Nickyboy
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Music Gourmets Presents 60 Years of Great Music - 1975
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Zeeba Neighba
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Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
With Springsteen's album gone, I will go to my second favorite album of 1975 - there are several proto-punk albums but Horses is probably the first true punk album before the classic punk style of rapid fire 3-chord songs became the norm. In truth, punk was never about a homogeneous musical style anyhow - artists like Smith, Ramones, Blondie, Television, Suicide, and Talking Heads all were considered punk and played clubs like CBGBs in NYC in the same era. All, however, shared the same attitude and Smith has plenty of that. When I first heard Horses in college, I was astounded how poetic and elegant many of the songs were yet still be so in-your-face gritty and angry. Like many punk artists, Smith channels early-mid 60s music in unique ways by taking tracks like "Gloria" and "Land of a Thousand Dances" and merging it with her poetry to create exciting music.
My faves this year
1) Born to Run
2) Horses
3) Fleetwood Mac s/t
4) Roxy Music Siren
With Springsteen's album gone, I will go to my second favorite album of 1975 - there are several proto-punk albums but Horses is probably the first true punk album before the classic punk style of rapid fire 3-chord songs became the norm. In truth, punk was never about a homogeneous musical style anyhow - artists like Smith, Ramones, Blondie, Television, Suicide, and Talking Heads all were considered punk and played clubs like CBGBs in NYC in the same era. All, however, shared the same attitude and Smith has plenty of that. When I first heard Horses in college, I was astounded how poetic and elegant many of the songs were yet still be so in-your-face gritty and angry. Like many punk artists, Smith channels early-mid 60s music in unique ways by taking tracks like "Gloria" and "Land of a Thousand Dances" and merging it with her poetry to create exciting music.
My faves this year
1) Born to Run
2) Horses
3) Fleetwood Mac s/t
4) Roxy Music Siren
Mattafett
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Rush - Caress of Steel
For me this year is filled with a bunch of solid records, but none great. I like this quite a bit, and is top 5 Rush for me.
For me this year is filled with a bunch of solid records, but none great. I like this quite a bit, and is top 5 Rush for me.
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
I'm fooling nobody at this point.
Keith Jarrett ~ The Köln Concert
By the way, I have so many copies of this, I will send free to the first MG'er who asks, a CD of this exact album ....provided that you listen to it ....and that you not trade it away for two months.
By the way, I have no enforcement process - only short arms of the law, like a tyrannosaurus rex.
Send me a PM / Conversation with your address, and it is yours.
Keith Jarrett ~ The Köln Concert
By the way, I have so many copies of this, I will send free to the first MG'er who asks, a CD of this exact album ....provided that you listen to it ....and that you not trade it away for two months.
By the way, I have no enforcement process - only short arms of the law, like a tyrannosaurus rex.
Send me a PM / Conversation with your address, and it is yours.
Nickyboy
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I'll kindly take you up on that offer, good sir.I'm fooling nobody at this point.
Keith Jarrett ~ The Köln Concert
By the way, I have so many copies of this, I will send free to the first MG'er who asks, a CD of this exact album ....provided that you listen to it ....and that you not trade it away for two months.
By the way, I have no enforcement process - only short arms of the law, like a tyrannosaurus rex.
Send me a PM / Conversation with your address, and it is yours.
lpfreak1170
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I'm fooling nobody at this point.
Keith Jarrett ~ The Köln Concert
By the way, I have so many copies of this, I will send free to the first MG'er who asks, a CD of this exact album ....provided that you listen to it ....and that you not trade it away for two months.
By the way, I have no enforcement process - only short arms of the law, like a tyrannosaurus rex.
Send me a PM / Conversation with your address, and it is yours.
Picked up the latest vinyl reissue of this a few months ago but have yet to listen to it. Guess I should do that very soon.
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
The rule is, if one picks something as one's primary pick before Saturday, which someone has already mentioned as an HM before Saturday, one's pick is golden as a primary selection.Zeebs already chose this as an hm, so I'm not sure if I can make it my pick, but it's:
and I'll add this as an hm:
Much easier than the rules for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, by the way.
I don't make the rules; I just play by them, as long as they suit my purpose.
Worm
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Lolz, it's not a separate link, just the detritus of the link above that I didn't properly cut and paste .
Unsomnambulist
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You should see the rules for Schrodinger's Hand Grenade.
Ojai Sam
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Guy Clark - Old No. 1
Guy’s debut album holds 10 of the finest songs you will ever hear, each one a character study told with insight and humor. His organic singer songwriter vibe, like Red Headed Stranger, was a thoughtful counterpoint to the rowdy swagger of the outlaw bit which, as Waylon once sang, did get out of hand.
Guy’s debut album holds 10 of the finest songs you will ever hear, each one a character study told with insight and humor. His organic singer songwriter vibe, like Red Headed Stranger, was a thoughtful counterpoint to the rowdy swagger of the outlaw bit which, as Waylon once sang, did get out of hand.
Markonomicon
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Last good album with the Ozzman.
patrikc325
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HM's
Mattafett
Staff member
HM
Probably should have been my primary pick. Listening to it now, what a great record.
Elton John - Rock of the Westies
Probably should have been my primary pick. Listening to it now, what a great record.
Elton John - Rock of the Westies
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