ITT: /mu/ in 1977

AND IT FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME
LIKE IT NEVER EVER WILL AGAIN

man i wish it was '69 when the music meant something instead of this KISS and Eagles nonsense

Really good album, not as good as WYWH though.

Is Clapton right here?

NO PLACE FOR HIDING, BABY
NO PLACE TO RUN
YOU PULL THE TRIGGER OF MY LOOOOVEEE GUNNNNN

man, i sure wish the Russians would leave my coun...

You've heard of Beatlemania? I propose xenophobia. C

YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE DANCIN'
I WANNA DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY

>the #1 selling single of the year was a song about sneaking around and raping an underage girl
Fuck this timeline.

>>126909816 (OP)
Only 3 more years until the golden age for rock rebels

A friend who loves this record has offered the attractive theoretical defense that it combines the two late strains of rock minimalism--three chord barrage and jazzy synthesizer hooks. So maybe it will prove attractive for theoreticians. For the rest of us, however, there are little problems such as lurid production, turning serious political problems into rhetoric, and the way this duo's manic live performance turns to silliness on record. C

>>126909861
Yes, he was based.

>>126909816 (OP)
Would /mu/ have liked Rumours in 1977?

when's Springsteen gonna come out with another album? it's been two years.

>>126909985
Mom-rock trash

RIP the KING

>>126910070
>The king
That's not chuck berry...

F

Wait a second--wasn't this a quartet? D+

I like the Moody Blues, but something tells me they're headed for trouble.

I’m gay. I like big black cock in my ass

Having made his name as a young songpoet, Joel achieved success when he uncloseted the spoiled brat behind those bulging eyes. Here, the brat appears only once, in the nominal guise of "the stranger." The rest of Billy has more-or-less grown up. He's now about as likeable as your once-rebellious and still-tolerant uncle who has the quirk of believing OPEC is a plot to ruin his air-conditioning business. C

Foreigner is the worst band. basically Jay and the Americans for the 70s.

The title cut may be their best song ever, challenging a formula that even apologists are apologizing for by now with cutting hard rock guitar and lyrics in which Jon Anderson casts aspersions on his own "cosmic mind." But even there you wish you could erase Rick Wakeman and elsewhere Steve Howe has almost as little to say. C+

As MOR singles go, "Lay Down Sally" is as good as it gets. But Clapton leaves all the juiciest solos to George Terry and while three years ago he seemed to be turning into a singer in the manner of Pete Townshend, now he sounds like he's blown his voice. Doing what, I wonder? C+

>>126910444
I hate track 2.

Ted Nugent may have turned into a living cartoon but better cartoon carnivores than cartoon vegans and better the Kiss imitation of today than the Robin Trowers of yesteryear. Ted's no more sexist than Kiss and he sings better. Ten fast, simple, stupid songs for guitar, voice, and shoutalong, four or five of which ought to keep anyone under 25 awake on the interstate for half an hour. B

Get this straight: no matter what the chicmongers want to believe, to call this band dangerous is more than a suave existentialist compliment. They mean no good. It won't do to pass off Rotten's hatred and disgust as role-playing--the gusto of the performance is too convincing. Which is why this is such an impressive record. The forbidden ideas from which Rotten makes songs take on undeniable truth value, whether one is sympathetic ("Holidays in the Sun" is a hysterically frightening vision of global economics) or filled with loathing ("Bodies," an indictment from which Rotten doesn't altogether exclude himself, is effectively anti-abortion, anti-woman, and anti-sex). These ideas must be dealt with, and can be expected to affect the way fans think and behave. The chief limitation on their power is the music, which can get heavy occasionally, but the only real question is how many American kids might feel the way Rotten does, and where he and they will go next. I wonder--but I also worry. A

#CANCEL THE BIGOT ANITA BRYANT NOW. LOVE WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL OVER HATE.

People who consider this a one-joke band aren't going to change their minds now. People who love the joke for its power, wit, and economy will be happy to hear it twice. Hint: read the lyrics. A

>>126909816 (OP)
>1971 + 6
>Goggly Gogol or Johnny Zhivago still haven’t make an appearance in the charts.
Why even live?

Kanye is born this year. Dammit.

