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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 20, 2023 23:28:15 GMT
Geez, 1975 was a ghastly time for music..With Smith,Kraftwerk and Dictators off the board, trying not to default to the Reed/Bowie crutch is difficult and has left a musical, a proto-thrash Sabbath song and Lennon doing Ben E. King..Ugh..I'll come back to this.. There's more than just white acts available you know... Sorry DoD that came out more snarky than intended. I just think there's a lot more out there beyond the sort of standard alternative canon view that there was just Lou/Iggy/Bowie & a bit of krautrock and then punk came along to save us. It's a golden period for reggae, disco & Philly are reaching their high water mark, lots of interesting singer songwriters etc.
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Post by loveless on Feb 20, 2023 23:32:09 GMT
I’m far from a power pop fan, as far as I’m concerned, it’s too weedy and slight. Once in a while, though, I’ll find something that hits me, plus it’s time for me to pick something that isn’t r&b. This is what Tom Petty should have sounded like I’m On Fire - Dwight Twilley I love this track and album. If anything, I'd say it exists firmly outside of the power pop suburb/ghetto/cul-de-sac. There's a hard edged twanginess to Twilley (at this stage) that you don't really get from, say, Shoes.
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Post by davey on Feb 21, 2023 6:05:57 GMT
I had a very long list of records for 1975. But this one kept pulling at my sleeve. Not a landmark record in any cultural sense, just the best record Elton John ever made.
Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John
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Post by fange on Feb 21, 2023 11:33:39 GMT
^^ By coincidence (or was it fate) i was playing that album today and was struck for the 500th time how amazing a song that is.
One of my favourite miniscule moments in music: When Elton sings the lines...
You're a butterfly And butterflies are free to fly Fly away... fly away...
Man, that is just ALL sorts of great. Gives me a little bittersweet smile, every time.
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Post by fange on Feb 21, 2023 11:45:23 GMT
1975: The Headhunters - God Make Me Funky
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Post by osgood on Feb 21, 2023 14:27:17 GMT
1975
Bob Dylan & The Band - This Wheel's on Fire
The Basement Tapes was another stellar 1975 album for me. I learned much later about the recordings not being authentic, overdubs, blah, blah, blah. But the whole sound of this album as it was released then is just perfect for me. And this specific track placed at the very end feels like the arrival to paradise.
(It was the first version of the tune I'd heard, and still I see it as the definitive one)
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 21, 2023 17:53:30 GMT
I'm curious what Adam might pick, I've got a feeling he may go for something from Down the Jetty
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Post by osgood on Feb 21, 2023 18:13:25 GMT
I'm curious what Adam might pick, I've got a feeling he may go for something from Down the JettyOr Malpractice, also released in 1975. Back in the Night was on my short list.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Feb 21, 2023 18:25:54 GMT
Dammit, it's '74!! Never mind...
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 21, 2023 18:38:45 GMT
Fucking hell. Get it together man
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Post by toomanyhatz on Feb 22, 2023 5:23:25 GMT
OK fine.
1975:
The shifting pov. The shift from narrator to narrator (further expanded on live). And one of his best singing performances. Where the "Great American Song Tradition" and the hyperpersonal singer/songwriter one meet on a back road.
This was a hit single. So expanded were the possibilities in 1975 that something like this could be a hit.
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Post by davey on Feb 22, 2023 6:20:55 GMT
A lot of buildup…but a fine choice.
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Post by DayoRemix on Feb 22, 2023 6:48:44 GMT
1975
"Seeland" Neu!
After much deliberation, went with the Proto-Post Rock of Neu!'s Seeland over the Proto-Thrash of Sabbath and Lennon's hero worship..If "Symptom of the universe" didn't have that ending jam session tacked on from the 4:30 mark to the end, it would have been a lean, mean thrashy winner. None of the Soul or Reggae stood out for me for '75 (And If I chose a disco tune, you would need to do a wellness check on me)...maybe Upsetters and Tosh have a chance in '76..
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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 22, 2023 10:25:46 GMT
My problem with reggae, I think, is that it just seems to have lost the sheer joie de vivre in the move from ska and rocksteady. I normally dismiss it as too formulaic, but I'm not sure that isn't also a valid criticism of ska. For me it doesn't really capture that kind of spirit again until it gets to the mid 80s and the heap and cheerful energy of the likes of Barrington Levy.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 22, 2023 11:22:09 GMT
My problem with reggae, I think, is that it just seems to have lost the sheer joie de vivre in the move from ska and rocksteady. I normally dismiss it as too formulaic, but I'm not sure that isn't also a valid criticism of ska. For me it doesn't really capture that kind of spirit again until it gets to the mid 80s and the heap and cheerful energy of the likes of Barrington Levy. What about dub?
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