Albums turning 50

The dawn of the best decade in music history. Period.

@mneeley490 posted:

The dawn of the best decade in music history. Period.

I know you wrote the word "period" and that makes it definitive but actually it would be the 1960s. Yes's 1st album alone would take the decade down a notch.

@The Old Man posted:

I know you wrote the word "period" and that makes it definitive but actually it would be the 1960s. Yes's 1st album alone would take the decade down a notch.

“The Yes Album” was their third release. Yes’s first album was simply called “Yes” and was released in 1969. So does that take the 1960s down a notch?

@sunnylea57 posted:

“The Yes Album” was their third release. Yes’s first album was simply called “Yes” and was released in 1969. So does that take the 1960s down a notch?

The best decade of music 50 year anniversary does not take place for another 20 years...

@sunnylea57 posted:

“The Yes Album” was their third release. Yes’s first album was simply called “Yes” and was released in 1969. So does that take the 1960s down a notch?

Yes,  but the sixties had actual talent like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Hendrix, Cream…etc.  So it's still rules.

Personally, I’m not into “bests”. There’s great music from every year, every decade. Except perhaps 1989.

@The Old Man posted:

Yes,  but the sixties had actual talent like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Hendrix, Cream…etc.  So it's still rules.

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - 1970
McCartney - 1970
RAM - 1971
All Things Must Pass - 1970
Imagine - 1971
Sticky Fingers - 1971
Exile On Main St. - 1972
Band On The Run - 1973
461 Ocean Blvd. - 1974
Slowhand - 1977

...and who is this “Jimmy” Hendrix of whom you speak?

@The Old Man posted:

it's still rules.

Ahem. Best regards,

Grover

@sunnylea57 posted:

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - 1970
McCartney - 1970
RAM - 1971
All Things Must Pass - 1970
Imagine - 1971
Sticky Fingers - 1971
Exile On Main St. - 1972
Band On The Run - 1973
461 Ocean Blvd. - 1974
Slowhand - 1977

I don't recall saying that there wasn't good music in the seventies. All the people you listed were major artists in the sixties. And I am afraid nothing Paul McCartney did after The Beatles is any good.

@The Old Man posted:

I don't recall saying that there wasn't good music in the seventies.

@The Old Man posted:

Yes,  but the sixties had actual talent...

...which implied that the seventies didn’t have “actual” talent.

I didn't say there wasn't any good music in the 60's. There is "some" good music in every decade. I used to have quite the Motown collection, myself.

Last summer, Sirius XM put to a vote by listeners of the best songs of the 70's, for a Top 700 playlist. There were probably 1,500 songs to choose from, and it was VERY difficult to narrow it down to 700. (BTW, Hotel California made #1. Not my first pick, but still a great song thanks to outstanding guitar work by Joe Walsh and Don Felder.)

@mneeley490 posted:

Last summer, Sirius XM put to a vote by listeners of the best songs of the 70's, for a Top 700 playlist. There were probably 1,500 songs to choose from, and it was VERY difficult to narrow it down to 700. (BTW, Hotel California made #1.)

I wouldn't put in the my top 700. May I remind everybody, the seventies is when disco took over.

Nov. 8 1971 - Led Zeppelin IV

July 12, 1971 - Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

and in regards to the 70's have a lack of talent, please consider a few albums by Neil Young, Bowie's Berlin years, the bulk of Pink Floyd's work, American Beauty/Workingman's Dead, a few Al Green albums, Headhunters and Keith Jarret's Koln Concert.  Off the top of my head. 

re: 1989 - Paul's Boutique. 

@sunnylea57 posted:

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - 1970
McCartney - 1970
RAM - 1971
All Things Must Pass - 1970
Imagine - 1971
Sticky Fingers - 1971
Exile On Main St. - 1972
Band On The Run - 1973
461 Ocean Blvd. - 1974
Slowhand - 1977

...and who is this “Jimmy” Hendrix of whom you speak?

Bitches Brew - 50 years old at the end of the month.

The Clash - The Clash 1977

The Clash - London Calling 1979

Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks 1977

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust... 1972

And Sunnylea, 1989 had the Pixies - Doolittle, The Stone Roses, a great Beastie Boys album in Paul's Boutique and Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever.

@robsutherland posted:

Bitches Brew - 50 years old at the end of the month.

The Clash - The Clash 1977

The Clash - London Calling 1979

Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks 1977

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust... 1972

And Sunnylea, 1989 had the Pixies - Doolittle, The Stone Roses, a great Beastie Boys album in Paul's Boutique and Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever.

Yeah, my 1989 comment was 100% facetious. Just being a dick.

And the list I posted in reply to TOM was the 1970s releases by the artists that he claimed made the 60s such a great decade. I think TOM missed my point that those artists didn't stop making great music on Dec 31st, 1969.

A more complete list of albums released in 1971.  For some releases, I couldn't find the exact date, only the month.

