Rock Evolution – The History of Rock & Roll - 1985 - (page 203)

Did you rattle that off in half an hour @OB1 mate?
Seriously great work - you covered so much its difficult to know where to start. You certainly highlighted the albums I expected you to cover so no surprises in your choices. Maybe Hocus Pocus is stretching it a little as it popped up on the 71 play list as a track on Moving Waves but thats a minor point :-)
Sweet are an interesting Group. I saw them live at Dunbar Swimming Pool. I can't pinpoint the year, probably 72. And as you say they were LZ wanabees. Really pretty heavy. It was a typical Dunbar gig, half an eye on the band and the other half avoiding getting your head kicked in by the local nutters. It gave live music a visceral excitement. During that time I also saw Bilbo Baggins and Mud and I think Chicory Tip!?! Anyway, I really didn't like Sweets subsequent singles output albeit blockbuster was their best. I will return with further comments once I have a couple of hours to read it again ;-)

Great work mate.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
Did you rattle that off in half an hour @OB1 mate?
Seriously great work - you covered so much its difficult to know where to start. You certainly highlighted the albums I expected you to cover so no surprises in your choices. Maybe Hocus Pocus is stretching it a little as it popped up on the 71 play list as a track on Moving Waves but thats a minor point :-)
Sweet are an interesting Group. I saw them live at Dunbar Swimming Pool. I can't pinpoint the year, probably 72. And as you say they were LZ wanabees. Really pretty heavy. It was a typical Dunbar gig, half an eye on the band and the other half avoiding getting your head kicked in by the local nutters. It gave live music a visceral excitement. During that time I also saw Bilbo Baggins and Mud and I think Chicory Tip!?! Anyway, I really didn't like Sweets subsequent singles output albeit blockbuster was their best. I will return with further comments once I have a couple of hours to read it again ;-)

Great work mate.
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Thanks.

I wish I’d seen Sweet back then. Their live album from that time is amusing - lots of screaming teenyboppers in the audience and they basically play heavy rock to them.

Unlike you, I do love glam rock and it is the foundation of my musical taste (albeit my music collection is very fairly diverse now despite a heavy focus on classic rock).

Talking of Focus, I had to get a bit of double Dutch in.
 
I don't want to reduce Viv Stanshall's fine career to a few minutes on a young kids album but despite the fact it is gimmicky (albeit an intelligent gimmick) I have never ever, not once, in the intervening 50 odd years tired of hearing his voice as Master of Ceremonies on Tubular Bells. It might be affected theatricality but for me it's fun and soothing enough it should be available on the NHS.

I think Tubular Bells sometimes gets a raw deal in terms of its legacy, maybe seen as self-indulgent hippy stuff a relative lightweight to the likes of Eno etc. However, though Oldfield was hardly from the hood and it was recorded at The Manor there is an ambitious do it on your own, and do it on your own terms, kind of independence or bloody mindedness we take for granted these days, with all the technology available, but back then was much rarer.
 
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I don't want to reduce Viv Stanshall's fine career to a few minutes on a young kids album but despite the fact it is gimmicky (albeit an intelligent gimmick) I have never ever, not once, in the intervening 50 odd years tired of hearing his voice as Master of Ceremonies on Tubular Bells. It might be affected theatricality but for me it's fun and soothing enough it should be available on the NHS.

I think Tubular Bells sometimes gets a raw deal in terms of its legacy, maybe seen as self-indulgent hippy stuff a relative lightweight to the likes of Eno etc. However, though Oldfield was hardly from the hood and it was recorded at The Manor there is an ambitious do it on your own, and do it on your own terms, kind of independence or bloody mindedness we take for granted these days, with all the technology available, but back then was much rarer.
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I think Tubular Bells was the first signing to Bransons Virgin label. I still play it when the mood takes me.
 
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Wonderful write up by @OB1 as per.
My musical awakening was four years away in 1973 so still working in retrospect.
Some time in the late 70’s I was out camping in woodlands with a small cohort of fellow prog heads. We had an old cassette player and played the whole of Tales from Topographic Oceans. It was perfect and Soon (Nous Some du Soleil) was and still is spellbinding.
On a similar vein I absolutely love Over the Hills and far away by Zeppelin. I don’t profess to being a Zep fan but this track is sumptuous.
My final “wow” track again comes from a band I never really followed. Karnevil 9 by ELP is prog heaven.
 
