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

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!!

one of the best early reggae albums, every song is great:
Presenting Larry Marshall

I cant decide what to vote for might do some relistening

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
Gram Parsons- GP
Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power
New York Dolls - New York Dolls

Those five are damn near unfuckwithable.
Torn between Sabbath and Stooges.

A Wizard...is a foundational album for me so that. but there are many great albums on this list.

Don't know how I forgot about Cale. Oh! Roberta Flack's missing! And Yoko!

A few others not yet mentioned:

Kevin Ayers- Bananamour
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd
Judee Sill- Heart Food
Bruce Springsteen- The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
Mal Waldron- Blues for Lady Day

this is an interesting comparison for the poll we did a few years back:

Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1973 poll

only two in our Top 5 made it to your list:

2 42 Stevie Wonder - Innervisions 14
12 335 John Cale - Paris 1919 9
1 21 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon 6
14 398 Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets 6
24 583 Can - Future Days 5

voting for the Dan, man.

For me, it’s between the Dan, the Can and Funkadelic.

Innervisions, over New York Dolls

Was Here Come the Warm Jets released in 73 or 74?

steely dan

Was Here Come the Warm Jets released in 73 or 74?

UK = November 1973

Stooges

I guess I need to listen to that John Cale album

John Martyn juuuuust barely edges it past Can and Todd Rundgren for me

tough one

I love how I have a list of nearly 50 albums yet others post ones I forgot about or haven't heard yet but might love. What a great year.
Still, even with all these old classic years I still usually find 50 albums a year I love up to 2018. Hope that continues.

Solid Air for me. Running Marley, Sabbath and Herbie (Sextant) pretty close. Would have considered Paris 1919 if it was there.

Others (Christ, what a year):

Larry Young - Lawrence of Newark
Rahsaan - Prepare Thyself to Deal With a Miracle
Weather Report - Sweetnighter
Eddie Henderson - Realization
Michael White - The Land of Spirit and Light

Weather Report - Sweetnighter
Eddie Henderson - Realization

oh yeah, they should be in there too.

the larry young is in the list btw

Oh, so it is! So many amazing records, I must be have looked straight through it.

That reminds me, Larry Young plays on Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin - Love Peace Surrender, also 1973.

I don't know that one

Voted Noah Howard, but not sure it's '73.
Maybe should have voted Stevie Wonder.

For my year: Don't Break the Oath, Purple Rain, Climate of Hunter, Treasure... I feel like there are hundreds of interesting albums from that year that I haven't explored yet.

― jmm

i can't vote on '73 - these trails, "lark" by linda lewis, itsuroh shimoda's "love songs & lamentations"... no, early '70s and late '70s are prime time for me.

i have an easier time of it since '76 wasn't really an album year. there are some weird cult records i love, but for top record? nah nothing comes close to van der graaf generator's "still life"

Solid Air.

For my year, Chuck Berry Is On Top.
From this list, For Your Pleasure.
ILX moan: Screaming Target(Big Youth), Coast to Coast Fever (David Wiffen), Honky Tonk Heroes (Waylon Jennings).

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.