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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 22, 2024 0:24:27 GMT
The list for 1973;
Curtis Mayfield - Right On for the Darkness (G)
Iggy & the Stooges - Search and Destroy (adam)
Anne Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain (freap)
Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man (davey)
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On (hatz)
The Isley Brothers - That Lady (Fange)
Roxy Music - Mother of Pearl (goatboy)
David Bowie - Time (DF)
Lou Reed - Caroline Says II (dayo)
John Cale - The Endless Plain of Fortune (osgood)
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis (riggers)
Stevie Wonder - Living for the City (JSJ)
Wizzard - See My Baby Jive (ray)
Videos, should you need, start here..https://preludin.proboards.com/thread/6508/preludin-canon-open-1966-75?page=19
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Post by Sneelock on Feb 22, 2024 0:49:09 GMT
such a list! enthusiastic applause from the Peanut Gallery!
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Post by fange on Feb 22, 2024 1:02:39 GMT
It's an amazing set of songs, gem after glittering gem. I thought i chose 'That Lady'.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 22, 2024 2:27:46 GMT
How did we do? Pretty damn well. The quality of this list is up there with the best years I'd say and gives a good representation of the year. Unfortunately (or perhaps that should say fortunately!) this was a golden year for soul/funk (the best ever?), so omissions are going to be particularly felt there. Biggest omission? I'll go for Donald Byrd 'Black Byrd', but it was also the year of Herbie's 'Headhunters, as vital as it gets, 'The Payback' and so much more...we needed more votes!
MY RANKING Canon worthy and great Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye: Cool, mysterious, but there's an underlying anguish I find compelling. We should remember he produced it as well and he's never sounded better. Right on for the Darkness - Curtis Mayfield: Perhaps not one of his better known songs, but he's never sounded more heartfelt. It's incredibly strong sounding stuff with an epic string arrangement. I Can't Stand the Rain - Anne Peebles: An incredibly sultry record, you can see the steam! Thee spacious production gives Peebles voice a great platform. Personality Crisis - The New York Dolls: Their best track..wild and untamed, with a great chorus. One of the best rock tracks of the 70s. Mother of Pearl - Roxy Music: The chaotic beginning is very exciting and then it's the introspective glide of the rest of the song. Ferry is at his epigrammatic best here with some his most poignant lines. Living for the City - Stevie Wonder: It says a lot for the brilliance of the list that this isn't higher. A rollicking groove. Let's Get It Own - Marvin Gaye: Seduction never sounded more carefree. Love the loose limbed feel of this one. Search and Destroy - Iggy and the Stooges: It's trademark Iggy that sounds both swaggering and threatening. Love some of the lines in this one; 'I'm a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm' is as good an opening line as anything out there. just a shame it didn't have a fuller sound. That Lady - The Isley Brothers: You don't need a great song when you've got a groove this good. Time - David Bowie: Its baroque, Brechtian flamboyance is kind of preposterous, but works because he commits to it so fully. That said I would have preferred Drive IN or Cracked Actor as the 73 Bowie choice. Caroline Says II - Lou Reed: I probably prefer the other Caroline track on the album, but I can't deny the raw, icy power of this one and it's probably the emotional centrepiece of Berlin. The rest See My Baby Jive - Wizzard: It's a bit too much of a pastiche for me and it has a certain tinselly, end of the pier, Sunday Night at the Palladium quality about it I can't get past. It's probably just me, I can see why others may love it. The Endless Plain of Fortune - John Cale - I can see it has a stately, anthemic quality, but truthfully it's not a song that moves me much.
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Post by adamcoan on Feb 22, 2024 8:18:01 GMT
Slade's greatest year and not even a mention,tsk. Shame on you all. No Can,Neu, Amon duul or Faust. Achim Reichal, Walter Wegmuller.
John Cale, mothers,T-Rex,gram parsons,Alex harvey
I could go on. I thought this was Preludin and not just another Rolling Stone subscribers circle jerk, shame on you all.
