Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1974

plumped for autobahn

Tough one, as usual. Either The Jewel in the Lotus, Country Life or Phaedra.

Or Red.

god there's so much amazing stuff here. but i'm going for lamb lies down on broadway, without hesitation.

Notable absences - the best Hawkwind album, Hatfield & The North s/t and Lucio Battisti's Anima Latina.

After balmy '73 this year maybe has a more reflective tone. The real end of the 60s comedown vibes.

xpost yeah those are all great, especially the hatfield & the north album. re: hawkwind i'm more into warrior on the edge of time tho.

my fave Funkadelic album gets my vote here

i'd add:
jorge ben - a tábua de esmeralda
jimmy webb - land's end
van morrison - veedon fleece
franco battiato - "clic"
harmonia - musik von harmonia
todd rundgren - todd
henry cow - unrest

oh and sparks - kimono my house

... my favourite Funkadelic album, my favourite Can album, my favourite Big Star album, my favourite Cluster album, my favourite Gene Clark album, my favourite Robert Wyatt album... you get the picture.

(xp) And "Propaganda", which I prefer.

harmonia - musik von harmonia
todd rundgren - todd
henry cow - unrest

aye, would liked to have made room for them but i thought they might get zero votes and i really wanted my funk selections in

Harmonia could have picked up votes, I reckon.

Anyway, I didn't vote in the last one because I couldn't make my mind up and there's absolutely no chance of me voting in this one.

give a vote to the one most likely to get zero votes then

actually i cant see the gene clark getting a vote so do it for gene

I first heard Inspiration Information when it was reissued in 2001 on a CD that also included half of Shuggie Otis's previous album Freedom Flight (including "Ice Cold Daydream" and "Strawberry Letter 23") as bonus tracks. That album would've easily gotten my vote, but without those songs I'll probably go with Gram, Gene, or Joni.

....or Stanley Clarke who I really like, but I find it hard ranking jazz albums alongside other genres; jazz is like its own thing.

Court & Spark. no contest.

Veedon Fleece is also the best Van album so yeah, weird thats not on here

I saw that Shuggie Otis CD (on Luaka Bop) for 30p recently but left it because there was a stain on the booklet and I tend not to hang onto them if they're a bit manky.

Rock Bottom or Autobahn for me

On the Beach for me

Damn, a bounty of riches. I just picked up Miles' "Big Fun", too. So bloody good!

Court & Spark

I really hope some of you check out this wonderful album which features a backing group of certain pfunk alumni inc Eddie and Bernie and the life and death suite is some of the most amazing music ever made.
Chairmen of the Board - Skin I'm In

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVFUr66Xk1c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqfXlIq6RE

Why are the King Crimson and Miles albums grouped into single options but the two Eno albums separate options? This is Red vs The Lamb vs Warm Jets for me. Might go with The Lamb for the number of times I've listened to it on long drives.

1. Radio City
2. Court & Spark
3. I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

Another great year, the first half of the '70s was such a great time for albums, I think there's maybe a drop-off at '75/'76 but I may well be wrong.

Whattayear! Also missing:

Blue Oyster Cult- Secret Treaties
Stevie Wonder- Fullfillingness First Finale
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Second Helping
New York Dolls- Too Much Too Soon

sund4r to make space

I think there's maybe a drop-off at '75/'76 but I may well be wrong.

I think there was too but I still managed to fill out 50 and I'll still get people saying I've missed their fave albums

MUSIK VON HARMONIA YET ANOTHER MASSIVE OVERSIGHT

i listen to "here come the warm jets" more than any other album here so that one

Taking Tiger Mountain and Pretzel Logic are both tempting but I may have to vote for my favorite Bowie album.

interesting picks. i always thought of '74 as the last great year for prog, but when i go through my '74 i am finding a lot of soul as well. blue magic s/t, black heat's "no time to burn", george duke's "feel"... AND WHERE THE FUCK IS FULFILLINGNESS' FIRST FINALE? also, casablanca moon, kimono my house, _todd_

Court & Spark. no contest.

