Today I'll go with the first album I ever bought: Nilsson Schmilsson. Harry Nilsson was one of my all-time favorite singers. The three AM radio hit songs on it were Jump Into the Fire, Coconut and Without You. They couldn't have been more different from each other but I loved them all and still do!
continuing to count down my top 28: 26: Teaser and the firecat - Cat Stevens (one of the great early 70's singer songwriter albums) HM: 54: Indelibly stamped - Supertramp (before they made it big, a more pastoral affair reminiscent to some extent of Yes' first album) previous entries 27: Moments - Boz Scaggs 28. In the Land of grey and pink - Caravan HMs 55: Gonna take a miracle - Laura Nyro 56: Elvis Country - Elvis Presley
Today's pick (I'm randomly picking one of my top 28 each day) February 3rd: Leonard Cohen "Songs of Love and Hate" (I actually got turned onto Cohen from a tribute cassette "I'm Your Fan" released in the early 90s that featured bands like REM and The Pixies that I like ) Other picks: Feb. 2 Traffic "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys", Feb. 1 Isaac Hayes "Shaft"
My choice for today is *Roots* by Curtis Mayfield. The former Impressions singer is on fine form, his fragile falsetto voice and groovesome rhythm guitar creating a formidable, funky brew. A fabulous record by a wonderful human being who is much missed. Honourable mention is *No Roses* by Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band. One of the great English traditional singers, Collins is backed by a stellar cast of musicians assembled by Ashley Hutchings, doyen of the folk music revival in the U.K..
About four months ago I picked up Mott the Hoople All the Young Dudes album for 3.00. I figured I liked the title track. But I had no idea how much I'd like the rest of the album. So I bought ALL their albums during the next few weeks. And I've been listening to them A LOT. So let me throw Brain Capers into the mix of albums 50 years old. It's not my favorite by them...but it's still damn good.
Weather Report - I Sing the Body Electric Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Pink Floyd - Meddle Deep Purple - Fireball
Today’s pick- Faces “A Nod is Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse” particularly for ‘Stay with Me,’ great straight up rock n roll Honorable mention- Traffic “The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys.”
Great choices, Pete, and those two are on the list I am still editing. ZZ's debut - as you say, more on that later. Today's pick is L.A. Woman by The Doors. Lots of great albums by this band but, not counting1978's American Prayer, this is the last studio album with Jim Morrison who died on July 3 of 1971. Picked this for today to honor him on this almost fifty year anniversary of his death. Bought this in a local record/stereo store after the store had been though a fire. Picked it up for $2. Still sealed but smelling smoky. LP was in great shape in moved into constant rotation. This is a band with many great albums and all are enjoyable up to this album. A great testament to the legendary Jim Morrison. Bubbling Below The Top 28: Today's Honorable Mention is In The Land Of Grey and Pink by Caravan. I picked up this album from becoming a SoT UA-cam follower about a year ago. It's not on my top 28 for the year only because I've had less than a year with it and most of my other picks I've lived with since they were issued in 1971. But a great album and thanks to Pete and the SoT channel for getting me to listen to this.
Appropriately for the third day of this series, my choice for today is Santana 3. If yesterday was about saying farewell to a rock legend, this album was when we got to hear one of the greatest living guitarists for the first time - the fabulously talented Neil Schon. Carlos Santana’s protégé was only 17 when this album was recorded and he has gone on to have a hugely successful career ever since.
Todays Pick: Don McLean - American Pie It's one of the defining albums of 1971. Title track, Vincent, Empty Chairs, The Grave... All great, haunting songs...
Vincent is a beautiful song. Heart wrenching lyrics. There’s something about slow and emotional just vocals and acoustic guitar songs that are just incredible. Like Vincent, More than words, Landslide, Time in a bottle, Nick Drake’s ENTIRE pink moon album, and Bob Marley’s Redemption song to name a few
2/3 Pick = Electric Warrior - T Rex Not positive, but this may have been first cassette that I wore out and had to replace. Really loved it back in the 70s. HonM - 4-Way Street - CSNY This is semi-forgotten being that Everybody had it in their collection back then. Some songs first appeared on this album versus studio.
