Unappreciated 1970s Masterpieces

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  1. samthesham

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    The 1960s is known as the era that produced masterpiece after masterpiece.Tell us about your choice of a unappreciated masterpiece from 1970s era.

    Beggining with my pick.I will not elaborate on it except to say buy it the contents inside does more justice to the claim of masterpiece than I could ever do.Peace.
    Marianne Faithful-Broken English 1979
     
  2. John54

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    England's Garden Shed is an excellent, creative slice of progressive rock. My favourite track is Paraffinalea but it's quality throughout for fans of bands like Genesis.

     
  3. Zoot Marimba

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    I love the band Dust, a great early 70s hard rock band that certainly Ramones nerds and KISS nerds should know, as Marky played in this band under his birth name, and Kerner and Wise, who produced the first two KISS albums, were involved in guitar (Wise) and songwriting(both):
     
  4. Zoot Marimba

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    And the first album:
     
  5. Metralla

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    A terrific record - but definitely not under-appreciated. It was everywhere throughout the Hi Fi magazines of the time (I was reading mainly the UK rags). It was de rigueur to audition the test rig with Broken English. Great music and a stellar recording.
     
  6. Zoot Marimba

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    Thanks for the recommendation
    EDIt: Listening to it on Spotify, really fun, interesting record!
     
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  7. Zoot Marimba

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    There's also Sir Lord Baltimore with K
    Kingdom Come
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  8. samthesham

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    Correct in Germany it was huge.But stateside it passed virtually unnoticed accept various artiste cliques and ours was all over it.Along with Wire&Pere Ubu.As usual Europe is ahead in the game of appreciating prophetic music.Peace.
     
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  9. DME1061

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    I just picked up both of these (reissued on one CD) for $2 sealed at a record store near me looking to get rid of some overstock.
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  10. Damiano54

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    Space Opera's eponymous album

     
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  11. Metralla

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    My pick for the '70s "underappreciated masterpiece" is "Weren't Born a Man" by Dana Gillespie.

    This came out on the MainMan label and was never released on CD, as far as I know.

    Mick Ronson had a hand in it and so did David Bowie, who helped produce "Mother Don't Be Frightened". Guests included Rick Wakeman, and Bobby Keyes. Dana was a blues singer of some renown in the UK, but came out with "Weren't Born a Man" in 1973, and it was quite different from her previous work. It's a true '70s album, reflecting the times, and studded with sexual ambiguity. Such fabulous songs like "Andy Warhol" and "Stardom Road". I found this to be rewarding on many levels and it was my favourite album of the 1970s.

    It should have made more impact than it did. But there were many great albums that just slid by as the competition was so fierce.

    Weren't Born a Man - Dana Gillespie | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic

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  12. DME1061

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    I remember seeing this add from CREEM magazine......and what 12 year old boy from that time wouldn't?
     
  13. samthesham

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    Bryan Ferry The Bride Stripped Bare should have been huge.His best solo effort.Reeling from the lose of Jerry Hall to Mick Jagger he returned in a venomous manner.The sound was so BIG one wonders why it wasn't much bigger.The Dapper Don of RnR has never topped this fine solo effort.Peace.
     
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  14. Metralla

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    Indeed - one hell of an album cover. But I was 23 so there were other things on my mind.
     
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  15. Zoot Marimba

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    Listening on YouTube, this is pretty damn good, dude, thanks for posting:righton:
     
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  16. Metralla

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    OK - I was on Australia at that time, so our influences were more widespread. "Broken English" had significant impact in Oz.
     
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    Staying with Ferry, this was my favorite by him from the 70's. His first where he wrote all of the songs:
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  18. fast'n'bulbous

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    Eliot Murphy - Aquashow
    Sons of Champlin - Welcome to the Dance
    Terry Reid - River
     
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    J.D. Blackfoot -The Song of Crazy Horse
     
  20. Metralla

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    I was a huge Roxy Music fan and this one did not miss me. Phil Manzanera, Chris Spedding, Ray Cooper from Elton John's band - and he also played on the Dana Gillespie album above. They were all interwoven and feeding off each other. That was one of the attractions for fans like me.
     
  21. samthesham

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    Yes right.It should have been a huge success,sadly it wasn't.Better/On par with anything else from the late 1970s.Peace.
     
  22. Zoot Marimba

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    Mustn't forget Captain Beyond, featuring one Rod Evans on vocals:
     
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    Nick Gilder - Frequency

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