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Garvin thinks Friends is good, so keep that in mind when evaluating his musical taste.

Just out of morbid lunchtime curiosity, I looked at a compilation ranking of albums from 1973, the first year of Garvin's post-apocalyptic music scene.  Some outstanding music came out that year.  (Man, Garvin must have already been in his metaphorical rocking chair by the time he was a sophomore or junior at Stanford.) Fortunately pre-1973 geezer rockers frequent casinos and county fairs (or stadiums if you still have Keith Richards in the band), so Garvin isn't stuck watching late night TV, covered in Doritos, waiting for one of those "remember these great songs" paid advertisement hosted by a vaguely famous musician from Bread or some group like that.  I mean even BBC's The Old Grey Whistletest ran from 1971 through 1988.

Here's the Top 10 from a 1973 album list based on some compilation I don't understand; other than perhaps common sense.  Rock, pop, jazz, country, classical, etc. This is the first page of a 63 page list - for one year. There have been 43 other (years) to date.

1. Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Crappy Moon
2. Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
3. The Who Quadrophenia
4. Stevie Wonder Inner Visions
5. Genesis Selling England by the Pound
6. Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
7. The Stooges Raw Power
8. Wings Band on the Run
9. David Bowie Aladdin Sane
10. Lynyrd Skynard Pronounced ....

My own tastes were essentially locked in as a ten year old, when I rode my candy apple green Schwinn 3-speed Stingray (with banana seat and stick shift) up to Budget Records to convert neighborhood lawn mowing profits into Beggar's Banquet, my first all-my-own album purchase. Our parents gave us stuff from Oscar Brand (cool folk singer who worked blue), Herb Alpert (that album cover is still under my bed), jazz and classical, but never rock, so if I'm ridin' (myself), I'm buyin' (what I want). We also had a Hammond B-3 in the living/dining room, because my mom accompanied the church choir and needed to practice. I started with the Coke Song (from the Mad Men finale, it turns out) before working up to Toccata and Fugue, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Chest Fever, and Booker T.  Never really good enough to get through some of the Yes stuff or ELP.

Wow times were different. Who lets a 10 year old mow lawns or ride two miles by himself on a bike with an album strapped to his back for the the return trip?  My parents, I guess.  I love that musical era, but there is some really good stuff out there now if you know where to listen.

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Garvin thinks Friends is good, so keep that in mind when evaluating his musical taste.

Just out of morbid lunchtime curiosity, I looked at a compilation ranking of albums from 1973, the first year of Garvin's post-apocalyptic music scene.  Some outstanding music came out that year.  (Man, Garvin must have already been in his metaphorical rocking chair by the time he was a sophomore or junior at Stanford.) Fortunately pre-1973 geezer rockers frequent casinos and county fairs (or stadiums if you still have Keith Richards in the band), so Garvin isn't stuck watching late night TV, covered in Doritos, waiting for one of those "remember these great songs" paid advertisement hosted by a vaguely famous musician from Bread or some group like that.  I mean even BBC's The Old Grey Whistletest ran from 1971 through 1988.

Here's the Top 10 from a 1973 album list based on some compilation I don't understand; other than perhaps common sense.  Rock, pop, jazz, country, classical, etc. This is the first page of a 63 page list - for one year. There have been 43 other (years) to date.

1. Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Crappy Moon
2. Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
3. The Who Quadrophenia
4. Stevie Wonder Inner Visions
5. Genesis Selling England by the Pound
6. Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
7. The Stooges Raw Power
8. Wings Band on the Run
9. David Bowie Aladdin Sane
10. Lynyrd Skynard Pronounced ....

My own tastes were essentially locked in as a ten year old, when I rode my candy apple green Schwinn 3-speed Stingray (with banana seat and stick shift) up to Budget Records to convert neighborhood lawn mowing profits into Beggar's Banquet, my first all-my-own album purchase. Our parents gave us stuff from Oscar Brand (cool folk singer who worked blue), Herb Alpert (that album cover is still under my bed), jazz and classical, but never rock, so if I'm ridin' (myself), I'm buyin' (what I want). We also had a Hammond B-3 in the living/dining room, because my mom accompanied the church choir and needed to practice. I started with the Coke Song (from the Mad Men finale, it turns out) before working up to Toccata and Fugue, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Chest Fever, and Booker T.  Never really good enough to get through some of the Yes stuff or ELP.

Wow times were different. Who lets a 10 year old mow lawns or ride two miles by himself on a bike with an album strapped to his back for the the return trip?  My parents, I guess.  I love that musical era, but there is some really good stuff out there now if you know where to listen.