Best 1970s Classic Rock, Prog Rock, Hard Rock, & Early Metal Albums Or Songs

Prod3

Prod3

Expect Nothing and Appreciate Everything
Another favorite album of mine....Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper from 1973

And my fav track from the album is actually Billion Dollar Babies :)

 
Little Red Wagon Repairman

Little Red Wagon Repairman

MFOMBSoPGA
Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous

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meesterperfect

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pool_hustler said:
Of Dino's opening group I still have original LPs of Bridge of Sighs, Close To The Edge and Bad Company :thumbsup:

Agree with Mr. P on Steely Dan. Wasn't THAT crazy about their first couple of LPs, but starting with "The Royal Scam" they just took off into the stratosphere :bowdown:

Absolutely agree with my man SUPAFLY that Sticky Fingers is The Stones best album :thumbsup:
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I just love when everyone agrees!
I do however think that the Stones 66/67 phase was really good too. Aftermath and Between the Buttons. I always seem to put their phases in 2 album groups.
Early stuff, Aftermath/Between Buttons, Beggars Banquet/Let it Bleed, Fingers/Exile, Goat Soup/IORR, Black Blue/SomeGirls, Emotional Rescue/Tattoo You....after Undercover I stopped buying their stuff.

Early Alice Cooper
 
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meesterperfect said:
I do however think that the Stones 66/67 phase was really good too.
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Agree, it was very good for what it was.

I always seem to put their phases in 2 album groups.

And for me I always see them as starting to really peak with Beggars Banquet, leaping considerably further ahead with Let It Bleed (great album), then peaking with Sticky Fingers.

Exile is an interesting album, for sure, with some experimentation away from their norm. But imo Sticky was their crowning jewel, and arguably one of the top ten rock albums ever.
 
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pool_hustler said:
Can't argue with that. It's a masterpiece.
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"In the days of my youth la la la, la la la,la la la la".

Dino Velvet said:
Thanks for that.
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YOUR'E WELCOME!

John_8581 said:
Frank Zappa from 1979's Joe's Garage

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This is the Central Scrutinizer. One night Mary didn't show up. She was...........Such a great album.
pool_hustler said:
Agree, it was very good for what it was.

I always seem to put their phases in 2 album groups.

And for me I always see them as starting to really peak with Beggars Banquet, leaping considerably further ahead with Let It Bleed (great album), then peaking with Sticky Fingers.

Exile is an interesting album, for sure, with some experimentation away from their norm. But imo Sticky was their crowning jewel, and arguably one of the top ten rock albums ever.
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Agree. I had the I suppose American version of Beggars Banquet. The White one that opened with the old looking photo of them having a feast. Probably listened to Jig Saw Puzzle 10,000 times. I'd say its probably my favorite Stones album but Sticky is probably their best work.
 
Supafly

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Re: Best 1970s Classic Rock, Prog Rock, Hard Rock, & Early Metal Albums Or Songs

John_8581 said:
Frank Zappa from 1979's Joe's Garage

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I am still a bit undecided about my fifth fave Rock album, but "Joe's Garage" is a great example, both in the art of Rock, plus the art of playing with its clichés. Your two picks sum this up very well

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John_8581 said:
Frank Zappa from 1979's Joe's Garage

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I am still a bit undecided about my fifth fave Rock album, but "Joe's Garage" is a great example, both in the art of Rock, plus the art of playing with its clichés. Your two picks sum this up very well
 
Prod3

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Another favorite from Jeff Becks 1975 Blow By Blow album

Cause We've Ended As Lovers

 
Supafly

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Regarding what Frank Zapa's appeal is, to me, probably to some others, too

He had what oin my eyes was the hardest approach to himself and his bandmembers, regarding the craft of musicianship. I guess you could say, the EXACT opposite of punk rock.



George Duke wraps it up well in that video:

That band could play EVERYTHING. And that is, in a nutshell, the goal for any musician, if he/she wants to create new songs, new musical ideas... as long as you are earthbound, because your abilities limit you in certain ways and paths, you are destined to get boring really fast. That is something to be said about the Tolling Stones. They learned fast to get all these excellent sidemen for their albums, because they themselves are doing the same shit all the time. Mind you, in their limizted ways, they are the top of the game. But they still do the same old stuff on their own. Zappa broke the mould every day, and made music that created new paths every record, every show.

That is, what made so many people not enjoy his muusic. The world of rock music and such is one of finding the bestselling niche, and making as many albums using that niche's grooves as possible. Most rock albums in here more or less fit that bill. One or two musicians in the bands - mostly, the lead guitarists, another cliché - add that sparkle to the albums, that make them different, but the other stuff is kind of boring.
 
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Elvis Costello and the Attractions ;)


Speaking of Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello and the Attractions did have a hit with Nick's song, "What's So Funny About ..."

 
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