We’ll get to it in 75, but I discovered there was a glam supergroup that released one album under the band name Jet and it’s made up of former members of Sparks, T Rex, and Roxy Music and has a bunch of connections to other acts of the time. The opening track is really cool.

Doo wop supremacy

caravan live album with orchestra

I haven’t been able to connect too much with Jobriath’s work, but this was beautiful. It’s a fitting final song for him. Street Corner Love is also another good one from the album.

Do you use the term doo-wop broadly and include guys like The Drifters, Miracles and Impressions?

Holy

This site been kinda weird lately

I literally just found out about this thread, this is cool af.

join us

i know thread is focused on pop side of genres, but man good year for jazz s***, especially fusion, jazz-funk etc. Herbie Hancock's Thrust hitting rn

Played a s***load of Headhunters for '73 and very excited to check out it's follow up

Wym

op eternally relegating jazz to the side like it belongs in a separate conversation

It's so much harder to judge what jazz is good or not good even harder to rank it with pop

And I'm just too big of a fan of voices and words

I will, although I do feel like my pre-80s musical knowledge could use a lot of work. Or perhaps 1974 is just an unlucky year for me to learn about this thread lol, I can't think of or find any song rn that I can vouch for earnestly.

Is this like a new year each day?

yeah yeah just keep marinating

Nah we discuss one particular year at a time for months and months lol

Started in 1955 and have been going chronological. You can see in the opening post.

Yeah yeah they keep tootin I keep not give a hootin

lmao but nah i kinda get it tho, but s*** at least we can still discuss it you know

maybe just pick something you're comfortable with and go from there, or like rn i'm just checking s*** out i'm not well versed in for like idk discovery i guess.

its ok not to like jazz brother

I've loved Sketches of Spain for decades I'm just super picky and prefer prefer stuff with unique instrumentation and not too much relentlessly squalling free jazz horns.

Like I don't know what to make of John Coltrane but Alice can floor me.

kinda the same for me actually, free jazz is like more of an acquired taste i guess, usually the more fusion / rock elements thrown into jazz structures / melodies is easier to pick up on idk. Sketches is a mastapiece

Waterloo

I missed the part where it said UPDATED Jan 23 and thought that was when the thread started lmaooooo