I've never got into ZZ Top, but has been many years since I last give them a listen and so will give them another go. And never heard their first album so should be interesting. My list would undoubtedly include L.A. Woman by The Doors. A excellent album, one of my all time favourites.
I was on holiday in NYC in 2018 and saw John Prine play his biggest ever show at Radio City Music Hall. He was magnificent, just so many wonderful songs. So sorry that he’s no longer with us.
bought the crooked peice of time box set last year containing 7 albums from 1971- 1980, the self titled album, from 1971 is a masterclass in songwriting, every track is stunning. A much missed talent.
Imagine - John Lennon L.A. Woman - The Doors Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin Fireball - Deep Purple Aqualung - Jethro Tull Electric Warrior - T-Rex Master Of Reality - Black Sabbath Meddle - Pink Floyd Santana III - Santana The Concert for Bangla Desh Madman Across the Water - Elton John Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer Deuce - Rory Gallagher Look at Yourself - Uriah Heep If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby
The albums I've recommended so far are: 1 A Ballad of ) A Peaceful Man - Gravy Train 2 Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones 3 Grin - Grin Why I've picked #3 A young Nils Lofgren shows what he can do. A great debut of melodic pop rock by a band who deserved to be much more than a critics' favourite.
great series and a great year. My top 5: 1. The Rollings Stones - Sticky Fingers 2. Led Zeppelin - IV 3. Joni Mitchell - Blue 4. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality 5. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain So many great albums from 1971, my list probably changes day by day to such an extent that my top 50 albums for the year could easily end up in my top 10 on any given day depending upon my mood.
Electric Warrior - T. Rex. My mother asked the guy at the record store for an album for her 14 year sons birthday. Still have it and Bang a Gong (Get it On) is my #2 favorite song of all time.
@@ukrocksounds3419 Yeah, they’re fabulous if you’re in the right mood. Saw them in a tent at Glastonbury with a very sick-looking Bert right before he died & they were wonderful
I see the What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye album cover in the thumbnail... As a bass player, that album is the peak of feel, tone, note selection... James Jamerson is the greatest of all time. PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON IT... Motown needs some love from you.
My pick for today: "Love tt to Death" by Alice Cooper for "Second Coming"; "Ballad of Dwight Fry" and "Sun Arise". I like to listen to them all together as one long song.
Between January and April 1993, I can’t remember listening to another album other than ZZ Top’s first Album. I loved it so much. Still do. Some great memories attached to that album. Some of them I daren’t reveal on a public forum.
My pick today from 1971: The Kinks, Muswell Hillbilllies. Timeless Kinks classic. Bought it in 1972 brand new when I was 7 years old. Have played it hundreds of times since.
Today I'll with Can's Tago Mago - it's such a trip! I find it's not really the sort of album that works well when you give it all of your attention, but when I would play it while doing desk work, it would seriously take me into its world and go somewhere that I can't even describe.
Yes - *The Yes Album* The first album I bought from the band and one of two records that introduced me to prog rock in 2003, the other one being Hemispheres by Rush. So that's nearly twenty years ago now and there is definitely some nostalgia kicking in for me with this music. Yours Is No Disgrace, Starship Trooper and Perpetual Change are pure gold. I also really like A Venture, it's a charming little tune!
Great choice Pete, it was high on my list. Here is a deeper but great album. British Blues Rock pioneer John Baldry with such a distinct voice. It Ain't Easy is a great album with one side produced by Rod Stewart and the other by Elton John. "Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll" is the one people remember but the rest of the songs are great too.
For June I hope to see Live from the Filmore - Zappa and I'm sure I'll see Aqualung too. Got into both of these bands back then and they are still my two favorites.
3rd day (today) - High Time - MC5 2nd day - Hunky Dory - David Bowie / 1st day - Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones No honorable mention, 28 albums are enough. No live and posthumous material (Hendrix for instance).
