Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
I find this album really underrated in their catalog, probably because it’s a soundtrack, but it’s one of my personal favorites. Feels like one a lot of non-PF fans might actually appreciate.
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Going to have fun with this one and hope someone else nominates a Neil Young song.
Song Nomination: Babe Ruth - The Mexican
Discovered this one in the 1972 round of Music League thanks to @Kovacs77. It’s so good and tight, they’re just locked in the whole time. Love the escalation at the end with that heavy riff.
And since someone already nominated Harvest
Album Nomination: Budgie - Squawk
Discovered this album while trying to find a song for the 1972 round. Listen to this song, it’s absolutely nuts. Almost like proto-Thee Oh Sees. It ends up in a very different place from where it begins.
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Across 110th Street was another of my favorites from the 1972 Music League round. I remember thinking I bet Greg Dulli is a fan and sure enough he covers it live sometimes as part of Faded.
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This one’s a great time.
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I’ll be taking my time over my nomination, but it will take one hell of an album to overtake this in the running:
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nominate song: black sabbath - snowblind
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Revisited Big Star’s #1 Record the other day. A few really great tracks but overall a mixed bag for me, perhaps because power pop isn’t a genre I spend a lot of time with. Top standouts for me, but I also really like Thirteen, Give Me Another Chance, and ST100/6.
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The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. is a bit of a mixed bag too, of course, but still a great album. I think Goats Head Soup and It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll are also great albums, Some Girls to a lesser extent, but Exile is probably their last truly great album despite its length.
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Other revisits from the weekend…
Khan - Space Shanty
Steve Hillage-led group. Don’t love this like I once did but it’s got some great stuff.
Neil Young - Harvest
I’m not as familiar with this album as some of his others, having only played it 3 times probably. I know the hits like this one and Old Man but the album tracks aren’t very familiar to me.
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Storia di un minuto
I went through a huge prog phase in the late 00s and thought this stuff was amazing. Some pretty wild Mellotron in here, classic symphonic prog.
Neu! - Neu!
I didn’t get to krautrock until the mid 10s it looks like. These days I much prefer a bit of kraut than prog, but find some of it a bit overrated. I guess it’s track by track really, this one’s great:
Can - Ege Bamyası
Same as above. This track’s great of course.
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
And of course my album nomination from upthread, can’t go without revisiting this one.
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Guess I’ll just keep sharing boring stuff I’m revisiting.
Yes - Closer to the Edge
An all-timer prog album I hadn’t revisited in a while (3 long tracks doesn’t make for a frequent listen). Had this at 7/10 from the last time I listened, maybe I’d just grown tired, but was surprised to really enjoy revisiting yesterday. 8/10 at least. Yeah the tracks are long but if you’re in for listening to an album what difference does it really make?
Genesis - Foxtrot
Just revisited this morning, can still see the appeal but a little overwrought at times. Really like this Peter Gabriel track though, not too proggy or long, really just a nice 70s pop/rock or progressive pop song.
Wishbone Ash - Argus
As much hard rock as it is progressive rock, this was nice to revisit as well. I don’t think it ever occurred to me until this closing song came on yesterday how much Metallica’s early stuff could have been influenced by this. The guitar playing on this album is just superb, the twin guitars as they’re often referred to. But I think James Hetfield was influenced by the vocals as well.
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My Mum used to play this song all the time when I was little. It’s a beautiful ballad from his 1972 album, the lyrics all the more poignant when it was released as a single shortly after Jim Croce’s death in a plane crash in 1973.
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A few others:
What is the sound of four hands clapping, Steve Reich?
Roxy Music’s debut single. What an intro to the band. Wasn’t included on the debut album
Harry Nilsson. I think Heather Trost’s cover of this from a couple of years ago was phenomenal, but the original’s alright too.
Original theatre performances of Grease were this year as was the first Broadway cast recording
And then, this is January 1973 but too good not to share: watching some Marc Bolan stuff on YouTube led me to this duet with Cilla Black.
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Nominate album: The Staple Singers - Be Altitude: Respect Yourself
‘Pops’ Staples and his children started out as a gospel/folk act in the 1950s. They signed to Stax in 1968 and moved away from gospel into funk and soul, to great effect. Their two best known songs are on this record - the rest of it’s great too.
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Nominate song: Ann Peebles - I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody’s Home
One of my very favourite vocalists.
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I knew this from The Muppets!
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Oh my word - that’s so good. My heart is fully broken!
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Wonderful isn’t it.
Love your picks btw.
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Ah thank you!
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So 1972 - not a big fan of most of the big hitters (Nick Drake the exception) but lots of gems. No one album that jumps out and screams at me as an obvious nomination.
Two great Al Green albums - Let’s Stay Together and I’m Still in Love With You
Fantastic soundtracks - Superfly by Curtis Mayfield, Sisters by Herrmann, Once Upon a Time in the West and Mio Caro Assassino by Ennio, L’Enfant Assassin des Mouches by Jean Claude Vannier, The Harder they Come.
Avante Garde & Library gems - The Dimensione Sonore series by Morriccone & Nicolai, Short Circuits by Ruth White, L’uomo Nello Spazio by Piero Umiliani, Nuovaseirie no1 by Marie Teresa Luciani, Ricerca by Vittorio Gelmetti.
Cluster II and Faust So Far on a krautrock tip and Annette Peacocks I’m the One and American Spring on a psyche ? rock bent.
But for the album nomination I’ll go with Candi Staton’s S/T album
and for the single nomination the title track from Annette Peacock’s album I’m the One
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