Wow, just wow

Although Nelson earned his legend as a songwriter, he's turning into a singer now that profit-taking time has come--does broaden one. The amazing thing is that he gets away with it. On this heartfelt if opportune farewell to Lefty Frizzell, his cracks and creaks and precisely conversational timing hold their own against the more conventionally exquisite singing of Merle Haggard or Frizzell himself. Of course, the material doesn't hurt. B+

OWWW, SHE'S A BRICK...HOUSE
SHE'S MIGHTY-MIGHTY
SHE'S LETTIN' IT ALL HANG OUT

>>126909816 (OP)
>teenage girls are rediscovering Jimmy Dorsey
Why must the young generation appropriate things I liked when I was younger? This perturbs me.

Why is this easy-listening rock different from all other easy-listening rock, give or take an ancient harmony or two? Because myths of love lost and found are less invidious (at least in rock and roll) than myths of the road? Because the cute-voiced woman writes and sings the tough lyrics and the husky-voiced woman the vulnerable ones? Because they've got three melodist-vocalists on the job? Because Mick Fleetwood and John McVie learned their rhythm licks playing blues? Because they stuck to this beguiling formula when it barely broken even? Because this album is both more consistent and more eccentric than its blockbuster predecessor? Plus it jumps right out of the speakers at you? Because Otis Spann must be happy for them? Because Peter Green is in heaven? A

>>126910675
I live in London and I can reliably inform you that it is not in fact burning.

>>126910736
momcore slop

In which the group who last winter brought you a $7.95 LP to boycott devotes one side to the wantonness of woman and the other to the doomed-to-life futile rebelliousness of the poor saps (those saps! you saps!) who buy and listen. C-

>>126910736
>>126909887
how many more dumb British-American supergroups do we need? sheesh.

>>126909816 (OP)
PUNK BROS PUNK IS SO FUCKING BASED BROS IT WILL KILL OFF DINOSAUR ROCK AND PROG WANK FOR REAL. DID I TELL YOU PUNK WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT GENRE EVER?

yeah CBGBs is the happening spot in NYC these days but if you go down there watch your back and keep your eyes peeled at all times. you don't want to get stabbed by a crazy homeless guy for your wallet. RIP Sal Mineo.

>>126910771
>>126909887
Easily the two worst albums of the year.

So you've seen the movie--pretty good movie, right?--and decided that this is the disco album you're going to try. Well, I can't blame you. The Bee Gees side is pop music at a new peak of irresistible silliness, with the former Beatle clones singing like mechanical mice with an unnatural sense of rhythm. And the album climaxes on a par-tee even non-discoids can get into, beginning with the best of David Shire's "additional music," then switching almost imperceptibly to something tolerable by MFSB and revving into all 10:52 of the Trammps' magnificent "Disco Inferno." But I find the other two sides unlistenable, mostly because the rest of Shire's additions are real soundtrack-quality stuff--he even discofies Moussorgsky (see Emerson Lake & Palmer) without making a joke on it (compare Walter Murphy on side two). And there's one more problem. While you're deciding to buy this record, so is everyone you know. You're gonna get really sick of it. Maybe you should Surprise Your Friends and seek out Casablanca's Get Down and Boogie instead. B+

Even when he was Genesis, Gabriel seemed smarter than your average art-rocker. Though the music was mannered, there was substance beneath its intricacy; however received the lyrical ideas, they were easier to test empirically than evocations of spaceships on Atlantis. This solo album seems a lot smarter than that. But every time I delve beneath its challenging textures to decipher a line or two I come up a little short. B+

>>126910753
Thoughts on this bitch?

>>126910861
>Sal Mineo
he died in California

>>126910736
only up to abortion #4 at this point

YOU'RE A RICH GIRL AND YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR...

in six months i may get refrigerator i ordered last month. man i love gommunism.

I fuckin' hate the Eagles, man.

>>126911015
oh yeah i bet it sucks so much to not have to hand over half your paycheck for rent every month

>>126911073
Half your paycheck? Do you live in Manhattan or something bro

ON A DARK DESERT HIGHWAY
COOL WIND IN MY HAIR...

>>126911103
yeah man they just put up these cool "twin" towers a few years ago. no rush to check them out though, im sure theyll be around for many years to come

>>126911159
Don't go to Manhattan without a switchblade hidden in your coat btw, it's dangerous out there.

>>126911038
Like Clapton they have good rockers but damn fuck their radio b8 ballads.

When I work at listening, I can tell that she still sings real good. C+

>>126911236
yeah she's washed. what about it?

>Only 39 years before this website dies
grim

I wish that Village Voice shill would get banned.
Only fags read that rag.
Rollingstone, CIRCUS, and CREEM have the non faggot record reviews.

