ITT: /mu/ in 1973

what's with these Aerosmith dudes? new band apparently but just a lame Stones/Zep rip. nothing worth listening to here.

I'm gonna do it
I'm gonna invent hip hop

>>126751354
I'm not digging the new Stones record anyway and what's with that Carpenters goop single they put out?

James Taylor with panache. C+

ANGIE
ANGIE
WHEN WILL THOSE CLOUDS ALL DISAPPEAR?

ANGIE
ANGIE
WHERE WILL IT LEAD US FROM HERE?

Is this supposed to be a comeback? Because Pete Sinfield wrote the lyrics? Because certified classical composer Alberto Ginastera (who after all gets royalties) attests to their sensitivity on the jacket? Because the production is so crystalline you can hear the gism dripping off the microphone? C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKp1HKM_4TY

Alright this is the last time Uncle Lullaby gets on the Billboard, we swear.

>>126751399
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyKMLWMd0Zk

Hit it, Jimmy.

Except for the spavined "Dancing With Mr. D," and the oxymoronic "Can You Hear the Music," these are good songs. But the execution is slovenly. I don't mean sloppy, which can be exciting--I mean arrogant and enervated all at once. Mick's phrasing is always indolent, but usually it's calculated down to the last minibeat as well; here the words sometimes catch him yawning. Without trying to be "tight" the band usually grooves into a reckless, sweaty coherence; here they hope the licks will stand on their own. Only on "Starfucker," the most outrageous Chuck Berry throwaway of the band's career, does this record really take off. B

>>126751594
if only Karen Carpenter would have taken that song's advice, alas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IdDXD0GebI
the midget queen's last Billboard Hot 100 appearance after which her airplay was limited to country radio

By anybody else, this would be one more dumb concept album, and it still is. C

YOU'RE SO VAAAAIIINNN
YOU THINK THIS SONG IS ABOOOUTTT YOU, DON'T YOUUUUUU

The Republican Party will never recover from Richard Nixon

>>126751740
worst cover art ever

>>126751354
This "Dream On" song will not stand the test of time. Americans just don't know how to play rock

Those of you who forgot just why you hated Simon & Garfunkel ought to hear what this castrati manque does to Randy Newman's "Old Man." Is all that sweetness supposed to be intended ironically? I bet Randy doesn't think so. Point of information: His name contains the word "art." C-

Elvis in 68 was awesome but this Hawaii special is gonna flop

>>126751789
yeah i remember someone giving me a Paul Revere and the Raiders record. just noise and slopping around with no structure to anything.

>>126751799
Randy got paid royalties for that cover so I mean why would he care?

Has anyone heard of this band called KISS? Saw them open for Blue Oyster Cult. Actually pretty good live show but they won't go anywhere. The lead guitarist and drummer seemed like the coolest dudes in the group

If you call this living. Harrison sings as if he's doing sitar impressions, and four different people, including a little man in my head who I never noticed before, have expressed intense gratitude when I turned the damned thing off during "Be Here Now." Inspirational Verse: "We all making out/Like we own this whole world/While the leaders of nations/They're acting like big girls." C

Can we ban this faggot spamming cucktagu reviews?

IMPEACH NIXON

>>126751609
Starfucker really isn't as good as he thinks it is.

Give it up Pink Floyd. You're not going anywhere. All of your records have been flops. This Dark Side Of The Moon is not gonna be any different

>>126751674
Turned into an ok adult white soul/pop country singer I guess.

