1970 Album Openers

I'm thinking about starting a poll on this, but this time I don't want to leave anything out...

Grateful Dead, "Box of Rain" and "Casey Jones"
Neil Young, "Tell Me Why"
CCR, "Ramble Tamble"
Beatles, "Two of Us"
Led Zeppelin, "Immigrant Song"
Stooges, "Down on the Street"
Black Sabbath, "Black Sabbath" and "War Pigs"
Funkadelic, "Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?" and "Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow"

Velvet Underground, "Who Loves the Sun"

Amon Duul II "Soap Shop Rock"
David Bowie "Width of a Circle"

David Bowie, "The Width of a Circle"

o shit. sorry :)

totally forgot about Soap Shop Rock...

Can, "Deadlock"

Deep Purple, "Speed King"

"Atom Heart Mother"
"Bridge Over Troubled Water"
VdGG, "Killer"
VdGG, "Darkness"
King Crimson, "Cirkus"
Fairport Convention, "Walk Awhile"
Pearls Before Swine, "The Jeweller"

Bridge Over Troubled Water?

Captain Beefheart, "Lick My Decals off Baby"
Love, "The Everlasting First"

Groundhogs, "Strange Town"

james gang - funk #49
james brown - sex machine

james brown - sex machine

what album does this open...? was trying to figure out what albums JB released this year (lol, like 5?!)

Soft Machine, "Facelift"

Temptations "Psychedelic Shack"

Nico, "Janitor of Lunacy"

Black Sabbath, "Black Sabbath"

winner and still champion...

Bob Dylan - If Not For You
Derek and the Dominos - I Looked Away
George Harrison - I'd Have You Anytime
John Cale - Hello, There
John Lennon - Mother
The Stooges - Down On The Street
Randy Newman - Have You Seen My Baby?
Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me

Badfinger, "Come And Get It" and "I Can't Take It"

Joni Mitchell - Morning Morgantown
CCR - Ramble Tamble
Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go
Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me
John Lennon - Mother
Derek & the Dominos - I Looked Away
Kinks - The Contenders

and why not, Miles Davis - Pharaoh's Dance

Damn it kornrulez.

besides talk talk and black sabbath what other bands had (first) album opening songs named after their band? or is that it?

Spirit, "Prelude/Nothin' to Hide"! (I was going to suggest the MC5, but they've got a great album with a pointless opener.)

what album does this open...? was trying to figure out what albums JB released this year (lol, like 5?!)

yeah, it's from the album sex machine

didn't the fun lovin' criminals do that? xxp

besides talk talk and black sabbath what other bands had (first) album opening songs named after their band? or is that it?

― scott seward, Friday, May 21, 2010 8:59 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Living in a Box
Bad Religion (if the EP came out before Hell...)

visage?

yeah, it's from the album sex machine

oh right - I never got this, it's like a fake live album, right? with versions that are different from the single versions

yeah half fake live w/pre-recorded applause, half real live. the version of "sex machine" still kicks ass. album itself is less than classic, i guess, but still grooves hard.

Tim Buckley- 'Lorca' and 'Come Here Woman'
Yoko- 'Why'

Aretha Franklin - Don't Play That Song
Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You
The Beach Boys - Slip on Through
Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
Chicago - Movin' In
Diana Ross- Reach Out & Touch
Donny Hathaway - Voices Inside
Elton John - Ballad of Well Known Gun
Emit Rhodes - With My Face on the Floor
Fairport Convention - Walk Awhile
Herbie Hancock - Wiggle-Waggle
James Brown - It's a New Day
Lee Dorsey - Yes We Can
Lucifer's Friend - Ride in the Sky
Magma - Kobaïa
The Meters - Look-ka Py Py & Chicken Strut
Mott the Hoople - Thunberbuck Ram
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
The Move - Hello Susie
Os Mutantes - Ando Meio Desligado
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Some of Shelley's Blues
Randy Holden - Guitar Song
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
Sjob Movement - Country Love
Sky - Goodie Two Shoes
Stray - All in Your Mind
Taste - What's Going On
Traffic - Glad
Wilson Pickett - Run Joey Run

The Who, "Young Man Blues"

King Crimson - The Great Deceiver

That opener compels me to put this album on time after time.

that's from 1974

Elton John: Your Song
Genesis: Looking For Something
Moody Blues: Question
Yes: No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
CSNY: Carry On
James Taylor: Sweet Baby James

xpost - whoops. sorry, i read this as 1970's album openers

I'm pretty sure the Grateful Dead openers were Box of Rain and Uncle John's Band, not Casey Jones.

