Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1973 poll

what a MONSTER year, might be my favorite of the 1970's so far.

Yeah it's kind of crazy.

some albums just missing the Top 25 include: 26 Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd), 27 Little Feat - Dixie Chicken, 28 Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star, 29 Roxy Music - Stranded, 30 Genesis - Selling England by the Pound, 31 Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, 32 Toots and The Maytals, Funky Kingston, 34 The Isley Brothers - 3+3, 39 Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire, 38 Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies, 39 Big Youth - Screaming Target, 40 Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub, 42 Tom Waits - Closing Time, 43 Hawkwind - Space Ritual, 44 King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic, 46 Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, 47 Secos & Molhados - Secos & Molhados, 48 Frank Zappa/The Mothers - Over-Nite Sensation, 49 Chick Corea & Return to Forever - Light as a Feather and 50 Jackson Browne - For Everyman.

Not feeling this year so much. Would probably vote Future Days, partly to avoid voting for Steely Dan two years in a row.

Eno just barely over Cale and Roxy. Definitely a tremendous pre-punk year.

Voting for Stevie over Elton, but the Skynyrd, Isley's and Little Feat below the 25 are pretty great too.

If it weren't for Quadrophenia, I'd vote for Stevie or Roxy or Eno or Mott or Al.

Presently conducting a one-man TS: Innervisions vs. Houses of the Holy.

Warm Jets

here are my picks for the year (lots of great prog this year - also I feel that Innervisions would make it but I've never heard it in full)

1. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star (how was this not in the top 25?)
2. Magma - Mekanik Destrukiw Kommandoh
3. Can - Future Days
4. King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic
5. ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
6. Faust IV
7. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
8. Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple
9. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
10. Peter Hammill - Chameleon in the Shadow of Night

Sad that I'm not able to vote for Head Hunters.

isn't that number 16?

Sad that I'm voting for something else obvious that deserves it more.

oh, that is what you mean

i could easily vote for any of these: Here Come the Warm Jets, Houses of the Holy, Innervisions, Quadrophenia, Raw Power, Let's Get It On, For Your Pleasure, Countdown to Ecstasy or The Dark Side of the Moon.

I love Can and Herbie and Eno and a lot of things on here but this has to be Stevie.

New York Dolls. They got one vote in the '74 poll--they were such a big deal around the time I caught up with punk, but they seem to gone back to being forgotten. (The two recent albums probably chipped away at whatever mystique they had left.) My second pick would be Paris 1919. The American Graffiti soundtrack influenced me as much as anything on the list.

voted Fresh. the cover photo alone seems like a triumph of the human spirit after the apocalyptic "there's a riot goin' on".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_a4wcQuq1Y

could have voted eno.... tbh that album has probably meant more to me over the years. i hope quadrophenia received zero votes.

Headhunters with competition from Eno and Zep. Rundgren would be up there too.

some great albums here but Innervisions just towers above the rest

Also want to send some praise to the "Mott" album. I didn't vote for it, but if you haven't heard it, go give it a stream.

It has to be Here Come The Warm Jets, that album is perfect.

Marvin Gaye, Lou Reed, Stevie Wonder, Can and Roxy Music would be up there too.

Sad that I'm not able to vote for Head Hunters.

― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:21 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i hope quadrophenia received zero votes.

Too late.

Voted for Dark Side because Pink Floyd Rules but probably should have voted for John Cale.

oh good god. this is a fucking year. i feel that i am morally obliged to vote for:

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Can - Future Days
Sly and the Family Stone - Fresh

all of them. how how how can i choose? it's like trying to decide which liver i could do without.

If you have more than one liver, you can probably do without at least one of them.

but that's the problem see

giving it to stevie, but not without regrets

I didn't know Stevie needed a new liver.

Wow. Easier to pick the one or two I don't like.

sorry brian, herbie, iggy, canny, sly...

Quadrophenia. Steely Dan #2, my favorite album of theirs (King of the World rules). Would have voted Sabbath Bloody Sabbath if it were on there.

paris 1919

Dark Side Of The Moon.

Album I listened to the most at the time: Floyd (I'll confess!) Album I've listened to the most overall: probably Roxy. Current fave and likely vote: Eno.