I may have to vote for my favorite Bowie album.

― o. nate, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 15:28 (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Diamond Dogs is my fave Bowie

i am torn in between "here come the warm jets" and "on the beach". it used to be the former but i go for the latter now. such a gorgeous stream of melancholy.

sund4r to make space

Oh, I see your note at the beginning now.

Radio City

Ultiumately, I concur, korny.

I'm torn between Zuckerzeit, which is one of those albums that I always enjoy hearing no matter what, and (kind of surprisingly) On the Beach. The Fela is once again super tempting, I probably should have held out for Confusion tbh, which is colossal.

The Jorge Ben and Harmonia albums already mentioned would be my own most important additions along with Dadawah, Peace & Love and Keith Hudson, Flesh of My Flesh Blood of My Blood. This is also a foundational year for dub (Pick a Dub, Dub from the Roots, The Roots of Dub).

Eno will get my vote for 75 so I'll choose The Lamb for 74. It still feels wrong to not click On The Beach or Court & Spark

my 75 list is currently 56 strong so will have to double up artists again.

The Payback, for me, Clive.

Probably going to vote for "Soon Over Babaluma" because I don't think anyone else will.

Big Star - Radio City
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Not a good year for this rockist (no Sabbath album!) but I will go with Parsons only slightly over Kraftwerk and a little above the rest.

We know in your heart you were voting for California Jam 74

A lot of love here for Court And Spark. Its a great album, it took a long time to come around to though compared to other Joni albums

eno will still win

Favorites here: the two Enos, Davis, On the Beach, I want to see the bright lights tonight, Court & Spark, They Say I'm Different, Confusion.
Wow, Autobahn is from 1974 ?
Rock Bottom I don't return to.

Where are Slapp Happy (seriously, for a krautrock and J.Mitchell fan !), At the Helm (East NY Ensemble de Music), Troppo (M. Garrick), Jolene, Veedon Fleece, I Can't stand the rain ?

I voted for Davis cause Get Up with It is my favorite by him and cause you split Mr Jean Baptise de la Salle in two.

Eno, but doubtless most people who say that here will go for the wrong one

Oh yeah, and A tábua de esmeralda cause it's brilliant and Errare Humanum Est is a top 10 songs of all-time.

I went with my gut feeling on the King Crimson twofer, no regrets

great list, and yeah Slapp Happy would be my personal #1 from this year

i do like slapp happy. Sometimes I just forget things. I'm not one for remembering release dates

What a bloody ridiculous list. And without the aforementioned reggae records, New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Joe Henderson's The Elements and Clifford Jordan's Glass Bead Games. Dang.

the elements was one i took out as i thought nobody would vote for it

And I know little about reggae and dub so i need schooling

1974 I was really all about Sparks, both of their '74 albums are on my alltime list. Nice to see Hatfield and the North mentioned above, I may have played their s/t more than any of the albums on the poll.

And I know little about reggae and dub so i need schooling

― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy)

dadawah's "love and peace" is absolutely utterly essential reggae

Nyabinghi space rock. Definitely essential listening.

"Peace & Love" but otherwise otm

eno won't win because of split voting. i think it is either neil or joni who will finish first. maybe robert has a chance too.

There's my favourite Bowie, maybe my favourite Neil Young, totally amazing mindblowing stuff by Eno, Genesis, King Crimson, Roxy Music (and a wonderful Richard & Linda Thompson album as well).
But even if I am a massive fan of all of those and especially Bowie and Diamond Dogs IS my fave Bowie...
It's Gene Clark - No Other for me.

missed the Richard & Linda Thompson, that might have beaten Neil Young, but I'm happy with my choice.

other great reggae albums from '74:

King Tubby - Dub From the Roots
Keith Hudson & Family Man - Pick a Dub
Augustus Pablo - This Is Augustus Pablo
Burning Spear - Rocking Time
Keith Hudson - Entering the Dragon

Get Up With It tho.

