1970: Creedance Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory

[mcatzilut]

Comments

Open to suggestions?

[stertay]

Since Pitchfork's list is down, I can't check what's on it. However, here's a short list, off the top of my head, of some of my favorites from the 70s:

Mink DeVille - Cabretta
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia (and Horses, of course)
Dave Edmunds - Get It
Ry Cooder - Paradise and Lunch
Ian Hunter - You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic (esp. the first three songs)
The Modern Lovers
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle (before he turned into BRU-U-UCE)
The Raspberries - Starting Over (really)
New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon
Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy and Pretzel Logic (before they turned into boring smooth jazz)
Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

and of course, the first three Elvis Costello albums, Marquee Moon, and the first two Big Star albums. Just some suggestions.

[koganbot]

Doubt that "Run Through The Jungle" was ever scary. Too many other things around to get scared by. Grace Slick singing, "Either go away or go all the way in" was scary (to me, at the time). Mick Jagger was scary. Malcolm McDowell doing a Jagger imitation in "If...." was scary.

[stertay]

Yeah. "Gimme Shelter" was scary. "Run Through the Jungle," no.