{"id":5768,"date":"2016-05-11T13:37:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T13:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2016-05-11T13:38:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T13:38:54","slug":"how-many-of-these-classic-70s-albums-have-you-listened-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/05\/11\/how-many-of-these-classic-70s-albums-have-you-listened-to\/","title":{"rendered":"How many of these classic 70s albums have you listened to?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 70s spawned more classic albums than we can count: <em>Exile on Main St, Who\u2019s Next, Paranoid, Dark Side of the Moon, London Calling<\/em> \u201d\u201c the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>This post isn\u2019t about those albums though. This post is about the classic albums that you might not have heard, but really need to. Starting with&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jlbunmCbTBA\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Marquee Moon \u201d\u201c Television<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever listened to an alternative rock band \u201d\u201c and we\u2019re guessing you have if you\u2019re reading this \u201d\u201c they owe some of their existence to Television.<\/p>\n<p>Released at the height of punk\u2019s popularity, <em>Marquee Moon <\/em>took the DIY aesthetic but did away with the snarling and spitting, and replaced power chords with intricate melodies partially inspired by jazz.<\/p>\n<p>The result is one of the most influential art rock records of all time, a genius album that has inspired everyone from Radiohead to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. You need to listen to this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/marquee-moon-television\/?&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=70s_albums\">Buy Marquee Moon on the musicMagpie Store<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TKUy6ygUgP0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Station to Station \u201d\u201c David Bowie<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Recorded at the height of his peppers and cocaine-fuelled paranoid years, David Bowie doesn\u2019t remember recording <em>Station to Station<\/em>. It\u2019s both amazing and sad, because it\u2019s one of the best albums he ever made.<\/p>\n<p>Casting aside his glam rock persona, <em>Station to Station <\/em>sees Bowie inhabit the character of the Thin White Duke, an amoral and slightly terrifying soul singer. The rock anthems are replaced by dark yet catchy soul that\u2019s cold but passionate at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s not as fun as <em>Ziggy Stardust, <\/em>doesn\u2019t include as many instantly enjoyable songs as <em>Hunky Dory<\/em> and wasn\u2019t as groundbreaking as the Berlin Trilogy, <em>Station to Station <\/em>is arguably the best Bowie album of them all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/station-to-station\/?&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=70s_albums\">Buy Station to Station on the musicMagpie Store<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7PtvIr2oiaE\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Unknown Pleasures \u201d\u201c Joy Division<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Looking back, the 70s seemed like a fun decade, a time of disco, flares and singing about anarchy while spiking your hair into ridiculous shapes.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s easy to forget that Joy Division \u201d\u201c everyone\u2019s favourite ironically-named harbingers of gloom \u201d\u201c released their debut album at the tail end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p><em>Unknown Pleasures <\/em>isn\u2019t a \u201d\u02dcfun\u2019 album. The music is cold and bleak and the lyrics are depressing and intense. But it is powerful, moving and memorable, and it also paved the way for a near-tidal wave of goth acts in the 80s, including The Cure and Bauhaus. Draw the curtains and brood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/unknown-pleasures-joy-division\/?&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=70s_albums\">Buy Unknown Pleasures on the musicMagpie Store<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2AR93r-ASWI\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Bitches Brew \u201d\u201c Miles Davis<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>And now: jazz fusion. Wait, don\u2019t go!<\/p>\n<p>Although all the elements of jazz are present, like complex trumpet noodling, exceptionally long songs and odd time signatures, you don\u2019t need to have a degree in music theory to appreciate <em>Bitches Brew<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it\u2019s debatable whether it\u2019s a jazz album at all. Miles Davis seems to take as much influence from funk and rock as he does from jazz, a fact that annoyed a lot of his contemporaries at the time.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the sound of an incredible musician doing whatever the hell he wants and the result as enjoyable as it is groundbreaking. If you listen to one jazz album in your life, make it this one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/bitches-brew-legacy-edition-2cd-dvd\/?&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=70s_albums\">Buy Bitches Brew on the musicMagpie Store<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BRo3u04vY1E\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Jailbreak \u201d\u201c Thin Lizzy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Yeah, it\u2019s the one with <em>The Boys are Back in Town <\/em>on it. But it\u2019s so much more than that; from the opening note of <em>Jailbreak <\/em>on, Phil Lynott and co churn out one hard rock anthem after another, setting the standard and tone \u201d\u201c especially the dual guitar leads \u201d\u201c for a million other hard rock bands to follow.<\/p>\n<p>None would do it quite as well, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/jailbreak\/?&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=70s_albums\">Buy Jailbreak on the musicMagpie Store<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WGU_4-5RaxU\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Parallel Lines \u201d\u201c Blondie<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Today, <em>Parallel Lines <\/em>would be Blondie\u2019s \u201d\u02dcsell out\u2019 record. After years of punk and new wave, Debbie Harry and the gang decided to make a pure pop album , with big hooks and less edge. There\u2019s even a disco song!