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  • Jan 14
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    Aruji

    best thing about this being that I finally get to dive deeper into soul music (I really love Al Green's Call Me for this year.)

    Country for me

    Ngl all the country chicks hitting way harder that the outlaw dudes for me this year

  • rvi 🐸
    Jan 14
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    Aruji
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    that's my top list for 73. tons of s*** missing (The Who, Genesis etc.) but I failed to keep track of it so here's a Top 64

    1. Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells Part 1
    2. Aerosmith – Dream On
    3. Bob Dylan – Knockin On Heaven’s Door
    4. Tangerine Dream – Atem
    5. Faust - Krautrock
    6. Dobie Gray – Drift Away
    7. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
    8. ZZ Top – La Grange
    9. Ike & Tina Turner – Nutbush City Limits
    10. John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers
    11. Pink Floyd – Time
    12. Stevie Wonder – Living For The City
    13. Slade – Come On Feel The Noize
    14. Roxy Music – A Song for Europe
    15. Roxy Music – The Bogus Man
    16. Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells Part 2
    17. David Bowie – Aladdin Sane
    18. John Martyn – Outside In
    19. Klaus Schulze - Neuronengesang
    20. Can – Bel Air
    21. Al Green – Call Me
    22. John Martyn - May You Never
    23. Kraftwerk - Ananas Symphonie
    24. NEU! - FΓΌr Immer
    25. John Martyn – Solid Air
    26. Golden Earring - Radar Love
    27. New York Dolls – Personality Crisis
    28. Paul Kantner & Grace Slick – Sketches Of China
    29. The Stooges – Search and Destroy
    30. Stevie Wonder - Jesus Children of Suburbia
    31. Lou Reed – Sad Song
    32. Stevie Wonder - Don’t You Worry β€šBout A Thing
    33. Eumir Deodato – Also Sprach Zarathustra
    34. Faust - Picnic On A Frozen River
    35. Lou Reed – Men Of Good Fortune
    36. Roxy Music – Street Life
    37. The Wailers - Burnin' & Lootin'
    38. Rolling Stones – Angie
    39. Klaus Schulze - SynphΓ€ra
    40. Al Green – Have You Been Making Out OK?
    41. Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
    42. Faust - Jennifer
    43. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
    44. Faust - The Sad Skinhead
    45. Bruce Springsteen – Rosalita
    46. James Brown – The Payback
    47. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
    48. David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul
    49. John Martyn - Fine Lines
    50. Pink Floyd - Us & Them
    51. Tom Waits – Martha
    52. Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
    53. Faust – Flashback Caruso
    54. NEU! - Super 16
    55. James Brown - Mind Bomb
    56. Al Green - Here I Am
    57. Can - Mother Sky
    58. Terry Callier - Lean On Me
    59. John Martyn - Make No Mistake
    60. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
    61. Billy Joel - Piano Man
    62. David Bowie – Time
    63. Mott The Hopple – That one song that is very good but not All The Young Dudes
    64. Jackson Browne – Take It Easy
    etc... great year

    John Martyn basically damn near famcore atp

  • rvi 🐸
    Jan 14
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    Aruji

    best thing about this being that I finally get to dive deeper into soul music (I really love Al Green's Call Me for this year.)

    im planning to do a big soul deep dive within a few months

    currently stuck with a ton of albums that i listened to only a few times and now trying to marathon them all to clear up my plate i put too much dip on my chip with first listening to too many new albums

  • Just looked it up and there's one 1973 song on my full top 250 I'm def not very deep in this decade

  • Jan 14
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    rvi

    im planning to do a big soul deep dive within a few months

    currently stuck with a ton of albums that i listened to only a few times and now trying to marathon them all to clear up my plate i put too much dip on my chip with first listening to too many new albums

    You should do the Galaxy method

  • Jan 14
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    Elric

    Country for me

    Ngl all the country chicks hitting way harder that the outlaw dudes for me this year

    what would be your picks for 73?

  • rvi 🐸
    Jan 14
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    Galaxy

    You should do the Galaxy method

    which is

  • Jan 14
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    rvi

    John Martyn basically damn near famcore atp

    he's like that artist than anyone should have loved considering our taste but it took a while to get around to him and it's fully worth it. Guy had so much soul in his music.

