probably one of the better studio albums, introduced a few stone cold classics. too bad about the song they let the keyboard player sing though

Not for me hahaha. My roommate shut his door and said it was a racket

The Byrds harmonies and jangle are way more influential on it than The Who. It’s just that Pete Townshend invented the term.

Funny cause right after I had acclimated to the album I heard Dylan been doing Stella Blue on his tour last week

Doesn't make sense when you think of their most famous songs but stuff like It Won't Be Wrong is pretty punchy

Lol yeah it has some jarring abstract arrangements but if you can get to the guitar but halfway through this and tell me it didn't predict Taking Tiger Mountain tracks like Judy's Jungle and Straw Under Baby you're just being obtuse

Half a century and still nobody's caught up with what the goat Ayers was doing

Eno definitely innovative and influential but his status as this 70s innovative overlord is a bit overblown. He took loads of influence from his Canterbury peers and Krautrock. Fantastic artist and absurdly good producer anyway.

Exactly and especially overblown when people try to use Eno as an example to diminish Bowie's achievements. They were both equally just prisms refracting all their somewhat obscure influences into a more widely palatable and arguably better form.

The best song ever is River by Kanye west ft young thug

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Sorry won't be discussing 2024 till 2037

some non-anglo prog (Japan, Germany, Italy)

rip

all heat except the middle one

Faust Tapes is super abstract but imo their best album

Mike Oldfield was 19 when he composed and played almost every instrument on Tubular Bells

Gene Clark putting this much respect on Neil Young on the last Byrds album is crazy he was obviously saving the gems he was cooking for his own magnum opus solo album next year lol. cant blame him but that type of s*** is why Neil kept abandoning CSNY.

interesting how its also the first release of Virgin Records

Especially considering Oldfield almost resorted to the commies before getting snared by one of the mega moguls

"Increasingly frustrated and short of money, Oldfield heard that the Soviet Union paid musicians to give public performances, and was at the point of looking through the telephone directory for the phone number of the Soviet embassy when Draper called him with an invitation to dinner with Branson on Branson's houseboat moored in London. Branson told Oldfield that he liked the demos, and wanted Oldfield to spend a week at the Manor recording "Opus One"

one of the few songs from Spain to reach the US top 10

YAY we finally made it to the 70's Im so in.