Greatest Metal According to Gowi/LedZep/Repo/Rocky and I! - Music Diaries

Mercury · 2017-05-06T14:12:28-04:00

In 2012, a new member who called himself mercurydylan89 had this idea of a daily post that highlighted the major albums that had anniversaries that day. This idea was put into action quite violently and relentlessly in the spring of 2013. Met with some support and a whole lot of (somewhat justified) annoyance, mercurydylan89 trudged on for a full month or 2. Every day he would make these new posts that laid out the 3 or 2 or sometimes just one significant anniversary that day. He seemed to be having fun with it, and the sudden outpouring of his forum posts had another affect: suddenly this newbie had a gimmick he was known for. He let it go to his head. He drank it up. Even as the old guard were about 70% expressing annoyance at the daily dose of ridiculousness. One or 2 of the more meanie-leaning old school folks even straight up trolled him. All the while, he loved it! He got swept up in the notariety, let it go to his head, he became content, his output slipped, he rusted away until his moment passed him by. Then he disappeared. No one knows exactly what happened to mercurydylan89 or why he stopped posting. Until now... I AM MERCURYDYLAN89!!!! I'll give you all a chance to regain your composure. I know its been a mystery for years. Basically, I got tired of every day looking up all the data on anniversaries, creating a mildly (to my eyes anyway) aesthetically pleasing lay out for the post, posting it and then with great insecurity trying my hardest to keep the post active. So I stopped. Then I shortened my name. Then I changed my avatar from britney spears (aka Brittany) to i think GZA or Nicki Minaj. And that phase was lost to history. Well, last night as I laid my head down to sleep, an idea creeped in to make a music diary which revivified this old concept. When I woke up refreshed, the thought, surprisingly, was still right there! Had i been dreaming of this idea? I don't recall. But it was there and it persisted as I smoked and got some coffee and a poptart and i did my laundry. And now we are here... I probably will not successfully update this daily. I will try to keep it consistent. The idea is I will look at what big anniversaries are that day, I will try to listen to one or 2 albums that have bdays, and write about them. "Significant" anniversaries will take precedent over odd numbers. If one record has a 25th anniversary and another is exactly 6 years old, I will probably err on the side of the 25th anniv. album. I may not stick to that if say I'm still doing this when the 3rd anniversary of TPAB comes up, obvi. Some albums are just too great or significant for me not to give preferential treatment. I know some of you may know I had a diary earlier. It still exists. I sucked at updating it. This is my new gimmicky stab at the movement. I hope this one sticks and is somewhat entertaining for me and, I suppose, to all y'all. -Ryan Note: I'll be branching out. I'll do anniversaries too methinks. But other gimmicks and stuff as well!

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Mercury wrote:

It was, no doubt, one of the very few shows I truly fame away from truly moved. It was such a cathartic show! The Pixies (and Joey Santiago particular) still have some strange intense power which blew my fucking miiiiind! .

I saw them too in the summer and they indeed rocked as hell. I especially liked No 13 Baby which wasn’t originally one of my favorites but on which they extended that long guitar outro in something magnificent.

As a matter of fact and by coincidence: the Breeders are performing next Monday in my neighborhoud as well and I haven’t booked a ticket yet but I think I should go. I missed Kim Deal on the Pixies concert and I haven’t seen the Breeders live yet. And their new single rocks.

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dihansse wrote:

I saw them too in the summer and they indeed rocked as hell. I especially liked No 13 Baby which wasn’t originally one of my favorites but on which they extended that long guitar outro in something magnificent.

As a matter of fact and by coincidence: the Breeders are performing next Monday in my neighborhoud as well and I haven’t booked a ticket yet but I think I should go. I missed Kim Deal on the Pixies concert and I haven’t seen the Breeders live yet. And their new single rocks.

Sounds awesome! Let us know how it is. 😁

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dihansse wrote:

I saw them too in the summer and they indeed rocked as hell. I especially liked No 13 Baby which wasn’t originally one of my favorites but on which they extended that long guitar outro in something magnificent.

As a matter of fact and by coincidence: the Breeders are performing next Monday in my neighborhoud as well and I haven’t booked a ticket yet but I think I should go. I missed Kim Deal on the Pixies concert and I haven’t seen the Breeders live yet. And their new single rocks.

Absolutely. I went in thinking it was going to be between Good to see cuz its Frank Black to the low end of "man, that was depressing". I went in with low expectations. Then they proceeded to win me over. The lack of Kim Deal was the only thing bringing it down. The Bassist was good though and she had a unique voice. So not bad. They avoided Gigantic, which is smart. No one can do that other than Deal.
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Hey, you know what? This is a little bit off topic, but I think it really really deserves mention.
This band made Superstars out of more singer-songwriters than any other band ever. They had big humongous hits with the songs of these singer-songwriters that made them well known.

