[Music] Greatest 70’s Albums

[Cheshire Cat]

https://youtu.be/f2JnEgAggGg

 

[lawros left foot]

All I remember of the cool places to hang out in the short time i lived in Worthing was the Smugglers Rest and a coffee bar whose name I cannot remember. I knew nobody, and more significantly nobody knew me; consequently nobody ever spoke to me if they could avoid it.
My time in Worthing (a couple of summer breaks from Uni., and a few months after graduation before I got a job many miles away) were a long way from being the best time of my life!

Was the coffee bar The Viking in Anne Street?

 

[GT49er]

Was the coffee bar The Viking in Anne Street?

Mate, it was fifty years ago! Even if it's still there I doubt if I could find it!

I think it was downstairs .............................

 

[kevo]

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks

 

[Nitram]

Led Zep II
Meddle - Pink Floyd
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Quadrophenia The Who
Transformer - Lou Reed
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Argus - Wishbone Ash
Hotel California - The Eagles
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Link Wray (album and artist name) obscure but brilliant
(Based on albums of that era I play most)

 

[jakarta]

Bowie 'Lodger'
Gene Clark 'No Other'
Brian Eno 'Here Come The Warm Jets'
Dylan, 'Blood On The Tracks'
Carole King 'Tapestry'
Nick Drake 'Bryter Layer'
Talking Heads 'Fear Of Music'
John Cale 'Paris 1919'
Roxy Music 'For Your Pleasure'
Big Star '#1 Record'


does 'Singles Going Steady' count?

All of the above are brilliant choices with the exception of Gene Clark, purely because I have never heard of him.

As a consequence now listening to him.

Which must be the whole purpose of these threads...

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

....talkingof which

That's brilliant.

 

[vegster]

Mate, it was fifty years ago! Even if it's still there I doubt if I could find it!

I think it was downstairs .............................

It was the Viking then...

 

[GT49er]

It was the Viking then...

So you were one of the miserable ******** who didn't talk to me then?

 

[bobbysmith01]

Have any bands not well past their best ever appeared in Worthing?

Yeap, saw Genesis, Bowie, The Who, Hawkwind all in their prime in the 70's. Also REM played their first ever gig at the Carioca club in the 80's. More recently Royal Blood played their stuff at the Warwick. Worthing was quite a place for music in the old days.


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[bobbysmith01]

So you were one of the miserable ******** who didn't talk to me then?

Spent most of my youth in the Viking, oh that jukebox! Wonderful.


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[lawros left foot]

Spent most of my youth in the Viking, oh that jukebox! Wonderful.


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The place to go when skiving off school.

 

[vegster]

So you were one of the miserable ******** who didn't talk to me then?

I would have been ten years old at the time.

 

[Icy Gull]

Have we had The Kinks Muswell Hillbillies nominated yet?

 

[The Mole]

Darkness on the Edge of Town - the most complete Springsteen album

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Darkness on the Edge of Town - the most complete Springsteen album

?

https://youtu.be/MXXFp-9zsCQ

 

[neilbard]

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

I'm guessing its already been mentioned

Rumours

 

[Machiavelli]

All of the above are brilliant choices with the exception of Gene Clark, purely because I have never heard of him.

As a consequence now listening to him.

Which must be the whole purpose of these threads...

Initial thoughts on Gene?

 

[jakarta]

Initial thoughts on Gene?

Liked him a lot, looked him up on Wikepdia, clearly a troubled soul to check out at 46!

Probably not a lot of those 70's musicians left in one piece given the drug culture of the time?