LOL this Willis Reed guy thinks he and the Knicks can shut down the based Lakers

>>126751855
Shut up Hunter S Thompson

I like original Christmas songs but this Slade Christmas song will be a forgotten flop in the UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOQL3mwNhTs

Saw this band in a pub or two. Loved this song they did. Glad they got a record deal. The singer is not as good as who I saw tho

Between her connections (wife of Miles, girlfriend of Jimi) and concept (autonomous black woman forges metal funk) she's certainly got a head start in the hype department. She makes up for these advantages, however, with forced, narrow singing and a near-total absence of rhythmic or melodic sense. Upside: Best comic-book sex since Angelfood McSpade. C+

>AHHH AHHH AAAHHH
>*endless electroslop synth with people shouting over it*
>AHHH AHHH AAAHHH (whore edition)
>song called Time starts with clock noises
>song called Money starts with fucking money noises
>*MI6-funded elevator music*
>War... LE BAD! (we get it Rog, you forgot to whine about Vietnam when it was relevant)
>DUDE WE NAMEDROPPED THE ALBUM XD THIS BETTER GET YOUR ATTENTION 9 TRACKS IN

>>126751863
seriously did a 12 year old write those lyrics?

>>126751756
at least you can beat off to the album cover

What the fuck happened to Stevie Wonder?

>>126752027
He's blind or something. (^:

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>>126751966
73 /mu/ would for sure hate DSOTM on general principle cos 73 rym/reddit/fantano would love it

If only you'd stayed retired instead of married a guy who has his own label as a vehicle to unnecessarily resurrect your career.

I played drums for The Who when Keith Moon couldn't. AMA

Skeptics said: "Producer's record." I disagreed, because Leiber & Stoller have done nothing but sit on their genius for almost a decade and this group had a promising pre-history, as the Humblebums. Anyway, almost every song on the album sounded substantial--until I really listened to it. Conclusion: producer's record. B

>>126752065
Can we stop posting about her already? Jesus Christ. I’m sick of this shit

I went to a NYE party down under and saw some band where the guitar player was flying all over the stage dressed like a schoolboy. Funny enough his name was Angus. Loved it, but I hope they keep their day jobs

One of the Jackson 5 is gonna release a solo album. Michael I think? Jermaine is the best and would have a better solo career

>>126752053
Not to time travel or anything but Fantano gave the gay triangle album a 6/10

ww@ elvis chads

>>126751845
Can we stop posting about 60s One Direction members already? Fucking hell I'm sick of it.

>>126752272
Shave your pubebeard. The Beatles are why your favorite hipster bullshit exists

>>126751609
Can we stop posting Christgay reviews already? Jesus mother of Mercy I'm sick of this shit.

this year was like the height of prog rock

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Alphataurus - Alphataurus
Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans
De de Lind - Io Non So Da Dove Vengo, E Non So Dove Mai Andro'. Uomo E' Il Nome Che Mi Han Dato
Semiramis - Semiramis
L'uovo di Colombo - L'uovo di Colombo
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra
Cervello - Melos
Blocco Mentale - Ποα
Le Orme - Felone e Sorona
Metamorfosi - Inferno
Osanna - Palepoli
Campo di Marte - Campo di Marte
Dedalus - Dedalus
Camel - Camel
Soft Machine - Six & Seven
Mike Oldvield - Tubular Bells
I Califfi - Fiore di Metallo
Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning
Klaatu - 3:47
Ruphus - New Born Day
Kayak - See See the Sun
Fantasy - Paint a Picture
Greenslade - Bedside Manners are Extra & s/t
Atlantis - Earth and Fire

>>126752272
60s what?

>>126752302
You forgot Kevin Ayers

>>126752247
Reminder that this man had sex with 14 year olds and stole black people's music.

Unlike Tommy, this one really is a kind of opera--first you get to know the music, then you sit down with the libretto and concentrate for eighty minutes. Even with the synopsis (as brilliant a piece of writing as Townshend's ever done) and lyrics, its account of a young Mod's "double schizophrenia" can be pretty confusing, partly because confusion is his subject. The music is cluttered with horns and unnecessarily shrill, so that--despite its considerable melodic (and motivic, as they say) pizzazz--you don't play it for fun. But if Townshend's great virtue is compassion, this is his triumph--Everykid as heroic fuckup, smart enough to have a good idea of what's being done to him and so sensitive he gets pushed right out to the edge anyway. A-

>>126752247
Can we stop posting about 50s Aaron Carter already? Holy fuck I'm sick of it.