This was gonna be her annual sultry cornpone when A&R man Jerry Wexler opined "You know, you would do better with songs people Recognize. How about a Bee Gees tune, maybe that wonderful Sam Cooke song the Stones covered once? And who can go wrong with 'Higher and Higher'? And it almost works too, except that those of us with a long enough memory can still hear the originals. It takes a special kind of stupid to turn"Higher and Higher" into a downtempo. C

Ok yeah he's washed too and needs to hang up Lucy.

>>126910207
I'm glad we can have as much unprotected gay sex as we want with no consequences, I'm sure that's not going to change any time soon.

>>126911371
don't you have an anti-Anita Bryant protest to be going to now?

Folks, Elvis has left the building.

>>126911402
I'm going to the after party fashionably late duh

I JUST WANNA BE YOUR EVERYTHING
OPEN UP THE HEAVEN IN YOUR HEART AND LET ME IN

>>126911326
>Rollingstone
They panned Chad Zeppelin. Fuck those dorks

>>126910933
Based, pisses off the commies AND NF

>>126911489
Speaking of Zep, their current tour is awful my brother saw them in the Oakland Coliseum the other week and Page could barely play he was totally spaced out.

Problem with the high-test riffs that powered Rocks is that when it came time to follow up, the band was all out of gas. Joe Perry goes nowhere near "Bright Light Fright" while the mould-breaking "Kings and Queens", synthesized medieval pomp-rock (cf. Styx, Rush) proves conclusively that they won't bite "The Hand That Feeds." We knew it all along, guys. C+

Don't stop thinkin' about tomorrow
Don't stop, it'll soon be here
It'll be better than before
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone

The Fall is great

>>126910933
Would. she likes a crafty ride.

>>126911642
Jim Henson will never not have a nostalgia wank over the shitty 50s pop of his childhood.

Finally a Democrat is President and everything is perfect. Everything will be affordable

>>126911718
Gay people will finally have rights too. FUCK YOU, ANITA!!!

>>126910881
That you Sid Ferocious?

LET THERE BE ROCK

Nowadays punk makes it easy to resist hard rock this slickly textured, but these boys don't waste a cut and they allow themselves none of the myopthea, bombast, or showmanship that characterizes post-boogie formalism. Now if only they sounded interested in their well-crafted, say-nothing lyrics. B

HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS! AMERICAS TEAM YALL

>>126911770
what a well crafted, say nothing review

That jam band called Journey just got a real singer. Please. It won't go anywhere. Stick to 20 minute jams

>>126911739
Imagine if like Republicans got back in the White House in 4 years brought a load of evangelicals in tow and then some major disease epidemic killed 75% of faggots dead. Too bad that will never happen, alas.

I like this "Animals" album by Pink Floyd but they peaked in 73. Nothing in their career will ever come close to Dark Side Of The Moon

>>126911642
If you saw this you'd be a little surprised that her normal speaking voice was nothing like her singing voice. Also I saw a blog somewhere where a SJW reviews TMS episodes and accused this episode of fat shaming.

>>126911770
He'd call them band of the decade if he lived in Chicago instead of NYC.

Hardly anyone can get into Studio 54. It's okay. There will be other chances. It'll be there for years

I'm bummed Led Zeppelin had to cancel their concert but they'll be back in the states soon

The Yankees are back after a long 15 years.

>>126911905
You know Remer? Someday I'm gonna be a big sports star

hey did you get a load of those Judas Priest dudes? they're alright i guess, new band i think.

"But you cut yourself with broken glass."

>>126911489
And least Rollingstone is cool.
You'll get beat up for being a queer if seen with
the Village Voice faggot newspaper.

JIIIIIIIIIVE TAAALKIN

>>126911668
Fall is cool.
I still like Summer best myself.
But to each their own.

>>126909911
Go to bed, ya prude ol' grandma. You're just sad you're too old for the rock n' roll.

>>126911969
btw most versions of this online are the CD reissue from 2001 not the original vinyl mix which you can tell because on Starbreaker there was a momentary sound dropout in the song. this guy's channel has the original mix. dropout is at 1:47.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poK0Ov2aWGg

>>126911969
kind of surprised CBS picked them up because they were always a folk/singer-songwriter label--the home of Dylan, Springsteen, Joel, etc and weren't especially metal-oriented

the blackouts been going on for hours now

>>126911988
I never got the band's complaints about the production quality on their early albums because this is plenty booming while they made it sound like everything was like listening to a 78 record from 1935.

>>126912003
That goes back to the days of Mitch Miller and John Hammond btw, they established Columbia as a folk-focused label.

