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

I don't know that one

Reasonable as apparently I made it up ;-)

But devotion IS peace, as I keep telling my disciples.

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".

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Tried to reply to this a couple of nights ago but my keyboard was acting weird.
Was The Sting that year? Cos i think that's one of the main musical themes in that isn't it?
I think we got a best of Scott Joplin record sometime around then and i think it was something that was being played around to some extent. So you'd be hearing it, which might mean even more than in his actual heyday.

This one was difficult, but eventually it came down to Cosmic Slop vs Innervisions, and I went with Funkadelic.

i suspect the latter will win this poll

heard an excellent '73 record tonight that didn't make this list, Cymande's Second Time Round:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glw7iJ7w2OE

innervisions is great, but it already won '73 best album grammy, i don't feel like it particularly needs my praise

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"

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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.