How Good Was The Year (in music) - 1970?

I’d like to mention John Cameron’s delicate score for Kes. The film saw a proper release this year, the music didn’t until Trunk put it out in 2002. Jarvis wrote some notes on the reissue which I like, “This is the real thing. This is beauty so fragile it hurts. This is music with the Jesses well and truly off.”

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Nominate song: Tim Buckley ‘Song to the Siren’

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My ways are strange
They’ll never change

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Thanks for your time
Then you can thank me for mine

Wow this thread died quick.

Just snapped this photo of my Southern Man listening to After the Gold Rush.

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John & Beverley Martin – Stormbringer!

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Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms

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David Axelrod – Earth Rot

Lee Hazlewood – Cowboy in Sweden

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The Kinks – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One

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Curtis Mayfield – Curtis

Edit: Seen that @tuna mentioned this one upthread!

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Thanks for reviving it. I’ve been a bit tied up this week and have a long drive ahead of me this evening but l’ll get active on it later.

In the meantime, I’ll make a one-time extension for nominations to TWO per person per poll to make up the numbers, should anyone have a second album or song they want to post about!

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On that basis I’ll nominate a second song:
Velvet Underground ‘Oh! Sweet Nuthin’

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Nominate albums:

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud

Nominate songs:

Amon Düül II - Archangels Thunderbird
Neil Young - Don’t Let it Bring You Down

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A wonderful album but I’m pretty sure that Bryter Layter was released in 71.

ah so it was… thanks! i’ll edit that nommo.

Nominate Album 1 - Nico - Desertshore

Nominate Album 2 Francois Hardy - Soleil

Nominate song 1 - The Delfonics - Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time)

Nominate Song 2 - Dionne Warwick - I’ll Never Fall in Love Again

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Really good album, especially the second side. I love Sickle Clowns and She’s a Lover.

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