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Albums From Every Year of My Life
Born to Run on the Dark Side of the Gold Rush
My favorite LP’s of the 70's
Not to let the title give too much away, but as I drift through the 1970’s again, remembering and realizing not only how many fabulous albums I bought, but just how many ground-breaking albums there were, I feel cheated, and will be cheating you, because I’ll leave out some great ones, and will lament that some years needed to have a different record so that things might get evened out.
As I commented to Paul Combs recently, the year 1975 alone is too unfair to the artists and to those other years.
How to judge?
Which LP did I play the most? Which changed my musical tastes and so my power stance on life as I matured from high school to college? What were the sounds I’d never heard before? Which record makes me still see myself wanting to fall in love, and maybe doing so for a few weeks? Which record taught me to dance, or how to avoid the southern rock poseurs and boogie-ers who would rather me die than switch?
Steven Hale has made me remember bands like Caravan and appreciate bands like Can. But I didn’t know them then.
And yeah, maybe I did listen to Styx and I couldn’t go anywhere without someone’s wanting to…