POLL 1971: Scaruffi's top 20 albums of that year

Blue

^yah I missed that on my easy bet inventory tbh

aaargh! faust just for the cover

blue vs. tago mago, very difficult to choose but i guess it s blue.

Tago mago is p repetitive

great list. one of these is possibly my second-favourite album of all-time, though. this being ILX, Blue's delicate and easy charms will probably take it, and I'd have to say, I wouldn't begrudge it anything - it's my own second-favourite here (with the proviso that I need to educate myself in the German movement beyond, say, Faust IV and Neu)

when it comes down to it, though, TS: "Oh you're a mean old daddy but I like you" vs "ALL THINGS ARE A PART, ALL THINGS AAAAAAAARE APAAAAAAAAART"

vs 'to be a rock and not to roll', in fairness

also scaruffi's great but my god, what does it take for him to award 10/10?! 9's near-impossible enough...

that zep? never really got it. allman brothers much better at the titanic bluesjam thing, from this list

Tempted to vote "Fearless" just to break the German stranglehold on this poll but will probably fall inot line and vote "Tago Mago". "Fearless" is great though.

ah, he's never awarded a 10, trout mask replica 9.5 the highest

I refuse to believe you wouldn't dig The Battle of Evermore, imago

Or Four Sticks; in fact, side two might be right up your street

the zep i've liked the most has been the later stuff, they seemed to branch out a bit

Some branching out had already occurred by IV

"Blue" is one of my favourite records of all-times forever but "Stormcock" is my POO 1971

This has to be the first time I've seen someone implicitly suggest that Led Zeppelin had not branched out 'a bit' by the time of the fourth album! (Side 1: a stop-start screamy rocker with wild metric shifts, a straightforward 12-bar blues-rock tribute to 50s rock and roll, an English folk ballad about The Lord of the Rings featuring John Paul Jones on mandolin and Sandy Denny on guest vocals, an 8-minute prog suite with inscrutable lyrics that opens with quasi-classical acoustic guitar and layered bass recorders.)

Too many equally good here; I'm retiring from voting in polls, since always has to be just one choice. Crosby's correct title is If I Could Only Remember *My* Name--obviously a much more extreme, dramatic dilemma! Cos who among us has not blanked on name of some approaching smiler. Didn't know Bruce Palmer ever did his own album! Anybody heard it?

My bad on totally biffing Crosby's album titlr obv, what I get for finally working up the nerve to start this poll at 330 am.

this is blue vs. tago mago for me too

No Maggot Brain no credibility

Yeah I know. This list really has no credibility besides just a cool bunch of albums

If I had taken it up to 25, Satori wouldve made it :P

Can't not vote "Tago Mago", David Crosby probably my #2 pick. Couple of albums I don't know well by artists I love (Fahey/Amon Duul/Kraftwerk).

I haven't heard a lot of these but it would be pretty hard for anything to beat Zep IV.

Blue! My second vote would go to Alpha Centauri and then Mirror Man.

Voted for Roy Harper.

Led Zeppelin IV

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kickass list but it's Fragile for me

oh man I own four of these (and have owned two more--Can and Zep--in the past) and the Yes one is easily my least favorite of them

Okay okay! I did vote after all, for Mirror Man! Got the art, got the boogie.

gotta be Tago Mago but Pawn Hearts is very close, as is Faust

Mirror Man is great! Kandy Korn is in the running for my favorite Beefheart song

Listening to the Bruce Palmer album right now. First song is called Alpha Omega Apocalypse and kind of sounds like a weird cross between Traffic and Amon Duul II. It's VERY hippie...

pawn hearts

actually fragile.

Tago mago is p repetitive
hell yeah it is

Yeah, I would have voted for Maggot Brain if it was on the list. Without being totally sure of the chronology, I have a feeling that something Brazilian has been overlooked as well. Or were they all in hiding in 71?

great list save for the hampton grease band -- that record is all style no substance goofiness imo.

Just thinking about Live at Fillmore East vs. Mirror Man has me conflicted.

go for the fillmore! obviously one of the best live albums in history!

haha, just for that I'm voting Hampton, Ian!

STORMCOCK

cool list! who is scaruffi?
it'd be between mirror man, fillmore east, tago mago and america for me.

Tago Mago

My #1 (not listed here) would be Judee Sill's s/t debut. #2 might be "Sticky Fingers" (also not here), or something else I'm forgetting. Of the ones shown here, I'd probably vote for "IV".

oh well, if we're going to go off-list, please consider Sir Douglas Quinter's The Return of Doug Saldana, times Miles Davis's Jack Johnson and Live-Evil. So many other albums I thought were 1971 are actually '70 and '72.

if it were here, I'd go for Live-Evil instantly.

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1971 is one of the all-time great years but most of my favourites aren't here so Crosby it is.

voted Stormcock cos it's the best 1971 alb w/ jimmy page on it

Yeah, I would have voted for Maggot Brain if it was on the list.

Uh and "There's a Riot Going On"? Though it's not rock music so doesn't count obviously.

Yeah Riot is probably my favorite album not on here

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I'd think he'd be into Flower Travellin' Band's Satori, but he probably hasn't updated that list in years. Master Of MFin' Reality, must not be his bag.

Both are further down; Satori is 25

Master is 48

Maybe I will repost the entire list the next time I'm not on my phone

The Bruce Palmer album is filled with lotsa late-nite bongo jams. You can practically smell the incense. And it's got Rick James!

Yeah Master of Reality would be my #1 (xposts).

Missed this poll somehow -- Tago Mago would have gotten another vote.

I can't get that excited about Roy Harper's output in sum but he bottled the lightning on that one

hmmm Sunfighter mightve been a bit slept on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Is2OeUZ6Sg

wd totally love it if KM played a song that sounded like ^that btw

I'm a pretty big Beefheart fan, but "Mirror Man" is like kryptonite to my ears.

Waht? Album or song?

The album. It just sounds like half-assed jamming to me. Give me the well-rehearsed, cleanly-recorded Magic Band of "Trout Mask" over this any day.

tried this?
The Mirror Man Sessions

In 1999, Buddha Records (which had renamed itself to correct the earlier misspelling, 'Buddah') reissued the album under the title The Mirror Man Sessions, which was released with a newly expanded track list and a 12-page booklet explaining the history of the recordings. The additional tracks included on this release are also taken from the abandoned Brown Wrapper sessions, and thus yield a track listing which is somewhat closer to the original concept. Other tracks from these sessions are included as bonus material on Buddha's 1999 issue of Safe as Milk.
No. Title Length
1. "Tarotplane" 19:08
2. "25th Century Quaker" 9:50
3. "Mirror Man" 15:46
4. "Kandy Korn" 8:06
5. "Trust Us" (Take 6) 7:14
6. "Safe as Milk" (Take 12) 5:00
7. "Beatle Bones n' Smokin' Stones" 3:11
8. "Moody Liz" (Take 8) 4:32
9. "Gimme Dat Harp Boy" 3:32

^that and Shiny Beast were my gateways into Beefheart. I still think of those sessions as basically the 2nd Beefheart album (ie the missing link between Safe as Milk and TMR)

"Kandy Korn" is probably in my top 3 songs from Van Vliet