Hi Pete, you definitely put me up to a challenge here! I,m just 20 years old and I do not have listened to 28 albums from this particular year for sure. So i filled out my list with bands i heard of/ that you talked about in the past. Great series for me to get to know more music :) for today a familiar one: Jethro tull aqualung!
As I said, I have less albums I really know well, but still I like to add my picks too. BTW I like that Ten Years After record, and played that single once myself in a collab. My pick for today is David Bowie's Hunky Dory. I like most of his work and this one is a beauty that grew with more listens. Anyway, curious for your next pick...
Only day 3 and you've already picked one not in my top 28. I was wagering that this would happen no earlier than mid-month. Surprises (always fun) never cease in S of T. Gotta love it! Blue - Joni Mitchell HM: Ram - Paul and Linda McCartney
My pic, Day 3: The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions with Howlin Wolf, Eric Clapton, Bill Wyman and Steve Winwood. Something like 10 years ago I started diving into the roots of rock, which took me to the blues and all the way to back to even before Robert Johnson' Crossroads recordings. My favorite of all these early bluesmen was Howlin' Wolf. A hell of a voice and some raunchy, "in your face" music for early '50s! This album was relatively tame, but he had a great backing group here for sure. Interestingly, Howlin' Wolf toured with Alice Cooper in 1972. Alice's show apparently scared Wolf a lot.
I *love* early ZZ Top! I wish that they had never left that early raw, dirty blues sound behind, especially as they were such a tight band in those days, but as we know, the '80s happened, and ZZ Top basically became a Billy Gibbons solo project with drum machines and such. My pick for today: Jethro Tull's incredible '71 album, "Aqualung."
#26 in my top 100 albums for 1971. I'm sure the majority of those watching this will be going "who the hell!" on this one. Whalefeathers: self-titled. A local band from Cincinnati. Played a bluesy/Psychedelic rock. Included covers of I Don't Need No Doctor and Cream's World of Pain. Honorable mention: Wishbone Ash: Pilgrimage
Mine for today is Can - Tago Mago - haven’t heard Pete talk much about krautrock and it seems like something he might be into (at least some of it) l- hon mention is ELP live version of Pictures at an Exhibition
Pete another idea for a show, how many great bands and Great artists came out of Great Britain in the late 60s early 70s,its astonishing when you look into it. 👍
Traffic...The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys. The title track is a pure masterpiece, and the rest is pretty damn solid.
Thank you! That was a truly great LP.
@@jamesstegemoeller9069 easily one of the most underrated bands ever...even considering Wynwood's fame.
Favorite Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart
Honorable Mention Pearl - Janis Joplin
Today I'll go with the first album I ever bought: Nilsson Schmilsson. Harry Nilsson was one of my all-time favorite singers. The three AM radio hit songs on it were Jump Into the Fire, Coconut and Without You. They couldn't have been more different from each other but I loved them all and still do!
Harry Nilsson was a vocal genius. His album ‘A Touch of Schmilsson in the Night’ is probably my favourite of all time.
Day 1 - Sticky Fingers
Day 2 - Led Zeppelin IV
Day 3 - Look At Yourself
continuing to count down my top 28:
26: Teaser and the firecat - Cat Stevens (one of the great early 70's singer songwriter albums)
HM:
54: Indelibly stamped - Supertramp (before they made it big, a more pastoral affair reminiscent to some extent of Yes' first album)
previous entries
27: Moments - Boz Scaggs
28. In the Land of grey and pink - Caravan
HMs
55: Gonna take a miracle - Laura Nyro
56: Elvis Country - Elvis Presley
Today's pick (I'm randomly picking one of my top 28 each day)
February 3rd: Leonard Cohen "Songs of Love and Hate" (I actually got turned onto Cohen from a tribute cassette "I'm Your Fan" released in the early 90s that featured bands like REM and The Pixies that I like )
Other picks: Feb. 2 Traffic "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys", Feb. 1 Isaac Hayes "Shaft"
great album!! ZZ Top albums in the 70's are their finest work. Good choice Pete!
