Was there ever a better 70's album than Tapestry ?

[RagAss]

I'm thinkin no....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q8884GxUIU&feature=related

[elleng]

1. Maybe no.

Thanks

[elshiva]

2. Tapestry is awesome.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[OmahaBlueDog]

3. I'm thinking of a few

I think the most common response from people who also like Carole King would be Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors." Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" might get some takers, as would "Songs in the Key of Life" by Stevie Wonder.

"Let it Be" came out in '70. IIRC, so did John Lennon's "Imagine" -- both great albums.

Personally, my favoeite 70's album is Led Zeppelin's "Physical Graffitti", but it doesn't tend to resonate with the Carole King fans (although I think "Tapestry" is a great album). Their untitled fourth album would get some argument for best 70's album.

[Systematic Chaos]

4. I can think of dozens, and I really do like Tapestry.

But all of the best of the progressive rock heyday came out during the early 70s and that music will always trump artists like Carole King, to me.

[Onceuponalife]

5. I have that album on vinyl!

Go me. Gtreat album, but yeah, there were a lot of great albums in the greatest decade for music, the 70s.

[SeattleGirl]

6. Me too!

First album I ever bought. And this year for Christmas, I got a turntable that downloads albums onto the computer. Haven't had a chance to use it yet, but I've pulled the box of albums out of the closet, and they're ready and waiting when I have the time!

[RagAss]

58. Cool...capturing that old vinyl sound !

[texanwitch]

7. I have that album.

Carol King rules.

[MrSlayer]

8. Physical Graffiti, Dark side of the Moon, Highway to Hell

I'm thinking there are many.

[Bryan]

9. Wait, what do you mean?

Do you mean "best album of the '70s" or "most '70s album"?

If the latter, there are lots of albums that are at least as '70s if not more so-Hotel California, Silk Degrees, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Harvest, Dark Side of the Moon, Pretzel Logic, Bridge over Troubled Water-those albums emit a thick, pungent miasma of '70s, like patchouli oil mixed with weed.

[zanne]

13. I love the way you put that...

I can almost smell the patchouli oil and weed!

[chknltl]

10. Yes

[bluesbassman]

11. Rory Gallagher - Tattoo

Hard to beat for it's great range of emotion. Doesn't hurt that Rory was one of the best guitarists of his generation. Here's a taste...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxiEMpcI83E

Tattoo'd Lady
Cradle Rock
20:20 Vision
They Don't Make Them Like You Anymore
Livin' Like A Trucker
Sleep On A Clothes Line
Who's That Coming
A Million Miles Away
Admit It

[Tom Kitten]

12. For setting the tone of the times, perhaps not

It helped changed the sound of radio, the psychedelic sixties were indeed over and the age of the singer-songwriter as star began (witness the rise of James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, etc) It's a great album and Carole King had been a great songwriter for a long time before that but that was her first album! (I think)

[CTyankee]

23. "So Far Away" is haunting to me today. Too me it was emblematic of the 70s,

as if King was writing it as a rueful look back on the 60s and what happened to that generation. When I hear that song I have specific time and place memories that are as vivid as ever even now, these 30 years later...oh my, twinges...

[sohndrsmith]

43. I remember listening to that with my best friend in 8th grade (I'm 46) and now

I listen to it with my taller-than-me daughter and we both end up in tears (because we are far away from each other too much).

It's beautiful. I can't listen to it unless I'm with her.

Amazing how one can have both experiences with the same album... just incredible.

[CTyankee]

44. Isn't that interesting? I wouldn't have thought that, actually.

Of course, to your daughter it is a very different scenario. She brings to it what you and I bring to it and those are very different things.

I won't go into details, but I was in New York at the time and experiencing the break up of a marriage and my own difficult private life. It took a while to work through but of course I did it, like everyone else...

[sohndrsmith]

46. Well, I'm very familiar with your entire scenario... even the NY part.

A state, I have come to believe, is the absolute worst place to get a divorce... ugh.

I'm sorry you had to go through that. Mine was several years ago, and I'm over the ex, inordinately so... but I still have not recovered from the divorce. It's a long process - at least mine is.

Certain music is SO embedded into the first years of all that - I used to play my guitar and sing Summertime to my little one every night as she fell asleep... I can't listen to that either (Ella and Louis).. unless we're together. And even tears always flow. Not from sadness (well, maybe a little) but from love and it's connection we have through the song.

