littlek wrote:Getting a little later than 73 - and into the disco era - Donna Summers has some seriously great disco. But, I think the first american release was in 1974 or 75.
Anyone who starts talking disco is tossed from this thread.
Do I make myself clear?
gustavratzenhofer wrote:littlek wrote:Getting a little later than 73 - and into the disco era - Donna Summers has some seriously great disco. But, I think the first american release was in 1974 or 75.
Anyone who starts talking disco is tossed from this thread.
Do I make myself clear?
damn gus.. when I read this post at first I was afraid... I was petrified I thought that I could never live without you by my side... but then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong and I grew strong.... and I learned how to get along......
Kinks, didn't they do Lola, L O L A Lola... should be a partial a2k anthem. 'cept I got a wee bit tired of it..
Is Ellpus going for Blues? that's almost another thread..
One of problems with rock music was that I was abourne of it through the heyday of the early fm stations in LA, where a lot of long play stuff happened and the djs were very knowledgeable and really worked out the programs - I started to like harder and harder sounds, lot of riffing, however one would describe what I liked. Everything else started to sound like pabalum, oh, the bee gees, for example, teeth on edge. I fully despised the Eagles, later of course, and they were all over the radio dial. I listened for a minute today to Johnny Ramone because of another thread and... eh!!!! for the sounds that is, didn't catch the lyrics.
So in about 74-77 or so I started listening to more latin jazz, and started venturing into classical, which I still know nothing about but know what I like, started looking around the world, at Brazilian music, for example. Think I've even turned to opera arias to get away from pap.
I'll admit I never gave punk a chance, and might have liked heavy metal, but I was outta there by then. All this by way of saying I'm trying to remember some of those sounds I liked on those early long play fm stations with the adventurous djs. Dys will remember what I'm talking about as we've discussed it.
On Cream, the album I have, sweltering now in the garage as we speak, damn, is Fresh Cream. Don't know how it compares with the others, I liked it.
Allman Bros, I was thinking of Eat a Peach. Doors, I think the one I have is just The Doors.
Stones, I have a lot of the albums (sorry, Kicky). The Aftermath album meant a lot to me personally, 11 minutes, 44 seconds for the title bit. We weren't counting..
So, those good fm stations, KMET, KPPC, one or maybe two others I can't remember the letters of, were bought out by some conglomerate homogenizer and a general programming system came in, I guess all over the US.
The Velvet Underground & Nico, often listed the best album in modern history, and with reason.
Love. (The band called Love, I mean)
The Byrds. ("Eight miles high..")
The Beach Boys ;-)
And, towards the punk end:
New York Dolls.
The Stooges.
Oohh.. and now, (web) surfin surfin surfin -- and getting wholly off-topic -- I discover there's a record of Jeremy Gluck's, where he plays with (the now late punk legend) Nikki Sudden, Epic Soundtracks (ex-Swell Maps), Jeffrey Lee Pierce (The Gun Club) and Rowland S Howard (ex-Birthday Party, Crime and the City Solution). Damn. Gotta have it.
gustavratzenhofer wrote:littlek wrote:Getting a little later than 73 - and into the disco era - Donna Summers has some seriously great disco. But, I think the first american release was in 1974 or 75.
Anyone who starts talking disco is tossed from this thread.
Do I make myself clear?
Oopsies...... do you still Love to Love Me, Baby?
Think before you answer, Gus. No funnin' with Little K. You dont want her to swoop round and, teeth bared in a furious scowl, start singing -
You think you're a man but you're only a boy
You think you're a man but you're only a toy
You think you're a man but you just couldn't see
You weren't man enough to safisfy me.
the best of creedence isn't the best of creedence. think bayou country.
no bowie? (good man.)
oh, wait, there is bowie. (er, good man?)
The Sabath kind of balances the Bowie. Maybe?
nimh wrote:Think before you answer, Gus. No funnin' with Little K. You dont want her to swoop round and, teeth bared in a furious scowl, start singing -
You think you're a man but you're only a boy
You think you're a man but you're only a toy
You think you're a man but you just couldn't see
You weren't man enough to safisfy me.
I don't even know that song......
No? It's a Divine classic..
60s and 70s?
Hana Hegerova, Semafor, Waldemar Matuska, the Plastic People of the Universe, Karel Gott, Dezo Ursiny...
why is everybody looking at me that way?
OK, then, go for Buffalo Springfield (I have that one).
