The Byrds - Chestnut Mare (1971)
I was thinking of submitting the Byrds’ brilliant “So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star” to the sixties thread, when I discovered I’d already done so in August (memory like a sieve!), so rather than repeat myself here's another excellent track by them from the seventies.
The Kursaal Flyers - Little Does She Know (1976)
This was the band’s only hit, and a minor one at that, which just goes to show that having a lead singer who resembles a spiv doesn’t necessarily guarantee long lasting success in the music business.
Linda Lewis - The Moon and I (1977)
Beautiful song from a good British singer who should have been a lot more successful than she actually was.
Rocky Sharpe and The Replays - Rama Lama Ding Dong (1978)
An enjoyable piece of nonsense.
It was the late seventies Doo-wop revival championed by the likes of the Darts and Rocky Sharpe & the Replays that first got me interested in the original stuff from the fifties.
Mouth and MacNeal - How Do You Do? (1972)
A very hairy Dutchman, a not unattractive Dutchwoman (with a Scottish name) and a rather catchy Dutch pop song (sung in English).
Focus - Hocus Pocus (1971)
Despite the yodelling, this great band were not Swiss, they were most definitely Dutch.
David Bowie - Amsterdam (1970)
The composer of the song (the late Jacques Brel) was certainly not Dutch, he was Belgian.
The singer of the song (David Bowie), is certainly not Dutch, he’s English.
However, the last time I looked at a map, the title of the song (Amsterdam) was certainly a Dutch city!
Sorry to break the rules of this thread but this was a hit record, but in my defence it is not
often played these days, A classic peace of 70's cheese, and my first crush on a pop star, think it sounds even better now.
I'm surprised (or else completely ignorant) that current Dutch pop stars Ilse de Lange and Alain Clark aren't more widely played in the UK, but I guess that's for another thread.
Sorry to break the rules of this thread but this was a hit record, but in my defence it is not
often played these days, A classic peace of 70's cheese, and my first crush on a pop star, think it sounds even better now.
the requested rules arnt that stringent, and as a guide i asked for 'no top twenty hits', but theres nothing wrong with bigger hits that are overlooked/forgotten. i quite liked 'soley soley'... whatever that means!
For me, Sixties Soul and Seventies Soul are almost two completely different genres. Whereas I generally like Sixties Soul, my opinion of Seventies (and Eighties) Soul is ... how can I put this politely? ... not quite so complimentary.
There is some Seventies Soul that I enjoy (though not a lot, I must admit). For instance, I like most of what Stevie Wonder recorded, plus the following great tracks:-
For me, Sixties Soul and Seventies Soul are almost two completely different genres. Whereas I generally like Sixties Soul, my opinion of Seventies (and Eighties) Soul is ... how can I put this politely? ... not quite so complimentary.
ill not shy away from it... like you i really like 60's soul but i detest with a passion the vile sickly 70's 'sweet soul' and philly which imho is the most abhorant genre of music ever...
Sorry to break the rules of this thread but this was a hit record, but in my defence it is not
often played these days, A classic peace of 70's cheese, and my first crush on a pop star, think it sounds even better now.
ill not shy away from it... like you i really like 60's soul but i detest with a passion the vile sickly 70's 'sweet soul' and philly which imho is the most abhorant genre of music ever...
What about the Staple Singers? I thought they had some great singles out in the 70's, you won't find a more soulful voice than Mavis Staples.
ill not shy away from it... like you i really like 60's soul but i detest with a passion the vile sickly 70's 'sweet soul' and philly which imho is the most abhorant genre of music ever...
Sorry, have to take issue here. 60's soul laid the foundations, yes it had everything, vibrancy, excitement emotivness . However, are you discounting Marvin Gaye's What's Going On album? are you saying that all of Motowns 70's output 'vile' and 'sickly', I think that the Temptations, Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, and yes even Michael Jackson were at their most soulful and creative in the 70's. Do you not think Levi Stubbs, the Ruffins, Teddy Prendergrass had what you would call soul? How you can call all those brillaintly arranged wonderful Gamble & Huff tunes 'abhorent'!! what about the writing team of McFadden & Whitehead. The O'Jays, the Delfonics, Harold melvin & The Blue Notes..how can you detest these acts??