This one opens with "Gimme Your Money, Please," about a mugging rather than the band's artistic ambitions. Pretty soon I started noticing all the usual metal moves but found myself enjoying the rest of the side, anyway--it may have been simple-minded but it was fast. Wonder if they take checks? B

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>>126752291
>>126752272
>>126752078
Wut? Is this some new meme I'm not in on?

>>126752361
i like this album, call it what you like

Having decided rock-and-roll was fun, a good enough idea within reason, he then determined that fun consisted not so much of sex and energy and high spirits as it did aimless whimsy and here he finally achieves disaster with that idea. The worst album yet made by a rock-and-roller of the first rank, unless David Crosby counts. D+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQOaLP-qPmk

tf is a Blondie Chaplin and what is it doing singing on a Beach Boys record?

>>126752835
wasn't this right around the time Brian went insane?

>>126751966
theyll never be any good without syd man and its fucked up how they just kicked him out. roger is such a pussy who should just stick to playing the guitar

what's this stupid danceable normie crap?

fusion just died

Alternate title: Shoogidy-boogidy. B

Christgau fucking sucks.
I hope in 50 years time future generations are mocking his shit reviews on their super computers

>>126752864
Yes.

>>126752986
Me an' the Ohio Players are gonna tell you about a worm
He's the funkiest worm in the world

The Stevie Wonder-composed title track isn't blues or even soul--it's one of those slow, funky grooves that smolders along for minutes before you notice you're dripping from the heat, and it almost justifies the lame idea of sending King into Sigma Sound with Dave Crawford. Elsewhere King sings indifferent songs sincerely, recites a poem he wrote, and plays his guitar when he gets the chance. B-

>>126752078
now see this anon here, his grandpa used to play Teresa Brewer albums on the turntable while molesting him (read comment in the Funky Worm voice)

Simplicity can be a virtue--the nice thing about the Allmans is that when they put two five-year-olds on the cover we know it's not some "decadent" joke. Gregg Allman is a predictable singer who never has an unpredictable lyric to work with anyway, and the jams do roll on, but at their best--"Ramblin' Man," a miraculous revitalization of rock's earliest conceit--they just may be the best, and on this album Dickey Betts's melodious spirituality provides unity and renewal. A-

>>126752986
i bet Dr. Dre got that for his 9th birthday and immediately knew what he was gonna do with his life kek

I WAS BORN A RAMBLIN' MAAAAN
MAKIN' A LIVIN, DOIN' THE BEST THAT I CAAAAN

>>126752346
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tHz71qCqeo

No that's this guy who's now all grown up and cunt-tree.

>>126752944
it's called funk, nerd

>>126753345
she cute. and fortunately Cuckgau didn't review this one.

>>126753345
This was before she got good and was a middling AC singer.

One advantage of imitating Billie Holiday's vocal style is that you get to sing Billie Holiday's material. Another is that you get to sing like Billie Holiday. C

Two LPs ago, Bernie Taupin passed on his way from obscure banality to clean, well-lighted banality to write a batch of imaginative lyrics, and set to those lyrics John's music sounded eclectic but not confused. Too often now it seems to chatter on anonymously. The title cut is good, "Bennie and the Jets" is great, side four is good-to-great, and a few other songs here would probably benefit from more exclusive company, but this is one more double album that would make a nifty single. B

>>126753345
this is actually a nice little pop country album before she went full out string mush pop on HYNBM

>>126753454
>nobody as yet suspected that he was punching poop

I find this record baffling because I'm a critic. For critics, it is an article of faith that one can be baffled by a record--which is to say, it is an article faith that all music can be analyzed, or anyway, puzzled out. I'm trying to right now--it's my nature. Not only doesn't Stevie agree--most musicians don't--but he proves his point, or would if proof were one of his categories. It isn't. The discipline his uniquely aural world requires is technical, not logical or even conceptual, and technically it's unexceptionable. Which brings me to my gut. According to my gut, there's nothing here as exciting as the best of Talking Book. B+

>>126752065
kek. this was the last time she recorded "Music Music Music" and it's predictably the worst one. just stick to the original 1950 version.

