LOBBY HARD for things you think other people ought to nominate for the 1970s poll

Didn't Let It Be come out in 1970? Someone really should nominate that.

If no one does I will replace "Le Freak" with it.

(More obvious soul suggestions to follow.)

Edgar Winter Group, "Frankenstein"
Golden Earring, "Radar Love"
Neil Young, "Heart of Gold"

I was fairly sure
someone else would nominate
this fine work...so...yeah?

"Making Plans for Nigel," XTC
"Too High," Stevie Wonder
"Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles," Captain Beefheart
"Damaged Goods," Gang of Four

More suggestions, then!

Cluster -- Zuckerzeit
MORE LIGHTFOOT PLZ

david bowie- ziggy stardust
neil young- on the beach
neil young- after the gold rush
cat stevens- tea for the tillerman
magazine- secondhand daylight
the first three wire albums
throbbing gristle- 20 jazzfunk greats

Songs:
Big Youth, “Hit the Road Jack” !!!!!!
Big Youth, “Every Nigger Is a Star”
Ken Boothe, “Everything I Own”
Boston, “More Than a Feeling”
Dennis Brown, “Money in My Pocket” !!!!!!
Chic, “At Last I Am Free”
Otis Clay, “Let Me Be th eOne”
Dave and Ansel Collins, “Double Barrell”
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, “Helpless”
Dr. Buzzard’s Orginal Savannah Band, “Cherchez la Femme” !!!!!!
Aretha Franklin, “Rock Steady” !!!!!!
Aretha Franklin, “Something He Can Feel”
Merle Haggard, “If We Make It Through December”
Tom T. Hall, “Homecoming”
The Heptones, “Book of Rules”
The Human League, “Being Boiled”
The Isley Brothers, “It’s Your Thing”
The Jackson 5, “I’ll Be There”
George Jackson, “Aretha, Sing One for Me”
Michael Jackson, “I Wanna Be Where You Are”
Janet Kay, “Silly Games” (this was 1979, right?)
Fela Kuti, “Unknown Soldier”
Matching Mole, “O Caroline”
Curtis Mayfield, “Move On Up”
Elvis Presley, “Always on My Mind”
Seals and Crofts, “Summer Breeze”
The Spinners, “Could It Be I’m Falling in Love”
Rod Stewart, “You Wear It Well”
Television Personalities, “Part-Time Punks” !!!!!!
The Walker Brothers, “The Electrician”
Robert Wyatt, “I’m a Believer”
etc.

wire & the damned singles

I'm expecting No Other, Here, My Dear and Bryter Later to pop up soon. I'm hoping Stormbringer will too, and some Al Green albums, that will force me to actually get hold of a proper Al Green album rather than rely on Greatest Hits, in order to vote for it.

Beatles- Let it Be
Yes- Fragile
Pink Floyd- The Wall

People have been leaving out King Crimson and The Doors

Sultans of Swing- Dire Straits

In fact, these in particular--

Marvin Gaye, I Want You !!!!!
Robert Wyatt, Rock Bottom !!!!!!
Aretha Franklin, “Rock Steady” !!!!!!

were on my short short list; like, a flip of the coin away from nomination.

anyway, you have great taste. I actually don't know that Allen Toussaint album (Southern Nights), but I swear just yesterday I was listening to the one just called Toussaint (but, I think also reissued under a bunch of different names) from 1971, and it is so so killer. GREAT version of "Cast Your Fate to the Wind".

I'd still like to see

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Aerosmith - Rocks
Alice Cooper - Love it to Death
Lol Coxhill - Ear of the Beholder
Debris - Static Disposal
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Fleetwood Mac - s/t
Fred Frith - Guitar Solos
Harmonia - Deluxe
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Gil-Scott Heron - Pieces of a Man
Curtis Mayfield - Live
Les McCann - Layers
Roscoe Mitchell - Nonaah
Moslang / Guhl - Deep Voices
Milton Nascimento - Minas
Yoko Ono - PLastic Ono Band
Pink Fairies - Kings of Oblivion
Sir Lord Baltimore - s/t
Patti Smith - Horses

J.B.'s - "The Grunt"
Chicago - "Dialogue Pt 1 & 2"
The Doors - "L.A. Woman"
Earth, Wind and Fire - "That's the Way of the World"
The Girls - "Jeffrey, I Hear You"
Eddie Harris and Les McCann - "Compared to What"
Eddie Holman - "Hey There Lonely Girl"
Hot Butter - "Popcorn"
The Jacksons - "Shake Your Body"
Kool and the Gang - "Summer Madness"
M - "Pop Muzik"
Eddie Money - "Baby Hold On"
Maria Muldaur - "Midnight at the Oasis"
Bob Seger - "Night Moves"
Spinners with Dionne Warwick - "Then Came You"

just some random thoughts. i hope a couple of those make it..

Azquita: "California" "La Lloronoa" "En Un Beso la Vida"
Joe Bataan: "Muchacho Ordinario"

Ooh, "Phraedra" by Tangerine Dream. That's a good one: "In 1974 Tangerine Dream revolutionised the world of popular music with this album that can be considered the birth of Space music and one of the most influencial albums of electronic music ever released."

