All things classic rock, mainly from the 70's.
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Rock Albums In The Chart 26th April - 2nd May 1970
Good chart this week from 1970,just in my last years at school so brings back lots of memories.McCartney and Ringo both have their solo offerings in the charts as do the Beatles with Abbey Road. With Led Zeppelin, Stones,Black Sabbath, Creedence Clearwater Revival,Frank Zappa and Chicagp all with entries it is a strong week for rock . Also good to see Ten Years After with a new entry with their album 'Cricklewood Green'. Big jump up the chart for blues/rock band Blodwyn Pig's second album 'Getting To This'
Friday, April 23, 2021
Vinyl Track Of The Week
This week Peter Frampton celebrates his 71st birthday so obvious choice for this weeks vinyl. I have gone with 'Show Me The Way' from Frampton Comes Alive, one of my favourite songs from one of the best live albums ever. In addition I have also gone with 'From The Underworld ' from way back in 1967. This was the first track from The Herd's 'Paradise Lost' album, a single that reached number six in the UK top 20.
Show Me The Way
Sunday, April 18, 2021
Top 100 70's Songs
TOP 100 70’s SONGS
Here we are with my top 100 songs from the seventies, and have to admit choosing was a lot harder than what I thought it would be. I suppose they cannot all be classed as 'rock' songs, some are a bit 'pop' a couple are a bit soppy but nevertheless less still good songs in my opinion. I decided to limit the number of songs from some artists (Pink Floyd, Bowie, Genesis, Deep Purple, Rainbow) in the 100 but could easily have included more.
Some 'big' songs are missing from my list, 'Smoke On The Water', 'Stairway To Heaven','Another Brick In The Wall, 'Freebird', 'Bohemian Rhapsody' as good as they are they just did not make my list.
So here are my top 100 songs, they are listed in no particular order of preference, however if I was pushed to name a favourite rock track I think it would be 'Stargazer'
