Best 1974 P&J Album (POLL Closes 5 May)

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Don't know the US release dates, but Stranded and These Foolish Things were very late-year releases in '73, so it's safe to assume that US critics didn't hear them until well into '74--and in fact, Rolling Stone didn't review the Ferry album until the summer of '74. (Country Life also came out in '74 but it ended up in the '75 P&J list--along with Siren).

"I'll show those Roxy Music who's boss," chirped a hard-of-swimming Jagger.

Heh. But I would've thought Mick's ire was directed at the Dolls!

― sw00ds, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm very, very tempted to put [i]These Foolish Things[i] atop my list, but with competition from the best studio-rock of the decade (Joni, Steely Dan, Ronstadt, even, er, Eno) and the glam invasion it's mighty difficult.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

The weakest year of the '70s, I calls it. But a GREAT yr for funk, not that you'd know it from the list: No Commodores, no Sly, no EW&F, no Isleys, no Meters and neither P-nor-Funk - all of whom released '74 LPs that I would prefer over the Ohio Players. Also no BÖC, Skynyrd or King Crimson but that's understandable...

Eno edges out Joni and the Dan.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

http://bepsantiques.com/Merchant2/graphics/rock/radio_city_1.jpg

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

The weakest year of the '70s

Weaker than 1975?

― JN$OT, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

The Dolls arguably made the most important record on that list. But I'll go with Pretzel Logic ... tough to argue against perfection.

― Jiminy Krokus, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

There were no weak years in the 1970s! If any year comes close, it'd be 1979, and that was still pretty f'n good.

― Jiminy Krokus, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Weak in relation to the surrounding years.

― JN$OT, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Radio City. And the worst year for music in the 1970s is probably 1970.

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought this would be tough for me until I scrolled down to Here Come The Warm Jets.

― da croupier, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

If Taking Tiger Mountain had been on here I would have maybe voted for that, but of these, I guess I'll go with Pretzel Logic.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Taking Tiger Mountain made the '75 poll.

― JN$OT, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

quite the contrary at least in my opine, '74 is the best year of the decade--or if you wanna be difficult as good as any of the great years of true tumult as punk hit, '77, '78, '79. it was also the watershed year for rock in general, since the big star record handily dispensed with any need to listen to the beatles and gram parsons summed up country music and the eno and roxy records made a lotta previous shit sound a bit under-imagined, one might say. the last great year for old-tyme rock and roll, after that we had a year or two of al stewart and perhaps tavares and then onto the brave new world that would lead us to joy division or whatever that shit was. and punk and new wave and disco. good year and all those records are pretty good.

― whisperineddhurt, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

warm jetz

― 69, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

somehow, FFF has become my favorite Stevie album.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Heh. But I would've thought Mick's ire was directed at the Dolls!

I hear the "shitty" guitar solo on the Stones' '74 version of "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" as a nod to the Dolls.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Results.

― JN$OT, Saturday, 5 May 2007 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link

Eno and Big Star at the top is kind of surprising, I think.

― JN$OT, Saturday, 5 May 2007 10:44 (sixteen years ago) link

ARE YOU NEW HERE?

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 10:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Nope. Just assumed there were more Dan fans hereabout.

― JN$OT, Saturday, 5 May 2007 10:55 (sixteen years ago) link

WHOOOO!!! BIG STAR BEATS STEELY BLAND!!!!

― brg30, Saturday, 5 May 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, but king Eno beats all!!!

― JN$OT, Saturday, 5 May 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

Let's rank the top twenty finalists, hm?.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:39 (four years ago) link

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