Best Songs Of Each Year (discussing 1974)

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    I always assumed one of these ripped off the other but they came out the same month

    wonder how that happened cause Ray sings "it's time for confessing it all" exactly the same dramatic way Bowie sings "beware the savage jaw of 1984"

  • Feb 5
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    rvi

    corny beef if im totally honest

    Ronnie always rocking his Tonights The Night shirt to show it wasnt srs

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    knees

    post it

    too soon

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    Fella
    !https://youtube.com/watch?v=_gcykT0WqT8&si=VfgmGPEuVqLNYsgX

    already think this is the most life affirming Eno bop when the riffing starts near the middle and then the girl starts yelping

  • Feb 5
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    rvi

    hard/glam rockers Sweet drop an early heavy metal classic

    !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-RTCRPMoaQ

    i think people stretch things a bit to call early 70s hard rock "metal" sometimes. but this one is absolutely in the same vein as what a Saxon or Priest or somebody would be doing towards the end of the decade. especially the part where the solo kicks in

    take away the harmonies, make the vocals a bit more aggressive and change their look and its pure metal. that glam rock -> 80s metal lineage is super important

    nice yeah definitely sounds like Priest

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    Fella

    The last opus of bubblegum. That classical bridge section at 3:05 is so good.

    !https://youtube.com/watch?v=n5h467jeNm8&si=dkIB18UXRPsBgKDm

    pretty similar to the Spectory stuff Wizzard were doing last year but with way more B.Wilson to it. very nice bridge.

  • Country Life revisit hitting hard. It used to be one of my least favorites from them.

  • Elric

    pretty similar to the Spectory stuff Wizzard were doing last year but with way more B.Wilson to it. very nice bridge.

    Yeah that’s a good call.

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    I think I found the source of Fleetwood Mac finally finding the sauce again next year

    what a great Everlys cover @Fella

  • rvi 🐸
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    @op you get on this Santana live album? recorded 1973 but released 1974. one of their best releases ever. originally only released in japan as a triple LP

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    Feb 5
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    Borboletta is pretty cool too

    they were never this deep into jazz again

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    Feb 5
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    also a Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana collab album from this year i gotta check out

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    rvi

    @op you get on this Santana live album? recorded 1973 but released 1974. one of their best releases ever. originally only released in japan as a triple LP

    !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYT1q3p4MnQ!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnFdYNaJhis

    queued up Barbo but not this thanks

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    Elric

    queued up Barbo but not this thanks

    lot of Santana heads swear on it as the magnum opus iirc

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    rvi

    lot of Santana heads swear on it as the magnum opus iirc

    this Toussaint going hard not surprisingly

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    Elric

    I think I found the source of Fleetwood Mac finally finding the sauce again next year

    !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4TdEG2drsU

    what a great Everlys cover @Fella

    I was going to post her song Willin from this year.

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    Fella

    I was going to post her song Willin from this year.

    you better specify *her version of Willin, or Lil Feat stan RVI will cut you

  • Another 70’s glam gem that’s just “I really miss the 50’s and early 60’s.”

  • Fella

    I can finally post this. So much of what Oasis is looking at in the 90’s is going back directly to something like this. So overwhelmingly anthemic in the way the best Britpop is, that I got a little chocked up the first time when I realized the hook was going to be as cathartic as it was. Like discovering a song that should have always been there. I destroyed my voice singing along to it for days.

    !https://youtube.com/watch?v=znvCWZpTzT8&si=kHb7yUau97odgXH0

    @Elric @RVI

    I actually found an interview from Noel Gallagher where he confirms this. He says even more so than The Beatles and The Stone Roses, it was Slade who made Oasis who they were as a band.

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    Elric

    you better specify *her version of Willin, or Lil Feat stan RVI will cut you

    another smattering of classics this year from The Feat. so much funk influence into their blend now

    also the year with a contender for their best ever release with Electrif Lycanthrope: Live at Ultra-Sonic Studios, 1974. was a treasured bootleg for years then finally given official release and is on streaming. firmly in their apex period now. masterfully rich mixing of southern/roots/r&b/funk/country/jazz/jam rock

  • Court and Spark is far from my favorite Joni album, but it’s got a few.

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    Diamond Dogs is really underrated. I always forget how good Rebel Rebel is. Rock N Roll With Me, We Are The Dead, Big Brother, etc. I mean c’mon.

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