#70s classic albums
1972 COUNTDOWN… #69 — #66
1972 COUNTDOWN… #69 — #66
69 NINA SIMONE — EMERGENCY WARD
Part sermon, part social commentary, part lament on love, this odd semi-live LP is held in high regard. Certainly the first side, an extended melding of George Harrison’s “My sweet lord” with a poem by David Nelson, is an engrossing journey through soul funk to gospel refrain. The other side, where no evidence of a live recording is audible, is far less riveting.…
1971 COUNTDOWN: #2—#1
2 MARVIN GAYE — What’s Going On
Soul gets serious with Marvin Gaye’s ground breaking album. In a year full of turbulence and change, the golden voiced hit-parader found a new groove, eschewing fantasy to write about what was really going on. The result was one of the great albums of its era, one that—amazingly, stunningly—manages to transcend time in a way that Dr Who could only envy.
When I…
