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I'd have to pick 1970-1973 for groundbreaking albums and some new musical styles. If I owned a car from this era, this would be it's soundtrack.

Black Sabbath
Allman Brothers
Cactus
Alice Cooper
The James Gang
The Spinners
Marvin Gaye
Van Morrison
Jethro Tull
Deep Purple
Grand Funk Railroad
Led Zeppelin
Curtis Mayfield
The Stooges
T.Rex
The Rolling Stones
The MC5
Herbie Hancock
Steely Dan
Stevie Wonder
The Who
Faces
David Bowie
Pink Floyd
Yes
Soft Machine
Mountain
Neil Young
FZ
...among others

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1972 Waka/Jawaka to 1975 One Size Fits All

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Je suis désolé pour les roles que j'ai joué dans toutes ces videos, ce n'est pas tres valorisant pour l'humanité mais si cela peut avoir fait progresser la science, alors il y aura eu un coté positif.

1st.choice: '66 - '70.
2nd.choice: '70 - '74......then there was disco inferno and it all went to hell!

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I'm getting larger as I walk away.

1966-1993

Well ok then,1954-now! With a nod to the roaring twenty's blues and ragtime.

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I'm getting larger as I walk away.

For me, I'd say 1974-1978, because this is when our town got our first FM radio station. I stopped listening to Top 40, and discovered all these fabulous artists (obviously FZ). Good time to start, plus Punk was on the way in also.

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One two, buckle my shoe!

What strikes me about Milton's list is the variety. Could you put together an equally diverse list of current musical phenomena involving people at the same age as they were then?

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

1967-1971

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1966-1970

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"drums are too noisy, 'n you've got no corners to hide in"

What you said, Miltie. There had been other good years in music history as well. But when I started to discover the real good music around 1974/75 I was curious what happened before. I think the time between 1970 and 1973 impressed me the most.

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What's the ugliest part of your body ?

1971 - 1974

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You're probably wondering why I'm here
(not that it makes a heck of a lot of a difference to ya)

1926-27. And then 1952-54 a close second.

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Plastic people. Oh baby now. You're such a drag.

1969-1972

1973-1977


Zappa/Mothers or Zappa

Over-Nite Sensation
Apostrophe (')
Roxy & Elsewhere
One Size Fits All
Bongo Fury
Zoot Allures
Lather (yes, I know...but it was planned for release during '77)

Rush

Rush
Fly By Night
Caress Of Steel
2112
All The World's A Stage
A Farewell To Kings

Pink Floyd

The Dark Side Of The Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals

Genesis

Selling England By The Pound
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
A Trick Of The Tail
Wind And Wuthering

Roxy Music

Stranded
Country Life
Siren
Viva! Roxy Music

Todd Rundgren and/or Todd Rundgren's Utopia

A Wizard, A True Star
Todd
Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Initiation
Another Live
Ra
Oops! Wrong Planet

David Bowie

Ziggy Stardust...
Diamond Dogs
David Live
Young Americans
Station To Station
Heroes
Low

Neil Young and/or the Stray Gators and/or Crazy Horse

Time Fades Away
On The Beach
Tonight's The Night
Zuma
Decade
American Stars N' Bars

Led Zeppelin

Houses Of The Holy
Physical Graffiti
Presence

The Who

Quadrophenia

Return To Forever

Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy
Where Have I Known You Before?
No Mystery
Romantic Warrior

Miles Davis

Black Beauty: Live At Fillmore West
Big Fun
Get Up With It
Water Babies
Dark Magus


Jean-Luc Ponty

Upon The Wings Of Music
Aurora
Imaginary Voyage
Enigmatic Ocean

Yes

Relayer
Going For The One

Supetramp

Crime Of The Century
Crisis? What Crisis?
Even In The Quietest Moments

George Duke

Faces In Reflection
Feel
The Aura Will Prevail
I Love The Blues, She Heard My Cry

