1974

My List:

Get Up With It - Miles Davis
Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison
Standing on the Verge of Getting it On - Funkadelic
Rejuvenation - The Meters
Lotus - Santana
Starless and Bible Black - King Crimson
Meet The Residents - The Residents
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt
Hell - James Brown
Pussycats - Harry Nilsson
Dancing Machine - Jackson 5
Big Fun - Miles Davis
Soon Over Babaluna - Can
Thrust - Herbie Hancock
Mandrilland - Mandrill
The End - Nico
Phases and Stages - Willie Nelson
Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder
Sweet Exorcist - Curtis Mayfield
Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy - Brian Eno

HM: 1969: Velvet Underground Live

Among the Common:

Neil Young - On The Beach
Big Star - Radio City
King Crimson Red
Lou Reed ‎– Rock N Roll Animal
Ohio Players ‎– Skin Tight
John Lennon - Walls And Bridges
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
ELO - Eldorado
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread

Additional loads:

Chapter Three - Gato Barbieri
Mysterious Traveller - Weather Report
Virgin Land - Airto Moriera
Sorcery - Jack DeJohnette
Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell
Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
Machine Gun - Commodores
Nightbirds - Labelle
Unrest - Henry Cow
I Want to See the Bright Lights - Richard and Linda Thompson
Information Inspiration - Shuggie Otis
Slow Dancer - Boz Scaggs
Rags to Rufus - Rufus

No crumbsroom list for this year, but I threw a shout out for the Taj Mahal Travellers live August 1974 LP.

crumbsroom wrote:

Music von Harmonia - Harmonia
Zukerzeit - Cluster

I wish I had a handy discography for these German releases that has reliable release dates.

crumbsroom wrote:

New Skin for the Old Ceremony - Leonard Cohen

I still hate this version of "Chelsea Hotel".  Maybe I'll come around on this one eventually.

crumbsroom wrote:

Odds and Sods - The Who

This is one I never listen to anymore, and one (like Magic Bus) that I've made my own preferred selections based on what we now know was available.  I'm assuming that some things were immediately vetoed, like British B-sides (no "Daddy Rolling Stone" or "Heaven and Hell"), no Townshend demos, etc.  But I still would exchange a few things for others, and anyway this LP has become largely obsolete for my needs.

1976

My List:

Coney Island Baby - Lou Reed (he just wants to do it for the coach)
Presence - Led Zeppelin (don't hate, it's the secret great LZ LP)
I Want You - Marvin Gaye
Amigos - Santana
Sparkle - Aretha Franklin
The Visitation - Chrome
A New World Record - Electric Light Orchestra
The Jacksons
801 Live
Clones of Dr. Funkenstein/Tales of Kidd Funkadelic - P-Funk
Spirit - Earth Wind and Fire
Silk Degrees - Boz Scaggs
Now It's My Turn - Betty Carter
Wings Over America

I do have some soft spots for the FM classic rock, so I wouldn't kick the Billy Joel, Steve Miller, Bob Seger or Queen to the curb, but I probably would be a lot more selective of specific tracks rather than the entire albums.

Crumbsroom's picks:

How Dare You: 10cc
The Third Reich and Roll : The Residents
Jailbreak: Thin Lizzy
Garvey's Ghost : Burning Spear
Ramones: Ramones
Warren Zevon
Royal Scam : Steely Dan
Modern Lovers
Station to Station: David Bowie

Rock's picks:

Weather Report - Black Market
Blondie

Picks I would have included had I been fast enough:

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Bootsy Collins - Stretching Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band
Bob Dylan - Desire
Rolling Stones - Black and Blue
Herbie Hancock - Secrets
Tom Waits - Small Change

And others:

James Brown - Body Heat
Marvin Gaye - I Want You
Graham Central Station - Mirror
Klaus Schulze - Moondawn
Brian Eno - Music For Films
The Ramones
Steve Miller - Fly Like An Eagle
Jackson Browne - The Pretender
Bob Seger - Live Bullet/Night Moves
Steely Dan - Royal Scam
Bob Marley - Rastaman Vibration

1973
Spectrum — Billy Cobham
In the Right Place — Dr. John
Space is the Place — Sun Ra
Funky Kingston — Toots and the Maytals
Tower of Power — Tower of Power
Aerosmith — Aerosmith
Goats Head Soup — The Rolling Stones
Mind Games — John Lennon

Soundtracks from 1973:
Black Caesar — James Brown
Slaughter’s Big Rip–Off — James Brown
Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix
Enter the Dragon — Lalo Schifrin
White Lightning — Charles Bernstein (Evasive McClusky!)
The Soul Of Nigger Charley — Don Costa
La Planete Sauvage — Alain Goraguer

I'm not nominating Jesus Christ Superstar. Fukkin Andrew Lloyd Weber.

