Led Zep were the best of the Brits, yeah. And Untitled was their masterpiece. The track "Rock And Roll" is imo one of the finest pared down 3 minute rock n roll tunes ever recorded; right up there with best of Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry (the holy trinity for rock n roll purists). "When The Levee Breaks" is a magnificent homage to the delta blues, knocking all other British blues covers into a cocked hat.
Creedence, yeah, what a fantastic band they were. And used as a plot device by the Coen brothers in The Big Lebowski - probably a bigger honour than induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Yeah, I have to agree about 1966, it was the year when rock came of age and started experimenting..Revolver, Pet Sounds and Blonde on Blonde are three of the finest albums ever recorded with each artist starting to use psychedelia and othe genres. The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Byrds, The Who, The Small Faces, Buffalo Springfield, Cream, The Mothers of Invention, Love, John Coltrane,The Walker Brothers had major LPs out too. Motown and Northern Soul were right in the middle of their peak years and I really don't think that Paul Weller would've had a career without 1966! 1979 is another personal favourite year for me
Both good albums. Kashmir is a great track, and Houses of The Holy has some nrilliant moments. Every track on Untitled is faultless though, imo. Including Stairway To Heaven, which in spite of it's status as Rock parody, is still brilliant. When the drums kick in about half way through, it's thunder on a roof. I'd rate that album up there with Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and John Coltrane's Blue Trane as records that changed the world.
Watching Employable me on BBC. This lady has physical tourettes. She was panting a wall and started going "paint on the face" and stabbing the paint brush against her face. Then when having a interview she started to smash her hand into the table and hurting herself. Never seen that before.
Actually I agree about 1966 as well. And as well as the seminal works you list there SA, it was the year Jimmy Page finally came out of the studio, where he had played with just about everybody (including a young lad called David Jones who was about to change his name), and joined the Yardbirds. And next, of course, came '67 and the release of the Grateful Dead's first album...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/quizzes/which-premier-league-striker-are-you I am Harry Kane...and not a lot of people know that
Just watched it on I-Player, poor girl, she is obviously a very caring, empathetic and sensitive person who has to deal with that self destructive illness on an almost momentary basis. I can't imagine how that would feel, constantly living in fear of what she might say in any social situation. It looked like she found a good and suitable job at the kennels at the end, I wish her all the best.
I would've been Matt Le Tiss if he'd have been an option.....I suspect that Harry Kane answer would change when he joins Manure in the summer!...
Just had a quick look and count and I own 5 of the top 10 and 10 out of the top 20 selling of the LPs from 1971. So yeah, it was a particularly good year, from my point of view, although I wouldn't necessarily agree that top selling means best music quality.
Meant to say something about Led Zeppelin in the last post, but I'll say it here. I can remember listening to an older brother's Deep Purple album or something similar and thinking it was not at all bad. This was new and it was certainly different to Hot Love by T.Rex or Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep by Middle of the Road. That was the sort of thing one heard on the radio, back then. If what I heard on the radio was as good as any music had got I would have never played anything other than Beach Boys, Beatles or Hollies singles probably. But 1969 came round and I was in Suttons record shop in Shirley, with some hard earned paper round money. I wanted to buy an LP and I couldn't find the one I wanted. And there in front of me was the newly released Led Zeppelin II album. The cover looked great and so I asked if I could have the first track played in the shop. Suttons were good like that so they put the album on. People who know the album realise that it opens with Whole Lotta Love. But the guy behind the counter either made a mistake or just put Side 2 on instead at random. As soon as Heartbreaker started belting out that famous driving riff I was hooked, line and sinker. And if I ever play the album I play Side 2 first, to this day. The thing about Led Zep is that, in terms of Hard Rock music, whoever came before them were immediately and entirely eclipsed. Deep Purple, for example, would have been blown aside. Led Zep were the complete and perfect hard rock band from the opening track on side one of their debut album. And then they just got better.
Ahh, Suttons took all my paper round money for a couple of years. I then transfered my loyalty to Henrys in St Marys Street where they had one of those quadraphonic hi-fi systems to impress shallow youths like myself.
I see the two young girls that tortured that poor woman have got life. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...nerable-woman-tortured-to-death-a6972816.html
