It was 50 years ago today ...

[Frayed Knot]

I remember that conversation about "Glad Tidings." I didn't know it played a part in your son's name. Good thing we didn't discuss Iggy Pop.

Or Alice Cooper

[Edgy MD]

10 Signed, Sealed Delivered -- Stevie Wonder

It's about time something black happened in this thread.

[Edgy MD]

I can remember discussing "Glad Tidings" with Sharpie at a CPF get-together brunch 14 years ago... It had recently been used on a SOPRANOS episode. After the brunch me and the pregnant Wifey Bucket went to Tower Record and bought a bunch of Van discs then named our son Ivan after George Ivan "Van" Morrison.

Did you ever experiment with nicknaming him "Van"? Or "Van the Man"?

I'm surprised every year that programmers don't add "Glad Tidings" to the Christmas collection.

[Fman99]

Christ, 1970 was a great year for music. I was born 3 years later but I still gravitate towards much of what was recorded in the early 70's as my go to list of personal faves. Here's a short list of mine from that year in no particular order.

Grateful Dead, "Workingman's Dead"
The Band, "Stage Fright"
CSNY, "Deja Vu"
Derek & the Dominoes
George Harrison, "All Things Must Pass"
Jethro Tull, "Benefit"
John Lennon, "Plastic Ono Band"
Traffic, "John Barleycorn Must Die"
Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys
James Gang, "James Gang Rides Again"

[LWFS]

10 Signed, Sealed Delivered -- Stevie Wonder

It's about time something black happened in this thread.

The first Sly greatest-hits album was released around later this year. SO... there's that?

Just checked: January had just two big releases, both cover albums from Marvin Gaye and Aretha.

[cal sharpie]

Bitch's Brew was #2 on my list. Pretty black album.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I can remember discussing "Glad Tidings" with Sharpie at a CPF get-together brunch 14 years ago... It had recently been used on a SOPRANOS episode. After the brunch me and the pregnant Wifey Bucket went to Tower Record and bought a bunch of Van discs then named our son Ivan after George Ivan "Van" Morrison.

Did you ever experiment with nicknaming him "Van"? Or "Van the Man"?

I'm surprised every year that programmers don't add "Glad Tidings" to the Christmas collection.

Lunchpail hasn't taken to "Van." (the name; he's pretty indifferent to the singer so far) He does however answer to "Butt"

[dinosaur jesus]

I woke up this morning repeating this so I wouldn't forget it. It was from the dream I'd been having:

The only person in the world who can't come home and put on some Van Morrison to relax is Van Morrison. Maybe that's why he's so crabby.

[ashie62]

My 10 are

1. Kinks Lola Versus Powerman and the Money go Round Part One
2. Beatles Let it Be
3. George Harrison All Things Must Pass
4 David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World
5. Velvet Underground Loaded
6 Stooges Fun House
7. Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys
8. John Lennon Plastic Ono Band
9. MC5 Back in the USA
10 Al Stewart Love Chronicles

And so many more

[Vic Sage]

After i saw everybody else's lists, i realized i was working from an incomplete list of 1970 releases. So, while i don't retract my prior list, there's more than enough for me to offer a second top 10:

Morrison Hotel (Doors)
Elton John
Mona Bone Jakon (C.Stevens)
Lola (Kinks)
John Barleycorn (Traffic)
Jesus Christ Superstar (Webber/Rice)
Led Zeppelin III
American Beauty (G.Dead)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (S.Wonder)
#5 (Steve Miller Band)

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I woke up this morning repeating this so I wouldn't forget it. It was from the dream I'd been having:

The only person in the world who can't come home and put on some Van Morrison to relax is Van Morrison. Maybe that's why he's so crabby.

Yeah he's a real dick. Did we talk about the "interview" he did recently?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/ ... s-like-one

[Frayed Knot]

9. MC5 Back in the USA
10 Al Stewart Love Chronicles

I've see BACK IN THE USA listed as a 1/15/70 release while LOVE CHRONICLES was actually from Sept of '69 in England but not until Jan '70 here in the states,
so if you want to chime in with any insights or critical commentary on these now would be the time.

[LWFS]

I woke up this morning repeating this so I wouldn't forget it. It was from the dream I'd been having:

The only person in the world who can't come home and put on some Van Morrison to relax is Van Morrison. Maybe that's why he's so crabby.

Yeah he's a real dick. Did we talk about the "interview" he did recently?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/ ... s-like-one

Do I want to read this one, or will it poison him for me? Like, is this Morrissey-level?

