AI
 

That may be true, but I've already given my frame of reference as to why the 70's largely did suck.

I saw a documentary on AC/DC recently and now, aside from that being a phrase appropriate to legal types, I can't get that fucking song out of my brain. They rawk -- a big-dumb-testosterone-fueled rawk, but rawk they do, especially w/Bon.

spookyfish

AI
 

Exile on Main Street. What was I thinking. Forgive me.

And I love the Who, so you can shut the fuck up. :mad:

spookyfish

AI
 

My nomination for POTD. Hilarious. Harsh, accurate and Hilarious.

spookyfish

The Kids Are Alright
 

We have a winner!

I actually like the Who, too, though I prefer the short, punchy, almost proto-punk stuff from the 60s. I'd probably like Who's Next better if it wasn't such a staple of classic rock radio and the camaro set. Not to sound all sebbish, I mean, snobish.

Ollie (can't explain) Ramone

AI
 

Eat a Peach

The Kids Are Alright
 

Well fuck, my first thought was either let it bleed or ezile and i did a discography on the stones and iddnt get 72 as the year, leaving me with Eat a Peach. Which could win the title.

AI
 

AC/DC is a severely underrated rock group. They were unfairly typed as dumb metal, but their early records are more like the Stones on steroids and speed - a sort of a blues boogy version of the early Stones with long guitar solos and a crazy screaming vocalist. From High Voltage through to For Those About to Rock, AC/DC put out the best hard rock records in history. Back in Black just never gets old, and Let There Be Rock sounds like what happens when you mix punk, blues and whole lotta meth and whiskey - that disc really jumps out of the speakers.

OH, AND BUY THE NEW WHITE STRIPES DISC. Its ain't the best record in a decade as the ass-kissing reviewers make it sound, but its fucking really good.

AI
 

Severely underrated rock groups don't make the R&R Hall of Fame, though some severely overrated ones (like Fleetwood Mac, for example) do. And why isn't Sabbath in the HOF?

spookyfish

AI
 

You know who is severely underrated from the 70s - - Little Feat.

That was a great band and I still love the old pre-77 albums and anything Lowell George ever did.

E/O

The Kids Are Alright
 

You made me double check but yeah, Exile came out in '72. I cannot imagine a more perfect album. I'm actually a somewhat reluctant Stones fan, due largely (okay, entirely) to their output over the last 20 years. But fuck, can't deny greatness.

The Kids Are Alright
 

Naw - too limited of an audience. That was for hard-core ABB'ers. (I actually wore out my first copy of that one.)

("Huh? How do you wear out a CD?" they asked, puzzled, . . .)

AI
 

EO,

AGREED.

Lowell George is the fucking greatest. Sailin Shoes through Waiting for Columbus are killer discs.

Waiting might be the best live record I own.

I've found that asking someone whether they dig LF is a nice intro to find out whether there's an upstairs party taking place. Don't know why... just seems that the really fucked up folks seem to dig LF and Steely Dan. I hate Steely Dan. Awful lounge music.

1972
 

I'm guessing you don't mean "Tales of the Topographic Oceans" from Yes, so I'm guessing you mean:

Pink Floyd "Obscured by Clouds"?
Hot Tuna "Burgers"?
Neil Young "Harvest"?
Genesis "Foxtrot"?
GD "Europe 72"?
Stills "Manassas"?
CCR "Mardi Gras"?
ZZ Top "Rio Grande Mud"? [note - I had to google this one]
Tull "Living in the Past"?
Steely Dan "Can't Buy a Thrill"?
the aforementioned Deep Purple "Machine Head"
Elton John "Honkey Chateau"

although I'm personally going with Sabbath's "Volume 4" or Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust"

not7y(Close to the Edge was 72, Oceans was actually '73, if you care)S

AI
 

O.K. Fleetwood Mac observation. Does anyone else think that the song Peacekeeper sounds just like a slightly slower version of the Paul Simon song Kodachrome? Every time I hear it on the radio, I start singing the Simon lyrics.

a(When I think back On all the crap I learned in high school)V

Muskrat Love and other forms of bestiality
 

Ah, cripes, you remind me of the Mr. going off about that very song just this weekend. He was remembering, sometime in the mid to late '80s, getting a lift from an older brother who was playing a tape with Muskrat Love on it, which the Mr. (quite the music snob, then and now) had never heard before. He listened for about a verse and then turned to his brother incredulously and said "what the FUCK IS THIS?" The brother (who would have been in HS when it came out and so had no excuse) just laughed and laughed. I had to admit that I remembered it from when it actually came out (I, too, was in the single digits), but I sort of thought it was a Disney-type thing.

