1978 Grammy for best album - Fleetwood Mac's Rumours

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Does this make 1978, officially, the best year of the album era?

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In 1968, The Beatles' White Album, The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, Astral Weeks by Van Morrison, and Beggar's Banquet by the Rolling Stones were all released within one two-week period (Nov 22-Dec 6).

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Not sure any of those albums are as good as Rumours, Aja, or Hotel California

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Does this make 1978, officially, the best year of the album era?

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Yes. Speaking of, I watched The Big Interview with Lindsey again last night. Not as good as The Making of Rumours, but still very good.

I can see that with the Eagles. With the rest, it just makes me think you either don't like, or don't know, what good music is.

It is hard to argue with that..

Rumors and Hotel are in the top 5 on just about any list. Others are extremely solid.

Of course we can debate personal preference all day long.

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I can see that with the Eagles.

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Even if you don't like the Eagles, Hotel California is a great, great album.

Kafka's tastes tend to run contrary to the norm - and I'm not derogating, it just seems, sometimes, that he's different because he really wants to be different so badly, it becomes a self-fulfulling prophecy.

To be fair, The Beatles almost single-handedly reinvented pop/rock music and made the album a viable work of art - if only because the record companies saw a gold mine in hitting kids up for $3.50 instead of $1.

But, the 1970s really saw it flower, particularly among rock acts - whereas pop and rock music had been largely a single-driven format from the early days of Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, etc. By the 1970s - they still wanted to "hear a single" but with DJs having more control over what got heard, by whom during the AOR era - having an album full of good songs, with little filler, was a goal of many artists of the day.

Concept albums notwithstanding, this attitude benefitted artists across a wide range of the spectrum - progressive and art rock groups particularly, but even the big hitters sought airplay for non-singles. For Pete's sake, Stairway was never a single, but it moved millions of copies of LZ IV.

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Good lord, man

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He just made my previous point for me.

However, we need cats like Kafka - keeps us on our toes.

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Fly By Night and Limelight are all time great songs.

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Lee's voice notwithstanding (I like it, but I understand how it is both an acquired taste, and might not be some folks' cup of tea) - Rush is about as talented a band, man-for-man as there has been. Trios tend to have to be pretty talented, but Rush, Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and The Police really stand out - and in every case the drummer is the strongest player -





(ETA: Triumph is an example where the drummer might not be the best player in a power trio.)

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cocktail pop-pseudo jazz with pretensions

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They even celebrate it.



I was because you had a pretty good review going of some book on them, then just ripcorded because you don't like Fagen.

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I was because you had a pretty good review going of some book on them, then just ripcorded because you don't like Fagen.

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I don't like Fagen's attitude toward his fans. People spend their hard earned money to go see SD, and he responds by noting they're mostly original fans, grown older, and then he says, "That's what I do now -- assisted living".

He should get down on his knees and be grateful that someone is still willing to pay to listen to his college-boy lounge music.