Randy Newman
Laura Nyro
Hoyt Axton
Harry Nilsson
Paul Williams
Elton John
Leo Sayer

So I would like to recognize:

Suitable For Framing by Three Dog Night

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That’s cool about Three Dog Night. Have never had any inclination to check them out. I may now.

As for this project, I’ve been checking out a lot of stuff. Found some new favorite like Corky’s Debt To His Father, Second Contribution, Emitt Rhodes, a new renewed love of Loretta Lynn, and especially Cowboy In Sweden. Sadly, this has not been nearly as resoundingly awesome as my 1969 endeavor. It may just be era/genre fatigue. But there ya go.
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bobbyb5 wrote:

Hey, you know what? This is a little bit off topic, but I think it really really deserves mention.
This band made Superstars out of more singer-songwriters than any other band ever. They had big humongous hits with the songs of these singer-songwriters that made them well known.

Randy Newman
Laura Nyro
Hoyt Axton
Harry Nilsson
Paul Williams
Elton John
Leo Sayer

So I would like to recognize:

Suitable For Framing by Three Dog Night

Their greatest hits are probably all you need to hear of Three Dog Night. The big hits were pretty good, but their biggest talent was discovering new unknown songwriters. Which is an awesome skill to have I suppose.
I'm glad you like Shaun Phillips. Btw, he had 2 albums in 1970, and the other one I like a bit better. I just added a fuck-ton of Shaun Phillips albums the other day, so it's on BEA now.

Hey, you know what else you turned me on to that I'm really glad? John Phillips and Dino Valenti. I didn't know Dino Valenti was the guy who wrote the awesome song Get Together. That's because he had two names. He used one name when he was in the Youngbloods, and a different name when he wasn't. That was cool to find out.

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This is the other Shaun Phillips that came out in 1970. And also a couple cool older 1960s ones.

Contribution by Shawn Phillips

I'm A Loner by Shawn Phillips

Shawn by Shawn Phillips

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Here's a cool data point for you. Did you know that Mike Nesmith's mother invented White-Out?? I shit you not. Look it up. I swear to God.

The Mike Nesmith songs are on this album. There's a third one also, Some of Shelley's Blues. I don't know if any of these songs are on his own albums. You probably know.

A Retrospective by Linda Ronstadt

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lol. That's crazy.

Asfor me on this diary, just an update

This is taking way too long and I'm really not in the mood to listen to all of the remaining albums on my list. Here are the ones I wanted to listen to at some point, but have been put pon the back burner. Some look good but boy! I just wanna hear something unique and awesome aND CLASSIC AND LATELY HAVEN'T BEEN STUMBLING ONTO ANYTHING WHICH HAS BLOWN ME AWAY.

sORRY IF ANY OF THESE ARE STONE COLD CLASSICS AND FAVORITES OF YOURS.

i JUST REALIZED I MISTAKENLY PUSHED CAPPS LOCK A FEW SENTENCES AGO AND NOW I'M JUST ROLLING WITH IT. I ASSURE YOU I AM NOT ACTUALLY shouting AT THIS TIME.

McCartney by McCartney
Tumbleweed Connection by Elton
Elton John SELF TITLED
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Marc Benno - Marc Benno
Loudon Wainwright III'S DEBUT
Writer - Carole King
Hoover by Hoover
Leon Russell debut

and even with those cuts I still have 14 more albums to check out. Have a list of 49 I've listened to or listenend to newly and ranked. ahhhhhhh!
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Okay, first things first here are the albums I either somewhat liked or didn't like in this long project of listening to 1970 singer/songwriter albums:

I honestly pretty much like these and maybe am underrating:

All Things Must Pass by George Harrison 7.9/10
Someday Man - Paul Williams 7.9/10
New Morning by Bob Dylan 7.8/10
Pass The Distance - Simon Finn 7.7/10
Barrett - Syd Barrett 7.7/10
Fully Qualified Survivor - Michael Chapman 7.6/10
Stephen Stills by Stephen Stills 7.7/10
John Phillips (The Wolfking of LA) by John Phillips 7.5/10
I Witness Life - Tom T. Hall 7.4/10

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These r ok:

The Man Who Sold The World by David Bowie7.4/10
Primordial Lovers - Essra Mohawk 7.2/10
Christmas and the Beads of Sweat 7.1/10

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me not likey:

Woodsmoke and Oranges - Paul Siebel 6.7/10
Lie: The Love and Terror Cult - Charles Manson 6.6/10
Songs For an Uncertain Lady by Randy Burns 6.4/10
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor 6.1/10
Here in the Land of Victory - Rex Holman 5.9/10
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My Fave Metal - you won't believe #5!!!