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your favorite albums of the 70s i love the 90s but the 70s is the era i love most although i wassent around
some of my top picks stevie wonder songs in the key of life( one of his best not if his best) stevie wonder talking book ( plain old stevie funk with songs like superstion) marvin gaye whats going on ( classic) marvin gaye lets get it on another great album great soul michael jackson off the wall ( set standards for what an R&B album should be like) the jacksons destiny ( i think its their most best work under the name jacksons) im sure i forgot a favorite il get back on it later on best of the era songs in the key of life | |
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The list would go on and on, because most of my favorite albums are from the 70s. | |
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Stevie Wonder -- Talking Book
Marvin Gaye -- What's Goin' On Michael Jackson -- Off The Wall Steely Dan -- Aja Sly and the Family Stone -- There's A Riot Goin' On Rufus feat. Chaka Khan -- Ask Rufus Prince -- Prince Al Green -- I'm Still In Love With You The Police -- Outlandos D'Amour Earth, Wind and Fire -- All 'N All Various -- Saturday Night Fever For starters. *"How in the blue hell could I have forgotten about What's Goin' On?" edit* [Edited 2/13/07 9:48am] Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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wow... let's see
Marvin Here, My Dear Aretha YOU Natalie Cole Unpredictable & Live! Curtis Mayfield Curtis Sly & The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On all things P-Funk Prince (1979) Rufus ft. Chaka Khan the PINK album Chaka (1978) EW+F All N All Emotions Rejoice Deniece Williams This Is Niecy & Songbird Minnie Riperton Adventures In Paradise & Stay In Love all things Stevie (including Syreeta's 1st 2 albums, & Minnie's Perfect Angel) Ohio Players Pleasure & Contradiction Willie Hutch The Mack & Foxy Brown Bobbi Humphrey Satin Doll James Brown The Payback Wah Wah Watson Elementary Styx Pieces Of Eight Steely Dan Aja Foreigner (1977) Joe Sample Rainbow Seeker Joni Mitchell The Hissing... & Don Juan's... Roy Ayers Fever & Everybody Loves... Maynard Ferguson Carnival & Conquistador Hubert Laws Land Of Passion & Family Earl Klugh Living Inside Your Love Patrice Rushen Patrice A Taste Of Honey Angela Bofill Angie & Angel Of The Night MAZE ft. Frankie Beverly self-titled & Inspiration Led Zeppelin I & II all things Millie Jackson (esp Feelin' Bitchy) Labelle Chameleon The Jones Girls Jean Carn self-titled & Happy To Be With You The Isley Brothers The Heat Is On now THAT's the creme de la creme of my collection [Edited 2/12/07 10:26am] because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." | |
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Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life, Innervisions, Talking Book, Fulfillingness First Finale, Music Of My Mind
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On, Here My Dear, I Want You, Let's Get It On Steely Dan: Aja Rufus: Ask Rufus, Rufusized Sly & The Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On, Fresh Michael Jackson: Off The Wall Herbie Hancock: Headhunters Parliament/Funkadelic: One Nation Under A Groove, Maggot Brain, Mothership Connection, Motor Booty Affair Joni Mitchell: Court & Spark Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road James Brown: Hell, The Payback Bootsy Collins: Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy Baby The Isley Brothers: 3+3, The Heat Is On Aretha Franklin: Young Gifted & Black, Amazing Grace, Sparkle Curtis Mayfield: Curtis, Curtis/Live!, Superfly Earth, Wind, & Fire: All 'N All Just 2 Name A Few! [Edited 2/12/07 10:25am] Check me out and add me on:
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The 70s is my favorite era so I could be here all day,compiling a list I'll start with these,in no particular order:
'Songs In The Key Of Life' by Stevie Wonder (1976) 'Let's Get It On' by Marvin Gaye (1973) 'I Am' by Earth Wind and Fire (1979) 'So Full Of Love' by the Ojays (1978) 'Perfect Angel' by Minnie Riperton (1974) 'Tapestry' by Carole King (1971) 'Fleetwood Mac' by Fleetwood Mac (1975) 'Off The Wall' by Michael Jackson (1979) 'Breezin' by George Benson (1976) 'Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan' Rufus and Chaka Khan (1975) 'Spirit' by Earth Wind and Fire (1976) 'Family Reunion' by the Ojays (1975) 'Bad Girls' by Donna Summer (1979) 'Love In All Flavors' by Ronnie Dyson (1977) 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' by Elton John (1973) 'Breakfast In America' by Supertramp (1979) 'Saturday Night Fever' soundtrack (1977) 'Minute By Minute' by the Doobie Brothers (1979) 'Grease' soundtrack (1978) 'Sounds...and Stuff Like That' by Quincy Jones (1978) 'Innervisions' by Stevie Wonder (1973) 'Talking Book' by Stevie Wonder (1972) 'Head To The Sky' by Earth Wind and Fire (1973) 'Frampton Comes Alive' by Peter Frampton (1976) 'I Remember Yesterday' by Donna Summer (1977) 'Wake Up Everybody' by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes (1975) 'Life Is A Song Worth Singing' by Teddy Pendergrass (1978) 'Borboletta' by Santana (1974) 'Superfly' soundtrack (1972) 'C'est Chic' by Chic (1978) 'We Are Family' by Sister Sledge (1979) 'Bustin' Out Of L7' by Rick James (1979) 'Children Of The Night' by the Bee Gees (1976) 'Al Green Gets Next To You' by Al Green (1971) 'The Commodores' The Commodores (1977) 'Mothership Connection' by Parliament (1976) 'Live At Budokan' by Cheap Trick (1979) 'All N' All' by Earth Wind and Fire (1977) 'Rumours' by Fleetwood Mac (1977) 'One Of These Nights' by the Eagles (1975) 'Silk Degrees' by Boz Scaggs (1976) and about a million more albums | |
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To avoid going on for ages, I restricted it to a top 10...