But the memory I have of that afternoon in Cecelia's room - listening to Tapestry (she'd just gotten it or I had and brought it over). I remember the light, the colors, the music, the smells of the house... it's really uncanny, because it wasn't a momentous event. But it's extraordinarily vivid. We listened to "I Feel The Earth Move" I don't know HOW many times over and over and over... what a great memory... : )

I LOVE Way Over Yonder.. (figured out perfunctory chords for that one too - very perfunctory)... and all of them. You're right. I have to go find my CD now. And skip one song... : )

Thanks...

[CTyankee]

48. Oh I was over my ex before Tapestry, believe me. I had moved on

if you get my drift...

[sohndrsmith]

55. yes... n/t

[mwb970]

14. I liked Dreamboat Annie by Heart a lot.

Tapestry is great too, in a completely different way. It's timeless.

[peacefreak]

15. I was lucky enough

to see her perform with the James Taylor-Joni Mitchell Boy-Girl Choir just before the album broke. It stands up well, doesn't it.

[WinkyDink]

21. I was at a very small rally for Kerry with her, Rob Reiner, Linda Lavin. Got her autograph!

[Symarip]

16. I believe this album came out in 1979:

And it blew just about everything else away before it.

[BeachBaby]

17. Arguably the best album of that decade.

Love it. :thumbsup:

[kwassa]

18. well, it is really a '60s album, when the recordings were originally released.

Tapestry was simply Carole King re-recording songs that she co-wrote that were originally recorded by other artists in the '60s.

and there are a hundred more interesting albums in the 70s that had to do with that decade.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. Yes, and I think it captures the 60's. I am not sure what album

defined the 70's...Disco split it wide open around '75. Which I guess Saturday Night Fever captures that side of it. The era from 70-74 :shrug:

[kwassa]

26. Disco still sucks. The great original movement in the '70s was punk/new wave music

as a breakaway from bombastic arena corporate rock. New wave turned quickly very commercial in the eighties, but some of it is still kind of fun.

Punk was angry and intense and then over.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

28. I agree...however,great and original is not what defined that which most

of the population was experiencing. Unfortunately, a lot of culture is defined by what the masses were experiencing.

[CTyankee]

45. It captures the sadness and the regret of the 60s. The lost hopes and the reality of life going on.

Disco sought a relief from that and to tell you the truth I don't hate disco. I like it because it is inherently goofy and I find that natural and charming. Better than pretension.

King is not pretensive. She is miraculous. She makes the world of the early 70s more understandable when so many of us were standing there incoherent and uncomprehending. She got it. We who needed to get it, got it with this album.

I am eternally thankful to Carol King...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

52. kwassa was the one that said disco sucks --

as for me, just like with all music, I liked some disco and did not care for some. I am that way will ALL genres. YMMV>

[peekaloo]

19. Rust Never Sleeps nt

[nuxvomica]

20. Probably not, IMHO

I listened to it over and over back in the day. I saw it on a list of the 10 all-time greatest albums of the rock era (as Casey Kasem would say) several years back. The list included "Harvest", of course.

[HopeHoops]

24. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

[Bennyboy]

25. I think Born To Run, Quadrophenia and the entire Zappa output

begs to differ with this assesment.

[Left Is Write]

27. Rumours, Born To Run, Physical Graffiti

[kwassa]

29. Two actually important albums of the '70s

http://www.cifras.com.br/arquivos/capas_albums/capas/0007614,talking-heads-77.jpg

[abq e streeter]

37. Thanks-how did I forget E.C.? his first 3 albums, but especially My Aim is True

[Red State Rebel]

30. Neil Young - After The Gold Rush is a good one too...

[Deep13]

31. Probably not for pop-rock. nt

[SteppingRazor]

32. Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan, Exile on Main Street by the Stones...

London Calling by The Clash, Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder, Who's Next by The Who, The Harder They Come soundtrack, several Bowie albums (especially Ziggy Stardust), Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen, several Led Zeppelin albums (especially IV) ... gosh, I could go on.

I'm not saying Tapestry's a bad album, far from it, but its a stretch to say that it's the greatest album of a decade that may be the greatest decade in modern music history.

