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1979 In Boston Rock

Someone asked me if I was reviewing things instead of just listening and publishing lists, and this is an experiment in how I might start doing that: I listen to too many albums to do in-depth (or even brief) reviews of them all, but I could do brief themed write-ups. This post is specifically about Boston-based groups - future themes within the 1979 category could include disco (and/or non-disco groups like ELO and Kiss attempting to cross over), punk (The Damned, The Clash, Ramones, The Germs), rock opera (Pink Floyd's The Wall vs. Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage could be fun), and live albums (Ramones' It's Alive and  Neil Young and Crazy Horse's Rust Never Sleeps ). The Cars – Candy O Classic rock stations and Greatest Hits albums largely seem to favor the self-titled debut over anything else; This has a few standards (“Let’s Go”, “It’s All I Can Do”, sometimes the title track), but seems to be more of a “fan favorite” album. I attribute this to th

1967

The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (English psychedelic pop) The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour (English psychedelic pop, six songs from the television movie of the same name and five singles also released in 1967) Vanilla Fudge – Vanilla Fudge (psychedelic rock, debut album consisting entirely of cover songs) Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow (American psychedelic rock/folk rock) The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced (English-American psychedelic rock/ hard rock) Love – Forever Changes (American baroque pop/psychedelic rock) Pink Floyd – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (English psychedelic rock, debut album) The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico (American art-rock, debut) The Doors – The Doors (American psychedelic rock, debut album) The Doors – Strange Days (American psychedelic rock) The Who – The Who Sell Out (English rock) The Beach Boys – Smiley Smile (American art-pop) Frank Zappa- Lumpy Gravy (A