JANUARY
Little Feat: first album JAN
Chicago: Chicago III JAN 11
Janis Joplin: Pearl JAN 11

FEBRUARY
Faces: Long Player FEB
Carole King: Tapestry FEB 10
Yes: The Yes Album FEB 19

MARCH
Johnny Winter And: Live MAR 2
Uriah Heep: Salisbury MAR 8
Alice Cooper: Love it to Death MAR 9
James Taylor: Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon MAR 16
Jethro Tull: Aqualung MAR 19

APRIL
James Gang: Thirds APRIL
Elton John: 11-17-70 APRIL 9
The Doors: L.A. Woman APRIL 19
The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers APRIL 23
The Doobie Brothers: first album APRIL 30

MAY
Gordon Lightfoot: Summer Side of Life MAY
Paul McCartney: Ram MAY 17
Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On MAY 21
Rory Gallagher: first album MAY 23
Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells a Story MAY 28

JUNE
Blood, Sweat & Tears: BS&T4 JUNE
ELP: Tarkus JUNE 14
Bonnie Raitt: first album JUNE 15
Randy Newman: Live JUNE 20
Joni Mitchell: Blue JUNE 22
Todd Rundgren: Runt - The Ballad of Todd Rundgren JUNE 24

JULY
Allman Brothers: At the Fillmore East. JULY
The Guess Who: So Long Bannatyne JULY
Deep Purple: Fireball JULY 9
Procol Harum: Broken Barricades JULY 11
Funkadelic: Maggot Brain JULY 12
Black Sabbath: Masters of Reality JULY 21
Moody Blues: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour JULY 23

AUGUST
The Firesign Theatre: I Think We’re All Bozos On This Bus AUG
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention: Fillmore East, June 1971 AUG 2
The Who: Who’s Next AUG 14 (UK) AUG 25 (US/CAN)

SEPTEMBER
Bee Gees: Trafalgar SEPT
James Gang: Live in Concert SEPT
Jefferson Airplane: Bark SEPT
Steve Miller Band: Rock Love SEPT
Savoy Brown: Street Corner Talking SEPT
Traffic: Welcome to the Canteen SEPT
Fleetwood Mac: Future Games SEPT 3
John Lennon: Imagine SEPT 9
The Band: Cahoots  SEPT 15
T. Rex: Electric Warrior SEPT 27
Three Dog Night: Harmony SEPT 30

OCTOBER
John Prine: first album OCT 1
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention: 200 Motels OCT 4
Van Morrison: Tupelo Honey OCT 15
Ten Years After: A Space in Time OCT 18

NOVEMBER
ELP: Pictures at an Exhibition NOV
Humble Pie: Performance - Rockin’ the Fillmore NOV
Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Schmilsson NOV
Steppenwolf: For Ladies Only NOV
Traffic: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys NOV
Billy Joel: Cold Spring Harbor NOV 1
Elton John: Madman Across the Water NOV 5
Led Zeppelin: IV NOV 8
Uriah Heep: Look at Yourself NOV 8
Genesis: Nursery Cryme NOV 12
Sly & The Family Stone: There’s a Riot Goin’ On NOV 20
Yes: Fragile NOV 26
Alice Cooper: Killer NOV 27
Rory Gallagher: Deuce NOV 28

DECEMBER
Electric Light Orchestra: first album DEC 3
King Crimson: Islands DEC 3
Paul McCartney: Wild Life DEC 7
David Bowie: Hunky Dory DEC 17

Wait for it...

@sunnylea57 posted:

And the list I posted in reply to TOM was the 1970s releases by the artists that he claimed made the 60s such a great decade. I think TOM mR3issed my point that those artists didn't stop making great music on Dec 31st, 1969.

No, I got it. But the point was many those artists began in the sixties  And in many cases such as The Beatles versus Wings or whatever Ringo, George and Johndid, did their best work in the sixties. However I hope you aren't taking this to mean that there wasn't great music made in the seventies, of course there was. I just think the sixties were more significant.

And for what it's worth the reminder I believe the 1970s were the greatest decade in film history until Spielberg and Lucas ruined it.

I was never a fan, but I believe today is the release date anniversary of Aqualung by Jethro Tull.

@billhike posted:

I was never a fan, but I believe today is the release date anniversary of Aqualung by Jethro Tull.

Yes, see my list above.

@sunnylea57 posted:

A more complete list of albums released in 1971.  For some releases, I couldn't find the exact date, only the month.

Carole King: Tapestry

The Doors: L.A. Woman

The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers

Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On

The Who: Who’s Next

John Lennon: Imagine

Elton John: Madman Across the Water

Led Zeppelin: IV

Yes: Fragile

David Bowie: Hunky Dory

These 10 albums, alone, make 1971 one of the greatest musical years in modern history.

Allow me to weigh in on the 60's v 70's discussion.

There was a time when I would have said the 60's because of disco and bloated prog rock in the 70's (Yes and Emerson Lake & Palmer I'm looking at you), but I've come to accept that disco was just an unfortunate (d)evolution of soul, R&B and motown. There was no excuse for ELP. On the bright side, both styles of music spawned punk and the diy era which was great.

TOM, the 60's were more significant but that was as much cultural as the music. And there was plenty of crap music in that decade too. The early 60's produced a lot of bubblegum rubbish and I'd argue that early Beatles was mostly shite. The mid-latter part of the decade certainly changed the course of popular music, but many of those musicians, the ones who survived became more proficient players in the 70's (i.e. The Stones).

