Smoke from the Subway

Three Hundred Forty-Five

Artist - The Velvet Underground
Album - Loaded
Released - 1970
Label - Cotillion
Genre - Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Who Loves the Sun
Sweet Jane
Rock & Roll
Cool It Down
New Age
Side Two
Head Held High
Lonesome Cowboy Bill
I Found A Reason
Train Round the Bend
Oh! Sweet Nuthin'

Yes, yes, yes!!!!!!!!!!! A wonderful, fantastic, incredible album.  They don't make music like this anymore, so please enjoy this as much as you can.  Lou Reed's voice will cast a spell on you!!

Enjoy!

Blues-Y

Three Hundred Thirty-Seven

Artist - B.B. King
Album - Back In The Alley (The Classic Blues of B.B. King)
Released - 1970
Label - MCA Records
Genre - Blues

Tracks:
Side One
Sweet Little Angel
Watch Yourself
Don't Answer the Door
Paying the Cost to be the Boss
Sweet Sixteen
Side Two
Gambler's Blues
I'm Gonna Do What They Do To Me
Lucille
Please Love Me

After a long day of being lazy and finally making my way out of the house, I bring to  you this gem of gems that I found while searching through records at a local shop.  B.B. King's greatest songs from 1964 and 1967, each one is quite a delight to listen.  As much as I enjoy blues and I think B.B. King's style is truth.

Enjoy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES TAYLOR

Two Hundred Twenty-Six

Artist - James Taylor
Album - Sweet Baby James
Released - 1970
Label - Warner Bros.
Genre - Rock/Folk

Tracks:
Sweet Baby James
Lo and Behold
Sunny Skies
Steamroller
Country Road
Oh Susannah
Fire and Rain
Blossom
Anywhere Like Heaven
Oh Baby, Don't You Loose
Your Lip on Me
Suite for 20G

The second album by singer/songwriter James Taylor, I decided to play this Sweet Baby James on his birthday which was March 12, 2013.

Enjoy!

A Delicate Touch

Three Hundred Seventeen

Artist - Neil Diamond
Album - Tap Root Manuscript
Released - 1970
Label - Uni Records
Genre - Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Cracklin' Rosie
Free Life
Coldwater Morning
Done Too Soon
He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother
Side Two
Childsong
I Am The Lion
Madgirl
Soolaimon
Missa
African Suite
Childsong (Reprise)

Enjoy!

Get Back

Three Hundred Three

Artist - Emerson Lake & Palmer
Album - Emerson Lake & Palmer
Released - 1970
Label - Island/Atlantic
Genre - Progressive Rock

Tracks:
Side One
The Barbarian
Take a Pebble
Knife Edge
Side Two
The Three Fates:
-Clotho
-Lachesis
-Atropos
Tank
Lucky Man

Enjoy!

Leeds

Two Hundred Ninety

Artist - The Who
Album - Live at Leeds
Released - 1970
Label - Decca
Genre - Rock

Tracks:
Young Man Blues
Substitute
Summertime Blues
Shakin' All Over
My Generation
Magic Bus

The Who's first live album, and was the only live album that was released while the group was still actively recording with their best-known line-up.  Live at Leeds defines the greatness of Rock 'N Roll, after all these years.  

Enjoy!

Easy Listening

Two Hundred Eighty-Three

Artist - Eddy Arnold
Album - This Is Eddy Arnold
Released - 1970
Label - RCA Victor
Genre - Country/Pop Music

Tracks:
Side 1
Anytime
Misty Blue
Lay Some Happiness on Me
I'm Throwing Rice (At the Girl I Love)
It's Such a Pretty World Today
Side 2
Lonely Girl
The Lovebug Itch
Here Comes Heaven
They Don't Make Love Like They Used To
But for Love
Side 3
Bouquet of Roses
Here Comes My Baby
Somebody Like Me
I Started a Joke
That Do Make It Nice
Side 4
Soul Deep
You Fool
Mary in the Morning
I'll Hold You In My Heart
(Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)
Cattle Call

Enjoy!

The Greatest

One Hundred Ninety-Four

Artist - The Beatles
Album - 1967-1970
Released - 1970
Label - Apple
Genre - Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
With a Little Help From My Friends
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
A Day in the Life
All You Need Is Love
Side Two
I Am The Walrus
Hello, Goodbye
The Fool on the Hill
Magical Mystery Tour
Lady Madonna
Hey Jude
Revolution
Side Three
Back In The U.S.S.R.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Get Back
Don't Let Me Down
The Ballard of John & Yoko
Old Brown Shoe
Side Four
Here Comes The Sun
Come Together
Something
Octopus's Garden
Let It Be
Across The Universe
The Long and Winding Road

With an album as well put together as this, 1967-1970 truly has all the hits you would want in that time frame.  To sum up the the track listing, once can say it is phenomenal because not only do you have the greatest songs of their whole existence, but it is also a mix of wild yet soft sounds.  The Beatles is a band that paved the way for so many, so their music will live on forever.  The perfect compilation to such amazing music!!

Enjoy!