The Mr. reports he was scarred for life but the creepy little squeeky muskrat whoopee noises. :blush:

BR(and who can blame him? Oh, and Imust try out the smiley I am sure was left just for me: :whip: )C

AI
 

I had every record that you listed on your earlier post, but can't figure out what you would hate about Steely Dan? Granted, they have a very different, non-hc-rock sound, but they were/are master musicians, and put together some great stuff. Aja is basically jazz/latin/rock merged, so it doesn't fit into any easy label, but the stuff is still damn good.

1972
 

Exile would be too easy. I assume this is a trick question with an obscure answer.

Not Blood on The Tracks... that's good, but not that good.

This question kills me... gimme the answer - you can PM it if you like.

AI
 

I think it depends on when you first happened upon Steely Dan. They were so innovative that some of their stuff might seem trite if you came upon it after their idiom was coopted.

Even(love Steely Dan and Donald Fagen's Nightfly)Odds

Albatross
 

Fleetwood Mac is hardly overrated. Overplayed - most definitelty - but overrated?

Ask any guitar player and they will tell you how underrated Lindsay is. Same thing for Mick's drumming.

Secondly, anyone discussing Mac needs to include their long, long history prior to the Lindsay/Stevie era beginning in 1975, including their Chicago blues records with Peter Green. Phenomenal stuff.

Don't get me started on Sabbath, lest I start discussing the much underrated "Technical Ectasy" LP.

not7yS

Is there gas in the car? Yes, there's gas in the car.
 

I loathed Steely Dan until I was about 26. Then, someone whose musical opinions I highly respect, suggested I give them a fresh listen. It was a revelation to me how much I enjoyed them.

Their lyrics are biting and their arrangements are so damn precise. Great, great stuff.

And if you buy the boxed set - you get all their albums [save the 2 recent ones] on 4 CDs

not7y(are you with me Doctor Wu)S

AI
 

I have your back on this one.

Albatross
 

Please God, no.

AI
 

Only a fool would say that.

;)

Is there gas in the car? Yes, there's gas in the car.
 

My SO loves Steely Dan. Raves even. I've never listened to much of their stuff, but I did get major brownie points for the fact that Hey Nineteen was my first 45 purchase. Of course if you look at some of the other stuff that constituted early purchases, that was more of an anomoly than a display of sophisticated music preferences.

Actually during my 45-buying days, I was really into that Who song You Better You Bet, so I went to the record store, but I couldn't remember who sang it, and I didn't know the name of the song, so I accidently purchased Climax Blues Band song I Love You (not even close, I know). Hopefully a penny of my misguided purchase made it to the good folks at the Climax Blues Band, I'm sure they could use some cash right about now.

n(when I say "I love you" you say you better)cs

Catfight!
 

From realityblurred --

A fight with an agent last Thursday left Sharon Osbourne with "a dislocated jaw, chipped tooth and sprained neck," MTV News reports. The Osbournes star appeared Tuesday on Celebrity Justice to discuss the incident, and the program featured "two witnesses who support Osbourne's claim that Tab was the one who hit first," according to MTV.

n(would have been better if it turned into a foodfight)cs

AI
 

This is the part where I confess to having an unaccountable and enduring fondness for Niel Diamond, who was fairly successful in that period.

Ahh - The subjectivity of musical taste.
 

Don't get me wrong. I like Fleetwood Mac, and as much as I like Rumours, I still think they are overrated, whereas there are many deserving bands that have been shut out of the HOF voting to date. I'm using that as my measure, since that was the original point of my post in discussing the HOF as one measure of "greatness".

Don't like that example? How about the Doors? I like them, but they are overrated. Their best songs were written by Robbie Krieger. Morrison's overblown, halluciongenic, sophomoric poetry was largely a joke and most people who liked his stuff were too stoned to realize it sucked.

