Pitchfork -- Best Albums of the '70s

[grotty]

Originally posted by bunnyman:
  Let's face it...the 70's started off a little uncertain musically, but it was a hell of a decade for music. A musical renaissance for sure. They could have easily done a top 200 records and still have left great records out.

Agree totally - it's probably one of the reasons that I became so entralled with music - both recorded & live. The 70's were my young & impressionable age. I'll never forget buying & listening to my first piece of music - an 8-track of Kiss Rock and Roll Over.
 
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 I had no idea what I was hearing, but I loved it. Played it so much on a family vacation just sitting in a car listening to it that I killed the battery.

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by grotty:
   I'll never forget buying & listening to my first piece of music - an 8-track of Kiss Rock and Roll Over.

KISS is probably my biggest guilty pleasure.  I'm really surprised  Alive didn't make the list.  Or at least  Destroyer.

[markie]

Originally posted by mark e smith:
 
 I suspect the Pistols, television, joy division and hopefully Richard Hell to make a visit to the top 10.

Well I got 2 out of my 4 in the top 10.
 
 Then again Richard Hell didnt make the top 100, what were they thinking. FOOLS.
 
 As for a whole load of those albums being better than never mind the bollocks, well what a load of bollocks. For instance it is much better than the buzzcocks singles going steady.

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by mark e smith:
  Then again Richard Hell didnt make the top 100, what were they thinking. FOOLS.

I don't know. I realize how important Richard Hell is to the development of punk, but I don't really think  Blank Generation really holds up as one of the best records of the decade.  RH is more important as an icon than anything else.  Does he even have any other records?

Originally posted by grotty:
  I'm SO fucking glad to see that Captain Beefheart didn't make it. Does anyone really like them - Dupek excluded?

I never listened to him, except for the one song on the hot rats album...which is the only vocal track on an otherwise great record.
 
 
 WAY TOO MUCH MILES DAVIS!!!

[markie]

Originally posted by Skeeter:
  but I don't really think  Blank Generation really holds up as one of the best records of the decade.  

Well that is were we disagree. I think it is better than the buzzcocks album, for sure. I wouldnt rate it much differently from Marquee Moon. have you listened to it recently?
 
 His other real album, Destiny Street isnt bad either.

[Bombay Chutney]

I think I listened to it once in the last 6-months or so.  I'll have to pull it out again.
 
 I have issues with  Singles Going Steady being on the list too, simply because it's a compilation.  I love that record though.

[kosmo vinyl]

considering the fact that only three of the sixteen songs on  "singles going steady" appear on the first two records, i would have it's fair game to include it.  none of the early buzzcocks records had the impact that one did.  plus, it's a inclusion of the early songs that never made any record that makes it brillant.

[markie]

[QUO  none of the early buzzcocks records had the impact that one did.   [/QB][/QUOTE]
 
 I dunno, spiral scratch EP was a pretty decent effort, dontcha think?

[kosmo vinyl]

i was referring to "Another Music in a Different Kitchen" & " Love Bites" who other than the "die-hard" Buzzcocks fan ownes these.   Singles going steady is thier definitive album whether is a comp or not...

[Bags]

I agree with Kosmo.  Buzzcocks were a particularly singles-focused band, and that album is really their definitive album.
 
 Overall, I knew I'd have little input on this outside of the obvious.  I've never even heard of Can.

[Bombay Chutney]

I just counted and I own 41 of these.  That's a bit more than I expected.