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

[senorsheep]

Lists are all updated... Neil Young is the undisputed champ as expected.

Hey, I just quit picking when I realized Grinch was still live. I might still take David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf...

[DMT]

Hey, I just quit picking when I realized Grinch was still live. I might still take David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf...

No love for The Man Who Sold the World?

[DMT]

Manassas is another good one I picked up because of this draft.

[Friarfan]

A list of the albums on my, um, list - and some that I would've taken had I not overlooked them...

Mithrandir
IV - Led Zeppelin (1971)
High Voltage (International release) - AC/DC (1976)

Overkill
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd (1973)
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1973)

Chancellor
Rise and Fall if Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie(1972)
Quadrophenia - The Who (1973)

Buckybuckner
Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy (1976)
The Clash - The Clash (1977)
Armed Forces - Elvis Costello & the Attractions (1979)
Young Loud and Snotty - The Dead Boys (1977)
#1 Record - Big Star (1972)
In the City - The Jam (1977)

TheGaffer
Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones (1972)
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder (1973)
Saturday Night Fever (OST) - The Bee Gees (1977)
Highway to Hell - AC/DC (1979)
Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith (1975)
There Goes Rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon (1973)
Queens of Noise - The Runaways (1977)
Shaft (OST) - Isaac Hayes - 1971

Lucky
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye (1971)
Diamond Dogs - David Bowie (1974)
Killer - Alice Cooper (1971)
Mothership Connection - Parliament (1975)

Revo
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin (1973)
Van Halen - Van Halen (1978)
Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon (1978)
Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings (1973)
Get the Knack - The Knack (1979)
Cheap Trick at Budokan - Cheap Trick (1978)
Hair of the Dog - Nazareth (1976)

Johnny
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (1975)
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen (1975)
Marquee Moon - Television (1977)
Station To Station - David Bowie (1976)
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers (1976)
Fun House - The Stooges (1970)
Inflammable Material - Stiff Little Fingers (1979)
Talking Book - Stevie Wonder (1972)
Live! - Bob Marley and the Wailers (1975)
The Man-Machine - Kraftwerk (1978)

Senorsheep
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin (1975)
The Specials - The Specials (1979)
There's A Riot Goin' On - Sly And The Family Stone (1971)
My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello (1977)
Damn The Torpedoes - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers (1979)
The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan (1979)
Kiss Alive 2 - Kiss (1977)

Stephen
The Stranger - Billy Joel (1977)
Let's Stay Together- Al Green (1972)
Curtis - Curtis Mayfield (1970)
Heroes - David Bowie (1977)
Live at Leeds - The Who (1970)
The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff (1973)
Trans Europa Express - Kraftwerk (1977)
Commodores - Commodores (1977)
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye (1973)
Too Much Too Soon - New York Dolls (1974)


Swampdragon
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac (1976)
This Year's Model - Elvis Costello (1977)
Parallel Lines - Blondie (1978)
The Cars - The Cars (1978)
Reggatta De Blanc - The Police (1978)
The Pretenders - The Pretenders (1979 UK)
Look Sharp - Joe Jackson (1979)
Fear of Music - Talking Heads (1979)

Mancalledfoot
The Wall - Pink Floyd (1979)
Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin (1970)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John (1973)
Rocks - Aerosmith (1976)
More Songs About Buildings And Food - Talking Heads (1978)
L.A.M.F. - Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers (1977)
All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople (1972)
New Boots And Panties - Ian Dury (1977)

Erik
Who's Next - The Who (1971)
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones (1971)
Radio City - Big Star (1974)
High Time - MC5 (1971)

Eldiablo
Paranoid - Black Sabbath (1970)
Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols (1977)
Exodus - Bob Marley and the Wailers (1977)
Superfly - Curtis Mayfield (1972)
Damned Damned Damned - The Damned (1977)
Overkill - Motorhead (1979)
Destroyer - KISS (1976)
Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
Van Halen II - Van Halen (1979)
Back in the USA - MC5 (1970)
(GI) - The Germs (1979)
The World Is A Ghetto - WAR (1972)
No More Heroes - The Stranglers (1979)
Gravest Hits - The Cramps (1978)

Grinch
Candy-O - The Cars (1979)

Pogues
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division (1979)
Singles Going Steady - Buzzcocks (1979)
The B-52's - The B-52s (1979)
Lust for Life - Iggy Pop (1977)
Talking Heads: 77 - Talking Heads (1977)
Bomber - Motorhead (1979)
Three Imaginary Boys -The Cure (1979)
Rocket to Russia - Ramones (1977)
The Scream - Siouxsie and the Banshees (1978)
Piano Man - Billy Joel (1973)
Generation X - Generation X (1978)
Tres Hombres - ZZ Top (1973)

