Back to the 70's...

Playlist

Skids - Scared To Dance

Crass - Stations of the Crass

M - New York-London-Paris-Munich

Udo Lindenberg - Der Detektiv-Rock Revue II

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage

Robert Fripp - Exposure

Mike Oldfield - Platinum

Golden Earring - No Promises...No Debts

Iggy Pop - New Values

Trevor Rabin - Face To Face

Isaac Hayes - Don't Let Go

Jethro Tull - Stormwatch

Motörhead - Overkill

Motörhead - Bomber

Steve Harley - The Candidate

Frank Zappa - Sleep Dirt  [2012 Remaster]

Nina Hagen - Unbehagen

Kansas - Monolith

Supertramp - Breakfast In America

Donna Summer - Bad Girls

The Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine

The Slits - Cut

Angel - Sinful

Bruford - One Of A Kind

Skids - Days in Europa

Al Stewart - Zero She Flies

The Move - Looking On

Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs

Focus - In And Out Of Focus

Françoise Hardy - Alone (One Nine Seven Zero)

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Burnt Weeny Sandwich

Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green

Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley

Funkadelic - Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow

Elton John - Elton John

Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments

The Velvet Underground - Loaded

Nucleus - Solar Plexus

Betty Davis - Betty Davis

Lou Reed - Transformer (RM)

Parliament - Motor Booty Affair

Electric Light Orchestra - Face The Music

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Idris Muhammad - Power Of Soul

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions Of The Emerald Beyond

Return To Forever - Musicmagic

Alice Cooper - Love It To Death

The Undisputed Truth - The Undisputed Truth

Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

Ringo Starr - Ringo

Brecker Brothers - Heavy Metal Be-Bop

Journey - Evolution

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Join Hands

Bootsy's Rubber Band - This Boot Is Made For Fonk-N

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel

The Undisputed Truth - Smokin'

Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band

Ready for action on a Monday morning...

The new period for Twitter to look at to determine the top 5 LPs of the year, is 1979...

Firstly, if, in 1979, I'd had unlimited cash but could only have bought LPs which charted in the UK, here are the 63 I'd have acquired...

 The first 4 in the pic below were released pre 1979 but made their 1st chart appearance in the year.  For this, I have allowed live LPs & compilations...

I compiled my initial list of 1979 LPs, noting I had around 140 contenders...

I whittled that to the 100 nominations...

Here are the ones that missed the cut...

Some big names there that I appear, personally, not to have rated highly enough to beat Chicago, David Essex or Journey. What was I thinking?

Anyway, here are the (my) 100...

This time the rundown is over 3 weeks...

Plenty time to whittle and hone...

Breakfast...

...and Anne's next canvas awaits her application of paint...

Can you tell what it is yet?

1979 is the second last year of the 70's to be addressed in the great big internet poll thing...

So now I have what I deem to be 900 "good" LPs of the 70's and I compiled a playlist of them...

Some mistagging of years etc caused problems with the main 900 LP playlist and this "had" to be addressed...

Once doen, it proved to be nice and soundtracked the day when at the machine...

A break in all this for lunch...

...And it may well have been now that we watched "All Creatures Great and Small"...

Come on Dave, it's fewer than 24 hours ago...

During the day, we did watch a couple of those new house shows "Homes Under the Hammer" and "Escape to the Country" and also caught up on two episodes of "Superman & Lois"...

It's what retirement's all about....

Word came through that Rishi Sunak was the last man standing for the position of leader of the Conservatives and, hence, Prime Minister...

A lot of people forgetting that, in the UK, we do not elect a Prime Minister, we vote for MPs...

Anyone who can command a majority of those MPs, becomes Prime Minister...

This is usually the leader of the largest party...

This is why there will not be a General Election and why there can be any number of Prime Ministers appointed without there being a General Election...

Last night Johnson advised he would not stand and lied that he had more than the requisite 100 MPs backing him (he had 50 or so)...

Here are these traitors to the country who would have brought back this lying, conniving charlatan and buffoon to the highest office - their names should be remembered...

Anyway, on a lighter note, a lone Frutella was enjoyed mid afternoon...

Back to the room for more listening and compiling...

Then, I drew up my 100 for the final, as yet, unaddressed year, 1974...

And so I now have a playlist comprising 1,000 "good" LPs of the 1970's...

Anne exited to pilates with Lynn...

I had an apple and watched the news...

...and prepped tonight's baked potatoes for Anne's return...

Fang had arrived mid afternoon and spent, as seems to be the case these days, some considerable time with us...

...as we enjoyed the last of our saved episodes of "Ridley" and the third episode of "Rise of the Nazis: Downfall"...

Two weeks already since we were in Cambridge...

Aargh!

More politics before bed...

Highlight of the Day : 1970's LPs...