>>126912004
Yeah let's loot me a new stereo system! My old one got stolen when some jackass broke into my apartment the other week. Took my prized Thelonius Monk albums too.

Less than three months after its release, the Ringo fan in me dutifully played this for a third and last time. Whereupon the journalist began to wonder how many people were buying such dreary music just because it was by a Beatle. And was both saddened and pleased to learn that the answer, for all practical purposes, was no one--it never got higher than 199 in Record World, which I'll bet was some statistician paying his respects. D

>>126909911
Dude,
No one was sneaking around and the song is not
about a literal child.
You need to understand nuance.
I can't imagine a timeline where ever word is taken as literal from the artist
and not from the point of view of the teenagers the song is aimed at.

BRIAN’S BACK and his ne

>>126909816 (OP)
Coked up, Bowie went to great lengths to provide an OST to his big breakout starring feature The Man Who Fell To Earth. The works had been his most abstract, embracing ambience, fully immersed in electronics. They turned him down, his works were not to be used for the film. Bowie scoffed, keeping these works to later fine tune, which would result of the 1977 album Low, making up the whole of the B-side, with one track on the A leading up to this, two completely different sides of the same coin. A curious reinvention of the artist that was hinted at through his work on Iggy Pop's The Idiot.

>>126912064
i swear i hear at least 6 of my flatmates raping someone i dont know how im gonna get any sleep

Rod Stewart sucks regardless, so...

>>126912125
>i swear i hear at least 6 of my flatmates raping someone
...that may or may not be underage as well

Rosie's back from the nuthouse to...cover Paul Simon?

>>126912125
>>126912149
if you think New York's bad you should hear the crazy rumors about what's going on in North Fox Island, Michigan. they say kids as young as 10 are being raped and sacrificed in Satanic rituals out there.

Not as tuneful as some might wish, but even a bright melody must strike artists this subtle as unseemly, rather obvious. Rarely has the homely been rendered with such delicate sophistication: these women spend sixty or seventy grand trying to make a studio approximate a living room, or maybe a church basement on production numbers, and succeed! They are prim, wry, and sexy all at once, with a fondness for family life as it is actually lived--a repository of strength, surely, but also a repository of horrors--that is reflected in their version of folk instrumentation. Rather than on-the-road guitars (with their attendant corn about the wimmin at home) they rely on accordion, piano, organ; once when they need a drum they get the kind of oompah beat you still hear in parades. Even better than the debut, albeit harder. A

>>126910736
>>126910771
>>126910904
>>126910922
>>126911333
Everyone point at the Greenwiche fairy and laugh.

>>126912265
It's Heart for art students who are too sophisticated/pretentious to like Heart.

>dancing turtles
yeah, im thinking the dead are back

>>126910207
Why you sound like the typical KISS fan.

As a Stones loyalist, I am distressed to report that this documents the Stones' suspected deterioration as a live band, a deterioration epitomized by the accelerating affectation of Mick's vocals. Once his slurs teased, made jokes, held out double meanings; now his refusal to pronounce final dentals--the "good" and "should" of "Brown Sugar," for example--convey bored, arrogant laziness, as if he can't be bothered hoisting his tongue to the roof of his mouth. His "oo-oo-oo"s and "awri-i"s are self-parody without humor. This is clearly a professional entertainer doing a job that just doesn't get him off the way it once did, a job that gets harder every time out. C+

>>126912204
well thats cause the fuckin japanese started making cars cheap as dirt so motor city is dying. no wonder kids are getting ritually murdered.

Here's where the pimple comes to a head--if this isn't adolescent angst in its death throes, then Buddy Holly lived his sweet, unselfconscious life in vain. The lyrics offer wit amid heat and power (will "lyric-sheet verse" soon turn into the macho converse of "greeting-card verse"?) and the music pulls out the stops quite knowingly (will Phil Spector soon be remembered as the Rachmaninoff of rock and roll?). Occasionally it seems that horrified, contemptuous laughter is exactly the reaction this production team intends, and it's even possible that two percent of the audience will get the joke. But the basic effect is grotesquely grandiose. Bruce Springsteen, beware--this is what you've wrought, and it could happen to you. C-

yeah I agree KISS suck and are for massive faggots and new Aerosmith album was disappointing but Cheap Trick are pretty good and the Scorpions they make some pretty kick-ass rock

The most obnoxious band currently making a killing on the zonked teen circuit, not to be confused with Mahogany Rush, who at least spares us the reactionary gentility. Imagine a power-trio Kansas or Rush or Uriah Heep with the vocals cranked up an octave. Or two. D+

If The Idiot exploits the (tranceprone) affinity for the slow rocker that Bowie evinced on Station to Station, this reestablishes the (apollonian) affinity for the dionysiac artist Bowie made so much of five years ago on Mott's All the Young Dudes. Like most rock and rollers, I prefer this to The Idiot because it's faster and more assertive--which means, among other things, that the nihilistic satire is counteracted by the forward motion of the music itself. A-

>>126912578
Lord why did you have to take him instead of Pat Boone or >>126911642

>>126912613
They didn't eat 3,000 calories of junk food a day and gobble prescription painkillers? He kind of did it to himself.

