My Top 50 Albums of 1973
Here's the Spotify playlist with a deep cut from each album:
1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2. Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy
3. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
4. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
5. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
6. The Isley Brothers – 3 + 3
7. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
8. Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
9. Daryl Hall & John Oates - Abandoned
Luncheonette
10. Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent &
the E Street Shuffle
11. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
12. Iggy & The Stooges – Raw Power
13. Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie
14. Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters
15. Can - Future Days
16. The Who - Quadrophenia
17. John Cale - Paris 1919
18. Tom Waits - Closing Time
19. Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh
20. Rory Gallagher – Tattoo
21. Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon
22. T. Rex – Tanx
23. James Brown – The Payback
24. Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On The Run
25. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
26. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
27. Gram Parsons – GP
28. Jackson Browne - For Everyman
29. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
30. Elton John - Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano
Player
31. Sparks – A Woofer In Tweeter’s Clothing
32. The Allman Brothers Band - Brothers And Sisters
33. War – Deliver The Word
34. Loudon Wainwright III - Attempted Mustache
35. The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup
36. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Burnin’
37. Al Green - Call Me
38. Blue Oyster Cult – Tyranny And Mutation
39. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
40. Ike & Tina Turner – Nutbush City Limits
41. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
42. Montrose – Montrose
43. Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly
44. Grateful Dead – Wake of the Flood
45. Fraser & DeBolt – With Pleasure
46. Ringo Starr - Ringo
47. George Harrison – Living In The Material World
48. Yes - Tales From The Topographic Oceans
49. Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds Of The Western World
50. Van Morrison - Hard Nose the Highway
On Saturdays, WKHS plays a lot of cool obscure vintage hard rock. And back in June they played a set of songs by the British guitarist Rory Gallagher and his band Taste on the anniversary of his death in 1995, and I was blown away, instantly became a fan. I also had never heard the Canadian folk duo Fraser & DeBolt until a few weeks ago and really fell for their two albums. I'm mostly catching up on widely acknowledged classics here but I'm glad I'm also educating myself about some more obscure acts. With these lists, I often find myself finishing them when I can't stand to find another record that needs to be in the top 50 that's going to push out an excellent album by an artist I love. 1973 is an insanely stacked year, though, so I just went ahead listening and sacrificing really cool records by Queen and John Prine and Lou Reed and Funkadelic and Aerosmith and The Kinks and ELO and Sabbath and Donny Hathaway.
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