DMT
Hunky Dory - David Bowie (1971)
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic (1971)
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath (1971)
Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder (1976)
Imagine - John Lennon (1971)
Monkey Man - Toots & the Maytalls (1970)


Still pissed that senorsheep snaked The Specials and VERY pissed that I didn't realize the Cramps had an album out in the 70's that qualified (basically an EP of their singles and b-sides that had been released prior to inking a deal)

[Erik]

If someone wants to go through the selections (from round 14 onwards) and see what live records I forgot to designate as Live ...

... by someone I of course mean Erik.

I just found two:

Sheep:
Waiting For Columbus - Little Feat (1978)

DMT:
Curtis Live - Curtis Mayfield (1971)

[johnnya24]

Hey, I just quit picking when I realized Grinch was still live. I might still take David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf...

Don't be waiting if you have others to pick.

Incidentally, Chancellor picked 2 for the final round, so I left off his final pick.

[overkill94]

No love for The Man Who Sold the World?

I was surprised as well, but then I guess you can only have so many Bowie fans in one draft

[Pogues]

Proof that I was almost drafting by myself for this draft. The picks are: On My List (Drafted Another Album by that artist)/Not Horrible Picks

Mithandir: 0/3
Overkill: 1(1)/1
Chancellor: 1(1)/1
Bucky: 2(1)/4
Gaffer: 3(1)/2
Lucky: 0/3
Revo: 2(1)/4
Friar: 5(2)/5
Johnny: 0/4
SenorSheep: 1/2
Stephen: 3(2)/2
Swamp: 3(1)/1
MCFoot: 1(1)/1
Erik: 2/1
ElDiablo: 3(1)/2
Grinch: 0/2
DMT: 3(1)/1

I'm most surprised by Johnny not matching up with me very much in this draft. In the 80s/90s draft I cringed every time it was his pick. Friar's first 5 picks were all from my list (fucker) but then he calmed down and stopped stealing from me.

[madducks]

Soo.....umm.....who won?

[johnnya24]

Soo.....umm.....who won?

Everyone of course

[Grinch]

Hey Guys...............I'm done!!!!!!!!


Every album I took I owned in one form or another, mostly vinyl, some 8-track, some cassette originally, now many on disc and MP3.

[Erik]

Sheep:

A version of "Brooklyn" with Fagen on lead vocals does exist - on one of several demos of their pre-SD stuff that circulates. The decision to have others sing lead was actually Fagen's - he hated being the lead singer and frontman. After CBAT Becker and producer Gary Katz convinced him that his interpretations of the songs were best and they didn't need anyone else to sing lead in the studio. (Live was a different story.)

I started a discussion of "No Other" after you stopped picking. The NY Times wrote an article about the cult around the album and how there is a tour of musicians playing the album in it's entirety. I not only had no idea about this aura, I'd never even heard of the album. It's pretty good. Many divisions over music cease to make any sense many years on.

[chancellor]

Sheep - Gotta admit, I didn't like CBAT for the very reason that Fagen didn't do all the vocals. But I like a lot of your other picks.

[ManCalledFoot]

Not sure if someone here turned me on to this (or was it someone at work?), but this straddles both the 70s and 80s/90s draft: A fantastic ELO pastiche called LEO, featuring Jellyfish guy Andy Sturmer:



Again, all apologies if this was posted here before, but I'm loving this to death. It's almost a shame they did it as an ELO goof; the song's so good it could have been a hit even without the imitation.

You know what else I've been getting into from this draft? BBuckner's LA obscurity The Last, and God help me, Motorhead. And that T-Rex "Buick McKane". But I'm not sold on that Gene Clark yet.

[Mithrandir]

Not sure if someone here turned me on to this (or was it someone at work?), but this straddles both the 70s and 80s/90s draft: A fantastic ELO pastiche called LEO, featuring Jellyfish guy Andy Sturmer:



Again, all apologies if this was posted here before, but I'm loving this to death. It's almost a shame they did it as an ELO goof; the song's so good it could have been a hit even without the imitation.

You know what else I've been getting into from this draft? BBuckner's LA obscurity The Last, and God help me, Motorhead. And that T-Rex "Buick McKane". But I'm not sold on that Gene Clark yet.

Motorhead is great! T Rex did an alternate version of "Buick Mckane" that sounds nothing like the one on the Slider album.