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"Brown Acid - The First Trip".
The Brown Acid compilations are like the "Nuggets" and "Pebbles" series, mining early garage rock, heavy rock, proto-punk and pre-stoner rock. They are available on Bandcamp via the Riding Easy label.
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One of the best, underrated 1970s Heavy Rock bands is "Truth & Janey".
Bizarrely, their top album "No Rest For The Wicked" is available for NYOP on Bandcamp! An absolutely "no brainer" buy for anybody into 1970s Rock.One of the best, underrated 1970s Heavy Rock bands is "Truth & Janey". Their two outstanding albums are "No Rest For The Wicked" (NRFTW) and the live album "Erupts".
AMG says that NRFTW is an "overlooked gem of an album still so…Listening to one of my favourite songs "Even Less" from the Porcupine Tree 1999 album "Stupid Dream".
AMG says of "Stupid Dream" that it "starts out with a definite bang -- "Even Less," with some of the quartet's biggest, blasti…Another great example from Japan is the Flower Travellin' Band and their 1971 release "Sartori".
AMG says "Early-'70s long-haired Japanese hard rock gods and pioneers of Japanoise and stoner metal" and "F…There was some great Rock (particularly Prog Rock) coming out of Japan in the late 60s and early 70s.
A great example is Blues Creation and their best album "Demon & Eleven Children".
AMG says "it's safe to assume tha…Octopus s/t.
An okay album from 1969. The best track is the 16 minute "Fruk Juice".
https://www.emusic.com/album/61593239/Octopus/Octopus
<…Octopus s/t.
An okay album from 1969. The best track is the 16 minute "Fruk Juice".
https://www.emusic.com/album/61593239/Octopus/Octopus
<…@Brighternow you have just reinforced in my mind why I am a fan of eMusers. Where else would i have found out the derivation of the name "Matching Mole"!"The Best Of Ten Years After" a 2000 re-issue of 1991's "The Essential Ten Years After'.
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January 2021
Ten Years After albums "Undead", "Stonedhenge" and "Cricklewood Green".
The song "I'm Going Home" on the album "Undead" is one of my favourites, particularly as performed at Woodstock.
in Favourite Rock Albums from the late 60s and early 70s Comment by peterfrederics January 2021"Marks" and "The Mountain Queen" by Alquin.
Alquin were one of Holland's top rock groups of the early 70s and both these albums are amongst the best of any country from that period.
As it happens, these were amongst the last re…“The Courage Of Others” by Midlake
“Affinity” by the band of the same name. Best tracks are “ Cocoanut Grove”, “Three Sisters”, a great cover version of Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower” and “Night Flight” (one of my top twenty tracks of that stellar year, 1970).
Prog…“Fragile” by Yes.
Rated No.1 by ProgArchives for 1971, one of prog’s best ever years.
Camel did a number of excellent albums including “Moonmadness”, “The Snow Goose” and their first, self-titled album “Camel”. However, my favourite is “Mirage”.
ProgArchives rates “Mirage” as No. 2 album for 1974, one of the stellar …"A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind" by Amorphous Androgynous.
The Spencer Davis Group with a young Stevie Winwood (prior to joining Traffic and Blind Faith) were a great band. They had big hits with "I'm a Man" (later covered by Chicago Transit Authority), "Keep on Running", "Gimme Some Lovin'", "Somebody Help…Spirit - I like all their first four albums but my favourite is their first s/t one. Primarily because of the tune "Fresh Garbage" which I believe was a play on the Cream album "Fresh Cream".
ProgArchives says "Spirit…Men at Work “Business as Usual” with that true blue Aussie anthem “Down Under”
Mechanical Butterfly s/t Album
McKendree Spring “Second Thoughts” and “Live at the Beachland Ballroom”.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band "East West"
AMG says "East-West would prove to be a pivotal album in the new blues-rock movement".
<… @Brighternow correctly reminds us of the great bands that came out of Scandinavia.
One of my favourites is Älgarnas Trädgård and their amazing album "Framtiden Är …I plead guilty to 1964 being a bit early to qualify as late 60s (!!) but the first song that started a life-long love of rock for me was The Kinks song "You Really Got Me" with that killer riff. "All Day and All of the Night" came a very close secon…"Edge of Time" by DOM
Ranked No. 2 out of all Krautrock albums on ProgArchives.
ProgArchives says "The concept of the album is based upon a bad "trip", its consequences on mind and perception of time (introd…Probably about time that we paid a visit to Krautrock!
Agitation Free are not as well known as bands like Can and Neu! but were every bit as good and put out some outstanding music including some great live albums.
My favourite…
