Polling the 1973 Acclaimed Music albums (closes 11. May)

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Takes some time to reformat those copy'n'pasted Acclaimed Music lists, but I use them anyway as they give the most complete list of the most critically acclaimed albums from that year. So here's 1973, an excellent year for music

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Funkadelic: Cosmic Slop	4
New York Dolls: New York Dolls	4
Stevie Wonder: Innervisions	3
Lynyrd Skynyrd: (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd)	3
John Cale: Paris 1919	3
Bruce Springsteen: The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle	2
Iggy and The Stooges: Raw Power	2
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	2
Gladys Knight and The Pips: Imagination	1
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy	1
Mott the Hoople: Mott	1
Todd Rundgren: A Wizard, a True Star	1
The Beach Boys: Holland	1
Paul Simon: There Goes Rhymin' Simon	1
The O'Jays: Ship Ahoy	1
Genesis: Selling England by the Pound	1
The Isley Brothers: 3+3	1
Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure	1
Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath	1
Lou Reed: Berlin	1
Al Green: Call Me	1
Ringo Starr: Ringo	1
King Crimson: Larks' Tongues in Aspic	1
U-Roy: Version Galore	0
Gong: The Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part I)	0
Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Bright Moments	0
Neil Young: Time Fades Away	0
Donny Hathaway: Extension of a Man	0
John Fahey: Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice)	0
The Doobie Brothers: The Captain and Me	0
Frank Zappa/The Mothers: Over-Nite Sensation	0
Blue Oyster Cult: Tyranny & Mutation	0
The Chieftains: 4	0
Grand Funk Railroad: We're an American Band	0
Fela Kuti: Gentleman	0
Udo Lindenberg: Alles Klar Auf der Andrea Doria	0
Neu!: Neu! 2	0
Al Green: Livin' for You	0
Herbie Hancock: Sextant	0
Maria Muldaur: Maria Muldaur	0
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery	0
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: Next	0
Kool and The Gang: Wild and Peaceful	0
Van Morrison: Hard Nose the Highway	0
John Lennon: Mind Games	0
The Band: Moondog Matinee	0
Elton John: Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player	0
Rick Wakeman: The Six Wives of Henry VIII	0
Paul Winter: Icarus	0
Duke Ellington: The Great Paris Concert	0
10 CC: 10 CC	0
Sam Rivers: Streams	0
Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man	0
Charlie Rich: Behind Closed Doors	0
I-Roy: Presenting I-Roy	0
The Rolling Stones: Goats Head Soup	0
Hugh Hopper: 1984	0
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno: No Pussyfooting	0
Chick Corea & Return to Forever: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy	0
Dan Penn: Nobody's Fool	0
Planxty: The Well Below the Valley	0
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon	0
Little Feat: Dixie Chicken	0
Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters	0
John Martyn: Solid Air	0
Sly and the Family Stone: Fresh	0
Roxy Music: Stranded	0
Can: Future Days	0
Toots and The Maytals: Funky Kingston	0
The Eagles: Desperado	0
David Bowie: Aladdin Sane	0
The Wailers: Burnin'	0
The Wailers: Catch a Fire	0
Marvin Gaye: Let's Get It On	0
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells	0
Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets	0
Steely Dan: Countdown to Ecstasy	0
Paul McCartney and Wings: Band on the Run	0
Gram Parsons: G.P.	0
The Who: Quadrophenia	0
ZZ Top: Tres Hombres	0
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies	0
Waylon Jennings: Honky Tonk Heroes	0
Tom Waits: Closing Time	0
The Allman Brothers Band: Brothers and Sisters	0
Keith Jarrett: Solo Concerts: Bremen and Lausanne	0
Joe Pass: Virtuoso	0
Sun Ra: Space Is the Place	0
Big Youth: Screaming Target	0
The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Fanfare for the Warriors	0
Faust: IV	0
Chick Corea & Return to Forever: Light as a Feather	0
Faust: The Faust Tapes	0
The Spinners: The Spinners	0
Bruce Springsteen: Greetings from Asbury Park N.J.	0
McCoy Tyner: Enlightenment	0
Lee Perry: Blackboard Jungle Dub	0
Kevin Coyne: Marjory Razorblade	0
Jackson Browne: For Everyman	0
Hawkwind: Space Ritual	0
Bryan Ferry: These Foolish Things	0
Elliott Murphy: Aquashow	0

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

Voted for Genesis. The best album of all time will always be the best album of any given year. :)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

Dammit, this was next to impossible. I absolutely hate not being able to choose Call Me and Screaming Target (among several others). But I had to go with New York Dolls, one of my 10 favorite records ever.