Kimono my House is the big omission here. And Relayer :)

two great Magma albums this year too - Kohntarkosz and Wurdah Itah, though I don't know if the latter was known by that name back then

i know the dadawah actually

Gut vote this time is Grievous Angel: rueful restless sidewise insights, exhilarating sounds=high lonesome wild blue yonder---

Top Ten would of course incl. Big Star, Miles, Funkadelic, and several Not Listed (wasn't Van Morrison's It's Too Late To Stop Nowa '74 release?)

Voting Joni. I don't like all the songs on it but the highs are very high

Voting Joni. I don't like all the songs on it but the highs are very high

1974 debuts & other notable rock LPs not yet mentioned...

RONNIE WOOD- I GOT MY OWN ALBUM TO DO!!!

Kiss- s/t, Hotter than Hell
Rush- s/t
Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla
Bad Company- s/t
Kansas - s/t
Queen- II
Robin Trower- Bridge of Sighs
Aerosmith- Get Your Wings
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Second Helping
Tom Waits- Heart of Saturday Night
Little Feat- Feets Don't Fail Me Now
Sweet- Desolation Blvd.
Joe Walsh- So What
Weather Report- Mysterious Traveler
Thin Lizzy- Nightlife

no other without even thinking about it

Neil or Joni or Big Star

weather report album is there!
xps

plumped for On the Beach, my favourite album by one of my favourite songwriters.

closely followed by:

Cluster - Zuckerzeit
B.T. Express - Do it til your satisfied

Shuggie!

the shuggie otis record has a very amazing short little track that i nominated for the under two minutes poll and y’all should vote for it :)

happy house! :)

Eno, but doubtless most people who say that here will go for the wrong one

― imago, Wednesday, February 27, 2019 8:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's because you will be voting for the wrong one ;)

It hurts to bypass Zuckerzeit and On The Beach, but this is Warm Jets for me.

Big Star over Autobahn. I listened to a lot of the 'most acclaimed albums of 1974' recently, and one that surprised me positively was Late For The Sky by Jackson Browne

i assume their list is a bit different to mine?

Yes - acclaimed music.net I think, one of those list aggregators - two in their top 20 that are missing from yours are Kimono My House and Late For The Sky, that's why I mentioned it.

http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/year/1974a.htm

oh I know the site, just hadn't seen their list.

get up with it <3

Late For The Sky first side is one of the most fantastic, depressing, intense, insular sides of any singer/songwriter record. its the real shit. falls apart a bit on side 2.... but damn i've listened to side 1 soooo many times.

the opener got used in taxi driver of course. amazing album opener.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqYiHkx7ils

But side 2 has "Before the Deluge!" Amazing album closer.

there are few albums as singular, as beautiful, as mysterious as “rock bottom” — i don’t know anything that sounds quite like it.

it also achieves an emotional depth that, before hearing it, i didn’t realize was possible in “rock” music.

plus ivor cutler, i mean c’mon.

a very important album for me. so it’s robert wyatt this year.

there are few albums as singular, as beautiful, as mysterious as “rock bottom” — i don’t know anything that sounds quite like it.

it also achieves an emotional depth that, before hearing it, i didn’t realize was possible in “rock” music.

plus ivor cutler, i mean c’mon.

a very important album for me. so it’s robert wyatt this year.

d’oh sry

On the Beach and Taking Tiger Mountain are extremely perfect rock Albums as well imo

There are quite a few POCs on this list. 1974 was a great year for soul and funk and reggae.

That's because you will be voting for the wrong one ;)

It hurts to bypass Zuckerzeit and On The Beach, but this is Warm Jets for me.

― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 28 February 2019 08:58 (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can never understand why that ragtag bunch of demos and neat ideas has so much more critical cachet than the ensuing full-bore rock masterpiece but I guess that's opinions eh!!!

you can say what you want about HCTWJ but they aren't "ragtag demos"

Here Come the Warm Jets was recorded in twelve days at Majestic Studios in London during September 1973 by recording engineer Derek Chandler.

After recording the individual tracks, Eno condensed and mixed the instrumentation deeply, resulting in some of the tracks bearing little resemblance to what the musicians recorded during the session.

haha fine. it definitely sounds more 'try this, see what happens' than its successor, which feels very much of a piece and calculated to destroy me

Calling HCTWJ demos is ludicrous.

Maybe some of us prefer Try This, See What Happens to Something Calculated To Destroy Imago?

I know I do

I know I don't

if only there was a way to decide

Another Court & Spark vote. I need to hear those Rufus albums again.

Held my nose and went for Shuggie.

thanks for the dadawah rec above btw, listened to it twice last night

I listened last night too, so good. I have it as part of one of those Trojan box sets (Nyabinghi)

imago how many of these albums have you heard?

the 2 ohio players albums are prob my fave of theirs post westbound era

if only there was a way to decide

― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Thursday, February 28, 2019 1:48 PM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

irl lol

However I do hope that this poll isnt just about Eno as there's 50 cracking albums here.

Dadawah is new to me, really digging this.

Logged into my alt account for the first time in a while so I could vote for both eno albums

is it wins with a '.' like the time dom did that to avoid SB's?

i thought that was brilliant

alt.wins

wins.aol

Thought wins' alt was infinity symbol, and we all knew it

Neil or Joni or Big Star

― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Wednesday, February 27, 2019 6:55 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

NEIL

imago how many of these albums have you heard?

Like 5 in entirety, heard bits from most idk

I hear all the new albums, I leave the old stuff to the nostalgists yo ;)

The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage is the biggest miss here obv

sorry, i live get up with it but “red china blues” is fucking trash and almost ruins the record

Strongly disagree!

The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage is the biggest miss here obv

― imago, Friday, 1 March 2019 21:13 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not sure you can say anything is missing when you have only heard 5 of the albums in the poll!

Good album that though. Well, about half of it is.

The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage is the biggest miss here obv

― imago

"in camera" also great

that it is

"Elis & Tom" isn't listed, so I'll go with I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight. Good lord this was a fantastic year.
spotify:user:alnjen:playlist:721aw16wLS2bttDnqv05zQ

what is that a playlist for? nothings coming up

Plenty of fine titles above and within thread. Odd to phrase it this way, but if i had to give up ever listening to all but one of these titles, i would have to choose,,,

Radio City

xp damn try this instead 43 Hours of Music From 1974

My favourite album of 1974 is probably I Can't Stand The Rain by Ann Peebles, but out of these maybe one of the Enos?

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There's an ILX result if ever there was one.

Funk/soul/jazz acts not exactly setting the heather on fire there.

That is definitely ILX for you

i would've given one of them some love but i couldn't see myself voting for any of them not named "fulfillingness' first finale"

the top 3 are my faves, in that order!

Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1975

Wish I'd voted for Tiger Mountain now...

Tiger Mountain
On the Beach
Las Grecas - Gipsy Rock
Keith Hudson - Pick a Dub
Soon Over Babaluma
Radio City
Ya Ho Wha 13 - Penetration
Sabotage
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treatises
Upsetters - Double Seven
ABBA - Waterloo
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs

i think this is the most votes these polls have had so far

(Ohhh Dadawah shd be between Can and Big Star)

The Top 5 played from my listening list kept since '96.

Robin Trower- Bridge of Sighs
Miles Davis- Get Up With It/ Big Fun
Tangerine Dream- Phaedra
Blue Oyster Cult- Secret Treaties
Joe Walsh- So What (tied with)
Can- Soon Over Babaluma