Jason Odd
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Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 28 Jun 2004 1:09 am |
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Actually, that's a fairly typical post-punk overview of the 1970s, as one might read in UK mags like Mojo or Q Magazine.
Wire, Throbbing Gristle, Iggy Pop, Bowie, the Stooges, George Harrison, Led Zep Leonard Cohen, James Brown (actually I'd prefer Maceo & The Kings Men 1970 spin-off group and LP from Browns' Famous Flames),
King Crimson, Hancock, Faust, Pink Floyd, Big Star, Neil Young, Lennon, the Ramones, Miles Davis ('Live Evil' for me thanks), CCR, Can, Nick Drake, Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello, the main man Al Green, Tim Buckley, Marvin Gaye, the Specials, Fleetwood Mac, Scuicide, Talking Heads, The Modern Lovers (the debut is my fave), Nue, Kraftwerk (love the Kraut-rock!), T-Rex?.. maybe, The VUs, The Who, Funkadelic, the Stones (nothin' after '72 for me thanks), the mighty Joy Division, forget 1970s Dylan, the Clash, Television, Sly Stone.. yeah.. mostly I'm into this.
Never got on the whole Randy Newman trip, I'd leave the Beatles out of a 1970s best of.. especially Let It Be, but talk about an absence of country, no country-rock or singer-songwriters except for Nick Drake, Neil Young and Randy Newman, all of whom were fairly untypical of the genre.
Possibly why they're there.
Thankfully no Crosby Stills and Nash, but why no Lynyrd Skynyrd?
I'd liked to have seen a Michael Nesmith album, at least one Gram Parsons, .. 'sob' no Willie or Waylon (Red Headed Stranger and This Time respectively), no Black Sabbath, Budgie nor the Dictators all time classic 'Go Girl Crazy' from 1975.
The Grateful Dead should be left out, same with the Damned, but no Police, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, or Patti Smith!!
It's more of a rock list, but what 1970s country albums could hold a torch to these, Haggard's 'If We Make Through To December' and 'Hag' are a couple I'd suggest.
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