>>126753610
Now if only RHCP hadn't thought covering Higher Ground was a good idea.

>>126752996
He went insane way earlier than 73

>>126753454
not sure if I like Elton embracing the rock opera and progressive elements

this latest grandiose double album might alienate all his fans, it just lacks the honesty and charm of his hit albums and feels like a bloated cash grab with the higher 2-LP price tag

>>126753751
his nadir was in 73-75 when he was barely functional and wandering the streets begging for change to buy booze and pills like a homeless guy

Hey Cuckgau, your old childhood nemesis has crossed the River Styx.

The title's as perfect as the band's latest symbol--a $, its "S" transformed into a two-headed snake. No outrage Alice has concocted equals the frank, sweaty greed of his current success. Oddly, though, this blatant profit mechanism is his most consistent album--even the song about (mercy me) necrophilia is tolerable, just like the song about tooth decay. But without a "School's Out" or an "I'm Eighteen"--neither "No More Mr. Nice Guy" nor "Elected" quite makes the grade--there's nothing to tempt anyone back to the new improved filler. B

>>126753862
he may have been dead by 1973, but I feel like that devilish looking motherfucker somehow requires Spike Jones to make an appearance

I was assuming Spike Jones would be a poster boy of some terrible reality before real rock music was invented, but the only Christgau review I quickly found talked about the "the king of musical comedy", so I suppose mr. Jones and his City Slickers might be proto-punk-pilled Christgau-approved anarchists even in 1973

>>126753965
Christgau exhibits butthurt about Vaughn Monroe a couple times notably in a David Crosby review. I have the vague feeling it's some PTSD thing from his parents playing the guy's records when he was a child. I mean, his voice was pretty fucking irritating.

He may not be a wizard yet but he'll be a star someday, you just watch. He can't miss, this Mozart of his generation (the last an actual quote from a fan who collared me at a concert once). Bushwa. His productivity is always a pleasure but it makes for such a mess. Examine the enclosed fifty-odd minutes and you'll discover a minor songwriter with major woman problems who's good with the board and isn't saved by his sense of humor. C+

And that was Anita Bryant's "'Till There Was You" and Duane Eddy's "Forty Miles of Bad Road" on our KRLB Best of 1959 playlist. Say, whatever happened to those two anyway?

>>126754233
Anita's shilling orange juice down in Florida hadn't you heard? Duane IDK.

"The Angel" and "Mary Queen of Arkansas" are turgid unaccompanied-acoustic horrors that could scare anybody off this particular Dylan hype. But the jokey lingo and absurdist energy of everything else are exactly the excesses that made Dylan a genius instead of a talent--it takes real conviction to save "But did not heed my urgency" with "Your life was one long emergency." Even urban-mythos rambles like "Lost in the Flood" are not without charm. And in songs like "Growin' Up" and "Blinded by the Light" there's an unguarded teen-underclass poetry that has Springsteen's name on it. B+

>>126754464
Aerosmith's debut album got no promotion perhaps because CBS spent all their advertising budget on Asbury Park.

>>126754498
How's that possible? Bruce Springsteen is a blue collar guy that cares about the average joe

In which David Bowie remembers the world's forgotten boy long enough to sponsor an album and then proceeds to thin the mix down slimmer than an epicurean's waist. The side openers "Raw Power" and "Search and Destroy" voice the Iggy Pop ethos more insanely and furiously than anything since "I Wanna Be Your Dog." But James Williamson's guitar aside, the rest disperses in their wake. B

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>>126754498
they were really slavering to find the next Bob Dylan back then

>>126754525
That's not what the word "epicurean" means.

