On That Note: With Six You Get Egg Roll

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Welcome to another edition of On That Note. OTN is a weekly music post hosted alternately by @cyclones500, @CycloneRulzzz and yours truly.

This week we launch our annual albums-by-decade series.

For part 1, post from your favorite LPs released in 1966 and/or 1976. (Those years only, NOT the entire decade.) If you want to drift back another decade you may also post 1956 material.

Include 3 or 4 sound clips. In addition to the tracks, we encourage you to expound on why the album is meaningful, including personal history of your relationship with the record and its music.

Choices should focus on studio albums. Avoid greatest hits/live LPs/compilations. We’ll allow it, but it should be a definitive element of an artist’s body of work that isn’t otherwise generally available from studio output.

If someone posts an album on your list before you get to it, you still may reference it, but use different song clips.

(You can find dozens of best/favorite album lists, by year released, online.)

And, If you’re more singles-oriented, you may substitute favorite singles from either of those years.

(In subsequent weeks, we’ll do 86/96 and 06/16)

Last week’s OTN was "Feelin' Country." It can be found here: https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/on-that-note-feelin-country.299156/

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I'm starting out with a classic double sided hit from 1956



 
I didn't catch on to Steely Dan until about 1979 when a friend in Denton, TX, introduced me to Aja.

Went home and bought every LP I could find.

Royal Scam 1976

Hard to pick out just one or two...I love every track, but "Haitian Divorce" is probably my fave.

I mean, who else was writing songs about drugs, a terrorist, and a woman who gets pregnant while seeking a quickie divorce in Haiti?



Timestamps :

0:00 Kid Charlemagne
4:39 The Caves Of Altamira
8:11 Don't Take Me Alive
12:28 Sign in Stranger
16:54 The Fez
20:54 Green Earrings
24:59 Haitian Divorce
30:48 Everything You Did
34:43 The Royal Scam
 
Discovered Serge Gainsbourg when I moved to France. Bought this on cassette (K7!) as soon as I had some dough saved up...

1976 - L'homme à tête de chou

Marilou (he loves her, but if she doesn't shut up, he's gonna kill her)



Marilou sous la neige (she's now resting under the snow...I guess she never shut up)



L'homme à tête de chou (the man who looks like a cabbage - half vegetable, half guy)

 
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Kiss combo:
“Destroyer” (March 15, 1976)
“Rock and Roll Over” (Nov. 1, 1976)

I’m combining these, posting only a couple of tracks from each, in case others want to join the party.

From Destroyer

At the time, I was lukewarm to this, but it could be one of the most "timeless" from the LP.






From Rock and Roll Over

Bookends of the album:



 
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I was too poor in grade school to afford an album (or even a 45 RPM), so bought this on LP years later after trading my youthful freedom for golden handcuffs...it was worth the wait.

1966 - The Mama's and the Papa's

Monday, Monday

Got a Feelin'

California Dreamin'

They are ALL still good!!!

 
Kiss - Destroyer March, 1976
Outside of Alive 1, my favorite Kiss album.
Personal story: My brother and I babysat our niece and we taught her first sentence “you got to have a party” (from Shout it Out Loud). When our sister walked through the front door, she was greeted with that. She was ticked.
In God of Thunder, the producer took a cassette and taped his son and put it on the song.
Beth was originally a B-side single and charted to No. 7.



 
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Kiss combo:
“Destroyer” (March 15, 1976)
“Rock and Roll Over” (Nov. 1, 1976)

I’m combining these, posting only a couple of tracks from each, in case others want to join the party.

From Destroyer

At the time, I was lukewarm to this, but it could be one of the most "timeless" from the LP.






From Rock and Roll Over

Bookends of the album:




Loved the album cover of Rock and Roll Over.
 

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