This is definitely in the top 10 of the year for me. It’s just a crazy song. It sounds like if a darker version of George Harrison’s Art of Dying suddenly erupted into a cathartic Peter Gabriel song. Blunstone doesn’t get enough credit. Don’t know if @RVI is familiar with this?

off top. Labi song is a fresh pic after seeing the holdovers and having that song play a billion times. Listened to it so much over winter after seeing the movie

behind blue eyes is near overplay level similar to Baba ORiley for me but i think thats because its one of my dads favorites so i heard it the most. t

still think its great though ofc

Was going to post like half of these. Good picks.

i dont think ive heard anything from this album yet but theres a chance you showed before. gonna listen later

The album is great, but that’s the song to check out first.

Duaneless Allmans

One of my favorite Bee Gee’s songs so I’m looking forward to finally checking out the whole record with @Elric

Probably soty

the debut of a goat Charly Garcia with his first band, folk rock duo Sui Generis

camera is showing the other guy Nito more but they shared the vocals and Charly wrote the songs. even from the beginning you can hear his melodic sense and great piano part. idk the lyrics much but it was apparently really representative of the youth generation and part of what marked the maturing of the latin american rock scenes, leaving behind their era of 60s style bands that looked like beatles. Hippie death song that became a treasured classic, which I'm sure was related to what the youth was feeling regarding the social unrest/looming authoritarianism

another great one

might not even crack my top 10 albums from him but still a stone cold classic and one of the key bands of their era. he was cranking out a classic basically every single year until the mid 80s when he finally slowed down a bit

dawn of Italian prog too where all the bands debuted with an album or two. i still havent dove too deep though

cant believe you didn't lead with this

in my top 3 oty afaict

Smh

Didn’t want to be predictable, but also this is my favorite off that album. He goes to a higher register around 1:55 when he says “and it’s so hard to stay alive each day” and it’s so heavenly. Cuts through me like that “a children’s song” part towards the end of Surf’s Up.

You can really see funk start influencing a lot this year until disco takes over in the late 70s

Shine a Light

or Tumbling Dice

has this Busta album when it came out

I've done my part