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971) Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (1971) Led Zeppelin - Untitled (1971) David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973) Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (1973) Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (1976) The Jacksons - Destiny (1978) Michael Jackson - Off The Wall (1979) Prince - Prince (1979) [Edited 2/13/07 1:24am] | |
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I did a personal top 10 list on my blog a few weeks ago:
http://deadsouls.twoday.n...s/3244361/ | |
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SenseOfDoubt said: I did a personal top 10 list on my blog a few weeks ago:
http://deadsouls.twoday.n...s/3244361/ | |
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This could take ages
Ah well, here we go... Ohio Players - Fire - Skin Tight - Honey Slave - Slave - Hardness Of The World The Brothers Johnson - Look Out For #1 - Blam!! - Right On Time Bar-Kays - Too Hot To Stop - Flying High On Your Love - Injoy - Light Of Life Graham Central Station - Ain't No Bout-A-Doubt It - Mirror Instant Funk - Witch Doctor Bootsy Collins/Bootsy's Rubber Band - Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby - Bootsy? Player Of The Year - Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome - Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein - Mothership Connection Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On - Fresh Rick James - Come Get It - Bustin' Out Of L Seven - Fire It Up Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World Commodores - Hot On The Tracks - Caught In The Act - Machine Gun - Commodores Lakeside - Shot Of Love Marvin Gaye - What's Going On - Let's Get It On Johnny 'Guitar Watson - Ain't That A Bitch Average White Band - AWB The Jacksons - Destiny Kool & The Gang - Spirit Of The Boogie Prince - For You Sun - Sunburn Fatback Band - People Music Con Funk Shun - Secrets Gap Band - Gap Band II Off the top of my head... It is not known why FuNkeNsteiN capitalizes his name as he does, though some speculate sunlight deficiency caused by the most pimpified white guy afro in Nordic history.
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So many to name...
Three of my all-time favorites were at their prime in the '70s: Stevie, Marvin, and the Brothers Isley! I'll make a list soon, but I didn't want this thread to be buried. "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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something like this, probably...
1) John Cale - Paris 1919 2) Wire - Pink Flag 3) Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street 4) Can - Future Days 5) Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets 6) Gene Clark - No Other 7) Can - Tago Mago 8) Television - Marquee Moon 9) Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth 10) Undertones - Undertones 11) John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band 12) Wire - Chairs Missing 13) Neu - Neu 14) Merle Haggard - Hag 15) Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom 16) Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain 17) The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials 18) Stevie Wonder - Innervisions 19) Suicide - Suicide 20) Flatlanders - More a Legend Than a Band | |
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There's just Too Many!!!! ... [Edited 2/16/07 8:12am] " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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I'm just going to list one because, to my mind, it's the only one that matters.
