oh lord here they come

didnt realize there was a pre-Bon Scott singer

Had no idea either

You better start putting some respect on their name when we get to later 70s though

keep coming back to this one, fav discovery from this thread so far

@Fella you hopping on the Lucio Battisti train too?

this album was a trip, two jam cuts that run close to 20 min each. The krauts were on some other s***

I’ll try to get around to it soon.

This album has a cool old timey van dyke parks vibe

I’m discovering Steely Dan isn’t much of an album band for me outside of Aja and the debut. The songwriting just isn’t consistently there in the transitional period between those records. The playing is great as is expected, but the elements that connect with me take a backseat.

I dig Bon Scott, especially after seeing interviews he was a real rock and rolla and wasn't faking that gremlin voice of his. Almost came across like the scrawny white version of Howlin Wolf or something lol. Just a real character.

Maybe Brian Johnson era has some gems but the hits are peak kill-self so I doubt it.

Yes another instance of our taste aligning

This is nice. I honestly like it more than the Van Dyke Parks stuff I’ve heard. I had already saved her song Atlantis from that album. That one’s great. Did you ever check out that Leo Sayer record Just a Boy?

This was the most explicitly gay glam artist of the 70’s. There’s some gorgeous softer stuff like Topaz or I’ll Always Love You, but then there’s long disco styled dance tracks about drinking pee like Piss Slave. It’s difficult to pin down when what was recorded since it was all eventually compiled in 2015, but I do know the opening track Leather was done in 74.

You don’t like AC/DC?

Maybe if they weren't the most overplayed songs on earth. I feel the same way about the first 3 songs on Joshua Tree. Never want to hear them again.

No I'll check it out

Appetite for Destruction too

I never knew Neon Indian’s dead beat summer was a sample of this 1974 Todd Rundgren song

It could have been a perfect pop song if he fleshed it out

great Todd album

the overplayed songs that i never even liked that much on there grew back on me and whole thing is a masterpiece love just bumping Sweet Child O Mine in all its glory without being bothered by overplay somehow

I like the second half of that song more. I can’t take it seriously after finding out they intentionally set out to make a corny radio song. WTTJ and Paradise City though

solo section of Sweet Child o Mine is astounding