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Ilash
03-17-2005, 01:52 PM
Continuing the trend (though backwards) what's your favourite album from the year 1973? I hope I haven't started a topic for this year yet but I don't think so. Anyway, my pick is very easily Quadrophenia but then, you knew that already didn't you? Simply one of the most emotionally devestating albums ever released.
Buried Alien
03-17-2005, 01:55 PM
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, Pink Floyd.
Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)
Hiromi
03-17-2005, 02:00 PM
Tie
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Black Sabbath - Sabbath bloody Sabbath
zombie
03-17-2005, 02:00 PM
Hm, tough. I'll say...Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure.
Quick side question: where does everyone double check their picks, or find lists of what was released in the year? Is there an option for listing albums by year on AMG that I'm just not aware of?
leonaozaki
03-17-2005, 02:12 PM
That's a tough one but I'm going with ALADDIN SANE by Bowie.
rob
Karl J. Barnes
03-17-2005, 02:15 PM
I'm with BA on this Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
Reptisaurus!
03-17-2005, 02:19 PM
Hmmmm...
*Probably* Muddy Waters "Mud in Your Ear." (I think it was '73.)
Of those listed, probably "Quad."
Another voice for Dark Side of the Moon.
I do admit to not having heard three of those albums listed, though.
Voted Floyd, but it was a fight between them and zeppelin.
Jonathan Bogart
03-17-2005, 02:33 PM
Quick side question: where does everyone double check their picks, or find lists of what was released in the year? Is there an option for listing albums by year on AMG that I'm just not aware of?
I just go to AMG and browse the discographies of artists that I know were productive around those years. Or check the copyright dates on the albums I own.
Edit: Oh, and my answer?
Randy Newman's Good Old Boys.
Shellhead
03-17-2005, 02:37 PM
I almost clicked on Houses of the Holy as soon as I saw it, but then I read the entire list and had to vote Dark Side of the Moon. I am a sucker for the concept albums, and this one had incredible music, too. The lyrics included some deep thoughts on life, death, war and peace, and then there's that whole eerie side one resonance with The Wizard of Oz. Or so I've heard, anyway.
Slam_Bradley
03-17-2005, 02:41 PM
Of those listed, I went with Marvin Gaye.
My actual vote would go to Herbie Hancock for "Head Hunters." The best fusion album not done by Miles Davis.
My Favorite album of 1973 is ZZ Top's "Tres Hombres," which I happen to think is their best album.
I'd probably put Bob Marley's "Burnin'" at a close number two.
comicartfan
03-17-2005, 03:02 PM
Dark Side of the Moon
ghostrider666
03-17-2005, 07:15 PM
Alice Cooper.
leonaozaki
03-17-2005, 07:32 PM
I just go to AMG and browse the discographies of artists that I know were productive around those years. Or check the copyright dates on the albums I own.
Edit: Oh, and my answer?
Randy Newman's Good Old Boys.
Nope. Good Old Boys, as great an album as it is, came out in the year of my birth, 1974.
rob
Jonathan Bogart
03-17-2005, 09:39 PM
Good Old Boys, as great an album as it is, came out in the year of my birth, 1974.
I remembered this on my drive home from work. Damn!
In that case, I'm gonna say The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, my favorite Bruce.
Spike-X
03-17-2005, 11:37 PM
Terrible cover, awful production, but my god, the songs...
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002513.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Jonathan Bogart
03-17-2005, 11:53 PM
I actually like that cover the best of any Springsteen album. Possibly because it doesn't look like a Springsteen album; it could be any '70s singer-songwriter.
pauwoo
03-18-2005, 03:44 AM
The wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle.
The B-Side may be a contendor for best one side of an album ever.
The A Side is pretty good as well
MicBK
03-18-2005, 05:09 AM
I gotta go with Faust IV. Just barely over Larks Tongues in Aspic and Future Days though.
Dreadstar
03-18-2005, 07:31 AM
Dark Side is the easy choice here, and appears to be running away with it.
However, no one gave Yellow Brick Road any love, so I will.
Spike-X
03-18-2005, 06:09 PM
I actually like that cover the best of any Springsteen album. Possibly because it doesn't look like a Springsteen album; it could be any '70s singer-songwriter.
Which is exactly the reason why I dislike it.
Rob Imes
03-18-2005, 06:39 PM
My favorite LP of 1973 wasn't listed: A Wizard/A True Star by Todd Rundgren. It was the first Todd album I bought (along with Faithful) and probably my favorite of his albums.
The New York Dolls - eponymous first album
Without which there would never have been a NY or Brit punk scene, or Alt rock.
Thunders rules!
Punchy McSplodo
03-18-2005, 07:13 PM
The New York Dolls - eponymous first album
Without which there would never have been a NY or Brit punk scene, or Alt rock.
Love the Dolls, but don't forget the Stooges' Raw Power came out that year, too. :)
Since they're not on the poll, I'll have to go with Let's Get It On, but it was a really hard choice.
Adam Crocker
03-18-2005, 07:22 PM
Guh! So they were! And I voted for Aladdin Sane...
...well screw that. The two seminal masterpieces of early American punk (as well as bieng among the greatest pure rock albums of the seventies) trumph that album easily, especially with the awesome riffs James Williamson uses on "Search and Destory." http://www.issue9mm.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_redface.gif
JeffreyWKramer
03-18-2005, 08:17 PM
Of those listed, "Lets Get It On", followed by "Dark Side."
Adam Crocker
03-18-2005, 08:44 PM
Which is exactly the reason why I dislike it.
It doesn't do anything for me either for the same reason. It's completely generic.
Reptisaurus!
03-18-2005, 08:59 PM
Love the Dolls, but don't forget the Stooges' Raw Power came out that year, too. :)
Seriously?
I thought that was '72.
I change my vote. There's better Muddy Waters albums, but there ain't no better punk albums than Raw Power, no-how.
Love the Dolls, but don't forget the Stooges' Raw Power came out that year, too. :)
Since they're not on the poll, I'll have to go with Let's Get It On, but it was a really hard choice.
Only difference is that everybody from the Ramones to the Sex Pistols and the Clash started bands as a RESULT of SEEING the Dolls play live.
The Dolls WERE the Kings of NY semi-pop music at the time and when they went to England, every kid started a band afterwards.
comic_lover
03-19-2005, 08:27 AM
Billy Joel ; Piano Man
Slam_Bradley
03-21-2005, 06:57 AM
Of those listed, "Lets Get It On", followed by "Dark Side."
I knew if anyone else would give some love to Marvin, it would be Doc K.
SlightlyMad
03-21-2005, 09:29 AM
Out of those listed, Genesis & Pink Floyd are my favourites. I would, however, like to mention a debut album from a band I quite like & you made have heard of:
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000026GM3.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
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