Iggy Pop - Lust For Life and The Idiot
David Bowie - Young Americans and Heroes
Solomon Burke - From The Heart
Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs and Small Change
Blondie - Blondie
Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties!!
Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston
Buzzcocks - Love Bites (we've had Singles Going Steady, which seems wrong to me)
Chic - C'Est Chic and Risque
Jimmy Cliff - House Of Exile
Al Green - Gets Next To You
Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea With The Adverts
Isaac Hayes - Shaft
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
Rod Stewart - An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
Temptations - All Directions
Slade - Slade Alive!
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
Rezillos - Can't Stand The Rezillos
XTC - White Music
O.V. Wright - The Wright Stuff
Wreckless Eric - Wreckless Eric
Pavlov's Dog - At The Sound of the Bell
Trammps - The Legendary Zing Album
Lou Reed - Transformer
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On? (am I imagining it that this hasn't been nominated?)
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
Mott The Hoople - Mott
Misty In Roots - Live At The Counter Eurovision 1979
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
V.A. - Harder They Come OST

Tracks that I am similarly desperate to be nominated:
Al Green - Tired Of Being Alone and Let's Stay Together
Faces - Stay With Me and You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything and Cindy Incidentally
Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
Mott The Hoople - All The Way From Memphis, Hymn For The Dudes and Ballad of Mott (March 26th 1972 Zurich)
Linda Jones - Your Precious Love
Isley Brothers - Harvest For The World
Gregory Isaacs - Loving Pauper
Keith Hudson - Civilization
Buzzcocks - What Do It Get?
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes and One Chord Wonders
Solomon Burke - Sidewalks, Fences And Walls
Elvis Costello - Alison and Lipstick Vogue
Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
Dillinger - Cocaine In My Brain
Culture - Two Sevens Clash
Cuban Heels - Downtown
Chi-Lites - Stoned Out Of Mind
John Cooper-Clarke - Psycle Sluts
Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross and House Of Exile
Tom Waits - Burma-Shave and Tom Traubert's Blues
Village People - Y.M.C.A.
Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything
Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
T. Rex - Telegram Sam
Trammps - Penguin At The Big Apple/Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart and Disco Inferno
Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man
Walker Brothers - No Regrets
Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World
Subway Sect - Different Story
Rezillos - (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures
Iggy Pop - The Passenger
George Perkins & the Silver Stars - Crying In The Streets
Penetration - Don't Dictate
Rod Stewart - Reason to Believe
Slade - Mama Weer All Crazee Now
Sister Sledge - We Are Family and Lost In Music
Saints - (I'm) Stranded and This Perfect Day
Diana Ross - Theme From Mahogany - Do You Know Where You're Going To
Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar

I have no idea how I am going to edit that lot down to seven choices! Help me!

I have little idea which of the above albums or tracks I will end up nominating, to be honest. I'm the age where the first single I bought, Ride A White Swan, the first album, Slade Alive, my first gigs and my first sort of music-cult membership, punk, were all in the '70s, and a lot of my favourites are from that era, in soul, punk, pop, rock, disco, reggae and country.

Esther Phillips - 'Home Is Where The Hatred Is' (1972)

to follow in alba's footsteps I tried looking for an excerpt of 'roaratorio' on the web but so far all I found wz a link which is just a reading of the text (with none of the music).

The Faces - 'You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything' (1975)

You know you're in good hands when that doo wop bit after the "drinkin' pink champagne got the headphones up high" line pops out just like a cameo appearance from Dion & The Belmonts in the midst of the Wagnerian Joni Mitchell opus "This Flight [of the valkeries and the bumblebee]Tonight" but there's also the glamstomp "NOW you're MESSIN' with a... (pregnant pause designed to make you wonder just who and what you're messin with) ...SON of a BITCH!" and "Razzamanazz" which delivers all the onomatopoeia rama-lama-fa-fa-fa the McFive were too stoned to maintain for more than a few seconds at a time. "Love Hurts", a bit of a yawner if you're feeling fine but whoah-ha-ho-ho so right if she's left you there all alone with nothing but your Nazareth records to get you throught that long lonely night alone. Not such a sonuvabitch now, are ya?

Bonus points for having that geographically indeterminite midatlantic sound, Foghat-style.

-- fritz (fritzwollner5...), April 29th, 2002.

Universal Robot Band - 'Dance & Shake Your Tambourine' (1976)

And fuck, Kevin Coyne's Marjory Razorblade. Please.

Suicide - "No Tears"
Blondie - "One Way Or Another"
Boney M - "Rivers Of Babylon"
Village People - "YMCA"
B-52's - "52 Girls"
Siouxise & The Banshees - "Love In A Void"

I'll nominate one of these but I'll probably only have one album nomination left and these both deserve some lovin':

John McLaughlin - Devotion
Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting

I would have nominated this, but I guess it's just too obscure to have a chance. I guess this is my bid to make it slightly less obscure. Insane(ly great) eight minutes of Italian cop movie soundtrack.

So once again, I think other people ought to consider nominating "Why Can't We Live Together" by Timmy Thomas.

I nearly did - sorry. Someone else?

Doctor Alimantado, "Born for a Purpose/Reason For Living" (one of the greatest reggae songs of all time)

Dead Boys, "Sonic Reducer"

I second Kool & the Gang

Pretty much all the good album nominations have been made, it seems, but there are tons of great songs un-nominated. Perhaps a different set of rules for nominating could be used next time (80's poll, 60's poll, 20's poll, etc.)