1974
Everything You Know Is Wrong — The Firesign Theatre
Black Belt Jones — Dennis Coffey
Up for the Down Stroke — Parliament
It’s Only Rock And Roll — The Rolling Stones
Love in Us All — Pharoah Sanders
Apostrophe (‘) — Frank Zappa
Can’t Get Enough — Barry White
Skin Tight — Ohio Players
Fire — Ohio Players
Small Talk — Sly and the Family Stone
Sneakin’ Sally through the Alley — Robert Palmer
Machine Gun — The Commodores
Black Love — Carlos Garnett
AWB — Average White Band
Boogity Boogity — Ray Stevens

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Be glad I didn't bust out the Alvin Stardust or the Andy Kim.

Lynn and Twitty look like they're already prepped for the wax museum, don't they?  What's going on with Conway's head in that picture? A tiny Ethiopian face grafted onto a massive Neanderthal skull, topped with... the crest of an iguanadon? Maybe I shouldn't make fun; after all it could be a case of craniofacial fibrous dysplasia, with a sclerotic mop comorbidity. But is that a real face on Loretta, or the kind that peels off to reveal a member of SPECTRE? Is this where Michelle Bachmann took her cues, or could Bachmann possibly be Lynn and Twitty's illegitimate demon offspring?

As for the singing Coz, I've heard rumors of some potentially scandalous outtakes recently coming to light. 

But ok, fun and joke aside, permit me to make a case for the Cobham. Kill those little computer speakers and don the headphones or crank the receiver; Welcome to Quadrant 4, truly one of the most amazing recordings I've ever heard: 





 

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Jinnistan wrote:

Not quick enough for the P.  "I've got it."
 

Hey, that's not a 1974 cut.  
What's not quick enough? Need me to link some Slayer? Some Diz/Bird? Some Ricky Skaggs?


...Some Dead Kennedys? 

Jinnistan wrote:

"Stratus" is on Cobham's Spectrum, dude.

You know I know "Stratus" is on Spectrum.  

I don't get the "not quick enough" part, but maybe that's because I'm not quick enough badabum. But fuck yeah, Prince does amazing covers of amazing music, so much so that I just automatically typed "does" instead of "did" without consciously doing so, so Prince's endorsement surely makes the case for Spectrum. 
As cool as it sounds I can't imagine Slayer pulling it off.

Hmm...Cobham doing Reign in Blood, on the other hand...


Or Prince doing Reign in Blood. 
 Surely Prince would've hated that idea, but I'm suddenly having a ball imagining what Prince covering Slayer would have sounded like. It would've slain, I'm sure.

But getting back to 1974.

Spectrum, all tracks recorded live over a 2–day period at Electric Lady Studios, most in one or two takes, got no fixing in the mix; on one track we can even hear guitarist Tommy Bolin break a string and continue playing, finishing the recording on the remaining five. "Taurian Matador" is not my favorite track on the album but anyway...
Bolin incidentally dies two years after Spectrum's release, having overdosed on "heroin and other substances, including alcohol cocaine and barbituates."

Jesus, Tom.
Vick's Vapo Rub???

That particular recording of "Quadrant 4" incidentally became one of my personal favorite tracks of all time, of any genre. We all have 'em. Maybe it's something developmental. Maybe that track was playing during my first time using the potty. "Triumph!" Drums so thunderous I dropped a deuce! "Big! Boy! Big! Boy!"

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Rampop II wrote:

I knew I could count on you, there. 'Best to let you handle the Beatles and Stones (and their affiliates). The singles on those albums are decent, though.

Goat has two great tracks, "Mr. D" and "Heartbreaker", and a couple of other decent ones, but I think it's their weakest record of the decade.

Mind Games is Lennon's most bland album.  The title track's alright, but overproduced, doing the kind of song he had made fun of McCartney for doing (and it even uses the Bach-based descending scale that Paul used on "For No One" and "Hello Goodbye").  Lennon's New York might be a weaker album, but at least it has the Zappa tapes ("Scumbag", etc.).

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