I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss our favorite albums of 1970.

Show notes:

• Recorded via Zoom

• Phil's got some quality hockey hair going

• Going to go through our favorite albums of each year from 1970-2020, starting with '70

• We were both under the age of 3

• Pretty varied list of favorites from that year

• Popular music was splintering into many different genres

• FM radio was pretty freeform

• Radio was the main way to discover music back then

• Some interesting tour pairings

• Altamont was an abrupt end to the hippie era

• Big deaths in 1970: Hendrix and Joplin

• Phil's favorites (except #1): The Who, CSNY, Neil Young, Led Zep, Van Morrison, Derek & the Dominoes

• Jay: Not a Clapton fan

• Phil: Kinks, Beatles, George Harrison, McCartney, Miles Davis, Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Chicago, James Taylor, Elton, Stones

• Phil's #1

• The Dead's best studio album

• Jay: Deep Purple, Hendrix, Funkadelic, Black Sabbath, Stooges

• Some bands were releasing two studio albums a year

• Jay's #1

• The best live album ever

• The Who at their best

• In the midst of a great string of albums

• Favorite song from favorite album: "Candyman" (Phil) and "Young Man's Blues" (Jay)

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.