Music: Best Albums of the Year series: 1973

[Saturated Fats]

1967: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1980: AC/DC - Back in Black
1994: Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York

2000: Radiohead - Kid A (12 votes)

2nd Place: Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (9 votes)
3rd Place: Deftones - White Pony (8 votes)
4th Place (tie): Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (6 votes)
4th Place (tie): At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (6 votes)

Other received 8 votes

Onto what many consider to be the greatest era in the history of modern music.

A request: If you're going to select 'Other', that is totally fine - just, please: don't have it be the only thing you select. We'll never get a genuine consensus on 'Other' (unless I miss an obvious one), so it skews results a bit if it's the only option you pick.

The next year we will cover is 1988.

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[Saturated Fats]

And if you guys would like me to stop/take a break on these (I currently post one every roughly 48 hours), just let me know. As long as we're having fun and positive, engaging discussion, I'll assume we can keep going.

 

[Shareefruck]

1. Future Days by Can
2. Faust IV by Faust
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3. Outside the Dream Syndicate by Tony Conrad & Faust
4. Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
5. Neu!2 (Side A) by Neu!
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6. Raw Power by Iggy & The Stooges
7. Gentlemen by Fela Kuti
8. Houses of Holy by Led Zeppelin
9. Angels Egg by Gong
10. Sextant by Herbie Hancock
11. Afrodisiac by Fela Kuti
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12. No p***yfooting by Brian Eno & Robert Fripp
13. Paris 1919 by John Cale
14. 2nd by Agitation Free
15. Cyborg by Klaus Schulze

 

[Saturated Fats]

Here Come the Warm Jets should really be on that list.

My album resource says it was released in 1974!

 

[Shareefruck]

My album resource says it was released in 1974!

Oh you're right, my bad. I didn't think Google would mess it up.

 

[plank]

1. Quadrophenia - The Who
2. Tres Hombres - ZZ Top
3. Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
4. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
5. The Smoker You Drink the Player You Get - Joe Walsh
6. s/t - The Marshall Tucker Band
7. Wake of the Flood - Grateful Dead
8. Goats Head Soup - The Rolling Stones
9. Dixie Chicken - Little Feat
10. Takin My Time - Bonnie Raitt
11. Honey in the Rock - Charlie Daniels

 

[kook10]

no order:
Dark Side of the Moon
Houses of the Holy
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
Raw Power

Add:
Tres Hombres - ZZ Top
Honky Tonk Heroes - Waylon Jennings
Goats Head Soup - Rolling Stones
Wild and Peaceful - Kool and the Gang
Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra

 

[Shareefruck]

I never would have guessed that something like Linkin Park would be well liked on this board.

 

[kihei]

Only had to use one "other" this time around:

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy
David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
George Harrison: In the Material World
Genesis: Selling England by the Pound
Bob Marley and the Wailers: Catch a Fire
Paul McCartney/Wings: Band on the Run
Premiata Forneria Marconi: Photos of Ghossts
Roxy Music: Stranded/For Your Pleasure
Steely Dan: Countdown to Ecstasy

Just a monster year.

 

[Chili]

Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin-Houses of the Holy
Elton John-Goodbye Yellowbrick Road

Added:
Alice Cooper-Billion Dollar Babies
Yes-Yessongs

Edit:

Genesis-Live

 

[Mescaleroman]

First two albums I ever bought were from this year , Band on the Run and Don't Shoot Me....

My top 10 would be

David Bowie - voted Aladdin Sane but I like Pinups better.
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound , also enjoyed the Live album they put out that year.
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
Frank Zappa - Over-Nite Sensation
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
the Who - Quadrophenia
Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Ashbury Park
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning

I was also under the impression Here Come the Warm Jets was a '73 release , that's what my cd shows anyway.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

And if you guys would like me to stop/take a break on these (I currently post one every roughly 48 hours), just let me know. As long as we're having fun and positive, engaging discussion, I'll assume we can keep going.

No, never stop doing these! ;-)

Alice Cooper-Billion Dollar Babies

THANK YOU

My own list will be coming soon

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

1. Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
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2. Le Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec - 1973
3. The Beach Boys - Holland
4. Faust - Faust IV
5. Offenbach - Bulldozer
6. The Kinks - Preservation Act 1
7. Henry Cow - Legend
8. Electric Light Orchestra - ELO 2
9. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Over-Nite Sensation
10. Brégent - Poussière des regrets

HM:
Yoko Ono - Approximately Infinite Universe
Magma - Mekanïk Destructïw Kommandöh

 

[Hockey Outsider]

A great year for rock music. Lots of ambitious, messy, experimental albums. My top ten (in order):

1. The Who - Quadrophenia
2. King Crimson - Larks' Tongue in Aspic
3. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
4. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
5. Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans
6. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
7. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
8. Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Four
9. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
10. Camel - Camel

The albums in the poll are in bold. The first six are essential, and there's a big drop-off to the last four (I don't feel too strongly about the order for those, and there are others that could takes their places).

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Innervisions

everyone else is playing for 2nd place, IMO

 

[Teemu]

The Who - Quadrophenia
Gram Parsons - GP
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
John Prine - Sweet Revenge
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstacy

 

[Teemu]

I never would have guessed that something like Linkin Park would be well liked on this board.

I mean it did sell like 10 million copies in the US. Same reason Dark Side of the Moon is going to clean house in this one.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

1. Dark Side of the Moon
2. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
3. Band on the Run
4. Billion Dollar Babies (other)
5. Aladdin Sane
6. Tubular Bells
7. Count Down to Ecstasy
8. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
9. Innervisions
10. Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player

 

[Shareefruck]

I mean it did sell like 10 million copies in the US. Same reason Dark Side of the Moon is going to clean house in this one.

I wouldn't expect the number of copies sold to always align with HFBoards preferences, though, the same way I'd be shocked if Nickelback ranked highly despite their financial success. I've always viewed Linkin Park as strictly a pre-teen/teenager thing most people grew out of pretty quickly and found silly/easily ridiculed with the benefit of hindsight. Dark Side of the Moon has never had such a stigma.

Apparently that's not the case for a lot of people here though.

 

[Oxbow Lakes]

I never would have guessed that something like Linkin Park would be well liked on this board.

I’m rather surprised Hybrid Theory didn’t win the vote.

Anyway:

Can - Future Days
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic
Upsetters - 14 Dub Black Board Jungle
Edu Lôbo - Missa Breve
Fela Kuti - Afrodisiac
Faust - Faust IV

Not really the most familiar year for me, also rather dissappointing stuff by huge bands

 

[frisco]

Other:
Life In A Tin Can-Bee Gees
Any Old Wind That Blows-Johnny Cash
Aloha Via Satellite From Hawaii-Elvis Presley
Abandoned Lunchonette-Hall And Oates
Queen-Queen

My Best-Carey

 

[Lshap]

Innervisions

everyone else is playing for 2nd place, IMO

Yup. Innervisions is sublime. Dark Side of the Moon is probably the best produced record of its day, but it can't touch Stevie Wonder's song quality and performance.

 

[Perennial]

OP,

You call the thread "Best Album of 1973", but then the poll question is asking people to select their favorite albums...

So what's the point of the thread? To find the best album, or the most liked?

 

[Saturated Fats]

OP,

You call the thread "Best Album of 1973", but then the poll question is asking people to select their favorite albums...

So what's the point of the thread? To find the best album, or the most liked?

This is our fifth such poll, and this is the first time anyone has had a problem with the wording. Just have fun with the exercise or don't, man. There's no need to be pedantic.

I pluralized it to albums in order to emphasize that there isn't just one. It's an activity that's intended to find consensus.