Duke Ellington, "Blues for New Orleans"
The Pretty Things, "Scene 1"
Rod Stewart, "Gasoline Alley"
Tony Oxley, "Saturnalia"
Tony WIlliams Lifetime, "To Whom It May Concern - Them"

so many great things here, but gotta go with john lennon's "mother"...holy god, from the bell tolling beginning to the primal scream ending, this is the ultimate closer as opener--unsurpassed

Booker T & the MGs - Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End/Here Comes The Sun/Come Together
Hawkwind - Hurry On Sundown
J. Geils Band - Wait
John Phillips - April Anne
Neil Diamond - Cracklin' Rosie
Linda Perhacs - Chimacum Rain
Tom Zé - La Vem a Onda

Tops from those listed so far (for me) -- Mother, Why, Young Man Blues, Immigrant Song.

Worth mentioning: Transylvania Boogie, WPLJ, Didja Get Any Onya?

Kinda weak: I'd Have You Anytime

Lee Hazlewood- Pray Them Bars Away
Freddie Hubbard- Straight Life & Red Clay
Brigitte Fontaine & Art Ensemble of Chicago- Comme a la Radio
Exuma- Exuma the Obea Man
Stray- All In Your Mind
Rodgiguez- Sugar Man (this is probably my favorite)

"Journey in Satchidananda" - Alice Coltrane
"Les Fleurs" - Minnie Riperton
"Genesis" - Tangerine Dream

Curtis Mayfield - "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go"

oops, already listed, sorry

Yes - "Yours Is No Disgrace"

Ramble Tamble is an album OPENER?
I only have it on comps.
Fucking CCR. Balls of steel.

what am i talking about? I got Cosmo's Factory just for this song
stupid ipod listening

I'm thinking about starting a poll on this, but this time I don't want to leave anything out...

Don't think that's going to be a problem this time.

Not entirely joking:

Dr. Roger Payne - Solo Humpback (probably the most heard & sampled whale song recording ever)
Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting in a Room

I'm totally wrong on that Lucier release date. Otherwise everything else in my collection was covered above.

Art Ensemble of Chicago: "Thème de yoyo"

Cannot be topped, though "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" comes pretty close.

At the risk of missing the intended vibe:
Kraftwerk - "Ruckzuck" (s/t)
Bruce Haack - "Electric To Me Turn" (Electric Lucifer

)

(ahem)

"We've Only Just Begun," Carpenters, and "American Woman" and "Bus Rider," Guess Who. (When you do 1970 album-closers, I'll be back to plug "Joy to the World.")

Art Ensemble of Chicago: "Thème de yoyo"

Yeeeah. Well done. I was actually hoping it wasn't listed yet. :)

Kevin Ayers - "May I?"

Tuomas OTM re Art Ensemble!

Van Der Graaf Generator - Darkness (11/11)
Van Der Graaf Generator - Killer

Mayo Thompson - The Letter

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

that's from 1975

The Four Tops-Still Water (Love)
The Delfonics-Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time?)
Dusty Springfield-Lost
The Chi-Lites-Are You My Woman?
Syd Barrett-Baby Lemonade

Deep Purple-Speed King

actually just noticed that Casey Jones is not the album opener but closer...album opener would be Uncle John's Band...

I'm thinking about starting a poll on this, but this time I don't want to leave anything out...

Don't think that's going to be a problem this time.

― kornrulez6969, Saturday, May 22, 2010 1:20 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah next thing I think will be to list them all and pare them down to 50...

Syd Barrett "Terrapin"

I'm skimming Rate Your Music's Top 1000 (!) LPs of 1970...Absolute must for the Top 50: the Jackson 5's "The Love You Save." Much less so, but a possibility: Stephen Stills' "Love the One You're With."

