Post by vjaska on Jun 15, 2024 21:59:46 GMT
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The 1970s was the golden period of the ‘album’ and new album releases by artists such as Elton John, Genesis, The Rolling Stones & Rod Stewart were keenly anticipated. I well remember forgoing the push-bike and taking a London Country 441 (often RML2442 or RML2444) into Windsor to buy an album in WH Smiths or Revolution Records and carefully carrying it home on the bus. There was something very tactile about placing the new vinyl on the turntable and carefully ‘dropping’ the needle. Some forum members of a similar vintage may recall this, for younger members ask you parents…or your grandparents!
I’ve been a life-long music fan, and my favourite musical genres are blues, soul, rock, pop and jazz, probably in that order. ‘Home alone’ during the 2020 COVID lockdown I started listening ‘properly’ to albums and reviewed and rated each one and recently completed my target of a total of 500. There’s no space for reviews but below is an extract of the list of albums awarded four or more stars and accordingly deemed worthy as being part of my album collection.
- The 500 albums includes at least one release from each of the 70 calendar years from 1955-2024
- 336 artists are included – everything from ABBA to ZZ Top and from Frank Sinatra to Kanye West (or should I say Ye) and genres from Easy Listening to Thrash Metal
- The most rewarding aspect of the project was discovering 15-20 great albums that were new to me that I’d never listened to, in some cases by artists that I hadn’t heard of
- My ratings are of course subjective and are of no more and no less value than yours, but I have always attempted to articulate and justify why an album in my opinion is good, bad or indifferent
- Not commercial and unpublished…although some reviews are/will be added to Musicboard
- I hope the list is of interest, maybe it will bring back some memories and/or motivate you to search out an album or two…If you want to discuss further feel free to ‘PM’ me
**** Albums (Sample of 20 from a total of 133)
Sergio Mendes & Brasil `66 – Ye-Me-Lê (1969)
Gil Scott-Heron – Pieces of a Man (1970)
Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells a Story (1971)
Toots and the Maytals – Funky Kingston (1973)
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
Electric Light Orchestra – A New World Record (1976)
Joan Armatrading – Joan Armatrading (1976)
The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers (1976)
David Bowie – Station to Station (1976)
Chic – C’est Chic (1978)
Blondie – Parallel Lines (1978)
Sister Sledge – We are Family (1979)
Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (1980)
Pretenders – Pretenders (1980)
Duran Duran – Rio (1982)
Tears for Fears – Songs from the Big Chair (1985)
Paul Simon – Graceland (1986)
Frank Ocean – Channel ORANGE (2012)
Rihanna – ANTI (2016)
Lorde – Melodrama (2017)
****½ Albums (15 from 45)
Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard (1957)
Stan Getz and João Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto (1964)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced (1967)
Santana – Abraxas (1970)
Curtis Mayfield – Super Fly (1972)
Steely Dan – Aja (1977)
Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous (1978) had to include this 😉
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses (1989)
Massive Attack – Blue Lines (1991)
Sade – Love Deluxe (1992)
Portishead – Dummy (1994)
Erykah Badu – Baduizm (1997)
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
Air – Moon Safari (1998)
Beyoncé – Lemonade (2016)
***** Albums (10 from 27)
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966)
The Beatles – Abbey Road (1969)
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (1971)
The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street (1972)
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark (1974)
Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti (1975)
Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (1977)
Radiohead – OK Computer (1997)
You've included a Duran Duran album (even if it's the most obvious one
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