Top 45 Music Albums of 1970
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Romanelli 
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- (Created: 04/11/2012 18:13).
- Chart size: 45 albums.
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1970 – STRAIGHT / REPRISE
Produced By DON VAN VLIET
1. Lick My Decals Off, Baby
2. Doctor Dark
3. I Love You, You Big Dummy
4. Peon
5. Bellerin’ Plain
6. Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop
7. Japan In A Dishpan
8. I Wanna Find A Woman That’ll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go
9. Petrified Forest
10. One Red Rose That I Mean
11. The Buggy Boogie Woogie
12. The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig)
13. Space-Age Couple
14. The Clouds Are Full Of Wine (Not Whiskey Or Rye)
15. Flash Gordon’s Ape
After having spent a long time unable to grasp the music of Captain Beefheart’s classic album Trout Mask Replica, I was disappointed and felt like I would never get what it was that the man known as the godfather of alternative music was doing. And then, I heard his 1970 follow up album, Lick My Decals Off, Baby. From the album’s opening line (“Rather than I wanna hold your hand / I wanna swallow you whole”) forward, I got it. Not saying that the music of Captain Beefheart is not completely insane. Not saying that it’s for the masses. Nowhere close to that. But as a starting point for what Beefheart does, this actually works as a good introduction to the even more stark madness of Trout Mask Replica. Perhaps because the music here is more structured and under control, and perhaps because it contains more…songs than Trout Mask.
But make no mistake. This is purely experimental, avant garde stuff. Just like the rest of his catalog. But I believe that what he did here was to simplify his approach and make it easier to understand. The best description of Beefheart’s music that I have ever heard is this: fifty years later, it still sounds like it was made tomorrow. And that’s what you get here. Music from the future, but from the past. Tracks like “I Love You, You Big Dummy” and “Space-Age Couple” are futuristic sounding rock fragments with elements of jazz and so many types of music that hadn’t even been invented yet in 1970. For sure, the music on Lick My Decals Off, Baby is not for everyone. In fact, it’s more accurately not for most. But it’s true…fifty years later, this is still the sound of the future. And that is quite an accomplishment. It may not have sold a lot of records, but it’s still quite a legacy. [First added to this chart: 12/30/2018]
Produced By DON VAN VLIET
1. Lick My Decals Off, Baby
2. Doctor Dark
3. I Love You, You Big Dummy
4. Peon
5. Bellerin’ Plain
6. Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop
7. Japan In A Dishpan
8. I Wanna Find A Woman That’ll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go
9. Petrified Forest
10. One Red Rose That I Mean
11. The Buggy Boogie Woogie
12. The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig)
13. Space-Age Couple
14. The Clouds Are Full Of Wine (Not Whiskey Or Rye)
15. Flash Gordon’s Ape
After having spent a long time unable to grasp the music of Captain Beefheart’s classic album Trout Mask Replica, I was disappointed and felt like I would never get what it was that the man known as the godfather of alternative music was doing. And then, I heard his 1970 follow up album, Lick My Decals Off, Baby. From the album’s opening line (“Rather than I wanna hold your hand / I wanna swallow you whole”) forward, I got it. Not saying that the music of Captain Beefheart is not completely insane. Not saying that it’s for the masses. Nowhere close to that. But as a starting point for what Beefheart does, this actually works as a good introduction to the even more stark madness of Trout Mask Replica. Perhaps because the music here is more structured and under control, and perhaps because it contains more…songs than Trout Mask.
But make no mistake. This is purely experimental, avant garde stuff. Just like the rest of his catalog. But I believe that what he did here was to simplify his approach and make it easier to understand. The best description of Beefheart’s music that I have ever heard is this: fifty years later, it still sounds like it was made tomorrow. And that’s what you get here. Music from the future, but from the past. Tracks like “I Love You, You Big Dummy” and “Space-Age Couple” are futuristic sounding rock fragments with elements of jazz and so many types of music that hadn’t even been invented yet in 1970. For sure, the music on Lick My Decals Off, Baby is not for everyone. In fact, it’s more accurately not for most. But it’s true…fifty years later, this is still the sound of the future. And that is quite an accomplishment. It may not have sold a lot of records, but it’s still quite a legacy. [First added to this chart: 12/30/2018]
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Top 45 Music Albums of 1970 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Doors | 2 | 4% | |
| Grateful Dead | 2 | 4% | |
| Van Morrison | 2 | 4% | |
| Elton John | 2 | 4% | |
| Black Sabbath | 2 | 4% | |
| Santana | 1 | 2% | |
| The Beatles | 1 | 2% | |
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From guigs13 01/05/2013 23:22
Your chart is just perfect!
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