>>126911981

>>126911938
And this proves it.

>>126911642
thankfully she quitted doing contemporary pop at this point and just spend rest of her days making shitty jazz albums with her buttjazz husband. i don't think i'd have wanted to hear her make a disco album or something.

OOOHHH BARRACOOOODDAA

>>126912817
fortunately Faggau did not review the album that was on

James sounds both awake--worth a headline in itself--and in touch; maybe CBS gave him a clock radio for opening an account there. "Handy Man" is a transcendent sex ballad, while "I Was Only Telling a Lie" and "Secret o' Life" evoke comparison with betters on the order of the Stones and Randy Newman, so that the wimpy stuff--which still predominates--sounds merely laid-back in contrast. Best since Sweet Baby James, shit--some of this is so wry and lively and committed his real fans may find it obtrusive. B

wonder if the Beatles will ever reunite?

>>126912835
As I said, he also switched to CBS since they were the big folk/singer-songwriter label. Elektra started as a folk label in the 50s but later got more associated with metal although Tracy Chapman was a flashback to their roots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-qGAgezYXc
Big but now very forgotten '77 OHW.

>>126912952
I wish "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" got buried but that still gets played.

this is best timeline ever. wish i'd been there and wasn't born in 1990 year instead.

>>126912952
They're forgotten because they were an early experiment with a corporate diversity plant.

>white, black, and Latinx girl group

Also their hit wasn't very good tqbh.

DANCING QUEEEENNNNN
SHE WAS JUST SEVENTEEEENNN
HAVING THE TIME OF HER LIIIIFFEEEE

The vocals aren't as intense here as on Alone Again, so the tomfoolery seems a little forced, though I hope he keeps trying. But as long as he's not buried in strings, soul choruses, and Peter Allen songs, I don't think he can make a bad album. Will somebody tell Billy Sherrill to withdraw that call to Australia? B

Goodnight sweet prince.

Aficionados complain that her sellout has become audible, but while I admit that the cute squeals on "Applejack" are pure merchandising, she's always been willing to sell what she couldn't give away. I think Dolly has made the pop move a lot more naturally than, say, Tanya Tucker. The problem here afflicts every genre: material. B-

This might approach a certain species of profundity if what it (supposedly) criticized was schlock. Instead the synthesizers make Giorgio Moroder seem like Brian Eno and the sci-fi themes make Isaac Asimov seem like a deep thinker. Back to the control board. C

>>126912487
>tranceprone
With a baritone like that, Iggy could've crushed more The Idiots, electro-Iggy, picture it, tranceprone Iggster. Nonetheless having two incredible records out in the rock'n'roll pivotal year of '77, considered to be when Punk broke out, is legendary. Both records are apples and oranges, imo I'll take The Idiot for its cool head detachment towards confusion and experimentation, it's way out in leftfield compared to the steady home that Lust built. The Idiot is night Lust For Life is day. He's a better front-man with direction, when left to his own devices he self-destructs. Lust could be considered a retreat to homebase. Bowie gave him literally a way out to figure his shit out. The Idiot is definitely a surreal experience, timeless for how Iggy riffs lyrics on the spot, the epic magnificence of proto-industrial Mass Production closing out the record, truly a masterclass of nihilism in a year that was born to lose; seeing no procession of a year to follow
A+ and A-

>>126913404
Wouldn't take her Higher and Higher over Rita Coolidge's, that's for sure.

Always the master craftsman, Newman doesn't waste a second here, doesn't permit an inept lyrical insight or musical fillip. But over the past three years he doesn't seem to have written one song that ranks with his best. Among all these explorations of America's dirty white underbelly, only the out-and-out jokes--the gross intolerance of "Short People" and the Eagles music on "Rider in the Rain"--distinguish themselves. Very disappointing. B+

Is this jazz?
And who is this fucking Pastorius?

