What's the best album recorded in the most prolific and meaningful era in all of music history?

5/16/2007 12:48:47 AM

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"the most prolific and meaningful era in all of music history"

I think I just vomited a little.

5/16/2007 12:50:54 AM

the fucking disco era is the most prolific and meaningful era?

seriously, just GTFO

5/16/2007 12:50:58 AM

there's a lot of good rock in that era

5/16/2007 12:52:07 AM

^

5/16/2007 12:54:31 AM

yes there is - but there is a hell of a lot more good and a hell of a lot less disco in the 60's

5/16/2007 12:55:16 AM

Rock and roll was not fully fleshed out by 1969. Hence I contend the era prescribed in the thread title.

5/16/2007 12:56:43 AM

there are plenty of good bands during that period but saying it was the most meaningful era in all of music is a bit of a stretch

5/16/2007 1:11:13 AM

i'm going to leave out zeppelin and pink floyd, although i love them both, every faggot college kid on this planet knows how good they are, and why spend time on the ledzep/floyd circle jerk once again...

so... here are my picks

springsteen - born to run
kiss - alive II
stevie wonder - songs in the key of life
frampton comes alive
fleetwood mac - rumors
van halen - van halen
marvin gaye - what's goin on
curtis mayfield - superfly
stones - exile on main st.

5/16/2007 1:14:56 AM

the clash - london calling
elvis costello - my aim is true
elvis costello - this years model

5/16/2007 1:41:00 AM

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

5/16/2007 6:22:18 AM

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5/16/2007 6:29:08 AM

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"Wyloch: the most prolific and meaningful era in all of music history"

I'm sorry.

Come again?

5/16/2007 6:41:30 AM

seriously though, it's london calling by a country mile

honorable mentions to

the stooges - fun house & raw power
elvis costello - this year's model
stevie wonder - songs in the key of life, innervisions, & talking book
ramones - ramones & rocket to russia
david bowie - hunky dory
the b-52's - the b-52's
gang of four - entertainment!
television - marquee moon
joy division - unknown pleasures
van halen - van halen

ETC.

5/16/2007 7:28:11 AM

Quadrophenia

5/16/2007 7:38:10 AM

No matter which decade you single out people will find a reason to point out how it wasn't the most meaningful era. You'd have been better off just asking what the best album from that decade was, then we would have all been spared the dozen or so "nuh-uh" posts.

5/16/2007 7:40:09 AM

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks.

5/16/2007 9:07:27 AM

London Calling

5/16/2007 9:31:42 AM

Wyloch is right. What most people consider to be 60's music really came out in the early 70s...
The great classic rock bands in history made there mark between 68 - 75...
Dylan, Zep, Doors, The Who, the Stones, Marley, etc...early 70's...

5/16/2007 9:31:55 AM

Marvin Gaye - What's Goin On

has got to be on your list

5/16/2007 10:41:18 AM

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"The great classic rock bands in history made there mark between 68 - 75... Dylan"

that, sir is completely stupid and false. the others, maybe. but dylan became an icon before the sixties were even halfway through.

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"Wyloch is right. What most people consider to be 60's music really came out in the early 70s..."

and i didn't know as many of the dates offhand for the doors. but i looked them up and jim morrison died in 1971 and they had their first #1 record in 1968.



[Edited on May 16, 2007 at 11:12 AM. Reason : .]

5/16/2007 11:07:16 AM

Weather Report- Black Market
Weather Report- Heavy Weather
Weather Report- 8:30 (Live)



someone prove me wrong

5/16/2007 12:10:41 PM

something motown/soul

5/16/2007 12:32:36 PM

Technically, London Calling was released in the US in 1980

5/16/2007 1:07:19 PM

ummm. it was a 70s album. it was made and released in the 70s. just because it wasn't exported until the 80s doesn't mean anything.