The Freshest

One Hundred Seventy-Eight

Artist - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Album - Deja Vu
Released - 1970
Label - Atlantic
Genre - Rock/Folk Rock

Tracks:
Side 1
Carry On
Teach Your Children
Almost Cut My Hair
Helpless
Woodstock
Side 2
Deja Vu
Our House
4 + 20
Country Girl
(a) Whiskey Boot Hill
(b) Down, Down, Down
(c) Country Girl
Everybody, I Love You

The first album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Deja Vu is probably one of the best albums I've ever heard.  It has been said that this album took 800 hours of studio time to record, which is about 33 days. With greats like David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young, how could you go wrong.  Carry On, Woodstock, Deja Vu and Everybody, I Love You are my favorite songs on this album.  Well it's pretty hard to pick out specific songs because this whole album is so good.  As I look inside the album cover, I wish I grew up in the 70's because their style was so fresh and just to experience this type of music live, to me, would be the greatest. 

Enjoy!

Laughing

Because my one hundred fifteenth pick goes along with my one hundred sixteenth pick.  But if you want to know how, you will just have to read this whole, entire, long entry.  Just kidding, it won't be that long.  

Artist - David Bowie

Album - The Man Who Sold The World

Released - 1970

Label - Mercury

Genre - Rock

Tracks:

Side 1

The Width of a Circle

All the Madmen

Black Country Rock

After All

Side 2

Running Gun Blues

Saviour Machine

She Shook Me Cold

The Man Who Sold The World

The Supermen

All this how reverts back to my one true love, my complete infatuation with music and artistic integrity.  The Man Who Sold The World is David Bowie's third studio album and it has one of the best songs on it, which also happens to be the title of the record.  

I guess you can say that watching a snippet of the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics and playing David Bowie's music in the background, I went straight to the D's in my vinyl collection and pulled out some David Bowie records.  I always forget how awesome he and talented he is.  He is one unique individual with his own style.  He's not even afraid to take it to the limits and push boundaries.  

So back to what I was saying above.  The Man Who Sold The World was covered by Nirvana, which they played on my favorite album ever Nirvana Unplugged (which I need to work on getting that vinyl record STAT).  It was sung by Kurt Cobain with such beauty and sadness.  Just beautiful and therefore, I accept this song as being my in my top 5.

Enjoy!!

Changing it Up

Something soothing for the mind, here's my ninety-second pick.

Artist - Django Reinhardt
Album - Volume III
Released - 1970
Genre - Gypsy Jazz/Swing


Tracks:
Minor Swing
Blues En Mineur
Dinette
Topsy
Stockholm
Vendred 13
Belleville
Songe D' Automne
Swing 39
Swing 49
Blues Primitif
Django Blues
Sweet Atmosphere
Del Salle

Django Reinhardt has earned himself a unique place in the history of music with his highly individualized style of guitar playing. -- A sentence I admire, being that Django Reinhardt stood true to his sound, something he believed in.  This album really helps me relax when I'm feeling uptight and wound up with tension.  It also makes me want to get up and dance, which is something I do on a regular basis to music that I enjoy listening to.  I wanted to bring something out of my element and I'm a huge jazz fan and why not flip through my records to one that caught my eye.  Plus I like the name Django!!

Enjoy!

Doubling Up Part 1

Today is the day I double up on my vinyl record post, since I haven't posted in a while due to my travels, but I want to make sure I get caught up.  So here is to my fifty-eighth pick!

Artist - Black Sabbath
Album - Paranoid
Released - 1970
Label - Vertigo
Genre - Heavy Metal


Tracks:
Side One
War Pigs
Paranoid
Planet Caravan
Iron Man
Side Two
Electric Funeral
Hand of Doom
Rat Salad
Fairies Wear Boots

The greatest are back on my list.  A young Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi shredding on guitar, Terry "Geezer" Butler and Bill Ward on drums present you with Paranoid, the second studio album by Black Sabbath.  It was said that the original title of this album was to be War Pigs, but the big wigs made him change it to Paranoid in fear of backlash of the Vietnam War.  All in all, this album is well put together and it also produced some amazing tracks such as War Pigs and Iron Man.  Definitely a record to have in your collection and listen to every so often, but the funny thing is as I post my second Black Sabbath record on this blog, I've been listening to them a lot more.  Funny how that works.  It's like almost a trigger in my mind that I have to listen to it and when I do it just makes me happy.  There are not too many albums/artists I can say that about, but Black Sabbath definitely is one of them.

Enjoy!

The Uprising

I've been in the mood for some good rock, insane guitar and with that, I bring you my forty-seventh pick:

Artist - James Gang
Album - Rides Again
Released - 1970
Label - ABC
Genre - Rock, Hard Rock


Tracks:
Side One
Funk #49
Asshtonpark
Woman
The Bomber A.Closet Queen B. Cast Your Fate To The Wind
Side Two
Tend My Garden
Garden Gates
There I Go Again
Thanks
Ashes The Rain and I

FUNK - MOTHERFRICKIN' - #49 is the rawest song alive, or should I say EVER!!  Sadly to say, Side One is a lot better than Side Two, but for the most part this record is indeed a good one.  James Gang is one of those old school, classic rock bands and it does show in the first few songs of Side One.  Funk #49 is such a great song and to this day, I do hear it on mash-ups.  For those of you who don't know what a mash-up is, it's when a DJ or Artist puts a few songs together into one.

This is the second album by James Gang, who are from Cleveland, Ohio and who also produced the guitar great Joe Walsh.

Enjoy!