Deguello i have on vinyl. Superb album. I couldn't really tell you their best album from the 70's. They're all good.
Day 3- Deep Purple “Fireball”
Honorable mention- The Doors “L.A. Woman”
1971
2/3 Imagine- John Lennon
2/2 La Women - Doors
2/1 Who’s next
HM
2/3 ELO self titled.
2/2 Aqualung - Jethro Tull
2/1 Fragile
1971 pick: Santana (Santana III)
HM: Jade Warrior (Released)
2/3 -Golden Earring: Seven Tears
2/2 -The Who: Who’s Next
2/1 - Ten Years After: A Space in Time
Top Pick - Carole King - ' Tapestry ' , H M.- ' Carly Simon - ' Carly Simon ' ...
My choice for today is *Roots* by Curtis Mayfield. The former Impressions singer is on fine form, his fragile falsetto voice and groovesome rhythm guitar creating a formidable, funky brew. A fabulous record by a wonderful human being who is much missed.
Honourable mention is *No Roses* by Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band. One of the great English traditional singers, Collins is backed by a stellar cast of musicians assembled by Ashley Hutchings, doyen of the folk music revival in the U.K..
My Pick: Deep Purple- Fireball🎼🎤🎸🎵🥁
About four months ago I picked up Mott the Hoople All the Young Dudes album for 3.00. I figured I liked the title track. But I had no idea how much I'd like the rest of the album. So I bought ALL their albums during the next few weeks. And I've been listening to them A LOT.
So let me throw Brain Capers into the mix of albums 50 years old. It's not my favorite by them...but it's still damn good.
Today's picks: Golden Earring - Seven Tears
HM: Joni Mitchel - Blue
The Yes Album - Yes
Perfect pick Pete 🙂
My today's pick is T-Rex - Electric Warrior
Weather Report - I Sing the Body Electric
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Deep Purple - Fireball
Day3. Allman Brothers Band. Live at Fillmore. HM Audience. The House on the Hill.
Today’s pick- Faces “A Nod is Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse” particularly for ‘Stay with Me,’ great straight up rock n roll
Honorable mention- Traffic “The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys.”
Love The Faces. Rod Stewart from 1969-1973 could do no wrong.
Today's pick: Fragile - Yes
Honourable mention: Nilsson Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson
Ok this time I have to pick “Tapestry” by Carole King. What can I say, she’s a genius! My honorable mention is “Songs for Beginners” by Graham Nash.
My favorite from ZZ Top
Every episode of this plus reading the comments I see another great album I forgot that came out in 71
What a great year for music!!!
Great choices, Pete, and those two are on the list I am still editing. ZZ's debut - as you say, more on that later. Today's pick is L.A. Woman by The Doors. Lots of great albums by this band but, not counting1978's American Prayer, this is the last studio album with Jim Morrison who died on July 3 of 1971. Picked this for today to honor him on this almost fifty year anniversary of his death. Bought this in a local record/stereo store after the store had been though a fire. Picked it up for $2. Still sealed but smelling smoky. LP was in great shape in moved into constant rotation. This is a band with many great albums and all are enjoyable up to this album. A great testament to the legendary Jim Morrison.
Bubbling Below The Top 28: Today's Honorable Mention is In The Land Of Grey and Pink by Caravan. I picked up this album from becoming a SoT UA-cam follower about a year ago. It's not on my top 28 for the year only because I've had less than a year with it and most of my other picks I've lived with since they were issued in 1971. But a great album and thanks to Pete and the SoT channel for getting me to listen to this.
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Appropriately for the third day of this series, my choice for today is Santana 3. If yesterday was about saying farewell to a rock legend, this album was when we got to hear one of the greatest living guitarists for the first time - the fabulously talented Neil Schon. Carlos Santana’s protégé was only 17 when this album was recorded and he has gone on to have a hugely successful career ever since.
The Moody Blues: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Todays Pick: Don McLean - American Pie
It's one of the defining albums of 1971. Title track, Vincent, Empty Chairs, The Grave... All great, haunting songs...
