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

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#41

nominate album: Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs

nominate song: Can - Mother Sky

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#42

a perfect song off a perfect album. i gave it to you is also perfect

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#43
#44

Terrapin and Mother Sky are both 5/5 tunes for me. What else do you like from The Madcap Laughs?

I like Late Night but feel biased towards it as I liked the This Mortal Coil cover first.

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#45

Have I missed something, can we nominate two albums now?

#46

Yes

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#47

Nominate album: Black Sabbath - Paranoid

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#48

Nominate song #1 - Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York

Nominate song #2 - The Velvet Underground - New Age

Nominate Album #1 - James Brown - Sex Machine

Nominate Album #2 - Velvet Underground - Loaded

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#49

Nominate track: Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs

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#50

Someone has to nominate itā€¦
Nominate album: Neil Young ā€˜After the Goldrushā€™

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#51

Ooh, that successfully revived the thread alright! So, do we get 6 votes instead of 3 then? :grin:

#52

Just busy listening to all my 1970ā€™s longlist albums. Happily many now mentioned by other contributors above, making life a little easier. Be back with yaā€™ll a bit later ā€¦

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#53

I love the whole album, never skip any tracks when I play it. Thatā€™s not to say every song is great but the album just nails a mood that carries it through those weaker moments.

Late night is absolutely one of my faves (never heard that cover though, Iā€™ll check that out) along with ā€˜No Good Tryingā€™, ā€˜Dark Globeā€™, ā€˜Golden Hairā€™ and ā€˜Octopusā€™.

Itā€™s a complete one off to me, even the Floyd stuff he did is very different, and his imitators (even though I like some of them) never really got near it. I rarely play it tbh but I find it comforting knowing itā€™s there when I need it.

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#54

And there it is, definitely been missing some obvious all-timers in this thread. Happen to be revisiting that album now, was in consideration for one of my nominations.

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#55

Nominate song Fleetwood Mac - Green Manalishi

My dad is a huge Peter Green fan so his songs are ingrained in my mind, most of the better known ones from '68 and '69, but this one is a corker and (i think) from 1970, not long before he left the band. Such a sad episode (too much acid in Germany apparently), and Green was never the same.

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#56

I mean, it IS the greatest rock 'nā€™roll album of all time after allā€¦

nominate album: The Stooges - Funhouse

nominate song - Freda Payne - band of gold

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#57

song noms

Buddy Miles - Them Changes

Led Zeppelin - Tangerine

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#58

a few honourable mentionsā€¦

one from The beach boys ā€˜Sunflowerā€™ excellent albumā€¦

All I Wanna Do (Remastered 2009) - YouTube

and from John Caleā€™s ā€˜Vintage Violenceā€™ā€¦

bit of VDGā€¦

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#59

Song Nomination: The Beatles - Two of Us

Song Nomination: The Beatles - Across the Universe

Itā€™s weird, I really like The Beatles (they were my favorite band when I was little), but whatā€™s kept them from remaining one of my favorite bands is that they typically donā€™t reach the same emotional heights as others. But then you have these two songs, which are able to completely eviscerate me on such a fundamental level that theyā€™re almost impossible to listen to or even think about.

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#60

Nominate Album: The Mothers of Invention - Burnt Weeny Sandwich