@steve8 posted:

TOM, the 60's were more significant but that was as much cultural as the music. And there was plenty of crap music in that decade too.

  I don't find this insightful; 99% of all art is crap.

@steve8 posted:

The early 60's produced a lot of bubblegum rubbish and I'd argue that early Beatles was mostly shite. The mid-latter part of the decade certainly changed the course of popular music, but many of those musicians, the ones who survived became more proficient players in the 70's (i.e. The Stones).

I agree with Steve regarding his point that the early 60s, including The Beatles early albums, consisted of much "rubbish".

Rubber Soul was released in December 1965; that began a string of some of the greatest albums in rock/pop history.

And while the late 60s spawned the greatest rock bands in history - Led Zeppelin, The Who, and The Rolling Stones (in that order, by the way, Steve ), their greatest work came in the 70s.

The addition of the brilliant albums from Marvin Gaye and Pink Floyd, the emergence of David Bowie, Elton John, Queen, Aerosmith; and later in the decade - The Clash, Talking Heads, Van Halen, The Police, Blondie, The Pretenders, Joy Division, The Cars, The Sex Pistols, Prince, The Ramones, and Michael Jackson; the 70s win in a landslide.

(Talk amongst yourselves)

So many artists I would add to that list. A few off the top of my head:

James Taylor (his 8 biggest albums released in the 1970s)

Joni Mitchell (Ladies of the Canyon, Blue, For the Roses, Court & Spark, Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter and Mingus all released in the 1970s)

Van Morrison (Moondance, His Band & the Street Choir, Tupelo Honey, Saint Dominic's Preview all in the 1970s)

Elvis Costello (My Aim is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces all in the 1970s)

John Prine (his first 6 albums all released in the 1970s)

That's just barely scratching the surface.

@sunnylea57 posted:

So many artists I would add to that list. A few off the top of my head:

James Taylor (his 8 biggest albums released in the 1970s)

Joni Mitchell (Ladies of the Canyon, Blue, For the Roses, Court & Spark, Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter and Mingus all released in the 1970s)

Van Morrison (Moondance, His Band & the Street Choir, Tupelo Honey, Saint Dominic's Preview all in the 1970s)

Elvis Costello (My Aim is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces all in the 1970s)

John Prine (his first 6 albums all released in the 1970s)

That's just barely scratching the surface.

Well there's one album in the group I like, so I'll give you that.

@The Old Man posted:

Well there's one album in the group I like, so I'll give you that.

Let me guess. Moondance? Either that or Blue.

@steve8 posted:

Let me guess. Moondance? Either that or Blue.

Bingo, never liked Joni Mitchell.

@The Old Man posted:

Well there's one album in the group I like, so I'll give you that.

There’s no accounting for some people’s lack of taste. 😂

Little Feat - their entire output with Lowell George

Randy Newman - Sail Away, Good Ol Boys, Little Criminals

Paul Simon - three of his best solo albums came in the 70s (although I would argue that he has maintained a consistently high level of songwriting to current day)

Nick Drake, Big Star, Miles Davis (Bitches Brew and others), XTC...

Bruce Springsteen

Oh... and how about Stevie Wonder?

@sunnylea57 posted:

Little Feat - their entire output with Lowell George

Randy Newman - Sail Away, Good Ol Boys, Little Criminals

Paul Simon - three of his best solo albums came in the 70s (although I would argue that he has maintained a consistently high level of songwriting to current day)

Nick Drake, Big Star, Miles Davis (Bitches Brew and others), XTC...

Bruce Springsteen

Oh... and how about Stevie Wonder?

I love all of Paul Simon's solo work from the 70s, as well as the early work of both XTC and Elvis Costello.

I would add lots of great music from Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Steely Dan, Steve Miller Band, Rush, Roxy Music, Boston, Genesis, The Doobie Brothers, Heart, Journey, Dire Straits, The Kinks, Black Sabbath, and The Allman Brothers.

Wait for it...

Although the OP was about albums from 1971, it has drifted a bit into a 1960s vs 1970s discussion.  In that regard, I find it a bit curious that one artist, who defined and redefined rock music has not been mentioned even once (although I might have missed it).  He released in the 1960s more great music than all the other artists mentioned combined (in my opinion...admittedly very biased).

1963    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

1964    The Times They Are A-Changin'

1964    Another Side of Bob Dylan

1965    Bringing It All Back Home

1965    Highway 61 Revisited

1966    Blonde on Blonde

1967    John Wesley Harding

1969    Nashville Skyline

And he is STILL going strong.  His new album (OK, "CD") is fantastic.

Another excellent album with an upcoming 50th anniversary and re-issued a few years ago.

Link Wray (June 1971)

Meanwhile all over the media are going crazy about the 50th anniversary of Joan Mitchell's album "Blue." Sucked then, sucks now.

@The Old Man posted:

Meanwhile all over the media are going crazy about the 50th anniversary of Joan Mitchell's album "Blue." Sucked then, sucks now.

Just like your taste in music.