Someone already posted Live At Leeds.....nevertheless..here it is again. (Though this link is to the 40th anniversary edition of the album.) I cannot fathom it's been 50 years since this came out
The Who has been my fav rock band for years. I was ecstatic when they came to Hilton in April 1980. This was just about five months after their concert in Cincy where a crowd rush killed 11 concert goers. After that, they had put in place better security for their concerts. We took turns waiting/camping out for two or three days to be in line for tix. I was thinking that I should be studying instead of taking a turn in line. But as I look back, I am glad I got tix and waited in line.
Magic Bus was my fav track and I waited and waited for the band to play it at the Hilton concert. But they never did. Oh well.
Interesting that you bring up the Cincinnati show. WKRP in Cincinnati did an episode about that tragic concert barely 2 months after it happened.
It's actually pretty hard to find an album I don't like from 1970.
The closet thing that come to it is probably Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother. It's my least favorite PF album and I notice no one has repped it...
Was going to post III myself. Definitely a different sound than the first two albums. And "Immigrant Song" was kind of an introduction to the band as a whole for me. My high school history teacher (who was also one of the basketball coaches, as well as a Civil War reenactor) could easily get sidetracked by music. He had a turntable and speakers set up in the classroom and we would try to get through class just having him talk about music.
When we started talking about Vikings, he put on "Immigrant Song" because of the subject matter. We didn't talk much about Vikings, but we did listen to most of the album that day.
Paul's first and best solo album by far in my opinion.
Playing every instrument on this gem:
I heard Immigrant song on that TV infomercial as a kid for their greatest hits box set. Probably 89 or 90. It's what hooked me in. I was probably 11 or 12. Before Youtube commercials like that were actually pretty awesome to hear all those songs back to back in short bursts.
Temptations Greatest Hits II
(Couldn't find the actual album cover on youtube.)
I love the sound of the mighty Temptations. Here's "Ball of Confusion" from that album which could accurately describe where we are today.
Paul's first and best solo album by far in my opinion.
Playing every instrument on this gem:
I'm breaking the rules here, but the only album I could think of that doesn't quite fit this category was Steppenwolf Gold, a two record set, that came out in 1971, not 1970. The reason it's meaningful to me was because my high school class, which graduated in 71 had some money left over from prom and when I got in a car accident that summer after graduation, they voted to use some of that money to buy me that album. I was still in the hospital when the class president and one of my best friends from high school gave me the album.
Dang, I remember watching that very episode when I was at ISU. Thanks for posting the link. IIRC, at the end of the episode, the WKRP staff was stunned at the tragedy. It was quite a shock to the country when those concert goers were killed.