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Great albums of.......1973

Seems to be some interest in music from over 40 years ago so here goes in no particular order

Berlin - Lou Reed

Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

Live at Carnegie Hall - Bill Withers

Catch a Fire - The Wailers

New York Dolls - New York Dolls

Solid Air - John Martyn

Funky Kingston - Toots and the Maytels

For your pleasure - Roxy Music

Dixie Chicken - Little Feat

and the all time classic Paris 1919 - John Cale
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  • So, so many great albums that year. I'll just name two so as to leave more for others.

    Bowie - Aladdin Sane.
    Marley - Catch a Fire.
  • Raw Power - The Stooges

    GP - Gram Parsons
  • A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren.

    That's it. Done.
  • So, so many great albums that year. I'll just name two so as to leave more for others.

    Bowie - Aladdin Sane.
    Marley - Catch a Fire.

    Oops! Senior moment - Catch a Fire already mentioned. Will replace with Burnin'. Same artiste!
  • A little underrated and totally unknown album:

    The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

    This - with all other albums released that year being a distance behind!
  • Joe Walsh - The smoker you drink, the player you get
    The Who - Quadrophenia
    Cockney Rebel - Human menagerie
    Can - Future Days
    Man - Back into the Future
    Genesis - Live
    Curved Air - Air Cut
    Nektar - Sounds like this
    Greenslade - Bedside manners are extra
  • edited February 2015
    Houses of the Holy - Led Zep
    Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
    Mott - Mott the Hoople
    Space Ritual - Hawkwind
    Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
    Pin Ups - David Bowie
  • Back Into The Future - Man
    Iceberg - Deke Leonard
  • 1. Dark side of the moon: Floyd
    2: Innervisions: Stevie Wonder
    3: Houses of the Holy: Zep
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  • edited February 2015
    1. Pronounced leh-nerd skinner. ... Lynyrd Skynyrd
    2. Space Ritual .... Hawkwind
    3. Dark Side of the Moon ... Pink Floyd
    4. Tubular Bells.... Mike Oldfield
  • hawksmoor said:

    A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren.

    That's it. Done.

    A wizard is timeless.

    Greenslade -Bedside manners are extra

    Can - Future days

    Led zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

    Yes - Yessongs

    King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
  • Seems to be some interest in music from over 40 years ago so here goes in no particular order

    Berlin - Lou Reed

    Possibly the most depressing album of all time!


  • The Who - Quadrophenia

    Probably the greatest album of all time
  • Seems to be some interest in music from over 40 years ago so here goes in no particular order

    Berlin - Lou Reed

    Possibly the most depressing album of all time!

    Exactly what makes it so great.


    The Who - Quadrophenia

    Probably the greatest album of all time
    Some of their best but a lot of filler tracks too
  • Neil Young - Time Fades Away.
  • Seems to be some interest in music from over 40 years ago so here goes in no particular order

    Berlin - Lou Reed

    and the all time classic Paris 1919 - John Cale

    I always thought Berlin was a case of the Emperors new clothes. With the Velvets, the music was always totally in synch with the lyrics.
    For me Berlin was all pomp and overblown production at odds with the sordid subject matter.
    I shouldn't really be smirking when he gets to the line "this is the room where she took the razor and cut her wrists that strange and fateful night". Great playing though.

    Share your love of Paris1919, although I still wince at that line about Enoch Powell in Graham Green. Hopefully not the views of the author.

    Anyhoo, my faves: -

    Aladdin Sane - Bowie
    For your Pleasure - Roxy Music
    Goats Head Soup - The Stones ( although generic filler had started to appear)
    Paris 1919- John Cale
    A Passion Play - Jethro Tull (I confess I hated it at the time but it has grown over the years)

    Band on the Run and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road I loved at the time but have not aged well I think

  • Agree on the production on Berlin and some of the early VU versions are better in their stripped down sound but still a classic. And very different from nearly everything before or since

    The Enoch powell lyric mentions him being a falling star so don't think cale was supporting him.
  • The Wild, the innocent and the E Street Shuffle - Springsteen
    Inside Out - John Martyn
    Sefronia - Tim Buckley
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  • edited February 2015
    Now I'm a big fan of Tim Buckley myself, but that's a not great album, in my humble opinion, of course. Good to see him get a mention, though.

    Anyway, I said it before and damn if I'm going to say it again. The best album of 1973 was this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9DVcBZto4E
  • hawksmoor said:

    Now I'm a big fan of Tim Buckley myself, but that's a not great album, in my humble opinion, of course. Good to see him get a mention, though.

    Anyway, I said it before and damn if I'm going to say it again. The best album of 1973 was this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9DVcBZto4E

    OK, you have worn me down.

    I'm now listening to it on Spotify
  • At least you gave it a listen, Henry. But damn, how could I have forgotten Terry Reid's River album:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ccV6xsFPmY
  • Aladdin Sane ~ Bowie
    Tanx ~ T Rex
    Dark Side of the Moon ~ Pink Floyd
    Band on the Run ~ Wings
  • Oh, and as a little aside, Henry, I noticed you chose the first New York Dolls album on your list, which was produced by none other than Mr Todd Harry Rundgren.
  • hawksmoor said:

    Oh, and as a little aside, Henry, I noticed you chose the first New York Dolls album on your list, which was produced by none other than Mr Todd Harry Rundgren.

    Funny enough when listening to A wizard I released why the mix on the NYD album is low. It is the same on A wizard
  • edited February 2015
    Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes
    Back to the World - Curtis Mayfield
    Desperado - The Eagles
    For Everyman - Jackson Browne
    For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night - Caravan
    Brothers and Sisters - The Allman Brothers
    Lets get it on - Marvin Gaye
    alo Solid Air and Innervisions

  • Desperado - The Eagles

    Was that 73? Missed that completely
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