You can have great bands that don't have great musicians, and you can have great musicians that together, don't make a great band. The Velvets, for example, weren't great musicians, but they were a fucking awesome band.

Lindsey Buckingham is a great player. You are probably right in saying he is underrated. Mick's drums are usually so far down in the mix, I can't speak to whether he is great or not. I think he's servicable, but he doesn't do much for me.

I know it's probably blasphemy to say so, buy you can be great and still be overrated. Case in point, Clapton. Great player, but completely overrated. For my money, Carlos Santana, Hendrix and Zappa, just to mention a few, completely kick his ass, as far as rock guitarists go, and there are a plethora of far lesser known blues players who standing side by side, would completely smoke him.

This is why I love music. Everybody has an opinion, sometimes a very strong one, and no one is wrong. They might be unpopular, but not necessarily wrong.

spookyfish

Help for my big bouncing chafed tatas
 

The only retail store for Title 9 is in Berekely. Otherwise, you have to rely on catalogue and website.

AI
 

Me too. Other musical confessions include Tom Jones.

AI
 

I believe the full name for that act is Tom and his Jones.

Anne Elk has a Tom Jones
 

Tom Jones is sort of "kitschy-cool". You gotta respect any guy who has panties thrown at him when he's on stage, and uses them to wipe his sweaty brow. Although as far as singers go, I would put him in the same catagory as another tarzan-yeller, Michael Bolton, albeit with much more soul.

One of the funniest things I ever saw was an old clip of his variety show where he was singing "Everyday People" with Sly and the Family Stone. If you haven't seen it, you are missing out.

spookyfish

AI
 

Was the tape called "Getting Over Tunage"? If so, I think you banged my college boyfriend's frat brother.

I am a long-time listen err reader and have enjoyed the back and forth regarding the varying musical tastes amongst the regulars. I find it odd, however, that NOBODY HAS SAID DIDDLEY ABOUT ZEPPLIN (and don't say they are overrated because that just won't fly).

AI
 

Yes. AM was the nasty. All the good music was being played on FM. Surely you remember? Or were you senile back then, too?

AI
 

I'm thinking you're talking about Sticky Fingers. Which still carries in its grooves the all-time greatest sax break in rock n' roll.

Atomic Jones
 

spooky: Tom Jones is sort of "kitschy-cool".

He was sort of kitschy-cool about eight years ago. Now he is back to just being Tom Jones, which is cool without all the hipster drama associated with it.

It looks like I am going to have to jump on the Seb bandwagon again - I respect Steely Dan as musicians, but cannot listen to their music. It is possible that, a-la-Slave, if I gave them a fresh listen, I would be converted. I might even buy the EvenOdds I-cannot-appreciate-their-music-only-because-it-has-been-coopted theory. Maybe. But it does nothing for me. I have tried to listen to the earnest arguments about how subversive they are musically and lyrically, how they are phenomenal musicians, etc., etc. Nothing. I suppose that, as with the Clash, I am a heretic here.

I think nobody de-bunked the early-70s-sucked myth as well as Ollie and his list of classics. I love you like a brother. Don't run from the Stones' greatness.

Coolest trend-of-the-moment childhood award goes to . . . Slave! I would be proud to have a resume like that.

AI
 

Their double live set with Tower of Power backing them on the horns is one of the all-time laminated top ten albums.

Tax(will you be my Dixie Chicken?)wonk

Out on the Tiles
 

You do mean Led Zeppelin, don't you?

As for that, "How the West was Won" - the new 3CD live, unreleased stuff comes out next month, as well as the DVD set of live performances.

not7y(all you got to give to me-eee, is all your lo-o-ve[Dadadada dadadada daDun daDun daDun daDun] ooh yeah ooh yeaaaahhh)S

Out on the Tiles
 

What I really like about Led Zeppelin is their gift for understatement. I am fascinated by the oblique references to sex. You really have to parse the lyrics to figure out the sexual acts to which the songs refer.

Atomic Jones
 

Sorry, dude, but a sixty-something who still wears leather pants and opened shirts while performing is nothing, if not kitschy.

spookyfish