Best Album on my Favourite albums of 1973 (The year I was born) list

yes Conference Of The Birds should indeed be there but I always forget things.

ultros you're on my fb so check my 87 list, its a good one (for me)

or are you. I can post it here for you if not

I'm not on fb! Yeah I'd like to see that list

Fave album of my YOB is probably 'Heroes', secret sentimental fave is Love You.

Countdown to Ecstasy, with Future Days close behind. Think you've covered most of my '73 favourites here apart from ZZ Top - Tres Hombres

my 1987 list for ultros

Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark ,
Big Black - Songs About Fucking,
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician ,
Candlemass - Nightfall ,
Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium ,
Dinosaur - You're Living All Over Me ,
Gore - Mean Man's Dream .
Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories ,
King Diamond - Abigail ,
Loop - Heaven's End,
Manilla Road - Mystification ,
Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments ,
Prince - Sign of the Times ,
Redd Kross - Neurotica,
Screaming Trees - Even If and Especially When ,
Sonic Youth - Sister ,
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription ,
Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven ,
Swans - Children of God ,
The Cult - Electric ,
The Jesus and Mary Chain- Darklands,
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me ,
The Young Gods - The Young Gods,
Trouble - Run to the Light ,

So many faves in this year. Future Days probably ftw.

Could add Franco Battiato - Sulle Corde Di Aries and Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam (albeit recorded in 1969.)

My daughter was looking at year-by-year playlists and asked, "Is this really a song from the year you were born?"

And then she played Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer".

Sounds like she's ragging you.

*on

sick burn

lol

lol Oor Neechy your list's mostly made up of bands I've been meaning to get round to, though I like what I heard of early Celtic Frost.

Used to have the Big Black album I've kinda gone off Steve Albini in general tbh

funny thing is i dont see that album as early frost!

Fresh all the way.

How old will we feel if someone starts a Best Album on my Favourite albums of 2003 (The year I was born) poll?

man the 70s were on one

Innervisions, of course

amazing streak:

Ohio Players - Ecstasy
Ohio Players - Pleasure
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Sun Ra - Space Is the Place
Tangerine Dream - Atem
The Isley Brothers - 3 + 3

in addition to the Marley, Jamaica was putting out Toots' Funky Kingston, Blackboard Jungle Dub, Burning Spear's self-titled, Big Youth's Screaming Target...

I could vote for a dozen of these, impossible poll

might have to go with Catch a Fire since it seems most likely to be neglected

man the 70s were on one

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger),

My lists for 70,71,72,74,75 were insane.

76 was a quiet year then 77-79 are nuts. That's obviously just my own personal tastes.

from Brazil you had Joao Gilberto's self-titled, Arthur Verocai's self-titled, Tom Ze's Todos os Olhos, Secos & Molhados' self-titled, Deodato's Deodato 2, Tim Maia's self-titled, Gal Costa's India (I haven't heard this one...is it good?)

There are days when I think I could restrict my musical input to the early '70s and be perfectly content for pretty much forever. I'm not sure the qualitative average of that era has ever been exceeded imho.

I might do the whole of the 70s by year then will keep me occupied for 10 weeks. 1971 is prob my fave of them all.

Gal Costa's India (I haven't heard this one...is it good?)

Yes! I was going to make suggestions for missing titles until I lost faith in my itunes year assignations (On the Corner, it turns out, is '72 not '73 as I had it), but you just named virtually everything I had in mind, India very much included.

Future Days, although I'm sure I've played For Your Pleasure the most.

Oh please mention things from '73 that would be on your own lists. I cant remember everything plus I'd like to hear new to me albums too

xp

Sounds like she's ragging you.

― *there's (Noel Emits), Thursday, January 24, 2019 12:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gotta admit, that one stings a little.

Going by RYM's 1973 list, Selling England by the Pound is pretty classic still. And Vangelis's L'apocalypse des animaux may just be my favourite album of his. Also: Fripp & Eno's (No Pussyfooting), Paul Bley's Open, to Love, Ash Ra Tempel's Join Inn, Paul Motian's Conception Vessel...

Roxy or Stevie or the Dan

thanks rob! gonna check it out

Voted Future Days, but would have put in a consideration for (No Pussyfooting) had it been included.

oh yeah, forgot about Selling England by the Pound

there's like 5-6 perfect albums in here

xp
Granny mentioned most of my first choices, so I don't know if these would all be in my top 50, but other 1973 (afaik) records I like a lot:
John Cale, Paris 1919 (surprised no one mentioned this yet)
Salah Ragab, Egyptian Jazz (Egyptian big band jazz)
Sergio Sampaio, Eu Quero É Botar Meu Bloco Na Rua... (hard to classify Brazilian rock)
Marcos Valle, Previsao Do Tempo (very groovy Brazilian, anticipated Air by decades)
Sandy Denny, Like An Old Fashioned Waltz (Brit folk, though sidling closer to US singer-songwriterliness on this one)
Pharoah Sanders, Wisdom Through Music & Village of the Pharoahs
Mahmoud Ahmed, Almaz (Ethiopian soul)
Count Ossie & the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, Grounation (nyabinghi reggae-jazz, not completely satisfying as an album in some ways but def worth hearing)
I Roy, Gussie Presenting I Roy

Some albums i must check out there

Voted Neu! 2

I thought you would vote stooges for sure

New York Dolls and Paris 1919 would be in my top 10 (but below Houses of the Holy, my vote)

