listening to replay. Pleasant, but not the kind of awesome flashback-inducing sonic stew one would hope for.
Interesting. I think 1970 is second only to 1971 in being the best year ever, and then only by
the smallest of margins. Echoing my comment from the last 1971 set, which incidently occurred
exactly one month ago, it would be difficult but not impossible to screw up this year. While that
fate was avoided, I would concur that the awesome potential offered by this year did not come
close to getting realized.
The Blues Image & Eric Burdon tunes sparked specific memories of hearing them often on the
radio that summer, along with One Toke and Montego Bay. The contrast between today's Kinks
song as opposed to yesterday's just demonstrated how much the later stuff sucked. (And was
that a reggae beat -- in 1970?) Overall, a pop-dominated set, and not unrepresentative of the
time. But it could have rocked harder -- much harder -- and gone in a lot more directions.