5/16/2007 1:09:31 PM

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"Original Release Date: December 14, 1979 "

5/16/2007 1:11:12 PM

Its just interesting to point out that it was released at the very end of the decade, and not in the US until the following decade. Its much more 80s in style and lyrics, even their music videos. Influential album for sure, but if there were an album to represent "70s rock", I personally dont think this one comes close.

Anyways, how come no one has mentioned these:

ACDC - Highway to Hell, Back in Black
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - George Thorogood & The Destroyers, Move it on Over
Jimmy Buffet - Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Queen - A night at the opera

5/16/2007 1:29:44 PM

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"Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon"

we have a winner.... crticial acclaim + # of albums sold =this is the one to beat.

5/16/2007 1:33:19 PM

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"something motown/soul"

5/16/2007 1:34:29 PM

Exile on Main St. or Marquee Moon.

5/16/2007 2:48:53 PM

The first few black sabbath albums

and Anything led zeppelin that fits the criteria (II misses your time line by a couple months)

5/16/2007 2:55:00 PM

i wouldn't say MOST influential, but some very influential albums most people don't know about:

"entertainment" ~ gang of four
"marquee moon" ~ television
"another green world" ~ brian eno

[Edited on May 16, 2007 at 2:59 PM. Reason : .]

5/16/2007 2:55:53 PM

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"ACDC - Highway to Hell, Back in Black"

Because Back in Black came out in 1981.

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"we have a winner.... crticial acclaim + # of albums sold =this is the one to beat"

Hotel California?

I hate the Eagles.

[Edited on May 16, 2007 at 3:05 PM. Reason : .]

5/16/2007 3:04:55 PM

james brown and parliament's material in the 70s led to the evolution of hip-hop

can't overlook that

5/16/2007 3:05:15 PM

how in the world can you people overlook the musical and artistic achievements of The Marshall Tucker Band, Mungo Jerry, or Nazareth

5/16/2007 3:11:03 PM

aha mungo

MUUUNNGGOOOOOOOO

5/16/2007 3:13:02 PM

Far and above my #1 of all time:

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

5/16/2007 5:08:44 PM

By year with no repeat artists:

1970 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
1971 - Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1972 - The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
1973 - Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstacy
1974 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
1975 - Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
1976 - Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
1977 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
1978 - Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
1979 - Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures


I am going to go with Led Zeppelin IV for best of the 70s, I know I didn't list it above, but I preferred Paranoid to anything in 1970

[Edited on May 16, 2007 at 5:36 PM. Reason : [/my personal tastes]]

5/16/2007 5:24:03 PM

There's no way that LZ III is better than Fun House.

I remember reading old issues of RS after the Roadrunner single was released, and one of them said that The Modern Lovers was going to change the world.

*sigh*

(I actually prefer the versions that are on The Berserkley Years.)

5/16/2007 5:30:27 PM

does Everything count? it was released in 1995, but all the material was recorded in the mid-70s.

5/16/2007 5:33:54 PM

^ There's a worthwhile track or two on that, but if we're going to lay out ridiculous noise suggestions, at least go with something like Branca that has a little footing to argue from.

5/16/2007 6:04:31 PM

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5/16/2007 7:40:38 PM

two words

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER

5/16/2007 7:41:40 PM

two words

THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS

5/16/2007 7:44:52 PM

5/16/2007 9:59:45 PM

Whatever album More Than a Feeling was on.

[Edited on May 16, 2007 at 10:22 PM. Reason : oh, I guess I should have read to the end of the thread ]

5/16/2007 10:21:53 PM

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

5/16/2007 10:47:44 PM

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" springsteen - born to run kiss - alive II"

hahahahahahaha


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5/16/2007 10:52:15 PM

Led Zeppelin - I (came out in 1969), II, III, IV, and Houses of the Holy

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

ACDC - Dirty Deads Done Dirt Cheap

The Doors - Morrison Hotel, LA Women



And to win this thread........





Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

/thread

I win

[Edited on May 16, 2007 at 11:07 PM. Reason : I win]

5/16/2007 11:06:36 PM