You Should Hear This: 1976

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:53 pm

The weakest year of the '70s?

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:57 pm

Drinky Wrote:

The weakest year of the '70s?

No.
If for this album alone:

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:03 pm

Yeah, that's my favorite album of 1976, too, but look at all the great albums from 1975, 1977, and every other year of the decade.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:15 pm

I don't know, this one is pretty high up there, too:

Stone · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:27 am **Posts:** 1562

Nah, one of the years in the early 70s has got to be the weakest. How about these:

Stone · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:27 am **Posts:** 1562

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:28 pm

And, then, this is one of the all-time great reggae albums, IMO:

So, I guess it was a helluva year for music from the islands.

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

Great year.

Warren Zevon - S/T
Jackson Browne - the Pretender
Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music
Tom Waits - Small Change
JJ Cale - Troubadour

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:45 pm

Look, it's not like I don't think there were any great albums from 1976. I have a list.

This is on it:

Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

And so is this:

David Bowie - Station to Station

And Modern Lovers, Thin Lizzy, Tom Waits, and a few others.

That Toots and the Maytals album came out in 1974. (Reggae Got Soul which isn't as good came out in '76.)

Parliament - Mothership Connection was 1975.

This is great and was 1976, though:

Burning Spear - Man in the Hills

So it was a solid year for reggae, I'll give you that.

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

A great year for reggae...in addition to the three mentioned already:

Max Romeo & the Upsetters - War in a Babylon
Lee Perry & the Upsetters - Super Ape
Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
Susan Cadogan - Hurts So Good
Cedric IM Brooks - The Light of Saba
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
King Tubby Meets Jacob Miller in a Tenement Yard
Toots & the Maytals - Reggae Got Soul

tentoze · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:52 pm

billy g Wrote:

Great year.

Warren Zevon - S/T
Jackson Browne - the Pretender
Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music
Tom Waits - Small Change
JJ Cale - Troubadour

Every single one of those. Well, maybe not so much the JJ Cale for me, but I accept it. Also, in no particular order. and without pictures:

The combination knock out punches of Howlin' Wind and Heat Treatment from Graham Parker, Joan Armatrading's S/T, Steeleye Span's Rocket Cottage, Jade Warrior's Kites, Arlo Guthrie's Amigo, Jeff Beck's Wired, Steely Dan's The Royal Scam, Burning Spear's Garvey's Ghost oops wrong album, Wanted: The Outlaws, Dylan's Desire...was a fucking banner year for music that I liked then, and still like.

Stone · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:27 am **Posts:** 1562

You are correct, sir, about Mothership Connection. That's what I get for relying on some random list somewhere on the innernets.

But I'll see your 1975-Mothership-Connection, and raise you this:

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

These are pretty huge albums:

I'll post a bunch more when i get back from lunch.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:01 pm

mcaputo · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:24 pm

tentoze Wrote:

Jeff Beck's Wired

Hell yes. I saw him (w/Jan Hammer) in Oakland in support of this tour. He brought out John McLaughlin, Nils Lofgren and Neal Schon for the encore.

....and yes to :

Stones
Artful Dodger
Ramones
Petty
JRichman & Modern Lovers
Flamin' Groovies
Thin Lizzy

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

Cartola - S/T 1976

AMG Wrote:

Cartola was one of the most important samba composers of all time. His lyrical "O Mundo é um Moinho" opens the album, delivering its luxurious melodic lines. The progression of the album reveals in each new track some hidden treasures in the rustic sophistication of a poet of the people.

Rolling Stone Brasil did a top 100 Brazilian albums of all time a few years ago and ranked this 8, higher than anything from Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso or Gilberto Gil.

Serge Gainsbourg - L'Homme a Tete de Chou

Dusty Groove Wrote:

One of Serge Gainsbourg's best albums ever – a set that we love every bit as much as his Melody Nelson classic, or his killer records with Jane Birkin! The set was recorded in the mid 70s, and it features amazing orchestrations from Alan Hawkshaw – backings that are even better than Hawk's previous sound library work, and which are filled with loads of cool spare moogy and electronic bits filtering in and out of the mix! Some tracks bubble with the same brooding brilliance and funky touches that you'd find on the Melody Nelson album – and others have a uniquely spacey quality that's unlike any of his other work

AMG Wrote:

In this morbidly comic song cycle the narrator's muse is Marilou, a black shampoo girl: during their ill-fated fling, he descends into unhinged obsession, beats her to death with a fire extinguisher and ends up in a psychiatric hospital (convinced his head has turned into a cabbage).

Larry Jon Wilson - Let Me Sing My Song To You

Fantastic Country soul. This album paired with his 1975 debut "New Beginnings" was reissued this year.

Chinga Chavin - Country Porn

Contains the original version of Asshole from El Paso

Detroit Jazz Composers Ltd. - Hasting Street Jazz Experience

A great spiritual jazz album from Detroit with a 30+ member line up featuring Tribe and Strata East including Phil Ranelin,Miller Brisker and Nasir Hafiz plus guest vocalist Kim Weston of Motown fame.

ShamWow! · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:18 pm

I don't care what you say, that Nugent album is awesome, and I'll bet more than half of you who are thinking what I know you're thinking haven't heard it.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:34 pm

mcaputo Wrote:

Hell yes. I saw him (w/Jan Hammer) in Oakland in support of this tour. He brought out John McLaughlin, Nils Lofgren and Neal Schon for the encore.

Jesus H. Christ!

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:35 pm

shmoo · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:53 pm

Thread hijack!

/Thread hijack!

I may post more when I get home, though a lot of my faves appeared above already (Bowie and Wonder in particular).

harry · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:04 pm

So you guys really think that reggae was better than Rastaman Vibration? But clearly a year when few artists put out their best work.

I'd put the Warren Zevon, Graham Parker near the top. I find it interesting how my filters are different now than they were that year. I listenes and "approved" of Year of the Cat and Coney Island Baby more than Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and Presence... and today it's the very reverse.

Oh, and the Royal Scam.

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

harry Wrote:

So you guy's really think that reggae was better than Rastaman Vibration?

Did you miss that Stone posted Rastaman Vibration early in the thread? Or did I misunderstand your question.

I'd put personally put some of the reggae albums I posted above Rastaman Vibration and a few below it.

A few more:

Norman Blake - Whiskey Before Breakfast

Great bluegrass and maybe his best album and that's saying a lot.

Guy Clark - Texas Cookin'

Another fine Guy Clark album with harmony vocals of Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings and Hoyt Axton.

Jackson Sisters - S/T

Some fine rare groove with great raw soul vocals and harmonies.

Karin Krog (with Archie Shepp) - Hi Fly

Beautiful jazz standards album with Karin Krog on vocals, Archie Shepp on tenor sax, Charles Greenlee on trumpet and Beaver Harris on drums. One of Shepp's best recordings after the Impulse years.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:02 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

I thought Black and Blue was the clear winner...until I saw this.

I've been threatening to buy this on vinyl and hang the frame in my office. CAREER ENDER.

pinehurst · **Joined:** Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:45 am **Posts:** 1526

shiv · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:09 am

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