Best Album released in 1973

[seagurn]

Kaftwerk - EXELLER8 ( BASICALLY THERE BEST OF AND THAT WAS WAY BACK THEN SHOWS HOW FAR AHEAD OF THERE TIME THEY WHERE) way back.

 

[Gwylan]

Future Days by Can......

Was that 1973? Thought it was earlier than that. That's top of the list

 

[Worried Man Blues]

What about this for a list? Struggling to pick top 10.......

1972

1. Black Sabbath - Vol.4
2. Harvest - Neil Young
3. Eagles - Eagles
4. Who’s next - Who
5. Argus - Wishbone Ash
6. Close to the Edge - Yes
7. American Pie - Don Mclean
8. Made in Japan - Deep Purple
9. Caravanserai - Santana
10. Focus 3 - Focus

11. 666 - Aphrodite’s Child
12.Trilogy - ELP
13. Slade Alive - Slade
14. School’s out - Alice Cooper
15. Eat a peach - Allman Bros
16.Epic Forest - Rare Bird
17. Exile on main St. - Rolling Stones

 

[ozzygull]

1973 was also the year
Selling England by the Pound Genesis ( one of my all time favourite albums still)

Love that album, with one of the best open lines of any album

"Can you tell me where my country lies? Said the unifaun to he true love' eyes"

 

[tinycowboy]

Black Board Jungle - The Upsetters
Time Fades Away - Neil Young
There Goes Rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon

 

[Icy Gull]

What about this for a list? Struggling to pick top 10.......

1972

1. Black Sabbath - Vol.4
2. Harvest - Neil Young
3. Eagles - Eagles
4. Who’s next - Who
5. Argus - Wishbone Ash
6. Close to the Edge - Yes
7. American Pie - Don Mclean
8. Made in Japan - Deep Purple
9. Caravanserai - Santana
10. Focus 3 - Focus

11. 666 - Aphrodite’s Child
12.Trilogy - ELP
13. Slade Alive - Slade
14. School’s out - Alice Cooper
15. Eat a peach - Allman Bros
16.Epic Forest - Rare Bird
17. Exile on main St. - Rolling Stones

Looking at the list of 72 and 73 one has to ask how Punk managed to get a foothold......

 

[Icy Gull]

What about this for a list? Struggling to pick top 10.......

1972

1. Black Sabbath - Vol.4
2. Harvest - Neil Young
3. Eagles - Eagles
4. Who’s next - Who
5. Argus - Wishbone Ash
6. Close to the Edge - Yes
7. American Pie - Don Mclean
8. Made in Japan - Deep Purple
9. Caravanserai - Santana
10. Focus 3 - Focus

11. 666 - Aphrodite’s Child
12.Trilogy - ELP
13. Slade Alive - Slade
14. School’s out - Alice Cooper
15. Eat a peach - Allman Bros
16.Epic Forest - Rare Bird
17. Exile on main St. - Rolling Stones

Panned by the critics at the time but now accepted as possibly their best album

 

[studio150]

1973 was also the year

Catch a Fire Bob Marley
Brothers and Sisters The Allman Brothers
Selling England by the Pound Genesis ( one of my all time favourite albums still)
For Everyman Jackson Browne - announcing the arrival of a lyrical maestro

It was a very good year

Can't believe I overlooked Selling England a great album

 

[Gwylan]

Looking at the list of 72 and 73 one has to ask how Punk managed to get a foothold......

I was about to say that looking at the lists for 1972 and 1973 you can see exactly why punk got such a foothold

 

[Seagull58]

What about this for a list? Struggling to pick top 10.......