Steely Dan

Pretzel Logic
Katy Lied
The Royal Scam
Aja

The Tubes

The Tubes
Young And Rich

Leonard Cohen

New Skin For The Old Ceremony
Death Of A Ladies' Man

Fleetwood Mac

Rumours

Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel (Car)

King Crimson

Red

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"...I'm absolutely a Libertarian on MANY issues..." ~ Frank Zappa, Rochester, NY, March 11, 1988

1910-13:
Stravinsky: Firebird, Petrouchka, Rite of Spring
Schoenberg: Five Pieces For Orchestra, Pierrot Lunaire
Premieres of several compositions by Debussy, Ravel, Webern …
wild times.

/V

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Add water, makes its own sauce

Really DB? Fleetwood Mac's Rumours? I'd have thought Then Play On,Kiln House.English Rose,any of the Peter Green's Mac,before any Buckingham - Nicks - McVie coined albums would come first. That's just imho of course.

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I'm getting larger as I walk away.

1978-1981

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We make a special art in an environment hostile to dreamers. Frank Zappa, 1971

1972

Imho 1964-1968.
thec got better nothing left too bop too tho those little motown chicks

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Arf you out of your fucking mind.

Quite possibly 1969-1972 overall.

FZ' best eras:
1966-69
1972-75

Other bands:

Velvet Underground (1966-69)
Pink Floyd (1967-70)
Soft Machine (1968-71)
Gong (1971-74)
Can (1970-73)
Kraftwerk (1974-77)
Public Image Ltd (1978-81)

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Lies are like quicksand, soft and comfortable, but they will swallow us. Truth is like bedrock, hard and uncomfortable, but we can always stand on it

77-80
...including pink floyd's animals, talking heads' explosion, bowie's berlin trilogy and ending with cure's 17 seconds.
and zappa's joe's garage among the others...

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God is is.

2008-2012

Gym Class Hereos
Lady GaGa
Celo
Katty Perry
Rihanna
Maroon 5
Pink
Nicki Minaj
Neon Trees
311
One Republic
B.o.B
Carly Rae Jepsen
Sia
Gotye

DZpZ wasn't worthy during that time or Z band either?

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I'm getting larger as I walk away.

This is true...I was lucky I can remember the name of any bands at my age..

And much more ... Amon Duul 2 ... PFM ... Banco del Mutturo Soccorso ... Ange ... The Cosmic Couriers ... Ash Ra Tempel ... Vangelis ... Mike Oldfield ... Egberto Gismonti ... Keith Jarrett (Koln era!) ... Jan Garbarek ... Terje Rypdal ... YES ... Genesis ... many others.

In essence, this was the time when rock music came alive and did things ... that showed that the youngsters also could do real music ... and I believe Frank was a real part of that.

The bad side of it, is that it was also during that time that FM radio grew up and sold out ... and became just another AM station, so that by 1975, the majority of original stuff was already going out in favor of the "hits" and bigger name bands, and LZ, Who, Moody Blues, Doors, etc, etc ... dominated the landscape. Still nice, but not as nice and open as the more original and free form days before it.

And as time went by, FM became more and more just another top ten and classical rock station ... and today is just total shit and crap, just like the internet radio ... that was just another corporate attempt to make sure micro radio did not succeed!

We were fortunate in LA, we had stations that delayed the sale out until nearly the 80's and we had KROQ (K_Rock) which was an underground channel until about 75. They went off air and came back as the bastion of Punk and later New Wave, many a band received a lot of airplay and their "Brake" from K-Rock. Frank used to swing by and do his thing including playing what became the album Lather in its interiority live on air while commenting, some of this can be heard on the Album. K-Rock thrived on not being "commercial" and I believe this is why Frank liked their forum, but alas it somewhat stale and eventually became a format that was sold across the nation (this is why there is a K-Rock in almost every major market). They have in recent years returned to being the go to station to find new and exciting music and they still allow bands to walk in and shop their wares.

Not all is lost...