[applegrove]

33. I haven't thought of that album for ages. I loved Tapestry.

[EndersDame]

34. Low-David Bowie, Marquee Moon-Television,

Blood on Tracks Bob Dylan
The Specials-The Specials
Blondie-Blondie
Blank Generation-Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Hunky Dory -David Bowie
The Idiot-Iggy Pop
The Wall- Pink Floyd


Havent heard tapestry but here are a few of my favs(could go on way longer) I love catagorizing and making lists and the 70s is one of my favorites for music although i was born in the mid 80s

[BOSSHOG]

35. MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER

[abq e streeter]

36. comparing apples and oranges to some extent---But Tapestry is unquestionably a masterpiece

But for rock and roll-- Born To Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Television's Marquee Moon, The Ramones Rocket To Russia, The Clash's Give Em Enough Rope, and yeah, London Calling was released in 79 but I always think of it as a 1980 album. LA Woman by the Doors is another great one. I also think The Eagles' The Long Run is a classic, if not quite in the same league as the others...Within its genre ,it doesn't get any better than Tapestry though, and Carol King is one of the only two 60-somethings on the face of this or any other planet that I still have a crush on ( Veronica Bennett; better known as Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes would be the other).

[latebloomer]

40. What about "The River"? eom

[abq e streeter]

41. Wasn't it '80? also a little too much filler; first 2 1/2 sides were great then got inconsistent

of course being a true blue E Streeter, to me, Bruce's "B" material is better than most artist's "A" stuff

[latebloomer]

42. You're probably right about the year

Yeah, not every song was great, but there were so many that I love.

[abq e streeter]

49. I agree, lots of great songs. If the best of it had been a single album

it would've been at least close to and maybe the equal of Born to Run and Darkness------- Hungry Heart, Jackson Cage, Sherry Darling ,Cadillac Ranch, Point Blank... (and for that matter, how the HELL did I leave out The Wild The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle for great 70's albums ????) And I was able to get tickets yesterday for Denver ( I live in New Mexico--they've NEVER played here, just Bruce solo once) in April . I"m GOIN' TO SEE THE E STREET BAND one more time!

[latebloomer]

56. "Sherry Darling"!

I love that song.

Congrats on your tickets! Sorry he's neglected NM.

He sure hasn't neglected us- I'm from Joisey!

But I first saw him in the mid-70s, at the Harvard Square Theater. Hewas opening for Bonnie Raitt, but he played for hours- they wouldn't let him off the stage. He was mesmerizing- I remember thinking he was a cross between Dylan, James Dean, Elvis and a young Brando. Whatever IT was, he had it.

That was the night the local music critic, Jon Landau, wrote, "I have seen rock'n'roll's future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen."

On edit- I just looked at your journal, and saw the entry about turning down goin out drinkin with Bonnie Raitt! That's so funny-I have a similar story. Before I'd seen the band, I was waitressing in Boston and one of my fellow waitresses told me that the night before some members of the Bruce Springsteen band had come in after their show at a club down the street. There was this really friendly guy named Clarence and he told her to come down tonight and bring some girlfriends.

I told her no, not tonight, I had a date.

Been kickin myself ever since.

[Bake]

38. It was a truly great album. But too hard an act to follow!

Did she ever do anything notable after that? I'm thinking no.

Bake

[ACTION BASTARD]

39. Ahem! Van Halen - Van Halen

Boston - Boston

Ramones - Ramones

Pink Floyd - DSM

Billy Joel - The Stranger

Would all like to have a word with you.

Man a metric shitTON of great music came out during the 70's. Best decade ever for music IMO.

[begin_within]

47. Not better, but just as good: Decade (Neil Young), Court & Spark (Joni Mitchell) and Cat Stevens'

trilogy (Mona Bone Jakon, Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat). But none of these are better than Tapestry, just equal to it.

[no name no slogan]

50. Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" should be on this list

Two classics: one recognized as such in its day, the other a couple decades later.

[RagAss]

51. Thanks for all the responses...I had no idea there would be so many great ones...

kicking up so many memories of a great decade in music.

[argyl]

53. Rod Stewart's "Every Picture Tells a Story" deserves a mention.

[6000eliot]

54. There are many that equal it,

but there are fewer songs more sublime than "So Far Away."

[RagAss]

57. ...and fewer with a more memorable piano break than "I Feel the Earth Move"