1972

1. Black Sabbath - Vol.4
2. Harvest - Neil Young
3. Eagles - Eagles
4. Who’s next - Who
5. Argus - Wishbone Ash
6. Close to the Edge - Yes
7. American Pie - Don Mclean
8. Made in Japan - Deep Purple
9. Caravanserai - Santana
10. Focus 3 - Focus

11. 666 - Aphrodite’s Child
12.Trilogy - ELP
13. Slade Alive - Slade
14. School’s out - Alice Cooper
15. Eat a peach - Allman Bros
16.Epic Forest - Rare Bird
17. Exile on main St. - Rolling Stones

Who's Next was 1971

 

[1234andcounting]

1971

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye, which is actually the BEST album of all time
Who's Next - The Who
Hunky Dory and Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie
Sticky Fingers - the Rolling Stones
Four Symbols - Led Zeppelin
Ram - Paul McCartney
Imagine - John Lennon
Pearl - Janis Joplin (posthumously)
Tapestry - Carole King
American Pie - Don McClean
Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart
Electric Warrior - T Rex
Madman Across The Water - Elton John
Where I'm Coming From - Stevie Wonder

Beat that, suckers.

 

[Diego Napier]

Yes, 1968

The White Album
Beggars Banquet
Bookends
Village Green Preservation Society
Lady Soul
Saucerful of Secrets
Wheels of Fire
Electric Ladyland
In Search of the Lost Chord
At Folsom Prison


or 1969

Tommy
Abbey Road
In the Court of the Crimson King
Five Leaves Left
Space Oddity
Let It Bleed
Nashville Skyline
Songs from a Room
Ummagumma
Trout Mask Replica

 

[Gwylan]

No-one's mentioned 1967 yet - very surprising as it's often held up as the best year ever

Sgt Pepper's AND Magical Mystery Tour
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Absolutely Free
Disraeli Gears
Are you Experienced AND Axis: Bold as Love
The Doors AND Strange Days
The Who Sell Out
Forever Changes
After Bathing at Baxters
Piper at the Gates of Dawn

to name a few

 

[Diego Napier]

For Everyman Jackson Browne - announcing the arrival of a lyrical maestro

!

 

[studio150]

No-one's mentioned 1967 yet - very surprising as it's often held up as the best year ever

Sgt Pepper's AND Magical Mystery Tour
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Absolutely Free
Disraeli Gears
Are you Experienced AND Axis: Bold as Love
The Doors AND Strange Days
The Who Sell Out
Forever Changes
After Bathing at Baxters
Piper at the Gates of Dawn

to name a few

Wasn't Magical Mystery Tour released as a double EP in the UK, unlike in America where it was released as an album, and the UK only went over to the album version in later years?

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Damn, 666 moves up one!

Who's Next was 1971

 

[Worried Man Blues]

You missed Edgar Broughton's The Edgar Broughton Band, in my top ten!! Someone on here had the cover as their avatar a while ago, the meat one.

1971

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye, which is actually the BEST album of all time
Who's Next - The Who
Hunky Dory and Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie
Sticky Fingers - the Rolling Stones
Four Symbols - Led Zeppelin
Ram - Paul McCartney
Imagine - John Lennon
Pearl - Janis Joplin (posthumously)
Tapestry - Carole King
American Pie - Don McClean
Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart
Electric Warrior - T Rex
Madman Across The Water - Elton John
Where I'm Coming From - Stevie Wonder

Beat that, suckers.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

American Pie was 1971 as well, got over excited!

Who's Next was 1971

 

[Aveacarlin']

Yes its back to those wonderful days of vinyl before the oil crisis and artists were able to develop without being dumped by the label.

Whether 1973 is the best year for albums, who knows but a selection releases in 1973 and which are still played today:

Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
Brian Salad Surgery - ELP
Space Ritual Alive - Hawkwind
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
Band on the Run - Paul McCartney and Wings
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Hello - Status Quo
Quadrophenia - The Who

Any others from 1973, or is there another year with 10 albums that are better than the list above?

I'd like to add Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by Black Sabbath if I may?

 

[jakarta]

1971

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye, which is actually the BEST album of all time
Who's Next - The Who
Hunky Dory and Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie
Sticky Fingers - the Rolling Stones
Four Symbols - Led Zeppelin
Ram - Paul McCartney
Imagine - John Lennon
Pearl - Janis Joplin (posthumously)
Tapestry - Carole King
American Pie - Don McClean
Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart
Electric Warrior - T Rex
Madman Across The Water - Elton John
Where I'm Coming From - Stevie Wonder

Beat that, suckers.

I would add:

In Search of Space - Hawkwind - completely Fruit Loops and clearly NO-ONE taking drugs.....