Vincent is a beautiful song. Heart wrenching lyrics. There’s something about slow and emotional just vocals and acoustic guitar songs that are just incredible. Like Vincent, More than words, Landslide, Time in a bottle, Nick Drake’s ENTIRE pink moon album, and Bob Marley’s Redemption song to name a few
@@alexandergilles8583 totally agree... I'd also say Don McLean's haunting vocals fit that song very well...
The doors-L.A Women. Honorable mention Caravan-In the land of the grey and pink
My pick for today - Can: Tago Mago
Brain Capers- Mott the Hoople
'Nantucket Sleighride' Mountain Honorable mention: 'Link Wray' Link Wray
2/3 Pick = Electric Warrior - T Rex Not positive, but this may have been first cassette that I wore out and had to replace. Really loved it back in the 70s.
HonM - 4-Way Street - CSNY This is semi-forgotten being that Everybody had it in their collection back then. Some songs first appeared on this album versus studio.
Yes - The Yes Album
Honorable: April Wine - April Wine
Album of the day: The Doors - L.A. Woman
Day 2: Look At Yourself - Uriah Heep
Day 1: Fireball - Deep Purple
26. Johnny Cash - Man In Black
Honorable Mention: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Mirror Man
Today's pick: Stackridge by Stackridge. Bought this in 1972 for £1.75.
Honourable mention: In the Land of the Grey and Pink by Caravan.
I've never got into ZZ Top, but has been many years since I last give them a listen and so will give them another go. And never heard their first album so should be interesting.
My list would undoubtedly include L.A. Woman by The Doors. A excellent album, one of my all time favourites.
My pick for the day: *John Prine S/T* - just discovered him in the past year.
I was on holiday in NYC in 2018 and saw John Prine play his biggest ever show at Radio City Music Hall. He was magnificent, just so many wonderful songs. So sorry that he’s no longer with us.
You'll be so glad you did Steve. So many great songs. Be sure to check out the Great Days anthology.
bought the crooked peice of time box set last year containing 7 albums from 1971- 1980, the self titled album, from 1971 is a masterclass in songwriting, every track is stunning. A much missed talent.
Imagine - John Lennon
L.A. Woman - The Doors
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Fireball - Deep Purple
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Electric Warrior - T-Rex
Master Of Reality - Black Sabbath
Meddle - Pink Floyd
Santana III - Santana
The Concert for Bangla Desh
Madman Across the Water - Elton John
Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Deuce - Rory Gallagher
Look at Yourself - Uriah Heep
If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby
great list. agree with you on Rory Gallagher + David Crosby.
Today's picks: Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat
HM: Don McLean - American Pie
Allman brothers live at Fillmore East, one of the greatest live albums by one of the greatest live bands ever
YES! Right on! My #1 for 1971 and my #1 ZZ Top album!!!
The albums I've recommended so far are:
1 A Ballad of ) A Peaceful Man - Gravy Train
2 Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
3 Grin - Grin
Why I've picked #3
A young Nils Lofgren shows what he can do. A great debut of melodic pop rock by a band who deserved to be much more than a critics' favourite.
great series and a great year. My top 5:
1. The Rollings Stones - Sticky Fingers
2. Led Zeppelin - IV
3. Joni Mitchell - Blue
4. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
5. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
So many great albums from 1971, my list probably changes day by day to such an extent that my top 50 albums for the year could easily end up in my top 10 on any given day depending upon my mood.
Mine today:
Fireball by DP.
Hon. Mention: Free (live)
Electric Warrior - T. Rex. My mother asked the guy at the record store for an album for her 14 year sons birthday. Still have it and Bang a Gong (Get it On) is my #2 favorite song of all time.
My pick: The inner mounting flame by Mahavishnu Orchestra
Honorable mention: Meddle by Pink Floyd
Main 1971 Pick #3: Yes - Fragile 1971 Honorable Mention #3: Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Comus - First Utterance
Great choice!
