1970 in music. • Page 4

Desertshore is great, it peers right into your soul

 

Today listened to Carpenters - Close To You (some obvious classics and nice covers, but not my favorite from them) and Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman (in full for the first time, way more stacked than I expected). Also Ringo's Sentimental Journey (not my first listen), which is.... well, its something. I still can't believe this album was essentially the first solo album from The Beatles, just so incredibly Ringo of him to release it.

 

Bob Dylan's Self Portrait is certainly a bizarre piece of music, though somehow I listened to the whole thing haha. I appreciate the existence of it after reading a lot of WHY he released it, a pretty funny concept that didn't really go as he had hoped. The cover of The Boxer is definitely a low point for me, what a mess

 

Watertown (album) - Wikipedia

This was a cool record, a little rockier than usual, a nice detour from his usual fare. The title track is the highlight for me

 

two very cool 1970 songs that I hadn't heard before, but have hard the samples a million times. They speak for themselves

 

Rare Earth had fuckin’ soul. Not for nothing Motown signed them. Their version of “What’d I Say” by Ray Charles is massive

 

I'll go give it a listen now too!

 

1970 mix is complete! Moving on to 1969 soon and will start bumping that thread annoyingly too

 

also, obviously my votes don't count right now, but here's what I got. This ended up being a pretty damn stacked year:

1. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
2. The Beatles - Let It Be
3. Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
4. John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
5. Van Morrison - Moondance
6. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
7. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
8. McCartney - McCartney I

first listens that I dug and could make the list eventually

The Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South
The Beach Boys - Sunflower
The Byrds - (Untitled)
Carpenters - Close To You
Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Pendulum
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Elton John - Elton John
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Eric Burdon & War - Eric Burdon Declares "War"
Eric Burdon & War - The Black-Man's Burdon
The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
Marvin Gaye - That's The Way Love Is
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Simon & Garfunkle - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed & Delivered
The Velvet Underground - Loaded

 

Think someone on Twitter referenced Vashti Bunyan's Just Another Diamond Day as a perfect fall album. Checking it out now

 

Journey in Satchidananda is excellent. I can't remember if I've ever listened to it before.

EDIT:
I guess this should go in 71? Whoops, search bar put me here.