You Should Hear This: 1974

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

mcaputo Wrote:

billy g Wrote:

mcaputo Wrote:

e-stone Wrote:

there are quite a few classics not yet mentioned: Roxy Music - Country Life; Neil Young - On The Beach; Gene Clark - No Other.

Yes, yes and yes.

estone Wrote:

and yes

Love to hear it. Link por favore?

Not my links but try this:

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http://rapidshare.com/files/232974872/Shango_-__1974_.rar.html

or

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http://sharebee.com/79e9e603

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:24 pm

Just my own terrible proclivity, but I haven't seen anything in this thread that holds a candle to this:

Which is an underrated Stones album, IMO.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

Just my own terrible proclivity, but I haven't seen anything in this thread that holds a candle to this:

Which is an underrated Stones album, IMO.

I like that album but it's far from the best thing in this thread. Also, I prefer this from 1974:

and am a bit surprised that Dumpjail didn't post it yet.

mcaputo · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:31 pm

billy g Wrote:

mcaputo Wrote:

billy g Wrote:

mcaputo Wrote:

e-stone Wrote:

there are quite a few classics not yet mentioned: Roxy Music - Country Life; Neil Young - On The Beach; Gene Clark - No Other.

Yes, yes and yes.

estone Wrote:

and yes

Love to hear it. Link por favore?

Not my links but try this:

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/232974872/Shango_-__1974_.rar.html

or

Code:

http://sharebee.com/79e9e603

Thanks BG

bort · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:04 pm

Here's Tangerine Dream's Phaedra.

The allmusic review is much longer, but I figured this would be enough, right?

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Phaedra is one of the most important, artistic, and exciting works in the history of electronic music, a brilliant and compelling summation of Tangerine Dream's early avant-space direction balanced with the synthesizer/sequencer technology just beginning to gain a foothold in nonacademic circles.

1 Phaedra 17:45
2 Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares 9:55
3 Movements of a Visionary 8:01
4 Sequent C 2:18

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http://www.sendspace.com/file/bsrh7j

tentoze · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:27 am

Hard-edged street poetry, one of the contributing forces in the tidal wave of rap that was to come, and as REAL (all caps intended) a mirror of its time as you're likely to hear.

hey look · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:42 am

Yeah that is a pretty essential compilation.

On an exciting side note: just got some great new mint condition vintage Mission 871 speakers which are making all this music sound so good.

hey look · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:03 am

Fenton Robinson - Somebody Loan Me A Dime

Five years prior to this album, Boz Scaggs collaborated with Duane Allman on his self-titled 1969 album that featured an 11-minute "Loan Me A Dime". That song is probably among my top 5 favorite rock n roll / blues tracks of all time. Allman being likely my favorite guitarist, the song is just a guitar workout and invigorates me with every listen, despite it's length.

Little did I know that the song was not even a Scaggs song, but an older song written by electric blues great Fenton Robinson.

Like Scaggs version of that song, Fenton's reworked tracks for this 1974 album feature stellar production, and put it among the very best of 1970s electric blues. Fenton's voice is pure chicago blues, without the need of getting gruff like and no need to try to cross over into some stupid pop experiments that were happening at the time. This is just blues through and through and it's excellent.

If you're coming into this album expecting to be blown away by something unique, something you've never heard in blues music, you're doing it wrong. But if it's a genre you have some classics from but never really delved into - then this is as good of a starting place as any. Fenton's guitar work is incredible most of the way through and his backing band is terrific. It's one of those instances where someone who is clearly a master of his craft just does it right.

http://www.multiupload.com/N0D9MT6UJK

tentoze · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:08 am

Not much description or soft-sell required here. If you like American music without boundaries, this is it.

harry · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:15 am

Well, if we are going to laud K.C.'s Bible Black (one of the three best KC albums) and if Jasbo gets to get squishy over that RS atrocity, I might as well...

tentoze · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:29 am

After dismal sales with their initial incarnation on Vertigo, Jade Warrior resurrected itself on Island as an entirely new band with a musical direction that was nearly untraveled- part ambient, scorching guitar work, African influence, at time melding jazz sensibilities with themes of Japanese origins- world music before the genre existed. Sonically and musically, a rare and captivating album.

Donovan · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:57 am

It's been mentioned already, but Richard & Linda Thompson's "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight" is one of my favourites from '74. After Richard left Fairport Convention he released a decent solo record, and then teamed up with his wife Linda to record this seminal folk-rock classic. The highlights for me are "The Little Beggar Girl" and "The Calvary Cross" but they're all gems in my book.