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns. | |
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1. Stevie Wonder- Songs in the Key of Life
2. Blondie- Eat to the Beat 3. David Bowie- Aladdin Sane 4. Lou Reed- Berlin 5. David Bowie- Low 6. Blondie- Blondie 7. David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust 8. Roxy Music- For Your Pleasure 9. The Doors- L.A. Woman 10. Patti Smith- Horses 11. Blondie- Parallel Lines 12. Lou Reed- Transformer 13. Roxy Music- Roxy Music 14. David Bowie- Station to Station 15. Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures 16. Kraftwerk- The Man Machine 17. Television- Marquee Moon 18. Roxy Music- Stranded 19. David Bowie- Lodger 20. David Bowie- Heroes Feel free to join in the Prince Album Poll 2018! Let'a celebrate his legacy by counting down the most beloved Prince albums, as decided by you! | |
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Moonbeam said: 1. Stevie Wonder- Songs in the Key of Life
2. Blondie- Eat to the Beat 3. David Bowie- Aladdin Sane 4. Lou Reed- Berlin 5. David Bowie- Low 6. Blondie- Blondie 7. David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust 8. Roxy Music- For Your Pleasure 9. The Doors- L.A. Woman 10. Patti Smith- Horses 11. Blondie- Parallel Lines 12. Lou Reed- Transformer 13. Roxy Music- Roxy Music 14. David Bowie- Station to Station 15. Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures 16. Kraftwerk- The Man Machine 17. Television- Marquee Moon 18. Roxy Music- Stranded 19. David Bowie- Lodger 20. David Bowie- Heroes tight | |
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There's just Too Many!!!! ... [Edited 2/15/07 15:46pm] I love your choices. It's nice how you have choosen early MJ and J5 albums rather than the usual Off The Wall. | |
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1. David Bowie - Heroes - 1977
2. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions - 1973 3. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust - 1972 4. David Bowie - Young Americans - 1975 5. Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments - 1977 6. David Bowie - Low - 1977 7. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book - 1972 8. Supertramp - Crime Of The Century - 1974 9. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band - 1970 10. Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - 1975 11. Parliament - Mothership Connection - 1975 12. Funkadelic - Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On - 1974 13. Parliament - Up For The Down Stroke - 1974 14. David Bowie - Hunky Dory - 1971 15. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - 1973 16. Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life - 1976 17. Roxy Music - Stranded - 1973 18. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - 1975 19. Sly & The Family Stone - There’s A Riot Goin’ On - 1971 20. Brian Eno - Another Green World - 1975 Took quite some time to compile... I can't remember my baby's voice cuz she ain't talkin' no more | |
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1. Prince - Prince
2. Central Heating - Heatwave 3. Mothership Connection - Parliament 4. Rastaman Vibration - Bob Marley & the Wailers 5. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye 6. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder 7. Gratitude - Earth, Wind & Fire 8. Blam! - Brothers Johnson 9. Come Get It - Rick James 10. Switch II - Switch | |
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motownlover said: i love the 90s but the 70s is the era i love most although i wassent around
some of my top picks stevie wonder songs in the key of life( one of his best not if his best) stevie wonder talking book ( plain old stevie funk with songs like superstion) marvin gaye whats going on ( classic) marvin gaye lets get it on another great album great soul michael jackson off the wall ( set standards for what an R&B album should be like) the jacksons destiny ( i think its their most best work under the name jacksons) im sure i forgot a favorite il get back on it later on best of the era songs in the key of life Marvin - What's Going On !!!!! | |
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I think this is THE perfect soul record. Seems like this isn't just music, but a message somehow. Anyway, kinda tough to not mention all those Isley Bros, Sly Stone, Stevie and Bowie albums but this would be my #1 choice. | |
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calldapplwondery83 said: I think this is THE perfect soul record. I say the same thing about Talking Book. Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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namepeace said: calldapplwondery83 said: I think this is THE perfect soul record. I say the same thing about Talking Book. Me too. | |
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DirtyChris said: wow... let's see
Marvin Here, My Dear Aretha YOU Natalie Cole Unpredictable & Live! Curtis Mayfield Curtis Sly & The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On all things P-Funk Prince (1979) Rufus ft. Chaka Khan the PINK album Chaka (1978) EW+F All N All Emotions Rejoice Deniece Williams This Is Niecy & Songbird Minnie Riperton Adventures In Paradise & Stay In Love all things Stevie (including Syreeta's 1st 2 albums, & Minnie's Perfect Angel) Ohio Players Pleasure & Contradiction Willie Hutch The Mack & Foxy Brown Bobbi Humphrey Satin Doll James Brown The Payback Wah Wah Watson Elementary Styx Pieces Of Eight Steely Dan Aja Foreigner (1977) Joe Sample Rainbow Seeker Joni Mitchell The Hissing... & Don Juan's... Roy Ayers Fever & Everybody Loves... Maynard Ferguson Carnival & Conquistador Hubert Laws Land Of Passion & Family Earl Klugh Living Inside Your Love Patrice Rushen Patrice A Taste Of Honey Angela Bofill Angie & Angel Of The Night MAZE ft. Frankie Beverly self-titled & Inspiration Led Zeppelin I & II all things Millie Jackson (esp Feelin' Bitchy) Labelle Chameleon The Jones Girls Jean Carn self-titled & Happy To Be With You The Isley Brothers The Heat Is On now THAT's the creme de la creme of my collection [Edited 2/12/07 10:26am] Those were released in the 60s. "You could say I'm a terminal case/You could burn up my clothes/Smash up my ride...well, maybe not the ride" | |
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calldapplwondery83 said: namepeace said: I say the same thing about Talking Book. Me too. Talking Book is the perfect soul record. What's Goin' On is one of those few albums, at least to me, that transcends music itself. Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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paligap said: ...
There's just Too Many!!!! | |
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