1 Faces Stay With Me
2 Supertramp Logical Song
3 Fleetwood Mac Sara
4 Roxy Music Virginia Plane
5 Black Sabbath Paranoid
6 Rod Stewart Maggie May
7 Golden Earring Radar Love
8 The Eagles Hotel California
9 Free Alright Now
10 AC/DC Whole Lotta Rosie
11 Sweet Fox On The Run
12 Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb
13 Mott The Hoople All The Young Dudes
14 The Kinks Lola
15 David Bowie John I'm Only Dancing
16 Peter Frampton Show Me The Way (Live)
17 Deep Purple Child In Time
18 Queen Seven Seas Of Rye
19 Hawkwind Silver Machine
21 Rainbow Stargazer
23 Pink Floyd Brain Damage/Eclipse
24 Alice Cooper Schools Out
25 Peter Gabriel Solsbury Hill
26 Elton John Benny And The Jets
27 Neil Young After The Goldrush
28 Cockney Rebel Judy Teen
29 David Bowie The Jean Genie
30 Genesis The Cage/Afterglow (live)
31 Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love
32 David Bowie Heroes
33 The Beatles Hey Jude
34 Rush Cygnus X-1
35 Black Sabbath Children Of The Grave
36 Boston More Than A Feeling
37 The Who Won't Get Fooled Again
38 Thin Lizzy Whiskey In The Jar
39 Kate Bush Wuthering Heights
40 Family Weavers Answer
41 T-Rex Hot Love
42 Genesis I Know What I Like
43 Fleetwood Mac Gold Dust Woman
44 Wizzard See My Baby Jive
45 Free My Brother Jake
46 Pink Floyd Run Like Hell
47 Foreigner Cold As Ice
48 Steely Dan Haitian Divorce
49 Rainbow Kill The King
50 Edgar Broughton Hotel Room
51 UFO Love To Love
52 T-Rex Metal Guru
53 Deep Purple Highway Star
54 AC/DC Riff Raff
55 Rainbow Eyes Of The World
56 Status Quo Mystery Song
57 Supertramp Dreamer
58 Rush Xanadu
59 Thin Lizzy Waiting For An Alibi
60 REO Speedwagon Roll With The Changes
61 Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells
62 Deep Purple Burn
63 Alex Harvey Band Boston Tea Party
64 Genesis Carpet Crawlers
65 Elton John Someone Saved My Life Tonight
66 Rolling Stones Brown Sugar
67 Foreigner Blue Morning, Blue Day
68 Bad Company Feel Like Makin' Love
69 Fleetwood Mac Rhiannon
70 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
71 Rush Closer To The Heart
72 Sweet Hellraiser
73 Genesis Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
74 T-Rex Ride A White Swan
75 Neil Young Heart Of Gold
76 UFO Doctor Doctor
77 Mott The Hoople Honaloochie Boogie
78 Budgie Breadfan
79 Cars Just What I Needed
80 Beatles Let It Be
81 George Harrison My Sweet Lord
82 Roxy Music Do The Strand
83 Steely Dan Do It Again
84 Sweet Action
85 Rush Anthem
86 Genesis Follow You,Follow Me.
87 Family In My Own Time
88 Status Quo Paper Plane
89 Mott The Hoople Roll Away The Stone
90 Foreigner Feels Like The First Time.
91 Deep Purple Flight Of The Rat
92 Rainbow Gates Of Babylon
93 Argent Hold Your Head Up
94 Journey Wheels In The Sky
95 Supertramp Give A Little Bit
96 Rod Stewart You Wear It Well
97 Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way
98 AC/DC Touch Too Much
99 Pink Floyd Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Rock Albums In The Chart 18th - 24 April 1976
This weeks look at the album chart shows a new entry in at number 1 for Led Zeppelin with their seventh album 'Presence'. Their are also listings for Status Quo, Wings, Bob Dylan, Eagles and Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Also showing although now on the way out of the chart is Genesis' first album without Peter Gabriel 'A Trick Of The Tail' and what good album it is as well. One surprise showing for me is Nils Lofgren with his album 'Cry Tough', must admit I did not realise he was so popular in the UK.
On the Prog side of things there are albums from Rick Wakeman and Camel.
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Rock Albums In The Chart 13th - 19th April 1975
This weeks album chart from 1975 is a bit of a mixed bag with a few rock orientated albums to keep us happy.There are albums by Bowie, Bad Company, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin ,John Lennon, Supertramp and the Blue Jays (featuring Moody Blues stalwarts Justin Haywood and John Lodge). Progressive rock appears with albums from Rick Wakeman and Tangerine Dream ( not sure if Supertramp should be included here?). Then we have the 'marathon runners' of Mike Oldfield with 'Tubular Bells' now in its 97th week on the chart and Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon' now with a magnificent 107 weeks on the chart.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Vinyl Track Of The Week
For this weeks track lets celebrate the birthday of Burke Shelley, bass and vocalist with Welsh rockers Budgie.The chosen track this week is 'Breadfan' ,the opening track from their third album 'Never Turn Your Back On A Friend' which was released in 1973. Six minutes long it is a true rock track with a great guitar riff that grabs you by the throat. This song was later covered by Metallica, included on their album ,'Garage Inc'
Monday, April 5, 2021
Sunday, April 4, 2021
Rock Albums In The Chart 2nd - 8th April 1972
This week we look at what was happening regarding rock albums from the chart of 1971. There are albums from Groundhogs, Jimi Hendrix, Slade, T-Rex and Jethro Tull. Just on its way out of the chart now is 'Imagine' by John Lennon now on its 24th week in the chart.
Couple of what I suppose you could call folk/rock bands are Lindisfarne ( 2 albums this week ) and Strawbs. Also would like to give Cat Steven's 'Teaser And The Firecat'a mention, not a 'rock' artist as such but a good album nontheless.
Seems to be every week I mention 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', at this particular time it was on its 112th week in the chart.
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Vinyl Track Of The Week
The track I have chosen is 'Whole Lotta Rosie' the last track on their 1977 album 'Let There Be Rock', 5 minutes of pure rock energy.
Always a big favourite when performed live so the link below is from their Donington performance in 1991. Although the vocals on the original album track were by Bon Scott there is no doubt Brian Johnson does it credit on this track.
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