A good late seventies Columbia ?

Strider79it

I don't mind a quick listen to "Ginseng Woman" by E. Gale and "first Course" by L. Ritenour..... do you know any other not-so-horrible output for the same label ?

Flomotion

Several Herbie Hancock albums on Columbia from that era which don't suck.

Strider79it

Several Herbie Hancock albums on Columbia from that era which don't suck.

mmhhh... so please name the best one in your opinion (my hancock knowledge ends with "thrust")

Flomotion

Well, if you're lukewarm on Herbie this may not help but the obvious contenders here are VSOP, Sunlight, and Feets Don't Fail me Now.

Skip Drinkwater

Sunlight is a good one.

Skip Drinkwater

(my hancock knowledge ends with "thrust")

...and shame on you!

Big_Stacks

Hey,

Here are two more:

-"I Am"-Earth, Wind, and Fire.
-"Menagerie"-Bill Withers.
-cosign on the Herbie Hancock joints.

No love for Weather Report from that period?

Peace,

Big Stacks from Kakalak

Flomotion

No love for Weather Report from that period?

Peace,

Big Stacks from Kakalak

No. They can take their fedoras and their alto saxes and stick 'em up their collective proverbial. Innit.

Strider79it

BTW talking of Hancock: Secrets or Man-child ? ?

pickwick33

Columbia has recorded every kind of music there is, so this is a broad category, but as far as late-seventies albums on this label (and subsidiaries), I'll ride for:

- Johnny Paycheck, Armed & Crazy
- Laughing Dogs (self-titled)
- Sinceros, The Sound Of Sunbathing
- Bobby Rush, Rush Hour
- Permanent Wave (various-artist compilation of punk/new wave acts)
- The Clash(self-titled; actually came out in the UK in '77, but was released in the US in '79)
- Ian Gomm, Gomm With The Wind

tirefire

Add:
The Beat - s/t
Jules & the Polar Bears - Got No Breeding and Fenetiks
Max Roach - M'Boom
Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town

TomO

How about:

Samuel Jonathan Johnson - My Music

The title track is one of my favourite raregroove tracks of all time.
Check it.

Cosign on all the Herbie joints too .

pickwick33

Add:
The Beat - s/t
Jules & the Polar Bears - Got No Breeding and Fenetiks

Thanks, forgot all about the Beat!

I have a 7" promotional EP Columbia put out featuring these two bands plus the Sinceros and the Hounds that was meant to hype their more accessible new wave acts (in other words: power pop). I forget the title right now, but this EP turns up regularly in used stores...

TheMack

Irakere

hcrink

- Laughing Dogs (self-titled)

Great record. I brought it up a while back in a power pop thread over at wankerdermy and either no one knew it or no one liked it.

Guzzo

pickwick33

- Laughing Dogs (self-titled)

Great record. I brought it up a while back in a power pop thread over at wankerdermy and either no one knew it or no one liked it.

A guy I know from another message board is like the biggest Laughing Dogs fan going, and it was through him that I started listening myself.

I didn't like that Live At CBGB's comp on Atlantic the first time I heard it years ago, but I recently bought it because the Laughing Dogs were on it, so I'll likely listen with a fresh pair of ears this time.

Oh, another great CBS record from the end of the decade:

batmon

Epic was under Columbia in '79?

pickwick33

Epic was under Columbia in '79?

Epic has always been under Columbia.

The_Hook_Up

or if you are across the pond, it was called "Killing Machine"

Swayze

also on epic...

deLYS

1979

track 2, track 5

added bonus, concept album on doin the nasty.

HarveyCanal

Bill Withers - Naked & Warm and Menagerie

channon

BTW talking of Hancock: Secrets or Man-child ? ?

I'd go with Man-child.

tirefire

Add:
The Beat - s/t
Jules & the Polar Bears - Got No Breeding and Fenetiks

Thanks, forgot all about the Beat!

I have a 7" promotional EP Columbia put out featuring these two bands plus the Sinceros and the Hounds that was meant to hype their more accessible new wave acts (in other words: power pop). I forget the title right now, but this EP turns up regularly in used stores...

pickwick33

Add:
The Beat - s/t
Jules & the Polar Bears - Got No Breeding and Fenetiks

Thanks, forgot all about the Beat!

I have a 7" promotional EP Columbia put out featuring these two bands plus the Sinceros and the Hounds that was meant to hype their more accessible new wave acts (in other words: power pop). I forget the title right now, but this EP turns up regularly in used stores...

Yeah, that's the record I was talking about.

The long-haired, metal looking dudes on the bottom right-hand side of the cover up there were Chicago's own Hounds, who passed for punk rock in the Windy City and even attempted to challenge the Ramones to a battle of the bands when the latter came thru town.

SoulOnIce

Big_Stacks

Wrong date, 1980. Great album, though.

Peace,

Big Stacks from Kakalak

Strider79it

BTW talking of Hancock: Secrets or Man-child ? ?

I'd go with Man-child.

mmhh thanks