>>126911875
>Also I saw a blog somewhere where a SJW reviews TMS episodes and accused this episode of fat shaming.
why were you reading a SJW's blog anyway?

got a copy of the cover art fort this new Steely Dan album comig out in September.
they've had five great albums in a row so I'm expecting this to be a flop, no one can keep a streak like that going.
probably be one good song at least tho

>>126913278
holy shit what a based cover lol

>>126912991
why a black and white pic in 1977
this looks much earlier

>>126913939
commies couldn't afford color film

So she can transform Billy Joel into Phil Spector. She's just another pop singer now, albeit one with a few interesting gimmicks. Ask yourself: Is the redemption of Billy Joel really fitting work for a cultural heroine? C+

>>126912578
lol wtf is this?
Elvis was cool, but what's with all the identical cars?

>>126913950
more accurately the film factory got arbitrary production quota from state planning commission to produce a couple thousand reels of B&W camera film so they had surplus of it and no color stuff. welcome to gommunism, enjoy your stay.

>>126913964
>So Jewess can transform Jew into Jew.

>>126912004
stay safe man, this .44 Caliber Killer is still on the loose
me and my gf are just going to get stay cozy in my car up here in Queens, just listen to some music

Who cares if the single sells six million? It's only singles, y'know what I'm saying? Trendsetters don't buy singles. Smart people like you and me don't buy singles. But now I hear the _album_ has gone platinum, too. D-

>>126913530
man she had some horse teeth

>>126912613
at minimum the Almighty could have given him ball cancer before he had a chance to reproduce

Like his great (also greater) exemplar, Leo has abandoned all pretensions mid-career (except on the title cut). And sure enough, Warners has now broken three big singles off this album, which makes 1977 the year of Leo Sayer the way 1976 was the year of Fleetwood Mac. Not quite as gratifying, is it? My pick for number four: "I Think We Fell in Love Too Fast," a natural for the young divorcee crowd. B

The legacy of Dead Boys lay in live presentation and lore. Shaving a swastika on a groupie's vagina. Getting shot at in the streets. Probably the most punk of what the punk spirit represented. These are icy cold rock'n'roll tunes that took the Stooges for a run for their money. Stiv was a retard with lightening bolts for fingers, the way they took the stage, Cheetah in dog collar, it unsettled the night into a parlor of debauchery that would follow. With this Young, Loud, And Snotty is one of the finest free expression records of '77, total rock'n'roll piss, vinegar, and shit your pants. A brutal misogyny hoovered all around it, a love for the dying night, dragging a bitch by her hair to your fuck cave, riffs so raw that would usher in Guns' n 'Roses. YLAS had the chops, albeit fierce and misanthropic, live and direct from some shithole in Cleveland, Ohio. They were truly a force to be reckoned with in '77, the influence shows as much, truly a classic
A

Well now that most of Lynyrd Skynyrd is dead...

>>126914081
according to Steve Hoffman Forum this song was bashed into everyone and their grandma's skull for a year straight and now it's absolutely airbrushed from history

Moderately intricate rhythms and high-tension harmonies with textures taken from many lands combine to make a first side that cooks throughout. There's only one problem. Still, unsympathetic as I am to lyrics about conquering the universe on wings of thought, they shake my fundament, anyway. B+

>>126913863
gonna be a flop and that bass dude is never going to amount to anything

>>126914324
>and now it's absolutely airbrushed from history
1) other than stations playing it, there was no way to "bash" a song into people's heads in the 1970's no social media, music publications were tiny and wouldn't have covered her anyway, TV didn't spend time on musicians.

2) erased you say
well, the song is very religious, very Christian.
who woud erase such a song from history?
who?

Hmm what can said about Pink Flag that hasn't already been said. A hard-wired frenzy with each music piece resulting a different attitude/feeling sacculating into a wide screen panorama of lyrics and riffs interchanging routes bleeding into a specific path. It seems that the band through demos leading up to the big score, perfected the tonal pitch, bite and approach to snipe these songs like a bullet standing up the edge of grass, hairs spine tingling. A perfect debut, that in hindsight, already signaled a future devoid of the 3 chord delight, more work would be done in future to accompany further release. The melodies sung by Colin were taken aback by girl groups of the 60's with a groove that enticed a dancing pogo sensation. Every song felt like a new wave reel of some forgotten movie made new, spliced into simple yet complicated scheme, the lyrics runamuck like a Godard think piece and even then. Who knew the talent of the individuals herein would embark upon a career spanning decades of incredible thought-provoking material, Hivemind and remember the cyber-techno of Send. Here it happened first, imo it's Chairs Missing for favor, but Pink Flag is the very beginning of it all. There is no denying its greatness, an undisputed wraith of sound that defined the future of such an incredible band
A+

>>126914564
>well, the song is very religious, very Christian.
actually it's not look up the songwriter and his (((early life))) section even more hilariously how he died

>>126914564
>music publications were tiny and wouldn't have covered her anyway

Here's the wrinkle. Christgau of course usually covered a little bit of everything in Consumer Guide while most of the music mags like Creem, RSM etc were 100% rock-centric so no they would not review Debby Boone, Bette Midler, or EW&F.