>>126754535
Yeah man fuck the system even tho Democrats always control congress mmmaannnnn this machine kills fahshshsshsizts mmmannnnnn

>>126754565
they have Phil Ochs for that, I guess

>>126754591
And Peter, Paul and Mary probably.

>>126754525
hey this rips hopefully 24 years from now he doesn't decide to remix and ruin it

>>126754565
Seriously. It's hilarious how much of a pass LBJ gets for Vietnam. He fabricated Gulf of Tonkin but NIXON'S COMING OHIOOOOOO

>>126754663
Did anyone also mention that the Southerners Neil Young whined about are and have been Democrat-controlled their entire history?

>>126753039
surprised any then-current black musicians were still willing to work with BB and he wasn't just written off as a porch monkey playing for white hippies

>>126754675
THIS

Don't get me wrong. Nixon was no angel but I'll take him over today's GOP. Fuck what that hack Hunter Thompson says

This attempt to turn Nelson into a star runs into trouble when it induces him to outshout Memphis horns or Western swing, and his unaccompanied-acoustic version of "A Song for You" takes some getting used to. After a while, though, you notice that you're noticing every song. And then you realize that the two you notice most--the slyly vengeful "Sad Songs and Waltzes" and the cuckold's tragedy "She's Not for You"--are also the two oldest. A star, eh? B+

>>126754464
I do not understand the Springsteen knob slobbing of music critics, are they desperate for another “voice of a generation” now that Dylan went the country route?

>>126754763
Springsteen founded New Jersey

>>126754763
He's East Coast at a time when the rock world was heavily California-centered so all the NYC critics glomped his nuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx3wW88twCA

Well look who's back on the Billboard. Long time no see.

>>126754974
kek he's almost unrecognizable here compared to the 50s hits

>>126754725
i love 70s country probably my favorite era of it

In which Mercury bides time with a best-of while Rod makes faces. The selection is sharp until "Pinball Wizard," obviously thrown in as bait for those who already own Rod's four very sharp albums. Packaging advance: a jacket shaped like a highball glass. B+

Here's what those of us who once kind of liked the Guess Who always hoped they'd become, and if that sounds dumb to the rest of you, you're missing something. This may be crude as a ploughboy, but Randy Bachman has always had a way with the catchy riff, and Turner, I suppose, provides the overdrive. B+

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>>126752361
they had great heavy rockers but i've never been big on their softer radio fodder tracks

Most will find this producer's studio daydream sterile at best and obnoxious at worst but I like the song about his shrink and am fascinated by his compulsion to defend his Manson connections. With the requisite display of wealth and taste he insists he's merely a spectator--why, he wouldn't even know about the hand jive if it weren't for Soul Train. Alternate title: It's Alright, Ma. I'm only watching. B

next year this guy named Leo Sayer will make the worst song of all time

>>126755675
Leo Sayer will record Shake It Off?

>>126751855
leave the NDS on /pol/, please

hey got Blue Oyster Cult tix?

>>126755840
After his pop career died off in the late 60s he spent most of his time cutting gospel albums, a lot of them and they were big sellers and some of the first gospel records to be advertised on TV courtesy of Christian Broadcastng Network--the market for gospel music is quite huge and little noticed by normies.

>>126755586
Mama did backing vocals on one track on here I think. I find his voice kind of annoying, it's not as if he had tried to sing prior to this album anyway.

>>126755180
proto buttrock

>>126751399
Christgau's rants about this guy were another thing I never entirely understood.

I don't realy give a shit about The Deliverance soundtrack (Southern Rock) but this Free Bird solo is actualy fucking insane.

>>126756023
JT sounded too white. That's what it amounted to.

>another year, another banger
bowiechads, will we ever stop winning?

>>126751609
not reading this guys babble. this is a decent album.

holy shit i didn't know they had this in em! i mean, i loved iommi's simple yet effective riffing but dude's got a serious level up here. band of the decade, they just keep getting better.