Sucking the 70s Back in the Saddle Again

I discovered these pair of awesome throw-back to the 70s releases about a year agone, and have since been thoroughly enjoying these modernized classics. Modest Stone Records collected the best of of the bands under their label and gave them some of the all-time songs of the 70s to put their heart and soul into. The all-time thing well-nigh this idea is most of these acts are qualified as 'retro-rock' bands, so most of these covers don't sound out of identify at all. Dejection-stoner acts jamming out blues rock songs audio perfectly at home, no chance of a waver or misstep.

These albums are carried by two points, the original vocal quality, and the skill of the ring covering them. Songs that you lot know and beloved from the 70s get proper justice here, and the few lesser known songs (I had never heard of Leaf Hound or Big Star before) that get an overhaul are of equal basis. Not every song within Sucking The 70s is truly amazing, merely plenty of it is to wow any audience.

To keep things simple, I'1000 just going to list all of the songs on the albums, with the ones I love in bold, and the very few I can't stand up in italics, everything else is but ok. The listing is organized by: Roofing Ring - "Vocal Title" (Original Band), to keep it simple to understand.

Sucking The 70s
I discovered this album first, a few days before the other and institute it astonishing. A few of these songs I had already, either on the respective act'southward releases or in some other special edition collection, simply that didn't dim my excitement at having then many archetype songs in 1 release. Personal favorites (above and beyond the bolded collection) are; "Cross Eyed Mary," "I Don't Have To Hibernate," and "Workin Man."

Disc 1

1. Five Equus caballus Johnson - "Never In My Life" (Mountain)
2. Throttlerod - "Black Betty" (Ram Jam)
3. Dixie Witch - "On The Hunt" (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
4. Clutch - "Cross Eyed Mary" (Jethro Tull)
5. The Glasspack - "T.5. Centre" (The Stooges)
6. The Last Vegas - "Gratuitous For All" (Ted Nugent)
7. Halfway To Gone - "Tin can't You See" (Marshall Tucker Band)
8. Suplecs - "Working Human being" (Blitz)
9. Puny Human - "Travellin' Band/Suzy Is a Headbanger" (Creedence Clearwater Revival/The Ramones)
10. Raging Slab - "Nosotros're An American Ring" (Grand Funk Railroad)
11. Los Natas - "Brainstorm" (Hawkwind)
12. The Heads - "For Madmen Only" (May Blitz)
13. Lamont - "Nasty Dogs & Funky Kings" (ZZ Top)
14. Backdraft - "Child Of Babylon" (Whitesnake)
15. Black Nasa - "I Dont Have To Hibernate" (Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
16. Warped - "Canis familiaris Eat Dog" (AC/DC)
17. Hangnail - "Bron-yr-stomp" (Led Zeppelin)

Disc 2

1. Roadsaw - "Vehicle" (The Ides of March)
2. Novadriver - "20th Century Male child" (T.Rex)
3. Alabama Thunderpussy - "Hymn 43" (Jethro Tull)
4. Disengage - "Communication Breakup" (Led Zeppelin)
5. Porn (The Men Of) - "Out On The Weekend" (Neil Young)
6. Milligram - "Rumblin' Man" (Cactus)
7. Tummler - "Working For MCA" (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
8. Fireball Ministry - "Doc Doctor" (UFO)
9. Spirit Caravan - "Wicked Globe" (Black Sabbath)
10. Lowrider - "Freelance Fiend" (Leafage Hound)
11. The Mushroom River Band - "Walk Away" (The James Gang)
12. Broadsword - "Adult female Tamer" (Sir Lord Baltimore)
13. Doubleneck - "Don't Blow Your Listen" (Alice Cooper)
14. Lord Sterling - "Black To Comm" (MC5)
15. The Brought Low - "Till The Next Goodbye" (The Rolling Stones)
16. Scott Reeder - "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" (Sugarloaf)
17. Tectonic Interruption - "How Can Yous Win" (Parish Hall)
18. Gideon Smith & The Dixie Damned - "The Pusher" (Steppenwolf)

Sucking the 70'southward – Dorsum In The Saddle Again
Released four years after the first volume, for Back In The Saddle Over again, it seems like Pocket-sized Rock was reaching a bit too far for another collection of comprehend songs. This book takes a while to become into a notable form. Besides a couple of decent songs, the collection doesn't pick up until the end of the first disc, and drops off considerably by the mid-bespeak of the second. In that location plenty bang-up covers to warrant a new collection, but Dorsum In The Saddle Over again really doesn't compare to the previous release.
Special accolade goes to Acid Rex, for their rendition of "The Pale." It'south done in such a manner that other and so the bones guitar lick I probably wouldn't accept recognized the song at all. They turned a poppy-stone song into a chugging stoner/doom masterpiece. On the reverse finish, Gideon Smith & The Dixie Damned get a mention for turning the amazing rock vocal "Runnin With The Devil" into a southern/blues/bluegrass version. A kind of neat idea, but a bastardization of a archetype.

Disc one

1. Sasquatch - "Are Yous Fix" (Chiliad Funk Railroad)
2. Puny Human - "Crazy Horses" (The Osmonds)
3. Clutch & Five Horse Johnson - "Red Hot Mama" (Funkadelic)
4. Dixie Witch - "Rock Processed" (Montrose)
5. The Brought Depression - "Don't Lie to Me" (Big Star)
6. Novadriver - "Sin City" (Ac/DC)
7. Colour Haze - "One Way or Some other" (Cactus)
8. Alabama Thunderpussy - "Homo on the Silvery Mountain" (Rainbow)
9. Dozer - "Mongoloid" (Devo)
10. Acid King - "The Stake" (Steve Miller Band)
11. Halfway to Gone - "Honky Cat" (Elton John)
12. Antler - "Those Shoes" (Eagles)
13. Fu Manchu - "Outlaw Human being" (Eagles)
14. Gideon Smith & the Dixie Damned - "Season of the Witch" (Donovan)
15. Whitney Morgan and the Waycross Georgia Farmboys - "Runnin' With the Devil" (Van Halen)

Disc 2

1. Throttlerod - "I Simply Wanna Make Love to You" (Foghat)
2. Red Giant - "Saturday Night Special"( Lynyrd Skynyrd)
3. A Thousand Knives of Burn - "Bonie Maronie"(Ritchie Valens)
4. The Glasspack - "Rock 'n' Roll Singer" (Air conditioning/DC)
5. Roadsaw - "When the Levee Breaks" (Led Zeppelin)
6. Greatdayforup - "Super Stupid" (Funkadelic)
7. Fireball Ministry - "Plow to Stone" (Joe Walsh)
8. Los Natas - "Built-in to Be Wild" (Steppenwolf)
9. Scott Reeder - "2 of Usa" (The Beatles)
10. Orange Goblin - "New Rose" (The Damned)
11. Mos Generator - "Garden Road" (by Rush)
12. Honky - "Snortin' Whiskey" (past The Pat Travers Band)
13. The Muggs - "I Don't Need No Md" (Humble Pie)
14. Amplified Estrus - "Neighbor, Neighbour" (ZZ Top)
15. RPG - "Parchment Farm" (Cactus)
16. Valis - "Dreamweaver" (Gary Wright)

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