That is a weird album to say the least .Gave me the creeps but I'm not knocking it.
Pick: Comus - First Utterance, Hon. Mention: Popol Vuh - In Den Garten Pharaos
Hiya Pete my two picks for today are
Who's Next - The Who
HM: Muswell Hilbillies - The Kinks
The Who - Who's Next
Honorable Mention: The Doors - L.A. Woman
I’m going to go folky for this one & my favourite folky Bert Jansch with Rosemary Lane. Beautiful record.
Hon. mention: Reflection, Pentangle.
Love me some pentangle so under rated.
@@ukrocksounds3419 Yeah, they’re fabulous if you’re in the right mood. Saw them in a tent at Glastonbury with a very sick-looking Bert right before he died & they were wonderful
Traffic, Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys. HM, Allman Bothers, Live at the Fillmore East.
My picks:
2/3 The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic
2/2 Fragile - Yes
2/1 Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren - Todd Rundgren
I see the What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye album cover in the thumbnail... As a bass player, that album is the peak of feel, tone, note selection... James Jamerson is the greatest of all time. PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON IT... Motown needs some love from you.
Today’s pick: Mountain: Nuntucket Sleighride
HM: Elvis Presley: Elvis Country
My pick for today: "Love tt to Death" by Alice Cooper for "Second Coming"; "Ballad of Dwight Fry" and "Sun Arise". I like to listen to them all together as one long song.
Between January and April 1993, I can’t remember listening to another album other than ZZ Top’s first Album. I loved it so much. Still do. Some great memories attached to that album. Some of them I daren’t reveal on a public forum.
Great choice. Still my favorite of theirs. Brings back old times.
My pick today from 1971: The Kinks, Muswell Hillbilllies. Timeless Kinks classic. Bought it in 1972 brand new when I was 7 years old. Have played it hundreds of times since.
Today I'll with Can's Tago Mago - it's such a trip! I find it's not really the sort of album that works well when you give it all of your attention, but when I would play it while doing desk work, it would seriously take me into its world and go somewhere that I can't even describe.
"Sparks" the original album produced by Todd Rundgren in 71 is deff worth a mention as its the start of a 50 year run that is still in full swing.
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Honorable Mention: Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself
Yes - *The Yes Album*
The first album I bought from the band and one of two records that introduced me to prog rock in 2003, the other one being Hemispheres by Rush. So that's nearly twenty years ago now and there is definitely some nostalgia kicking in for me with this music. Yours Is No Disgrace, Starship Trooper and Perpetual Change are pure gold. I also really like A Venture, it's a charming little tune!
Great choice Pete, it was high on my list. Here is a deeper but great album. British Blues Rock pioneer John Baldry with such a distinct voice. It Ain't Easy is a great album with one side produced by Rod Stewart and the other by Elton John. "Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll" is the one people remember but the rest of the songs are great too.
For June I hope to see Live from the Filmore - Zappa and I'm sure I'll see Aqualung too. Got into both of these bands back then and they are still my two favorites.
3rd day (today) - High Time - MC5
2nd day - Hunky Dory - David Bowie / 1st day - Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
No honorable mention, 28 albums are enough. No live and posthumous material (Hendrix for instance).
Today I'll go with "Thirds" by the James Gang. Just a really good rock n' roll album.
Whaddaya think about the 2nd tune on THIRDS..."Yadig"! A Jazz Blues?!?
@@jazzpunk A bit of a departure but that era was full of stuff like that. Thumbs up.
@@b2tall239 A bit?!?! That an understatement.... :-)
Day 3 : 4 Way Street By CSN&Y
Honourable Mention : Ram by Paul Mc Cartney
John Prine - John Prine
Honorable - Ten Years After - A Space in TIme
Hi Pete, you definitely put me up to a challenge here! I,m just 20 years old and I do not have listened to 28 albums from this particular year for sure. So i filled out my list with bands i heard of/ that you talked about in the past. Great series for me to get to know more music :) for today a familiar one: Jethro tull aqualung!