  • Jan 14
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    rvi

    i know im just saying im finding it most useful to go in with that kind of open mind. instead of trying to hopelessly compare everything i like to compare the smaller pockets instead

    you know that if i made some massive top songs or albums list it would be massively skewed towards older music too

    (told you we'd riot if we didnt move to 1974 )

    It's funny that you guys are telling me to be more nostalgic to the era where I was in my prime young person record buying era

    I obviously love a ton of music from this last two decades but I don't feel like even the absolute goats of my heydey are up to snuff when compared to the og's.

    Like when was the last time somebody did a Gates Of Eden or It's Alright Ma? Trick question cause I know the answer is never

  • Jan 14
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    rvi

    which is

    Listen to one random album by an artist and forget about moving on for years

  • Jan 14
    rvi

    im planning to do a big soul deep dive within a few months

    currently stuck with a ton of albums that i listened to only a few times and now trying to marathon them all to clear up my plate i put too much dip on my chip with first listening to too many new albums

    David Ruffin low-key had one of the best soul albums this year @Aruji

    I'm obsessed with it

  • rvi 🐸
    Jan 14
    Elric

    It's funny that you guys are telling me to be more nostalgic to the era where I was in my prime young person record buying era

    I obviously love a ton of music from this last two decades but I don't feel like even the absolute goats of my heydey are up to snuff when compared to the og's.

    Like when was the last time somebody did a Gates Of Eden or It's Alright Ma? Trick question cause I know the answer is never

    im not even saying that (especially for that era since 00s is my least listened to era)

    idk maybe i just like lying to myself to pretend that all eras will be equally great and hopefully some of it sticks

  • Jan 14
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    rvi

    im planning to do a big soul deep dive within a few months

    currently stuck with a ton of albums that i listened to only a few times and now trying to marathon them all to clear up my plate i put too much dip on my chip with first listening to too many new albums

    that sounds way too stressful (but I'd do the same). at least soul music isn't.

  • Jan 14
    Aruji

    what would be your picks for 73?

    15 year old Tanya Tucker was running laps on these geezers

  • Jan 14
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    Galaxy

    Listen to one random album by an artist and forget about moving on for years

    Example: Village Green Preservation Society only Kinks album I've listened to more than once

  • rvi 🐸
    Jan 14
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    Aruji

    that sounds way too stressful (but I'd do the same). at least soul music isn't.

    also strongly recommend the huge various artists soul comp What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves. pretty stunning collection with a ton of artists that seem very unknown to me

    been digging through it gradually and trying to post the appropriate songs per year in this thread when i remember

  • Jan 14
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    Galaxy

    Example: Village Green Preservation Society only Kinks album I've listened to more than once

    arthur is great too. Victoria is such an uplifting opener.

  • Aruji

    arthur is great too. Victoria is such an uplifting opener.

    I might have listened once (do not remember)

  • Jan 14
    rvi

    im planning to do a big soul deep dive within a few months

    currently stuck with a ton of albums that i listened to only a few times and now trying to marathon them all to clear up my plate i put too much dip on my chip with first listening to too many new albums

    This is what I did over the weekend to clear up all the '73 albums I had on my Spotify. Didn't feel good.

  • rvi 🐸
    Jan 14
    Galaxy

    Listen to one random album by an artist and forget about moving on for years

    yeah thats awful

    i think i got a pretty good method going even if its a bit too methodical but the only problem is albums sitting eternally in my "Rate on next listen" pile which is now at like 400 albums. a problem which has developed for 2+ years

  • Jan 14
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    Galaxy

    Example: Village Green Preservation Society only Kinks album I've listened to more than once

    :rdjeyeroll:

  • Jan 14
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    Elric

    :rdjeyeroll:

    Its a goodun though

  • Jan 14
    rvi

    also strongly recommend the huge various artists soul comp What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves. pretty stunning collection with a ton of artists that seem very unknown to me

    been digging through it gradually and trying to post the appropriate songs per year in this thread when i remember

    thank you. found it on spotify. looks great.

  • Jan 14
    Galaxy

    Its a goodun though

    That's their best album but their strongest year was '66. Changed the face of British rock forever, single-handedly (because they had been kicked out of America and decided to anglicize their music)

  • Jan 14
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    Aruji

    just relistened to Neon Bible the other day and it's basically as good as Funeral. A bit underrated at this point tbh

    As a stan since Funeral dropped, Reflectktor better than either