If you detest what was created from 60's soul in the 70's, what on earth must you think of todays so called urban/R&B acts?
David Bowie - Amsterdam (1970)
The composer of the song (the late Jacques Brel) was certainly not Dutch, he was Belgian.
The singer of the song (David Bowie), is certainly not Dutch, he’s English.
However, the last time I looked at a map, the title of the song (Amsterdam) was certainly a Dutch city!
Here’s another one from David Bowie.
Lulu had a Top Three hit single with a cover version (which Bowie actually produced), but I prefer the original. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (1970)
It’s also a sobering thought that this lady, another very fox-y (pun intended) seventies singer, is now 65 years of age! Noosha Fox - Georgina Bailey (1977)
Sorry, have to take issue here. 60's soul laid the foundations, yes it had everything, vibrancy, excitement emotivness . However, are you discounting Marvin Gaye's What's Going On album? are you saying that all of Motowns 70's output 'vile' and 'sickly', I think that the Temptations, Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, and yes even Michael Jackson were at their most soulful and creative in the 70's. Do you not think Levi Stubbs, the Ruffins, Teddy Prendergrass had what you would call soul? How you can call all those brillaintly arranged wonderful Gamble & Huff tunes 'abhorent'!! what about the writing team of McFadden & Whitehead. The O'Jays, the Delfonics, Harold melvin & The Blue Notes..how can you detest these acts??
If you detest what was created from 60's soul in the 70's, what on earth must you think of todays so called urban/R&B acts?
if you read my post i qualified it by citing 'sweet soul and philly'... most of those acts you list didnt do sweet soul or philly. however, im no fan of those you list anyway (in the 70's) although i wouldnt use such vitriolic language to discribe them.
i disagree that the four tops, temptations and stevie wonder were at their soulful best in the 70's... by a mile. 'sir duke' more soulful the 'i was made to love her'?... not in my book m8!
if you read my post i qualified it by citing 'sweet soul and philly'... most of those acts you list didnt do sweet soul or philly. however, im no fan of those you list anyway (in the 70's) although i wouldnt use such vitriolic language to discribe them.
But you did use that language to describe them, or am i missreading you? Anyway, I agree that those Motown acts (apart from Stevie Wonder) overall were more successful in the 60's but I can't dismiss their 70's output in the way you did. A lot of those Motown acts got so much more creative in the early 70's and started a move away from Mr Gordy's production line EG with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. the 2nd part of the 70's, well..I'll give you that.
Also, again I might be missreading, but how can you say
The O'Jays, The Delfonics, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes etc didn't do philly?? they were the flagbearers from that stable..
Sorry, but give me Stevie Wonders Songs In The Key Of Live & Innervision albums over anything he did in the 60's, despite how good he was in that decade....oh, and we'll forgive him, momentarily for his 80's output..especially I Just Called To Say...i can't even bear to say it
I'll try and keep to the theme going over the next few weeks of periodically selecting twelve album tracks from ten classic albums released in each year starting with 1970:
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I was thinking of submitting the Byrds’ brilliant “So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star” to the sixties thread, when I discovered I’d already done so in August (memory like a sieve!), so rather than repeat myself here's another excellent track by them from the seventies.
Jeff Beck - Cause We've Ended As Lovers (1975)
Written by Stevie Wonder, played by Jeff Beck, guitar instrumentals don’t come much better than this.
The Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (1977)
All Ramones songs sound the same to me, with the exception of this absolute gem.
1973 Withdrawn after 3 weeks, when the IRA started bombing London.
Ironically has any band had a more peaceful following ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVdDAaFDj0&feature=related
Gloria from Horses 1974 (Van Morrison cover)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBN5aaApg9Q
"Pissing In A River" from Radio Ethiopia 1976http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhDJZm_HyXY
A tale of unrequited love Patti at her best.
"Dancing Barefoot" from Wave 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRWSy3RhW0w
DARLEEN LOVE - "LORD IF YOURE A WOMAN"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ZQjKJSGi4
Heads Hands and Feet - Warming Up The Band (1971)
I believe this may be the first ever performance on the first ever edition of The Old Grey Whistle Test.
The Kursaal Flyers - Little Does She Know (1976)
This was the band’s only hit, and a minor one at that, which just goes to show that having a lead singer who resembles a spiv doesn’t necessarily guarantee long lasting success in the music business.