>>126914033
i'm at the movie theater i found like a pallet full of chips and lunchmeat

>>126910736
Love "Don't Stop", not a fan of "Go Your Own Way."

I've got nothing special against Richard Perry, although he used to find more interesting songs--and songwriters, which since he's now developed his own stable is more relevant. But even when he made interesting records he tended to push the epicenters of eccentric artists toward the middle of the road, and that's not what Diana needs. Her problem isn't her vocal limitations, although she's obviously no Betty Carter, but her blank taste. What if the best of the slick trivia here were combined with, I don't know, a good '30s pop tune done straight, a blues, something obscure by Al Green, something familiar by a non-Motown girl group? Might be worth hearing, and Perry could make it happen. Yeah sure. C+

>>126915019
>Her problem isn't her vocal limitations, although she's obviously no Betty Carter, but her blank taste.
Unfortunately he's right. Ross never had a real sound or aesthetic of her own she's only as good or bad as the material being fed into her.

>>126915046
fuck i have more respect for Stevie Nicks who at least has an obvious schtick she does

This mainstream synthesis is not without a certain agreeable tension--vocally and instrumentally, these boys do have their licks down. But it's also a demonstration of how today's pop exploits the rhythmic and dramatic clichés of yesterday's black music. Lyrics, too--Cory Lerios and Dave Jenkins are credited as the sole composers of "Raging Fire," in which love lifts them higher than they've ever been before. C

>>126910675
This album is so dangerous, and controversial, CBS will never release it in The U.S.

>>126911988
How the fuck could you even know what's going to happen twenty four years from now?

>>126912306
This album proves you must see The Grateful Dead in concert.
This album sucks, but when I heard these songs performed live, they took on a life of their own.
Good thing I have tapes of their shows, so I don't have to listen to this piece of shit album.
And for God's sake, when are they gonna get rid of Donna?
Keith is OK, but Donna and her off key catterwalling totally ruins everything.

I FELL RIGHT INTO THE AAAARMS
VENUS DE MILO

>>126912371
Is it just me, or does this sound like a bunch of rich junkies playing a gig to pay the bills?
Get Yer Ya Yas out is a much better Rolling Stones concert album.
Maybe they should stop shooting up before going on stage.

>>126911988
what's "online"?
what's "CD reissue"?

>>126914160
>which makes 1977 the year of Leo Sayer the way 1976 was the year of Fleetwood Mac
That was tempting fate/the universe, wasn't it?

>>126915344
>Is it just me, or does this sound like a bunch of rich junkies playing a gig to pay the bills?

ya just might be onto something here

>>126913564
#CANCEL RANDY FOR DEMEANING HEIGHT-IMPAIRED PEOPLE

>>126915152
>today's pop exploits the rhythmic and dramatic clichés of yesterday's black music.

>>126913278
>I don't think he can make a bad album
Compared to whatever the hell Cash is doing in 1977.

>>126915394
>#CANCEL
how can a word be a number?
did you even go to school?

>>126912187
Actually not a bad cover of 50 Ways.

>>126911333
Ok I like her H&H, so sue me.

>>126910771
Giving this a C minus was too generous.

>>126915152
A poor man's Steely Dan, and not a good one, either.

>>126910505
I don't live in a double wide and have 2 children with my sister, this album is not for me.

>>126915394
Did you not listen to the chorus?
It informs you that the lyrics are a joke on how ugly prejudice is.
Don't take Randy Newman too seriously.
Do you think he was really a fan of Huey Long?
Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if, in a few years, he wrote opening theme songs for Disney movies.

>>126910444
At least 3-4 good tracks on here and Wonderful Tonight is not among them.

