Have a Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box CD2 Poll

rod

alice

Staples

"Have You Seen Her"

Dramatics

Sly, believe it or not, though I love a lot of them.

I gotta add, though, that this box set seems really, really useless compared to the original Have A Nice Day compilations, which I reviewed here:

http://www.superseventies.com/spsuperhits.html

Not saying the box is "worse," per se -- but limiting the set to forgotten one-hit wonders served a purpose. Why include so many artists whose albums anybody with any sense in their head already owns? It just seems redundant. But I voted for Sly anyway.

here are some of the other songs that really deserve some votes, even though they might not get any:

6. Honey Cone (1971): "Want Ads"
8. Lee Michaels (1971): "Do You Know What I Mean"
13. Coven (1971): "One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)"
15. Hot Butter (1972): "Popcorn"
20. The Main Ingredient (1972): "Everybody Plays the Fool"
22. The Spinners (1972): "I'll Be Around"

Supposedly Coven were actually a heavy band that did Satanic rituals and stuff! (I had no idea, until I read it in Martin Popoff's '70s metal book today.)

i thought about doing each disc but there are 20 of them and didn't want it to last that many weeks...

thanks for that link Chuck!

there's a little blurb on coven in the acid archives

http://www.lysergia.com/AcidArchives/lamaArchiveC.htm

Melanie!

i loved this, from that Rolling Stone link above:

Compiled, no doubt, by some very sick minds, Have a Nice Day captures the exploitative ephemerality of classic K-Tel Hell in all its raging glory. To my ears, at least one in every five cuts holds up as well as anything on Layla or Who's Next or even Moondance, partly because the decent tracks on those albums have been drummed into my consciousness so often for so long that they're not special anymore, but also because quite a few hits on this compilation had more electricity in the first place.

Damn, this is a good disc!

Tough choice

Voted for Rod, though it seems criminal not to vote for 'Have you seen her?'.

Popoff on Coven; this is crazy -- I really want to hear their albums now!:

"Coven's self-titled record is actually their second, a followup to the notorious Witchcraft Destroys Minds And Reap Souls, which debuted an Oz Osbourne (different guy) on bass and an album opener called 'Black Sabbath'!...On Coven, female vocalist Jinx Dawson turns this thing into a cross between Janis Joplin, Curved Air, and the Savage Rose."

A short ILE thread:

Does Coven make Ozzy and Sabbath a total rip-off band??

America

I adore Honey Cone, an early 70's soul girl group with a strident (for the times) feminist tone. "Want Ads" is one of their finest tunes, an early advocate for using the personals to replace a cheating lover.

"Wanted: young man single and free
Experience in love preferred
But will accept a young trainee"

"Popcorn". For its impact mainly.

horse with no name for me - another of those tracks that you simply couldn't get away from but which was quite lovely as well, despite it's many flaws.

"Popcorn". For its impact mainly.

"ABC", sure. But generally a lot of one-hit-wonder stuff while the more established artists are not represented here to the same extent.

-- Geir Hongro

i'm so confussed? first you want established artists and then on CD2 you have them: Isaac Hayes, Sly and the Family Stone, Al Green, Rod Stewart and even Alice Cooper but yet you vote for the one hit?

not to pick on you Geir, ILM does way too much of that already, as it's not my style but simply surprised after that last thread.

"Popcorn" is OK anyway. And I agree there are considerably more established acts here, but sadly none of the ones (Genesis, Yes, Bowie) that made 1972 great.

It's an american box. 1972 is too early for those.

David Bowie is coming but those other two are nowhere to be found.

One for the "out of context" thread there.

Bowie's biggest US hit (in the 70s anyway) was "Fame", wasn't it? Hardly his best moment....

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Coven are that band that did the "Satan!! Hail Satan!!" bit on Negativland's U2.

Best song in this poll: "Let's Stay Together"
Worst song in this poll: Either "Chick-a-Boom" or "I Am Woman"

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Sly...