[batmagadanleadoff]

I enjoyed figuring out and guesstimating which 1970 albums I listened to throughout my life the most that I figgered I'd do it again for numbers 11-20. I sure did listen to a lot of 1970 stuff over the years. And color-wise, I know Edgy's gonna be pleased with this batch. In color pictures:

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[kcmets]

I was 7 and 8 in 1970, listened solely to WABC AM because it was fucking
awesome! I didn't know what FM was, and that was good, because I didn't know
until middle school that TV antennas doubled as FM antennas.

What year did the WABC Pink Button come out? I still have a couple in a box of
trinkets somewhere. Everyone wandering around with hope of getting spotted
with the same odds of running into Golda Meir at your local McDonald's to win
something. It was a craze for some time, you'll have to take my word.

[kcmets]

WABC AM deserves it's own thread.

You had to be there to understand.

[ashie62]

I woke up this morning repeating this so I wouldn't forget it. It was from the dream I'd been having:

The only person in the world who can't come home and put on some Van Morrison to relax is Van Morrison. Maybe that's why he's so crabby.

Yeah he's a real dick. Did we talk about the "interview" he did recently?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/ ... s-like-one

Saw Van Morrison many years ago get blown away by opening act Rockpile. Van came out pissy drunk and did a 45 minute set. Dick

I was going on memory on Al Stewart's Love Chronicles. I thought he had changed labels and this was a repackage that hit the states in 1970.

True guitar rock in a folk setting with great mixes. Al was about done by the time Year of the Cat came out...

[cal sharpie]

I've seen Van a few times: in Barcelona where an audience member mistook me for Quentin Tarantino (Van was great); at the Guinness Fleadh on Randall's Island (he was good); at MSG (he was terrible). He's gotten cranky in his old age and apparently he can be on one night and off the next but, like Bob Dylan, I do appreciate that he doesn't go out to be a human jukebox, sometimes to the consternation of his audience. At the great Barcelona show he did a mostly acoustic "Gloria" with a standup bass solo in the middle. Sounds terrible, but it was great. His albums since "The Healing Game" haven't done it for me (though I should check out the latest one) but he'll always have a space in my parking lot.

[Frayed Knot]

I think that whole 'catch him on a good day' thing has long been part of Van's rep. I also remember reading a passage from a book a couple years back talking about dealing with him in the studio
where the producers would always want to get the vocal parts of the tracks down early in the day prior to Van's inevitable turn toward being all cranky and uncooperative.

[batmagadanleadoff]

What else was there that you guys were listening to at the time? Paranoid? Loaded? Elton John?

All of that eventually, but not "at the time". Here's my in real time 1970 pop music memories that are still fixed in my head and will be forever. The Carpenters "Close to You" on the beach. A happy song with lotsa happy notes when your whole life's ahead of you with not a worry in the world. And sleepaway camp at the end of the Summer and waking up to the counselor's radio playing American Woman and Band of Gold seemingly every single day. To this day, in my mind, those are the only two songs his radio station ever played.

I don't know if these are what I think are the 10 best albums of 1970 or even my favorite top 10. But they're the 1970 albums I probably listened to the most in my life. In estimated order from most listened to to next most listened to.

1 Get Yer Ya Ya's Out -- The Rolling Stones
2 John Barleycorn Must Die -- Traffic
3 Layla -- Derek & the Dominoes
4 Deja Vu -- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5 Loaded -- The Velvet Underground
6 Abraxas -- Santana
7 Led Zeppelin III -- Led Zeppelin
8 Bridge Over Troubled Water -- Simon & Garfunkel
9 After the Gold Rush -- Neil Young
10 Signed, Sealed Delivered -- Stevie Wonder



Wish there were some hidden gems in there but that's all pretty mainstream well known stuff.

I know how riveted youse all are to following which albums from 1970 I've listened to the most. So being that I just went through a list of 1970 albums that's more complete than the last list I looked at, an updating of my top 10 is in order. Stevie Wonder gets knocked out of the top 10. Sorry, Edge. Also, how could it be that Get Yer Ya Ya's Out didn't make anybody else's top 10, or even 20?

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[Edgy MD]

Punching #1 right in the nose fifty years ago today.

[LWFS]

See, now THAT's a #1.

[Fman99]

Punching #1 right in the nose fifty years ago today.

Brilliant.

[ashie62]

I looked up Billboards top Black R&B Top Selling albums for 1970

Puzzle People Temptations
Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 TJ5
Psychdelic Shack Temptations
The Isaac Hayes Movement Isaac Hayes
ABC TJ5
Diana Ross Diana Ross
The Third Album TJ5
Greatest Hits Sly & the Family Stone
To be Continued Isaac Hayes

Have to say it was mainly Grand Funk Railroad here in the boondocks back then

Iggy did play at "The Joint in the Woods" and was provocative to the point of getting beaten on his way out

[Edgy MD]

Dressed like extras from Magic Garden, they still kicked your ass.