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Are you ready to rock? This, in '74, was the most-asked question of the nation's teens, and the answer was an overwhelming affirmative! Yes! they cried, we are ready! Are we going to have a good time? You betcha! And their 8-track entertainment of choice en route to see Journey at the Cow Palace? Why, that would be these here three albums! Or two of them, anyways!
Montrose! Are we ready to rock? ARE WE READY TO ROCK???!!! Fuckin' A!
Rick Derringer! Are we ready to rock? ARE WE READY TO ROCK???!!! Fuckin' A!
Left End! Who?? Getting stiffed by their management ruined their career, but on the evidence of this swell album, they were already ROCKIN' THE HOUSE DOWN while you were still back-combing your hair in the bathroom! Fuckin' A!
The question, of course, remains as vital as ever, though not as oft asked. Are you, th' Four Or Five Guy©, still prepared, at least mentally, to rock? I am. When the call comes, I will be there, raising my thin fist as the liturgical response whistles thru my bridgework. Yes, I am ready.
This post inspired by a sudden desire to hear some straight ahead, unapologetic rock n' roll with a shit ton of electric fucking guitar. TURN IT UP!
Favorite hard rock album?
ReplyDeleteVincebus Eruptum and No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith
ReplyDeleteBlack Rose: A Rock Legend by Thin Lizzy
ReplyDeleteBlack Sabbath
ReplyDeleteSorry - what? I'm suffering from hearing loss ...
DeleteI said BLACK SABBATH!!!
DeleteBlack Sabbath
ReplyDeleteEh?
DeleteBlack Sabbath
ReplyDeleteOkay! No need to shout!
DeleteSorry!! Not sure why it's posted three times!!
DeleteI have a few, but this:
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never fails to thrill.
I like my rock on the heavy side so, Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny.
ReplyDeleteI used to have the Montrose album, but that one was sold in a 90’s record sale along with most of my Sabbath albums too.
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I played the Montrose album this morning, loud, playing my long-ignored air guitar. Fantastic album!
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Thanks !
Deletethere was only one Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin (I forgot there was a second "e" in Zeppelin....getting just a bit closer to meeting my maker everyday
ReplyDeleteAs Robyn Hitchcock says in his song 1974 : "You're in funky denim wonderland" or "Digging Led Zeppelin in Grimsby, oh Christ ...".
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For hard rock, I always dig Iggy and the Stooges. Or a lot of solo Iggy, too. For a more recent and non-Iggy bit of serious rocking, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs ruined my hearing in a way seeing Led Zeppelin, Van Halen and Black Sabbath, Metallica, and countless hawkwind concerts previously failed.
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Nice choice Mr Grimsdale, I saw Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs live about seven years ago at a little festival, they were great, at the time they just looked like young herberts to me, they seem to have their image together now.
DeleteTheir audience is now a charming combination of thrash metal gutter grebos, trendy hipsters, and old farts like me. MY PEOPLE.
DeleteJ from Europe I'm still clinging to that funky denim I still listen to that first album. my wife likes Sabbath but loves Metallica both of which do nothing for me
ReplyDeletei am not much of a rock person. i will go many miles out of my way to avoid a hard rock experience but i do live for rock and roll. also, i would love to hear a duet album of dennis day and james taylor doing irish favorites. or even lithuanian favorites. or maybe a mix. i wonder if ai could do that? i would have to rethink my opinion of ai if it could.
ReplyDeleteI posted a swell Doris Day comp once, and it's one of two or possibly three IoF© albums that Absolutely No-one Wanted. One of the others was Slayer.
Deleteque sera sera by the pixies is used as a theme song for the chilling tv series FROM.
Deletetheir version puts a doom and gloom spin on it that is perfect.
and doris is a genius level pop songstress.
Deep Purple - "Live in Japan" (2 LP) 1972
ReplyDeletePerhaps an offbeat choice - but I wore my double LP out playing it on a Pioneer 12D turntable, KLH Model 52 receiver and Large Advent speakers. Perfectly acceptable "budget system" (maybe $525 USD total in 1974) for listening LOUD - I should have never sold those Large Advent speakers.
Deep Purple - "Live in Japan" - 1972 (2 LP)
ReplyDeletePlayed the hell out of it on my "modest" ($525 USD circa 1974) system at the time - KLH Model 52 receiver, Large Advent speakers and Pioneer 12D turntable - which was a great system. I should have never sold the Advents.
"Live in Japan", so good you had to mention it twice :-)
DeleteThis album set me on a bit of a quest to buy live rock double albums like UFO Strangers in the Night, Scorpions Tokyo Tapes and Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous, also one of my all time favorites Ian Hunters Welcome To The Club.
The duplication was unintentional. I thought I posted successfully - but then I noticed it was not showing up in the comments. So I tried again - not remembering it verbatim - which was the 2nd post - which when I tried to "Publish" - a little box popped up saying "Subject to Approval". Not wanting to bother FT3 with such trivialities - I just figured it was a weird computer glitch. I just posted a comment to the BAYMI post - and I got the "Subject to Approval" box again.
