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Re: The 10 Best Metal/Hard Rock Albums of the 1970s

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7/10 for me add some Uriah Heep

Live 73 still the best live album .............

I had the Heep in my mind as well and was contemplating putting 'very 'eavy, very 'umble' in. I have the '73 Live album too, but for me it is ruined inexplicably by the god awful 'Rock 'n Roll medley' they chose to include. Dunno why, but I always found it demeaning for such a great hard rock band to include such lightweight material. I accept we all learn those songs early on, particularly for musicians of that era, but they had already made 3 or 4 albums by that time so there was no shortage of their own songs.

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Re: The 10 Best Metal/Hard Rock Albums of the 1970s

When you listen now it does sound dated they would never play it these days  . I think it was just a fun encore

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Re: The 10 Best Metal/Hard Rock Albums of the 1970s

I'd add CCR's Cosmo's Factory to that list... and the fact that there's no Queen album there... it's a deadly sin!!!

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matirocker wrote:

I'd add CCR's Cosmo's Factory to that list... and the fact that there's no Queen album there... it's a deadly sin!!!

I thought about Queen as well.But wasn't sure if considered hard rock?same with CCR.
Thought about Stones but can really say hard rock/ metal with them either.Queen could possibly.Their first album had some killer riffs

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Re: The 10 Best Metal/Hard Rock Albums of the 1970s

gary wrote:
matirocker wrote:

I'd add CCR's Cosmo's Factory to that list... and the fact that there's no Queen album there... it's a deadly sin!!!

I thought about Queen as well.But wasn't sure if considered hard rock?same with CCR.
Thought about Stones but can really say hard rock/ metal with them either.Queen could possibly.Their first album had some killer riffs

Yeah, you're right... I forgot about that! If the list would be "rock albums" they'd surely be there!

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Re: The 10 Best Metal/Hard Rock Albums of the 1970s

Apart from the obvious ones: -

Who's Next                        The Who
The Ramones                     The Ramones
Live @ Leeds                      The Who

I would class them all as Hard Rock and they are all hugely influential

I would even include 'Never Mind the Bollocks'

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Like all classifications the lines are not always clear.I hear what you sat HDF.
To me the Who kind of straddle that line.If anything Libe At Leads is a hard rock album.I would note that the studio versions if the sings ae not.They really amped en up live.I would struggle with Who's Next as being "hard"rock although it not a definate yes or no.Same with the Ramones or Sex Pistols.Would those bands cringe at being Lanier hard rock.
Rush is also a band not mentioned.mostly labeled progressive, but more a hard rock band,specially early on.

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