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These Albums Are Fifty Years Old In 2021

 
 
 
Aqualung? 50? Wait, what?

Who's responsible this? How was this allowed to happen?

50?!?!

Is there someone we could talk to? I mean, i remember it being talked up on the radio and i'm only... um.
(Counts on fingers)
Oh, great, who's responible THIS?
 
Every list does this: they cite Sabbath's Master of Reality and don't mention the band's far more important album Paanoid, which came out earlier in the same year.

I actually like Master better, but Paranoid was more impactful.
 
WAB said:
Every list does this: they cite Sabbath's Master of Reality and don't mention the band's far more important album Paanoid, which came out earlier in the same year.

I actually like Master better, but Paranoid was more impactful.
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According to Wikipedia, Paranoid came out in 1970.
 
WAB said:
Every list does this: they cite Sabbath's Master of Reality and don't mention the band's far more important album Paanoid, which came out earlier in the same year.

I actually like Master better, but Paranoid was more impactful.
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Actually, Yes is the issue here In 1971, they released both The Yes Album and Fragile, both among Yes's best releases (in 18 months, yes released The Yes Album, Fragile, and Close to the Edge!). Granted, Fragile was, honestly, only 4 songs and the rest were solos but the songs were killer.

But that Yes was included at all in the list, makes up for the blunder.

I'm slowly getting into Genesis, but Nursery Cryme was one of the rare bits that I found easier to get into.
 
ZiprHead said:
WAB said:
Every list does this: they cite Sabbath's Master of Reality and don't mention the band's far more important album Paanoid, which came out earlier in the same year.

I actually like Master better, but Paranoid was more impactful.
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According to Wikipedia, Paranoid came out in 1970.
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All the copies I have of that album, on vinyl, CD, and cassette, say 1971. Ah well, perhaps I am wrong.

Jimmy,

Indeed, Fragile was brilliant. Yes was amazing.


ETA:

Ah! It was released in the states in 1971. America, always lagging behind...
 
I was only 2 in '71 and didn't buy my first album until 1981, but eventually I owned about half those albums. I was mostly drawn to music a decade or more before my teen years and that's the music I still listen to more than anything that came out in my teens (a notable exception being Ronnie James Dio's solo stuff). Most of the bands I saw live in the 80's (including 10 on that list) were past their prime and had their heyday in the 70's.

After my teens my tastes went even further into the past with the Blues, Bluegrass and early American and Celtic Folk music. Although Ken Burns' amazing documentary "Country Music" made me realize I like early country more than I knew.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
I'm slowly getting into Genesis, but Nursery Cryme was one of the rare bits that I found easier to get into.
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I'd recommend their Seconds Out live album, it's got a good mix of early and middle period Genesis.
 
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