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http://bit.ly/dUuzBz

DumpJack · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:07 am

Thanks for that album, Donovan. I've always wanted to hear it but somehow never have.

Also, my bad on not getting that Wyman album up. I was wanting to post up that and Genya Ravan's '74 album as well. Here's her doing 'Whipping Post' in lieu of:

Also I don't think this got mentioned:

"Jimmy's Got a Little Bit of Bitch in Him"

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:13 am

Donovan Wrote:

Richard & Linda Thompson's "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight". The highlights for me are "The Little Beggar Girl" and "The Calvary Cross" but they're all gems in my book.

Yeah, that and On the Beach are honestly my favorites from this year (and "Calvary Cross" is one of the greatest songs ever). King Crimson follows closely after those.

I lost an eBay bid yesterday on an album from 1974 that I really want, Bright Moments by Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The CD has been out of print for a while, but I was bidding on an LP which unfortunately went for only a little more than my highest bid, which was really reasonable.

A couple of other 1974 wishlist items of mine - not looking for links here but planning on buying physical copies eventually: Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece (link has been posted, I know), John Cale - Fear (again, I probably already have this on mp3), Henry Cow - Unrest (have on mp3 but can't seem to make myself give it more time), and Gong - You. Of course there are some other great looking things to consider in this thread as well.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:14 am

DumpJack Wrote:

Also I don't think this got mentioned:

"Jimmy's Got a Little Bit of Bitch in Him"

PopTodd Wrote:

2 stone-cold classics from Clinton & co. in the same year. Fucking great year.

Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting It On

Outside of Cosmic Slop, this may be the band's most hilariously sexual album... where "Getting It On" is not only the object of game, it is the game, itself! And it's all good. Leering acid freak funk classics like the title track and "Red Hot Mama", to the more seductive "I'll Stay". (Which actually sounds like the only reason that he'll still be around is because he's too damn stoned to go away.)
Not my second-favorite album of theirs this time, but probably my third. And a classic, nonetheless.

And on the flip:
Parliament - Up for the Down Stroke

Pure, hard-ass funk. And, this time, it is (damn, yet again) my second-favorite Parliament album (after Osmium). "Testify", "The Goose", "Up for the Down Stroke"... every damn song on here will make you want to shake your ass. Harder. And harder.

But thanks for the video. That's always nice to see!

jasn · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:48 am

Dudes!!!

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http://moourl.com/e0b20

jasn · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:00 pm

1974? For me that would be my first hairless year in a city of longhairs stationed at Davis Monthan AFB, Tucson AZ. Relevancy is such a personal thing...

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http://moourl.com/6qxv0

jasn · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:13 pm

Last one (for now at least) Very listenable and under rated, IMO.

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http://moourl.com/1oxf4

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:32 pm

Jesus jasn.

Comin in and droppin bombs.

FT · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:38 pm

jasn Wrote:

1974? For me that would be my first hairless year in a city of longhairs stationed at Davis Monthan AFB, Tucson AZ. Relevancy is such a personal thing...

Code:

http://moourl.com/6qxv0

great call!

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:44 pm

Donovan Wrote:

It's been mentioned already, but Richard & Linda Thompson's "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight" is one of my favourites from '74. After Richard left Fairport Convention he released a decent solo record, and then teamed up with his wife Linda to record this seminal folk-rock classic. The highlights for me are "The Little Beggar Girl" and "The Calvary Cross" but they're all gems in my book.

Code:

http://bit.ly/dUuzBz

I have always meant to track this down. Thanks.

Kingfish · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:45 pm

I left this one for some other people to post about, but no one did.

Whether it's Prince Albert Hall, The Last Waltz, or The Basement Tapes, for my money it doesn't get much better than Dylan fronting the Band. I'd love to see Helm, Robertson, and Dylan play live again. Here it is in all its glory, Before the Flood.

Donovan · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:42 pm

jasn Wrote:

Dudes!!!

Code:

http://moourl.com/e0b20

Awesome! I was going to do a Budgie tenner but didn't think it would go over that well. They're definitely worth checking out if you're a Sabbath fan.

harry · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:51 pm

No seriously, some music sounds better now than then.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

Donovan Wrote:

It's been mentioned already, but Richard & Linda Thompson's "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight" is one of my favourites from '74. After Richard left Fairport Convention he released a decent solo record, and then teamed up with his wife Linda to record this seminal folk-rock classic. The highlights for me are "The Little Beggar Girl" and "The Calvary Cross" but they're all gems in my book.

Code:

http://bit.ly/dUuzBz

I have always meant to track this down. Thanks.

great fucking album

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