Alternative 1970s Poll: thread for YouTubes and other hype

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A POLL FOR ALL THE OTHERS: It's the Alternate 1970s Albums Poll on ILX — Voting Thread (Due by midnight GMT, January 3rd)

So much stuff on the noms list I've never heard, please school me people!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmOEwiz5Kxs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWE8Aza64UU

The Gap Band's first album Magicians Holiday is sadly out of print, so the only source online is vinyl rips of varying degrees of quality. "Fontessa Fame" is probably the album's key track, but the whole thing is really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42IPlbC9H_Q

From the Wings album, Back to the Egg, an overlooked minor Macca classic. A strange, sparse, keyboard driven bit of post-disco pop. "Old Siam, Sir" is the other major jam on this - admittedly - curate's egg of an LP.

(A curate's 'back to the' egg?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO24zHR6L_0

Chrome - 'Slip It To The Android' from Alien Soundtracks (1978): Their stuff is this great weird sci-fi space-punk Stooges meets Hawkwind meets Blue Oyster Cult sorta thing, but this one sounds a lot more like Babaluma-era Can than anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbDTOySoFs

I like that Gap Band track (never heard any of their pre-disco stuff) but whoah pretty straight rip of Sly's Africa Talks to You tho ennit?

"Slip It To The Android" is the exact Chrome song to post. Ta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAFiIilrIQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bBW6HXZghE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4EVj76htYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGhSJIMHeoo

(The first vid I posted is "I'm Goin' Left" by Syreeta, BTW.)

YES! Big secondary reps for the Syreeta album, folks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc82CUa86h4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3pVqUJJG6g

Ian Dury, from New Boots and Panties!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmaEgjCooWU

Never mind the corny video, just listen to the awesome groove.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN9ZsDIasZU

Flora Purim's "Stories to Tell" is one of the finest blends of 70s jazz and Brazilian pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu9jeDoHA-Q

Cabaret Voltaire - 'No Escape' from Mix-Up (1979): The Cabs looking dead shifty here, stood by a lake in the freezing cold in the middle of nowhere, like they've gone off badger-baiting armed only with a fucked-up synth and some dodgy eye-liner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phKOfUP1YJ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ROTRFg08E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWnJLZpnLvk

Minnie Riperton, "Les Fleurs" from Come to My Garden.

Weidorje!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1nSLP0syTA

Magma's "Hhai"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dNF-B7SxkQ

A couple of Secos e Molhados videos - Ney Matagrosso's voice just kills me.

"Rosa de Hiroshima":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4VFZQirRGU

And the manic "O Vira":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw7KXr67tHg

Poor Garland Jeffreys has been forgotten by time, but "Matador" (and the whole of American Boy & Girl) is really nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA1_K-ZatQo

lolz I didn't think anyone else had even HEARD that American Spring album... posted track is easily the weirdest thing on there, but I dig the whole vibe of the album, its very sweet.

Also, "Wild in the Streets" had the misfortune of being a stand-alone single in 1973 until it was included on the Ghost Writer album (where it kind of didn't fit). This song's been covered several time, including by Circle Jerks (!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RzBZsOeqOQ

lolz I didn't think anyone else had even HEARD that American Spring album

Yeah, that takes some deep digging. Unfortunately so, as it really is a lovely little album. And weirdly so, since Brian Wilson was so involved in its creation. You'd think it would've been a big-time special edition reissue by this point. Unless it already has been and I don't know it...?

he's probably afraid that if he reissues it, Mike Love will come after him demanding money

Angel Canales - No Encotraras Quien Te Haga El Amor Como Yo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJqp2UFqdx8

Lejos de Ti:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2O27j81eYk

La Sonora Ponceña - Moreno Soy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg2wfl6ijGk

Willie Colon/Hector Lavoe - Todo Tiene Su Final:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFg-GLEGySI

Soñando Despierto:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVVd-XYdpAU

Hector Lavoe - El Todopoderoso:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxPEJ8mi2x0

Cheo Feliciano - Mi Triste Problema:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og2wKYwnosI

Ismael Rivera - Dime Porque:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5mnHOSuSfQ

Eddie Palmieri - Cobarde:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS1LbYyiU70

Hey, especially check that first Angel Canales track; it has a pretty sophisticated sound. He's not too well-known outside of salsa circles and with this album I think he arrived at his own very distinctive voice as a band-leader. (His vocal style is more fully developed here, too, than it is on Sabor Con Angel Canales.)

Haris Alexiou - O Fantaros:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aypxuDjvmqA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUDntQCyGvw

Fairouz [I think this song appears on Oriental Evening, though not this exact version]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orN7BCceh3k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRL54DjLJ2g

One of the finest versions of this standard, from the Idris Muhammad album with the same name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTSVz7cbhPg

Baden Powell is my favourite guitarist of all time, and one of the biggest geniuses in Brazilian music. Here you can see him jamming to the tape of Canto on Guitar in the studio where it was recorded.

I like Baden Powell, though probably not nearly as consistently as you do. Haven't heard that particular album, but I will try to look for it.

lol @ little girl running the tape machine

harmonia - immer wieder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd1BH7Nbk8c

francoise hardy - la question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suHf_o5RQ-Q

fotheringay - nothing more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3x01BYDmDY

war - the world is a ghetto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKKMdmPBWRk

From Kongos by John Kongos (later made more famous by Happy Mondays). Whole album's pretty great in a post-Beatles slightly-eastern boogie rock sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=056Qdo_cmCM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avRN2b9wy0A

Full version of The World is a Ghetto should be posted.