Even The Wings album is not bad. But this was also actually an easy choice for me. (I did not vote for McCartney.)

Future Days! Best Can-album, easily, such a masterpiece. But Cale and Roxy isn't far behind.

fucking john motherfucking bonham for the motherfucking win.

8 of these are in my all times ..
what a year ..
really struggling to single out one.

Innervisions is one of my favourite albums of all time but Cale, Roxy, Eno, John Martyn, Al Green and the Stooges were all on fire in 73, and Fresh may not be peak Sly but it's close.

Stranded>>For Your Pleasure

Think I'm voting Zep, wishing I could vote for Space Ritual tho

guess I'll be the lonely vote for John Martyn since this is probably my favorite album of his. Mind you i could vote for Innervisions for the same reason.

Nobody else going for Aladdin Sane?

Haha Xgau gave Berlin a C. Goat's Head Soup & Brothers and Sisters came out that year too.

The soul records owned the year though, I voted for Marvin's.

Stranded>>For Your Pleasure

― MV, Friday, July 26, 2013 12:45 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ this. I love both, but Stranded is my all-time favorite Roxy record. I think Eno even said it's their masterpiece.

There you go Mr. Bowie - Paolo will love Aladdin Sane! After 40 years that must come as quite a relief. Whew.

What a golden age. I'll say Can: one of my most-played albums ever. I used to listen to it every night.

Seven of these are my favourite albums by those artists. I like Aladdin Sane a lot but no way is it my favourite Bowie.

Top 5:

Countdown to Ecstasy
Paris 1919
Innervisions
Future Days
Houses of the Holy

Favourite album missing from the 50: ZZ Top - Tres Hombres

i love that frogbs and know it rules. i, however, have hot heard even one of those albums. so much to still learn.

oh wait, i know that Brian Eno album which is actually mind blowing good.

cindy tells me as much

it should have said: frogbs list

still need an edit button

Where does raw power fit into the ilm iggy pop canon? I'd put it as the best thing he did with the stooges but sometimes only fun house will satisfy my stooges craving. Lust for Life is, i think, the masterpiece. 1,000,000 commercials and film trailers can't ruin "the passenger" for me.

god you're awful

Hey thanks balls

Where does raw power fit into the ilm iggy pop canon? I'd put it as the best thing he did with the stooges but sometimes only fun house will satisfy my stooges craving.

― fervently nice (Treeship), Friday, July 26, 2013 8:54 PM (Yesterday)

raw power's the most accessible & popular ("dog" notwithstanding), but afaic, it's the stooges at their least. for ages i'd have said funhouse crushes the rest like insects beneath its giant greasy ass-boot. which is true. these days, though, in my banana softened dotage, i'm just as likely to spin the debut.

lust for life is a great pop album, but so different in spirit as to render comparisons pointless. still, i'll always take the stoochis over solo iggy.

i don't know if there is anything in music more satisfying than iggy yelling "No Walls!" on Down on the Street. but i love iggy in sinister mode and "gimme danger" is ace in that regard. impossible to choose between those.

as for lust for life, that album is just one of the best in my view. from the cover to the lyrics of the title track it's totally punk in spirit. it's only pop in the sense of each of the songs having catchy melodies.

maybe there is no single "best" iggy pop album.

lotta worst though

i love iggy in sinister mode and "gimme danger" is ace in that regard.

no doubt, it's up there with "dirt" & "open up and bleed". raw power's a great album, don't get me wrong. but the competition is hard to beat (sorry).

Cale

i don't like that album for whatever reason. it seems like the kind of thing i would love -- i love the velvet underground -- but it just doesn't click.

I know it was an extremely strong year but can't quite believe 'A WIzard, A True Star' isn't in there somewhere...

they tried to fit it on the list by making the whole thing quieter

Gier (remember him) did a similar poll six years ago. only poll like this that he did:

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

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

they tried to fit it on the list by making the whole thing quieter

Okay, this is hilarious!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I think that's the only time I've ever voted for the winner in one of these polls.

sort of surprised that cale stomped eno and can so hard

winner no surprise, but I was sure Tubular Bells would get a few votes

I'm just glad the Who beat Zep in an ILM poll.

That's pretty unsurprising to me.