Thoughts on this song? I listen and think I was born in the wrong era.

**1wsguy** · 01-18-2017, 06:05 AM

1970 Leon Russell

**1wsguy** · 01-18-2017, 06:18 AM

1971 T Rex

**1wsguy** · 01-18-2017, 06:26 AM

Backing up to 68.. Kenny Rogers Droppin in.

**1wsguy** · 01-18-2017, 06:33 AM

Another great one from Kenny: Ruby

**Tippster** · 01-18-2017, 11:55 AM

**TBS** · 01-18-2017, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by bunion

1969 but damn close to the 70s.

Oh yea - was thinking about that album/song yesterday. Here's Monkey Time, which was released in 1971

Love his music, except for the disco years

**liv2ski** · 01-18-2017, 03:23 PM

No love for John McLaughlin?

That band could take me way out there. So much good music from the 70's.

**billyk** · 01-18-2017, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by liv2ski

No love for John McLaughlin?

That band could take me way out there. So much good music from the 70's.

No one would ever give John the nickname "slow hand".

**jono** · 01-18-2017, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by Tippster

Per one very dedicated (perhaps a bit too dedicated) David Hepworth, music peaked in 1971. Comparing his list with '72 in this thread I have to agree. He makes an argument, anyway.

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/22/483081...best-year-ever

**hutash** · 01-18-2017, 05:17 PM

Good god there is some bad shit in this thread. There are a few gems in here, and anything by ABBA is not one of them. Nothing wrong with ABBA if you are trying to get in some girls pants, same as the OP's Brandi, but it's shit compared to some of the great stuff that came out in the early 70's ( since his thread no longer appears to be about 1972).

Anything on Led Zeppelin IV, not to mention Who's Next or Quadrophenia, is infinitely better.

**iceman** · 01-18-2017, 05:33 PM

Just remember....

More like '76 or '77 but fuckit

**GoldMember** · 01-18-2017, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by hutash

Good god there is some bad shit in this thread. There are a few gems in here, and anything by ABBA is not one of them. Nothing wrong with ABBA if you are trying to get in some girls pants, same as the OP's Brandi, but it's shit compared to some of the great stuff that came out in the early 70's ( since his thread no longer appears to be about 1972).

Anything on Led Zeppelin IV, not to mention Who's Next or Quadrophenia, is infinitely better.

Pretty much agree with this. Wandering off a bit from the hard rock, I always liked this from Quicksilver Messenger Service:

Toss in a little Alvin Lee:

**iceman** · 01-18-2017, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by hutash

Good god there is some bad shit in this thread. There are a few gems in here, and anything by ABBA is not one of them.

Originally Posted by GoldMember

Pretty much agree with this. Wandering off a bit from the hard rock...

Buddy started the thread with "Brandy", it wasn't about hard rock from the start. More like, kinda cheesy but somehow still good shit from a goofy era. Some might say Abba fits that description better than Quicksilver or TYA.

**jono** · 01-18-2017, 05:53 PM

Yet argument for 1971:

Couple decades later a guy I knew used "One of These Days" to prove the existence of back-masking: cued up the 3:00 mark and played it "backwards" in his "specially-modified" tape deck and got out of about a semester of homework IIRC.

**Cosmic Suncloud** · 01-18-2017, 05:53 PM

**iceman** · 01-18-2017, 05:54 PM

^^haha, that's the spirit Cosmic.

**GoldMember** · 01-18-2017, 06:01 PM

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band....just love the name. Also like this song:

**GoldMember** · 01-18-2017, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

Buddy started the thread with "Brandy", it wasn't about hard rock from the start. More like, kinda cheesy but somehow still good shit from a goofy era. Some might say Abba fits that description better than Quicksilver or TYA.

Yeah but really, Brandy? Abba? Cheesy, yes. Somehow still good? ...not so much. I didn't like either of those then and they don't stir great memories, either.

**iceman** · 01-18-2017, 06:05 PM

You kinda got to get in the mood I guess.

**hutash** · 01-18-2017, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

Buddy started the thread with "Brandy", it wasn't about hard rock from the start. More like, kinda cheesy but somehow still good shit from a goofy era. Some might say Abba fits that description better than Quicksilver or TYA.

Thoughts on this song? I listen and think I was born in the wrong era.
What was it like in 1972? Were all the songs this cool?

The OP was about some epiphany he had about an era he missed, if "kinda cheesy but somehow good shit from a goofy era" is worthy of an epiphany, then yes I agree.

The early 70's was far from a goofy era, as some of the best albums of all time was from the "goofy era" (see above}

If this is about sing-a-long AM radio, then the choices listed are "this cool". Don't get me wrong, I like "The Wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald" as much as he rest, but era defining, "this cool" music it's not.

**GoldMember** · 01-18-2017, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

You kinda got to get in the mood I guess.

I suppose.... I do admit to giving my Swedish friend all kinds of shit about Abba. Other than that...

**wyeaster** · 01-18-2017, 06:19 PM

i listened to abba 8track incessantly in jr high early hs

**The AD** · 01-18-2017, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by hutash

I like "The Wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald"

Is that by Weird Al?

**GoldMember** · 01-18-2017, 06:46 PM

My favorite 8 track was Can't Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan, followed closely by Countdown to Ecstasy. I really, really liked Bodhisattva. I played that song over and over and over. Skunk Baxter was/is an incredible lead. Loved those albums.