Linda Lewis - The Moon and I (1977)
Beautiful song from a good British singer who should have been a lot more successful than she actually was.
Rocky Sharpe and The Replays - Rama Lama Ding Dong (1978)
An enjoyable piece of nonsense.
It was the late seventies Doo-wop revival championed by the likes of the Darts and Rocky Sharpe & the Replays that first got me interested in the original stuff from the fifties.
Mouth and MacNeal - How Do You Do? (1972)
A very hairy Dutchman, a not unattractive Dutchwoman (with a Scottish name) and a rather catchy Dutch pop song (sung in English).
Focus - Hocus Pocus (1971)
Despite the yodelling, this great band were not Swiss, they were most definitely Dutch.
David Bowie - Amsterdam (1970)
The composer of the song (the late Jacques Brel) was certainly not Dutch, he was Belgian.
The singer of the song (David Bowie), is certainly not Dutch, he’s English.
However, the last time I looked at a map, the title of the song (Amsterdam) was certainly a Dutch city!
often played these days, A classic peace of 70's cheese, and my first crush on a pop star, think it sounds even better now.
Middle of The Road Soley Soley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm_bhJ7-ddA
Bolland and Bolland: Wait for the Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3klrjJUHNtI
...and the aurally similar Greenfield and Cook: Only Lies (which they pronounce cutely as "only lice")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT-_gcfPkvI
Greenfield and Cook again: Don't Turn Me Loose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNRlvVqwZJw
George Baker's has already had a namecheck in this thread. Here's another one:
Fly Away Little Paraquayo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioxk1RP5y8g
We already know his Una Paloma Blanca was the original version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reCkoM9EQYU
Two from Sandy Coast:
True Love that's a Wonder (with arty promo video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0DWjgwzHc8
Just a Friend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p40ZGxRxV0k
Pussycat: Mississippi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfY0yJyTjjE
The Cats: One Way Wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF9sS-WZvaU
Lesser known from Shocking Blue: Inkpot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z37IhmXtn04
I'm surprised (or else completely ignorant) that current Dutch pop stars Ilse de Lange and Alain Clark aren't more widely played in the UK, but I guess that's for another thread.
Ruthless Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYSwnAQCmnw
the requested rules arnt that stringent, and as a guide i asked for 'no top twenty hits', but theres nothing wrong with bigger hits that are overlooked/forgotten. i quite liked 'soley soley'... whatever that means!
Keith Jarrett - Hourglass
Two early tunes by bands that would make it big
Status Quo - Someone's learning
Focus - Black Beauty
Some punk tunes starting with a cover by an all girl punk band recommended by Mark Ronson in yesterday's Times no less.
The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Early punk from 1970
The Stooges - Down On The Street
A typically raucous performance from a UK garage punk band
The Cannibals - City of people
Now something from America but not NY, LA
The Dils - Mr Big
Australia's biggest punk band didn't make it overseas
The Saints - I'm Stranded
And to finish some early post punk by the now lauded Wire
Wire - The 15th
There is some Seventies Soul that I enjoy (though not a lot, I must admit). For instance, I like most of what Stevie Wonder recorded, plus the following great tracks:-
The Temptations - Ball of Confusion (1970)
Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto (1970)
Sly and the Family Stone - Family Affair (1971)
Junior Walker and the All Stars - Walk in the Night (1972)
Aretha Franklin - Until You Come Back To Me (1973)
ill not shy away from it... like you i really like 60's soul but i detest with a passion the vile sickly 70's 'sweet soul' and philly which imho is the most abhorant genre of music ever...
Aaah! The seriously gorgeous Sally Carr :cool:
........probably a pensioner now!
Anyway, some more:
Excellent post punk from Punishment of Luxury - Puppet Life. Still sounds relevant today.
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=kxEyU42qaxM&feature=related
And from their debut album Devo - Gut Feeling/Slap your Mammy.
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=ItEUIG09pYE
Some nice spacy prog Eloy - Poseidon's Creation.
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=xytcCjPoHLQ
70s German singer makes Pink Floyd / cosmic disco record. Surprisingly not a disaster. Zazu - Captain Starlight.