Raw Power is so unlistenable, I can't think of any other record that features great material completely ruined by production choices

I would vote Stooges I think

some others not prev mentioned:

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Al Wilson - Show & Tell
Lou Reed - Berlin
Mott The Hoople - Mott
Pink Fairies - Kings of Oblivion
Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup
Roxy Music - Stranded
Suzi Quatro - Suzi Quatro
T.Rex - Tanx

Call Me by Al green was '73 too!

sometimes i feel that way about the tragically thin production on the later ‘60s kinks records once ray took over production duties

xp to shakey

Raw Power is so unlistenable, I can't think of any other record that features great material completely ruined by production choices

Literally millions of discerning listeners respectfully disagree.

haven't listened to it front to back for awhile but I remember really liking:
James Brown's Black Caesar sndtrk

huh Davies' production has never bothered me tbh

xp

the hard-panned everything-in-one-channel and the vocals+guitars in the other is just egregiously bad. idk how anyone can stand it, it's like trying to hear the album through a paper bag filled with mud. And the much later "remix" is just brickwalled to shit to compensate, and still doesn't work.

Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup

my fave stones album too. oh the shame

oh god same with the pink fairies

stranded!

Al green!!

It must've won a fair few ilx polls over the years too

There wasn't a Pazz & Jop in 1973 (one of the early years that got skipped, evidently) but I did what is allegedly Rolling Stone's year-end roundup:

1973

Jan 17, 1974 issue - "1973 MUSIC AWARDS"

SONG OF THE YEAR
Paul Simon, "American Tune"

SOUNDTRACK OF THE YEAR
Alan Price, O Lucky Man!

BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
[left to right, top]
The Beach Boys
Holland

Jackson Browne
For Everyman

Jimmy Cliff and company
The Harder They Come

[left to right, bottom]
Paul McCartney
Band on the Run

Mott the Hoople
Mott

Paul Simon
There Goes Rhymin' Simon

SPECIAL MERIT ALBUMS
Elton John, Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player
The Kinks, Preservation Act I
Maria Muldaur
The Rolling Stones, Goat's Head Soup
The Spinners
The Who, Quadrophenia

BEST SINGLES OF THE YEAR
Marvin Gaye, "Let's Get It On"
Dobie Gray, "Drift Away"
The O'Jays, "Love Train"
Carly Simon, "You're So Vain"
Stories, "Brother Louie"

Also NME didn't start their end of year critic list until the next year but here's the results of their reader poll

NME Pop Poll Results For 1973

• Album - Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon
• Bass - Paul Mccartney
• Best Dressed LP – Yes - Yessongs
• Discjockey - John Peel
• Drums - Carl Palmer
• Female Singer - Diana Ross
• Female Singer Uk - Maggie Bell
• Guitar - Eric Clapton
• Instrumental Personality - Roy Wood
• Male Singer - David Bowie
• Male Singer Uk - David Bowie
• Most Overrated Single - Dawn-Tie A Yellow Ribbon
• New Group/Most Promising - Golden Earring
• Piano/Keyboards - Rick Wakeman
• Producer - David Bowie
• Radio Show - Sound Of The 70s
• Single - Golden Earring-Radar Love
• Songwriters - Elton John/Bernie Taupin
• Soul Act - Stevie Wonder
• Stage Band/Live Act - Alice Cooper
• Tv Show - The Old Grey Whistle Test
• Vocal Group - Yes
• Vocal Group UK - Yes

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/poppoll.html

Has Golden Earring fulfilled its promise?

Their latest album, from 2012, is titled Tits 'n Ass, so I'm tempted to say no.

radar love was definitely the single of 1973. when that song came on in the disco everyone went down to the knees and whirled around with the hair. remember at the time boys & girls had long hair.

There is some nice psychedelic moments on Moontan, it's a pretty good LP.

yes fans were clearly the greta van fleet fans of their day

or possibly people voted _before_ hearing "tales from topographic oceans"

voted dolls, though mott would have given it a run for its money if it were on there. from my year of birth -- misterioso? buddy holly? little richard?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I thought about voting for the Can but decided it would get plenty of votes without me, so I voted for Funkadelic instead.

Nice top 2. "Mother Of Pearl" off Stranded is all-time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUJqZxikSNo

re: "Mother Of Pearl"

POLLing and turning, how can I sleep?: The Roxy Music & Bryan Ferry Results Thread

somewhere else I think I read that it was also a single take, as well as a first take?

wow, I thought it was a deepcut!

well, it IS an ILM poll...

haha true... if i would have voted given it an even larger margin of victory.

sextant 1 vote
headhunters 0 votes

wow

I have a 1969 list ready to poll and for everyone to tell me what's missing.

Atem and Head Hunters deserved better.

Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1969

Just realised there was 110 votes yet none were for head hunters

Sextant > Headhunters is challops run amok

like seriously y'all wanna listen to 30 mins of guys noodling around with primitive electronic instruments over some of the best jazzfunk jams ever laid down??

new board description

Headhunters is magnificent but earthbound; Sextant is transcendent.

otm

Checking for Here Come the Warm Jets release date, I ended up on this page which discusses the discrepancy between the vinyl and label information, and concludes it was because of the oil crisis: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/brian-eno-here-come-the-warm-jets-what-was-the-original-release-date.755536/. So, recorded in September, scheduled for November and that's what the first UK pressing says, but apparently no-one heard it before early 1974.