Of course

1:28 - 2:45 the actual zenith

wish they guys had more success and didnt fold after this album dang it.

not many bands been creeping up near the top 20 as consistely as them over the last 4 years.

They should have changed their name

open.spotify.com/playlist/2Do4NdKIjvTQDE362KKQ3j?si=139080681eed4090

16 hours

page 187 fitting one to move on to the downer year. It's just a shot away

1969

I can't believe how much amazing music Fairport, Creedence and Elvis dropped zenith

Also the Beck/Rod/Faces/Humble Pie situation getting out of hand

key year in a lot of major styles methinks. hard rock, jazz fusion, progressive rock and other ones continuing to ramp up on their way to the peak of the album era

i can already tell how much more of a headache ranking the album era is gonna be from the difficulty things like Astral Weeks, Big Pink, Beggars Banquet gave me every song great

well...

not only the greatest song of 1969, but also the greatest song in history, i'm so serious

@op seems like this was the first masterpiece album of the fania records/nyc salsa scene. which was about to spread across the rest of the continent 💃

19 year old Willie Colon whose trombone was apparently untuned and untrained but he represented the authentic street life. and Lavoe the goated salsa icon with his charismatic improvisation and a tragic life. apparently Colon didnt even speak Spanish well until he started making this stuff

some excerpts:
"at this point, with the decade drawing to its close, New York was at the height of its creativity, and Fania was about to take off with Nuestra cosa and its explicit launch of the salsa boom. At this moment Puerto Rico and the rest of the Caribbean remained in the wings, considerably far from having any major influence and not yet capable of making itself strongly felt in the larger arena of the new expression."

"This success caused embarrassment and discomfort among many orthodox Caribbean musicians, yet it is a phenomenon that merits serious a***ysis. From its initial stages, salsa was characterized as music of the barrio. It was the first full systematic expression that urban Latinos identified with and claimed as their own. Given its collective nature, its musical quality was necessarily uneven and often deficient. Furthermore, the young men who sang the music that they felt belonged to them were not always musicians in the traditional sense of the word."

some parallels to punk and hip hop...also from NYC

that's exactly how i feel about this song

Elvis might be the years MVP though tbh

dang from nyc huh intrast

yup, direct descendent of the afro-cuban musics plus the mambo dance craze and a bit of jazz especially in the piano. made mostly by the NYC puerto ricans but they also had a pan-latino thing going on

this ostensibly major classic song too. album is solid

didnt i show you these guys?

apparently this is considered the goat australian song pretty awesome

yeah i think you did a long time ago, will relisten though

no i showed you Sonora Poncena recently

ive never heard this Russell song before

damn u sure? maybe i read about it somewhere else then or theres a similar described song you did show me a while ago

and yeah on sonora poncena

oh yeah i have absolutely heard The Real Thing before, recognize it instantly. maybe from reading steve hoffman forum posts or something

positive, 2 months ago

spooky