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=jloDTKiH2ew
Disco which kind of sounds like it's been sung by a drunk woman. Belle Epoque - Miss Broadway.
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=nGf2NJUpK6Q
If you like Chic or Sister Sledge, The Jones Girls - You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else.
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=nnRVA2GJMc0
Mellow soul/funk track Cymande - Brothers On The Slide
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=tZP2Uk9vlxY
And a couple from JP Massiera to finish on.
Venus Gang - Love To Fly
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=W83B57Rm7mY
Herman's Rocket - Space Woman
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ZYZM4DsRw
Years ahead of its time. Sounds like modern digital music but its all analogue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UECqlySK3rg
What about the Staple Singers? I thought they had some great singles out in the 70's, you won't find a more soulful voice than Mavis Staples.
Sorry, have to take issue here. 60's soul laid the foundations, yes it had everything, vibrancy, excitement emotivness . However, are you discounting Marvin Gaye's What's Going On album? are you saying that all of Motowns 70's output 'vile' and 'sickly', I think that the Temptations, Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, and yes even Michael Jackson were at their most soulful and creative in the 70's. Do you not think Levi Stubbs, the Ruffins, Teddy Prendergrass had what you would call soul? How you can call all those brillaintly arranged wonderful Gamble & Huff tunes 'abhorent'!! what about the writing team of McFadden & Whitehead. The O'Jays, the Delfonics, Harold melvin & The Blue Notes..how can you detest these acts??
If you detest what was created from 60's soul in the 70's, what on earth must you think of todays so called urban/R&B acts?
Here’s a very good vocal version of this tune.
Syreeta - Cause We've Ended Now As Lovers (1974)
Here’s another one from David Bowie.
Lulu had a Top Three hit single with a cover version (which Bowie actually produced), but I prefer the original.
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (1970)
It’s also a sobering thought that this lady, another very fox-y (pun intended) seventies singer, is now 65 years of age!
Noosha Fox - Georgina Bailey (1977)
if you read my post i qualified it by citing 'sweet soul and philly'... most of those acts you list didnt do sweet soul or philly. however, im no fan of those you list anyway (in the 70's) although i wouldnt use such vitriolic language to discribe them.
i disagree that the four tops, temptations and stevie wonder were at their soulful best in the 70's... by a mile. 'sir duke' more soulful the 'i was made to love her'?... not in my book m8!
But you did use that language to describe them, or am i missreading you? Anyway, I agree that those Motown acts (apart from Stevie Wonder) overall were more successful in the 60's but I can't dismiss their 70's output in the way you did. A lot of those Motown acts got so much more creative in the early 70's and started a move away from Mr Gordy's production line EG with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. the 2nd part of the 70's, well..I'll give you that.
Also, again I might be missreading, but how can you say
The O'Jays, The Delfonics, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes etc didn't do philly?? they were the flagbearers from that stable..
Sorry, but give me Stevie Wonders Songs In The Key Of Live & Innervision albums over anything he did in the 60's, despite how good he was in that decade....oh, and we'll forgive him, momentarily for his 80's output..especially I Just Called To Say...i can't even bear to say it
I'll try and keep to the theme going over the next few weeks of periodically selecting twelve album tracks from ten classic albums released in each year starting with 1970:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBEomCtCujw
Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy In New York (taken from Bridge Over Troubled Water)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRVCpRfyW-0
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Carry On (taken from Deja Vu)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqWGu5ZaQuQ
Miles Davis - Miles Run The Bitches Down (Pt 1) (taken from Bitches Brew)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1809vqz3zA
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Long As I Can See The Light (taken from Cosmo's Factory)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5R1anXnsXQ
George Harrison - I'd Have You Anytime (taken from All Things Must Pass)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIRUz3tfmf8
Nick Drake - At The Chime Of A City Clock (from Bryter Layter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVAnlke_xUY
Van Morrison - Into The Mystic (from Moondance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOl01vKXv6I
Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (from Afer The Goldrush)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSRQCMq1gB8
Black Sabbath - Iron Man (from Paranoid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTkc1aKAVYY
John Lennon - Mother (from John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1kxb1FC3Vg
Led Zeppelin - Gallow's Pole (from Led Zeppelin III)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDoRwRLlc3s
Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa (from Tea For The Tillerman)