<\/p>\n<p>Every song on here is catchy and memorable; with <em>Heart of Glass, Hanging on the Telephone<\/em>, <em>Sunday Girl <\/em>and <em>One Way or Another<\/em>, it\u2019s pretty much an <em>Atomic <\/em>and a <em>Call Me <\/em>away from being a greatest hits collection. It\u2019ll get stuck in your head for days \u201d\u201c and you won\u2019t even care.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/parallel-lines\/?&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=70s_albums\">Buy Parallel Lines on the musicMagpie Store<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BW3gKKiTvjs\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Kick Inside \u201d\u201c Kate Bush<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>What were you doing when you were 19?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the age Kate Bush released <em>The Kick Inside, <\/em>although she actually some of the songs when she was 13.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being so young, <em>The Kick Inside <\/em>is an art pop masterpiece that has influenced countless artists and spawned perhaps the quirkiest (but not rubbish or novelty) number one single of all time, <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/the-kick-inside\/?&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=70s_albums\">Buy The Kick Inside on the musicMagpie Store<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aXnfhnCoOyo\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Pink Moon \u201d\u201c Nick Drake<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Like a cold cup of tea or drizzly day in the countryside, <em>Pink Moon <\/em>captures that uniquely English sense of melancholy to a tee.<\/p>\n<p>The legend of Nick Drake is well told, with the singer-songwriter battling a depression that would later take his life during the recording of <em>Pink Moon<\/em>. Despite this, <em>Pink Moon <\/em>isn\u2019t a depressing album; in fact, it\u2019s beautiful in almost every way.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, <em>Pink Moon <\/em>wasn\u2019t a commercial success during Drake\u2019s lifetime. In fact, it took over 20 years for it to gain wider popularity, after the release of a greatest hits collection and the use of <em>Pink Moon <\/em>in a Volkswagen ad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/pink-moon-nick-drake\/?&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=70s_albums\">Buy Pink Moon on the musicMagpie Store<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JOKn33-q4Ao\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Maggot Brain \u201d\u201c Funkadelic<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>First things first: that cover. Have you ever seen anything better?<\/p>\n<p><em>Maggot Brain <\/em>is 70s funk at its finest: danceable, groovy and the slightest bit weird. It\u2019s not all heavy funk though, with songs like <em>Can You Get to That<\/em> throwing in some folk and gospel influences thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>You can still hear the influence of <em>Maggot Brain <\/em>to this day, with Kendrick Lamar\u2019s <em>To Pimp a Butterfly <\/em>taking obvious inspiration from it. George Clinton even appears on it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/maggot-brain-remastered\/?&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=70s_albums\">Buy Maggot Brain on the musicMagpie Store<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YmN9oHa3ZIQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ege Bamyasi \u201d\u201c Can<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>One of the leading lights of Krautrock, Can combine synths, sound effects and guitars into an arty form of experimental proggy folk rock. This is a must-listen for anyone interested in art rock or experimental music.<\/p>\n<p>The list of artists Can influenced with <em>Ege Bamyasi <\/em>is as extensive as it is impressive: Sonic Youth, Pavement, Portishead \u201d\u201c even Kanye West, who sample <em>Sing Swan Song<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>They were also a massive influence on David Bowie, who eventually travelled to the band\u2019s native Germany to record a little trilogy of Krautrock-inspired albums in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/ege-bamyasi\/?&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=70s_albums\">Buy Ege Bamyasi on the musicMagpie Store<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XMVokT5e0zs\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Trans-Europe Express \u201d\u201c Kraftwerk<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>On first glance, it doesn\u2019t seem possible that <em>Trans-Europe Express <\/em>is a classic album. Firstly, it\u2019s about a train. Secondly, the band looks like a particularly boring group of history teachers on the cover.<\/p>\n<p>Once you listen to it, though, it becomes clear why this is so great. Like a classic sci-fi movie, <em>Trans-Europe Express <\/em>sounds both retro and futuristic; a vision of the future from the past, a guess at what music made by robots would sound like (if the band themselves weren\u2019t robots \u201d\u201c it\u2019s never been disproved).<\/p>\n<p>The music itself is contradictory too, with a mechanical and minimalist approach completely different to other bands of the time. At the same time, it\u2019s catchy and easy to dance to. The influence on certain genres of electronic music, like IDM and ambient, is obvious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/trans-europe-express-kraftwerk\/?&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=70s_albums\">Buy Trans-Europe Express on the musicMagpie Store<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>You can buy all of the albums in this post, as well as many other classic albums from the 70s, in the amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/category\/music\/?filter=collections:best-albums-of-the-70s\">Best of the 70s collection<\/a> on the musicMagpie Store!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 70s spawned more classic albums than we can count: Exile on Main St, Who\u2019s Next, Paranoid, Dark Side of the Moon, London Calling \u201d\u201c the list goes on. This post isn\u2019t about those albums though. 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