GNMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1971

[Serjeant Grumbles]

#5 Jethro Tull - Aqualung
(22 Points)

Genre(s):
Progressive Rock
Folk Rock, Hard Rock​

AQUALUNG

Then after that... whatever I guess.

Aqualung!

sitting on a park bench.... dum dum dum dum dee dum!

Those who voted:
@CiG #10
@crimsonfloyd #3
@Einherjar86 #2
@Krow #7

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

#4 The Mahavishnu Orchestra With John McLaughlin - The Inner Mounting Flame
(23.5 Points)

Genre(s):
Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock
Progressive Rock​

good choice. John McLaughlin is a god.

The Inner Mounting Flame is a better album by Mahavishnu Orchestra imo.

Well sorry for thinking that having an Indian deity in their name that they were primarily influenced by Indian music.

They were, but to assume that they only fuse Indian music with jazz when you haven't heard them is stupid.

I need to get some Mahavishnu Orchestra.


Or do I? Kinda reminds me of a busier Gordian Knot.
Too much guitar whamming.

Those who voted:
@crimsonfloyd #8
@Oblivious Maximus #4
@jimmy101 N/A
@challenge_everything #3

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

#3 Comus - First Utterance
(36.5 Points)

Genre(s):
Progressive Folk, Psychedelic Folk, Freak Folk
Avant-Folk​

Holy shit, I just discovered these guys after being recommended them by several people. They're grounded in 70s prog rock with folk influences, but don't start thinking Jethro Tull prog/folk. These guys are all acoustic, and completely insane (it sounds like). The music has a very pastoral sense, and the thematic elements of the record concern things like rape and sexual deviancy, but within the context of ancient mythology (particularly the Comus myth-hence the name-about the attempted seduction and defilement of a young girl). Some of the musical passages are very haunting, and the folk elements create a rustic atmosphere that suggests sexual bawdiness (rustic settings were almost always synonymous with sexuality in pre-modern times).

All in all, I'm really enjoying what I'm hearing. I only have their first record, called First Utterance, but I'm told this is all that's really necessary. Anyone else dig these guys?

I think they should be a required listen in all public education settings.

I have a remaster of FU, and it has two bonus tracks (Winter Is A Coloured Bird, and In The Lost Queen's Eye). I haven't checked to see if they're from the second album, but they're pretty good songs. they're definitely not the same Comus though, it's like Roger wrote FU on one long acid trip and then could never achieve that exact situation ever again.

anyways. First Utterance is mandatory. Comus is gold.

don't like comus much either tbh, (un?)blasphemous though that may be.

i used to know a guy who was super into comus, he never shut the fuck up about them so i decided to never listen out of spite

turns out i made a bit of a mistake

i clicked through the song hoping to find a redeeming part but it was all garbage

Those who voted:
@CiG #2
@Dazed and Brutal #5
@challenge_everything #2
@Einherjar86 #5
@Serjeant Grumbles #10
@no country for old wainds N/A

 

[CiG]

Nice.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

#2 Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
(40.5 Points)

Genre(s):
Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Folk​

Those who voted:
@CiG #3
@Dazed and Brutal #2
@challenge_everything #10
@Slayed Necros #5
@Einherjar86 #6
@Serjeant Grumbles #5
@no country for old wainds N/A

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

#1 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin [IV]
(47.5 Points)

Genre(s):
Hard Rock
Blues Rock, Folk Rock​

As for Led Zeppelin, I like "Houses of the Holy" best & I think that's the best starting point for Zeppelin. "IV" is great where it counts, but slap full of filler.

For me it would have to be IV. That's the only album where I can sit through the entire thing and not skip a single song. I love Led Zeppelin, but some of their songs just are not that good in my opinion.

Led Zeppelin IV should have omitted Misty Mountain Hop and Four Sticks.

The real screamer era for him ended right after Led Zeppelin IV.

a classic I now FINALLY own

Those who voted:
@Slammed #8
@crimsonfloyd #7
@jimmy101 N/A
@Bloopy #6
@challenge_everything #1
@Einherjar86 #4
@Serjeant Grumbles #7
@Krow #2

 

[Slammed]

Woohoo my 8th vote was the only one that came in!

 

[jimmy101]

Is there any reason my votes are N/A?

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Is there any reason my votes are N/A?

Your votes were unranked.

 

[Bloopy]

How I haven't heard Salem Mass is something of a mystery to me. Though they're even too obscure to have made it onto my friend Rich's blog which was mostly compilations of that sort of music.

 

[challenge_everything]

Same, something I'll have to check out

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Likewise I need to check out that band Spirogyra.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Just noticed this thread. Hell of a year.

1. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
2. Led Zeppelin - IV
3. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
4. The Who - Who's Next
5. Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
6. Yes - Fragile
7. Yes - The Yes Album
8. Ten Years After - A Space in Time
   
9. Alice Cooper - Killer
10. Gong - Camembert Electrique