DeleteIt's highly possible I am unknowingly subject to a secret US government program aimed at ferreting out/canceling perceived "troublemakers" and the like and limiting what can be put out on the interwebs.
All comments are subject to approval, which means you have to wait until I read them before they get published. So they don't appear immediately. You have to wait. Not long. It wasn't always so, but there's a little shitweasel out there who likes to post racist pro-trump garbage here under the guise of "anonimity". He thinks he's owning the libtards. He used to have his own trading card, too, until research revealed his identity.
DeleteFt3 - Thanks for the explanation. It’s unfortunate you have to do that - but completely understandable given the past behavior of the supporter of the US Bronzer King.
DeleteWhat you have created is so great along with commentary annd comments etc., and I am glad you are willing to do whatever necessary to protect your creation. And we are here to support you. Thanks!
Thames, your trading card has disappeared - along with others I never deleted (only our Trumper Pal got culled recently). This blogger template is pretty old, and my OS even older, and then there's me, older still, and the joints are subject to failure rather than rolling. Thanks for your comment.
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ReplyDeleteThinking back to '75 it would be this:
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Weedy voice + simplistic guitar = awesome noise!
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
VERY interesting choice. Thank you.
DeleteThat's the sound of Summer "1976 teenages in the suburbs" parties right there. What could possibly wipe away the ascendance of trad rock hairies?
DeleteListened to the whole thing this morning. Excellent as ever. Not a lot of folks I hung with cared for it all that much. I always thought it was bitchin'. Thanks Peanuts & FTIII
DeleteEw ... gross!
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A couple of decades on from Henry, but much along the same lines, if I was "prepared, at least mentally, to rock" I would play this (and still do):
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There's a feature to be written about Josh Clayton-Felt and I believe you're the man to do it!
I meant to sign off with . . .
DeleteCheers, Peanuts Molloy. Of course.
The Hellacopters (and BOC)
ReplyDeleteHELLO CLEVELAND!
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Moontan ! Or Mountain, Nantucket Sleighride
ReplyDeleteDoes Be Bop Deluxe "Sunburst Finish" count? If not, Robin Trower "Bridge of Sighs." And what would 1975 be without quad? "All American Boy" in quad: https://www.imagenetz.de/aPd67
ReplyDelete"Sunburst Finish" will always count with me! I saw their tour after this album, at the Richfield Coliseum (outside Cleveland) opening for the Anti-Climax Blues Band, who were opening for Foghat. I occasionally listen to a selection of Foghat cuts (especially for heart-pumping exercise), and Be Bop Deluxe continues to be a hard-rockin' favorite.
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HELLO CLEVELAND CONTIGUOUS!
DeleteBe Bop Deluxe are such an interesting band that John Peel played a lot on BBC Radio 1. I only discovered them in about 1977 when I bought Live In The Air Age, after that I found secondhand copies of their previous albums, all are great, but I was bitterly disappointed by their final album Drastic Plastic from 1978. Sunburst Finish is wonderful.
DeleteBill Nelson’s Red Noise released Sound on Sound in 1979 which is well worth looking out for, but some might find the influence of ‘new wave’ a bit challenging.
Given this band the old college try many times over the years. I hear something in it, but that something ain't for me. I had his first, Northern Dream, on vinyl, but never followed it through. Not a crit, by the way, he's talented enough.
DeleteMont...fuckin'...rose. End Of Discussion
ReplyDeleteThat first album is Unthinking Fun Overload.
DeleteAfter all these years I'm still trying to work out the dividing lines between Acid Rock, Heavy Rock, Heavy Psych, Hard Rock etc but anyway its got to be:
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with honorable mentions for Machine Head, In Search Of Space, Paranoid and Billion Dollar Babies (my very first hard rock album when I was a young un').
Rock'n'Roll will never die -
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Husker Du 'Candy Apple Grey' and Black Flag 'Who's Got The Ten-and-a-half?' come to mind.
*takes Mr. Blancmange quietly to one side*
DeleteOh ha ha! the Goodies! Ha ha! Very good choice, very good, if any of this was even remotely about rock n' roll.
Wouldn't put'em here, but Hüsker Dü & The Igster/Stooges FTW
ReplyDeleteYou wouldn't, but young Mr. Blancmange would.
DeleteHey, I like to rock! Black Sabbath Vol. 4 is probably my favorite 70s "Hard Rock" album but Zeppelin, AC/DC, and Aerosmith would also be on a short list. And if I were to bend the rules like many residents here, I would have to put Stooges and MC5 at the top of the list. Pink Fairies for honorable mention.
ReplyDeleteGive Left End a spin. MrDave. Smart arrangeminks, swell playin', and tunes just good enough to stick the third time around.
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