*** 1970's Album Draft - Commentary Thread ***

[DMT]

I considered Lust for Life because I knew it wouldn't make it back and to get a bonus Bowie pick, but it was on my 2nd tier this round.

[Grinch]

Lust for Life is a very good album. I used to own it on vinyl a couple decades ago.

FWIW, Every album I pick in this draft I own (or owned) on vinyl. I have passed on a couple because I only owned it on tape/disc.

[Friarfan]

Lust for Life is a very good album. I used to own it on vinyl a couple decades ago.

Lust for Life (the song) and The Passenger (from Lust for Life) were on our wedding playlist. I should post that list here sometime. No goddamned Macarena, YMCA or Chicken Dance at my wedding!

[johnnya24]

Eldiablo UP
Erik
Mancalledfoot
Swampy

[Friarfan]

FWIW, Every album I pick in this draft I own (or owned) on vinyl. I have passed on a couple because I only owned it on tape/disc.

That's a new kind of snobbery, Shaun.

[johnnya24]

Lust for Life (the song) and The Passenger (from Lust for Life) were on our wedding playlist. I should post that list here sometime. No goddamned Macarena, YMCA or Chicken Dance at my wedding!

Not even Bryan Adams' "Heaven"?

[DMT]

Lust for Life (the song) and The Passenger (from Lust for Life) were on our wedding playlist. I should post that list here sometime. No goddamned Macarena, YMCA or Chicken Dance at my wedding!

I burned 6 CDs and told the DJ, 'don't play anything else, except Indian music' (of which he played a lot, mostly Bhangra). One of my HS friends actually whined about getting denied when he requested 'YMCA'.

[johnnya24]

I burned 6 CDs and told the DJ, 'don't play anything else, except Indian music' (of which he played a lot, mostly Bhangra). One of my HS friends actually whined about getting denied when he requested 'YMCA'.

Did you get married under a totem pole? That was my weirdest wedding experience, of which there have been a few.

[Friarfan]

Not even Bryan Adams' "Heaven"?

No, but "Everything I do, I do it for You" (the Robin Hood song) was close to making the cut

[senorsheep]

I really like Aja - Peg is a great tune. Steely Dan snobs tell me that Aja is Steely Dan for philistines, but I can't tell the difference between it and the earlier stuff that is supposedly so much better.

[Erik]

All of Steely Dan's '70s albums are worthy, that's why I haven't pounced yet.

Aja is the zenith of '70s sessionman rock. It is smooth and flawless, but NOT soulless -- Becker and Fagen's sardonic wit is still there. I took the title track in the Desert Island draft -- Steve Gadd's drumming is mindblowing on that one.

[Friarfan]

6.04 Superfly - Curtis Mayfield (1972)

Goddamnit, Chris! This was literally the last of the 70's funk/soul/r&b on my list.

[BuckyBuckner]

That's a new kind of snobbery, Shaun.

It's something I can appreciate though. I have all the albums I've picked so far on vinyl. There is one I'm mulling over that I don't own on vinyl.

[Friarfan]

It's something I can appreciate though. I have all the albums I've picked so far on vinyl. There is one I'm mulling over that I don't own on vinyl.

The Wildhearts aren't eligible

[DMT]

Did you get married under a totem pole? That was my weirdest wedding experience, of which there have been a few.

No, but I did ride in on a white horse (The true tradition is an elephant but not many elephant rentals in Chicago, and we were already breaking tradition by having just a one-day ceremony...3-days minimum in India). We were married under a canopy-type contraption called a mandap. We walked around a fire seven times and I almost passed out beforehand from inhaling the fumes for what seemed like an hour.

We were actually featured in the Bahai national newspaper because we had our pics taken in front of their temple, one of only eight in the world. So if you google my name, you get to see them.

http://bahai.uga.edu/2003/030600-1.html