― JN$OT, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

easier than some of the others. Holland

― 600, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

Geir, if you could do one of these for 1972 as well, it would be greatly appreciated.

― JN$OT, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

Bryan Ferry was involved with 3 releases that year? Wow.

― Joe, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

Damn, I count at least 16 of my favorite albums ever on that list. What a year!

― JN$OT, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

There's a lot of apples & oranges, here...the list seems too broad. Reading through, it is amazing how many great albums came out that year.

By the way, I see you left out Yes' Tales, Geir. Not an 'acclaimed' album, I understand, but Ringo Starr is up there, so what would it hurt? :)

Anyway, gotta go with Larks' Tongues...

― Joe, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

Acclaimed Music left out "Tales". Personally I consider it my #2 of that year.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

This is a toughie. I can't decide between Raw Power, Alladin Sane, For Your Pleasure, NY Dolls, Berlin, Warm Jets, Paris 1919, Evening Star and Solid Air. Can see the art rock vote getting split and something like Steely Dan, Floyd, Parsons or Stevie Wonder winning it.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

Where's Close to the Edge?

― JN$OT, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

Funny, I just put two songs from the Maria Muldaur album on a CD mix for a friend's birthday.

― Joe, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

Close to the Edge is '72.

― Joe, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

Really? I thought that was Fragile.

BTW, The Six Wives of Henry VIII was actually critically aclaimed somewhere?

― JN$OT, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

"Fragile" is 1972 too. In 1971 there was "The Yes Album"

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

My guess is that Rick Wakeman didn't really start to tank critically until Myths and Legends of King Arthur, or possibly the album after that (though really it should have happened by his next album after Wives, Journey to the Centre of the Earth ;) ).

― Joe, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

Call Me it is. Lots of great possibilities, obv.

― Matos W.K., Monday, 7 May 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

Dolls. Don't hit me, Matos, but Call Me's not my favorite Al.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

Elton (with ZZ Top, Sabbath, Dolls, Springsteen's debut, BOC, Charlie Rich, and a bunch of other things in the running.)

But shit! I didn't see Mott or Skynyrd. Probably would have voted for one of them instead, if I had. Oh well.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

Also, Sabbath was not in the running, not with that album anyway. (I obviously read the list way too fast and was thinking Sabotage.)
That list is way too long to make sense out of (or to produce much of a consensus, too, I'm betting.)

(The Elton I voted for was the one toward the top, by the way, not the one toward the bottom.)

I really should boycott all lists but the Pazz & Jop ones, when you get down to it. They're more fun.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, I didn't notice Raw Power til now, either. Wtf?

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

Fucking great glorious overload— there're a bunch of albums on there that I thought were later (No Pussyfooting, for example), or that won't get the love they deserve (Sun Ra).

So I burned out and gave Mott The Hoople the one vote they can count on...

― I eat cannibals, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

The less of essential albums are let out, the better the list. The P&J lists are way too US-fixated to be representative.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:32 (eighteen years ago)

There's like a dozen favourites up there (from America & elsewhere) that didn't make the P&J list - and that one was plenty difficult as it was! NOT GONNA TRY IT (even a POX would be painful)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 02:56 (eighteen years ago)

But there was no P&J list for 1973. (or 1972, for that matter)

― JN$OT, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 08:01 (eighteen years ago)

Too much choice is apparently not a good thing. Still, Funkadelic tied with the Dolls for first place!

― JN$OT, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know why i always thought 73 was a crap year, because jeez it obviously wasn't. stevie, dolls, funkadelic...and even 34 years later people're still confused by/yet to catch up to the who and sun ra.

― Lawrence the Looter, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

No votes for "Future Days" then?

― Mark G, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

No votes for a lot of good stuff. And where are all the Dark Side of the Moon fans then?

― JN$OT, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

i'm glad punk rock saved us from all this music.

― scott seward, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

wow, goose egg for here come the warm jets.

― Edward III, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

It's the heavy competition, innit?

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 12 May 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

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