Music: Best Albums of the Year series: 1973

[Perennial]

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.

Find the consensus of what? The best album, or the most liked?

 

[Mescaleroman]

Find the consensus of what? The best album, or the most liked?

Go with your favorites , everyone else is.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Find the consensus of what? The best album, or the most liked?

 

[Aladyyn]

Sad to see little love for Tubular Bells

 

[Shareefruck]

Sad to see little love for Tubular Bells

For what it's worth, it was just outside of my list.

 

[Saturated Fats]

I'm going to hold off posting the 1988 thread for a few days. There are a bunch of music threads on the front page of what is not a music-exclusive forum, and I want to give you guys - and those threads - time to breathe.

 

[Hockey Outsider]

I'm going to hold off posting the 1988 thread for a few days. There are a bunch of music threads on the front page of what is not a music-exclusive forum, and I want to give you guys - and those threads - time to breathe.

Please keep these polls coming (at whatever pace you think is best). I like the fact that you're not going chronologically, it forces me to think about the specific years in more detail (rather than just doing a generic overreview of an entire era).

 

[plank]

I'm going to hold off posting the 1988 thread for a few days. There are a bunch of music threads on the front page of what is not a music-exclusive forum, and I want to give you guys - and those threads - time to breathe.

I wish the other dude would take a break.

 

[Fantomas]

People who voted for Raw Power are welcome for drinks at my place anytime.

 

[Teemu]

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.

I think a big difference is that Linkin Park's biggest album was marketed to teenagers while Nickelback's biggest was marketed to women in their 30s. For many folks here, this is the music of their youth-I didn't really listen to them, but I have similar nostalgic feelings for the Offspring, who were my first favorite band. I also don't recall too much of a critical backlash against Linkin Park either, other than some soft criticism of rap-rock in general. And while Linkin Park does has some of that unbearable overproduction-to-the-extreme that plagued most major label rock bands in the 2000s, I (mostly retroactively) find their singles to be mostly enjoyable and unique compared to what else was on the radio at the time.

 

[MoreOrr]

Wasting my time with this, as I'm arriving to all this late, but here I would've voted for: McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Wasting my time with this, as I'm arriving to all this late, but here I would've voted for: McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run

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