Another must: the Chairmen of the Board's "Give Me Just a Little More Time."

Yet another: the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There."

I made it through all 1,000...Last batch: Freda Payne's "Band of Gold" (a must), Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" (a must for me, maybe not for you), and Charlie Rich's "Almost Lost My Mind" (good opener on a great LP, but there are better songs to follow). Does Axl Rose ever post on this board? I imagine he would have nominated Charles Manson's "Look at Your Game, Girl."

Trapeze-Black Cloud, off Medusa

Jimi Hendrix - Who Knows

Yes - "Yours Is No Disgrace"

Excellent song. But 1971.

I'm thinking about starting a poll on this, but this time I don't want to leave anything out...

That would be technically impossible. There is a 50 option limit....

This yielded a ton of great suggestions. Is the poll going to actually happen? (Did I miss it?)

I'd put it together myself from what's listed above, but I know my biases would dismay many people (i.e., a minimum of metal and art-rock).

that'd make you feel so big and clever huh

I'm looking back at what I wrote, and trying to figure out what inspired such a thoughtful reply.

maybe it was the offhand cultural snobbery, maybe it was the fact you'd even consider deleting anyone's suggestions via the polaroid filter of your own tastes

You've got to read between the lines--wait a minute, I only wrote one line, so what you'd have to do is read: "I'd put it together myself from what's listed above, but I know my biases would dismay many people." Translation: there are probably a hundred suggestions to wade through, and my understanding is that ILM polls have a maximum of 50 spots. Meaning, if anyone does follow through on this poll, they'd have no choice but to include some suggestions and disregard others. So while I'd very much like to see this poll happen--the early '70s being my favourite era for music--even to the point where I'd be happy to post it myself, I'm admitting that my biases make me not very suitable for doing so on a board where metal and art-rock are very popular. Cultural snobbery? Sometimes I think I need a keyboard shortcut for Ian MacKaye's "You had me pegged all along--damn."

here's how you poll it. you start a thread listing every one of these songs. you say that everyone has one chance to pick a song, and their first choice stands no matter how much they want to change it. then you count the votes for each album-opener

there's no need to display bias this way. bias in a poll-organiser completely defeats the point of a poll. a 50-album selection shouldn't even be contemplated!

but then it's an ILM poll so it doesn't actually matter and I'm ragging on you for no good reason

If you did it that way, sure; obviously I was thinking in terms of the formatted polls, which, again (or so I keep reading), are limited to 50 spots. And by the way: my own suggestions above were the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" and "The Love You Save," Stephen Stills' "Love the One You're With," the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun," the Guess Who's "American Woman" and "Bus Rider," the Chairmen of the Board's "Give Me Just a Little More Time," Freda Payne's "Band of Gold," Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime," and Charlie Rich's "Almost Lost My Mind." Landmarks of cultural snobbery, one and all. Especially Mungo Jerry, whom William F. Buckley used to wax ecstatically over.

wouldn't be hard to just grab the 50 most famous/canonical options, then construct a 2nd poll from everything people whine about being excluded

Good idea. I'll wait a few days to see if the original poster (Drugs A. Money) follows through, and if not, I'll post two polls; I'll include every single suggestion above (making sure they're dated '70), so as not to antagonize Mr. Mick-Ronson-etc. Meanwhile, as part of my penance for transgressions already committed, Joe the Plumber and I have chartered a plane, and we're off to shoot us some moose.

Cat Stevens "Lady D'Arbanville"

I'm happy that I found even one that wasn't mentioned yet...

uh...my Internet abilities is pretty sporadic once again, but I think what I'm going to do is prolley compile all the suggestion into one big list and then all ILXors deathmatch for which ones get the privilege of being part of the fifty-selection poll...

Pray for lots of metal. Pray for lots of art-rock.

Rare Earth - born to wander
Janko Nilovic - rush on the ball
Alan Moorhouse - that's nice
Gabor Szabo - breezin'

maybe I should run this as a quickie 'top 61 poll'

Please make sure to get acoleuthic back here, though. It just wouldn't be the same without his thoughtful collegiality.

I have no idea how to get a hold of the dude

but I'm not in a huge race to get this done either (oh you noticed?)...I can def wait for him to return