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Post by osgood on Feb 22, 2024 9:53:23 GMT
Slade's greatest year and not even a mention,tsk. Shame on you all. No Can,Neu, Amon duul or Faust. Achim Reichal, Walter Wegmuller. John Cale, mothers,T-Rex,gram parsons,Alex harvey I could go on. I thought this was Preludin and not just another Rolling Stone subscribers circle jerk, shame on you all. Unfortunately, we did not count with your participation in this exercise, so we had to miss your superior knowledge, though maybe G will allow for additions. But remember, we were limited to one selection per participant and year, so, if you pick, say something by Slade, someone could complain from his high horse about the omission of Can,Neu, Amon duul or Faust. Achim Reichal, Walter Wegmuller, mothers,T-Rex,gram parsons or Alex harvey. (John Cale is present by courtesy of yours truly, see above) There is a HUGE thread about the many many omissions on this final list.
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Post by adamcoan on Feb 22, 2024 10:16:38 GMT
And that is why I didn't participate.
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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 22, 2024 10:21:03 GMT
In my defense, everyone else could've voted for good songs and chose not to. But '73 and not picking Bowie? That would seem ludicrous.
First thing I thought was that there isn't much glam there for the primary glam year of 1973, but you would have to question how many of those could have a deep and personal relevance. Cum on Feel the Noize is a great rock stomper, but it's not the type of thing that buries itself into your soul.
I never liked See My Baby Jive, either, btw, it feels slightly crass, cheap and annoying to me.
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Post by fearlessfreap on Feb 22, 2024 12:25:01 GMT
I only allowed myself one pick per artist, so I had 70 different artists. Obviously this wasn't a list of true favorites in my case. The one song I'm kicking myself for forgetting for 73 is Midnight Train To Georgia. I like every song I've heard on the big list. This is unusual for me.
My pick was I Can't Stand The Rain - my favorite female vocalist, Ann Peebles. She has a slow burn style which I find preferable to the histrionics of Aretha Franklin - a singer I prefer when she reigns it in like Angel - another 73 song I could have picked. I Can't Stand the Rain is my absolute favorite of the year.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 22, 2024 12:36:49 GMT
I only allowed myself one pick per artist, so I had 70 different artists. Obviously this wasn't a list of true favorites in my case. The one song I'm kicking myself for forgetting for 73 is Midnight Train To Georgia. I like every song I've heard on the big list. This is unusual for me. My pick was I Can't Stand The Rain - my favorite female vocalist, Ann Peebles. She has a slow burn style which I find preferable to the histrionics of Aretha Franklin - a singer I prefer when she reigns it in like Angel - another 73 song I could have picked. I Can't Stand the Rain is my absolute favorite of the year. She was great wasn't she? Beware and I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down are really good too, but I do think this is a rare case of an artist's best known song also being their best song.
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Post by davey on Feb 22, 2024 14:17:19 GMT
We would need about double the participation we had for griping about omissions to hold any water. As it stands, I just don’t think you can look at the result here as fully representative of anything but the taste of the particular voters. Meanwhile, it’s just bad form to not participate and then criticize a result you could have influenced, but chose not to.
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Post by Sneelock on Feb 22, 2024 16:05:46 GMT
In my COUNTRY, we have saying. you don't vote, you don't gripe. people still gripe but that's what we say.(sort of) Me, I can't gripe because I just can't really do these things. I mean, it's not good for my mental health. first I try to keep track of what others have picked. then I start making lists. then I make more lists. soon all I'm doing is making lists and people are asking me if everything is ok. Then, before you know it, I'm wearing my Napoleon hat and making paper dolls. sorry, it drives me NUTS when i try to do these things. I know I can just reach down and pull a list out of my ass but then I regard it and get so despondent at my sins of omission that my self esteem goes down several notches. well, I need what little I've got.
looks like a hell of a list to me. sure we missed stuff but you understand that when you try to make one.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 22, 2024 17:44:36 GMT
..anyway has anyone got anything to say about the music?
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Post by davey on Feb 22, 2024 17:49:07 GMT
Is this really everything from 1973? Shocked that I only picked one song from that year.
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Post by osgood on Feb 22, 2024 18:18:12 GMT
Is this really everything from 1973? Shocked that I only picked one song from that year. Davey, this is from the Preludin Canon (G's initiative, remember?), not fange's 70s list
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