutmask Replica The Cars 1st release Cream Disraeli Gears Culture Club Kissing to be Clever Cheap Trick 1st release Alice Cooper Pretties for You Credence Clearwater Revival Cosmos Factory CSN 1st release Elvis Costello My Aim is True The Cure Standing on the Beach Joe Cocker A Little Help from my Friends Donovan Catch the Wind Dylan Hgwy 61 ... Doors 1st release Devo Are We Not Men? Deep Purple Machine Head Delaney & Bonnie & Friends Derek & the Dominoes Layla Depeche Mode Some Great Reward Dire Straits 1st release Eno Here Come the Warm Jets Eurythmics Touch Eagles Desperado ELO New World Record Faces A Nod is as Good as a Wink Aretha Franklin Gold Foreigner 1st Four Seasons Hits Peter Frampton A Wind of Change Geo. Harrison All Things Must Pass Marvin Gaye Hits #1 Genesis Selling England by the Pound Grass Roots Golden Grass Ritchie Havens Mixed Bag Hendrix Electric Lady Land Hollies Hits Richard Hell Blank Generation Elton Caribou Jethro Tull Aqualung Joy Division Closer Janis Pearl M. Jackson Up Against the Wall Etta James Rock the House Billy Joel Turnstiles Tommy James Hits Kinks Everybody's a Star Kraftwerk Trans Euro... Kansas Masque Little Feat The Last Record Album Led Zep II Lovin' Spoonful Hits J. Lennon Imagine Mammas & Papas If You Can Believe... Joni Blue Mothers of Invention Uncle Meat Steve Miller Band Fly Like and Eagle P. McCartney 1st solo C. Mayfield Back to the Wall Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson Orchestra Luna only release Nazz Nazz Nazz Prince Sign o' the Times PIL First Issue Pink Floyd DSOTM Poco 2nd release Psychedelic Furs 1st release Procol Harum Home Quicksilver Messenger Service 1st release Queen Queen II Lou Rawls Tobacco Road O. Redding King & Queen Rascals Hits Ramones The Ramones Todd Rundgren Something/Anything Lou Reed Transformer Paul Revere and the Raiders Hits Roxy Music Country Life Linda Ronstadt Hits Rolling Stones Let it Bleed Stooges Raw Power Soft Cell Non-stop Erotic... The Smiths The Queen is Dead Patti Smith Horses Supertramp Breakfast in America Sweet Desolation Blvd. Sex Pistols Never Mind ... Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill Simon & Garfunkel Bookends Cat Sevens Tea for the Tillerman Supremes Hits Squeeze Argy Bargy T-Rex Slider Talking Heads 77 The Temptations Hits James Taylor Sweet Baby James 10cc Sheet Music Traffic John Barleycorn Must Die The Tubes The Tubes Stevie Wonder Innervisions Neil Young Harvest Yes Fragile
So you made it this far, huh? Well there's your summer reading list to review what so many were listening to in the mid-60's to the very early 80's. It runs the gamut from R & B, early garage rock through prog to new wave and punk---all in less than two decades. I was paying a lot more attention then. It's not definitive (i.e. neither of us liked early metal, so no Sabbath), but with these you'd get a great idea about what was going on in R & R and a bit of the world, too.
Edit: The proper spacers between artist name and title was lost when I copied from Word, sorry.
Last edited by BobKay; 04/30/14 08:49 PM.
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Boston and America omitted? Turnstiles over Stranger? Ok ok, I'll shut up.
This list is sick! Bob, once again, you emit awesome!
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Could've put more effort into this, Bob.
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I have to agree regarding The Stranger from Billy Joel.
And Led Zep II instead of IV?
I think Bob is going to arouse more ire here than if he had brought up politics or religion!
Hurry! To the pitchforks!
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No Yellow Brick Road?
Yeah, replace Led Zep II with their best album...Physical Graffiti.
Van Morrison? Doobies? Cap't and Tennille?
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Back in the day
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Great list. Although, there are some I like less than others, I wouldn't disagree with any of them.
Found it interesting that you listed CSN's FIRST album. The consensus seems to be that the second album, Deja Vu, was their benchmark album. Personally, though I loved Deja Vu, I always preferred the first album. Of course that was my first exposure to CSN. I was in Vietnam at the time, and that was my first exposure to reefer as well.
I had a cassette of that album which I played on a portable, monaural cassette player. If I placed KNOW I was hearing the album in stereo and nobody could convince me otherwise.
Glad you included Joni's "Blue." One of my very favorite albums. "I could drink a case of you.....darlin', and I would still be on my feet, oh I would still be on my feet."
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Great list, Bob. Brings back a lot of memories. I'm a little younger than you, but that period was certainly formative for me.
It looks like you are enforcing a one release per artist rule, which compels me to quibble with some of your choices. I can only guess that you are prioritizing cultural impact over artistic excellence by taking Breakfast in America over Crime of the Century, for instance. And I certainly like both Completion Backwards Principle and Remote Control better than the first Tubes album. How you got the Genesis pick correct is a mystery.
My list would also include Rush and The Who, whose omissions render you dead to me. Again.
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Why would he need something by the Who when he already has a choice for the preferred Led Zep?
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