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Continuing my trip back through the 1971 album charts. 25/07/71 : The Yes Album - Yes It feels like '71 wouldn't be complete without a bit more Yes - I'd love to tell you which visit this is, but unfortunately searching the blog for their name returns quite a few false positives, so I'm just going to guess it's our third visit. And I'm expecting it to be well done, but not particularly enjoyable.…
Continuing my trip back through the 1971 album charts. 01/08/71 : Songs Of Love And Hate - Leonard Cohen Our second visit with cheery old Lenny - I tend to like his songs without liking the way he sings them, but let's see what we've got here. Well, if you like songs like "American Pie" or "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" which go on for hours and have a million verses which make no sense at all, then…
Continuing my trip back through the 1971 album charts. 08/08/71 : The Magnificent 7 - The Supremes & The Four Tops Part of me feels I should reject this because it's an album of covers - but it's an album of covers from The Supremes & The Four Tops recording together, so it feels like it could be pretty special. And it's got to be better than the Diana Ross albums we've had this year, hasn't it?…
Continuing my trip back through the 1971 album charts. 15/08/71 : Stephen Stills 2 - Stephen Stills Crosby, Stills and Nash have popped up on all sorts of albums over the years, but this is the first time we've ever met one of them in a solo capacity - and I'm kinda looking forward to it because I feel it's going to be different from most of what we've seen this year. Yeah, I didn't mind this - I…
Continuing my trip back through the 1971 album charts. 22/08/71 : Split - The Groundhogs The last entry was our second ever mention of Atomic Rooster and this is our second ever mention of The Groundhogs - and I don't have any clue as to what I'm going to get here. Hmmm - how to describe it? It's definitely rock, but it has more of a blues/psychedelic element than most of the proggier stuff we've…
Continuing my trip back through the 1971 album charts. 29/08/71 : In Hearing Of Atomic Rooster - Atomic Rooster Only the second ever mention for Atomic Rooster and I have a sneaking suspicion it's going to be weird prog which I find particularly unpleasant - always happy to be proved wrong though. Well, it is prog - but it's not really weird or unpleasant. I was reminded of Genesis's output from…
Continuing my trip back through the 1971 album charts. 05/09/71 : Deep Purple In Rock - Deep Purple Our third visit with DP and our second this year and my expectations are very much that I'll appreciate the skill, but not the noise that they make with that skill. Well, well, well. Not only did I appreciate the skill, but I also quite appreciated the noise - wonders will never cease. It's good…
Continuing my trip back through the 1971 album charts. 12/09/71 : Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer Our third visit with ELP and our second this year - I believe this is one of their better reviewed albums so I'm interested to visit it. Well, the opening title track is really quite the thing - over twenty minutes of prog pomposity which doesn't really do anything or go anywhere. I assume that was…
Continuing my trip back through the 1971 album charts. 19/09/71 : Everything Is Everything - Diana Ross Our fourth visit with Diana and our second in a week - and I'm hoping this is slightly better than her last offering . Yeah, I think it's better without being exactly great - the production doesn't sound quite so shoddy, but there's still a load of pointless cover versions. And some of them are…
Continuing my trip back through the 1971 album charts. 26/09/71 : Man In Black - Johnny Cash Our second visit with the original MIB (and the last one was over five years ago!) - I'd struggle to say I'm a fan, but I admire the man for his dedication over the years, so I'm happy to listen to this. To my surprise, I didn't mind this at all! It's pretty straightforward guitar-based US country/folk,…