As I said, I have less albums I really know well, but still I like to add my picks too. BTW I like that Ten Years After record, and played that single once myself in a collab.
My pick for today is David Bowie's Hunky Dory.
I like most of his work and this one is a beauty that grew with more listens. Anyway, curious for your next pick...
Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung” and honorable mention to “Santana III”
British Prog
Aqualung Jethro Tull
Acquiring the Taste Gentle Giant
Aqualung would seem to be a no-brainer!
Loving this series Pete, looking forward to the next one.
1. Sticky Fingers,
2. Acquiring The Taste,
3. Aqualung,
... Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys,
... Islands
... Nantucket Sleighride
Only day 3 and you've already picked one not in my top 28. I was wagering that this would happen no earlier than mid-month. Surprises (always fun) never cease in S of T. Gotta love it!
Blue - Joni Mitchell
HM:
Ram - Paul and Linda McCartney
Day 3 Pick: The Yes Album - Yes (02/19/71)
HM: Jack Johnson - Miles Davis (02/24/71)
Bless The Weather - John Martyn
Hon. Mention : Black Moses - Isaac Hayes
Yep love bless the weather by john martyn.
@@ukrocksounds3419 I think everything he released between '71 and '80 is pretty great.
“A Space In Time” by Ten Years After is one of my favorite 1971 albums.
My pic, Day 3:
The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions with Howlin Wolf, Eric Clapton, Bill Wyman and Steve Winwood.
Something like 10 years ago I started diving into the roots of rock, which took me to the blues and all the way to back to even before Robert Johnson' Crossroads recordings. My favorite of all these early bluesmen was Howlin' Wolf. A hell of a voice and some raunchy, "in your face" music for early '50s! This album was relatively tame, but he had a great backing group here for sure. Interestingly, Howlin' Wolf toured with Alice Cooper in 1972. Alice's show apparently scared Wolf a lot.
I *love* early ZZ Top! I wish that they had never left that early raw, dirty blues sound behind, especially as they were such a tight band in those days, but as we know, the '80s happened, and ZZ Top basically became a Billy Gibbons solo project with drum machines and such. My pick for today: Jethro Tull's incredible '71 album, "Aqualung."
1. Alice Cooper - "Killer"
2. Head Over Heels -" head over heels"
Today`s choice -
Top 28 - `The North Star Grassmen and the Ravens` by Sandy Denny
HM - `Carpenters` by The Carpenters
#26 in my top 100 albums for 1971. I'm sure the majority of those watching this will be going "who the hell!" on this one.
Whalefeathers: self-titled. A local band from Cincinnati. Played a bluesy/Psychedelic rock. Included covers of I Don't Need No Doctor and Cream's World of Pain.
Honorable mention: Wishbone Ash: Pilgrimage
My Day 3 pick.
Deep Purple “ Fireball’
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Every track on your choices Pete are awesome...both lps are musts for collecting!! And enjoying of course!!
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
HM : Wishbone Ash - Pilgrimage
Mine for today is Can - Tago Mago - haven’t heard Pete talk much about krautrock and it seems like something he might be into (at least some of it) l- hon mention is ELP live version of Pictures at an Exhibition
1 The Band Cahoots 2 Bob Dylan Greatest Hits Vol 2 (I know it's a greatest hits but it was my first Dylan I had bought) it's special to me.
Day 3:
Yes - The Yes Album
Hon. mention - Faust - Faust
Here we have it:
NICK DRAKE-BRYTER LAYTER
Honorable mention: MCDONALD AND GILES
Jonathan Edwards - Jonathan Edwards (Sunshine and Shanty are cult classics)
HM: Brave Belt (BTO precursor)
Pete another idea for a show, how many great bands and Great artists came out of Great Britain in the late 60s early 70s,its astonishing when you look into it. 👍
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Jackson Browne’s first album was recorded in 1971 but released Jan 1972
I've never heard Pete talk about Jackson Browne. To me, the man is a pure genius songwriter and one he'll of a musician.
I still think that was his best album too.