ITT: /mu/ in 1976
MAO ZEDONG IS DEAD RIP TO A REAL NIGGA also Genesis just released their best album and one of the best albums of all time (so far!) yay :-)
>>131606554Prog rock is deadHard rock is dead Rock is dead. There will be no new rock genres.
tf is happening in Cambodia rn?
>>131606554This was a terrible time to be Indian. PM Indira Gandhi and her evil son was mass sterilizing everyone by force.
FUCK KISS
This fellow sounds as if he could use a band. Do you think Leon Russell can drum one up? C
>>131606759>inb4 the schizo
>>131606554So sick of disco man. I have black fatigue
>>131606759>christgau hated 60s niall and has more in common with old /mu/ than nu /mu/sad
>>131606759Yeah this does suck and "Hey Baby" sounds like Ringo hasn't been keeping up with music in at least eight years.
>>131606807>>131606759>caring about 60s David Cassidy
just got back from 6 hours at store to buy potato. man i love gommunism.
As concepts go, a hard-ish folk-rock group led by two women is a mildly interesting one, especially when their composing beats that of the twixt-Balin Starplane, whom they otherwise recall. Note I said mildly. C
>>131606876thus begins many years of Cuckgau being unnecessarily triggered by Anne's singing
>>131606554What is this shit?
>>131606876this technically came out in Canada in 75 but the US release was in 76
DANCING IN THE MOOOOOON LIIIIITTE
>>131606923This is the future of rock music.
>>131606987>track 5nice fucking Ohio Players imitation
>>131607008It sounds more to me like they used an AI to generate a disco song. Pretty underwhelming and cliche compared to the earlier albums or the upcoming hit next year.
Their closed-system commitment to a robotic aura renders embarrassing questions about whether they mean what they're singing irrelevant, which is good. Too bad their pleasure in artifice doesn't wholly irradiate the patchy material. Best hook: Blue Weaver's organ on "Subway." C+
Wait, didn't we already try this before and it didn't work?
>>131607077Why does this guy always highlight all the filler tracks?
The only substantial talent in this group is bassist-producer Paul McCartney, and he's at full strength only on the impassioned "Beware My Love," although "Let 'Em In" and "Silly Love Songs" are charming if lightweight singles, and "She's My Baby" sounds like an outtake from the "white" double-LP by McCartney's former group, the Beatles. In any case, the supporting cast is disgracefully third-rate. The vocals of guitarist Denny Laine are even lamer than those of McCartney's wife and keyboard player, Linda. B−
>>131607398nottu dissu shitto again.jpg
>>131607398No one cares about 60s Zayn and his lame yacht rock slop.
>>131607398>i loooooove menwow, amazing songwriting
>>131607398SLS is an answer to John's complaints that he wrote fluff btw.
>>131607469Damn, that's incredibly uninteresting and kind of gay info to know.
>>131607450>>131607456meds
>>131606554I'm voting for Carter this fall, ain't gonna vote for the guy who pardoned Tricky Dick.
Dave Hickey compares the teen crossover of the year to a Buick Roadmaster, and he's right--they've retooled Led Zeppelin till the English warhorse is all glitz and flow, beating the shit out of Boston and Ted Nugent and Blue Oyster Cult in the process. Wish there were a lyric sheet--I'd like to know what that bit about J. Paul Getty's ear is about--but (as Hickey says) the secret is the music, complex song structures that don't sacrifice the basic 4/4 and I-IV-V. A warning, though: Zep's fourth represented a songmaking peak, before the band began to outgrow itself, and the same may prove true for this lesser group, so get it while you can. A−
>>131607592kino. also right on that they'd be tapped out after this one.
>>131607592The A minus was an extra bump up because "Last Child" included the word "punk" in the lyrics.
When she was a twenty-four-year-old child-woman she got points for her changeable voice and naive candor. But as she pushes thirty the voice is a given and the naivete an embarrassment. C-
>>131607669he had no chill here fr
>>131607669She never quite reached the potential she could have because her husband-manager was such a massive dickhead nobody could work with.
I feel that Elvis will die soon. Just a feeling I have.
>>131607669>>131607697if you ever saw Melanie live her voice was an air horn. it had to be seen to be believed. that lady had some incredible lung capacity.
In the great tradition of Grand Funk Railroad, Dylan has made an album beloved by tour devotees--including those who were shut out of Rolling Thunder's pseudocommunitarian grooviness except via the press. It is not beloved by me. Although the candid propaganda and wily musicality of "Hurricane" delighted me for a long time, the deceitful bathos of its companion piece, "Joey," tempts me to question the unsullied innocence of Rubin Carter himself. These are not protest songs, folks, not in the little-people tradition of "Hattie Carroll"; their beneficiaries are (theoretically) wronged heroes, oppressed overdogs not unlike our beleaguered superstar himself. And despite his show of openness, our superstar may be feeling oppressed. His voice sounds viscous and so do his rhymes, while sisters Ronee and Emmylou sound distinctly kid, following the leader as if they're holding onto his index finger. More genuinely fraternal (and redeeming) are the pained, passionate marital tributes, "Sara" and "Isis." B−
>131606821>131606830>131607450>131607456>131607475human walrus hands posted this
>>131607813Hurricane was just an excuse for him to say the N word.
>>131607824>8:34That one just went on and on and on, didn't it?
>>131607824Also for him to drop a bunch of cuss words I think.
>>131606923I love this record--love it, even though I know these boys flirt with brutality much like how "Midnight Rambler" flirted with rape. It's also true that the references to Nazism do make me uneasy. But then it'as always been my theory that good rock-and-roll had damn well better make you uneasy. Not that they condone any nasties, mind you--merely insinuate that their music has some fairly ominous sources they tap into. It's sprightly the way the Velvets weren't, clean the way the Stooges weren't, and just plain listenable the way Black Sabbath never were. And I hear it cost $6800 to put on plastic. A
>>131608015prog is over, guys. give up.
It's no accident that the rich, hortatory one-man music of "Love's in Need of Love Today" is counterposed against the more intimately devotional one-man music of "Have a Talk With God," or that when the theme turns sociopolitical in "Village Ghetto Land" Stevie's synthesizer turns from African sounds to an ironic (though elegant) string-quartet minuet--the calm detachment of which is rudely interrupted by a jazz-funk tribute from Stevie's Wonderlove band, which then moves into the danceable black-music tribute "Sir Duke." And in themselves the words are much funnier and trickier than the sociospiritual bullshit of Maurice White or Kenny Gamble; as validated by the wit, pace, and variety of the music, they come close to redeeming the whole genre. A
>>131608138>which then moves into the danceable black-music tribute "Sir Duke."Let's not discuss the way Ellington chose to end his career/Earthly existence though. That was sad.