Side one is everything this band is supposed to be--seven fresh, clever, evanescent songs, each with its own hip twist. Whether Deborah Harry is claiming that using telepathy to win at poker is "really not cheating" or executing a siren call for the electric age (the bell she imitates sounds like it belongs on a squad car), her vocals are on top and out front, a pop-rock delight. But side two bombs, except for "Kidnapper" and a couple of refrains, and the singing gets lost in the mud. Me, I'd buy it for side one. But I'm not sure about you. B+

This album could easily make me like Disco, even though I think they should go back to what made them so great in the first place.
I hope this is just a one time thing.

>>126910278
Fuck Billy Joel.

>>126911543
This album was a letdown, hopefully the next one rebounds.

>>126915513
This isn't as good as the previous album, but it's still enjoyable.
Nice to see that Blondie is keeping the sound and spirit of "Girl Groups" alive and well.
Maybe she should get Phil Spector to produce the next album.
As long as she doesn't sell out and go Disco on all of us, she still has my support.

AND IT FEELS LIKE THE FIIIIRSSTTT TIMMEEEEE

>>126913278
Slow down there, Cletus. We don't all live in Mississip.

>>126910089
I listened, it's garbage.

>>126910353
I don't have a problem with the synth textures here, it would feel kinda bare without them.

>>126911642
ha ha i didn't know that lady was still around when i was a wee little guy my aunt used to play "'Till I Waltz With You" on the turntable, damn that must have been like 20 years ago

>>126914081
#1 on the Billboard for ten (!) weeks. Jesus Christ.

>>126915801
Most of that easy listening, post-hippie, pre-new wave, mid-1970s pop and AC has aged remarkably poorly. Something will pop up here and there as kitsch in pop culture, but it's amazing how a song like "You Light Up My Life" (1977) was so omipresent at the time and has now utter vanished and hasn't been heard on the airwaves since probably 1981. This also applies to several hits from that period or a little earlier ("Billy Don't Be A Hero", etc.).

>>126910736
because the drums on Dreams really do the trick, I mean, they really gave a lil extra there

Goodnight sweet princess. Died in true Irish fashion.

>>126915828
ditto Helen Reddy or pre-Grease ONJ. does anyone really need to listen to them?

>>126915884
i think my aunt also had a record of "Mockingbird Hill" back in the day

>>126909985
i don't like Rumours now
Tusk absolutely mogs

>>126915801
In Debby's defense she didn't want to perform the song the way it came out, Joe Brooks basically forced her at gunpoint to sing it that way because he was a sociopathic nutcase and eventually in the 90s he was being investigated for a rape or something and kind of...an heroed.

>>126912409
fuck this album. i bought it because i thought it was gonna be hard rock/metal based on the cover but it's just gay musical shit

>>126915890
Long Live Love is cute when Olivia was pop country but after that when she became bland AC, no.

Hotel California excluded from this thread because it came out in 1976, albeit at the very end of the year.

>>126916044
guess your spirit's stuck in 1969999

Most progressive rock is modest schlock that sounds good when played in the background. This is modest background schlock that sounds good when slipped into the ear. I guess we should thank Babaji, whichever one he is. B-

>>126916076
Careful, you'll trigger that Supertramp hater anon.

>>126916076
HP Baxxxter proved that The Logical Song is an enduring treasure...who are you to doubt HP Baxxxter, yuhhh?

>>126916119
whut

>>126916139
this one anon who hates Supertramp because the band members didn't grow up poor or something

>>126911959
I meant the british rock group The Fall

>>126916408
HEY FUCKFACEAH

>>126916451

>>126909847
have a cigar...its a little...stock

>>126915992
What is "Tusk"?

>>126909985
Cocaine was the Marijuana of 1977, so, yes.

>>126910736
This album is the best reason to never try Cocaine.
Not even once.

>>126913909
Royal Scam was a masterpiece, no way it toos that.

>>126913909
They just keep getting better, and better.
How do they do it?

>>126915019
Diana Ross' main talent was making Berry Gordy want to fuck her. Glady Knight was always better.

>>126910031
You hold your tongue

>>126911784
If you are a retard with low reading comprehension

>>126911371
There's a reason bible says is an abomination. Retarded fags libs

>>126922577
The Torah says that but not the new testament (the part that matters) go back slimey jew

>>126923481
>the part that matters
Jesus himself saw the Old Testament as important and frequently cited it you stupid heretic

>>126923945
He also preached forgiveness and went back on many things in the Torah, putting the legitimacy of the whole text as anything other than a history book in question fucking cathcuck

>>126924523
>history book
Considering something the word of god means he just saw it as an history book? You're so arrogant

>>126924853
It is so clearly a compilation of folk tales and history centered around the jews interactions with god. Not the direct word of God.

>>126910535
can't wait for the follow up