Im going with a bit of blues...the ol' cats were still pretty active and resurgent after they were 'popolarised' by Zep and co...

Can't get no Grindin'. Muddy Waters. Chess.1973

While im on, and in a quick nod to the old jazz heads out there...1973 was the year the great Tubby Hayes checked out...
 
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Protein Junkie said:
Wonderful write up by @OB1 as per.
My musical awakening was four years away in 1973 so still working in retrospect.
Some time in the late 70’s I was out camping in woodlands with a small cohort of fellow prog heads. We had an old cassette player and played the whole of Tales from Topographic Oceans. It was perfect and Soon (Nous Some du Soleil) was and still is spellbinding.
On a similar vein I absolutely love Over the Hills and far away by Zeppelin. I don’t profess to being a Zep fan but this track is sumptuous.
My final “wow” track again comes from a band I never really followed. Karnevil 9 by ELP is prog heaven.
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Part 2 of Karn Evil is already on the playlist. Are you asking for the whole thing?
 
Amazing and in-depth write up OB1. A lovely read that.

My first pick is a song I've championed on here before...

Smog by Los Dug Dug's. Nice bit of Mexican prog.

Second up is a song written by Leo Sayer but record by Roger Daltry for his first solo album. Giving It All Away.

I think we are missing 10cc's first album. And this song from it...The Dean And I.

We also need a bit of Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash.
 
threespires said:
I don't want to reduce Viv Stanshall's fine career to a few minutes on a young kids album but despite the fact it is gimmicky (albeit an intelligent gimmick) I have never ever, not once, in the intervening 50 odd years tired of hearing his voice as Master of Ceremonies on Tubular Bells. It might be affected theatricality but for me it's fun and soothing enough it should be available on the NHS.

I think Tubular Bells sometimes gets a raw deal in terms of its legacy, maybe seen as self-indulgent hippy stuff a relative lightweight to the likes of Eno etc. However, though Oldfield was hardly from the hood and it was recorded at The Manor there is an ambitious do it on your own, and do it on your own terms, kind of independence or bloody mindedness we take for granted these days, with all the technology available, but back then was much rarer.
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Also a huge risk by Branson. It paid off and the rest is history.
 
RobMCFC said:
Brilliant write-up again @OB1.

I find Bruce Springsteen's debut, Greetings From Asbury park, NJ, a bit hit and miss but I do like this track:-

"Lost in the Flood" - Bruce Springsteen
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You took my runner-up, so great minds and all that. It was close, and both are great tracks.

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And another a favourite of the era, a few years before some even better songs from him:-

"The Joker" - The Steve Miller Band
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or just replace the second with "NYC Serenade?" ;-)
 
BimboBob said:
Amazing and in-depth write up OB1. A lovely read that.

My first pick is a song I've championed on here before...

Smog by Los Dug Dug's. Nice bit of Mexican prog.

Second up is a song written by Leo Sayer but record by Roger Daltry for his first solo album. Giving It All Away.

I think we are missing 10cc's first album. And this song from it...The Dean And I.

We also need a bit of Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash.
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Roger made my other playlist with that one; went for other 10cc & Suzi numbers as I think they were bigger hits but both fine choices.

Don’t know Smog so that will be interesting.
 
Resurrection Joe... said:
Last time I worked/lived in London, lived in St Johns Wood, and used that zebra crossing on Abbey Rd at least twice a day!...nearly always having to ruin some fkers photo op whilst doing so...
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I had a boss that lived 30 yards from the zebra crossing. She used to complain about ‘all the tourists’. She was madder than a box of frogs though so I never knew how honest she was being.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I had a boss that lived 30 yards from the zebra crossing. She used to complain about ‘all the tourists’. She was madder than a box of frogs though so I never knew how honest she was being.
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i used it as a crossing every day for about a year, i would say it had punters doing the walk across photo op about 60% of the time..local motorists used to avoid it where poss..
 
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